February 2008
smack talk →
The art of telling another person off, belittling them or calling their momma fat, while in the heat of competition.
Man, your mamma so fat she got her own zip code!
You can’t play madden dawg…
make it rain →
When you’re in da club with a stack, and you throw the money up in the air at the strippers. The effect is that it seems to be raining money.
After Leroy finished trapping for the night, he…
Monofactor.com | Illustrator - Creating a Shiny... →
flilf →
First lady I’d like to fuck.
Laura is a flilf in the ass.
WSD →
“Write Shit Down”. A popular method of organization. Works equally well in one’s personal or professional life.
Dude, you don’t need ritalin. Just use the WSD method - trust me, you won’t forget things anymore and you’ll actually get them done!
frienvy →
Feeling of want or need for something or someone that a friend might have.
People often experience frienvy when a close friend of theirs loses weight, gets a promotion, or finds a new boyfriend/girlfriend.
Jackie was filled with frienvy as she walked through the halls with her best friend Tracey, because all of the guys were complimenting Tracey on her hot new look.
Eye On Birmingham | The Ring →
Tutorial on how to make a ring light flash on the cheap
Venture Marketing | Basecamp client jumpstart →
Overview of how to get a customer acquainted with Basecamp
Strobist →
Blog about lighting and photography.
CSS Type Set →
Tool for getting typography CSS easily
Oscar Bait →
A film released during the last two months of the year with a big cast and ‘important’ subject matter to attract the attention of the Academy.
“‘Good Will Hunting’ and ‘I am Sam’ are sickening examples of Oscar bait.”
tri-sexual →
the definition of someone who will “try” anything sexual.
person 1 : whats your sexual preference?
person 2 : hey man i’ll do anything, im TRI-SEXUAL
eICU →
eICU
n. A medical support center that enables doctors to monitor, diagnose, and suggest treatment for ICU patients from a remote location.
Example Citation:
Swedish Medical is one of a growing number of hospitals opting for a radical form of outsourcing by using technology and doctors stationed off-site to monitor the well-being of critically ill patients. Instead of listening through a...
avro →
Aussie Abrviation of “Afternoon”
I was gonna go buy some new dacks this arvo, but mum a’ready bought me some!
exoplanet →
exoplanet
n. A planet outside of Earth’s solar system.
Example Citation:
Astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. …
Sara Seager, a theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of...
fauxtograph →
A fauxtograph is a practical joke in which the video setting of a digital camera is used to trick the target into posing for a really long time for what isn’t a picture at all.
“Say ‘cheese’!”
(person poses)
(pause)
(pause)
(pause)
“You’re taking a fauxtograph aren’t you? You asshole.”
I approve this message →
Phrase you can use when leaving a message on the answering machine of a very political friend or relative.
On answering machine:
“Hi, I’m your son and I approve this message. I’d be happy to dog-sit while you’re away for the week. By the way, I mailed in my ballot…so stop nagging me to vote.”
Kanye West – Gold Digger →
Foo Fighters – The Pretender →
Kanye West – School Spirit →
Hellyeah – HellYeah →
bragadocious →
An adjective describing something or someone that is bragging too much.
I don’t mean to be bragadocious, but I am the fucking man.
Boomed on →
In a game of basketball when a defender attempts to stop a dunk and fails. This often occurs to an unaware defender or to a defender that finds out at the last moment and can do nothing to stop what is about to occur. Embarrassment is what the defender is left with afterwards.
Alonzo Mourning got Boomed On by Vince Carter.
craxy →
The X is for extra crazy.
This dog is craxy.
Ultimate Restful Authentication →
forum post that shows a ‘bells and whistles” version of Restful Authentication.
dragging balls →
taking too much time to complete a task, procrastinating, never ending, slow paced.
(office setting/coworkers)
G: Fuck! It’s only 10am?
Juan: Yep. Today is dragging balls.
Valentime's Day →
The 14th of February. It falls on the same day as Valentine’s Day except this one is only celebrated by 5 year olds.
My daughter rocks, she got Valentimes from all the boys at school on Valentime’s Day.
