05 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 01:50 AM
Tags: avec, chicago, dining, eating, family, food, green-zebra, hard-rock-hotel, travel
This weekend my parents visited. It was really awesome. They haven’t visited since Hiromi moved back - and they really wanted to see her. So they stopped by for a quick trip and some excellent dining.
They got in Thursday night - so Hiromi and myself went downtown and visited them at the Hard Rock Hotel [...]
so i am not a large person. i am no where near little either. I grew up really skinny and just in the last few years have gained weight. Recently i noticed that i gained a belly. Not the ironic funny belly - but a legit paunch. I don’t really want a paunch - and [...]
01 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 08:00 PM
Tags: food, hiromi, japan, tokyo, travel, trips
Sorry i have been in such a “not blogging” mood, but i have been in a real bad state since i got back. I got back last saturday and of course was jet-lagged. As soon as that was over i realized that i had contrated some space cold from either the plane, the train [...]
It rules. i slept all day. i think it is the first time i have slept this late in QUITE awhile. at least since the vox times. it felt sooo good.
now i am going to order thai food, hang out, make websites and then watch a movie.
that is all.
15 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 02:10 AM
Tags: bike, crobar, food, fun, ideas, travel
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 [...]
31 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 03:35 AM
Tags: awesome, food, skinnycorp, work
so jake and jeffrey rocked out this site in like negative 10 days. it was done nice and fast. check it out: skinnyCorp.
Oh yea. work is awesome. i finally got my computer up and running.
tonight i had dinner with claudia, steve, tasha and friends. it was really nice. i love them. so nice [...]
08 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 06:50 PM
Tags: andy, food, on, projects, rails, railsday, ruby
So andy and i did rails day on saturday. It was quite an experience. We started about 10am and worked until about 6pm. We got almost the entire way through the application with some MAJOR pieces missing - but not so bad for barely 8 hours or whatever. we totally coudl have finished if we [...]
i watched godfather part 3, did some stuff for arman, updated musicblogger.org, updated 3gcoding.com, fixored up matiss’s site and cooked some food. and by cook i mean assembled sandwiches and drank juice box like soy milk.
i am so excited for soy corndogs and juice boxes.
i am tired of Russian and German spam.
i [...]
Today i went to the grocery. for the first time in many years. possibly 2. hah. for food. i mean i have been for other things. but never for food. hahaha. ok. work.
oh yea. i am reading an EXCELLENT set of awesome alien books. matiss rules!
28 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 02:29 AM
Tags: awesome, blogs, crobar, flickr, food, hong, itunes, kong, party, sushi
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 [...]
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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