Word: chalke
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chalk up HD radio's quirks to the kinks of a new technology. Quality will undoubtedly improve as the industry learns to make digital broadcasts sound their best. With fewer than 100 stations broadcasting HD radio, it doesn't make much sense to buy now. But once more stations get on board and prices for receivers fall, HD radio should be music to your ears...
...after a hard-hitting pair of games that saw his team chalk up another 30 minutes in the box, Mazzoleni wasn’t as aggravated, despite surrendering two power plays to the Big Green in the first five minutes of Saturday night’s game...
...club recently scored an Undergraduate Council grant to accomplish their plans to make dodge balls, waffle balls and street chalk available to undergraduates. Project Fun will also sponsor a snacktime, which Lurie says could be milk and cookies, the former ideally contained in authentic, elementary school-style cartons...
...chalk markings appeared on the sidewalk a few days after I moved into my new house. A symbol that looked like two half-moons back to back was scrawled beneath the words "Outside the Box." What did it mean? Was it some bizarre pagan ritual conducted by aficionados of business slogans? Nope--Outside the Box was the name I had assigned on my computer to my wi-fi network. There was only one explanation: I'd been warchalked...
Nobody knows who invented warchalking, but it seems the practice was inspired by stories of Great Depression--era hoboes who left chalk markings outside the most charitable houses. It was hard for me to imagine a gang of digital hoboes so hard up for Internet access that they had to squat outside my house, huddled around a Thinkpad. But if they did, I could hardly chase these virtual varmints away with a broom. After all, my network was open. It was as if I had left milk and cookies on the sidewalk. They wouldn't be trespassing on my property...