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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.
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