Viagrate →
To imbue with lasting vigor
Revenues are slumping, therefore, we must viagrate our sales source
UDI →
Unidentified Drinking Injury
When one is drunk, one picks up random bruises, aches and pains. At worst, cuts an bruises too.
I pretty sure I broke a finger playing cards last night. wtf.
obamania →
The national obsession with Senator Barack Obama
Taste the flavor of change… taste the Obamania!
400 Calories →
Supposedly making out for 20 minutes burns 400 calories.
Actually, 400 Kilocalories, but food companies thought it would be easier to denote those things we burn as calories, so what the hell. Apparently metric prefixes are fucking scary.
Chad: “Hey Lisa want to burn 400 calories?”
Lisa: “Sure Chad, but I’m not taking off my pants…yet.”
{ 20 minutes later }...
facebookable →
Content is considered appropriate enough to be viewed by the general public of the facebook community i.e friends/significant others/family/coworkers without having to worry about explaining a sketchy situation
You know it was a good night when only 3 out of 152 pics are facebookable
teafragging →
It’s teabagging, but in video games. When playing online or split-screen in a First person shooter game, and you’ve just fragged someone, you walk over the opponent’s digital carcass, and then press the crouch command repeatedly to embarass the victim while he or she respawns.
It is truly embarassing, and should only be done by professionals. This means you need to earn some...
attachment disorder →
When a person forgets to attach a document to an e-mail after explicitly stating that it is present.
Erin: RE: Look at this picture!! Message: You did not attach that picture on your last e-mail.
Jeremy: Re: RE: Look at this picture!!! Message: I always forget to attach the picture before I hit send. I must have an attachment disorder.
Mac Tricks & Tips | Top 100 Essential Mac... →
disneyfication →
The act of taming the world to make it all safe, clean, and completely simlar to a theme park.
To remove the sharp edges and darkness that is life.
NYC suffered from disneyfication under Rudy, and now is as boring as any small town USA
Super Tuesday →
A weekly ritual taking place on Tuesday in which co-workers and/or friends, participate in. This is usually the highlight of the week.
Every Tuesday, my co-workers and myself head out to Best Buy to check out the new releases, go to the market for any necessities, usually juice, and then to Subway for their Tuesday special: a footlong sub for $3.99 before heading back to the office for lunch.
Hello Moto… um I mean Txt
I’ve got to say… IT’S ABOUT TIME! I’m not much on social network sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc…) but I know that what I don’t like about them is you have to change your ‘status’ message on all of them separately. Now the fantastic folks over at HelloTxt have given you a service that does the unimaginable! You can change your ‘status’...
Hmmm, one status message to rule them all!?
GOTV →
GOTV is an acronym for
Get-Out-The-Vote. It applies to activities which are centered on voter registration and other tatics for increasing public participation in the electoral process.
“I am going to Phoenix to GOTV/election monitor.”
(I am going to Phoenix to get out the vote and monitor the election.)
superbowl →
30 second clips of men running in between commercials.
Person 1: Who do you think will win the Superbowl?
Person 2: What’s that? Oh, those men running in between the commercials?
Billary →
The political union of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The Billary machine should beat Judyani in 2008.
Get rockin’ icons for your Prism applications →
While using Prism for Basecamp I ran into an annoying little problem that all the icons from Prism are the default ‘world’ type of icon. I hated this plus it was hard to distinguish the different applications on my desktop. So I found a way to remedy this situation.
ACB →
Mnemonic device for “Air Conditioner Booty”: a woman whose buttocks, when viewed from the side, resemble a wall-unit air conditioner protruding from a house.
Holly’s ACB was knocking peoples’ drinks off the table last night.
Book Review - Learning Ruby
[amazonify]0596529864::text::::Learning Ruby[/amazonify]
Author: Michael Fitzgerald
ISBN 10: 0-596-52986-4
ISBN 13: 9780596529864
Reviewer: Matt Polito
Learning Ruby is exactly what the title says. This book offers a great ‘introduction’ to Ruby as a fun, powerful language. Now I would say that as a Ruby user, I’m not quite advanced but not really a beginner. I would...