Dec 22: Answering machine spam: Anonymous telemarketer

Five second pause.

"Hello."

"Hello."

He sounded vaguely foreign as well. There were brief blips of telemarketer background noise. I guess telemarketer companies are using equipment that try to suppress the telemarketer background noise these days. Of course, the five second delay between the time my answering machine greeting ended and the time the telemarketer started talking is a total giveaway that this was a telemarketer.