05 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 11:13 AM
Tags: books, bus, classical, literature, music, singularity
once again and for real this time i am going to attempt to read and finish gravity’s rainbow by pynchon. holy jesus - that guy is verbose. man. its like reading a freshman philosophy class without all the poor prosylytizing and nonsense. it is just thick as hell and full of words. its nice though. [...]
05 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 03:06 AM
Tags: audio, books, diy, hifi, literature, sadness, society, stereo, violent
So i have been reading these short, sad, very violent books about society. It is pretty rough.
the first i read was A Personal Matter by Kenzoburo Oe which was about this lostish young man whose wife gives birth to a baby with a severe birth defect. The book is about his struggle to understand [...]
13 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 08:57 PM
Tags: awesome, books, bummed, sad, travel
So i mistakenly packed this swiss army knife that my brother got for me when he went to switzerland years ago in my carry on luggage. I didn’t mean to and i had forgotten it was there - cuz i brought it in case i needed it on our road trip. So the airline people [...]
so apparently some people didn’t appreciate the.. umm.. spoilers in my last post.. sorry about that. i will uhh.. hide them.
;-)
i guess yall should read faster. i gave you a week headstart. wtf.
I just finished the newest harry potter book. I quite enjoyed it. (i have turned the spiolers white - unless you are in an RSS reader) I was of course about dumbledore’s demise and snape turning(hah) evil. but i was more bummed about harry’s ejection of ginny. WHY. they are so cute. hahaha.
anyway. i [...]
07 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 05:32 PM
Tags: agile, blogs, books, coding, development, engineering, firefox, gtd, hiromi, management, projects, rails, ruby, yoyo
Yes. it is true. i am freakishly busy. and of course while being freakishly busy i find the most time expensive hobby ever. So matiss and i have been playing quake 3 again. We were playing the requiem mod for hours, but it got kinda boring so we switched to the urban terror full conversion. [...]
i am reading updike and listening to leonard cohen.
23 May
Posted by Harper in General at 12:06 AM
Tags: bike, books, crobar, danielle, google, hacking, hacks, hiromi, music, programming, psp, rails, ruby, trex, wedding
So i had written some crappy post on how i made this it said:
here check it out here. i have been listening to only t. rex. i love it.
After thinking about it - i decided that this weekend deserved a better entry than “yea look here blah blah blah.” So here goes.
Friday was [...]
20 May
Posted by Harper in General at 01:06 AM
Tags: awesome, books, peapod
So i discovered peapod tonight. in my quest to save money while preparing for my eventual demise at the hands of my EVIL DARK OVERLORDS i have been attemptign to not spend money on stupid things. like 15 dollars for dinner a night. so i have been investing in groceries to get my cooking back [...]
Today i went to the grocery. for the first time in many years. possibly 2. hah. for food. i mean i have been for other things. but never for food. hahaha. ok. work.
oh yea. i am reading an EXCELLENT set of awesome alien books. matiss rules!
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