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Last week my friend Mark pinged me and mentioned that I should get together with a friend of his who was in town for PYCON. I am always into meeting new people so I had dinner with Brian Dorsey. It was awesome. I was able to rant and rave about all my ideas, interests and [...]

I am not a normal person (hahah). When I use my computer, I want to be around people. If Hiromi is in the living room, I want to hang out with her while I code or do whatever. But that often means sitting on the couch with my laptop. We have a pretty nice couch [...]

I love jabber. I love Google talk because it is jabber. I really like what jabber supports and how it works. And the Google talk desktop app is pretty smooth.
A couple weeks ago Google released Google talk gadget that allowed group chatting. This was super weird since the flash based gadget has totally blown [...]

Its my birthday! What’s up now!!!

Guess what?! I am 29 now. heh.  

Jamie Reed: Happy Birthday!Jamie Reed: you know, you are officially 29, I think you were born about 12:15 amnata22atan: oh wowJamie Reed: in Chicago, isn’t it about 12:20 or sonata22atan: yeaJamie Reed: so Happy Birthday. 29 years ago you were about 10 minutes old
I love birthdays, but as [...]

I got a new Nokia N73

So I sold my Nokia E61 to my friend Scott – he will probably use it more than I and he doesn’t mind it not having a camera – and I used the money to pick up a Nokia N73.
The Nokia N73 is a really nifty phone. It is a bit longer than [...]

This is an amazing animation

I love the internet. It is the mecca of weird awesome stuff. This totally fits under wierd and awesome. And the animation is top class. Quite nice.
From the Motion Graphics agency blog:
This really interesting short film caught my eye the other day. It received the animation award at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. There [...]

So I canceled directTV awhile back and have been struggling to figure out how to easily download the shows I want to watch. I would love to do it legally. I have looked into the itunes solution – but they don’t have all I need/want. And it won’t work for hiromi – in japan. So [...]

Oh my god. I can see forever

So tonight i was awesome. I mean. i am always pretty awesome. but tonight i really ruled. I have been trying to send a text message to eveyone in my phone book saying the caption from the family circus cartoon on the right: “Oh my god. I can see forever.” However – my phone kept [...]

Thanks liz…

So my friend liz sent me a belated birthday gift. It was some of her mens geek jewlery from her pretty successful zellestyle line of stuff. Neat stuff. She sent me a midi bracelet and some little nice black wire bracelets. I am happy because i had just thought about wearing bracelets again and i [...]

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i made it to tokyo

The flight was long. I mean… LONG. I was sleepy so i slept all the way. but i still got bored on the plane. I really needed to bring a book – but it was dark and i didn’t want to wake up my neighbors. but i made it. Immigtation was sooo easy. They just [...]

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO of the awesome skinnyCorp/Threadless 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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