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This weekend. skinnyCorp Moving

I spent most of this weekend helping move our offices from our old place to our new place. Its amazing what a change of ~10k square feet can make. We started on Thursday packing and prepping the new space. Building racks, and generally fixing up the new space for our big moving day. Then on [...]

Weekend. Phones. blog design.

This weekend was pretty fun. I guess most of my weekends are. This one started out super weird. On Friday I was supposed to go to the sox game with Robyn. However, as I was leaving work – there was a tornado. haha. actually I was sitting, finishing up some stuff at work and the air raid/ [...]

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I am freezing. Seriously. It suddenly got like 100 below zero up in this piece. But never fear. i have a coat. and i will where it when i go outside. Which doesn’t help me while i am cold here in my living room. hah. last night or maybe it was the previous night – [...]

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why i love chicago

So i have been in chicago barely 12 hours. I slept 5 hours. And went to clubs for 7 hours. It was awesome. But the real reason i love chicago is the strict diversity that is celebrated at every turn. At every stop you see different people doing different things. All rocking it.
Tonight:
We started at [...]

So i took my mom and my cousin cole to see Taladega Nights at the AMC downtown. They liked it and thought it was a hilarious movie. but that wasn’t the crazy part. The crazy part was in the beginning. We were all sitting their watching the movie chilling out and what not and i [...]

I am very tired today.
The last 3 days have been full of crazy parties and fun people.  On thursday was the kill hannah party at crobar. It ruled. Then on friday was Dark Wave Disco – with lady SOV and Tommie Sunshine. After that was the party with the motherfucker peeps and the virgin tears. [...]

So i ride the bus a lot. Maybe 4 times a day. It is quite something. I spend most of that time waiting for the bus and being annoyed. But a small portion of that time is spent boarding various versions of the chicago cta bus. The one pictured on the right is the worst [...]

So we don’t have air conditioning. I mean. we have one small unit that sits in our living room and makes watching television somewhat bearable – but we don’t have central air or even something close to that. So we die. It is honestly around 100 degrees in my room. as you can imagine that [...]

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So hiromi got here monday. it has been really fun.
On monday I picked her up and we hung out around my house. Went to our friend becca’s house and hung out.  It was fun. After that we went home – picked up chris – went to irazu and then went to the empty bottle to [...]

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Thanks liz…

So my friend liz sent me a belated birthday gift. It was some of her mens geek jewlery from her pretty successful zellestyle line of stuff. Neat stuff. She sent me a midi bracelet and some little nice black wire bracelets. I am happy because i had just thought about wearing bracelets again and i [...]

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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. 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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