Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

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My birthday was awesome

Yesterday was pretty fun. It all started in the morning when I woke up and was able to wear the fancy new jeans Hiromi got me. Then I went to work and hung out. I just got my first memcached server and I got it running and hooked up to some of our code. It [...]

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 [...]

good long weekend.

I am glad to be back to work. I can’t wait to really hit work hard. i feel it coming soon. the work. i am pretty excited.
i am thinking about bulding an intranet
haha. just a place to put rss feeds and the like of our various interweb resources.
anyway.. this weekend:
On friday after [...]

Ecto!! w00t. nee blog software.

I am testing using ecto to post to wordpress. if this works i will probably purchase ecto. I really feel like i am desecrating all that is holy by using wordpress. for some reason i feel that writing all my own software is the way to go - although this is really nice and fancy. [...]

my birthday

today i turned twenty seven. congratulations i am the winner.
i also officially finished the upgrade to nata2.org. so let me know what you think.
all of the posts are tagged. so they are all catagorized. excitment.

omg. insanity. chicago cops

so tonight I went to crobar. my friend dayle met me. he is crazy. I am crazy. we hung out. he was giving me a ride home and he got pulled over. he may or may not have been driving crazy. I don’t know. however we got pulled over. the cops pulled their guns and told us to get out with our hands up. we both did. they made us get out and they searched us rather throughoughly. (that is spelled horrib…

my birthday party at crobar. heh. funfun

I am sitting here listening to the misfits. oh how I love the misfits. heh. I could listen to last caress every day. heh ;)
so anyway.
last night after work - hiroimi and I went to the body worlds
exhibit. it was hand down the craziest thing I have EVER seen. EVER.
totally insane. real people. dead. and made into plastic. totally
crazy. I don’t relaly know what to think….

i got up late today. it was a bummer. I did na mean to. but I kept
having WEIRD dreams about doing menial tasks at work. so nerve
wrecking. they were stressful dreams. not as awesome as other dreams.
and my eyes are sleepy. and I am hungry. and and andlast night
we went to the science and industry museum - it was closed. suxor.
hah.  so I think I am going to go tomorrow with h…

cool shoes..

i got new shoes. I am excited. I also posted some new pictures. they are awesome. first I posted pictures of my cousin showing his steer off. it was pretty cool. he got

looky here

so this weekend has been nice. on friday my coworkers and myself went to the hard rock cafe bar and met my friend winnie for drinks. she works there and was able to hook us up a bit which offset the billion dollars the drinks normally would have cost. it was a nice place. pretty chilled out - however around 5:30 - it started to get pretty full and crazy. after that I went and picked up some butto…

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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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