Beeper-Sitting
To assume responsibility for recording incoming pages on behalf of a vacationing or otherwise out-of-range beeper-owning friend. "Rebecca is beeper-sitting for Jennifer while she's in Florida."
Blow a Buffer
Euphemism for spacing out or losing one's train of thought. "I blew a buffer, and now I can't remember what I was gonna say."
Cornea Gumbo
A visually noisy, overdesigned, Photoshopped mess. "Gawd, we've got to redesign that page, it's become total cornea gumbo." See also *rasterbator *(Jargon Watch, *Wired *2.04, page 31).
Entrenched Transactors
Banking industry jargon for people who refuse to use cost-saving ATMs, preferring to deal only with more expensive human bank tellers.
Pixel Shim
A small, usually invisible graphic used in an HTML document to create a page format. "I had to use a pixel shim to get the type to space correctly."
Tip o' the firefighter's helmet to Jennifer Dalton, Alberto Gaitan, D. Scott Gregory, Nick Topolos, and Claudia Tucker.
