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gravity’s rainbow

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. [...]

Sad violent books about society

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 [...]

kinda bummed

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 [...]

hahah. doh. i mean.. umm..

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.

harry potter rules.

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 [...]

so damned busy

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 have fallen back..

i am reading updike and listening to leonard cohen.

see.. i told you so.

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 [...]

i have discovered the magic of fanciness.

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 [...]

Grocery Grocery

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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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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