I think I may have worked at the most "fun" corporate environment ever. The parties! The BBQ! The evenings on the roof top deck in Tribeca! The pillow room! The

I think I may have worked at the most "fun" corporate environment ever. The parties! The BBQ! The evenings on the roof top deck in Tribeca! The pillow room! The Wii! The wall-o'-drinks! The buddha statues! The one-team-cooks-a-full-lunch day once a month! The expeditions to South's! That one guy who was always napping in the weirdest places trying to be polyphasic! The singing, the dancing and the hilarious coworkers. The key difference between that workplace and the others I've experienced/observed, was that the fun was bottom-up instead of top-down. It wasn't cheesy, but it was real. If an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, well, Limewire had a pretty whacky shadow, but the air of freedom was what led us to all bring our own flavor to it. We weren't whacky, even though the guy who ran it was whacky. We just did what we wanted and made our own fun. The biz-sponsored parties were the only orchestrated element, other than the cooking. Ah, Limewire, I miss you sometimes.