04 Nov
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:08 AM
Tags: action, amjad, corporate, experiment, fear, halloween, haxored, job, matiss, metal, nyc, porn, reed, robots, war
so basically I haven’t updated this thing in about 3 years. which is a long time. so I am going to “update” yall as to my whereabouts. so. I got this new job. it is taking a lot of my time. it rules. but I am in a different paradigm than I was when I was at the WB. basically I am totally engaged for 8 hours. I have to be much more accountable and I have to really justify my actions. th…
25 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 01:26 PM
Tags: action, amjad, books, chicago, coding, crobar, games, google, halloween, harper, hiromi, internet, job, juggle, matiss, movies, nokia, nyc, philosophy, phone, school, search, Sites, tools, video
heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:
[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job
So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…
12 Jul
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 07:47 AM
Tags: aim, amjad, books, broox, chicago, food, games, hiromi, matiss, movies, music, php, Technology, video, war, watership
this is pretty funny. sometimes I wish I had a secret place to store things. like a mary poppins bag of sorts that I could carry around and remove HUGE objects from. it would rule. but that technology is full of ninjas right now.tonight I watched anchorman. it was very funny. I LOVED brick. that actor cracks me up. he sure love…
07 Jul
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:54 PM
Tags: amjad, cars, dylan, insane, jokes, nokia, phone, Sites, war
so I took a break today at work and looked at red/blue 3d pictures with these super fancy three d glasses that a coworker has. it rules. it rules so much I have a bitching headache right now. work is very serious currently. it kinda sucks. I have a so much stuff to do and so little time. and it is all stuff that is fun - but not when the pressure is so high. all I really want to do is p…
01 Jun
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:13 AM
Tags: amjad, crobar, experiment, food, harper, insane, matiss, programming, reed, rock
hehe. this weekend was an incredible experiment in what I can take - mostly in regards to sleep deprevation - but also in regards to alcohol poisoning. which is really something I am not exactly proud of - but it was a lot of fun. so it all started on thrusday. me and some friends went to a smartbar party - and then to crobar. I had to try out my new “drop my name and you can get into crobar for…
05 Apr
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 08:02 PM
Tags: amjad, chicago, food, hiromi, job, music, nokia, phone, sick, women
This weekend was good. on friday there was a blond redhead show. I was initially a bit scared that they woudn’t represent their recorded music well - but I was wrong. they did a great job. as soon as the women started singing, it was apparent that her talent wasn’t based on some studio tricks. after the concert I went and hung out a bit with morgn and alan. then sleep. oh precious precious slee…
22 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 08:07 PM
Tags: amjad, chris, holmes, insane, juggle, jugglers, juggling, matiss, phone, rock
Last night was so dope. We, the J.O.D. juggled at chris holmes’ electro shw at te metro. it was sooo much fun. all my friends were there - and it was great to juggle with matt, matiss and brad. so much fun. here are pictures. The show was insane. first we started wit…
12 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:18 AM
Tags: amjad, chris, crobar, experiment, food, insane, mom, phone, sushi, video, war
for the love of god it was a great weekend. Work has been interesting. a lot of drama and going forwards-ness. it is nice. finally stuff is getting done. but at the expense of a lot of comfortability and weird weird situations. anyway..On friday I came home and took a nap. I talked with ladawn a bunch on the phone which was awesome, she seems to be doing wonderful. I decided that my roo…
09 Sep
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 02:05 AM
Tags: amjad, insane, irc, nyc, server
This time with a twist. So today sucked. seriously. nothing went rigth. stupid script kiddies were attacking my servers. syn flooding my mail server, flooding my IRC clients. etc. etc. I got bad news from every corner.. lalala. and I was without sleep. I figured that I had got about 8 hours of sleep since last thursday. well looks like tonight I am gunna be a winner - and not get any sleep AGAIN….
06 Sep
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:55 PM
Tags: amjad, chicago, chris, food, hiromi, job, matiss, nyc, phone, worldbook
So yesterday was nuts. I got up made sure I was packed for nyc and went to work. at work - I was whisked away on a cruise around lake michigan for employee appreciation day. We got free food - expensive drinks and generally had a nice time. I got to meet some of the new young people. I think we are going to start a young person club. it will be pretty dope I think… then at 2:00 or so we left.. …
Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.
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