a close up photograph of a person or animal using a wide-angle lens - their nose will appear very large in proportion to the rest of their face, creating a comical effect
an editorial I reviewed today from this week's British Medical Journal about a report that unmasked the just-as-testy relationship between regulators and the pharmaceutical industry in the UK
a scene recently described in this newsgroup where a child addresses a question to a young woman as "oba-san", and she responds, referring to herself as "oNEE-san"
a live playlist sent from my computer to my blog, which then employs Trackback to send notification to the published playlist on the blog each time a song is updated
an object that implements ISAXContentHandler, as the parser sends the notifications to this object when it encounters nodes, processing instructions, and so on
an application service provider (ASP) who, after promising several resellers their own unique password policies, took a single domain multi-tenant system and moved it to a root child domain configuration
a discrepancy that has puzzled viewers for many years, namely that Maragretta Scott is credited for the dual roles of Roxana and Rowena, even though only the former appears in the Standard Version
a cold front moving eastward from the dry slopes of the Rocky Mountains into a Cross section of a warm-front occlusion (top) and its weather symbol (bottom)
an RPC server that creates a thread for each request and destroys it when the reply is delivered, instead of trying to maintain a pool of threads to service requests
a contact I got through a spot opportunity, Before my time in Denver, I would have never considered this, but on the plane ride back to Houston, I read an article about a certain company that seemed interesting to me
a show like Sex and the City , a show for women that was a stratosphere hit with gay men who were able to connect with the shows frantically emotional center
a planned community, in which dozens and oftentimes even hundreds of buildings have been designed and built in relatively close quarters, with each unit sharing sometimes two or even three of its sides with another building
a system where Customer and Employee both inherit from a base Person, even though there are no common functions in a system that could perform operations on both object-types
a video control function library written in assembler to display information on a monitor more efficiently (with respect to speed and memory) for an application written in a high-level language such as C or BASIC and for execution on a PC
a CD player driving a tube Hi Fi, or conversely a tube microphone and tube amplifier being recorded on a hard drive (I still prefer tape personally, but mixing technologies is always worth trying)
an atmosphere introduction , a technique where a director tips us off to important things about characters by introducing us first to their surroundings