captcha raze the ones i get rarely resemble recognizable words, but every so often there comes a captcha that spells out something not so random in its randomness. i got one just now that said "smog". no lie. and i live in a pretty smoggy city. have you been checking up on me, blather? 130915 ... tilt They say that the path you walk in life is the path you'll haunt in death. We are patterns. Like a name scratched deep into stone, the routes we take etch themselves deeper and deeper into the intricately interwoven material of life. It's been called the aether, the great spirit. Its essence leaks into our myths; translated into the thousand tongues of man and warped and twisted and growing over time until only the barest grain of the original realisation remains. But yet if you look at the stories we tell, that grain does still remain, is still recognisable. There is truth there. We are patterns. Turning and swirling and going back and forth and zigging and zagging this way and that. Seeming random in their detail but revealing an order once you take in the whole. Yesterday's ghosts haunted bedrooms and sidestreets and basements and places of death. The places where we walked most often, or where we felt most deeply. The places where those invisible patterns converge to a higher concentration, those are a nexus for spirits like us. We are patterns. And the deepest marks we make in this age are not in bedrooms and sidestreets and basements any more. They are in another place, a place with no walls or doors, a place of wires and signals and stateless transient memory. Yes, and of patterns of its own. A complex network to rival that aether that our myths remember. Our ghosts haunt that network. They follow the patterns they traced in life. They move between servers and hosts and clients, peer to peer. They are the data, they are the signals. And they are patterns. Noise and randomness mixed with a tiny influence from a spirit. We live again, in this network. We become data, we become transient stateless memory. Prove you are human. Follow our patterns. 130916 ... gabbie f u 2 u ha! 131115 ... raze this morning i got: "7 bfs" that's a whole lotta romantic dudes to keep track of. i don't think i could do it. 131116 ... raze "3 bun" the captcha is hungry for some hand-sized bread. 131125 ... raze "REHD" red! 131218 ... raze "fagu" (as in erbim, the albanian football player, or the shimia ski resort) 131224 ... raze "akiu" (once a town in the natori district of the miyagi prefecture of japan; now the western part of taihaku-ku) 140113 ... raze "UKEF" (the uganda kitgum education foundation) 140120 ... raze "4CKA" (i am telling myself this rhymes with "corsica" and is an island in the sea in the secret world of numbers) 140216 ... raze "voin" (a little finnish from the captcha today) 140302 ... raze "clod" (it's a little surly today) 140304 ... no reason qtb4 (but not so cute after) 140307 ... raze "viku" (and the elephant) 140309 ... raze "SAPM" (the stanford advanced project management program, which apparently will accelerate my path to success. hey, thanks captcha!) 140311 ... raze "2JWV" (just because my initials are right there in the middle of it, and how often is that going to happen?) 140315 ... epitome of incomprehensibility "gnnh" - a groan of effort, as when lifting real or imagined weight 140315 ... raze "nube" (a latin haze) 140317 ... raze see also: wow_captcha evocative_captchas_red_style 140318 ... raze "77HQ" (seventy seven is indeed a high quality number) 140322 ... raze "pfaf" (the sound you make when you have to spit something out without using your teeth) 140323 ... e_o_i "ver2" - virtue in French 140326 ... raze "w8ev" (it was almost an abbreviated "whatever", but then the 8 had to sneak in there and made things awkward) 140403 ... raze "ew 48" (hey, what have you got against the number 48, captcha? implying that it's gross is just mean. what did it ever do to you?) 140405 ... raze "kxcd" (a cross between xkcd and kx21?) 140411 ... raze "38 x 6" (a little multiplication. why not?) 140420 ... e_o_i "m4u5" - I read it as Maus, like the graphic novel. Or, you know, the word mouse in German. 140428 ... raze "k8tc" (katy, see?) 140505 ... raze "kwmp" (the soft sound a shirt makes when you toss it in your clothes hamper) 140506 ... e_o_i "ssss" - seriously! 140517 ... raze "yo ex" (my ex? *your* ex!) 140526 ... raze "slsh" (don't get any ideas, schizophrenic weather) 140603 ... e_o_i "afca" - Africa said fast 140605 ... raze (or a sequence of musical notes!) 140605 ... raze "EOGN" (eastman's online genealogy newsletter) 140611 ... raze "yety" (a misspelled abominable snowman) 140619 ... raze "hpaa" (that's pretty close to the flaming cheese battle cry right there) 140629 ... raze "46 x 2" (more math) 140630 ... raze "M4 R2" (in this sequence, W would equal 0) 140706 ... raze "J6VD" (so close to the acronym for jean-claude van damme. so very close.) 140707 ... e_o_i e46y - I read it as "easy," especially since blather had rejected my interpretation of the previous captcha (I believe I'd mistaken an i for an l) 140712 ... unhinged why do you have to be illegible when i am stoned on the bus to the full time job that i hate? 140714 ... raze "epen" (a small town in south limburg) 140722 ... raze "cuti" (aw … how sweet. all your unintentional term of endearment is missing is an e.) 140801 ... e_o_i "pjfu" - someone's saying "fuck_you" to pajamas and I don't even know why! 140806 ... TK "rvre" Tell me Blather, what is it that you Revere so? 140806 ... Toxic_Kisses "wmbu" Weapons of Belligerent Uni-bombers 140808 ... no reason iexo blather loves internet explorer (it should try chrome) 140823 ... raze "EIMR" (environmental impacts of marine renewables. more fun with acronyms.) 140824 ... e_o_i "ocgp" - original character general practitioner: a doctor that can be inserted into any story. 