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| | | (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy —Paul Gyugyi
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| | | | | (...) 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? (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) "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 (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy —Tom Stangl
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| | | | (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy —Rose Regner
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| | | | Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <38BF7407.4FEA600F@vfaq.com>... (...) I was sure you were going to say that the local Lego retailers sent her your way. Rose (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy —Tom Stangl
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| | | | Nah, I don't buy much locally, and have never met the local reps - most of my buying is deep discount through the web. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | I tell you what, they recognize me when I got into Toy's R Us. People say to me, "Your the Lego guy, huh?" Places like Target will never recognize you and most places Tom and I would go into, we clean out or buy nothing at all (I'm guessing it is (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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