Happy Birthday to all the October Babies!!! Be sure to wish them a happy bday!!!
October 2: Lil Bro (since high school) David
October 7: JT
October 10: Jaden
October 13: Buddy Anna
October 14: Becca & Keely
October 15: Jason
October 21: Real Big Bro (since birth) John…who’s that cute baby he’s kissing?
October 23: Lil Sis (since college) Nancy
Ricky sent me this today…with a couple of joke comments in there…I think he forgot for “Assmosis” to add: “Anny is the expert at assmosis.”
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Batmobiling - putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers the Batmobile as in “she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling”
Beepilepsy - The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
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”
Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Blowing Your Buffer - Losing one’s train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won’t let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. “Damn, I just blew my buffer!” (Synonym: “Head Crash”)
Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn’t work out obsessively.
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING…..
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
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”
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?”
Going Postal - Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages
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.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
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.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
It’s a Feature - From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over.
Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people’s computer keyboards.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Meatspace - The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also “carbon community” “facetime” “F2F” “RL”
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Perot - To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
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”
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
Siliwood - The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers; also “Hollywired”
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Square-Headed Spouse - Computer
Squirt the Bird - To transmit a signal up to a satellite. “Crew and talent are ready…what time do we squirt the bird?”
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Tourists - Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Umfriend - One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in, “this is Dale, my…um…friend.”
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
Vulcan Nerve Pinch - The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks.
World Wide Wait - The real meaning of WWW.
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM
This morning at 7am, WF hosted an Educator’s breakfast for 46 SF Schools where we gave $85K total to the different schools. While I was at the event, a coworker kept telling me, “I was in the office at 6am this morning and saw you on Teamworks for the Amigos event.” And I kept questioning her, “Are you sure it was me? I wasn’t even at the Amigos event.” I quickly dismissed her claim and forgot about it.
I got into the office at 10am, turned on my computer, and opened my Outlook. In my inbox were around 50 emails from this morning sent by my current and ex- coworkers with some of the following subject lines:
Wake up call!
You’re Famous!
Nice Picture on Teamworks!
Superstar!
Now you are bank-wide famous…
Congratulations!
Anny on Teamworks!
Saw your picture on Teamworks!
Viewed by over 150,000 team members…
At this point, I was thinking CRAP…Teamworks is WF’s intranet site for team members and basically everyone’s homepage for Internet Explorer. I finally decided to open my IE and this is what I saw:
I was sooooooooooooooooooooooo embarrassed!!!! OMG…and I hated that picture too but considering my whole company already saw it, I might as well publish it on my blog too. I had no idea that the person who took the picture submitted it to Teamworks. It turns out that the article was about Diversity and how we as a bank promote diversity within our company with our team members, so it highlighted the different Team Member Resource Groups we have. Amigos is the one to promote Latino culture. I made it into the article because I did a presentation for our Asian Connection Bay Area resource group last week.
This was the original picture: (They coulda picked someone else to be on the homepage!!!!)
Of course, my big sis, whom I go volunteering with and who always sends me my horoscope, shoots me an email saying she saw me on Teamworks with the following:
Quickie:
The glory may not go to you, but in your heart you know you are a huge success.
Overview:
Someone’s impressed with how at ease you are exercising authority. Naturally — being a cog in a wheel isn’t your normal position, and you know you were born to lead. Go ahead and step boldly into the spotlight.
BTW, here is a pic from this year’s Ghirardelli Chocolate festival. (This was our fourth year volunteering at the event.)
This afternoon I had my 1:1 with my boss and came away with a lot of new projects that I’m going to be working on.
And from 5pm - 7pm, I went to an event sponsored by the Salvation Army where they are trying to build a new Housing and Community Center in the Tenderloin. I attended with the EVP Regional President for SF Bay Region and her Community Banking President.
So, this was one very eventful long day for me…I realized I didn’t even take a lunch! But, ever since I came back from LA and changed my paradigm, I have been loving my job and re-gaining the sense of just how much we do for the community. 
09.24.05: Blush from Niece’s Camera (I think the pic of the side of my face should be removed…but oh well…ha ha)
09.21.05 - I have pix from Phoenix but I am not gonna publish it…I’ll just blog about it. It was crazy fun & spontaneous. A group of us 9 ladies spanning from age 27 - 63 decided to skip the baseball game and go shopping. We took a limo to the mall. After shopping, we could not find a taxi and when we called for one, they told us it required 40 minutes. We ended up having to take the city bus to Cheesecake Factory but the wait was 50 minutes. We asked Cheesecake to call a cab for us and it still took 40 minutes. My manager went outside, asked the valet if there were any fine dining restaurants around. We ended up at The Capital Grille. I must say, it was the BEST steak and lobster bisque I have ever had. And we ordered really good champagne. We went from Limo to City Bus to Fine Dining to taking a Van Home…We called our hotel concierge and they ordered us a van/taxi right away!!! While going home, we saw a cop pull over a person on a BICYCLE. Our whole van was going off about how the cops have nothing better to do than to pull over a biker and search him down. It was funny! After my trip, I definitely was even more glad I’m a Californian!!!
