You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo.  Here's the latest
from the corporate and Silicon Valley jungles.

 "404"
Someone who's clueless.  From the World Wide Web error message "404
Not Found" meaning the requested document couldn't be located.  "Don't
bother asking him, he's 404."

 "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."

 "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.

 "cobweb"
A WWW site that never changes.

 "cube farm"
An office filled with cubicles.

 "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 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.

 "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.

 "keyboard plaque"
The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards.

 "meatspace"
The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also "carbon community"
"facetime" "F2F" "RL."

 "mouse potato"
The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

 "ohnosecond"
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just
made a big mistake.

 "percussive maintenance"
The fine art of whacking a device to get it working.

 "Perot"
To quit unexpectedly, as in "My cellular phone just perot'ed."

 "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"

 "SITCOM"
What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops
working to stay home with the kids.  Stands for Single Income, Two
Children, Oppressive Mortgage.

 "square headed girlfriend" (or boyfriend)
Computer.

 "squirt the bird"
To transmit a signal up to a satellite.

 "starter marriage"
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no
property and no regrets.

 "stress puppy"
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

 "swiped out"
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the
magnetic strip is worn away after extensive use.

  "tourists"
People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their
jobs.  "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were
tourists."

  "treeware"
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

  "uninstalled"
Euphemism for being fired.

 "world wide wait"
WWW.

 "Xerox subsidy"
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace.

 "yuppie food coupons"
Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.