Definitions by Jevanyn

Halo zone 

Area around a police cruiser where everyone behaves like a little angel. Unrelated to the computer game of the same name.

Passenger: Dude, why is everyone going so slow?
Driver: There's a five-oh up there, we're stuck in the halo zone.

Halo zone by jevanyn December 12, 2009

veehee 

adj. Abstract, minimalist. From the poet of the same name.

Credit: Robin Grasby via Mocoloco

Ikea furniture: veehee. Louis Catorze, not so much

veehee by jevanyn December 12, 2009

hide the candy

Expression used among drag queens in reference to their clothing covering up their junk.

-- from Project Runway

One of my favorite accessories is this wide flowered belt; it's very flashy, and it will also hide the candy.
-- from Project Runway

hide the candy by jevanyn October 19, 2009

unhear 

To forget hearing something, usually disgusting, offensive, disturbing, or just plain fucked up.

Thank you for sharing all the gory details. I can now never unhear any of it.

unhear by jevanyn October 19, 2009

thank fucky for that

Relief that one's typical bad luck has taken a day off.

I was late for work (as usual), but I didn't have to deal with my boss who left early to visit a client. Thank fucky for that!

thank fucky for that by jevanyn October 14, 2009

eating your own dog food

To use one's own product or service. Originally applied to software companies using their own software in-house, the meaning can extend to any situation that might impose some burden on customers, clientele, constituency, co-workers, etc.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) proposed an amendment requiring members of Congress and their staffs to buy health insurance on the exchanges they are setting up, forcing lawmakers to get insurance the same way some of their constituents will. In some circles, this is known as "eating your own dog food."

-- from electoral-vote.com, 14 Oct 2009

A (historical) example of -not- eating your own dog food would be Microsoft developers using IBM's OS/2 operating system while developing Windows software because it was more stable than their own operating system (Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 at the time).

eating your own dog food by jevanyn October 14, 2009

letter snot 

This is what you get when you try to type in fancy characters like É or ó, and you get garbage instead. From the expression "letters not (what they should be)".

Called mojibake ("character change") in Japanese, krakozyabry ("childish scribbles") in Russian, and Buchstabensalat ("character salad") in German, among others.

The page was supposed to have Chinese on it, but all I saw as letter snot.

letter snot by jevanyn October 14, 2009