Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

I think i forgot i even had a blog

Work has been really crazy. We are having a sale and its nutso. are servers were totally owned by our users and we had to fight every one of them to survive. but we did it. and now threadless is ruling - more or less. soon it will be ruling always. and forever.
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old boy.

old boy been working hard. dang dang darn. today I shoudl get my mac mini. so I planned for its arrival. I brought a fancy knife that I use to open things like apple computers, I brought a couple dual headed screwdrivers. and I brought a camera. I am ready t welcome the little guy into the new world. this has brought me to start thinking how silly the things I carry on my person are. so…

i suppose i will continue

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…

the stones are falling from the ceiling and making a fortress

i know I haven’t updated in a while. do you think you can forgive me? I hope so. we all go through times where computers burn our fingers when we touch them. this wasn’t one of those times. I just didn’t feel like it. sometimes that happens. but whatever. I am back. for tonight. maybe for a couple days. maybe for a couple months. maybe for just a minute.

but whatever. so now. I a…

ok enough

so I am going to make a post not on that topic. doh!

so morgan picked me up a copy of the economist. the cover is seriously the best thing ever. I think I might subscribe. I also want to subscribe to a military journal as well. I don’t know what. probably something rather conservative. somethi…

yoyo website

the last couple days I have been working in all my spare time to finish this yoyo website. I think it is going to be really fun. I will be doing a bunch of fancy things to make it good. I am excited to attempt a new website. I haven’t made one in a couple of weeks. video editing is different. I think we need to eventually reshoot a bunch of stuff. but that is…

mine.. mine … mine.. my yoyo movie.

my yoyo movie. oh yea I rule. it will be a lot better later. I promise. it is my first experiment with DV and computers. rule the school

weddings

today I went to the doctor, hung out with my father and mother, played games, and then watched a couple of movies. it ruled.My father is getting better rather quickly. he is off everything but his random IV or drug insertion. it is like sql but with an needle and an arm. so we hung out and joked. I played the “describe a yoyo trick and I will do it” game with my dad. of course he picked…

XLST for itunes

i wrote a couple of quick XSLT scripts last night. check em out here. there are two, one that renders it into HTML and one that renders it into XML. w00t. last night - I fixed computers for food. it was nice. I had GOOOOD food and desert. I love computers. they are my friend. time to do work.

world ender

Ted Turner is not doing his part to stop my irrational fear of apocalypse. Someday I hope to start an apocalypse cult. I feel it will be fun. I mean - what is better than living in fear with 75 close friends. You don’thave to worry about silly things like possessions or whatnot. just fear. it will rule.

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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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