The Glossary of Scribblings & Bibblings

Because you can't have the scribblings without the bibblings.

analitis: When a normally rational friend, family member, or close associate temporarily gets up your ass about some shallow, trifling bullshit.; Girl 1: God. She's been up my ass about the fucking dishes all week.
Girl 2: Sounds like analitis.
associate: This is a common word, but for the purposes of this site, it's used to refer to all those people in your life who are neither friend, lover, nor anything else of note. An associate is much like an acquaintance, but it's the frequency of contact that creates the distinction. You might not see an acquaintance for months, or even years, but an associate either currently is, or formerly was, a regular part of your life. This particular application of this word can be easily intermixed with its other, more well known variants.
Between States: A state in which a person can easily fall asleep, but doesn't feel (physically) compelled to sleep. Someone who is Between States can sometimes gain a second wind depending on his or her mood and current circumstances. The most common symptoms of this condition are indecisiveness and an occasional sense of surreality.; (Lounging in front of the TV at 3am)
Person A: What do you want to watch?
Person B: I don't know. I'm Between States. I could go with X-Files or maybe Frontline....
Cloud of Unknowing (CoU)
Variant(s): Cloud of the Unknown: 1: That wan, milky, cumulus nimbus-like haze that appears when an application won't respond in Windows Vista, even though it would work — without hanging — in Windows XP.
2: That moment when you are most keenly aware of your own mortality and the frailty of all life around you.; Actor A: The acronym, CoU, is pronounced, “cooey.”
Actor B: Cucci-coochi-coo!; Relieved Passenger: Our plane hit some turbulence passing through a Cloud of Unknowing, and I wondered we'er we'd end up like the Tailies in Oceanic Flight 815.
Local News Anchor: I know what you mean. Those guys have the shittiest luck.
The Tough Yet Vulnerable Producer: Cut!

{TTYVP stares down Local News Anchor as the other people within her line of sight slink away}

