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Intergalactic Travel

The travel between galaxies - which is considered complete and utter science fiction given the incredible distances. Even light will take 2.5 million years to reach our nearest galaxy.

Intergalactic travel, even to our nearest galaxy, would mean a minimum distance of 23,700 million million million meters away making it cleanly impossible.

by nick weiner January 26, 2009


baudband

When a person even with a broadband internet connection is fed up with slow data transfers, most likely due to a crappy ISP or his little brother downloading porn.

I'm fed up with lagging out of servers due to ping. I want broadband, not baudband!

by nick weiner February 28, 2009

2πŸ‘ 1πŸ‘Ž


F5

A slang term for the Refresh button on a web browser. Almost, if not every web browser ever produced has made F5 as the hotkey for "refresh".

A young 12-year old vandalizes the George W. Bush on Wikipedia. Just to see how long his work stays before reversion, he keeps F5'ing hoping that each time he hits it the article won't be reverted.

by nick weiner April 20, 2008

54πŸ‘ 19πŸ‘Ž


Digital feces

Slang term for when a video game has such poor graphics or collision detection it is as pleasant for the eye as looking at actual human feces.

Games like Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Hour of Victory are such a disgrace to look at and involve so much going through walls and obstructions that it is pretty much digital feces.

by nick weiner March 1, 2009

1πŸ‘ 2πŸ‘Ž


upset

A one-word summary of Super Bowl XLII.

After winning every single game and not losing one, it was a spectacular upset to finally lose in the championship game (especially against a team they beat in a spectacular regular-season encore).

by nick weiner September 7, 2008

66πŸ‘ 66πŸ‘Ž


Plattsburgh

A town in extreme upstate New York that is pretty much the only place for activity in that whole area. Very cold in the winter.

I went up north towards Quebec; all of interest along the way was in the city of Plattsburgh.

by nick weiner February 3, 2009

41πŸ‘ 19πŸ‘Ž


Upstate

Any of New York State not including New York City, Long Island, or Westchester or Rockland Counties.

The Adirondacks, the Albany region, same with Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, and whatever of New York state more than 45 minutes away from New York City or Long Island is referred to as Upstate New York.

by nick weiner October 4, 2008

21πŸ‘ 12πŸ‘Ž