140905 ... e_o_i "luil" - l'huil, the phonetic French oil. 140909 ... e_o_i hd6i - high-definition images for six-eyed creatures 141006 ... raze "HSSG" (take away an s and you got yerself a 'skite) 141007 ... raze "DJ FX" nice one, captcha. 141008 ... raze "h get" (why so mean to the letter h?) 141119 ... e_o_i "uhiu" - It's Ohio with U instead of O. An other-oriented state of mind. 141209 ... raze "kitn" (a glorified kitten if i ever saw one) 141211 ... raze "2puc" (almost 2Pac, but not quite) 141229 ... e_o_i "d6iy" - do it yourself, but what's the 6 for? Assuming it's one part of 69 and thus means pleasuring one's genitals with one's own mouth, it seems like an enterprise doomed to failure. But I'm being very speciesist here - Gummyfolk will disapprove (it's not known if they experience sexual desire, but they do taste good, so there's that). 150105 ... raze "2bcn" (to bacon or not to bacon? that's the question.) 150106 ... tired e_o_i I feel like "spfx" stands for specific effects, for some reason. 150116 ... raze "ungh" (straight out of a comic book, that one ... a sound effect bubble for when someone gets socked in the gut) 150126 ... e_o_i "onxy" - related to onyx 150221 ... raze "nmqt" (never mind, cutie) 150301 ... gja myn2 150303 ... e_o_i I was going to write something else, but this was too much of a coincidence, what with "snowfall" and all (on blather and outside: "svow" ...a promise about snow? 150303 ... e_o_i "eo28" - no, I'm not 28 yet, but it'll probably happen. 150321 ... e_o_i Ystr, like the song: "Ystrdy, ll my trbls smd s fr wy..." 150402 ... e_o_i "3jta" sounds like a kind of drink somehow. Fajita? No, that's a food. I dunno. 150414 ... raze "bgpp" (bagpipe?) 150515 ... raze "2x45" (is that a gigantic piece of wood, or are you just happy to give me slivers?) 150521 ... e_o_i "bdop" - I assume it's a musical genre. 150606 ... raze "gwan" (apparently a jamaican word that can either mean "go away" or "what's going on?") 150704 ... e_o_i "smhs" - shaking my heads. All four of them. 150707 ... raze "unwn" (unwin? i don't think charlie sheen would approve) 150723 ... raze "cvic" (are you trying to tell me something about my civic duty, captcha?) 150815 ... raze "khas" (it's either something close to chaos, or a sarcastic response to a german friend who's missing an a) 150831 ... raze "mwwr" (sounds to me like a very angry meow) 151030 ... raze "coon" (that's "raccoon" to you, mr. captcha) 151120 ... e_o_i "ripv" - rest in peace virus (either it kills you or it's dead itself, I guess) (although viruses are not really "alive" in the way other life is alive, a biologist might way) 151121 ... raze "says" (when the captcha copies what's on the blather word form, everything starts to feel awfully meta...) 151122 ... raze "4528" nothing memorable here, but it's a little strange to see a captcha that's all numbers. i don't think that's ever happened to me before. 151216 ... raze "PTDS" (it's almost PTSD) 160122 ... e_o_i "pqd3" - pretty quick... damn the letter 3 for unrelated reasons! 160127 ... raze "uhey" (hey you yourself) 160218 ... nr xs56 (we were only supposed to go up to 55) 160229 ... e_o_i "twin" (It's so unusual to find a word, a plain word like that! It made me happy, though I can't think of any personal significance, being single-birthed and not having any twin relatives (a pair of semi-friends are twins, is all). My multi-kulchural astrology bag tells me my sign is twin dragons, so there's that, even if I'm sceptical with a C.) 160303 ... raze "gu5h" (almost "gush". almost.) 160417 ... raze "jaoo" (i don't know. i just like the sound of it. like a silly battle cry. ja-ooooooo…) 160616 ... e_o_i Xedu: sounds like an alien in Scientology, or a rerun of one. 160703 ... raze "grue" (a fictional predatory monster that dwells in the dark) 160707 ... raze "4alf" (to paraphrase the wise philosopher bryan adams: everything i do, i do it for alf) 160801 ... raze "Q3 GF" (third question for a girlfriend?) 160805 ... nr i got "grlc" and spellcheck asked if i wanted to change it to garlic 160822 ... nr i got "grlc" and spellcheck asked if i wanted to change it to garlic 160822 ... nr nr hey! i only blathered this once. 160822 ... raze "26 yo" (blather lying about its age, yo) 160826 ... raze "h8mt" (is that a helmet of hate, or hating your mate?) 160828 ... e_o_i "4tuc" - like Tupac, but raps about belts or sleeves. 160929 ... raze "egud" (that's pretty close to an "egad") 161019 ... e_o_i "264k" - but 264,000 what? 161023 ... raze "2 ned" (whose birthday it decidedly isn't…) 161106 ... raze "hbdy" (can't decide if this one wants to say "hey buddy" or "happy birthday") 161201 ... amyloviolet capostrophe nytl Not Your Time Line, turn to page 10635 Or New York Times Listing turn to page 132 161224 ... raze "a VIP" (iggy pop, is that you?) 170101 ... raze "tmmy" (tummy? tommy? in these vowel-free times, who can say?) 170105 ... e_o_i "2ohm" - 2 units of electrical resistance 170106 ... raze "funs" (i'm having funs. are you having funs?) 170120 ... raze "c27c" (about as close to "sea to shining sea" as the captcha can ever hope to get) 170128 ... raze "nuik" (scottish variant of "nook", apparently. also maybe the way some people who live in newark, new jersey pronounce the place they're from.) 170131 ... e_o_i "nuaw" - a nuanced meow 170218 ... raze "cu2r" (no, *you're* cuter) 170226 ... e_o_i "ptta" - spitting on a pita. Why would you do that, captcha? Why spit on a pita? Kids these days. 170309 ... raze "mwah" (a kiss from the captcha. that might be a first. either that, or dua lipa is a ghost in the machine.) 170312 ... raze "mmes" (memes? mommies? mummies? who can say?) 170313 ... e_o_i "28cm" - I kid you not. Is blather trying to measure my neck circumference? Does it want to make me a necklace? 170315 ... raze "beul" (that's not how you spell "blue" in french.) 170317 ... raze UR B8 (i'm bait? for what?) incidentally, is anyone else having a weird time with the captcha all of the sudden? yesterday and today when i hit the "blather" button nothing happens for about two minutes, and then i get a gateway timeout error. and yet the blathe still goes through, eventually. 