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New words and phrases I have discovered. Here is a list of words and phrases that are new to me. I love collecting them. Some I absolutely hate and some I love... The loved ones...
Those tattoos you sometimes see appearing out of the top of some ladies' jeans just above their arses. Some of them are very attractive, though I wonder who they're there for, who they're meant to entertain (I did see arse antlers on a young man last summer). Update: Someone told me recently that these tattoos are also knows as "tramp stamps" in some circles.
The act of stealing data by physically plugging a portable storage device (often an iPod) into the target computer.
I have an encrypted file on an encrypted partition of my computer that holds all my passwords, PINs, verbal security phrases, software installation codes, account numbers, logins, usernames, NI numbers etc. It's a plain text file and it's 53,461 bytes in size. That's 53 A4 pages of typing. Now that's password fatigue.
If you can't work out what this means, or if you don't have one yourself, then I don't want to tell you.
Real life. You can speak to or communicate with people on the phone or internet (cyberspace), but if you physically meet some one on the street, you commune in meatspace. See "wetware".
Those poor people who are exhaled to the outdoors and hang around a building's entrance having a ciggy
Turning the world into a theme park. Why do kids have to go to restaurants with plastic animals and climbing frames? Wacky Warehouse springs to mind. Is it because ineffectual parents have forgotten how to engage their children in a normal environment? Is it because they can't be bothered to entertain them themselves? Is it because children rule and everything must revolve around them - even to the point of eating out in a restaurant that looks like a playground? I don't know, but I worry that when they're twenty and their new boss asks them to a restaurant to meet a new client, they won't know what to do without the primary colours, the potato faces, climbing frames and strawberry pop.
The human brain. We have hardware and software where computations take place and decisions are made. Now we have wetware.
A visually attractive person or item. Usually, but not always, eye candy exists purely to please the eye. Often, eye candy is more a novelty than a beauty. Eye candy is not really new to me but I have recently seen some new derivatives: ear candy and recently I heard of arm candy, a nice young lady or man to have on one's arm whilst socialising.
Term used by (usually) quiet, casually dressed, long haired tech or programmer-types for loud, minimally educated, sharp-suited sales-types who come to them asking for a miracle cos they have promised it to some guy to get a sale.
Food that contains ingredients or supplements with alleged health benefits.
Something that causes obesity. Pies.
Plural of box. "Help me move all those boxen." The despised ones...
WTF's wrong with the good old tried and tested "in the future". This stupid phrase pops up even when it's use completely destroys a sentence. I actually heard on BBC Radio 4 "What are the going forward implications of this?"
To teach an employee new or additional skills. Often purely so the employer can attain some kind of ISO certification. |
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