New business terms #4
Midair Passenger Exchange
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Grim air-traffic-controller speak for a head-on collision. Midair passenger exchanges are immediately followed by "aluminum rain."
Alpha Geek
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The most knowledgable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek around here."
Vomit Comet
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A plane used to simulate zero-G for astronaut flight training. Trainees often get motion sickness inside.
Adminisphere
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The rarified organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Tourists
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People who are taking training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had about three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."
Blowing Your Buffer
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Losing one's train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won't let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. "Damn, I just blew my buffer!"
Begathon
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A TV or radio fund-raiser for a charity, religious organization, or PBS station that employs every known form of guilt, sweet talking, and outright begging to get people to fork over the dough.
Gray Matter
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Older, experienced business people hired by young entrpreneurial firms looking to appear more reputable and established.
Bookmark
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To take note of a person for future reference (a metaphor borrowed from web browsers). "I bookmarked him after seeing his cool demo at Siggraph."
Nyetscape
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Nickname for AOL's less-than-full-featured Web browser.
Beepilepsy
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The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Client-Server Action
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Geek euphamism for having sex. "I went to the Oracle party the other night hoping for some client-server action."
Salmon Day
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The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end.
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