Hipisms

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Hipisms


You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo.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

"batmobiling"
putting up emotional shields (from the retracting armor that covers
the batmobile), e.g.: 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, e.g.: 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 "993 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 something happens and
everyone pops up to look

"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, e.g.: "this is Dale, my...um...friend"

"world wide wait"
WWW

"yuppie food coupons"
twenty dollar bills from an ATM


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