Word: whiteboard
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...wired my home terminal to the Internet (at 300 baud) by shoving my phone receiver into something that looked like twin toilet plungers. I hooked up full-motion desktop videoconferencing and video mail in 1988 and, four years later, started using a pen-based electronic whiteboard and drafting table...
...mission briefing. I met my crewmates, each of whom had a call sign, or nickname: Lt. Col. Dick "Blood" Banks, Capt. Kevin "Sidler" Kohl and Capt. Mike "Chanel" Chavannes. I too had a call sign, buried under a stream of acronyms and numbers that were scrawled on a whiteboard: TMD. Time Magazine Dude. I would have preferred something a bit more like "Maverick," but TMD worked for me. My duties were also noted on the whiteboard: "Rage in a killing machine." Now that was more like...
Within 24 hours, a group of men armed with a two-by-four arrived at her door and tried to storm into her room, Lo later reported to police. Unable to enter, they then allegedly left a note on her whiteboard: “I love kicking Muslims ass bitches ass! They should all die with Mohammad. We as Americans should destroy them and launch so many missiles their mothers don’t produce healthy offspring. Fuck Iraq Saddam following fucks. I hate you, GO AMERICA...
...climbed the corporate ladder at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell before the office culture began to wear him down. Again he took a look at cartooning. "I had always been a doodler, and people were looking at cartoons that I would draw on my whiteboard at work," he recalls. "People said, 'You should try to get that published.' I was just playing the odds. It seemed like the corporate life was safe and cartooning was wacky. But wacky started looking better." He sent samples to a syndicator and hit the jackpot...
...small whiteboard in his apartment on which he keeps track of what his Carr Foundation is doing around the world...