Have you ever struggled to find the right word to express your frustration, pain, fear, anguish, or hate? I’m mean without cussing, of course. Cuz, you know, profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate.

Well, I’m always looking for a good alternative to profanity and today I found a great one!

Opposite of “Yay!”

Example:

Pardon me while I hammer in this nail that is right next to my thumb.
*Thumb crunching sound*
OPPOSITE OF “YAY!!”

Shamelessly pilfered from Chainsawsuit. (Don’t expect to understand Chainsawsuit. It’s weird. Like me.)

If she accomplishes nothing else (unlikely), Sarah Palin has made this valuable contribution to the American lexicon. I, for one, am going to incorporate this new term immediately and often.

Speaking on Sean Hannity’s radio show, Palin said that “Some on the left, that lamestream media, they’re contradicting what I wrote in the book.”

Hannity jumped in to ask, “Did you say lamestream media?”

“Yeah, lamestream,” Palin responded.

I got a healthy chuckle from this bumper sticker on my way to work today.

 I’ll bet Jesus would use his blinker.

We used to get in trouble in school for copying. Now, it’s how most programmers make their living! Can’t figure out how to make that div tag line up? Google-Copy-Paste. Can’t get your objects to serialize? Google-Copy-Paste. Can’t get your database query to work? Google-Copy-Paste.

There’s lots of talk about intellectual property and copyright infringement. But the fact is, in the world of software development, 99% of what you see is copied, massaged, reworked, preexisting code. It even has its own made-up word. It’s called “googlegramming” (i.e. programming via Google). This is a dirty word in development circles as it implies that a “googlegrammer” doesn’t really know how to write code. They just know how to copy and paste. These guys are always using a hammer to drive in a screw, metaphorically speaking. I’ve worked with some and its extremely frustrating.

But, is all googlegramming a bad thing? No. I don’t think so. You can take old code and use it to do something new and innovative. That, to me, is when googlegramming is allowed, nay, encouraged. (Although most would argue that this goes beyond the definition of the new, made-up word.) Using canned code is a great way to speed up development of a new creation. As the chair of the Comp-Sci department once told me, “Plagiarism is the highest form of productivity!”

And if you think this is a new phenomenon, check out this amazing youtube video that proves that Disney knew a thing or two about productivity long before the personal computer existed.

Please oh please someone buy me the “too big to fail” shirt! (2XL please, cuz… you know… I’m too big. *ba-dump-tshh*)