jevanyn's definitions

sister car

When somebody on your block has the same exact car as you, including paint color

I thought somebody had stolen my car and parked it up the block, but it was a sister car

by jevanyn July 5, 2018

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.

by jevanyn December 12, 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.

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).

by jevanyn October 14, 2009

Twaiku

1. The practice of tweeting in haiku
2. Any such tweet

Japanese poem
Hundred forty letters, tops.
This is a twaiku

by jevanyn September 8, 2010

memetard

Unable to communicate anything other than memes.

Memetard: In Soviet Russia, cheezburger wants you!
Response: Don't be such a memetard.

by jevanyn August 6, 2009

onshoring

The act of relocating a business process or department to a less expensive part of the country. Similar to off-shoring, except that the job doesn't leave the country.

A typical example of onshoring is: tech support jobs being consolidated in Tennessee, where they can pay people half as much as before.

by jevanyn August 20, 2010