# Say something incomprehensible in the jargon of your industry! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075 "2010-08-03T23:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/101 "2010-08-16T15:58:18Z")
She’s a G2 P0 at 34.6 who PROM’ed at 27 plus. Q4T’s, D’s, and S’s, regular, and NPO right now pending WBC’s since 20:00. Been on CBR w BRP for BM only and EFMx2 1 hour q 6 with mild variables. Mag at 2 for 25, PLA at 25, change time 21:00. Celestone on board x 2. Consents on admission. Neo done. She spiked to 99.0 at 6 and FHT’s are tachy. No tenderness. Occasional, mild CTXS- nothing new. CBC’s drawn and pending. Just a heads up for a possible C/S soon depending in her WBC’s. ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/102 "2010-08-16T16:15:13Z")
> [@ca3799](#): > > she’s a g2 p0 at 34.6 who prom’ed at 27 plus. Q4t’s, d’s, and s’s, regular, and npo right now pending wbc’s since 20:00. Been on cbr w brp for bm only and efmx2 1 hour q 6 with mild variables. Mag at 2 for 25, pla at 25, change time 21:00. Celestone on board x 2. Consents on admission. Neo done. She spiked to 99.0 at 6 and fht’s are tachy. No tenderness. Occasional, mild ctxs- nothing new. Cbc’s drawn and pending. Just a heads up for a possible c/s soon depending in her wbc’s. ob/gyn? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/103 "2010-08-16T17:08:39Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > > [@Dr.Woo](#): > > > > I think the JVMs are all down. > > Ooh! Ooh! I think I know this one: Java virtual machines? Bingo Did a rolling restart on 30 of those bad boys. All the rest is proprietary stuff. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/104 "2010-08-16T17:40:15Z")
My job is rather unique, and I’m guessing a lot of people will be able to get parts of it, and other people will get other parts. If you can guess my job, yay on you! Most people don’t even know it exists. The ESU from OR 9 won’t coag from the handpiece but will from the pedal, you got 2 LTV 1000’s that need 10k PMs and 1 LTV1200 that needs a 30k, the M5 server isn’t pinging the PRISM EMR, the PCA fails occlusion at only 10 PSI, flash the new firmware for the Zoll, tele 15 isn’t reading RA lead, this MMS has no BP, and HEMS isn’t working with Citrix so do all your docs by hand. The coagulate function on the electrosurgical unit (cautery) in operating room 9 won’t work from the handpiece but will from the foot switch, three LTV brand ventilators (two model 1000’s, one model 1200) need preventative maintenance (10,000 hour and 30,000 hour, respectively,) the server for the patient monitors on the M5 wing isn’t communicating with the electronic medical record server, the patient controlled anesthesia machine is failing one of it’s tests by reading an occlusion at only 10 PSI, this defibrillator needs an update to it’s OS, a telemetry heart monitor is failing to pick up one of the standard EKG signals, the blood pressure isn’t working on a patient monitor module, and out inventory management software is having problems with out remote access software, so write down everything you do by hand until it gets resolved so you don’t forget to put it in the system. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/105 "2010-08-16T17:44:27Z")
My wife works in the same field (fundraising analysis) as me, and she and I had this great exchange recently: “I had a lot of deads today. Killed off a lot of people.” “That’ll help your denominator.” Actually, none of that was jargon :eek: She had found a lot of people in her database who were listed as living were in fact deceased. When you’re measuring fundraising effectiveness, you divide your donor numbers by your living constituent base; thus declaring constituents dead shrinks the denominator of that equation, and your donor rate increases. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/106 "2010-08-16T18:27:11Z")
I was trying to buy NAS and sell New York, but I couldn’t get a locate for the short. Now I’m stuck long way too much size from the inside. Anybody want a free 5 cents on 20k? There’s no size out there, and now this is too thin for me to get out of everything. I’ll try to hedge the rest with some SPYs and hope we don’t gap down. ---
**Author:** ![ripopgome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@ripopgome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ripopgome)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/107 "2010-08-17T21:29:01Z")
> [@LouiseE](#): > > > [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > > > :eek: You’re _root_ and just got downsized? > > Yes, I am root and no, I didn’t get downsized, knock on wood. > > > [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > > > Me earlier today… > > > > ps -ef | grep httpd > > top > > And if you know what “grep -R foo .” means without looking it up, we’re hiring. I had a cow orker who always asked this question in interviews, what does this do? (He’d write this on the whiteboard – or something very close to this, I don’t recall it perfectly) ```auto tar xzf - /var/www/log/*gz | cut -f 4 | grep -v /static | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -25 ``` In retrospect I think there were another couple of things in the chain (perhaps some `date +%F` subshelling), but I thought it was generally a not great question. People either were pretty lost at the start (fail) or just didn’t know some of the less common options. I mean, normally you’d have access to ‘man’, right? It’s supposed to decompress the recent logs from the webserver, extract out the URL paths that were requested, remove the requests for ‘static’ content, then by sorting and countinq uniques, then re-sorting and prefixing by the occurrence counts, display the “top 25 most requested webpages”). ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/108 "2010-08-18T05:28:01Z")
Sign the COCs and custody seals and get the trip blanks for the VOC cooler. Crap! One of the VOAs for 409WL03 is broken! They can get by with just two VOAs for BTEX and 8260s, right? Didn’t they give us any extra ambers? Jerks, they always do that. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/109 "2010-08-18T17:18:35Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > PCGS gave my bust half a MS63 and its really MS65PL/DMPL so I’m snapping it and sending it to ANACS > (the Professional Coin Grading Service considered the early Bust Half Dollar I sent them to grade as a Mint State 63 but I feel it is Mint State 65 and a Proof-like or Deep Mirror Proof-like as well. I will remove it from the plastic holder they have sealed it in and submit it to another service such as the American Numismatic Association Certification Service) _Deep Mirror_ should be the name of some SF-thriller type movie. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/110 "2010-08-18T18:42:16Z")
> [@ripopgome](#): > > > [@LouiseE](#): > > > > Yes, I am root and no, I didn’t get downsized, knock on wood. > > > > And if you know what “grep -R foo .” means without looking it up, we’re hiring. > > I had a cow orker who always asked this question in interviews, what does this do? (He’d write this on the whiteboard – or something very close to this, I don’t recall it perfectly) > > ```auto > > tar xzf - /var/www/log/*gz | cut -f 4 | grep -v /static | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -25 > > ``` > > In retrospect I think there were another couple of things in the chain (perhaps some `date +%F` subshelling), but I thought it was generally a not great question. People either were pretty lost at the start (fail) or just didn’t know some of the less common options. I mean, normally you’d have access to ‘man’, right? > > It’s supposed to decompress the recent logs from the webserver, extract out the URL paths that were requested, remove the requests for ‘static’ content, then by sorting and countinq uniques, then re-sorting and prefixing by the occurrence counts, display the “top 25 most requested webpages”). See, I have a similar type doodad in my history (I look up the specifics about once every 6 months…it’s MUCH easier to: history | grep awk !463 When what you want is: cat LogExtract | awk ‘{print $14}’ | sort -rn | uniq -c | sort -rn | grep -v 10.35 Showing all of the IP addresses in the log that aren’t in the 10.35.0.0 subnet, sorted by frequency. And to think, the fundamentals of this kind of analysis haven’t changed much since the early 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![ladysorrowfree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@ladysorrowfree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladysorrowfree)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/111 "2010-11-03T03:32:55Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Not as jargon-y as some others in this thread, but here goes: > > We need to get the CONOPS through ERB and approved by the COTR so that we can be ready for PDR. > > We need to get the Concept of Operations (document) through the Engineering Review Board (internal approval) and approved by the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (customer) so that we can be ready for the Preliminary Design Review (a milestone in some software development projects). > > I’m a tech writer for a defense contractor: most of our jargon is just acronyms. 🙂 I believe you might be my cow-orker, **Misnomer**. Are you, by any chance, with SLRSC (whether ER or WR)? ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/112 "2010-11-03T03:48:03Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > How is this for incomprehensible industry jargon ? Below are actual daily drilling reports that we receive. > > TLA’s ( Three Letter Acronyms ) are for wimps… 😃 > > WELL #1 > Objective: Pull CT Completion and replace with joint tubing ESP completion. > > Operations Summary: Finished running ESP completion on 2-7/8" tubing. Terminated ESP, SCSSV and CI. Spaced out and landed tubing hanger. Made up hanger to wellhead. Tested seals. Tested annulus to 1,000 psi. Sheared pump out plug. Rigged down BOP and riser. > > Current Operations @ 0500 hrs: Making up tubing bonnet. > > Operation Forecast: Continue making up tubing bonnet. Skid to next wellhead. > WELL # 2 > Objective: Recover current completion. Sidetrack wellbore. Drill 8-1/2" hole; set 7". Drill 6" in zone. Re-complete as 3-1/2" monobore producer. > > Operations Summary: Continued welding 4" tie down bars at triple board. Slipped and cut. Repaired brakes on DW. Tripped in the hole with scraper. Worked scraper and circulated and began pulling out of the hole. > > Current Operations @ 0500 hrs: Rigging up wireline. > > Operation Forecast: Fish and POOH. Run EZSV on wireline. Set whipstock and Mill window. Dude, I write reports like that! (Mudlogger). Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/113 "2010-11-03T06:22:21Z")
