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Jeff Zeitlin
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For Money: 20+ years in IT, done time as utility programmer, as customer/technical support, and as systems admin. Currently splitting my time between customer/technical support and systems administration in a City agency.

For Fun: Involved with the tabletop/pencil-and-paper RPG Traveller since mid-1980s, currently run website and edit/publish PDF Traveller fanzine Freelance Traveller, also on con-com for TravellerCON/USA gaming convention devoted to Traveller.

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What's the generic word for weekly/monthly etc. service?
Aug 22, 2017
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Are there terms for the Dutch 'meewind' and 'tegenwind'?
Jan 7, 2020
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Is there an idiom for someone who nods and listens usefully?
Jan 16, 2018
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What is a negative way to describe a person who is overindulged with Earthly life?
Apr 1, 2020
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What is the equivalent in English of the French "pipotron", which refers to meaningless filler content that looks like it was written by a bot?
May 27, 2021
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What is the formal word to say something is 'nice-to-have'?
Apr 19, 2018
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"The machine must be kept operating at its *WORD* " - What is the word?
Jan 3, 2022
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"Filepath" or "file path"?
Jan 26, 2018
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Alternative for "descend" in the context of computer file systems
May 25, 2018
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Idiom about not being useful
Apr 1, 2022
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How long does an account merge take?
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What's the meaning of " you're being G.O. Sixteened."?
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Story about a spaceship "emergency program" that simulates a "perfect woman"
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Sci-fi book I read years ago: sterile, lab-grown woman who smuggles things in a surgically-created “pouch” behind her navel
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What does Charlotte mean by "this is not me reading you in?"

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