19 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 02:23 AM
Tags: christmas, hiromi, japan, new-years, travel
So I leave on Sunday to go visit Hiromi in Tokyo. I am excited. It will be my 3rd time visiting her this year and I will be there for 13 days! whooo. I will be spending most of my time in Tokyo (I think), but we will be traveling to Yamanashi to celebrate new years with [...]
19 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 01:47 AM
Tags: christmas, fun, holidays, parties
This pass weekend was the skinnyCorp Christmas party and what not. It was awesome. An entire weekend of entertainment, debauchery and insanity. Pure insanity. Fun Fun.
The insanity started at work around 4. The entire day had been insane, with a supposed real world appearance and our Internet going down, so when 4pm rolled around [...]
03 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 01:16 PM
Tags: api, chicago, christmas, flickr, hiromi, killhannah, nye, rails, upgrading
I am lost in regards to what to listen to. I need something new. Or old. i don’t know.
This is really amazing. For some reason people are taking “famous” videos and making them “stable.” It is quite interesting and makes watching the videos a bit more mysterious - cuz the video becomes much more [...]
04 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 12:50 AM
Tags: audio, christmas, crobar, dreams, halloween, hifi, tired, travel, wedding, weekend
Sometimes bloggin just doesn’t seem appealing. It seems like a something that is just pointless if you are not feeling the blogging vibe. So i have waited until i was in the blogging vibe. It had been an amazing couple of days. great things have happened.
btw, Malcom X is a great movie. I think [...]
13 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 02:27 PM
Tags: blogger, books, chris, christmas, computers, family, hacking, itunes, itunesblogger, ituneshacking, server, Sites, travel, websites
on where I left off just a second ago. so anyawy. this weekend was a lot of fun. I did a little bit of christmas shopping - got soem gift0rs for my peeps and my family. stupid money. why is all this shit so expensive. I would elaborate - but that might give away some of the oh so secret secrets I have. and their are many. so many it hurts inside. this weekend I did a lot of ran…
12 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:05 PM
Tags: chris, christmas, games, matiss, music, sushi, video
this weekend was really fun. I liked it. basically I just hung out and played video games, went to clubs and drank vodka. yea know. the usual. it all started on thrusday (as it always does)… so thursday I went to sushi wabi with claudia. then to sonotech. and I saw elisa. I was so excited. I hadn’t seen her in ages. I lke my friends. then we went to bungalow to see jordan and chad -…
so everyone is asking me how I got the free ipod. well. iw ill detail the steps:
I went to freeipods.com and signed up (june)
I posted the referer info to all my friends - no one did it ;)
I posted the referer info to nata2.info ( a pretty high bandwidth site) and a lot of people signed up and no one completed the offer.
I waited 6 months
I…
29 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:14 PM
Tags: blogs, brooks, chris, christmas, community, search, video, war
so work is going wellish. I guess as well as work always goes. I am excited to be back. all the silliness and problems beware - I am prepared to attack ;)so I really enjoy reading peoples blogs and now that I have discovered the love of the rss aggregators and the wonders of OPML I really appreciate all that it does for me. I was reading my morning blogs when I stumbled upon
27 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 10:51 PM
Tags: chris, christmas, dylan, family, holidays, xmas
So we had a great xmas. I am glad to be back but I was really happy to be able to spend christmas with my family. my cat had a hole in it. it was gross. but apparently it is getting filled in or has gotten filled in. it was …
07 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:01 PM
Tags: chris, christmas, family, itunes, mom, music
I am sitting in my parents office copying mp3s to my moms computer while my whole family is listening to tatu. my father has recently exhibited a fascination with dance music. I think he like haddaway ;) anyway.. we are listening to tatu and decorating my parents christmas tree. while my aunt and mom are buying tracks like mad from itunes. heh. word. i really want to have a party in aspe…
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