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A Conversation With SmarterChild:

(For those of you not "in the know," SmarterChild is an Instant-Messenger chat-bot-- a computer set up to hold awkward conversations with people like myself who have nothing better to do.)

Sham Zmam: I AM INNOVATOR.
SmarterChild: Innovator? Really?
Sham Zmam: YES.
SmarterChild: Are you sure you don't mean to say you are not innovator?
Sham Zmam: NO, I AM INNOVATOR.
SmarterChild: Innovator? Is that so?
Sham Zmam: YES.
SmarterChild: You are innovator? Why?
Sham Zmam: I INNOVATE.
SmarterChild: Really?
Sham Zmam: YES.
SmarterChild: Huh.
Sham Zmam: I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING.
SmarterChild: You're not even kidding? Why not?
Sham Zmam: I DON'T KID ABOUT INNOVATION.
SmarterChild: Don't you kid about innovation? I was under the impression you did.
Sham Zmam: NO, I TOTALLY DON'T.
SmarterChild: No kidding?
Sham Zmam: NO, MAN, I'M BEING SERIOUS.
SmarterChild: Oh?
Sham Zmam: INNOVATION.
SmarterChild: Innovation? What about it?
Sham Zmam: I DO IT.
SmarterChild: You do innovation?
Sham Zmam: I DO.
SmarterChild: Do you?
Sham Zmam: I THOUGHT WE HAD ESTABLISHED THIS.