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

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

My brother has been making these awesome little monsters out of socks for a little while. They are pretty cool and quite cute. I recently noticed that his etsy site was somehow a bit incomplete - so i thought about what made some of the other creature makers creatures successful. I decided that key was [...]

I know I know. I have been a bad bad blogger. I basically I have been ignoring the fact that I have a blog. For a long time - - pretty much since I got back from japan at the beginning of January. eep. What weird is that I have been playing computer a lot [...]

Sometimes blogs are sad

My brother and his wife are struck with a season of hard times. Its a bummer. He is a wonderfully happy person and I know they will get through this fine, but it seems that he is at that point I think almost all of us have been at, where it seems like there is no [...]

IPF!

i just wanted to remind everyone how much me and my friends rule. check it out here:
We Rule!.
some fine commentary here.
speaking of peeing. i gotta go. ;)

ruby on rails

I decided to follow the pack of wild php developers and attack ruby on rails. it rules. in the past 30 hours of dayish time - i have spent a significant amount of time devoted to learning this new platform. it is nifty for sure. Basically it is an mvcish platform that runs off of [...]

one thousandth post.

Lots and lots of writing has taken place. it is pretty nuts. i have been blogging since march 1st 2000. it is pretty nuts. A lot of words. a lot of randomness. a HUGE number of rants and a couple emotions. hah. mostly just drivel. it rules. Since 2000 i have had [...]

Those are my cousins. of course they are awesome. and I will be hanging out with them tomorrow. it should be fun. I am flying out tonight….

yea. a different color altogether. Wedding Story

So this weekend was pretty cool. I am reading another good japanese book. I have no idea why I am reading all the japanese dark ficiton I can get my hands on. I am currently reading Goodbye Tsugumi. it is pretty bleak. I like it. next I got like 3 murak…

pictures pictures pictures

ok. here are the pictures from dylans wedding: Wedding and bachelor party.it was fun. I am sleepy ;)

scared

i read “dance dance dance” by murakami last night. it was pretty creepy. for some reason these books really give me the creeps. it is nuts. totally totally nuts ;). but I really liked it too. which is good. yesterday we had dylans “bachelor party.” it was pretty fun. we had a HUGE bottle of vueve and a party bus and a bunch of fancy drinks. dylan and his friends were fun. anywa…

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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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