from buzzwhack.com:
chimping: The "ooooh! ooooh!" sound made by people when they spot a good photo while reviewing the images on the back of their digital cameras.
defenestration: A 17th-century word that means "to throw someone or something out the window."
deja moo: The nagging feeling that you've heard this bull before.
docusoap: A term that appears to more accurately describe the genre known as "Reality TV."
dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
duck shuffler: Just when you get all your "ducks in a row," a duck shuffler comes along and rearranges them for you.
fat-fingered: To hit the wrong button, key, etc., when dialing or typing, as in, "Here's the correct URL. I fat-fingered it the first time."
frying spam: The increasingly time-consuming morning ritual of deleting spam from your inbox.
ham: Legitimate e-mail messages that get filtered in your attempt to separate the "real meat" from the spam.
hoovering: The fine art of sucking up.
jitterati: What the digital generation becomes after sipping one too many cups of Starbucks.
keepage: The opposite of garbage.
knee-mail: Religion's effort to give prayer a modern, high-tech image, as in "God answers knee-mail."
kudo loop: The endless e-mail loop that occurs when people in the office feel they must add their two cents to a "Great Job!" company-wide e-mail from the boss.
mouse potato: A person who spends hour upon hour staring into his or her computer screen.
moved to Atlanta: Reference to Web pages that can't be found and generate a 404 File Not Found error message. ("404" is also the area code for Atlanta).
multi-slacking: The act (or art) of performing multiple nonproductive tasks (talking on the phone, watching TV and surfing the Web) at once.
vuja day: The distinct feeling you've NEVER been here (or heard this) before.
chimping: The "ooooh! ooooh!" sound made by people when they spot a good photo while reviewing the images on the back of their digital cameras.
defenestration: A 17th-century word that means "to throw someone or something out the window."
deja moo: The nagging feeling that you've heard this bull before.
docusoap: A term that appears to more accurately describe the genre known as "Reality TV."
dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
duck shuffler: Just when you get all your "ducks in a row," a duck shuffler comes along and rearranges them for you.
fat-fingered: To hit the wrong button, key, etc., when dialing or typing, as in, "Here's the correct URL. I fat-fingered it the first time."
frying spam: The increasingly time-consuming morning ritual of deleting spam from your inbox.
ham: Legitimate e-mail messages that get filtered in your attempt to separate the "real meat" from the spam.
hoovering: The fine art of sucking up.
jitterati: What the digital generation becomes after sipping one too many cups of Starbucks.
keepage: The opposite of garbage.
knee-mail: Religion's effort to give prayer a modern, high-tech image, as in "God answers knee-mail."
kudo loop: The endless e-mail loop that occurs when people in the office feel they must add their two cents to a "Great Job!" company-wide e-mail from the boss.
mouse potato: A person who spends hour upon hour staring into his or her computer screen.
moved to Atlanta: Reference to Web pages that can't be found and generate a 404 File Not Found error message. ("404" is also the area code for Atlanta).
multi-slacking: The act (or art) of performing multiple nonproductive tasks (talking on the phone, watching TV and surfing the Web) at once.
vuja day: The distinct feeling you've NEVER been here (or heard this) before.
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