An update from "Jargon Watch" on new lingo flowing out of the Silicon Valley and corporate jungles...

Batmobiling: Putting up emotional shields from the retracting armor that covers the batmobile as in "She started talking marriage and he started batmobiling."

Prairie dogging: In companies where everyone has a cubicle, something happens and everyone pops up to look.

Ribs 'n' dick: A budget with no fat, as in "We've got ribs 'n' dick and we're supposed to find 20K for memory upgrades."

Betamixed: When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market."

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."

Going postal: Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who go on shooting rampages.

High dome: Egghead, scientist, PhD.

Irritainment: Annoying but you can't stop watching, e.g. the OJ trial.

Meatspace: The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world. Also: "carbon community", "facetime", "F2F", "RL".

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

Siliwood: The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers. Also "hollywired".

Square headed girlfriend: Computer.

Treeware: Manuals and documentation.

Umfriend: Sexual relationship; "This is Dale, my... um... friend."

Yuppie food coupons: Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.