CAPTCHA is the name for the words that you are asked to type on websites to ensure you're not a robot.
Sometimes they're so jumbled that you keep getting them wrong, and sometimes they're unintentionally hilarious.
Occasionally, they boost your vocabulary.
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Similar to a doppelganger, who is your physical twin, a Googleganger is someone "with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself."
True story: When I started dating my boyfriend, he Googled me, only to find someone with the same name as me who wrote awful amateur love poetry. Luckily, he liked me enough to see past the terrible poems — at least until he told me he saw my poems, and I explained that I merely had a Googleganger!
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An acronym for "problem exists between keyboard and chair." Often used by IT guys at happy hour.
(Sidenote: I certainly hope no one has ever described my situation as "PEBKAC.")
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Do you know, or can you guess, the definition for this geeky term?
Uncanny Valley
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The condition whereby you fly into a frenzy to find your ringing cell phone, only to find that it has not, in fact, been ringing at all; what you have heard is a phone with your former ringtone. Highly disconcerting.
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