11 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 12:28 AM
Tags: awesomeguy, awesometown, creatures, dylan, etsy, fun
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 [...]
14 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 01:50 PM
Tags: buses, chicago, cta, dylan, hiromi, lincoln-square, logan-square, mosso, moving, servers, skinnycorp, valentines-day
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 [...]
03 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 07:39 PM
Tags: dylan, family, finances, humor
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 [...]
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. ;)
19 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 11:35 PM
Tags: alliedmovements, blogs, community, domains, dylan, php, rails, ruby, stigmata
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 [...]
15 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 10:00 AM
Tags: blogs, dylan, ella, google, jon, one, post., resume, riottech, thousandth
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 [...]
04 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 06:56 PM
Tags: blogger, development, dylan, family, harper, itunes, itunesblogger, phone, reed, screensaver, symbian, war, watership, wordpress
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….
07 Sep
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:20 PM
Tags: books, dad, dylan, family, grandpa, greeley, hiromi, insane, nokia, phone, school, travel, wedding
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…
05 Sep
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 12:07 AM
Tags: dylan, wedding
ok. here are the pictures from dylans wedding: Wedding and bachelor party.it was fun. I am sleepy ;)
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…
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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