the "last minute" motivation you give yourself on your way to work in your car
I just had the best weekend ever. I need some automotivation because this coffee isn't going to help. I'll listen to music and talk to myself on the whole ride to work.
(n.) Automating the impossible via processes that seem to involve magic.
(v.) To apply automation to a process or procedure in so brilliant a way as to make it seem if magic was required.
Tim's way of automating things that are impossible has me convinced that he's using automagication.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)