Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
video games, japan some stuff.. and umm.. oh yea. new sites
28 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 01:38 AM
Tags: awesome, chicago, console, emulation, games, hacking, hiromi, jpan, psp, skinnycorp
New York Peeps: check out Heath’s new group for watching movies. and such. i imagine it will be a good time.
I have been playing with my PSP a lot more. today on the bus i solved contra. that game is damned hard. seriously. wtf. what kid is going to be able to do that. [...]
Saddest movie ever.. jesus.
09 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 11:04 PM
Tags: awesome, illness, movies, sorrow
I just watched the beginning of this awesome movie. It was about this women Susan Tom who is raising 11 adopted children all with severe illness or handicaps. It is heart wrenching. I was sitting here trying to find something mindless to put on so i could work with the TV and BAM. sorrow. seriously [...]
i have fixored my photolog. It is now a plugin for wordpress. So i shoudl be able to manage it a bt easier.
man… mardi gras is gunna suck this year.
01 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 02:53 AM
Tags: awesome, destruction, photolog, skinnycorp, work
seriously. new orleans got knocked the fuck down. It is amazing how nature can take a piece of something that we think is strong and then remove our conception of strength without even thinking of it. I remember reading the other day about how the hurricane had POUNDED miami and it was going to disrupt [...]
new skinnyCorp site… check it
31 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 03:35 AM
Tags: awesome, food, skinnycorp, work
so jake and jeffrey rocked out this site in like negative 10 days. it was done nice and fast. check it out: skinnyCorp.
Oh yea. work is awesome. i finally got my computer up and running.
tonight i had dinner with claudia, steve, tasha and friends. it was really nice. i love them. so nice [...]
i had no idea how much i rule until derek pointed it out to me:
Derek Brooks: i found a better google search
Home Aim: yea?
Derek Brooks: google search
Derek Brooks: 2 hundred and 9 fucking results
Thats right… i rule.
So i was persuing google and i was googling my name - yea know checking up on myself. doing a background search to see if i am insane and worth hanging out with. you know you do.. maybe not on yourself.. but i get concerned that i am too crazy. so i had to check.. [...]
tonight after juggling, after a meeting and after i attempted to goto bed
26 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 04:05 AM
Tags: awesome, clubs, music, shows, work
i remembered that mark verbos was playing his live set at smartbar (and by remember i mean greg told me). It was amazing. Verbos is quite something. i love distortion and hearing it build and seeing him do his little knob thing. haha. so good. i took some pictures. He has posted an MP3 [...]
slept. hung out. worked.
good things are happening.
You have GOT to check this out. It is absolutely amazing. It is a hiphop version of weakest link. So goddamn funny.
Check out our families plan for the coming year: Catapult Industries.
we rule.
i got a lot of work done today.
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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