jrob's definitions

Digilanti

Combining digerati expertise with vigilante initiative, the digilanti anonymously police the Internet, exposing scams and fighting spam in the interest of making the Web safe without government intervention.

Oh-oh - watch out for Dan The Digilanti! No swears while he's online.

by JRob August 8, 2007

spalker

A car that follows you in the parking lot hoping to get your space. Most usually at Wal-Mart, but also happens at upper class joints.

Him: Don't look back, man - we've got a spalker behind us!

Her: Shut up and take these bags so I can get the keys out of my purse.

by JRob August 22, 2005

CMF

Chinese Mother Fucker

That CMF has a wang the size of my toe nail.

by JROB September 23, 2003

piss-off factor

An object's component or quality that has the potential to annoy or anger a person viewing or using the object.

Web browser pop-up ads tend to have a very high piss-off factor.

by JRob November 18, 2005

hotelling

An office setup in which mobile workers do not have permanent desks or cubicles and so must reserve a workspace when they come into the office.

Consultant #1: I spend so much time at customer sites that I don't need an office.

Consultant #2: Welcome to the Wild World of Hotelling!

by JRob October 26, 2005

grandiloquent

gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt, adjective:
Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic. Full of fine words and fancy expressions - marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases.

He became more than usually grandiloquent as if to make up for the years of silence with words of gold.

by JRob July 26, 2006

tarantism

(TAR-uhn-tiz-uhm)- An uncontrollable urge to dance - After Taranto, a town in southern Italy where this phenomenon was experienced during the 15-17th centuries. It's not clear whether tarantism was the symptom of a spider's bite or its cure, or it may have been just a pretext to dodge a
prohibition against dancing. The names of the dance tarantella and the spider tarantula are both derived from the same place.

"The director is in a wild delirium, spinning in circles as though stricken with tarantism, his whirring camera held at arm's length, panning, tilting, arcing and oscillating and making other moves that have no name."

by JRob August 25, 2006