An Balores wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:25 pm "Field tests"? You mean taking a portable out on a picnic?
Potato salad is nice on a picnic.
It is early morning here, and the coffee has not kicked in. And in my half awake state, my mind tends to wander into random lateral thought which sometimes brings up old memories.
Among many other jobs, I worked for a time in IT service, mostly in the small/medium business space, years and years ago. There was the phone code word, PICNIC, used when checking in with management back at the IT business. The word allowed a succinct explanation of a certain subset of IT issues, one that could be spoken tactfully within earshot of the client on site.
"Hey boss, it was a picnic."
Idiomatically this can mean it was an easy problem to fix. But as an acronym, it had a very different meaning: Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.