Yes, the author is a huge dork. Now you have visual proof.

This Halloween, I fulfilled one of my lifelong ambitions by constructing my own Terminator costume. However, at my office party, only about half of my co-workers correctly identified me as a Terminator upon first glance. Most guessed “robot.”

They will be the first to be co-opted by Skynet. Robot? A Terminator is no mere robot.

My fellow Overthinkers: I know we’re facing economic and foreign policy crises in our world, but this shocking inability to recognize a hunter-killer cyborg from the future needs our full and immediate attention. We need a Terminator Awareness Campaign, and it starts now.