Comments on: Cut the Bull and Polish Your Image http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/2009/06/30/cut-the-bull-polish-your-image/ The Company is Gone But We Live On. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adam Saunders http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/2009/06/30/cut-the-bull-polish-your-image/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Adam Saunders Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:42:57 +0000 http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/?p=599#comment-85 "Traction" and "tactical" are my favs. God are business people full of shit. Do we dare talk like that outside the office? Hell no. “Traction” and “tactical” are my favs. God are business people full of shit. Do we dare talk like that outside the office? Hell no.

]]> By: Laurie Phillips http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/2009/06/30/cut-the-bull-polish-your-image/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Laurie Phillips Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:28:20 +0000 http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/?p=599#comment-81 I too feel like I should know someone pretty well before they ask me to ping them (or vice versa). Check out this definition: "A quantum packet of happiness. People who are very happy tend to exude pings; furthermore, one can intentionally create pings and aim them at a needy party (e.g., a depressed person). This sense of ping may appear as an exclamation; "Ping!" (I'm happy; I am emitting a quantum of happiness; I have been struck by a quantum of happiness). The form "pingfulness", which is used to describe people who exude pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of language, "pingfulness" can also be used as an exclamation, in which case it's a much stronger exclamation than just "ping"!)." Source: Dictionary.com. Jargon File 4.2.0. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ping (accessed: July 20, 2009). I too feel like I should know someone pretty well before they ask me to ping them (or vice versa).

Check out this definition:

“A quantum packet of happiness. People who are very happy tend to exude pings; furthermore, one can intentionally create pings and aim them at a needy party (e.g., a depressed person). This sense of ping may appear as an exclamation; “Ping!” (I’m happy; I am emitting a quantum of happiness; I have been struck by a quantum of happiness). The form “pingfulness”, which is used to describe people who exude pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of language, “pingfulness” can also be used as an exclamation, in which case it’s a much stronger exclamation than just “ping”!).”

Source: Dictionary.com. Jargon File 4.2.0. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ping (accessed: July 20, 2009).

]]> By: kristin http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/2009/06/30/cut-the-bull-polish-your-image/comment-page-1/#comment-79 kristin Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:30:54 +0000 http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/?p=599#comment-79 the ping thing! I nearly fell over laughing when I read this... the first time I heard this term in reference to a communication between people, I nearly choked..."do you think I am a computer, and can be 'pinged' via my ip ? what on earth? " I have since found out that this term has emigrated from in India, where English has taken on some bizarre behaviors, especially when used by teams of novice IT folks. It still grates me, and amongst IT professionals over 30, it is never used except as a command in a terminal window to determine the connectivity between one computer and another. I refuse to participate in the corruption of what is to me the purity in computers, that world in which words have specific and universally understood meanings, and where if a new word is needed, one can be created, rather than re-defining the meaning of an existing word. "Ping" me? How dare you.... the ping thing! I nearly fell over laughing when I read this… the first time I heard this term in reference to a communication between people, I nearly choked…”do you think I am a computer, and can be ‘pinged’ via my ip ? what on earth? ” I have since found out that this term has emigrated from in India, where English has taken on some bizarre behaviors, especially when used by teams of novice IT folks. It still grates me, and amongst IT professionals over 30, it is never used except as a command in a terminal window to determine the connectivity between one computer and another.

I refuse to participate in the corruption of what is to me the purity in computers, that world in which words have specific and universally understood meanings, and where if a new word is needed, one can be created, rather than re-defining the meaning of an existing word.

“Ping” me? How dare you….

]]> By: Tara http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/2009/06/30/cut-the-bull-polish-your-image/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Tara Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:43:50 +0000 http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/?p=599#comment-74 I am right there with ya sista. Love the post! Keep it real. I am right there with ya sista. Love the post! Keep it real.

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