Definitions, continued:

[azurelunatic]

"No cats in family hugs!"
When I was very little, I had a stuffed lion cub. She was my cat. My parents' street is named after her, in fact. Occasionally, we would have a "family hug", with everybody hugging everybody. I would bring my cat along with me, and my father would grab her, and toss her out. "No cats in family hugs!" he would say. It was a running joke.

"No side-key pushing!"
Another family rule. My father had a portable computer, back in '89 or so, a little Compaq portable, about the size of a medium suitcase, with a keyboard that detached from the front and pulled out on a curly-cord, and then locked back on. The rule meant that only the person operating the computer could be operating the keyboard, and anyone sitting or standing to the side or behind and poking at the keyboard was out of order.

screendripping
The computer equivalent of eavesdropping: standing over someone's shoulder and reading what they're looking at on the computer. An in-joke with boojum.

Comments

screendripping

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I thought it involved vaguely sexual implications. Memory hazy, though, try again later.

Re: screendripping

[azurelunatic]

Well, that was because of screendrippers we could not always be explicit about technique in e-mails. People would stand over my shoulder and read.

Though, seriously, that would also refer to my current pursuits -- all in the name of science, of course!!

Re: screendripping

[azurelunatic]

Heh. Just then I was doing some heavy making-out-with.

I am already distractible; I am far more distractible when tired and under various influences.

My quote of this evening is rather... odd.