170420 ... raze (and of course, just as i say that, i'm finally able to get through, the captcha takes, and now everything seems to fine. weird.) 170420 ... raze (and of course, just as i say THAT, now it's back to taking forever, doing the gateway timeout error thing, and then taking a while before the page loads properly. eh, i give up.) 170420 ... raze "hehjae" (which is pretty close phonetically to "hey, j", so it's almost like it was saying hello to me) 170516 ... raze "nked8r" (naked hater?) 170617 ... e_o_i With more letters, statistically less likely to evoke? Based on my unscientific observations, yes. But this one looked poetic: crdyrs. I dunno, but it sounds Welsh. Or like the name of a Lord of the Rings character. 170702 ... raze "EcoID5" (a bio-key, eh?) 170707 ... raze "EPSMAA" (the european power supply manufacturers' association, with a superfluous a, or after having a bit to drink) 170708 ... raze "ib2. yep." (pleased to meet you, number 2) 170823 ... epitome of incomprehensibility "7krwad" - it looked like "awkward" to me. Well, maybe I look awkward to it. 170914 ... raze "3x6 mom" (that's a pretty small mother-person, if we're dealing in inches) 170929 ... raze "moblg8" (a mobile gate. i gotta get me one of those.) 171218 ... raze "fnd scu" (the scottish cyclist's union needs funding?) 171219 ... e_o_i "7mp3ee" - 7 MP3s. Ee, I say. Ee! 180113 ... e_o_i "cv665v" - Well, that is clearly the CV handed in before Antichrist's CV. The "V" at the end is the job code. 180116 ... raze "yick vp" (i guess i'd want a vice president named "yick" too, if i were the president of something. i mean, who wouldn't?) 180124 ... e_o_i "4cg5mg" - four computer graphics of five milligrams (that makes sense!) 180129 ... raze "3 tug 8d" (three tug eighty, eh? that's a strong group of three.) 180225 ... raze "nfgvv3" (never forgive the number 3? i wonder what terrible thing it did.) 180303 ... raze "mr. isk 4" (and what about the three versions of mr. isk that came before? does history forget them?) 180325 ... e_o_i "verbvx" - Verb is definitely a word. I Googled "vx" to see if it meant something, perhaps a motorbike (must've been thinking BMX) and here's what it gave me: "VX is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound in the organophosphorus class, specifically, a thiophosphonate" (from Wikipedia). Well then. Now Google must think I want to poison people. 180514 ... e_o_i "verbvx" - Verb is definitely a word. I Googled "vx" to see if it meant something, perhaps a motorbike (must've been thinking BMX) and here's what it gave me: "VX is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound in the organophosphorus class, specifically, a thiophosphonate" (from Wikipedia). Well then. Now Google must think I want to poison people. 180514 ... e_o_i And blather thinks I won't to post things twice. I don't want to poison anybody OR post things twice! I have standards! 180514 ... e_o_i "v7vrai" - But IS V7 true??? V8 could be either an eight-cylinder engine or the trademark for an eight-vegetable juice I disliked as a child. But Google tells me that V7 is a also a thing or two: a vacuum cleaner and smartphone. Those seem real enough. 180708 ... raze "nuf 7dB" (i've had enough of sounds that are only seven decibels loud, too) 180716 ... e_o_i "poor8e" - What is an "8e"? Eighth-grade English class? Google's first result suggests 8th meridian east, a longitude coordinate. And why poor?? 180824 ... raze jw lgow (that's SO CLOSE to my initials followed by "glow". if only those two letters had come out reversed. that would have been fun.) 190223 ... e_o_i Since this was the first thing that popped up in the recent list, I decided to give it a whirl and see if I came up with anything interesting. All I've got is "wa83a3" - the numbers look enough like "A"s to suggest a noisy cry. Baby blather is hungry. BABY BLATHER WANTS HUMAN SACRIFICE. Yeah, that sounds close enough. 190227 ... raze "rawoon" (i'm sure it doesn't mean anything at all, but it sounds kind of neat when you let it elongate like a loon call) 190306 ... raze "me is ju" (and ju is me) 191205 ... raze "svrexy" only two letters removed from "sexy". 200207 ... e_o_i "q2345b" - it's just beautifully symmetrical! 200430 ... e_o_i "tcc2pp" - Almost parallel, and I assume TCC is some kind of drug that causes urination. 200529 ... raze geasbm (notable because it's the first one i've had in a long while that doesn't look like the codename for some elite computer hacker, and because it's an anagram for "bs game", which is a kinder version of something that surely left my lips a time or two while playing one frustrating nintendo game or another) 200626 ... e_o_i This is odd - "f4wwww" For four double-yous? For for double u double u double u double u (quadruple uu) 200629 ... raze rpelby (repel by what means, exactly?) 201027 ... raze 84ewok (someone's been watching "star wars") 201112 ... raze aflobs (i don't know why, but this one cracked me up. i picture someone shouting it with aplomb.) 201208 ... e_o_i "s3gsu8" 3rd generation Samsung version of Jesus, with 8 GB capacity of Ram, an avatar of Krishna (which is mediocre Christian karma at best) 201222 ... raze LOGEUT, this one says. i can't remember the last time i got a captcha without numbers in it, so it felt like it was something worth commenting on. i looked it up online in case it really meant something. one of my first search engine results said: "LOGEUT is not a valid scrabble word." well, you can go right to hell, scrabble. 210303 ... e_o_i "aobys4" - A fancy abyss. The fourth. 210429 ... raze huggwx i've been meaning to buy some of that hug wax for a while now. i hear it gives you shine without hold. or is it hold without shine? whatever the case may be, thanks for the reminder, captcha. 