| Alpha Geek | the most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek around here." |
| 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" |
| Blamestorming | sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. |
| Blowing your buffer | losing your train of thought |
| Body Nazis | hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively. |
| CGI Joe | a hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure. |
| Chainsaw consultant | an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands. |
| Chip Jewelry | a euphemism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry." |
| Cobweb Site | a World Wide Web site that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead Web page. |
| Cube farm | an office filled with cubicles. |
| Dilberted | to be exploited and oppressed by your boss. "I've been dilberted again. My boss just revised the specs for the fourth time this week." |
| 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 popularity -- Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993. |
| 404 | someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web message "404, URL Not Found:" meaning that the document you've tried to access can't be located. "Don't bother asking him ... he's 404." |
| 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" |
| Glazing | corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open. A popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. "Didn't he notice that half the room was glazing by the second session?" |
| Going postal | totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages |
| High dome | egghead, scientist, PhD |
| Idea hamsters | people who always seem to have their idea generators running. |
| Irritainment | annoying but you can't stop watching e.g. the O.J. trial |
| Link Rot | the process by which links on a Web page became obsolete as the sites they're connected to change location or die. |
| Meatspace | the physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also "carbon community" "facetime" "F2F" "RL" |
| Mouse potato | the on-line generation's answer to the couch potato. |
| Ohnosecond | that minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've just made a big mistake. |
| Percussive maintenance | the fine art of whacking a device to get it working |
| Plug-and-Play | a new hire who doesn't need any training. "The new guy, John, is great. He's totally plug-and-play." |
| Prairie dogging | something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. |
| 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" |
| SITCOM | stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. |
| Square headed girlfriend/boyfriend | computer |
| Stress puppy | a person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny. |
| Tourists | those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs -- "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists." |
| Treeware | manuals and documentation |
| Umfriend | sexual relationship as in "this is Dale, my...um...friend" |
| Uninstalled | euphemism for being fired. |
| World Wide Wait | the real meaning of WWW. |
| Xerox subsidy | euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace. |
| Yuppie food coupons | twenty dollar bills from an ATM |
