faradize /far'*-di:z/ v.
[US Geological Survey] To start any hyper-addictive process or
trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend. Telling one
user about a new octo-tetris game you compiled would be a
faradizing act -- in two weeks you might find your entire
department playing the faradic game.
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farkled /far'kld/ adj.
[DeVry Institute of Technology, Atlanta] Syn. hosed. Poss. owes something to Yiddish
`farblondjet' and/or the `Farkle Family' skits on "Rowan and
Martin's Laugh-In", a popular comedy show of the late 1960s.
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farming n.
[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk
drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the
magnetic media. Associated with a crash. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the
machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again." No longer common; modern
drives automatically park their heads in a safe zone on
power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to induce
this.