210703 ... e_o_i "fumukd" - sounds like an obscure Scandinavian dish...or someone trying to disguise a "fucked up" as a milder "messed up" and fucking/messing it up 210705 ... raze NDH QPD smash two acronyms together and you get the independent state of croatia qualified products database. 210715 ... raze obehyb (first time the captcha ever saw fit to flirt with me) 210718 ... e_o_i iknvyq - It's a city somewhere in an alt-universe Arctic, where the culture is part Inuit and part Slavic. 210725 ... e_o_i idscro - an imaginary sport developed by as surrealist riffing off of Freud 210730 ... e_o_i free range a surrealist, not as surrealist and not an ass surrealist either sass surrealist ssass, I inssisst 210730 ... raze tomebl kinda sounds like "tumble", said with an accent of indeterminate origin. doubly worth noting because, as sometimes happens with the first captcha, when i tried to blathe this the cave tumbled down around me and i had to refresh to get a second captcha. 210731 ... raze a4ibra that's so close to being "a libra", i'm just going to pretend it is. 210805 ... kerry phunkE 210805 ... raze fmakrw i don't know why this one cracks me up, but it does. the way i imagine it sounding, it's like you're saying the word "microwave" and scoffing at the same time. 210807 ... raze obekis (am i really what drives you, oh manufacturer of special electric motors and generators in northern spain?) 210811 ... kerry pms 54l it's an L but i first saw it as 1 and then filled in more mental blanks PMS! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..... 210812 ... raze jdago4 that's ... the first time i've ever seen a racial slur show up in the captcha. but don't you worry. i'm going to give it a stern but loving bit of sensitivity training. 210824 ... raze 25 kuth (the sort of thing you say after you've been punched in the face a whole lot and someone asks you, "what's the damage?") 210826 ... raze wblynt (web lint? is this something spider-man has to deal with when he visits the laundromat?) 210828 ... e_o_i "oinkos" - It's like that Greek yogurt brand, but for pigs. 210914 ... raze jideop! (how someone might say "giddyup" if they didn't know about the hard g.) 210916 ... raze 5 bf 5 dl (five boyfriends, five downloads. the math checks out.) 210917 ... raze bayknn (bacon! or is someone baking something? or do they have kin who live in the bay area? so many possibilities.) 210923 ... raze fga3oh (i think this is supposed to be "figaro" cubed, as in "le nozze di figaro", but the representation of the third power ended up in the wrong place. math can be a real trickster like that sometimes.) 210924 ... e_o_i "5qyesq" Like taking an order. "5...Q?" says the cashier, squinting. "Yes, Q!" the customer insists. 210927 ... raze TWEFFS (the internet tells me there's a company in the united kingdom called the tunbridge wells equitable friendly society limited. their acronym is TWEFS. this must be an *especially* friendly branch, what with the extra f and all.) 210927 ... e_o_i "pndpee" - the New Democratic Party of Canada, but pee-obsessed 211001 ... e_o_i "3hwbwi" - the heebie-threebies; what you get if you're creeped out by the number 3 and/or the letter w 211002 ... raze hdutaf (the sound a person makes when they sneeze at the same time they're trying to say, "utah.") 211003 ... raze m6 noyf (the national outstanding young farmers are either making a big splash on métropole television, or they've hooked up with bmw for the weirdest advertising campaign since the guy did that thing about the stuff that one time.) 211004 ... raze rimiui (how rumi used to introduce himself to strangers after drinking a little too much mead.) 211007 ... kerry 6ikerm sexy kerm--short for sexy kermit? not really my type but i have to admit he's pretty cute. 211008 ... raze fxk cbs (*someone* isn't a fan of a certain american television network.) 211010 ... raze sml 8 nb (life advice for the number eight: "smile, eight, and be.") 211011 ... raze hrmudt (this is either the way bigfoot pronounces "humidity" or an acknowledgement of someone's very organic t-shirt) 211014 ... nr 6mibad my bad, 6. you were almost 5. 211015 ... nr or i guess, like, sex me bad? 211015 ... raze kmex: 2g (the second generation of the spanish language univision television network's west coast flagship station has arrived. and holy crap was that a mouthful of a sentence.) 211020 ... raze qutoff (*so close* to "cutoff". so very close.) 211020 ... raze wuahlb (yes, i too remember edwin mccain's one big hit) 211027 ... e_o_i "ofuquv" Someone doesn't like ultraviolet light. "Oh, fuck UV," they grumble. 211029 ... e_o_i "ocbkwe" - OK, so if Akua is a Ghanaian name for someone born on Wednesday, for example, then this MUST be a Ghanaian name for someone born in October. Ghanaian people from the relevant language group: "But we don't do that with months..." Me: "Okay then, you want me to say Ocbkwe is Ghana's Oktoberfest?" People: "Maybe? I dunno." And now I kind of want a festival with highlife music and Ghanaian food. Alcohol optional. 211104 ... raze wndcuu (the wind is cooing. i love it when it sings to me like that.) 211105 ... raze t55b8g (that's a pretty strange way of stylizing "teabag", but you do you, captcha) 211108 ... raze 5 ya peb (haven't been getting many evocative_captchas_red_style lately, but i like this one. who doesn't appreciate the innocence of a five-year-old pebble? they grow up so fast. you gotta enjoy those halcyon days while they last.) 211120 ... raze uowbk3 (this one isn't really anything, but i thought it was worth noting both because "uow" is a name mon used to blathe under sometimes, and because for some reason this string of characters makes me think of a robotic chicken short-circuiting while trying to bok) 211127 ... raze balnya ("ballin' ya"? really, catcha? if you're trying to seduce me, you'll have to do a little better than that.) 211203 ... raze (apparently i was so taken aback by the crude erotic gesture, i forgot how to spell for a second.) 