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The Silicon Valley Lexicon

 

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking a device to get it working

PRAIRE DOGGING: In companies where everyone has a cubicle  -- something 
                happens and everyone pops up to look

BLOWING YOUR BUFFER: Losing your train of thought

YUPPIE FOOD COUPONS: Twenty dollar bills from an ATM

SQUARE HEADED GIRLFRIEND (or boyfriend): Computer

TREEWARE: Manuals and documentation

BATMOBILING: Putting up emotional shields (from the retracting armor that
             covers the batmobile, as in "she started talking marriage and he
             started batmobiling")

BEEPILEPSY: Afflicts those with vibrating pagers characterized by sudden
            spasms, goofy facial expressions and loss of speech

BETAMAXED: When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but
           better marketed competition, as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple
           right out of the market"

COBWEB: A WWW site that never changes

GOING POSTAL: Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who 
              go on shooting rampages

HIGH DOME: Egghead, scientist, PhD

ELVIS YEAR: The peak year of popularity, as in "1993 was Barney the
            dinosaur's elvis year"

GENERICA: Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions, as in "we were 
          so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was"

IRRITAINMENT: Annoying but you can't stop watching, e.g. the O.J. trial

MEATSPACE: The physical world (as opposed to the virtual), also "carbon
           community", "facetime", "F2F", "RL"

SALMON DAY: Swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end

SILIWOOD also HOLLYWIRED: The coming convergence of movies, interactive 
                           TV and computers

WORLD WIDE WAIT : WWW

IN "Q": Waiting for something, as in queued up.

VAPORWARE: Revealing clothing.

TURNED TO THE DARK SIDE  or ASSIMILATED: Hired by Microsoft or 
                                         converting to Windows from Mac.

DRAG AND DROP: Overindulging in alcohol while cross-dressing.

INSUFFICIENT CYCLE TIME: Not enough time to complete another task, 
                         from the computer chip term.

DOUBLE-CLICK: To begin a topic of conversation.  "Let's double-click 
              on that later."

RAM PROBLEM: A mental error due to overwork, lack of knowledge, or 
             information. Generally solvable.

ROM PROBLEM: A problem caused by inadequate intelligence, generally not 
             solvable.

FLEXIBLE HOURS: The term used when a company will not hesitate to call 
                you in at 3am on Sunday, or ask you to work 100 hours 
                a week for no extra pay.

TYPE 'A' PERSONALITY: An asshole

TYPE 'B' PERSONALITY: A chump

Bill Gates: The worlds biggest type 'A'

REORG: You lose your job because they hired a new vice president.

DOWNSIZE: You lose your job because the vice president screwed up.

CUTBACKS: You lose your job because CEO wants a raise.

This article was added to LaughNet on Monday 14 March, 2005.


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