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  • From a press release, to be read in the past tense, unfortunately: On October 22, 2006, Ledia Carroll will use a field line chalker to recreate the full perimeter of Lago Dolores, a former freshwater lake that stretched from what is now South Van Ness to Guerrero and 15th to 20th Streets.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • From a press release, to be read in the past tense, unfortunately: On October 22, 2006, Ledia Carroll will use a field line chalker to recreate the full perimeter of Lago Dolores, a former freshwater lake that stretched from what is now South Van Ness to Guerrero and 15th to 20th Streets.

    Un-vanishing a lake 2007

  • Getting nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Dear Mr Spano, re: Wi-Fi 2005

  • Who but a madman would suppose you advertised him hereabouts, much cheaper and much better than a chalker on the walls could, eh, Tom?

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • This is due, most assuredly, to the fact that he is a hirsute pavement chalker and an ungentlemanly sausage tanner.

    on the topic of "old hat." daveberta 2006

  • Getting nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Dear Mr Spano, re: Wi-Fi 2005

  • He is to be accompanied by a pianist, and a suite of Chinese servants, from the comprador to the shoe-sole chalker.

    Echoes of the Week 1865

  • Who but a madman would suppose you advertised him hereabouts, much cheaper and much better than a chalker on the walls could, eh, Tom?

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • By the evidence of Egland, it appeared that he was introduced, with his goods for sale, to a company chiefly consisting of street beggars in St. Giles's, the chair at that moment being filled by a beggar without hands, well known in the vicinity of the Admiralty as a chalker of the pavement.

    Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

  • The consequences of an unsecured hotspot (assuming it’s segregated from the machines used in “business operations”, as they should be) are: Gettings nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Anti-Wi-Fi pol goes war driving 2005

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