PRwiz101's definitions

cyberboarding

(n.) - A form of online torture that consists of immobilizing a subject with endless emails of a trivial nature, thus triggering the mammalian gagging reflex causing the captive to experience sensations of nausea.

If I get one more email from my cousin in Boston telling me for the umpteenth time about what he did last weekend, I am going to puke. His constant stream of email messages is nothing but cyberboarding pure and simple, and I plan to put a stop to it as soon as possible.

by PRwiz101 November 7, 2010

email gap

(n.) - A period of time when you do not open your email inbox due to travel, moving to a new home, or week-long bedrest due to flu or other health problems.

"Wow, I was out of town for so long, travelling on business, that I just didn't have time to pay attention to the email gap in my inbox."

-- Overheard at an office watercooler in Boston, November 7, 2010

by PRwiz101 November 15, 2010

technograndiosity

(n.) - The idea that our fossil fuel-dependent lifestyle will continue on for many centuries yet to come, thanks to future advances in technology.

"I'm just praying that our car and airplane culture will survive well into the next few centuries thanks to our common belief in technograndiosity. "

overheard at a watercooler in San Antonio, Texas, Nobvember 10, 2010

by PRwiz101 November 16, 2010

typestolgia

(n.) - A nostalgia for old manual and electric typewriters as well as the sound of typewriting on such machines

"I like my computer with its sleek keyboard, of course, but I must say, I also harbor a personal typestolgia for the old days of manual typewriters and electric typewriters."

-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, May 15, 2010

by PRwiz101 May 21, 2010

thumper sticker

A bumper sticker-like slogan imprinted on a t-shirt.

"Hey, did you see that thumper sticker on that guy's t-shirt?"

"Wow, the thumper sticker on that woman's t-shirt is cool!"

by PRwiz101 May 10, 2009

putz

A small town in southern Taiwan, known as Putzu in Mandarin but written as Putz in English on several highway road signs.

Putz General Hospital is how the English language sign on a website spells it.

by PRwiz101 July 2, 2005

scifientist

A person who is neither a scientist nor a science fiction writer, but writes and blogs about possible sci-fi scenarios for the future.

Although polar cities do not exist yet, there's a blogger who envisions them as safe refuges for survivors of global warming in the far distant future, and he calls himself a scifientist.

by PRwiz101 May 4, 2008