Word of the Day: Hallucinoberry

By Paul Kedrosky · November 17, 2006 · ·

My word of the day:

hallucinoberry (n.): Hallucinations experienced by frequent Blackberry users wherein they look for email on any small, electronic geegaw. Example: “I had an embarrassing hallucinoberry today where I caught myself staring at my car’s keyfob for 30 seconds waiting for a list of recent emails.”

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Comments

  1. Coruscation says:
    November 19, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    companion phenomena: Zawinski’s Law
    “Every program attempts to expand until it can read
    mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are
    replaced by ones which can.” Coined by Jamie
    Zawinski (who called it the “Law of Software
    Envelopment”) to express his belief that all truly
    useful programs experience pressure to evolve into
    toolkits and application platforms