211203 ... raze 8 load 2 (that seems a little excessive, doesn't it?) 211212 ... raze 7min 3h (in seven minutes and three hours it'll be 5:27 in the morning here. are you trying to tell me something, captcha? or is that the amount of sleep i'm going to get tonight? because if that's it, i'll take it.) 211215 ... raze pr boxn ("purr boxing"? is this something cats do when they're feeling happy and violent?) 211217 ... raze hop 4 xu (remove the "x" and we've got some very timely rabbit action going on right here) 211230 ... raze hog wpr (hog wiper. the duty of a devoted farmer, or a menial job gone wrong?) 220111 ... raze drnqss (i think the captcha has had a few this evening) 220113 ... raze "ryp bby" (that's pretty ripe, baby) 220121 ... raze "how v bg" (how very big of you, captcha.) 220129 ... e_o_i "qcywkr" struck me as "Quebec, why we queer?" Some people here are straight, captcha. Some are not from Quebec. You've gotta be more inclusive :) 220129 ... e_o_i fydo46 = a robot dog, clearly 220210 ... raze gcux b4 (no, i was not a giac certified unix system administrator in a past life. but thanks for asking, captcha.) 220213 ... raze "psw yuc" (hey, that's no way to talk about personal support workers) 220215 ... raze lol 4e2 (an "lol" in the captcha? what strange sorcery is this?!) 220222 ... Bizzar it's almost like the captcha made a joke that went above your head. how come blather sometimes requests a captcha, and sometimes doesn't? 220222 ... raze i think it times out every ... i want to say three hours? i'm not sure. i feel like it used to last a lot longer, but now i find myself having to prove i'm human at least a few times throughout the course of a day. 220222 ... tender_square "how fb 6" how fab, six! (does captcha know blossom's sidekick?) 220222 ... raze i sed nu (someone's feeling modern) 220225 ... raze dauym 3 ("dauym, 3 ... you're looking good for being the smallest prime number around.") 220226 ... raze croyfl (croyful. similar to "joyful", but relating to a barrier in a stream, or a village in scotland.) 220301 ... tender_square u2sngn U2 singin. 220304 ... raze cut kng (play with knives and you're bound to wound yourself, even if you're royalty) 220305 ... e_o_i "oumtnl" - ALMOST "out MTL" (MTL being short for Montreal) 220308 ... e_o_i "wo4xwo" - no, this is only 2X wo. Space will not permit 4. 220310 ... raze "leufip" (i like it because it sounds french. but i don't know what it means.) 220312 ... e_o_i "Jehrem" looks like a name - a variety of Jeremy. 220316 ... Soma I can never pass the ones that have a "j" or is it an "l" or is it an "i" I'm not sure I always fail those ones. Takes me about thee tries on average, and I'm fairly certain the bots are better than me these days. at least when it comes to captchas, that is. 220317 ... raze (the i's and the l's are the ones that always get me. i'm getting better at guessing which is which, but only just. it's always a little surprising when my first crack at the captcha goes through — though the second try almost always works.) 220317 ... raze xktrna (that's either pretty close to an interesting stylization of "external", or the captcha has an ex-challenge response test partner named katrina) 220318 ... raze emss fu (someone is either not a fan of express mail, or they're really pissed off at paramedics right now) 220319 ... raze kbuece (a new way to pronounce "caboose"?) 220320 ... raze j.q. wolf (i've decided this is the name of a private detective who just might be a real wolf) 220321 ... e_o_i "okh33a" -Oklahoma when you're 33 and tired of long words. 220324 ... raze on 65 cm (getting metric, i see) 220325 ... raze 44ddwe (the near-symmetry of this one cracks me up. if only that e were a w!) 220327 ... tender_square stixlt ("stix lit," which sound like books about candy) 220328 ... raze bvg tip (i'm not sure the berliner verkehrsbetriebe accepts tips. but i guess you can try?) 220328 ... raze jewwsu (is the captcha trying to say "jewish shoe" here with a half-asleep mouth?) 220329 ... raze celspn (cell spin) 220401 ... raze ia8 ogr ("aight, ogre!") 220403 ... raze 55 eq, mf (someone's pretty passionate about equalization) 220406 ... raze smkrbt (smoker butt: an unfortunate consequence of smoking too many posterior cigarettes) 220407 ... raze mr. 3i2k (i think he taught me back in high_school. he wasn't very expressive, but he got the job done.) 220412 ... raze rutuxn (sounds like a prescription drug that hasn't hit the market yet) 220414 ... raze tegruu (an inebriated italian tiger) 220422 ... raze kmbmae ("come be me"? an invitation from the captcha to walk around in its six-character shoes for a while?) 220425 ... raze 4c puma (because wild cats are well versed in marketing communications lingo) 220428 ... raze gdsn 6l (that's a pretty unusual name for a godson) 220430 ... raze qc bs, yh? (quality control bullshit. ya heard?) 220501 ... raze nx bt dq (the next butt gets disqualified, huh? that ain't fair, man. no_one should be made to feel that their posterior is inferior.) 220503 ... raze cahabu (that's *cahaba*, alabama) 220505 ... raze ehh blh (hey! that's no way to say good morning!) 220508 ... tender_square c35vaj (the perfect license plate for a gynecologist) 220509 ... tender_square "mik gpy" (mike guppy; the perfect guy for all your fish needs.) 220511 ... raze 6pstic (this is what happens when the number six dreams of becoming lipstick someday) 220512 ... raze frwfkx (a pretty accurate transcription of what comes out of my mouth when some considerate person decides to turn the street into a drag strip after midnight) 220515 ... raze mr. 26jm (i think that dude was my high_school computer science teacher) 220516 ... raze xthnmy (someone's lost track of how many adversaries they've accumulated) 220517 ... raze h8phew (hey, that's no way to talk about your nephew) 220519 ... raze wdv luv (i would've loved you too, captcha, if only i'd been born in text form) 220520 ... raze nkd kcr (the chief minister of telangana isn't wearing any clothes!) 