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Off-topic but this is the first time I've seen waldo used as a verb. It's not in the Urban Dictionary, but from the way you use it I take it that it means "to f
by syockit 5y ago
Off-topic but this is the first time I've seen waldo used as a verb. It's not in the Urban Dictionary, but from the way you use it I take it that it means "to find the correct thing out of the sea of so many similar things", right?
- psychomugs 5y agoEssentially, to telemanipulate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator
- shalmanese 5y agoIt comes from the Heinlein short story Waldo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story) > Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones was born a weakling, unable even to lift his head up to drink or to hold a spoon. Far from destroying him, this channeled his intellect, and his family's money, into the development of the device patented as "Waldo F. Jones' Synchronous Reduplicating Pantograph". Wearing a glove and harness, Waldo could control a much more powerful mechanical hand simply by moving his hand and fingers.
- gradschoolfail 5y agoWhat you conjecture does sound like the defintion of “wally”, as in “where’s Wally?” Oh wait, it’s waldo in north america..