Thingy

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A thingy is a shiny technical object.

Casey Serin habitually uses thingy to describe technology; for example, his comment-moderation tool is "my cell phone/PDA thingy",[1] an online chat applet is "a chat thingy",[2] a click-fraud prevention tool is "the IP filter thingy".[3]

A thingy can have magical properties unknown to those outside Casey's inner circle of Maxwell's demon practitioners. From their perspective, the second law of thermodynamics is irrelevant because of a "a cold-fusion type of battery-thingy that basically never runs out of energy."[4]

According to Urban Dictionary, thingy may also refer to "cock, choad, wang, johnson, man bits, oompah loompah".[5] Speculation about Serin's oompah loompa is probably best left to Casey's new secret Australian host.

[edit] References

  1. I can’t find my cell phone / PDA thingy..., comment on IAFF, January 16th 2007 at 11:00 am
  2. Added a chat thingy in the sidebar..., comment on IAFF, May 24th 2007 at 2:38 pm
  3. Roadblocks for World’s Most Hated Blogger, IAFF, June 17th 2007
  4. Norway Would Be a Sweet Place to Visit, comment on IAFF, July 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
  5. Urban Dictionary: thingy
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