A lot of my favorite memories are sort of lateral:

• The Valentine’s Day party that was upstairs in the half-finished next door space when the cops showed up
• Going to Burning Man and the New Year’s Eve Parade with some of the Speakeasy Adjacent people
• The Hurley Boys and their hilarious send-ups of some of our more terrible customers
• Sitting way in the back with Matt Chapman and getting BeOS to dual boot on my desktop machine
• Learning Colin Powell’s AOL account and his (likely) password
• All the VIP dish we got about people
• Getting in early and getting to make your own espresso, I think Tyler taught me how the espresso machine worked
• My own personal DSL install was a ridiculous clusterfuck which helped me, I think, be more compassionate to people managing their own weird tech issues.
• We could change our reverse DNS lookups so we’d all show up in people’s referrer logs with stuff like munkeygurl.dsl.speakeasy.net
• The Lava Lounge
• Table shuffleboard at Mama’s
• Gilad’s short-lived tenure
• Rob going to the BVI to set up a wireless ISP
• Driving cross-country with Nick Barkas and staying in a tipi in Montana with people I’d met at the WTO

— Jessamyn West