randomness

randomness n.  1. An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous
   inelegance.  2. A {hack} or {crock} that depends on a complex
   combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon
   which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction).
   "This hack can output characters 40--57 by putting the character
   in the four-bit accumulator field of an XCT and then extracting six
   bits -- the low 2 bits of the XCT opcode are the right thing."
   "What randomness!"  3. Of people, synonymous with `flakiness'.
   The connotation is that the person so described is behaving
   weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are
   (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as
   inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass
   with time. "Maybe he has a real complaint, or maybe it's just
   randomness.  See if he calls back."