Definitions by Pentozali
trickjectory
The imaginary path one or another person or animal must trace to find an object that has fallen far away from where you expected it to fall.
You know that little pen I just dropped? I couldn't find it, but my dog did: he traced the trickjectory to under that book near the table, and flicked his ears to show me where it was!
trickjectory by pentozali May 12, 2006
right field weekend
The weekend before one gets the "good" paycheck for each month. Because one can't achieve much when s/he is faced with this kind of weekend, s/he feels as if s/he were a person stuck playing baseball in right field.
It's so boring being stuck in the house with nothing to do 'cause I don't have any money to go anywhere. I just paid the rent, so it's another paycheck down the toilet. Oh, well, another right field weekend!
right field weekend by pentozali April 22, 2006
shortwave
A fascinating but, unfortunately it seems, moribund form of radio broadcasting that utilizes radio frequencies from about 1,800 kHz to 30,000 kHz. Some say that the Internet is totally to blame for shortwave's demise, but in fact there are many other reasons: poor propagation conditions (e.g. coronal flares on the Sun that can block radio reception for many days), mismanagement and bad frequency allocation by the stations themselves, transmitters in disrepair, lack of funding for the stations, radio frequency interference caused by various appliances that create walls of noise when one is listening for stations, etc. On shortwave, one can often hear interesting cultural programs and music produced by the host country, and some shortwave listeners have created a hobby-within-a-hobby of collecting "QSL" (verification of reception) cards, pennants, CDs, books, etc.
Greenpoint
An interesting section of Brooklyn, New York, where much of the population is, and speaks, Polish, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian. Known for good Polish restaurants, and very easy to get to by train from Manhattan or Queens (you can see Manhattan's beveled Citicorp Tower from most of the streets). Near Metropolitan Ave. just a few blocks away from the beginning of Greenpoint, there's a beautiful Russian Orthodox church with maroon onion domes and gold crosses.
Greenpoint by pentozali April 20, 2006