Geek Salad Noodling

It's been awhile since I did a geek salad, a mixed bowl of quirks and questions, so here goes.

A kid recently said to me that he had a lot of hole punches in his paper. I asked what he meant and he showed me lots of holes made by a hole punch. Surely, I said, those were punched holes and not hole punches. He looked at me non-plussed. What do you think the holes are called?

A new word I discovered is noodling. This is when you mess about on a musical instrument in-between jams in a band. Have you noodled?

Franking used to be a big deal where I worked years ago. We had an office franking machine. It was a sort of pre-paid postage stamp device. Do you recall franking?

I often find little bits of tat at work, which I put in my coat pocket. Small odds n sods like washers and little tyres. As I walk round the site I fiddle with them in my pocket. I suppose they relax me. Anyways, these pocket things must have a name. Anyone know?

So that's probably all my geek salad for this year. Till next year.