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My Own Aeron

Okay, so I checked into my room at the Seattle Waterfront Marriott and as I unpacked my laptop and put it on the desk I noticed the Aeron chair. I thought, "Cool, this hotel is really with it." It turns out, though, that Steve Broback, one of the organizers of the Blog Business Summit, had read Tom's rant in Re-imagine! about lousy hotel furniture. In anticipation of Tom's visit to Seattle, he had an Aeron put in Tom's room. And because I was coming here with Tom, I got a chair in my room as well. Tom got snowed in in Vermont, and so he didn't get to sit in his Aeron. But I did. Thanks, Steve.

Erik Hansen posted this on 01/24/05.

Comments

Thanks. So how was the Blog Business Summit?

Posted by Dmitri at January 24, 2005 9:42 PM

It seems Erik prefers to point us to others who are writing about the summit. Try these:
http://www.apennyfor.com/movable_weblog/000737.html
http://www.downtheavenue.com/ (There's lots of detailed summit coverage here.)
http://ratcliffeblog.com/
But maybe Erik will give us more of his own impressions, too.

Posted by cathy at January 24, 2005 10:27 PM

Please let Tom know that:
1. I hate hotel furniture.
2. I dig Aeron chairs.
3. I'll be at the Doubletree Hotel in Orlando Feb 24-28.
4. Please have an Aeron delivered to my room.

Thanks.

Erick

Posted by Erick Blackwelder at January 24, 2005 11:05 PM

Dream on Erik and Erick - perks are just for the major league stars [just kidding].

Posted by John at January 25, 2005 10:20 AM

Yup, schlumps like us will continue to be pampered with folding card table chairs. Tom's right though, hotel furniture, pretty much across the board, is crappy.

Posted by Gary Potter at January 25, 2005 12:01 PM

Regrettably, if hotels routinely put those kinds of chairs in their rooms they would probably have a very high vapor pressure, and "evaporate."

Posted by Doug Smith at January 25, 2005 1:24 PM