I came back from lunch to find half of our IT department and a couple of strange looking stiffs having a meeting in my office.
"What gives?"
"We needed your board," said the department head. "Well don't let me interrupt," I said settling into my chair.
They were talking fast and had drawings on the board that Einstein would have been proud of. I was trying to keep up with them when thay started talking about encoding.
"Wait," I said. "What does 'encoding' mean exactly?"
One of the strange stiffs said, "It means different things in different applications. To us it means layering the information so that it automatically identifies the most efficient mode of delivering what has been requested by the user."
"Wow," I said. "It's amazing how a simple word can mean so many different things to different people. It's not like, say, the word; 'buttfucking'."
