Oregon Live: The Edge -- The Pantless Menace -- May 18, 1999 contains mention of a New Yorker story (New Yorker magazine currently does not make its back issues available on the Internet) about an attempt by MTV to create hip new slang. There was no later coverage as to how the effort failed, which it did.

Hoorah, I think. On a project now, in San Francisco again. Doing the Monday-to-Friday thing so far, and hoping to pull it back to Mon-Thurs in a few weeks. Billable at last, billable at last; thank God almighty, I'm billable at last.

The project is Disaster Recovery Planning. Fascinating stuff, and ample opportunity for me to either shine or hang myself. Certainly it's important for the client, so I'll be providing value (an important thing for me, as I would hate to perform work where I didn't see the value in it, or was worried that it won't be worth what they're paying me).