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• einvent the wheel: v. To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time.
  This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right....
• I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel
  I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occassionally....
• Lisa: And now it's time for the Innocence Report with Homer Simpson.
  [holds sign: "Innocence Report"] Homer: Hello....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• Moral: design before you implement.
• Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had.
  Satan! Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep....
• handwave [poss. from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] 1.
  v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listene...
• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. BILLINGS