Benjamin Franklin's coffin

The little tray that your put your payment in at an expensive restaurant. So-called because Benjamin Franklin's image is on the US $100 bill, and once you put him in that tray, you're not going to see him again.

Once the waiter brought Benjamin Franklin's coffin out, I laid Benjamin to rest and I knew I wasn't going to see him again.

by twixsmoker April 4, 2025

rotating rust

A dysphemism for a hard disk drive, which historically consisted of a rotating platter of iron oxide (modern hard drives may use other materials).

Rotating rust has much higher latency than SSDs.

by twixsmoker October 20, 2016