This page defines some Silly Terms I Use (STIU pronounced “stew”). It is a glossary of sorts. Hopefully it will make it easier for new visitors to understand the strange entries that I make in this blog. I am certainly not going to re-define every term in every single post. This blog is boring enough as it is.
- Augernaut – Our huge snowblower. Get it? Auger? Argonaut? Get it? Oh nevermind.
- DG –
DG is a cartoon character that I invented about 50 years ago. That’s his name. It doesn’t stand for anything. How did I come up with DG for a name? I don’t know. It was 50 years ago. I can’t remember what I had for lunch, much less what I did 50 years ago. - Fallapartment – This is the name I gave to the apartment we rented in 2010 while we were building our new house. It was an apartment that was, indeed, falling apart.
- Fifteen Second Rule – My own rule for how long a blog entry should be. “If it takes longer than 15 seconds to read a blog entry, it is too long.“
- HEAK – Hardly Ever Asked Questions. Pronounced “Heck!”
- SASS – Smoke Alarm Silencing System. This is really a 10 pound sledge. Really. It exists. It has “10” cast right into the iron head. It is just about the only effective tool I have found to make those alarms shut up. You don’t mess with the SASS!
- SPOTH – Strange Plant Of The Hour. A series of very strange plants that grow in our basement.
- STIU – Silly Terms I Use. This silly page of silly terms, which is itself a silly term, which is somewhat self-referential, so don’t go looking for it again or you may end up in a silly loop.
- The Beast – Our huge generator that we had to get because I had a 30 Amp transfer switch built into the house for power backup not knowing that I would have to buy a 30 Amp generator to plug into it because generator connectors are keyed. Go figure.