chrome n.
[from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features added to
attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of
a system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they
certainly are pretty chrome!" Distinguished from bells and whistles by the
fact that the latter are usually added to gratify developers' own
desires for featurefulness. Often used as a term of contempt.
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chug vi.
To run slowly; to grind or grovel. "The disk is chugging like
crazy."
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Church of the SubGenius n.
A mutant offshoot of Discordianism launched in 1981 as a
spoof of fundamentalist Christianity by the `Reverend' Ivan
Stang, a brilliant satirist with a gift for promotion. Popular
among hackers as a rich source of bizarre imagery and references
such as "Bob" the divine drilling-equipment salesman, the
Benevolent Space Xists, and the Stark Fist of Removal. Much
SubGenius theory is concerned with the acquisition of the
mystical substance or quality of slack. There is a home page at http://www.subgenius.com/.
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Cinderella Book [CMU] n.
"Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation",
by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So
called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella)
sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope
coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles
after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.