>"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"
>
>"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, PhD
>
>"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"
>
>"percussive maintenance"
>the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
>
>"prairie dogging"
>in companies where everyone has a cubicle, when 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 as in "this is Dale, my...um...friend"
>
>"world wide wait"
>WWW
>
>"yuppie food coupons"
>twenty dollar bills from an ATM
>