This is not about jargon. Not much anyway. How can you possibly poke good fun about a subject that is by definition and deep in its very own existence both important and ludicrous?I found myself asking the other day, “What was the TD of the superheat on the TXV?”
I didn’t even give me pause. Just a sense of completeness and understanding. I even got a meaningful response. The path to that statement was equal parts hard won learning, pain filled mind amplification and bitter experience.
In the days when I worked at a television production facility here in Pittsburgh, I was walking back to the cubbyhole that was my office with a cup of coffee in my hand. As I passed a Hobbiton office in a light filled lifeless corridor I saw a fellow worker, feet up on the desk and stretched out, holding a phone receiver in his hand (didn’t really notice any tufts of hair between his toes, just brown shined wingtip shoes and a superior expression on his face). He said into the mouthpiece as I breezed past the door, “Scrap the snorkel we’ll shoot people in Akron.” That has become one of my favorite things to say. It is emblematic of all that is pompous, silly and downright unworthy in secret language. Yes, the guy was pretty much a putz.
I promised myself that I would write to this blog once a week. Post every Wednesday. But and after all the promise was only to myself. Sloth, indolence, sluggishness and just plain lazy, I always give myself a pass. Besides I have been working on creating the default web page for www.joecoluccio.com.
First I brushed up on HTML. Here is a computer language (if you can really call it that) that has all the evil rules and strictures of the Old Testament God. I tried to place some pictures and text strategically on the page and honest I started to get boils all over my body. I looked into CSS. Okay! okay! Hypertext Mark-up Language and Cascading Style Sheets! Does that let you know anything more? And then there’s javaScript not to be confused with Java, O No, my daddy can’t be ugly so. And Flash and maybe ShockandAweWave. Big boulders of confused ideas and obfuscating jargon bar the way. Hell, Dante only had a wolf, a lion and a leopard.
Plus I have to try to get some, from my sore and little experience, sense and depth of graphics and design
I push. I shovel. I erect. I tumble.
Removing latent heat is a good example of adiabatic cooling. A neutron is made up of two down quarks and one up quark. Strange charm no color. Three quarks for Muster Mark. The div element gives structure and context to any block level content in a document. Design for CMYK in print not RGB. I can name that tune in one semidemiquaver. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate! My sister-in-law’s name is anacolutha and she was born in synecdoche.
You know, I really do believe I can get there. You come too.
“Don’t you get it Franny, the fat lady is Christ?”
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