{"id":177,"date":"2010-08-09T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:26:26","slug":"how-a-real-man-makes-a-whiteboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"How a real man makes a whiteboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking for a long time for a real whiteboard solution. The ones I usually run across<\/a> that look good to me are $100+ dollars. I’ll grant that those have great quality, but for what I’m looking for it may be too much.\u00a0 So I was happily surprised 2 weeks ago while talking with the good people over at Rocky Mountain SuperComputing Center about what to do about this.\u00a0 They told me all I had to do was go to Home Depot and get one of their 8x4feet boards called melamine.\u00a0 I went with the kids to check it out.\u00a0 what I found was indeed an 8×4 foot whiteboard that was perfect for my room.\u00a0 So to my wife’s horror, I dragged this thing up the stairs, hacked a few inches off of it and proudly screwed in 6 screws to against my wall.\"\"<\/a> Total cost?\u00a0 $11.43.\u00a0 (screw cost not included)\u00a0 So naturally I looked at this and thought:\u00a0 I need more whiteboard!<\/p>\n

So next Saturday when I get some time, I’ll be going back to the Home Depot and getting 3 more of them and it will cover my entire wall.\u00a0 Total cost for an entire wall:\u00a0 ~ $44.\u00a0 You can’t even buy a standard good whiteboard for that much money.<\/p>\n

The benefits are endless:<\/p>\n

– Teach my kids that its ok to write on walls.<\/p>\n

– Late night math equations<\/p>\n

– No more lost lists of feature requests.<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s the best part:\u00a0 If it gets old and stained, and I need to replace it?\u00a0 No problem, just take the old stuff down and turn it upside down and build a half-pipe out of it and I’ll just skate on it.<\/p>\n

There really is nothing that makes a house a home like a wall of whiteboard to write on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking for a long time for a real whiteboard solution. The ones I usually run across that look good to me are $100+ dollars. I’ll grant that those have great quality, but for what I’m looking for it may be too much.\u00a0 So I was happily surprised 2 weeks ago while talking with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[73,72],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}