Journal Frater 219's Journal: Words To Grow On, Part Deux 1
bulget n. Any budget without bound.
chadvert n. One of those subscription cards that falls out of magazines you've already subscribed to; also known as a blow-in. A subscription card whose very corner is bound into the magazine's spine may be termed a hanging chadvert.
commie for you, not for me n. A Marxist economics professor with a second home, a sports car, and a small child dressed in Baby Gap; who won't shut up about his mutual funds.
analoquy n. Talking out one's ass.
funk adj. The state of a Mac OS X system populated with Debian software. See fink. A fully funk Macintosh combines all the user interface madness of KDE and GNOME with all the user interface madness of Steve Jobs.
keyboard scenic route n. A keyboard shortcut that isn't. GUI programs which place utterly unrelated functions on the same basic key -- but with different modifiers -- may be said to take the keyboard scenic route. The more keys and modifiers you must tour to find the function you're looking for, the more scenic the route. This is particularly egregious on the Macintosh, where it violates Apple Human Interface Guidelines. One Mac example is Thorsten Lemke's GraphicConverter, an otherwise excellent program.
list incomprehension n. The use of nested Python list comprehensions, ideally combined with lots of % operators and "".join()s. Combines the readability of Lisp with the readability of C, all in a friendly Python syntax.
turnon n. The quantum particle of sexual arousal. In an excited state, a turnon decays to a hardon or a pounceon; otherwise, to two blue balls and a dammitrino.
unsubspam n. Any postal mail warning of the imminent termination of a trade-magazine subscription. "If you don't tell us today how much purchasing authority you have in your company, we will stop sending you ZD PCInfo-WorldWeek! Really!" To date, no unsubspammer has ever followed up on this promise.
ziff n. The mating cry of the trade-rag columnist; compare yiff.
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