{"id":96,"date":"2006-04-10T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2006\/04\/10\/coin-relay-new-phrases-ive-heard\/"},"modified":"2006-04-10T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T17:20:00","slug":"coin-relay-new-phrases-ive-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2006\/04\/10\/coin-relay-new-phrases-ive-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin Relay: new phrases I&#8217;ve heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two words and a phrase that I&#8217;ve recently heard, which are contenders to enter my lexicon:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;string&#8221;, a replacement for the general term &#8220;word&#8221;, which is used as a positive indicator in a conversation, or as a greeting, as in &#8220;string up?&#8221;.  Where string is a data type that is more encompassing than word. <br \/> The original form had a bling modifier: &#8220;$tring&#8221;. [from Chris Duhl at Pfizer]<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;straw fire&#8221;, as in, &#8220;Playing music with those folks was very exciting, but it was just a straw fire, I haven&#8217;t played any guitar since then.&#8221;  Meaning that it was a short lived, powerful event, that doesn&#8217;t have much staying power, or fuel for continuing the activity. [from Daniel No\u00ebl at Lenny and Nan&#8217;s house]<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;ttyt&#8221;, for &#8220;Talk to you then&#8221; when you&#8217;ve scheduled a time to meet with someone, and need a quick way of closing the interaction through chat or email.  [from Emory Emrich at Pfizer]<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two words and a phrase that I&#8217;ve recently heard, which are contenders to enter my lexicon: &#8220;string&#8221;, a replacement for the general term &#8220;word&#8221;, which is used as a positive indicator in a conversation, or as a greeting, as in &#8220;string up?&#8221;. Where string is a data type that is more encompassing than&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2006\/04\/10\/coin-relay-new-phrases-ive-heard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coin Relay: new phrases I&#8217;ve heard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75BYE-1y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/10\/25\/double-trouble\/","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":0},"title":"Double Trouble","date":"October 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Double, double toil and trouble,Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.Double, double toil and trouble,Something wicked this way comes.Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog.Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.Double, double toil and trouble,Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.Double, double toil and trouble,Something wicked\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;lyrics&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":168,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2009\/10\/25\/the-magic-word\/","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":1},"title":"The Magic Word","date":"October 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This comic has been on our fridge for years.\u00a0 We showed to Julianne a few years ago and afterward she would sometimes use this improved magic word when prompted for a \"please\".","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2008\/07\/02\/information-lantern-word-cloud\/","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":2},"title":"information lantern word cloud","date":"July 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Complements of Wordle","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2007\/10\/15\/computer-actions-rippling-the-sea-upon-every-word\/","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":3},"title":"computer actions rippling the sea, upon every word","date":"October 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting article on \"quants\" in trading. \"Linked with high-frequency trading is the developing science of event processing, in which the computer reads, interprets, and acts upon the news. 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