Silicon Valley Lingo

   You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo.  Here's the latest
   from the corporate and Silicon Valley jungles.
 

"Batmobiling"  
putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers  
the Batmobile as in "she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling"  
      
"beepilepsy"  
aflicts 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"  
      
"blowing your buffer"  
losing your train of thought  
      
"cobweb"  
a WWW site that never changes  
      
"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"  
      
"going postal"  
totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting 
rampages  
      
"high dome"  
egghead, scientist, PhD  
      
"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"  
      
"percussive maintenance"  
the fine art of whacking a device to get it working  
 
"prairie dogging"  
in companies where everyone has a cubicle something happens and everyone pops 
up to look  
      
"ribs 'n' dick"  
a budget with no fat as in "we've got ribs 'n' dick and we're supposed to  
find 20K for memory upgrades"  
      
"salmon day"  
swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end  
      
"siliwood"  
the coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers also 
"hollywired"  
      
"square headed girlfriend" (boyfriend)  
computer  
      
"treeware"  
manuals and documentation  
      
"umfriend"  
sexual relationship as in "this is Dale, my...um...friend"  
      
"world wide wait"  
WWW  
      
"yuppie food coupons"  
twenty dollar bills from an ATM