The wife made an excellent, excellent point. Apple’s newly announced “social network for music” is called Ping. The Microsoft search engine everyone uses instead of Google (which no one uses anymore because it sucks in comparison lololol j/k) is called Bing.
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Also, ping is already a computer thing: in nerd land, you can ping your crush’s computer through Unix to see if they are live on the network so that you can walk by their office and look at them without having to make excessive creepy excuses to walk by and see if they’re there or not.
In my province of nerd land, we say “ping” interchangeably to mean IM or respond to/query an email thread for an update on something. There’s also Ning, the site for developing your own social network.
Though, not to be mean, I’m not sure what mrs. keyholez’s point was - just that -ing is a (th)ing?
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In my province of nerd land, we say “ping” interchangeably to mean IM or respond to/query an email thread for an update...
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already a computer thing:...nerd land, you can ping your crush’s computer through Unix to...
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