I have not blogged lately because I'm too busy playing FARMTOWM- help me please
Why is it that so many office sayings seem to resolve around sports, like
"He dropped the ball"
"Let's get the ball rolling"
"He really struck out"
"Let's take one for the team"
"Let's touch base"
I think it's another way for men to dominate at work by having all these "sports" slang sayings. Regardless these saying annoy the crap out of me.
Here are some other slange terms- some of these I have never heard
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
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 - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
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”.
Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
GOOD job - A “Get-Out-Of-Debt” job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land - The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything and then leaves.
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Umfriend - One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in, “this is Dale, my…um…friend.”
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks.
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.
"He dropped the ball"
"Let's get the ball rolling"
"He really struck out"
"Let's take one for the team"
"Let's touch base"
I think it's another way for men to dominate at work by having all these "sports" slang sayings. Regardless these saying annoy the crap out of me.
Here are some other slange terms- some of these I have never heard
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
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 - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
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”.
Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
GOOD job - A “Get-Out-Of-Debt” job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land - The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything and then leaves.
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Umfriend - One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in, “this is Dale, my…um…friend.”
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks.
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.
I found the coolest site where you can make your own wedding website for free- it's called Wedding Wire. They have all these nice templates to dress up your page and you can add multiple pages, cool gadgets and tons of photos. I just spent the last three hours on this site. Oh, not I am becoming addicted to the internet.
I ate a twinkie from the vending machine yesterday- very bad I know. The twinkie had kind of a lemony taste to it which I found unusual, so I decided to look up a little more information about this little snack. Apparently there is a consensus out there that twinkies have an indefinite shelf life. I did a little research and found that this is a myth. Here are some other fun filled twinkie facts (yes that is a pun)
Twinkies were invented in 1930
The original cream filling was banana
They have a shelf life of about 25 days
Hostess has never said how they are made- (Are they baked)
Twinkies mascot is named "Twinkie the kid" he wears a cowboy hat and scarf
You may have seen in my earlier post a photo of a twinkie wedding cake. Well I guess they are quite popular, here are some fancier twinkie cakes below. I think I may forget the traditional wedding cake and go with a twinkie cake.
Twinkies were invented in 1930
The original cream filling was banana
They have a shelf life of about 25 days
Hostess has never said how they are made- (Are they baked)
Twinkies mascot is named "Twinkie the kid" he wears a cowboy hat and scarf
You may have seen in my earlier post a photo of a twinkie wedding cake. Well I guess they are quite popular, here are some fancier twinkie cakes below. I think I may forget the traditional wedding cake and go with a twinkie cake.
Life-
It's supposed to rain for the next 5 days.
I am starving on this diet
One of my bridesmaids has not responded to me at all about the dress I picked. Is she pissed?
My toe is killing me. (I cracked my toes too much and now it hurts to walk)
Work-
Our wages are still frozen
Reviews are coming up
No half day Fridays this summer
I am venting I know it could be worse....
It's supposed to rain for the next 5 days.
I am starving on this diet
One of my bridesmaids has not responded to me at all about the dress I picked. Is she pissed?
My toe is killing me. (I cracked my toes too much and now it hurts to walk)
Work-
Our wages are still frozen
Reviews are coming up
No half day Fridays this summer
I am venting I know it could be worse....
I love to read, I really do but I only usually read one type of genre- mystery/thriller. Now a lot of these mystery/thrillers are also "romantic suspense". To give you an idea of what types of books I mean- read anything by Lisa Jackson or Beverly Barton.
The thing that pisses me off about romantic suspense is that the relationship between the heroine of the book and male character who is usually A. detective, B. old friend of the family, C. the bad boy of the town, is just so fake. Here is how it usually plays out
1. Female is being stalked, tormented etc...
2. Enter male to aid female
3. He is there to help female but she doesn't want it usually because
A. She has been hurt in the past
B. She's uber independent and who needs men?
C. She is emotionally damaged
4. Female is rude and bitchy to male and vice versa. However they are secretly attracted to one another
5. Female gets scared because of #1 and she gradually lets male in.
6. They get closer and have mind blowing sex- so mind blowing that the world could explode and they wouldn't know it.
7. They regret it and go back to being bitchy with each other
8. Female is usually kidnapped by bad man who is stalking her
9. Male saves the day
10. Female and male decide to get married or else the female is already pregnant from their one night of passion
Yes folks, that is usually how it all plays out, some things are changed but the male/female relationship is always the same. Event though I know this and it drives me nuts I continue to buy these books. If there is one thing I hate it is predictable fiction.
The thing that pisses me off about romantic suspense is that the relationship between the heroine of the book and male character who is usually A. detective, B. old friend of the family, C. the bad boy of the town, is just so fake. Here is how it usually plays out
1. Female is being stalked, tormented etc...
2. Enter male to aid female
3. He is there to help female but she doesn't want it usually because
A. She has been hurt in the past
B. She's uber independent and who needs men?
C. She is emotionally damaged
4. Female is rude and bitchy to male and vice versa. However they are secretly attracted to one another
5. Female gets scared because of #1 and she gradually lets male in.
6. They get closer and have mind blowing sex- so mind blowing that the world could explode and they wouldn't know it.
7. They regret it and go back to being bitchy with each other
8. Female is usually kidnapped by bad man who is stalking her
9. Male saves the day
10. Female and male decide to get married or else the female is already pregnant from their one night of passion
Yes folks, that is usually how it all plays out, some things are changed but the male/female relationship is always the same. Event though I know this and it drives me nuts I continue to buy these books. If there is one thing I hate it is predictable fiction.
Ok so today is the start of the diet. So far this is what I've had
Breakfast- snuck a biscuit- very bad but they were left over from strawberry shortcake last night. Western omelet, they are delicious and only 150 cal. 2 cups of coffee
Morning Snack- Banana
Lunch- eating now, Medifast broc soup, Medifast garden veg crackers, 1 cheese stick, 1 light yogurt and diet coke
Afternoon snack will probably be- 1 apricot and either a shake or bar
The broccoli soup is a bit bland, last night I had a beef vegetable and that was bland too.
Last night I brought the doggie for a walk. I don't like bringing him out by my house because the street is too busy and sometime other large dogs are unleashed. So I decided to bring him to this large cemetery by the house I grew up in. When I was younger I used to roller blade in there. It's huge and there are usually not many other cars or people there.
Well last night there must have been 5 other people walking dogs, apparently it is a hot spot. I saw a teenage girl with an adorable pom, Teddy (my doggie) liked him too. Thank god he didn't try to hump him, he does that sometimes. So the walk was good, I will try going back there another day.
Breakfast- snuck a biscuit- very bad but they were left over from strawberry shortcake last night. Western omelet, they are delicious and only 150 cal. 2 cups of coffee
Morning Snack- Banana
Lunch- eating now, Medifast broc soup, Medifast garden veg crackers, 1 cheese stick, 1 light yogurt and diet coke
Afternoon snack will probably be- 1 apricot and either a shake or bar
The broccoli soup is a bit bland, last night I had a beef vegetable and that was bland too.
Last night I brought the doggie for a walk. I don't like bringing him out by my house because the street is too busy and sometime other large dogs are unleashed. So I decided to bring him to this large cemetery by the house I grew up in. When I was younger I used to roller blade in there. It's huge and there are usually not many other cars or people there.
Well last night there must have been 5 other people walking dogs, apparently it is a hot spot. I saw a teenage girl with an adorable pom, Teddy (my doggie) liked him too. Thank god he didn't try to hump him, he does that sometimes. So the walk was good, I will try going back there another day.