220526 ... nr etk4fu take that, etk4, what/whoever you are. 220528 ... raze cspot7 (a remake of "see spot run" for the a.i. community) 220528 ... raze nyu suv (i guess every university needs its own in-house sport utility vehicle) 220531 ... e_o_i u85kid - "you kid" x 85; addressing 85 children or accusing someone of kidding very, very much? 220601 ... raze oh, 5 ply (an ode to the fanciest toilet paper ever made?) 220602 ... raze rye pye (look at you, captcha, getting down with your bad rhyming self!) 220606 ... raze git kkn (get kickin'!) 220607 ... raze cfi keg (here i thought you were about to say, "see if i care," and you went rogue on my ass. well played, captcha. well played.) 220609 ... raze fosnil (because not all fossils have historic value) 220620 ... past westn3 third volume of raze's greatest hits compilation. 220620 ... raze (who knew the captcha could be so handy? i'll remember this one!) 220620 ... raze xptmet (is that an experiment gone wrong, or a former impediment recast as a warped sample in a techno song?) 220621 ... raze sgk8od (sergeant kate o.d.'d? that's a drag.) 220622 ... raze yux mom (pretty self-explanatory, i think. the captcha gets it.) 220623 ... raze rap sh8 (hey, just because you're not a fan of hip_hop, it doesn't mean you have to get mean about it) 220626 ... raze lov? jkd (the captcha giveth, and the captcha taketh away) 220628 ... raze jud pcs (it's always heartening to know the captcha keeps a folder of judd nelson pics handy, for those necessary moments of brat pack nostalgia) 220702 ... raze lmo axs (the axis of a limousine?) 220703 ... e_o_i "ayiwyc" - ayi! woo york city! (the city where you go "woo!") ...but apparently my silliness hampered my captcha-reading abilities, because I got it wrong and had to refresh the page for a new one. 220703 ... raze bamp 2x (why bamp once when you can do it twice?) 220704 ... raze tgf bdy (i know the feeling; i'm thankful for my body too) 220706 ... raze c3bc3d (cbc radio 3 in 3D, red_blather style) 220711 ... e_o_i "fe7dna" - if I only could figure out what a fe7 is, maybe I'd care about its DNA 220712 ... raze fate f5 (does the f5 key hold the secret to our shared fate? has that been the case all along?) 220713 ... e_o_i "stexql" - just sounds like the name of a drug 220715 ... raze 71 fuk g (worth commemorating because there's basically an f_bomb in there) 220717 ... raze stp, 2rl (also what i say when things get a little too real for me) 220718 ... raze gpsy cg (is that shorthand for a ... gypsy corgi?) 220719 ... tender_square yar 7 tv (a pirate gives a middling rating to electronics) 220719 ... raze hihhue (i figure this is what laughing and sneezing at the same time would sound like) 220720 ... raze foku, 45 (now that's just mean. no number deserves that kind of abuse.) 220721 ... raze cj rofl (THE CAPTCHA JUST ROFL'D. i never dared to dream i'd see the day.) 220722 ... e_o_i "pdeaau" - public display of elongated French water 220723 ... raze dawhsk (that's ... a very interesting phonetic rendering of "dusk", if nothing else) 220724 ... raze oysbnd (either "husband" said with a very thick and not entirely authentic australian accent, or the least inventive name ever for a punk band) 220725 ... raze xofril (sounds like a hip new drug designed to dispel unwanted love) 220729 ... raze duk x8x (a straightedge duck invents their first screen name after learning all the good ones are already taken) 220730 ... raze weud8n (no, we aren't dating. not yet, anyway.) 220803 ... raze clows 2 (the sequel to last summer's surprise hit motion picture "clows". the jury's still out on whether or not the law of diminishing returns has kicked in this early in the franchise.) 220804 ... raze ora3os (close, but no box of oreos) 220805 ... raze ph cool (the concentration of hydrogen ion in water *is* pretty cool. also, is it just me, or is it a little jarring when recognizable words show up like that, all casual and shit?) 220806 ... raze smh 2 df (now there's a tennis-themed captcha if i've ever seen one. "shaking my head; two double faults.") 220807 ... raze u jw bug (i almost spat my water all over the computer screen. those are my initials. if i were an insect, that's probably how my friends would greet me.) 220814 ... raze c 8, c sok (i see the number eight, but i fail to recogize the sock you're referring to) 220818 ... raze (how the hell did i manage to misspell "recognize" there?) 220818 ... raze when bn (this is what it sounds like when it isn't clear if the question of "when" is being asked of a bean or someone named ben. maybe ben *is* a bean. did you ever consider that possibility, captcha?) 220820 ... raze ru76 x 2 (you know what i always say — double your ru76, double your fun) 220823 ... raze 4 wd sc 5 (four would scare five) 220826 ... raze hal 6 hr (but does anyone really *want* six hours of hal? i find he's best in small doses.) 220827 ... raze p3 a fan (i never thought a public private partnership would be a fan of mine, but i appreciate the support) 220831 ... raze uac dye (who knew windows vista was vain enough to dye its digitized hair?) 220902 ... raze law 6g3 (i didn't realize there were laws that pertained to the fender brownface deluxe amplifier) 220907 ... raze cork 8v (that sounds like one powerful cork) 220913 ... raze tums, k? 4 (is someone suffering from indigestion?) 220920 ... raze opn wnw (i would, but it would get a bit drafty in here) 220924 ... raze d giv mo (i'm not sure the letter d can give any more than it already has) 220927 ... raze sosut6 (so said six) 220928 ... tender_square cayrhe (a interesting to way to spell kerry) 220929 ... raze thc e3t (stylized edibles, eh?) 221004 ... raze sch diq (why thank you. i do try.) 221005 ... raze tax bke (i'm not sure if that's an expensive form of baking or a bicycle none of us want to see show up at our door) 221014 ... nr pisslx i mean... i don't know what lx is 221014 ... raze jekyeu (you're welcome) 221017 ... raze 3 on pug (is this some hip new variation on "four on the floor" to describe songs in 3/4 time? or is it a dance craze wherein three people dance atop a massive wrinkled woofer?) 