The Windows shell of objects and verbs — half the street wakes here; its quirks are documented so they bite once.
From power (Old French poeir, to be able) and shell (Old English sciell, a hard covering, extended in 1960s computing to a command interpreter); Microsoft's 2006 name for its object-and-verb scripting environment.
The command-line environment of objects and verbs that half the house's own street wakes into, with its quirks documented so they only bite once.