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1. v., To rebuild or refurbish a product. (Completely overhaul: rebuild.)
2. n. The process or result of overhauling.
3. v. To catch up with, and pass something or someone.
I can't overhaul anyone until I get my tranny overhauled.
No, no! The mechanic WEARS the overall. He DOES the overhaul.
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1. (internet) The email folder where incoming mail arrives.
2. (at the table) The mouth.
3. (in bed) The vagina.
Check your inbox. You have mail.
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A song that was really popular one summer during the mid-70s, by some one-hit-wonder named Dean Friedman that no one remembers. It was popular because people liked listening to the intro.
The song started out, "AAAAaaaa-AAAAaaaaAAAAAriEEEEEeeeeeEEEEElllll". No one remembers what came after that because no one could focus on the song without their mind wandering before the intro was over. But somewhere in the middle of the song, it went like this:
She wore a peasant blouse with nothin' underneath
I said "Hi"
She said "Yeah, I guess I am"
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The process of recognizing and reacting to circumstances that are relevant to an event. It is taken so much for granted by humans that computers, and those who design them, seem stupid by comparison, when they fail to perform this process.
Some clues for making computers perform contextual cognition:
1. The more repeatedly the user strikes a particular keyboard key or clicks on an interface button before the computer performs the function assigned to that key or button, the more likely it is the user wants the computer to perform the function already, instead of what ever it's messing around with right now.
2. If the user continues repeatedly striking a particular keyboard key or clicking an interface button after the computer performed the function, this would be a good time to check and see whether the computer actually performed the function.
3. A user who clicks a window's title bar, while that window is in the background, doesn't want the window re-sized. He wants it to come to the foreground, and if he's done so several times, he's becoming impatient about it.
4. When a user repeats the same instruction to the computer that he gave several minutes ago, and the computer hasn't complied with it yet, the user doesn't need to be informed that two instances of that function cannot be performed at the same time. He simply needs to be reminded that he already gave that instruction. Better yet, since the computer has messed around so long that the user forgot that he already gave the instruction, this would be a good time to comply with it.
5. When an application window freezes up, its application is waiting for something else to happen. If the computer has enough resources to tell the user that the application is not responding, it has enough resources to determine what the application is waiting for and remind it to happen.
6. The user wants his typing and mouse clicks applied to the interface that was on the screen when he started typing or clicking, not to the window that popped up in front of it, so apply them to the intended interface and put back the work the user had in the popped-up window before the computer replaced it with the input meant for the previous window.
7. When the computer pops up an alert stating that a function aborted because the Internet connection has failed, and the alert only offers the choices to Work Offline and Try Again, and the user has tried several times to restore the Internet connection, don't wait until the user chooses "Try Again", to admit that the computer is already connected to the Internet. The user is waiting until the computer connects to the Internet before choosing "Try Again", because it would be senseless to try again without a connection to the Internet. It would also be nice if the computer identified which function aborted.
8. When the computer reconnects to the Internet after being disconnected, and the computer has enough awareness of that fact to react to it by alerting the user at that very moment that various functions failed due to the disconnection, then the computer has enough information that it could just as easily retry those functions at that time, instead of blathering at the user about it.
9. MyCrudSoft sWindles XP Procrastinal!!! What the heck do you mean, Keyboard failure Strike the F1 key to continue..."? Who do you think you are? MS-DOS 3.0? Grow up, already!
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A sarcastic version of, "that wasn't very nice", "you shouldn't have said that", "ewww, grody", or "TMI".
Variant: You could have gone all day without saying that.
Did you see all those girls clustering around your ex? I've never seen him happier!
Just think! You could have went all day without saying that!
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A sarcastic version of, "that wasn't very nice", "you shouldn't have said that", "ewww, grody", or "TMI".
Variant: You could have gone all day without saying that.
Did you see all those girls clustering around your ex? I've never seen him happier!
Just think! You could have went all day without saying that!
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What people will call you next if you ignore them when they call you sir and do as you damn well please.
Sir, you can't go in there.
You can't go in there, sir!
Sir!!
Hey You!
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