Grok

I do not grok all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I grokked. Why?

In his movie—right right right—and they all grok over that. Grok―and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it.

He freely plucks notions and verbiage from science fiction to describe everything from mountain-related undertakings to political subterfuge – like "grok", a term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, to denote intuitive understanding.

Because what he never managed to grok then was that the company he created was destined to become a template for all of humanity, the digital reflection of masses of people across the globe. Including — and especially — the bad ones.

I finally grok Perl.

I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.

Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school.