Mostly Harmless

Some time ago I coined the term “wandwidth,” which is the bastardization of “wan bandwidth.”

(A lot of people would just use the word “bandwidth,” naturally.)

Anywho, today I coined “osnostic,” which is a contraction of “OS agnostic.”

I’m going make a teeny logical leap and coin “browsernostic” as well.

The big news of the day was the first use, as far as I know, of the “air smiley.”

The invention of the “air smiley” followed a brief discussion of air quotes… the gist was: do you make your air quotes with straight lines or curved lines? i.e. “air inch marks” or “air curly quotes.”

(It was argued that “air curly quotes” was more correct.)

Seemingly out of nowhere the air smiley was born: with the index and middle fingers of one hand, form the “eyes” (vertically, like a sideways “peace” sign), with the other hand draw the curve of the mouth in the appropriate location.

I can’t think of any real uses for the air smiley, since a smiley should only be necessary if the person can’t see or hear you… in fact, you’ll probably get smacked for being a doofus if you use it in public.