Why is finding housing soo hard? I think its the same reason I’m no good at clothes shopping, too much variety and I don’t know what the hell I like. I’m trying to find a 2-3 bedroom in either Northern Liberties or along South St. and surprisingly I’ve found a TON of listings in my price range. My number one priority is public transportation since I don’t have a car, which narrows down my search a little bit.

Craigslist search is garbage, it filters just about as well as a fishnet filters water. I’d love to see someone put together a user controlled site for real estate, sort of Digg meets Craiglist meets Trends. It’d be really cool to have listings that you can vote on or vote down, and a comment section to comment on listings. Comments on the quality of the area, trustworthyness of the realators, etc. How about some easy search filters like within a specific number of blocks/miles to public transportation, and a search engine that when I type in South St, I get South St and not the 2500 block of South Broad. Who knows maybe I’ll turn my brainstorm into a reality, or better yet someone will read it and make it happen.

In the meantime, anyone have any recommendations on nice/cheap places to live in or around Center City Philadelphia and close to public transpo??

I can’t sleep, I’ve been up researching/writing all night. I need to put together a solid presentation of my business pitch for DGA. Just brainstorming for now, will put the pen to the paper in the morning after the gym and a clear mind.

I  hit a vain in the entrepreneur/startup community in Philadelphia by stumbling upon Philly Startup Leaders yesterday. It has directed me onto a bunch of other really cool communities/projects in the Philadelphia area. The most interesting consortium being the SocialDevCamp East.

Check it out, it really caught my interest because of the idea of bringing a bit of the tech buzz on the West Coast to the East Coast so I sent it over to my roommate/colleague, Chris and we agreed we’d have to attend. Its in Baltimore, not too bad a commute, except one problem. It was 2 days ago. Horrendous timing, I’m really pissed. I really would like to step up my efforts to attending events like these, I think they are wonderful oppurtunities to network and collaborate with some of the brightest and most ambitious people in Philadelphia.

Ah wash is out of the dryer. Time for bed.

Thirty minutes of searching WP’s theme repos and I’m sick of it. I’ll stick to the classic design for now. Who knows maybe I’ll spend time tinkering with the css and actually make something of it. I’d like to say eventually, but there’s something soothing about the simplicity of this layout. So Retro.