Silicon Valley Lingo You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo. Here's the latest from the corporate and Silicon Valley jungles: "beepilepsy" afflicts those with vibrating pagers characterized by sudden spasms, goofy facial expressions and loss of speech "blowing your buffer" = losing your train of thought "elvis year" = the peak year of popularity as in "1993 was Barney the Dinosaur's elvis year" "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" "irritainment" = annoying but you can't stop watching, as in the O.J. trial "percussive maintenance" = the fine art of whacking a device to get it working again "prairie dogging" occurs in companies where everyone has a cubicle. Something happens and everyone pops up to look "square headed girlfriend" = computer "treeware" = (paper based) manuals and documentation "world wide wait" = WWW "yuppie food coupons" = twenty dollar bills from an ATM