Google Voice Setup
November 7th, 2009I got a Google Voice invitation. 
A few days ago I submitted three email addresses for invitations. I got two invitations last night, and interesting the one that didn’t get the invite was my gmail account. Everything works the same anyway. Here’s a screenshot walkthrough of the setup experience.
After I clicked the invitation link in my email and signed in with my gmail account. I was presented with this screen. 
Oddest IM session. Bot?
August 16th, 2008I just had the oddest IM session with IncensedTrout, via AIM. The converstaion whent like this:
incensedtrout You look ghastly!
me: who is this?
incensedtrout who is this?
me:I asked you first
incensedtrout no you didnt
incensedtrout you know who I am
me:ok, I’m going to ignore what you say for a minute, and then block you unless you tell me who you are
incensedtrout alright
incensedtrout sounds good
*block*
I wonder what information it was going to try to dig out of me, but clearly it was a bot, or at most a very stupid human. Has anyone else had such an odd experience?