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[shrinkage]

--en free biscotti!

[ count 'em! one, two, three, four-- and the fifth iced latte cup is half-full. all messed around a small table in the coffee shop, occupied by a messy man who forgot to shave ever this month. he points at himself. ]

Hi! My name's Dr. Ray Palmer. You might also know me as the ATOM, and former CEO of Palmer Technologies. I have a couple questions, and also a request.

[ the camera jostles as he jumps up to run into the hall (sorry for your motion sickness). the view then points at a stretch of blank wall. ]

Number one: Anybody object to me installing a ten-by-six foot digital bulletin board on this wall? And if so, do you have a suggestion for where it could go and still be in the public eye for use by everyone?

[ the shot swings back around to his face, which is frowning with thought. ]

Number two: I need some help! Lots of it, actually. It seems like we're all trying to collaborate and gaining various amounts of traction. If you consider yourself someone interested in the events and happenings of Wonderland, well. Go visit Angel Investigations first-- that place is wild. And then second, please respond here with a question or rumor you're interested in.

Number two-point-five: If you see a query from someone that you can answer, speak up? Eventually, I'd like to install this digital bulletin board to spark community communication about events and other Wonderland issues, to try to bridge the gap between the digitally-inclined and... the not so inclined.

[ he turns at the sound of his own name coming from the coffee shop and yelps before running back in. ]


( OOC | threadjacking is highly encouraged -- pls consider this a loose-form brainstorm sesh and don't forget that dragging ray and his ideas is also very extra encouraged. pls feel free to PM me with suggestions/issues/etc <3 )

Comments

video;

[eatsyourscience]

How does a digital bulletin board work?

[audio forever]

[literalidiotball]

I think he's talking, like, a computer screen or something?

Y'know, a giant monitor in the hallway with all the important stuff on it. I kind of like the idea myself.

audio as well

[eatsyourscience]

I got that idea. I meant more how would people add to it or take things down?

[literalidiotball]

Uh... [He hadn't thought of that.]

Maybe we could send messages to it from our smartphone things?

[eatsyourscience]

[Hmmm.] That's a possibility.

[shrinkage]

Have you ever used a drawing tablet?

[eatsyourscience]

[He shakes his head.] I've never even seen one.

[He knows what they are just...has zero experience with them.]

[shrinkage]

Think of it like a drawing pad. But instead of making a hard copy of whatever you write, you make a digital one!

[eatsyourscience]

Is that how the board would work?

[A beat.]

Couldn't people just graffiti it then?

[shrinkage]

[ ray laughs, and nods eagerly. ]

Oh, definitely!

[eatsyourscience]

...That's a good thing?

[shrinkage]

Oh no. It actually sounds pretty annoying. [ squint. ] Are you planning on doing some tagging?

[eatsyourscience]

No, not me.

[He doesn't actually know anyone who would, but still. He's a teenager, these things come to mind.]

So you would just write stuff on there. Like if you needed something or had an announcement?

[shrinkage]

[ nod! ]

Sure! I honestly have no intent for it other than seeing what happens. At my company, a similar concept grew into a culture book, sort of. There were quotes, and doodles. Nice notes and a few not-so-nice ones. The beauty was in letting it just ... evolve on its own, really.

[ there's a chance nobody even bats an eye at this thing. and to ray, that's entirely fine. ]

[eatsyourscience]

That might be fun.

[Souji is used to more organized things. But that doesn't make it sound like a bad idea.]

You run a company at home?

[shrinkage]

I used to, yeah. Not that Wonderland's anything like that, of course. Actually, I think the main challenge is getting this thing access to the network.

[ he shrugs. ]

I've had mixed results so far, but... Magic, am I right?

[eatsyourscience]

...Do you think the magic will help or make it harder getting the board connected to the network?

[It could really go either way...]

[shrinkage]

Well, I've done it before, but the laws of Wonderland aren't exactly apples-to-apples to the laws of my world, you know? [ another shrug, and ray chuckles afterward. ] It's kind of part of the fun, you know?

[eatsyourscience]

Wonderland isn't apples-to-apples to anything. Even itself.