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You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo.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
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"
- "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, Ph.D.
- "irritainment"
- annoying but you can't stop watching,
i.e.; 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,
"this is Dale, my...um...friend"
- "world wide wait"
- WWW
- "yuppie food coupons"
- twenty dollar bills from an ATM