It seems that i can't get it off my head since yesterday. I dunno why, it keeps coming and coming.
The interesting part is, the first time i heard this word was in the year 1994. I a young boy back then in front of his daddy's expensive superfast 486SX - 66Mhz computer equipped with ultra large 40megabytes of hdd, loading the SimCity 2000 game from Maxis. "Reticulating splines" were mentioned during the game load. It was in MS-DOS environment, and hell no SimCity doesn't actually reticulating any splines back then. It was mentioned during the loading of the game by the developer just because it sounded "cool" !!.
I think it did sounded cool, as i can still remember it until now.