Blamestorming: Sitting around in a
group discussing why
a deadline was missed or a project failed,
and who was responsible.
Body Nazis: Hard-core exercise and
weight-lifting fanatics who
look down on anyone who doesn't work out
obsessively.
Cube Farm: An office filled with
cubicles.
Ego Surfing: Scanning the Net,
databases, print media and so on,
looking for references to one's own name.
Elvis Year: The peak year of
something's or someone's popularity.
"Barney the Dinosaur's Elvis year was
1993."
404: Someone who's clueless.
"Don't bother asking him; he's 404."
From the WWW error message "404 Not
Found", meaning the requested
document couldn't be located.
Idea Hamsters: People who always seem
to have their idea
generators running.
Keyboard Plaque: The disgusting
buildup of dirt and crud found
on computer keyboards.
Mouse Potato: The online, wired
generation's answer to the couch
potato.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction
of time in which you realize
that you've just made a big mistake.
Perot: To quit unexpectedly, as in
"My cellular phone just perot'ed."
Prairie Dogging: When someone yells
or drops something loudly in a
cube farm, and people's heads pop up over
the walls to see what's
going on.
SITCOMs: What yuppies turn into when
they have children and one of
them stops working to stay home with the
kids. Stands for Single
Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
Squirt the Bird: To transmit a signal
to a satellite.
Starter Marriage: A short-lived first
marriage that ends in divorce
with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy: A person who seems to
thrive on being stressed out
and whiny.
Swiped Out: An ATM or credit card
that has been rendered useless
because the magnetic strip is worn away
from extensive use.
Tourists: People who take training
classes just to get a vacation
from their jobs. "We had three
serious students in the class; the
rest were just tourists."
Treeware: Hacker slang for
documentation or other printed material.
Uninstalled: Euphemism for being
fired.
Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for swiping
free photocopies from one's
workplace.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost