nick weiner's definitions

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

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

News Feed

Pretty much the central feature of Facebook. Like the name says, it notifies the user of any activity his or her friends do on the site, from new photo albums to wall posts to status updates and comments to them. It debuted on September 1, 2006 and created a considerable controversy due to privacy concerns. Later on updates included a mini-feed on one's profile that shows all stories pertaining to just that person.

all my friends on facebook found out about my photo album when it was posted since it showed up on the news feed

by nick weiner February 16, 2009

Intergalactic Travel

The travel between galaxies - which is considered complete and utter science fiction given the incredible distances. Even light will take 2.5 million years to reach our nearest galaxy.

Intergalactic travel, even to our nearest galaxy, would mean a minimum distance of 23,700 million million million meters away making it cleanly impossible.

by nick weiner January 28, 2009

Plattsburgh

A town in extreme upstate New York that is pretty much the only place for activity in that whole area. Very cold in the winter.

I went up north towards Quebec; all of interest along the way was in the city of Plattsburgh.

by Nick Weiner February 3, 2009

Crimson Omen

The name of the logo in the Xbox 360 hit Gears of War. It consists of a blood-covered skull incased within a blood-covered COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments) logo. These appear in the single player mode wherever a COG tag is to be found, as well as in multiplayer as a health meter (the more apparent the symbol appears on the screen, the closer you are to being downed).

The Gears of War icon that appears on your Gamercard showing you played the game is the Crimson Omen.

by Nick Weiner May 11, 2008

Nationals

A dismal Major League Baseball team that despite a move from Montreal, still hasn't gotten over the 1994 baseball strike.

Given that the Nationals (then Expos) went 74-40 in 1994 and were tied for the best record in baseball before the strike, the loss of morale led to season after season of dismay.

by Nick Weiner February 4, 2009