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So a couple weeks ago I found weewar and applied for an invite. Once I got in, I invited some friends. Then we fought our little wars. They were wee. Weewar is basically a turn based strategy game where you have little guy who have different roles. You attempt to capture your opponents bases and [...]

hifi zone

haha.
anyway.. i am going to build out a new stereo for my room. i am pretty excited. It will be a simple inexpensive/expensive hifi system. some good speakers, a preamp, a good amp, a cd player, an ipod dock and that is about it. I have been excited about the T-amp from Sonic Impact [...]

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New York Peeps: check out Heath’s new group for watching movies. and such. i imagine it will be a good time.
I have been playing with my PSP a lot more. today on the bus i solved contra. that game is damned hard. seriously. wtf. what kid is going to be able to do that. [...]

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i got up late today. it was a bummer. I did na mean to. but I kept
having WEIRD dreams about doing menial tasks at work. so nerve
wrecking. they were stressful dreams. not as awesome as other dreams.
and my eyes are sleepy. and I am hungry. and and andlast night
we went to the science and industry museum – it was closed. suxor.
hah.  so I think I am going to go tomorrow with h…

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i am listening to some awesome music.

i think the mix is grave diggaz, front line assembly, himsa, bleeding through and fischerspooner. haha. it rules. it is also a lot better on shuffle. ;) I love mp3s. last night all I did was play video games. I played gish for about an hour – it is a lot of fun. I enjoyed the motif quite a bit. I do wish it really looked like the still gra…

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woooooooooooo hooooooo

this weekend was really fun. I liked it. basically I just hung out and played video games, went to clubs and drank vodka. yea know. the usual. it all started on thrusday (as it always does)… so thursday I went to sushi wabi with claudia. then to sonotech. and I saw elisa. I was so excited. I hadn’t seen her in ages. I lke my friends. then we went to bungalow to see jordan and chad -…

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heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:

[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job

So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…

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my eyes are dripping tiredness

however, I don’t feel very tired. I really don’t understand how it is that I am able to lead this weird dual life. my friend adam equated it to the original mods from the 50s and 60s. he said they used to have normal jobs(working 9-5) and look like business people – then after work they would transform into these fashion seeking scene people. right after my friend adam told me this he started s…

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so tired. this weekend. etv. weddings are fun and weird

this weekend I went to colorado to see my friend sarah get married. it was pretty fun. I really enjoy weddings even though they are so weird. sara h and matt were really cute. it was nice that they got …

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totoro. medicine women

this is pretty funny. sometimes I wish I had a secret place to store things. like a mary poppins bag of sorts that I could carry around and remove HUGE objects from. it would rule. but that technology is full of ninjas right now.tonight I watched anchorman. it was very funny. I LOVED brick. that actor cracks me up. he sure love…

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. 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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