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

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

it appears as though

i haven’t really been blogging like I should. eh.. I get annoyed with it. so I don’t do it. and then my friends and family contact me and yell. haha. so then I start again. heh. a “never ending” cycle of horror. heh. eh.. it isn’t so bad. I don’t really mind it. I just haven’t had all the extra time in the world. only about half of all the extra time.
speaking of extra time. I ha…

i suppose, i really do.

so basically I haven’t updated this thing in about 3 years. which is a long time. so I am going to “update” yall as to my whereabouts. so. I got this new job. it is taking a lot of my time. it rules. but I am in a different paradigm than I was when I was at the WB. basically I am totally engaged for 8 hours. I have to be much more accountable and I have to really justify my actions. th…

i have an experiment

here is my newest google experiment.

hello hello

this is dumb. heh. BREAKING THE LAW!!
this weekend was pretty fun. I got my hair severly cut on friday. no more

i amaze myself with my ability to not die.

hehe. this weekend was an incredible experiment in what I can take - mostly in regards to sleep deprevation - but also in regards to alcohol poisoning. which is really something I am not exactly proud of - but it was a lot of fun. so it all started on thrusday. me and some friends went to a smartbar party - and then to crobar. I had to try out my new “drop my name and you can get into crobar for…

ghosts

i got my new phone. it is quite something. I am unable to post pictures with it yet.. I don’t know why. but I imagine soon. I just have to experiment. heh. experiment. yesterday I hleped scott with a surprise party after he closed on his house and asked his girlfriend beth to marry him. weird. it was pretty fun. I had too much sushi and too much alcohol and ended up going to bed around twelve - …

i didn’t shower this morning.

in fact I really didn’t do much. I honestly barely made it to work. but on;y because I was so tired from working last night. I don’t know what the deal was.. I was dieing. I drank soo much pop and candy - I think I surpassed the point of it being helpfuland it became a method of sedation. stupid sedation. I am sitll in love however with wireless internet. so before any asks.. yea I like it.

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

yo yo yo

for the love of god it was a great weekend. Work has been interesting. a lot of drama and going forwards-ness. it is nice. finally stuff is getting done. but at the expense of a lot of comfortability and weird weird situations. anyway..On friday I came home and took a nap. I talked with ladawn a bunch on the phone which was awesome, she seems to be doing wonderful. I decided that my roo…

today is awesome

I saw a post in friendster about sad songs - or songs that make you cry and I thought about making a mood song db. but instead I just reposted the sad song list on ironkungfu. check it out here. please add some of your own.
i am going to add a del.icio.us plugin to my site soon. it should rule. then you all can see what…

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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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