Salon.com Technology | Holding up the rear Denied a chance to indulge himself in what Lewis calls "butt pedestals," he decided to investigate just how prevalent Aeron addiction had been in the dot-com world. "It became this casual thing that we could do in our spare moments, you know," he says. We would "check into the auction sites and see what was available, and sometimes we could track down a phone number and ask a few innocent questions."





"How long you guys been in business," Lewis and his friends politely inquired. "What happened? And do you have any Aeron chairs?"