Last Updated On: December 21, 2005
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- Computer
- A device designed to speed and automate errors.
Alphabetical List
- 404
- Someone who's clueless. "Don't bother asking him; he's 404." From the WWW error message "404 Not Found", meaning the requested document couldn't be located.
- Blamestorming
- Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
- Cube Farm
- An office filled with cubicles.
- Cursor
- Someone who swears a lot.
- Cursor Keys
- What to do when you lose your keys.
- Debugger
- Insect repellant.
- dBase III
- A disgraced trio.
- dBase III plus
- A more disgraced trio.
- Ego Surfing
- Scanning the Net, databases, print media and so on, looking for references to one's own name.
- File
- What you use to trim uneven nails.
- File Retrieval
- The process of getting the file back from your friend.
- Graphics Tablet
- A pill for mastering art.
- Hardware
- Umbrellas, Raincoats, Gumboots, etc.
- Software
- Underclothes.
- Firmware
- A contraceptive.
- Software Pirate
- An undergarment smuggler.
- Feedback
- Vomitting.
- Positive feedback
- A vomitting session in which one feels better.
- Negative feedback
- A vomitting session in which one feels worse.
- Hard Disk
- Any album by a heavy metal rock band (like Judas Priest, AC/DC).
- Idea Hamsters
- People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
- Joystick
- An elated walking cane.
- Keyboard
- A place where one keeps the keys.
- Keyboard Plaque
- The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards.
- Logic
- The art of being wrong with confidence.
- Memory
- What an amnesiac’s trying to recollect.
- Memory Resident
- Something that you remember for a long time.
- Microwave
- Signal from a friendly micro.
- Monitor
- The teacher's pet.
- Mouse Potato
- The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
- Multitasking
- Screwing up several things at once.
- Ohnosecond
- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a big mistake.
- Prairie Dogging
- When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cubefarm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
- PROM
- A high school term-end dance.
- EPROM
- What to do after an unsuccessful PROM
- EEPROM
- What to do after an unsuccessful EPROM.
- Static RAM
- A lethargic male sheep.
- Dynamic RAM
- An energetic male sheep.
- Spreadsheet
- An unfolded bedcover.
- Serial port
- A harbor that accomodates only one ship at a time.
- Space bar
- A booze joint on the moon.
- Syntax
- Levy on adultery.
- Treeware
- Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
- Tristate
- A statement made by three people.
- Uninstalled
- Euphemism for being fired.
- Windows 95
- 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
- Xerox Subsidy
- Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.