Who we are

• Chief “fixer” and site architecht

  Dusty has a long and checkered past with North Pole Inc. (& subsidiaries) interests and activities abroad. Starting out in the mail room, Dusty quickly worked his way up the hierarchy to a position on the factory floor. While some would claim this was due to blackmail and extortion of those on Santa’s “naughty list” who wrote to Santa in hopes of Christmas exoneration, the official policy endorsed is that they were miscreants anyway, and that all letters sent through this or any other portal will eventually be read by Santa anyway (when he gets time), so the point is moot.

  What’s important is that from the factory floor Dusty was able to form a union culminating in the “Elf Liberation Front,” following a reading of chapter 21 of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This led to an uprising against the tyranny of the oligarchy, with Dusty being proclaimed (by himself—as is only fitting) chief liaison between the unwashed masses of “the naughty list,” considered underserving of toys and presents, and those poised to dispense small packets of happiness. Thus this site was born.

• House rabbit: “The shredder”

  Cinnabun is the resident materials and evidence spoliator. Known aliases include Chewmangi, Chewbacca, and Fu Man Chew, among various provinces. Every evening Cinnabun consumes or shreds vast stacks of documents and photographs which could be deemed harmful to one’s chances of waking up on Christmas morning to a massive pile of presents. Despite his diminutive size, he has taken the cat’s place as alpha furry friend.

• The Barista!

  Juan Valdez is a fictional Colombian Coffee farmer created by a consortium of Columbian Coffee farmers and Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1959. His visage is like a flag: a brand, a unifying force, and a rallying point. Juan Valdez means more than "coffee." He means "WAKE THE HELL UP AND GET TO WORK!" coffee. As much as he is a champion of the independent Colombian (family) coffee farmer, he is the patron saint of Silicon Valley, with his sanctum sanctorum in a tiny shop known as "Donut Wheel" in Cupertino, California. Donut Wheel has been a Santa Clara valley institution long before the rise of the tech giants, but Apple Inc.'s headquarters have swallowed up all of the land around Donut Wheel, and employees who have worked there forever say that Woz and Jobs came by in the early days to get coffee and donuts. The iconic Donut Wheel logo is rumored to be the inspiration for not only the iPod "click wheel," but also memorilized by Apple Inc.'s new "UFO" (giant donut wheel) campus and headquarters. The influence of Juan Valdez, and his coffee, infest this new campus, as ideas and designs spread like viri throughout the world.

Some fun behind the scenes stuff