06 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 01:20 AM
Tags: api, bus, chicago, hacking, transit
I have been working hard to release the work that I have been doing to expose some of the more interesting real time data about chicago transit. Currently it is very bus-centric, but that is hopefully changing.
The genesis for this API is some work I did awhile ago reverse engineering the CTA Bus Tracker mashup. [...]
11 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 09:44 PM
Tags: bus, Pissed, public-transportation
Jesus. I am on the bus, listening to my “this is hell” podcast and i am all riled up. Pissed really. I waited for almost 45 minutes for the damen bus. That is annoying. Wtf. It isn’t too hard to have a regular bus schedule. Seriously.
anger.
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14 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 02:13 AM
Tags: awesome, bus, mobile, phone, Technology
its nuts. but i do love bluetooth. connecting to the internet magically while riding uncomfortably in a bus. haha
so i am going to madison wis, for a juggling festival. it will be a lot of fun. but i missed the 9 o clock bus because the trains broke down and i had to wait a [...]
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. [...]
Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless.
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