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

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

whale. big. boat. little.

I love flickr. it is great. My friend thom has posted what could be one of the most amazing pictures i have ever seen. check it out here.
Last night i saw mike and his friends at clark’s. it ruled. however i had a horrible headache. HORRIBLE. so i went home. went to bed. slept. [...]

like a hoody on a hot day

Recently hiromi and myself sent some gifts to a friend of ours in taiwan. I sent her a hoody and hiromi sent her a skirt. here is a picture of her with the goods.
last night mark and i searched far and wide for some superbling for our yoyos. we were not successful. but i [...]

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 [...]

hi ella

So i hate bogon ips. they are annoying. so i unblocked them. it was causing all sorts of problems. stupid bogon ips.
goddamn ecto. it doesn’t work except to break everything. so confused.

skype. long distance. radio waves. and yoyos

this weekend was a good time. I flew to minneapolis to engage in a juggling festival. it ruled. I saw lots of cool friends. sadly tomorrow is work. hey all my far away friends (i.e. bec, miriam and ella) I am n…

oh yea

hehe. I saw the pixies again on monday. and then again last night. I am retarded. they are getting harder as the nights progress. I wonder what tonight will bring. for me: naps. that is goddamned right. I am so tired. so so so tired. I am supposed to hang out. but oh no. I am going to nap.
i got an interesting shout out on tank boys …

how soon is tomorrow

Today is weird. I worked from 9 to 5 twice in 24 hours. That is a lot of work. I am totally of the school of thought that you should always pace yourself. 16 hours with a 3 hour break isn’t really pacing myself. But whatever - it is the same sxhedule I sometimes have with going out and work - and I don’t complain then. Heh.

Today I got a letter from my friend ella from taiwan. It w…

gross

mcdonalds is incredibly gross. I hope somebody tells all the mcmutants before they break into a thousand pieces terminator two style.i love spacemoosehere is a great irc quote about diets from scottv: “i’m on the science diet, I eat dog food” heh.

hiromi and ella..

So my friend and best fan in taiwan, ella, met with my roommate hiromi in taiwan. I sent a care package with hiromi for ella. she seemed to like her a care package - which is good.

good morning.. or not

today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.. which is incredibly hard.. since there is a wall in the way.. but however I managed it.. I am totally backwards and screwed up today. it is a pain. first off I locked myself out of my apartment.. I wasn’t even ready to leave.. but I left.. then realized I didn’t have anything but my cell phone.. so I was able to call and wake matiss to have him le…

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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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