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Old 12-06-2003, 09:32 AM  
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Great article in the New Yorker about our customers

For Jonathan?an attractive, Ivy League? educated musician and adjunct professor?it all started a couple of years ago, when he was working as a temp in the sleek offices of a Madison Avenue ad agency. There he was, seated at his desk, half-heartedly going over pitches for new accounts, when a colleague tapped him on the shoulder.

?Hey, man, you gotta check this out.? The co-worker spoke in a whisper.

?What??

Jonathan?who is 33 and speaks with the hapless charm of a Nick Hornby protagonist?made his way over to the neighboring cubicle, where, on the Mac?s fifteen-inch screen, a pixelated young woman was making love to a machine that resembled a Pilates apparatus. The image, he says, ?wasn?t for me,? but it did send an impossible-to-ignore signal to that region of the male brain where curiosity and testosterone intersect. ?I was like, Oh, I want to see what?s out there,? he says. ?At the time, I barely understood what a ?link? was, but it didn?t take too long to figure it all out.?

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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/...349/index.html
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