Brian Shaler: Sofa Jumper

Hi, I'm Brian. I like to travel and crash on friends' couches. The people I stay with are awesome, and I blog about them here. I also share stories about traveling.

Entries from December 2009

2009 Dopplr Report

December 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Blog

Dopplr.com is a cool travel social network (a lot like TripIt) that helps you find out if your trips are going to coincide with your friends.
Anyone who knows me even a little bit knows I don’t plan ahead very much. So this “travel coincidence” functionality is less useful for me, considering I book many of [...]

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Wrath of the Transportation Gods

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · NYC

I’m visiting NYC again for the holidays! I’m not taking any days off from work, other than company observed holidays. Due to availability of reward travel dates (I booked this trip using my miles), I had to fly out in between work days. Red-eye FTW!
The thought of a long red-eye flight doesn’t really bother me. [...]

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Mike Malone - San Francisco, CA

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · SF

Mike and I met in SF through mutual friends, and we subsequently continued bumping into each other in the small world that is the tech community. This includes the picture above, standing in line to get into a bar in Austin, TX. In the rain. It turns out I was wearing my Pownce track jacket [...]

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Mascha van Tongeren - Astoria, New York

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · NYC

Mascha and I connected via Twitter & Facebook — she promised to stalk me when she found out I liked to go snowboarding. Unfortunately, she soon discovered that I was merely a casual snowboarder, going once or twice a season, if that. As part of Secret Sauce Labs, Mascha helped build a social network for [...]

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Michael Gibson - Chicago, IL

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Chicago

I met Mike in Brooklyn last year. He has since moved to Chicago, where he welcomed me to visit. Because I’ve never had any business reason to go to Chicago, my trip to hang out with him was my first time in Chicago!
He is still doing kick ass design work under Love Has No Logic. [...]

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