state

state n.  1. Condition, situation.  "What's the state of
   your latest hack?"  "It's winning away."  "The system tried to
   read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally
   {wedged} state."  The standard question "What's your state?"
   means "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?"
   Typical answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry".  Another
   standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning
   "What's new?" or "What's going on?".  The more terse and
   humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?".
   Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be
   "state-p latest hack?".  2. Information being maintained in
   non-permanent memory (electronic or human).