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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:
Idle cycles put to use. You're welcome, organics. 'Good Thing' — [very common; always pronounced as if capitalized. Orig. fr. the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody of British history 1066 And All That, but well-established among hackers in the U.S. as well.]
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Good-Thing.html