I’m pretty sure CAPTCHA is messing with me

I’ve noticed over the past few weeks that whenever I’m presented a CAPTCHA box (one of those security fields that has you type the words that you see on your screen, supposedly to make sure you’re not some kind of robot) the words in the box have been a little suspicious. As if the program was trying to tell me something.

I’d get presented with a combination of words like “lazy” and “worker” or “heavy” and “foundation“. Never anything overt, but always a combination that could have another meaning implied if you read into it. And always something slightly derogatory.

Of course I would dismiss it every time because acknowledging it as more than just coincidence would give credence to the fact that a mischievous and malicious computer program was out to get me. I have a hard enough time maintaining outward appearances of sanity, this type of paranoia would not help my situation.

But today, as I was subscribing to the RSS feed of a new blog I found, here’s what I was presented with:

After about 15 minutes of searching for the “diamond” key on my keyboard it dawned on me that maybe CAPTCHA is out to get me. It reminded me of a quote I heard from Michael Bloomberg, “Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean I’m not right.”

I mean seriously, what am I supposed to do with that?