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(n.) - Email letters and messages that arrive in your inbox overnight while you are sleeping, often from people in different time zones around the world
"Every morning I check my night-mail to see if anything urgent arrived from overseas. With all these time zones worldwide, you never know who is going to email you and when!"
-- overheard at a watercooler at the UN building in Manhattan
(n.) - a highly-personal blog, often for invited readers only, that is more like a scrapbook than a normal blog.
"Yeh, I have a blog, but it's more of a scrapblog than a blog, because it's mostly just photos and links and quotes I like to collect, just for my own use. It's like a scrapbook on a blog platform, that's all, so I call it my scrapblog!"
-- Overheard at a watercooler in Big Spring, Texas on January 5, 2010
(n.) - When the two words you type in to a CAPTCHA anti-SPAM window -- in order to let the comment section know that you are not an auto-spammer -- have an amazingly real or ironic connection to the theme of the topic you were commenting on.
"Wow, what a coincidence! I was posting a comment about Rush Limbaugh on a website, and I had to type in two words to get past the CAPTCHA anti-SPAM system and the two words the system gave me were were 'connection' and 'hellish'. What an amazing captcha coincidence, huh!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in an office complex in Mountain View, California
"I love Emma, she's got an honor box that I can't get enough of! But I am worried about her flirtations outside of our deal, so I just hope that the other guys out there honor our relationship and don't intrude."
-- overheard at a bar in Manhattan, March 23, 2010
(n.) - The idea that our fossil fuel-dependent lifestyle will continue on for many centuries yet to come, thanks to future advances in technology.
"I'm just praying that our car and airplane culture will survive well into the next few centuries thanks to our common belief in technograndiosity. "
overheard at a watercooler in San Antonio, Texas, Nobvember 10, 2010
(n.) - a selfie that was actually a public relations stunt set up by a PR operative
"You know that selfie that Ortiz said he took with Obama? Turns out it was really just a PRfie set up by his Samsung team."
-- overheard at a watercooler at MIT in Boston, April 3, 2014
(n.) - the print edition of the daily newspaper which arrives in the morning on your doorstep with news that is already old and stale by at least 12 hours
"I am sick and tired of reading the snailpaper edition of the New York Times! By the time it arrives, the front page is already old news. I much prefer reading the Times online website with the up-dated news as it happens."
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009