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

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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 [...]

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 haven’t updated in awhile. that is.. i haven’t updated since the beginning of thanksgiving weekend. Oh what a weekend it was. Filled with unimaginable excitment and fun.
On wednesday i arriveed. my mother had made all of us kids (dylan, jon, me, sarah, and my cousins) fur vests. Most of them were wolverine [...]

A pseudo long time

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 [...]

some ideas.

Today was cool. I thought up a bunch of interesting ideas. and that was all. jesus. i am tired. i can’t pay attention for the life of me. its killing me. i am watching Entourage. back a couple days ago i went to an Entourage opening party at crobar. i rode my [...]

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 [...]

weekend oh yea

so this weekend i hung out a lot. it was awesome. i came home from work early on friday (holiday) and hung out with matt and hiromi. we went and got beers, pop, cheese and thai food. then we watched new poilce story. so so good. it was about jackie chan - a screwed up [...]

omg. insanity. chicago cops

so tonight I went to crobar. my friend dayle met me. he is crazy. I am crazy. we hung out. he was giving me a ride home and he got pulled over. he may or may not have been driving crazy. I don’t know. however we got pulled over. the cops pulled their guns and told us to get out with our hands up. we both did. they made us get out and they searched us rather throughoughly. (that is spelled horrib…

my birthday party at crobar. heh. funfun

I am sitting here listening to the misfits. oh how I love the misfits. heh. I could listen to last caress every day. heh ;)
so anyway.
last night after work - hiroimi and I went to the body worlds
exhibit. it was hand down the craziest thing I have EVER seen. EVER.
totally insane. real people. dead. and made into plastic. totally
crazy. I don’t relaly know what to think….

heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:

[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job

So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…

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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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