Sure i ordered it in October and it took forever, but it’s finally here. I now have a fitbit For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a little clip you were around. The clip (called a “Tracker”) contains a motion sensor like the ones found in the Nintendo Wii. The Tracker [...]
2009 was a fun year. I traveled to 42 cities, 4 countries and logged over 100k miles. I also found time to stay at home and do stuff. Looking back on the year, some things really stand out. For instance: Up’s tear-jerking silent vignette. With each new film, Pixar finds some way to top itself. [...]
A startup really consumes your life. Luckily i have a suite of sweet tools to keep my efficient and productive. My favorites: Balsalmiq. This is sick wireframing software. It’s so easy and intuitive, it can allow anyone to make fairly decent wires. It’s also a great way to get ideas across to other people. Doing [...]
I decided that i needed to give you all (my readers) more music. I get lots of requests for recommendations and thus i decided to expand my minuature blogging empire a little bit. So, starting today there is a new site assciociated with Loo.me and it’s called ILikeThisSong.com What is ILikeThisSong.com? It’s a site which [...]
Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists. I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 [...]
A good post today by Chris Anderson about completely changing jobs every 3 years. He writes: When I was at The Economist, there was a policy to rotate everyone every three years. The idea was that fresh eyes were more important than experience. “Foreign everywhere” was the mantra, and around your second year in Cairo, [...]
I did some changes today to the blog. I’m changing the name from Sideways8 to Loo.me. I’m doing this for a couple of reasons. I really didn’t like having wordpress.com in my URL. It just seemed amateur and lame Sideways8 is a good name but it didn’t really have anything to do with me and [...]
While reading Fred Wilson’s blog today about Live Blogging, he ended his post with this comment: Blogging has a reputation as an ego centric activity for people who want to be heard. And that is certainly true and a big motivation for many people who do it. But blogging can be valuable in many other [...]
I was just reading these two blog (here and here) posts about where people have been this year. I thougtht i’d take a moment at look at my travels in ’07. Here’s what i did (below). Not too shabby. I hope to put some new cities on the list in ’08. Minneapolis, MN Chicago, IL [...]
Here’s a list of my favorites for 2007. I originally wanted to list 10, but then i realized that i hadn’t really listened to 10 albums. I’ve listened to lots of tracks, but not really 10 full albums. So here are the top albums of 2007 for me. Honorable mentions Easy Tiger by Ryan Adams [...]
Songs I Like 
