Unsuck It

New Breed

Erika Hall — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:27:23 +0000

A set of things that share a banal or fictitious attribute about to be hyped into the ground.

Secret Weapon

Erika Hall — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:52:36 +0000

An emerging trend or perceived asset openly embraced in desperation. See: silver bullet.

Erika Hall — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:55:15 +0000

Tell, often in a somewhat passive aggressive manner.

Player

Erika Hall — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:12:31 +0000

Person or participant. Unless you are dealing with a Bond villain or toddler MBAs, meetings are not games.

Massage (data)

Erika Hall — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:58:26 +0000

Rigorously manipulate to produce a stream of useful output. Normalize or clean.

T-Shaped

Erika Hall — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:06:54 +0000

An executive with widespread arms to embrace change and straight legs to stand firm, but no head.

Underwater

Erika Hall — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:20:49 +0000

A quality increasingly shared by coastlines and mortgages thanks to GOP policies.

Oops.

Erika Hall — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:01:56 +0000

An interjection indicating one’s own puerile incompetence. Appropriate for 3-year-olds. Ill-advised in either interfaces or presidential debates.

Efforting

Erika Hall — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:06:22 +0000

I like “efforting” better than “trying”. Trying implies an ethical, moral component. Like, if you are a bad person you don’t try hard and if you are good you do try hard. I like the non-judgment of “efforting”.

Weblication

Erika Hall — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:11:38 +0000

Software application hosted in a browser-controlled environment. A convenient alternative to the shorter and easier to pronounce “web app”. Like David Hasselhoff, this term is weirdly popular in Germany.