Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once objects of unmitigated envy laptop users are scorned their stooped shoulders and LED- tinted scowls deemed opprobrious...
Revelatory and, in Rundgren's solo concerts, running amuck. Perched on a small platform beneath 24 blinking video monitors, he sings and "plays" his Apple Powerbook 170 laptop computer, a synthesizer and occasionally even a guitar. Audience members can sing along or swat drum pads and see their images recorded and played back at them, mixed, enhanced and amplified in a potentially infinite variety of ways by Rundgren. There is no set list or running order, no lighting or sound technician; Rundgren, a New Age Wizard of Oz, does...
...expanding of new frontiers leaves bachelor Mandel with little time for cocooning. "There are no living things in my apartment except for a couple of spiders," he admits. However, he manages to keep up with his wide network of friends both electronically and in person. He even takes a laptop with him whenever he returns to Hawaii, where he was reared. That way, he can surf the electronic waves whenever he's not shooting the tubes off Oahu...
...group I have found useful is comp.sys.laptops, where laptop computer users get together to share the joys and woes of owning lug-around systems. Many also look here for insider tips on purchasing or maintaining laptops...
...Baker was his foreign policy czar, nobody logged more frequent-flyer miles for TIME than J.F.O. ("Jef") McAllister, our State Department correspondent. Accompanying the peripatetic Secretary of State on his shuttle-diplomacy marathons, McAllister quickly mastered the technological rigors of modern journalism -- banging out dispatches on his Toshiba laptop in airplanes, airports, briefing rooms and run-down hotels. He once typed a file while stuck in a broken elevator in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the heartland of Russia...