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* I rented out a warehouse, filled it up with 1/2 dozen hackers and musicians, built some bedrooms, a stage, a sound system, a recording booth, a server closet,

* I rented out a warehouse, filled it up with 1/2 dozen hackers and musicians, built some bedrooms, a stage, a sound system, a recording booth, a server closet, got a fractional T3 installed, and threw bi parties which covered 60-70% of our rent, essentially lived rent free for three years. * Built an application hosting & management firm with 4 employees and $1m+/year of gross-revenue, sold my half of it earlier this year * Worked as the only production sysadmin at Napster before the $100m investment, left shortly afterwards. * Once bought Joey Ramone a beer at CBGBs and spent an evening talking with him, a year or so before he died.

Dav3xor 17y ago
Shamelessly copying that warehouse idea is very tempting.
- dnsworks 17y ago
  Do it! I've lived in 3 warehouses now, and am looking for a new space this summer when my apartment lease runs out. The key to warehouse living is to find an unassuming, out of the way warehouse (so as not to attract attention from the authorities), with a landlord who knows what you're doing and is fine with it, and to establish really good relations with the neighboring businesses who will otherwise be annoyed that some punk kids are throwing parties all the time. I was just in one a few nights ago over in Oakland that a friend is living in now. We did some exploring and found an old boiler-room, remnant of an old structure that the warehouse was built over. You'd never find something that fun in some yuppy live/work loft. http://twitter.com/mhalligan/status/10614020589 http://twitter.com/mhalligan/status/10614020589 has a photo of their main living space.
  - mschaecher 17y ago
    I'd love to see some more pics of these warehouses, I've always wanted to live in something like that.
    - dnsworks 17y ago
      Here's an old (and silly) set from a wake we threw at our warehouse in 2003 or 2004 for a guitar player that had died that morning. http://www.flickr.com/photos/halliganfamily/sets/72157603829858289/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/halliganfamily/sets/72157603829... if I dig around I can probably find more, and I'm hoping to do a shoot at that oakland warehouse this weekend, especially the basement :)

Dav3xor 17y ago

Shamelessly copying that warehouse idea is very tempting.

dnsworks 17y ago
Do it! I've lived in 3 warehouses now, and am looking for a new space this summer when my apartment lease runs out. The key to warehouse living is to find an unassuming, out of the way warehouse (so as not to attract attention from the authorities), with a landlord who knows what you're doing and is fine with it, and to establish really good relations with the neighboring businesses who will otherwise be annoyed that some punk kids are throwing parties all the time. I was just in one a few nights ago over in Oakland that a friend is living in now. We did some exploring and found an old boiler-room, remnant of an old structure that the warehouse was built over. You'd never find something that fun in some yuppy live/work loft. http://twitter.com/mhalligan/status/10614020589 http://twitter.com/mhalligan/status/10614020589 has a photo of their main living space.
- mschaecher 17y ago
  I'd love to see some more pics of these warehouses, I've always wanted to live in something like that.
  - dnsworks 17y ago
    Here's an old (and silly) set from a wake we threw at our warehouse in 2003 or 2004 for a guitar player that had died that morning. http://www.flickr.com/photos/halliganfamily/sets/72157603829858289/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/halliganfamily/sets/72157603829... if I dig around I can probably find more, and I'm hoping to do a shoot at that oakland warehouse this weekend, especially the basement :)