TTYVP: What the fuck do you think you're doing—

{Local News Anchor attempts to respond}
TTYVP: No. Don't speak. And don't worry about it. Just pick up at the part about the CoU.
feature request list: Since Urban Dictionary has yet to define this phrase, I guess I'll have to do it. A “feature request list” is a list of requested features for a particular piece of software.; To wit: For years, users have asked for greater stability, security, and ease of use in the Windows operating system, but Microsoft has often failed to meet this rudimentary feature request list.
goo-factor: Something that tugs at my gangrenous lump of a heart and elicits feelings of affection, romance, and (occasionally) protectiveness.
grinace: A potentially camera shattering cross between a grin and a grimace. Grinaces are frequently seen by people under external or internal pressure to smile, typically for a photo opportunity.; Did you see that girl's grinace? Her jaws were clenched so tight I thought she needed a Tetanus shot.
gray
Function: adjective: A subjective quality that produces feelings of pessimism, despondency, or dejection.; In Treatment is a richly nuanced exploration of deeply flawed, yet complex, characters. It's also, arguably, the most gray show on television, even by BSG standards.
grayness
Function: noun: 1: a|Any mundane task essential to one's survival, or wellbeing, that one is compelled to perform (often forcibly) despite the varying degrees of tedium, distaste, despair, and overall unpleasantness that are almost inextricably inherent to the job at hand: a chore. Especially tasks that must be performed away from the sanctity of the home, thereby requiring some form of commute, which is, in itself, gray; however, it can also apply to household tasks (e.g. filing a tax return) but is distinguished from a regular chore by the relative profusion of negative emotion associated with, and accompanying, the activity. b|The process of negotiating any formalized bureaucratic system, typically federal or municipal bureaucracies.
2: The mundane world in general.
3: A feeling of disassociation, alienation, apprehension, hopelessness or resignation for the world and life in general. More specifically, it is any combination of these emotions with regards to one's current and future prospects.; 1. Being forced to go to the DMV to pay a ticket is a textbook example of grayness.; 2. I enjoyed lounging over the weekend, but was forced to return to the grayness on Monday.; 3. The thrilling possibility of youth has been replaced by the soul numbing grayness of adulthood.
MajorGeek Binge: An overwhelming urge to read about, download, and test the multitude of free software available at (among other places) MajorGeeks.com. This compulsion can easily fritter a day away into the wee-hours of the night as one uncovers one marvel of utility, design, and programming after the other. This condition is exacerbated by the unlikelihood of finding that quintessential oxymoron, The Perfect App.
m'wrup
Plural: m'wrups
Pronounciation: "muh-rups": A contraction of the phrase micro write-up — because the greatest beauty of language is devising ways to use as little of it as possible. A micro write-up is a brief, arguably pointless post on any given topic, but then again, aren't they all?
Neo-Gothic: A form of electronic music whose overall composition and arrangement resembles that of gothic music and also incorporates elements of IDM, darkwave, new wave, ambient, industrial, techno, or electronica. Neo-Gothic music is commonly instrumental.
Nostalgia Calm: A clammy balmy sensation of peace, joy, and remorse for the loss of “days of yore.” In memoriam of memory.; I feel a sudden, potent, bittersweet calm. Nostalgia Calm.
Palmeritis
Etymology: 1980's pop-culture, from the name Robert Palmer in reference to his hit single, “Simply Irresistible.”: A sudden, often all-consuming, attraction to someone you were previously unattracted to or whom you found to be only mildly attractive.; To wit: “She's a craze you'd endorse. She's a powerful force. You're obliged to conform when there's no other course. She used to look good to me, but now I find her simply irresistible.”
Perfect App, The: A software application that's so good that it not only changes the way you compute, but fundamentally changes the way you view all other software, and, in turn, the world. The search for The Perfect App is fraught with peril, much like other lofty quests of yore, because of the unlikelihood of ever finding it and the terrible cost one could pay in seeking it out.
Pimp
Function: verb: 1: To taint, sully, or compromise the artistic value of a particular creative work, usually for commercial reasons. This can be readily seen in serialized fiction, be it movies, television shows, video games, or books; however, the latter is relatively rare. It should also be noted that video games, unlike other older mediums, can actually improve with each new game in an ongoing video game franchise, whereas fictive works made in other creative mediums experience a precipitous, almost inevitable, drop in their quality after a variable, but finite, amount of time passes subsequent to their inception.
2: To produce a work of inferior or subpar quality exclusively for the purposes of financial gain.; Person A: Hey did you see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines?
Person B: Hell no! That was totally pimped!
PPoF
Function: abbreviation
Plural: Pretty Pieces of Flesh: Pretty Piece of Flesh, as taken from the One Inch Punch song of the same name. It is used to describe any person who possesses a notable amount of carnal appeal.
primary output nexus: The primary fount of new content for a Social Media Funnel.; NIN has a Facebook page, but their primary output nexus is their homepage, with their Twitter page and its up-to-the-minute updates coming in as a close second.
samplitis: An over reliance on easy hooks and repetitive samples, often featuring annoying catch phrases taken from television shows or movies.; “Electronic musicians are particularly susceptible to samplitis.”
–Me (September 10th 2008)
Social Media Funnel (SMF)
Function: noun: A gamelan — that's right; you heard me — GAMELAN, of inextricably connected social media sites that revolve around a particular content provider. Given the rapidly evolving nature of the Net, this could be anything, but in the year of 2010, the most popular social media sites were Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Blogger. SMFs frequently post the same content across several Internet outlets whose chief aim is to attracted new content consumers to their primary output nexus.; NES Geek 1: The Angry Video Game Nerd's nexus used to be YouTube, closely followed by his homepage, which was more like a mirror/download-free zone, but now he's relocated to Gametrailers.com. WTF?!

NES Geek 2: {Nods} That's 'cause the MTV overlords pay him the big bucks. His YouTube channel is just a smartly decked out portal in his Social Media Funnel. But he still rocks. Budgets are a videographer's best friend.
Solicitor's Onus
Variant(s): Solicitor's Burden: The burden assumed by someone pitching, selling, or soliciting a particular product, service, experience, or idea. Soliciting another person creates an expectation to provide a particular outcome that is implicitly borne by the solicitor. The inability to meet this expectation results in rejection (i.e. failure).; Sales are driven by the successful fulfillment of the expectations one creates when attempting to sell a product. Meeting the Solicitor's Onus is the mark of a good salesman.; I'd ask her out to dinner, but then I'd have the Solicitor's Burden of paying for it.