nick weiner's definitions

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

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

Kiryas Joel

A purely Hasidic Jew community in Orange County, New York. Given that the women have prolific amounts of children and don't work after giving birth to their second child the town is among the poorest in the United States.

Poverty, strict religion, and beards, all in one: Kiryas Joel.

by Nick Weiner February 7, 2009

Upstate

Any of New York State not including New York City, Long Island, or Westchester or Rockland Counties.

The Adirondacks, the Albany region, same with Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, and whatever of New York state more than 45 minutes away from New York City or Long Island is referred to as Upstate New York.

by Nick Weiner January 17, 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

Fix or Repair Daily

A derogatory phrase regarding the ailing American car company Ford, in which the word compacted into an acronym spells, yes, Ford.

Ford stands for Fix or Repair Daily.

by Nick Weiner March 6, 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