LMJargon

  1. v. Same as shift left, only in the opposite direction.

  1. v. To pass placemats, plates, silverware, drinking glasses, napkins or chopsticks to the person on your immediate left. Iterated, the most efficient means of distributing tableware at a round table.

  1. interj. Cried out during or at completion of a shift left or shift right to prevent a buffer overflow or to signal that all table ware has been distributed.

  1. obs. interj. A friendly greeting usually used first thing in the morning or when passing in a hallway. It is customary to bow the head slightly and optionally to put the palms together.

  1. +Zap + scORCH_ v. To let the smoke out of something using the magic of static electricity.

  1. n. DohnF's expression for people who have had their brains removed and replaced with polystyrene foam.

  1. gibberish A “foo”-like temporary name, popular because of its simplicity and speed for non-touch-typists.

  1. archaic n. Old name for DD/PI. Originally there was the DoubleJet, LaserMaster's PCL clone. Then DoubleJet native mode was added, a mode with binary line drawing commands to improve AutoCAD performance. Native mode was expanded substantially, and when font handling was added, the PCL support was dropped and it became SST, which originally stood for Super Script Turbo, but was just called SST after a while. SST became DD/PI when the display was added.

  1. acronym n. System Report; An entry in the bug and requested features database (which is of course usually empty).

  1. v. To eject, as in printing a page. The original behemoth LM 1200 could squirt twenty pages a minute.
  2. To send data, as in serial or network communication.