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• like nailing jelly to a tree adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp.
  one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain....
• ailing jelly vi. See like nailing jelly to a tree.
• Impossible - adj. Nailing Jello to a tree.
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• flat-file: adj. A {flatten}ed representation of some database or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure could implicitly be rebuilt, esp.
  one in {flat-ASCII} form. See also {sharchive}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the rest of us"] adj.
  1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe {spiffy} but very overpriced products....
• Getting the truth from Clinton is like nailing Jello to the wall.
• background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• orthogonal: [from mathematics] adj. Mutually independe
  well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalization of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the entire `capability space' of the system and are in some sense non-overlapping or mutually independent....