Re: [SLUG] Derrick on Slashdot

From: VT (vt1@gte.net)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2001 - 14:44:58 EST


At 08:02 AM 11/3/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, anyone but you. :)
>
>CmdrTaco's real name is no secret. It's Rob Malda.
>http://cmdrtaco.net/rob.shtml tells you more.
>
>One thing for which I don't think Rob has ever been properly credited
>was making the amazingly expensive Aeron chair "the" symbol of geek
>upscaleness and/or excess. As far as I know, Rob and his boyhood
>buddy/Slashdot sidekick Jeff Bates, were the first people to display
>Aerons at trade shows, and they were first advertised to the
>computer-using marketplace on Slashdot.
>
>How did a pair of no-money college kids make this hookup? Could it be
>because Robert Malda *Senior* works at Aeron mfgr Herman Miller, of
>Holland, MI?
>
>- Robin

You know ALL the dirt, don't ya...

VT



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