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Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 04:09:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tom Stangl writes:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- • bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/02/29/financial2038EST0280.DTL

Unfortunately, they haven't added the pics they took :-/

This is great! Good publicity never hurts! Tom, how did you get into this
article? I mean, how did the newspaper find you?

Although I'm not into mindstorms so much, this is interesting - I didn't
realize that mindstorms helped TLC recover it's 1998 losses...

-Shiri



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  Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
 
(...) I also got an email from the reporter, but didn't have time to respond. Perhaps she tracked down mindstorms users in the Bay Area. (...) Gee, if Mindstorms was so sucessful with adults, shouldn't they release Mindstorms Jr. for the kids? (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
 
(...) "follow the clinking ABS...follow follow follow FOLLOW....~\o" Great quoto-op, Tom, way to go! I hope they don't put their foot down on your LEGO playing during office hours...;) best LFB (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
 
(...) The reporter read Lugnet for a while, noticed I posted a lot, then saw the pics of my cube I have on my work site ;-) I sure wish I knew where the pics ended up from the photo shoot, though - they only took about 10-15, and when I dumped them (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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(URL) they haven't added the pics they took :-/ -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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