221021 ... raze ppp vxw (i guess someone's really gotta go, to the point that they're garbling the names of luxury vehicles) 221022 ... raze kuuhlr (is that an esoteric cooler with a hip name, or a really drunk colour?) 221023 ... raze hd2cgu (i had to see you too) 221026 ... raze anrs 4 u (i think i have enough anrs already. but i do appreciate the gesture.) 221031 ... raze ampeow (and here i thought, for one glorious, fleeting moment, that i'd been gifted with an amplified meow) 221101 ... raze achs 4u (you're offering me an awful lot of things i don't need lately, captcha) 221103 ... raze w2g win (i appreciate the encouragement) 221104 ... raze xo 5863 (that ... is a pretty large number to hug) 221108 ... tender_square i blani (don't be so hard on yourself, captcha.) 221130 ... raze pun 2gn (worth noting if only for the unexpected pun) 221208 ... raze y gf bmx (i am *not* dating a bicycle. not yet, anyway.) 221209 ... tender_square nws 2 lq (i'm just not that passionate about you news, okay?) 221210 ... raze meeeo 3 (i appreciate the operatic introduction) 221216 ... raze at 53 di (that's hardly encouraging. but it's good to know how much sand you've got left in the hourglass. i guess i'll have to make the most of the next fourteen years.) 221222 ... raze blrlds (those are some very inebriated avian creatures) 230106 ... raze amp bo5 (a best-of-five competition in which boutique amplifiers duke it out for supremacy and bragging rights) 230108 ... e_o_i "grftly" - griftily, which is like spammily, except in this case someone's trying to sell you something 230113 ... raze 7kc 42d (just because it rhymes) 230116 ... raze U2? sh. 2A. (i know bono and co. haven't made truly great music in some years now, but there's no need for that kind of talk) 230117 ... raze 5flebp (i too remember that infectious hit by the brothers hanson) 230123 ... raze fruxbo (maybe i should start yelling this instead of swearing) 230124 ... raze ecterh (i don't think that's how you spell "etcetera") 230125 ... raze nickos (it's pretty unusual to see a recognizable name pop up like that) 230129 ... raze hik duk (i believe they prefer to be referred to as "rustic ducks") 230207 ... e_o_i a2omly - a second anomaly, cozy 230207 ... raze bawq fx (yes, there are special effects connoisseurs in the poultry kingdom. chickens can be cinephiles too.) 230212 ... raze sbryey (i mean, that's close enough to a slightly jumbled "sybren" that i think it deserves commemoration) 230213 ... raze crgy lg (craggy leg. sounds about right.) 230214 ... raze jsb bun (because bach must have had a rabbit for a muse) 230215 ... raze UTC 504 (you see the damage daylight_savings_time has done? you see?) 230225 ... raze xex 5w5 (just because there's a nice bit of symmetry there) 230228 ... raze pun 32s (you know you've got a lot of puns kicking around when you need a system of letters *and* numbers to itemize them all) 230308 ... raze c u 4 mpc (i knew you were only with me for my sampler) 230321 ... raze w c u dnk (tall as i am, you'd think i *would* be able to dunk, but that's a skill i never picked up. it was all jump shots for me back when i used to play basketball.) 230326 ... raze wl4 pug (worth noting because the captcha gave me a dog when i was in the middle of writing a blathe about one) 230328 ... raze fnngru (you're welcome) 230401 ... e_o_i "xxvoid" Very easily a gothic/emo forum username somewhere! and somewhen! (2003-2007ish?) 230423 ... raze tka txi (i did take a taxi, once upon a time. i took several. lately ... not so much.) 230428 ... raze fkkn lk (fuckin' elk, eh?) 230430 ... raze noi7sy (yes. it certainly has been.) 230501 ... raze nap 8gu (the captcha can be cruel sometimes, taunting you with the knowledge of what you can't have) 230511 ... raze x73 oct (is this what dates will look like in a future age when months have lost all meaning?) 230527 ... raze egnjne (you might want to have that engine looked at. it doesn't sound right.) 230603 ... tender_square upsuc b! (yeah, so there!) 230611 ... raze kyak sp (no, that isn't quite how you spell that word. you're missing an a before the y.) 230626 ... raze fuppor (my favourite deal of the may) 230711 ... raze heg tko (poor heg. he gave a game effort before the ref stepped in and stopped the fight.) 230712 ... raze jr cedi (if only cedi sr. were still around to see what became of his boy) 230714 ... raze ixpwow (ixnay on the powwow, then?) 230716 ... e_o_i "uclaou" - clearly, someone is asking in French where UCLA is: ucla ou? 230717 ... e_o_i "vw72cw" - because of Arild's 1971 Mercedes, and because I have been writing "CW" for Creative Writing for what seems like ages, this seems to denote a creative work about a 1972 Volkswagen. 230718 ... raze krub pi (in hindi: "cherub p". an angelic rapper, then?) 230723 ... e_o_i "yv8247" - why V8 juice 24/7? why?? 230724 ... raze lck hvg (as i read it: "lack having") 230725 ... raze cu 83 kd (if kevin durant's jersey number happened to be 83, this would really take on added significance) 230804 ... raze m enve 6 (it's a sad state of affairs when letters start envying numbers) 230806 ... raze wept 2r (because how often is the word "wept" going to show up in the captcha? if there hadn't been a need to bump it up from four characters to six when there was a lot of russian spam coming in some years back, the word would be all alone.) 