Author

Author

n. The person responsible for the creation, collection, and/or reorganization of a body of printed work. —v. To produce such work.

NOTE: Mostly my authorship has involved taking a few hasty notes while on the job, and then spending hours upon hours of my personal, free time to turn those few scribbles into what you see here.

My basic Authoring process is:

1. Quickly gather STOCK CLERK-related words and concepts while on the job
2. Organize the collected terms and information
3. Compose appropriate definitions
4. Incorporate my own experience and things learned from others
5. Occasionally, as necessary, create new terms, definitions, etc.
6. Publish it all on the Internet
7. Print everything out, duplicate and then circulate hard-copies to gain additional input
8. Continue gathering info while revising and expanding new editions

Wherever I've invented new vocabulary, it was to describe something where the answer to the questions, “What's this?” or “What do you call this?” was either a literal or metaphorical shrug of the shoulders. SHARK-CUT is one such example. I couldn't find any other name for it, it's pretty descriptive, and so, there you go.

The submerged part of this Titanic-style iceberg is the aspect of Internet publishing. In case you didn't know, Blogger was not designed to host online GLOSSARIES. The architecture is all wrong.

Well, almost. I found just enough stuff that I could co-opt through my own personal stubbornness and truckloads of HTML and CSS brute force that I was able to get up what you see here. I imagine that, among others, the Blogger-dudes and -dude-ettes themselves are going to be somewhat pleasantly surprised. At least, I hope so.

Along the way, it's certainly been a lot of fun figuring out how to “MAKE IT GO!”

Photograph

Photograph

n. An image recorded by a camera, and provided in the GLOSSARY as an illustration to help clarify or illuminate a definition.

NOTE: In the GLOSSARY, photographs (and other graphics such as charts and diagrams) are reduced to black-and-white thumbnails so pages load faster, and printouts look better. Yet, all are “rollover” images, meaning that when you place your cursor over them, you'll first see a color version, and if you click, you'll get the full-color, full-sized version of the image displayed as a Picassa Web Albums page. (Picassa is one of Google's sister services to Blogger, where the GLOSSARY is hosted.) To return to the GLOSSARY, just use your browser's BACK button.

Images whose captions end with an ellipsis (…) have additional notes attached to the full-sized image in the Picassa Web Albums COMMENTS field. These additional notes are not in the body of the ENTRY, since they pertain to aspects of the image that are not readily visible in the thumbnail.

All thumbnail images are overlaid with a small magnifying glass icon in their lower right corner, to indicate a larger version is available upon clicking. All full-size images are overlaid with a “watermark” in the lower right corner that says “Stockclerk.blogspot.com.” Please always be sure to give credit where credit is due.

Contributions of relevant, good quality photos are always welcome! However, per the notes under CONTACT INFO, if you provide images to the GLOSSARY, you are thereby agreeing that they become my property, to do with as I see fit, without any expectation or compensation whatsoever. That said, I also will make every effort to give credit where credit is due, and will put a reasonable photo credit in the image's Picassa Web Albums COMMENTS field.

Version

Version

n. A completed body of work, usually to which no further alterations are made. The first such Version is termed the “original.” Subsequent additions, corrections, changes, and/or other improvements may be incorporated and “frozen” (i.e., no further alterations allowed) to create later Versions, also sometimes called EDITIONS. See also VERSION NUMBER.

NOTE: Below is a summary of the GLOSSARY'S Version history. The Version names are LINKS, permitting you to inspect their contents if you so desire.

• VERSION 2.0 — The current version (i.e., what you're reading right now!), although still something of a Work-In-Progress. The addition of tabbed pages, with individual ENTRIES for each TERM, and the implementation of local and global KEYWORDS are perhaps its most distinguishing features.


• VERSION 1.5 — An older, unpublished, transitional version, used to test and verify the changes necessary to implement v 2.0. Notable for the introduction and extensive use of CSS—the web's standard of Cascading Style Sheets—to enable a much more flexible and maintainable semantic mark-up. Translation: a massive performance tune-up took place “under the hood,” out of the reader's sight, while most of the outward text—a few new and changed ENTRIES excepted—remained identical to v 1.0.


• VERSION 1.0 — The original and thus oldest version, used as a relatively quick and simple beachhead to get the project started, also distributed in hard-copy form to various friends and coworkers in order to gain insights and feedback.

~d:

~d:

n. A KEYWORD prefix indicating a Definition Flag META-KEYWORD. That is, one that can be used to gather GLOSSARY ENTRIES according to one of several “structural” aspects of the ENTRIES themselves, rather than to their practical applications or meanings. For more info, see KEYWORD, META-KEYWORD.

NOTE: Here's a summary of all of the Definition Flag META-KEYWORDS in use at the time of this writing:

(NB. Keywords listed in this table are not active.)

DEFINITION FLAGS
Key	Meaning
~d:multi	Definition is MULTIPART
~d:single	Definition has only a SINGLE part

~i:

~i:

n. A KEYWORD prefix indicating a Parts-of-Speech META-KEYWORD. That is, one that can be used to gather GLOSSARY ENTRIES according to one of several “structural” aspects of the ENTRIES themselves, rather than to their practical applications or meanings. For more info, see KEYWORD, META-KEYWORD.

NOTE: Here's a summary of all of the Parts-of-Speech META-KEYWORDS in use at the time of this writing:

(NB. Keywords listed in this table are not active.)

PARTS OF SPEECH
Key	Meaning
~i:adj.	Is an ADJECTIVE
~i:adv.	Is an ADVERB
~i:multi	Is MULTIPLE parts of speech
~i:n.	Is a NOUN
~i:other	Is something OTHER than a keyed noun, verb, etc.
~i:v.	Is a VERB