Heart Of Gold

(fiction) One-of-kind starship, shaped like an extremely large white running shoe, powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.

At the heart of the Heart Of Gold is a heart of gold.

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throw yourself at the ground and miss

How to fly. See flight and flying.

To fly, you'll need to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Difficulty arises because if one is truly trying properly to throw themselves at the ground and fails to miss, chances are that one will fail to miss the ground quite hard.

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Confirm

The opposite of Cancel.

Entirely too many duh-weebs click Confirm when they should Cancel. Proofreading is an alien concept to them.

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Unemployment Office

A state agency where the unemployed go to get unemployment benefits, under the pretense that they are looking for work.

To go along with the pretense of the unemployed, bureaucrats usually try to get peeps to call the Unemployment Office the opposite of what it is, with euphemisms such as Employment Development Department, in California.

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Alt tag

N00b slang for the alt attribute of the HTML img tag. Usage indicates a probability that the person speaking doesn't know the difference between a tag and an attribute.

When people get persnickety with me, saying that my NiDEs don't have Alt tags, I get persnickety back at them, and tell them there's no such thing as an Alt tag, and that I'm not an SEO spammer, so I don't put alt attributes in NiDEs.

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quad

Shortened form of quadraphonic, which is what surround sound was called before it went out of style in the 70s.

You should have heard Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here in quad!

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techno-nerd

One who is called a nerd for his prowess with technology rather than for being a dork.

We need a techno-nerd to program this.

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