Reticulating splines

[Sarah]

Nonsense technobabble used in a production context.
[Reticulating splines] started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a real meaning, this definition isnt actually correct in the context of its use. Its really a programming joke.
Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Dont want to describe whats holding up the program? Its [reticulating splines]. Why isnt the Internet working? The [splines] arent [reticulated]. Heck, dont want to explain your calculus assignment? Were reticulating splines this week.
See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.

[Lanell]

v.
A necessary computation performed by numerous [Maxis] Sim games. Content simply cannot be generated without [meticulous] reticulation.
See: reticulatingsplines on [ytmnd] for further information.

[Luis Fok]

The process of combining many short lines and [curves] into longer, interpolated ones called [splines].
Also, the process of combining many imprecise and [abstract] ideas into one larger, complex one.

[Couch Potatoe]

[Constructing] network based functions that are defined by [divisible] intervals while approximating said network and composing it of pieces of simple functions defined on subintervals and joined at their endpoints with a suitable degree of [smoothness].