Category: Mortarons Exposed
August 21st, 2012

MORTARONS EXPOSED: Ben Klau, General Manager + Closet Superhero.

Once upon a time, Ben Klau’s idea of a home-cooked meal was a sleeve of Ritz crackers paired with a can of Coke. Rumor has it that until 2004, he believed the phrase “think outside the box” meant finding someplace to eat other than Jack in the Box. As Ben puts it, any place where he could shout into a clown’s head and receive food in return was fair game.

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July 30th, 2012

MORTARONS EXPOSED: Stefanie Hornby, Accounting Manager + Indie Film Icon.

From the Department of “Hey, I Didn’t Know You Did That!” we’re proud to announce a sizzlin’ new segment of the MortarBlog, entitled Mortarons Exposed: Stuff We Do When We’re Not Advertising.

Whilst fraternizing with each other for fun, as we’re occasionally known to do here, we discovered that people at the Mortar actually do some pretty interesting, non-work-related crap. So interesting we think it’s worth telling you about. If all goes well, you’ll agree.

Our first guest: Stefanie Hornby, Accounting Manager at Mortar.

You know what accountants do: crunch numbers, balance ledgers, and star in feature-length films. Wait, what? Just so happens that our money-managing, paycheck-cutting, now-married Stefanie Hornby has been an actress in the Bay Area for 18 years, under the moniker Stefanie Goldstein. Not only can she generate a profits and loss report with a pivot table, she has her own IMDB page. Oh, and her mother was a talk show host, her father was a writer on Happy Days, and her cousin produced about a bajillion TV shows. NBD.

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