LMJargon

  1. n. Food. Can be used anywhere the word “food” can be used, including compound words see buttfud. Wanna go get some fud? The most poetic and curt usage is repeatedly evidenced at late-night restaurants after bar time, the speaker hunching over a plate of eggs, bacon, and hash-browned potatoes, mouth completely full, sputtering out the corner of the mouth a crusty and barely discernable Good fud.

  2. Nebulous food unit; thing. For example, depending on who is speaking, the question Pretzel fud? could mean Want some pretzels? or May I have a couple of your pretzels? or even There are n pretzels in this bag; you may have up to n/2 of them. Ed. note: This term originates from a Far Side cartoon in which a bunch of dogs attempt to lure a cat into a clothes washer with a sign reading cat fud.

  1. acronym n. Faster Than All Get Out Fill. As the name implies, this is like an “ultimate” version among all existing DD/PI fill commands: the technique maps nicely to Windows GDI calls and requires less bandwidth than other techniques (details of the implementation are beyond the scope of this dictionary).

  1. n. Fritos brand corn chips, a buttfooden.

  1. n. Small, bite-sized buttfood items, for example M&M's, cheese toes, or fry toes. Almost always used in the plural form, for a lone buttfooden is a sad thing.

Phone with many buttons

  1. obsolescent n. A silver phone with an LCD display, as opposed to the black phone with no display.

  2. n. A phone with an LCD display, as opposed to one without.

  1. n. Core hours for R&D are from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Employees are expected to arrive at some time x (x < 10:00 a.m.) and leave at some time y (y > 5:00 p.m.) where y > x + 9. Up to one hour may be taken for lunch. For exceptions see crunch mode and sighting.

  1. n. Presence in the building. When someone stays late during crunch mode, it is often difficult to observe core hours the next day. Since the exact time of departure the night before may be unknown, the exact time of arrival in the morning cannot be predicted. Therefore people do not assume that someone is in by ten o'clock: Has there been a Rob sighting yet? rather than I'm trying to find Rob; do you know where he is?

  2. The first time James is seen in the morning, usually around 11:00 a.m. On occasion there is a group bet with the intent of guessing the time of first sighting, especially the morning after a release party (in which case the time is usually 1:00 or 2:00 p.m.). Each entry into the lottery costs 25 cents; the winner gets all the quarters and is the person who guesses the time the closest.

  1. n. A better name for the whole of Eden Prairie due to the large percentage of high-tech firms in the area; unlike Silicon Valley, a place still experiencing profitable business. See Laser Prairie.

Small rubber slugs

  1. v. To complacently, anxiously or nervously tap a rubber slug toy against the knee or desk while waiting for a compile or link or while talking on the phone.

Slo-Poke sucker with a LaserMaster tag affixed

  1. n. Small caramel suckers, attached to a “Just Say SLO” Adobe PostScript sticker, found in drawers of ancient, unused desks; a classic LM trade show foofoo. Usually still edible, if not tasty. In 1988, LarryL sent 500 pounds of Slo-Pokes to John Warnock of Adobe.