An extended lexicon of solar car

--Scumbag (noun and verb): a scumbag is, in the words of Ian Girard, "Someone who's using the blowtorch to fry ants when you need to use it to crimp things." You can scumbag a laptop, a tool, or a car. Our team's scout car was a diesel Golf and was nicknamed "Scumbag Scout" for the duration of the trip, thanks to people's tendency to take it and go drive randomly across Australia without warning.

--Hack (verb): an unplanned solution to an unexpected problem, usually involving the gross misuse of power tools. Our hack team is quite strong--through the use of an air-powered dremel and a butane soldering iron they succeeded in resurrecting our half-dead motor on the side of the road.

--Dece (adjective and exclamation): Good. Great. Awesome. Sometimes even decent. With the application of more Red Bull, "dece" usually becomes "most dece." Most frequently heard from Greg and Sam when pacing around the shop.

--Karplus (verb): to destroy through the overeager application of excessive force. Paul Karplus, our motor man, is capable of applying infinitely more force to tools than most mere mortals. The shop is littered with the remains of bolts and end mills that tried to defy him.