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Last Great Internet Bubble Auction
jlouderb writes "At least that's what they are calling it. Cowan Alexander is getting ready to auction off the assets of MP3.com (now owned by CNet) on March 10th and 11th. The items up for sale include lots of those dumb Herman Miller Aeron chairs that were so popular, along with servers and notebooks that are probably hopelessly out of date. The best part, though -- a 1997 yellow hummer and a 1994 "Fat Boy" Harley. Plus, they've got pictures!"
The items up for sale include lots of those dumb Herman Miller Aeron chairs that were so popular
Very clever, trying to convince everyone not to bid on the Aeron chairs in order to keep the costs down.
=Brian
There is nothing so good that someone, somewhere, will not hate it.
Who the hell is "Pootie"?
;)
What the hell is This Thing?
Does all This Stuff come with the hat and the giant Pez?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Oh, and dibs on the Rocket Ship.
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What in their business model suggested to them "You know, we could make a LOT more money delivering music online if me spend company funds to buy a Harley and a Hummer!"
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
I'd like to amend the blurb to: "Plus, they had pictures, until they were posted to the front page of slashdot."
This comes from the ~20th comment.
Maybe if companies like MP3.com used their VC to build their businesses rather than buy Hummers, so many wouldn't have gone under. I bet you can't even listen to MP3s over the roar of the diesel in that thing...
cowanalexander
Something is just plain wrong with it.
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
Yeah but Galaga & Ms. Pacman? Sheesh! And I thought I was hard up for entertainment... I appreciate the classics as much as the next fellow, but come on... A coporation might stand out with a Tempest machine, but I think if I were interviewing with a firm and I saw Galaga & Ms. Pacman, I'd like to think that the handwriting was on the wall...
A tad jealous are we? My ass is nice and comfy on an Aeron.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
And here I am sitting on an old 486 full tower which I've been using as a chair for the past week... yeah, sure, rub it in.
These guys appear to be so wasteful, I bet they used sharpies on whiteboards and just threw them away after each meeting. And we wonder why there was such an Internet bubble and a recession.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
You know that "Step 2: ???", it usually takes a lot of driving.
I can say the same thing about a chair that I bought at Office Depot in Dallas for $149.00. It even has the little holes in it.
and since the "fabric" has lots of holes in it, they keep you cooler than a standard chair does.
:)
They also dissipate farts quite nicely! What fun are they if you can't share them with your coworkers ?
Are you saying you have to calibrate your ass?
The items up for sale include lots of those dumb Herman Miller Aeron chairs that were so popular
I tried one of those at a used furniture store recently. I was too damned fat for it. Like everything else of the dot-com era, it seemed geared around hyper 23-year-olds.
Table-ized A.I.
Sorry.
Paul Lenhart writes words!
Does the Hummer come with the plastic water bottle between the driver's seat and the console? You can keep the Hummer... I just want the water bottle...
This is both a blessing and a curse. I agree that it is nice to share, but at the same time it is nice to let one slip quietly, which is much more difficult without the padding of a regular seat.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
All of that high-end equipment and no one knows how to focus a camera? Even a digital Camera?
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
It was probably used to ferry Michael Robertson to and from court...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Yes, but then you will need a flatulence filter, you wouldn't want to suffocate.
486 tower? Your lucky. I'm currently using an Amiga 500 as a lean-to.
The kneeling chairs take a bit of getting used to.
Plus, they make you look goofy, cement your reputation as a flake, and cause people to laugh at you behind your back.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
what the hell is an 'exander'?
Typical Slashdot misspelling. That should read 'expander.'
"These chairs absolutely suck. I had one at my last job, and I hated it. I usually sit with my legs folded up indian-style, even in office chairs. Try it in one of those Aerons; you'll find out pretty quickly that it's a bad idea. The hard plastic sides turn your feet upward an 45+ degree angles. Ouch."
I never thought I would see the need to suggest that someone RTFM for a chair.
The traditional office chair (the ones what have some modicum of stuffing anyways) are fart batteries! So the day after chili you switch chairs as soon as the guy in the cubicle next to you goes for a coffee or whatever. Shit yourself to your hearts content and switch chairs back. As soon as your victim sits down the fart potential stored in the battery becomes a kinetic fart wafting up to your victims nose. A whoopee cushion gone bad!
"Talk minus action equals nothing" - Joey Shithead, D.O.A.
"Talk minus action equals
The Hummer has 50,000 miles on it and it's on its second engine. What did they do to that thing?
Uh, went mudding.
That's not how i got one ... I just waited for the next round of layoffs, and took one from the corner office.
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Anyone else notice the calendar on the left side of the auction site has months labeled "February 104" "March 104" etc.? Kind of ironic that an auction site dealing in high tech liquidation sports a Y2K bug 4 years after the fact :-)
Perhaps one might develop some intestinal fortitude along with the intestinal physical support.
Indeed, thanks to a strict vegan diet, I have the power of nine men! After morning meditation and a three-bean salad, I could chop a bus in half!
Years ago, I worked for a computer rental company. We had set up a number of computers in a booth at a cattle related trade show. For a couple hours, my boss and I looked at the "products" being advertised in the booth next to us. Most were unitentifiable. One however looked like a giant dildo with a power cord on one end and long copper electrodes running the length of it. It was about 2 feet long. We approached the salesman at the end of the show and asked what it was. He said it was for collecting semen from bulls. "You place this in the bull's rectum and plug it in. It 'stimulates' him." It took us an hour to stop laughing.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
I knew it was coming, and just kept putting the theft off. I wish now I hadn't procrastinated so much on stealing the chair-- but when the day came and they kicked us all out and changed the codes, it was too late. I know a couple of them disappeared, and I even had a no-security-cameras route picked out that made use of the fact that our roof door was unlocked and that it lined up with the fourth floor of the adjacent parking garage. There was a 6' chainlink fence in the way, but i'm sure I could have climbed it and pulled the chair over with me. If only I had gotten around to it. *sigh*
So (much like the later simpsons episode) I made off with as much ethernet wire as I could.
One well-prepared bastard had the foresight to lock the super-expensive pro video camera in a filing cabinet and mark it with a distinctive scratch. He bought a lot of 25 beat-up file cabinets later at the auction for about $100, pried the drawer open, and took the camera home after selling the other cabinets for a few bucks to one of the furniture dealers.
You Bastard!! I bought that stupid horse coach!!
(Although I guess you've saved me the embarassment of finding this out in public on Antique Roadshow...)
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Who needs a chair for that? I just open my mouth ...
>I am one of the aeron masses, but I went to an editor's studio the other day, and he had Swoppers.
I could have *sworn* I've seen kids playing on those, coloured pink, and shaped like horses...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
A lot of toys, big comfy sofas, and audio gear.
It looks like a great nightclub - when does it open?