On the last iteration of thinky.org, there was a feature (or maybe it was a bug), where people could enter enter a fill-in-the-blank question. The site had, in big text “Zach Pousman is thinky.org. Zach is a PhD student at Georgia Tech.” Then it just said “Zach is…” and users could type in whatever they wanted. These missives were anonymous and unsigned (no IP address or anything), and, other than the date, there was no identifying information whatsover, excepting the text itself. So this became a little weird game for me. Every month or so, I’d get a message from, well, somebody, and I’d get to laugh at them (or me, depending) and try to guess who said it, and why. Now I’ll just paste them all here, for you to join in on the fun. Some are mean, some nice, some funny, and others puzzling. I did remove all of the clearly spam entries (only 5 or so), and there were 4 blank messages. Otherwise, they’re all here, sorted from most recent to oldest. I’ve highlighted my favorites. Enjoy!

Zach is…

• geek
• hello
• hi
• please gonna shed some light on error 9672 and my mac 10.4.7 vs my hp all-in-one. purty please. [email redacted]
• lame?
• mail
• my bitch
• ready to eat a deep fried hot dog w/ bacon wrapped around it. sserved with cheese and an egg.
• superfab
• right here (apparently I’m in the room with someone)
• michael
• caaaaaaaa (what does this mean? Love it nonetheless.)
• shaleah
• ashlee
• married????????? (yep!)
• Married? WOW! Congradulations to you and Erin! - Mason
• a pimped out playah
• wedding
• (or was) at gamesworld symposium where he almost saw mason.
• one sexy MoFo
• “man-computer symbiosis” (I’m a cyborg?)
• a pretentious douchebag that used to attend Davidson Fine Arts School in Augusta, GA. (Apparently and yes.)
• upcoming groom
• my hero
• wattenberg
• writing. a lot.
• without a nice beard
• missing out on snow in nyc!
• perfect in practically every way.
• a hip cat, daddy-o.
• a photographer
• Harry Frickin Potter (thanks joe/natan!)
• good
• dumb
• a totally cool metro guy
• yo mama.
• awesome
• missing
• a guy i knew in grammer school
• without comments
• …, like, totally a website. (I like the valley girl speak in this one.)
• nows all sorts of things about all sorts of stuff
• HEElareeiious
• my baby
• dot org?
• too smart for his britches :)
• Fat (Diet message from anonymous tipster!)
• full of shit (yeah. I know.)