Dallas Kashuba
Title: Co-Founder / CTO
Started at DreamHost: 1997

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I take notes, try to keep track of what's going on, talk to people, and encourage people to talk to each other. I also do some programming, some server setting up, some troubleshooting and debugging. Mostly, though, I'm an ideas man. Bossing Josh around. The one and only really bad crack we have experienced. It was back in September or October of 1998 and I can distinctly remember seeing "rm -r /" running as the root user on 4 of the 8 servers we had at the time. I literally saw everything we had disappearing before my eyes. A quick call to the data center and the power plugs were pulled on every server. After some data recovery and a complete re-engineering of our network security model DreamHost lived on. No pain, no gain, I guess! When I was in India riding on a train I saw a very dirty old man with no legs dragging himself down the center aisle holding his hand out for money. During my two week visit I saw lots of other beggars, many of whom were missing limbs, but that one guy on the train really stuck in my head. Color: Green
Food: It's hard to beat (and find) a really good fish n' chips.
Drink: Ciroc and Tonic
Wood: Balsa (especially when used to make a little glider)
Actor: Johnny Depp, Mary Louise Parker, Owen Wilson
Smell: Vanilla Bean
Video Game: Guitar Hero
Movies: Run, Lola, Run, Lost In Translation, Shanghai Noon
TV Shows: Invader Zim!, Ren and Stimpy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds, Six Feet Under
Bands: Beck, Air, Fischerspooner, Goldfrapp, Tortoise, Wagon Christ, Aphex Twin, Bent, Plaid, PJ Harvey, Rocket from the Crypt, Wilco, Peace Orchestra, Mouse on Mars, Tool, Pixies, Boards of Canada, The Roots, Pinback, and on and on. My website that was a blog before the terms 'weblog' or 'blog' existed: http://www.idallas.com/. And my music website: http://www.submodern.com/. There is no box.