Programing Humor

028 - Silicon Valley Speak

If you're going to walk the walk, you've got to talk the talk. Thanks to Carole Lipski for passing this one along to me.

percussive maintenance

The fine art of whacking the stuffing out of a device to get it working.

prairie 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)

Your computer.

treeware

Manuals and documentation.

umfriend

Concealed intimate relationship, as in, "This is Dale, my...um...friend."

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 and voluntary muscle coordination.

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.

high dome

Egghead, scientist, PhD.

Elvis year

The peak year of popularity, as in, "1993 was Barney the Dinosaur's Elvis year."

gigglebyte

1000 megabytes

generica

Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions, as in, "We were so lost in generica that we couldn't remember what city we were passing through."

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."

siliwood (also hollywired)

The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers.

world wide wait

WWW