The discipline of engineering engineering systems. It applies systems thinking and advanced project management to the entire lifecycle of complex technological endeavors, from conceptual design and team organization to maintenance and decommissioning. Metaengineering focuses on optimizing the process of engineering: ensuring reliability, safety, scalability, and ethical integration of large-scale projects like power grids, space programs, or global telecommunications networks.
Example: NASA's approach to the Apollo program was an early form of Metaengineering. The challenge wasn't just building a rocket, but architecting an unprecedented system of parallel engineering teams, rigorous failure mode analysis, and real-time mission control logistics—engineering the very practice of moonshot engineering.
Utility beer is the beer you keep around for the day-to-day moments when beer is a necessity to assist in pedestrian activities (golf, plumbing, yardwork, babysitting, staff meetings, Zoom calls). For the beer snob it is the beer you save for neighbors when they drop in at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday. It is differentiated from the actual high-end beer you save for special events, holidays, and special tastings.
Person 1: Dave, did you bring along those hazy craft IPA's so we could drink while cleaning Lyle'spool?
Person 2: Nope. I just have a bunch of utility beer that Steve dumped on me. Good enough for this. It is only 10:30 a.m.
Police activity, especially of the non-productive type i.e. The act of setting up and patrolling speed traps, harassing or arresting people based on appearance (racial profiling), breaking up parties, any sort of cannabis bust, etc.
"Did you see all the cops on highway 6? They are oinking hard!"
"I hope Johnny doesn't get caught with his bag of weed, the pigs are oinking"