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• veeblefester: /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore
  prob. originally from "Mad" Magazine's `Veeblefeetzer' parodies ca....
• mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• ha ha only serious: [from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, `Ha Ha Only Kidding'] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse.
  Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody....
• I recognize that a class of criminals and juvenile delinquents has taken to calling themselves 'hackers', but I consider them irrelevant to the true meaning of the word
  just as the Mafia calls themselves 'businessmen' but nobody pays that fact any attention....
• cowboy n. [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker.
  It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence....
• mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
• A]s for the rest of the distance around the inhabited earth which has not been visited by us up to the present time (because of the fact that the navigators who sailed in opposite directions never met)
  it is not of very great extent, if we reckon from the parallel distances that have been traversed by us....
• poser n. A wannabee; not hacker slang, but used among crackers, phreaks and warez d00dz.
  Not as negative as lamer or leech. Probably derives from a similar usage among punk-rockers and metalheads, putting down those who "talk the talk but don't walk the walk"....