09.16.05: Leonora & Pam’s Bday
You might be wondering what I’m still doing up at 3am, but me chatting with dater online and I am ETERNALLY grateful to her!!! You know why dater!!! Miss ya tons but me know you still watching out for me!
After arriving in Phoenix, I realized that I didn’t pack a lot of things….
-Pajamas (I have to wear my work clothes to sleep)
-Glasses for after I take off my contacts
-Swimsuit
-Socks & Tennis Shoes
-Perfume
-A book to read in case I’m bored (but good thing I have my laptop)
-My brain
Friday night:
-Dinner for two current coworkers bday (Pix coming soon.)
Saturday:
-Zen Center
-ATM Banking Picnic (My old group invited me as an honorary guest!)
-Blockbuster, Starbucks, Shabuway, Hillsdale Mall with Dufus
-I haven’t really seen or hung out with my roomie dai in two weeks. I promised her I’d go check out the bars in our hood so we went to Matrix, City Tavern, Comet Club, Balboa Cafe, Matrix again, Boom Boom Room, I haven’t danced that much in such a long time…especially at the Boom Boom Room…I loved the Jazz music and it had a good beat to dance to…it was FUN!! I approve of the Boom Boom Room
-Dropped by to say hi to dater, roomie san, twin/lil sis, nerissa, winnie at Fillmore KTV.
Sunday:
-Shopping at Gilroy Outlet
-Dinner at Dufus’ House…we met a GENIUS…he can put together a Rubik’s Cube behind his back…it was amazing!! He studies the cube, memorizes where things are, and then can put together the puzzle behind his back!
Hence, October = National Do Nothing Month…
Every Sunday, whoever wakes up first, Cindy or I would open our door and bring in our Sunday newspaper before it gets stolen by our neighbor. (Yes, we’ve woken up to no newspapers outside our door before.)
We would make ourselves coffee and/or tea, sometimes both, but if we’re lazy, we would just go buy some from our local coffeehouse downstairs, Fillmore Cafe.
Then, we go through our newspaper…by that, I mean we weed through the whole newspaper, take out the ads and throw away the rest of the paper without reading it. This ritual has been going on for the past 3 years I’ve lived with her. Sadly to say, we get the paper for the ads, not for the news.
I set the wheels in motion for my scheme #2 today. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!!! I think scheme #1 is celebrating their one year this weekend….CONGRATZ!!! he he
I came home at 7:30pm from work today. Considering that I have to be at work at 6:30am tomorrow, I needed some Soul Food. I called Dufus to see if he ate yet and he told me he ate Curry Chicken. I said, ‘okay, I’ll just go get some KFC for myself then.” To that, he said, “I want some.” I said I’d go pick him up. He told me to bring Cindy too, but I told him that would be total Cruel & Unusual Punishment since she can’t have any KFC until November 5th. But Cindy turned it down, because she came home from work at midnight last night and worked at home until 3am. Now, that is Cruel & Unusual Punishment!
Dufus and I got to KFC and he ordered leg & thigh. Then I ordered leg & thigh and they told me they had none left! I told them breast & wings are okay. After I got my breast, I took one bite and decided that it was too dry and unsatisfying for me to eat, so dufus went and got another piece for me. (I think he knew I was really pissy this week so he didn’t wanna hear me whine.)
Now is the part I try to pimp Dufus out. Since September is National Dating Month, everyone should be dating (with the exception of me who has gone on a total of zero dates.) All the ladies out there reading this, Dufus is a very great catch!!! Actually, I already have someone in mind I want to set him up with. I’ve just been putting my matchmaking business on hold.
When I was driving home, three songs start playing on my mp3:
-Rollergirl = Dear Jessie
-Rollergirl = Love You More
-Rollergirl = You Make Me Feel Like Dancin’
It has left me to conclude that Rollergirl=bad. I should not listen to those songs if you know what I mean… 
And, I’m officially making October: National Do Nothing Month. This whole past year has been a little too crazy for me. I need to tone down on my activities, plus I need to use October to rest up for Boarding Season. I totally wanna go up a lot again this year. Who’s with me?
I’m really excited about November. On the 4th & 5th, 33 and I are gonna go listen to the Dalai Lama speak at Stanfurd U. And, I might get a chance to see Gavin Newsom again…but this time actually meet him…I’ll keep everyone posted.
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