Branch Name and Device, New. Rangeholm, Shire Of: Or, six bison sable in base a laurel wreath and on a chief vert a deer and an antelope salient addorsed Or. Not my job, but a hobby: SCA heraldry. This is a proposed name and device (coat of arms) for a new SCA group, the Shire (a small group, at least 10 registered members) of Rangeholm. The proposed coat of arms, which needs to be checked for legality and conflict with other coats of arms, is a shield with a yellow background, with six green bison scattered across the bottom. Across the top of the shield is a green rectangle with a gold deer and antelope standing on their hind legs, back to back. Yes, it’s a [joke](http://www.antirheralds.org/humor/010403/01apr03hp.html). “Rangeholm” = Home on the Range, where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/114 "2010-11-03T06:28:07Z")
“Inter-polygonal Penetration.” Some parts of the geometry of your CG polygonal model of you squirrel character is intersecting other parts where they physically shouldn’t “Brute-force stochastic sampling.” Sampling ray-traced pixels of a CG scene in a randomized, grainy, buckshot way, over time. The longer you sample, the smoother the image. Very accurate, but very slow method of sampling global illumination, compared to more efficient methods. “Use Area Lights, Lessen the SSS, increase the DoF, and render out the Alpha, AO, and Spec on different passes.” Make the light and shadows more realistic, lessen the sub-surface scattering effect on the skin shader, so it doesn’t look like his head is made of wax, make the depth of field more shallow; blurring foreground and background elements more and when you render this frame sequence, make sure the alpha matte, ambient occlusion and specularity are spit out as separate frame sequences, so we can control the amount of each in compositing. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/115 "2010-11-03T09:34:27Z")
xmit GL re-entry P&C/CI to SRS/LC. EXL n/a re-enter a general liability claim that was entered into the wrong commercial claim intake system. do not send to India iv pax2 inj when cv r/e iv@x 2nd passenger in insured vehicle was injured when other vehicle rearended the insured vehicle at an intersection send IA for supp est + settle TL pymt asap send independent adjuster to estimate a repair supplement and settle total loss payment as soon as possible DX CTS, EE decl TX, now SX reqd diagnosis carpal tunnel syndrome. employee declined treatment, now surgery is required ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/116 "2010-11-03T16:25:41Z")
> [@FlyingRat](#): > > Branch Name and Device, New. Rangeholm, Shire Of: Or, six bison sable in base a laurel wreath and on a chief vert a deer and an antelope salient addorsed Or. > > Not my job, but a hobby: SCA heraldry. This is a proposed name and device (coat of arms) for a new SCA group, the Shire (a small group, at least 10 registered members) of Rangeholm. The proposed coat of arms, which needs to be checked for legality and conflict with other coats of arms, is a shield with a yellow background, with six green bison scattered across the bottom. Across the top of the shield is a green rectangle with a gold deer and antelope standing on their hind legs, back to back. > > Yes, it’s a [joke](http://www.antirheralds.org/humor/010403/01apr03hp.html). “Rangeholm” = Home on the Range, where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play. 😛 Should that be ‘six bison vert’ or six black bison?? ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/117 "2010-11-04T03:28:49Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Should that be ‘six bison vert’ or > > six black bison?? Yeah, you’re right, it should be six black bison. 🙂 I saw it but was feeling too lazy to correct it, because hey, jargon! (In my defense, I’m still learning.) ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075/118 "2011-01-07T22:16:01Z")
Software development: I’m unable to get you an accurate LOE on my development action item because the SRS has several identified uncertainties and no use cases have been defined for it. I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to build it because I don’t know what it’s supposed to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-incomprehensible-in-the-jargon-of-your-industry/549075.md?page=5)