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Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:44:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Demlow writes:

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

which shows one Darrell Cavens, CTO of Blue Nile, sitting at his Lego desk.

And implies he built it himself.  Sheesh.

So apparently this is who contracted Eric Harshbarger to create the desk.

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 desk made of LEGO
<coughpowertripcoughcough> and so the company is the entity that actually
contracted the work.  Mr. Cavens just received the product of that contract.

eric



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  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
(...) I dunno if this is a recent addition, but when I checked out the article, it also had a "and check out the LUGNET member who built his desk" with a link to Eric Harshbarger's site... J (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
(...) Ah-HA!! :-) (...) Or.. maybe this guy's in the next cube over. After seeing the one Eric built, he ran home to build his own!.. ;-) -Suz (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
I haven't seen anyone else post about this... Slashdot provided a link from (URL) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)

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