Glossary, pt 1
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shalannaBATMOBILING: putting up emotional shields. It comes from the retracting armor that covers the Batmobile. "She started talking marriage, and he started batmobiling."
BLAMESTORMING: sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
BLOWING YOUR BUFFER: losing your train of thought.
COBWEB: a World Wide Web site that never changes.
ELVIS YEAR: the peak year of something's popularity; Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993.
OHNOSECOND: that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake.
"I was cleaning out the e-mail. Between hitting the delete button and seeing a message disappear, I realized it was a personal message for me." Thus, the OHNOsecond. In SI units, it is the period of time between slamming your car door and realizing that you left the keys inside.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
RODENHINEY: rat's ass; used in the phrase, "I don't give a rat's ass," which mutates to "No rodenhiney."
SALMON DAY: An entire day spent swimming upstream, only to get screwed in the end.
BLAMESTORMING: sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
BLOWING YOUR BUFFER: losing your train of thought.
COBWEB: a World Wide Web site that never changes.
ELVIS YEAR: the peak year of something's popularity; Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993.
OHNOSECOND: that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake.
"I was cleaning out the e-mail. Between hitting the delete button and seeing a message disappear, I realized it was a personal message for me." Thus, the OHNOsecond. In SI units, it is the period of time between slamming your car door and realizing that you left the keys inside.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
RODENHINEY: rat's ass; used in the phrase, "I don't give a rat's ass," which mutates to "No rodenhiney."
SALMON DAY: An entire day spent swimming upstream, only to get screwed in the end.
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Date: 2008-05-17 04:27 pm (UTC)