v. To cause your cell phone to inexplicably and repeatedly malfunction.
This phenomenon affects only the smartphones of Jeff Bakalar, one of the hosts of The 404, CNET Networks. Jeff has an uncanny and unwelcome ability to render a high-tech, fully-functioning smartphone into the a call to
customer service and the butt of every malfunctioning cell phone joke on the popular podcast, The 404.
The world wide tech community has been baffled with his
technological mishaps, leaving us with only one
explanation for Jeff Bakalar's phone issues: Bakalar possesses super mutant powers known only as Bakalariosis
Jeff's Palm Pre has been bakalared nine times in
twelve months, having been the
replacement to his often bakalared
Windows Mobile phone. His new phone, an Evo 4G, was bakalared in a record-setting two weeks.