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Provided by the compucert paroxysm \PAIR-uhk-siz-uhm\, noun:
- (Medicine) A sudden attack, intensification, or recurrence of a disease.
- Any sudden and violent emotion or action; an outburst; a fit.
Urban Word of the Day
October 05, 2007: brickedhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bricked&defid=1600855
- To render your computer useless, as useless as a brick. Usually the result of tampering with the insides and doing irreversible damage.
- Bricking your hardware leaves you with a new paperweight.
- Can be the end effect of a faulty flash or [firmware] update, a [modification] (mod) gone bad or being struck by lighting, to name a few.He managed to get his new iMac bricked while trying to boot WinXP on it.
I tried to change graphics cards while my computer was running but I only managed to get my machine bricked.
Trivia
How did baseball pitching legend Leroy “Satchel” Paige get his famous nickname?
- Working as a redcap at Union Railroad Station in Mobile, Alabama, as a youngster, he devised a sling harness contraption that enabled him to carry several bags at once, guaranteeing bigger tips. Other redcaps said he looked like a “walking satchel tree,” giving birth to his nickname.
Today in History
- Nez Percé: Native American Chief Joseph surrendered to the US Army; his people were relocated to a reservation (1877)
- World Series: first aired on the radio (1921)
- Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886): POTUS who exceeded expectations
- Václav Havel (71): writer, political dissenter, first president of the Czech Republic
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