This is completely off-subject, but I found some of this quite amusing.
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>> Cool Valley Lingo
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>> You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo. Here's the
>> latest lingo from the Silicon Valley jungles:
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>> "batmobiling"
>> putting up emotional shields -- from the retracting armor that
>> covers the batmobile, as in "she started talking marriage and he
>> started batmobiling."
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>> "beepilepsy"
>> afflicts those with vibrating pagers; characterized by sudden
>> spasms, goofy facial expressions and loss of speech
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>> "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."
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>> "blowing your buffer"
>> losing your train of thought
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>> "cobweb"
>> a WWW site that never changes
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>> "elvis year"
>> the peak year of popularity as in "1993 was Barney the
>> dinosaur's elvis year"
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>> "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"
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>> "high dome"
>> egghead, scientist, PhD
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>> "irritainment"
>> annoying but you can't stop watching; for example, the O.J.
>> trial
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>> "meatspace"
>> the physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also "carbon
>> community" "facetime" "F2F" "RL"
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>> "percussive maintenance"
>> the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
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>> "prairie dogging"
>> in companies where everyone has a cubicle, something happens and
>> everyone pops up to look
>>
>> "salmon day"
>> swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end
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>> "siliwood"
>> the coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers;
>> also "hollywired"
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>> "square headed girlfriend" (boyfriend)
>> computer
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>> "treeware"
>> manuals and documentation
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>> "umfriend"
>> sexual relationship; "this is Dale, my...um...friend"
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>> "world wide wait"
>> WWW
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>> "yuppie food stamps"
>> twenty dollar bills from an ATM
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