By Gina Caldanaro, Co-Chair of the Job Bank

Read Neologisms Part 1: The Fun With Words.

For those of you that are still baffled by last month's article, here is the key to all the neologisms used:

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."

blowing your buffer

Losing your train of thought.

carbon community

The physical world (as opposed to the virtual). Also facetime, F2F, and meatspace.

cobweb

A Web site that never changes.

cubeville

A collection of cubicles in a large, open area.

cyberspace

The online world of computer networks.

generica

Fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions, as in "we were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was."

going postal

Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages.

high dome

Egghead, scientist, Ph.D.

percussive maintenance

The fine art of whacking a device to get it working.

prairie-dogging

In companies where everyone has a cubicle something happens and everyone pops up to look.

salmon day

Swimming upstream all day to get messed up in the end.

siliwood

The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV, and computers.

square-headed boyfriend (girlfriend)

Computer.

treeware

Manuals and documentation.

world wide wait

World Wide Web (WWW).

yuppie food coupons

Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.