Geek-Speak - Microspeak

* I wish I could say these were mine, but they came from an e-book called Microspeak. There's a whole lot more. Just do a search on Microspeak and have fun.

Link Rot: The process by which links on a Web page
become as obsolete as the sites they’re connected to
change location or die.

Facemail: Technologically backward means of
communication, clearly inferior to voicemail or e-
mail. Involves actually walking to someone’s office
and speaking to him or her face-to-face.

Mouse Potato: The online, wired generation's answer
to the couch potato.

Fiber Media: Material printed on archaic paper. Used
disparagingly. "Yeah, I used to be a writer in
fiber media, but now I’m a content provider in
cybermedia."

Glazing: Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes
open. A popular pastime at conferences and early-
morning meetings. "Didn't he notice that half the
room was glazing by the second session?"

Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their
idea generators running.

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

Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles
that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to
stop watching them.

Spacordi: The mass of cords strewn underneath your
desk (just add sauce).

Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing
why a deadline was missed or a project failed and
who was responsible.

Thrashing: Never getting anything done because you
are trying to do too much. Thrashing happens when
you do too much context switching. I went to that
meeting but there was so much context switching that
all we accomplished was a lot of thrashing."

Cobweb Site: A Web site that hasn't been updated for
a long time. A dead Web page.

Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the
crap out of an electronic device to get it to work
again.

Prairie-Dogging: When someone yells or drops
something loudly in a cube farm and people's heads
pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

ObFun: Obligatory Fun - Team-building exercises that
are not optional, usually scheduled on top of the
normal team meetings.

A Word A Day

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/

ugsome (UG-suhm) adjective
Dreadful, loathsome.

blatherskite (BLATH-uhr-skyt) noun
1. A person who babbles about inane matters.
2. Nonsense; foolish talk.

corybantic (kor-i-BAN-tik) adjective
Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.

quietus (kwy-EE-tuhs) noun
1. A final stroke that settles something.
2. Discharge from life; death.
3. A release from a duty or debt.

desultory (DES-uhl-tor-ee) adjective
1. Marked by absence of a plan; disconnected;
jumping from one thing to another.
2. Digressing from the main subject; random.

fantod (FAN-tod) noun
1. A state of nervous anxiety, irritability, the willies, the fidgets.
2. A fit or emotional outburst.

ipse dixit (IP-see DIK-sit) noun
An assertion without supporting proof.

holophrastic
1. Expressing a sentence in one word, for example, "Go."
2. Expressing complex ideas in a single word, as in some Eskimo languages.

Rubicon (ROO-bi-kon) noun
A point of no return, one where an action taken commits a person irrevocably.

dinkum (DING-kuhm), also dinky-di, fair dinkum, adjective
True; honest; genuine.

juggernaut (JUG-uhr-not) noun
1. Anything requiring blind sacrifice.
2. A massive relentless force, person, institution, etc. that crushes everything in its path.

banausic (buh-NAW-sik, -zik) adjective
Mechanical, utilitarian or routine, as opposed to inspiring or imaginative.

yabber (YAB-uhr) verb tr. intr.
To talk; converse.

instauration (in-sto-RAY-shuhn) noun
1. Renewal; renovation; restoration.
2. An act of founding or establishing something.

manitou (MAN-i-too) noun, also manito
1. A supernatural force that pervades the world.
2. A spirit or deity.

mensch (mench, mensh) noun
A decent, upright, honorable person.

eudemonia (yoo-di-MO-nee-uh) noun, also eudaemonia
1. A state of happiness and well-being.
2. In Aristotelian philosophy, happiness in a life of activity governed by reason.

doolally (DU-lah-lee) adjective
Irrational, deranged, or insane.

philomath (FIL-uh-math) noun
A lover of learning.

esemplastic (es-em-PLAS-tik) adjective
Having the capability of moulding diverse ideas or things into unity.

argus (AHR-guhs) noun
An alert and observant person; a watchful guardian.

saponaceous (sap-uh-NAY-shush) adjective
Soapy, slippery, evasive.

resistentialism (ri-zis-TEN-shul-iz-um) noun
The theory that inanimate objects demonstrate hostile behavior against us.

heteroclite (HET-uhr-uh-klyt) adjective
1. Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric.
2. (In grammar) Irregularly inflected.
noun
1. A person who is unconventional; a maverick.
2. A word that is irregularly formed.

embrangle (em-BRANG-guhl) vert tr.
To embroil or entangle.

Anacreontic (uh-nak-ree-ON-tik) adjective
Celebrating love and drinking.

running dog (RUN-ing dog) noun
A servile follower; lackey.

candent (KAN-duhnt) adjective
1. Glowing.
2. Impassioned.

irrefragable (i-REF-ruh-guh-buhl) adjective
Impossible to refute or dispute; incontrovertible.

anagnorisis (an-ag-NOR-uh-sis) noun
The moment of recognition or discovery (in a play, etc.)

schadenfreude (SHAAD-n-froi-duh) noun
Pleasure derived from others' misfortunes.

psephology (see-FOL-uh-jee) noun
The study of elections and voting, and their statistical analysis in the prediction of results.