Original post from 9/26/2003…
Macromedia bought a Segway a while ago, but it’s been living up at the San Francisco headquarters (motto: We’re So Much Hipper Than You). The company threw a party up there on Thursday, so they sent busses to pick up the Redwood Shores employees.

While we were up there, a few Redwood Shores people slipped away from the sushi and fondue on a daring mission to swipe the Segway for us. (Cue Mission Impossible theme.) It was secreted away on the bus by the time it pulled away.

And now (Bwa ha ha!), we have one at work.

People have been tooling around the office all day. There have been a few casualties. Bonnie has a collection of plastic bits that used to be attached to the Segway. One of them used to be a kickstand. The other two are of mysterious origin. One of them is rather disturbingly spotted with dried blood; rumor has it that there was a mishap in the elevator late last night that resulted in a scraped knuckle or two. There are also telltale black scuff marks on several of the cubicle walls.

A handful of us took turns riding it on the way to the local deli. Nothing produces instant celebrity faster than possession of a Segway in Silicon Valley. We were giving interviews and fielding questions the whole way.

Update…
Within the span of one week, the Segway was completely destroyed (and there’s a suspicious hole in a wall outside of one of the conference rooms) and is in for service. Reportedly, somebody got hit with the recall problem.

Before catastrophe struck, we took some movies of people riding around the office. Here are a couple of me (they’re a bit large, but I can’t be bothered to fix that)… one and two.