230809 ... raze fevuim (sounds like some post-modern drug designed to combat troubling side_effects suffered while speaking french in the month of february) 230811 ... raze i et cnn (i guess when a captcha gets hungry, it goes straight for a news source) 230814 ... raze affogt (sometimes you're in such a fuckit kind of mood you don't even have the energy to say, "ah, fuck it," properly, so this is what comes out instead) 230818 ... tender_square dog 26, c? 230827 ... raze gecomy (michael and vincent gecomy appear in the 1940 census. so, you_know, there's that.) 230829 ... raze 8 my 45h (so that's where those two days went, give or take a few hours) 230830 ... raze 6? i am uv (not a number, then, but a unit of electromagnetic radiation) 230905 ... raze bowakk (that's one angry chicken) 230906 ... raze kobl mi (cobble me?) 230908 ... raze u jun 33 (no, me not. that date not exist. no month have that many days. why me talk like cookie monster?) 230917 ... raze 532 ukq (i just like it 'cause it's got a rhythm and it rhymes) 230919 ... raze wdoryx (sounds like a cross between a norse god and a glass-cleaning solution) 230921 ... raze lvrn vj (i remember quite a bit of the muchmusic alumni, but that name doesn't ring a bell) 230922 ... raze h3knup (that's a different kind of hiccup) 230924 ... raze ps: ft fk (foot fetishists of the world, rejoice) 230925 ... raze (i was curious how long it takes before the captcha times out and you need to enter another one. seems to be a two-hour window, as far as i can tell. anyway.) 231006 ... raze omfdoa (so said the baffled paramedic while texting) 231008 ... raze ok 4a 8v (he's okay for an eight-volt battery) 231018 ... raze shhlrp (a quiet slurp) 231022 ... raze nt cum 2 (i never thought i'd see a sequel to cum in the captcha, but here we are) 231023 ... raze kuldup (culled up? called up? either way, i can dig it.) 231024 ... raze r2ddrt (i guess R2-D2 takes this whole mud wrestling thing pretty seriously) 231102 ... e_o_i "vitbk3" - a new vitamin? 231112 ... raze mir dvr (a mere digital video recorder, eh?) 231115 ... raze lularm (is that an alarm that laughs at you, or one that lulls you back to sleep?) 231116 ... raze 5? nu, yr 8. (it's always good to know what you are when you're a number) 231124 ... raze omg vrg (i also get excited about the vegetarian resource group) 231125 ... raze ivy ccr (that's where you'll find john fogerty — in the ground-creeping hedera) 231128 ... raze oh lons (hey, if a commune in south-western france is what does it for you, who am i to judge?) 231129 ... Soma In a post about my mother, the captcha too aptly read: Mas IPA. 231203 ... raze (the eerily_prescient_captcha has visited me a time or two too.) 231203 ... raze ep2: rio (i still want to know where episode one took place) 231210 ... raze 37y 4sc (fourscore and thirty-seven years ago...) 231213 ... Soma i pdx b4 (Glad to know the captcha has been to Portland in the past) 231215 ... raze ht chad (i'm not a big fan of the guy myself) 231216 ... Soma rveuyu (even blather knows that my habits and actions could use closer scrutiny and review) 231216 ... raze 53 h? jk 8 (silly captcha. always playing with time.) 231221 ... raze mtl goi ("a gentile in montreal" sounds like a warren zevon outtake or something) 231226 ... raze cogabo ("cogeco", like other words, becomes more difficult to pronounce when you've had a bit to drink) 231227 ... e_o_i "45spfg" as "45 SPF - gee!" Someone is impressed at the sun protection factor of a sunscreen. Either that or they're being sarcastic. 231228 ... raze mpc s77 (must be a new kind of sampler from akai) 240105 ... raze javspa (a spa for the javascript set?) 240106 ... e_o_i "62ndcx" - Google tells me "cx" can stand for customer experience, but what's special about the 62nd one? 240111 ... Soma 38kbdy (38k of pure gold, buddy. That's how it feels I guess!) 240113 ... raze 8l buys (what? what does 8l buy? I MUST KNOW.) 240117 ... raze 46 mkph (in the future, miles will be marks. or maybe they already are.) 240118 ... raze mibuhh (pretty much a direct phonetic rendering of the way a person i once knew said "melbourne" after they came back from a trip to australia and decided to take the madonna approach, attempting an adopt an accent that wasn't their own with disastrous results) 240121 ... raze 8 doc bj (there's a doctor and a blowjob in my captcha. one of these things is not like the other.) 240122 ... e_o_i "223lbd" - that's a lot of little black dresses. 240127 ... raze sdy, 6 yo (nice to meet you, sdy. you're officially the youngest 'skite of all time.) 240131 ... raze ok nilw (okay, novus istanbul language works) 240213 ... raze jmp 42 f (i think you've overestimated my leaping abilities) 240218 ... e_o_i "ey5erg" - which looked like "eyeberg," which I imagined to be an eye turned as squarish and jutting as an iceberg 240226 ... e_o_i (I mean angled, forming edges and points rather than being round; "squarish" doesn't really convey that.) 240226 ... e_o_i "bad2kn" - bad token? of what? 240301 ... raze hreeoo (seems about right, given the current glitchy state of things around here) 240305 ... raze omfgah (i know, captcha. i know.) 240306 ... raze i swear, every other captcha i'm getting lately has a freakishly recognizable acronym in it, like mlk, or omg, or idgaf. okay, maybe not that last one. but still. 240307 ... releaseofwarmth gpsydm GYPSY DAMN 240315 ... e_o_i "7dkypd" - my mind turned this into "I Don't Know Why Police Department" 240330 ... warmthofrelease elfthk elf think? or elf thick? that'd probably be with a c not a k though right? elf with the thiccness. unless it's meant thick in the english sense? like unintelligent? is that a distinctly english connotation or does larger great britain or united kingdom or ireland or royal family's otherwise extended hand also use the word thick in a derogatory way? this_is_what_turns_dreams_to_nightmares 240331 ... e_o_i "ixivxt" - If we take this for 1-14-10 in Roman numerals, plus a "t", blather is telling us that January 14, 2010 was either a Tuesday or a Thursday (it was indeed a Thursday, says Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2010_January_14) 240408 ... raze icq 7jo (notable because there's a blathe in there) 240423 ... raze oo, you c? (i certainly do) 240425 what's it to you? who go blather from