Nick Weiner's definitions

F5

A slang term for the Refresh button on a web browser. Almost, if not every web browser ever produced has made F5 as the hotkey for "refresh".

A young 12-year old vandalizes the George W. Bush on Wikipedia. Just to see how long his work stays before reversion, he keeps F5'ing hoping that each time he hits it the article won't be reverted.

by Nick Weiner April 20, 2008

upset

A one-word summary of Super Bowl XLII.

After winning every single game and not losing one, it was a spectacular upset to finally lose in the championship game (especially against a team they beat in a spectacular regular-season encore).

by nick weiner October 24, 2008

Interstellar Travel

Travel between star systems - which may someday be do-able but given that even our closest star is 4.6 light years away it is something that will require technology and resources that we can only dream of by today's standards.

It is also a very big subject in science fiction; the rapid transit between star systems by faster-than-light travel; Star Trek, Star Wars, and Mass Effect are examples.

While Voyager 1 is technically making interstellar travel, at the rate it is going, it will take more than 72,000 years from now to do so.

by Nick Weiner January 31, 2009

delete

(slang) To remove someone from your friends on any social networking website (e.g. Facebook, MySpace).

I deleted that bitch on Facebook after she told me I was a messed up faggot.

by nick weiner October 18, 2008

Assist

1. A statistic in sports, mainly hockey and soccer, when you pass the object in play to a teammate who then scores.

2. A statistic in first-person shooters that shows how many times you tried to kill an enemy but your teammate had to finish the job.

1. In an ice hockey game, I got an assist by passing across the ice to my teammate who then shot and scored.

2. In Call of Duty I shot a guy in front of me only for him to strafe away and I got an assist after he ran right into my teammate's bayonet.

by Nick Weiner February 3, 2009

Battlefield Earth

A movie so horrible that not only was it a critical and box office epic fail, but its producer, Franchise Pictures, was convicted in court over it due to a scam in which the film's budget was overstated. Not to mention an indelible scar in John Travolta's career. And cult status for the movie in the future? HAAAAAAAAAAAH!

In short, Battlefield Earth was so bad that the producers were convicted of a crime. That simple.

by Nick Weiner February 3, 2009

baudband

When a person even with a broadband internet connection is fed up with slow data transfers, most likely due to a crappy ISP or his little brother downloading porn.

I'm fed up with lagging out of servers due to ping. I want broadband, not baudband!

by Nick Weiner February 28, 2009