xyzulu
12-29-2003, 08:17 PM
A sniglet is a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't. Here are a few tech/IT related ones:
Execuglide - to maneuver oneself around the room while seated in a wheeled office chair.
Animousity - vigorously clicking your pointer device because a page is loading too slowly.
Screen spasm - pages that try to load simultaneously on your computer screen as a direct result of your animousity.
Prairedogged - the feeling of helplessness that overtakes you when co-workers in neighboring cubicles constantly pop their heads up to ask you stupid questions.
Cellphonic appraisal - the activity that occurs when a ringing cell phone causes everyone in the room to check and see if it's theirs.
Gadaboutag - the orphan HTML tag that's messing up your page.
fUtility - a 3rd party utility that won't install no matter how closely one follows the instructions.
Dopeler effect- the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Dot gone - last year's e-commerce hopeful.
Tacitician - a remote worker who excels at performing non-work related tasks while on a conference call.
Fonesia - the affliction that strikes when you dial a phone number and forget whom you were calling just as they answer.
Egotictic - the amount of time wasted because you stubbornly refuse to look it up in the manual.
WAPathy - lack of interest in wireless technology.
Crapplet - a poorly written or totally useless Java applet
Backronym - an IT term whose letters once had no meaning, but have since come to stand for something-or-other.
Zen mail - an e-mail message that arrives without text in the message body.
Screenager - an intern in the IT department
Blamestorming - sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Stress puppy - a co-worker who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
Seagull manager - a manager that flies in and makes a lot of noise, dumps on everything, and then leaves.
Assmosis - the process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Salmonized - spending an entire day swimming upstream, only to get screwed and die in the end.
Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles.
oxoxomoron - a person who includes symbolic "hugs and kisses" at the end of their e-mail.
Faxcess - having access to a fax machine.
Faxcination - staring intently at fax machine because you're waiting for a fax to come through.
Random excess memory - memory you were talked into buying in order to solve some problem that never did get resolved.
Oh yes nine - the sensation of relief and familiarity you get when you switch back to OS 9 to do something you can't figure out in OS X.
Macrimination - the automatic assumption that whatever is wrong is caused by the Mac on the network.
Taken from: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci506044,00.html
Execuglide - to maneuver oneself around the room while seated in a wheeled office chair.
Animousity - vigorously clicking your pointer device because a page is loading too slowly.
Screen spasm - pages that try to load simultaneously on your computer screen as a direct result of your animousity.
Prairedogged - the feeling of helplessness that overtakes you when co-workers in neighboring cubicles constantly pop their heads up to ask you stupid questions.
Cellphonic appraisal - the activity that occurs when a ringing cell phone causes everyone in the room to check and see if it's theirs.
Gadaboutag - the orphan HTML tag that's messing up your page.
fUtility - a 3rd party utility that won't install no matter how closely one follows the instructions.
Dopeler effect- the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Dot gone - last year's e-commerce hopeful.
Tacitician - a remote worker who excels at performing non-work related tasks while on a conference call.
Fonesia - the affliction that strikes when you dial a phone number and forget whom you were calling just as they answer.
Egotictic - the amount of time wasted because you stubbornly refuse to look it up in the manual.
WAPathy - lack of interest in wireless technology.
Crapplet - a poorly written or totally useless Java applet
Backronym - an IT term whose letters once had no meaning, but have since come to stand for something-or-other.
Zen mail - an e-mail message that arrives without text in the message body.
Screenager - an intern in the IT department
Blamestorming - sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Stress puppy - a co-worker who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
Seagull manager - a manager that flies in and makes a lot of noise, dumps on everything, and then leaves.
Assmosis - the process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Salmonized - spending an entire day swimming upstream, only to get screwed and die in the end.
Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles.
oxoxomoron - a person who includes symbolic "hugs and kisses" at the end of their e-mail.
Faxcess - having access to a fax machine.
Faxcination - staring intently at fax machine because you're waiting for a fax to come through.
Random excess memory - memory you were talked into buying in order to solve some problem that never did get resolved.
Oh yes nine - the sensation of relief and familiarity you get when you switch back to OS 9 to do something you can't figure out in OS X.
Macrimination - the automatic assumption that whatever is wrong is caused by the Mac on the network.
Taken from: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci506044,00.html