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Umfriend

One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in:

"...this is Dale, my umfriend."

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Alpha Geek

The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.

"I dunno, ask Rick. He's our alpha geek."

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Crapplet

A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet.

"I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!"

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Blamestorming
A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

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Xerox Subsidy
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

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

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Treeware
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

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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?"

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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.

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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."

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