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Subject: 
Lego desk owner identity revealed
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Date: 
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:39:35 GMT
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I haven't seen anyone else post about this... Slashdot provided a link from

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/30/2318217&mode=nocomment

to

http://dcb.sun.com/practices/casestudies/bluenile_part1.jsp

which shows one Darrell Cavens, CTO of Blue Nile, sitting at his Lego desk.
So apparently this is who contracted Eric Harshbarger to create the desk.

Eric's original desk site appears to be slashdotted at the moment.

Steve
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Barb & Steve Demlow  |  demlow@visi.com  |  www.visi.com/~demlow/



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  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
(...) And implies he built it himself. Sheesh. (...) Well, more accurately, this is the person for whom the desk was contracted to be built. The way I understood it, it was a condition of his acceptance of their employment offer that they get him a (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
Yep, that's the desk. That's the guy. That's the company. Rather coincidental that it got revealed via a webpage on Sun Microsystems considering they used to be my employer... To clarify a few things: 1) The company contracted me, not the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
(...) Excuse my ignorance, but what does "slashdotted" mean? Embarassed, Bryan (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)

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