Faceslap-dot-jaypeg?
UPDATE 1-13-08: It appears as if, once again, the joke is on me. I’ve been informed that the expression is “facepalm.jpg”. It even has its own Wikipedia entry. Of course it does.
Monday night, I attended a New Year’s Eve party hosted by a friend from work and her boyfriend. I’ll spare the details of the goings-on save for the fact that I didn’t lose a single game of Wii tennis.
My tale is about some of the other partygoers, nice kids all. But good god… these dudes were computer nerds of the highest order, straight out of central casting, as Your Neighbor put it. I can’t adequately put into words just how gleefully and thoroughly they matched virtually every stereotype I hold of modern Computer Nerddom. Perhaps the only things missing were their vodka-and-Mountain Dew cocktails.
At one point during the evening, there was some trouble getting the Wii controllers synced up, a problem one of the dudes attributed to the Wii’s “painfully slow processor” or some such, adding that the XBox 360 has no such worries. Another guy then did a little nerd trash-talking, saying that “[your] 360 is probably going to red-ring next week.” Burn!
The ultimate in geekery, though, came during a pitched battle of Wii bowling. One of the guys had made a bad roll, and one of his buddies taunted him by saying “faceslap-dot-jaypeg.” Then he did it again after a later roll. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The only way it could have been more perfectly nerdy is if the tauntee had retorted using a string of ones and zeroes.
Needless to say, I was highly entertained by these guys’ antics. But I must emphasize that they all were very nice. And my line of work has its own sphere of geekery, so pot-kettle and all that. But today, I feel a little less ashamed of my participation in half a dozen fantasy sports leagues and correcting other people’s punctuation.
