esmith512's definitions

chiPhone

One of many chinese-manufactured clones of Apple's iPhone.

The Meizu M8 and the CECT P168s are pretty nice little chiPhones, but aren't as nice as the iPhone.

by esmith512 October 7, 2007

offensive

A highly subjective interpretation of something real, imagined, or interpreted as being demeaning; very often the use of complaint to attack someone while paradoxically assuming both authority and victimhood; the use of complaint as a sociopolitical weapon or vehicle to often unmerited benefit, privilege, or compensation.

Their being offended is deeply and inheirently offensive to me! I demand you recognize my victimhood and give me what I want now!

by esmith512 November 29, 2007

Wallyball

A game of volleyball played over a border wall, often a fortified border between countries.

I've heard they've got some pretty good wallyball games at the Mexican-American border!

by esmith512 December 27, 2007

BBOD

The "Beach Ball of Death". On a modern Apple Macintosh, the spinning "beachball" graphic which replaces the mouse pointer when hovering over a window whose program has stopped responding. Somewhat analogous to the "BSOD" (Blue Screen of Death) on Windows-based computers. Usually BBOD applies when the entire Macintosh is so overburdened or one key program is so hopelessly hung up that rebooting is faster than waiting for the Mac to sort itself out.

I got the BBOD on my Mac when I had about fifty programs up and Firefox got obsessed with a seemingly bottomless web page.

by esmith512 January 8, 2008

NINJA

A recent type of mortgages given to those with no apparent means and little to no chance of rendering repayment. NINJA is an acronym referring to the borrower as having No Income No Job or Assets.

The housing bubble was greatly helped by financially suicidal bankers issuing NINJA loans like candy to anyone who could fog a mirror!

by esmith512 January 17, 2008

post 9/11 world

A political buzzphrase used as a rhetorical talking-point in a power-grabbing or liberty-destroying attempt to diminish or subvert the civil libertarian, responsible, and democratic character of a community, group, or society.

The honoring of civil liberty, presumption of innocence and good faith, privacy, and freedom of speech and expression cannot be tolerated because we live in a post 9/11 world.

by Esmith512 September 24, 2007

Mac Stack

A physical vertical grouping of Mac Mini computers and peripherals. So named because some peripherals for the Mac Mini are designed to stack above or below the Mini and the shapes of the cases suggest vertical arrangements for convenience and good use of space.

Joe has a G4 Mini, Intel Mini, a FireWire hub, KVM, and a 250GB hard drive in a Mac Stack.

by esmith512 October 6, 2007