eminds lingo terms we used around the office - throw a dozen or so people in a single space for five months leading up to a deadline and watch a distinct vocabulary emerge. many of these reflect outside communities (drugs, computing), and the particular time and place of the making of electric minds.
- animal
- ferocious
- quality often ascribed to john mccoy, by howard
- bio break
- use the toilet
- derivation, ascribed to thede loder by abbe don
- crack (get off the)
- vjim's response to any unreasonable request, "jim - could i have that template by five today?" "get off the crack."
- crash
- don't have the cycles [bandwidth]
- modeling the mind after a computer, don't have the cycles denoted a lack of brain space or patience for the given issue. "i don't have the cycles to deal with randy right now."
- possible derivation, jonathan steuer, abbe used it a lot.
- downtime
- rest, for people or computers, ie webservers - "what's the downtime involved in porting over the new user database?"
- a period during which the given party is not available to the outside world
- facetime
- meetings
- fucking rocks
- exclamation of profound enthusiasm, "that fucking rocks."
- definite derivation, vagabond jim
- iterate
- to develop, over time, by creating and refining models. "we're iterating the site design" - don't quote me on this definition, i've lost my dictionary.
- abbe used this word a lot. i've picked it up.
- rathole
- issues, often technical, that arise in the course of the meeting and threaten the proper course "what about ftping behind the firewall?" "don't go there, it's a rathole."
- see, "take it offline".
- be safe
- be well, good bye
- definite derivation, vagabond jim
- social web
- the unctious eminds marketing phrase that randy hurled about.
- personal derivation, ipri
- take it offline
- what to do with ratholes.
- weasel wear
- what marketing guys wear/were
- definite derviation, abbe don
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