i am about to step out and got pick up hiromi. She lands in about 40 minutes. i am going to attempt to time the foster bus perfectly to drop me off at the airport just as she is leaving customs. ;)
more later.
So i am kinda tired. i have been sick for the last month. it is lame. First i thought it was just jetlag mixed with matiss’s germs from his sickness mixed with being in tokyo and then the US so fast. But then it never really ended - so i decided that i probably have/had [...]
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 [...]
26 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 06:02 PM
Tags: hiromi, japan, slacker, taxes, travel
hahaha. i didn’t mean to. i had set my alarms for 8pm last night. but apparently i didn’t hear it or anything else until about 2 today. hah. whoops.
Well.. i was going to write up my experience in japan. I still think i will. However not right now. I also need to annotate all my [...]
25 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 08:02 PM
Tags: hiromi, tokyo, travel
So i got back this morning. i wasn’t able to sleep or anything so i went on the needed journey to get some project pieces and tools. I went to radio shack and home depot. all by walking. it was pretty awesome. i am now really tired. i imagine later tonight i will through up [...]
17 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 07:32 AM
Tags: awesome, hiromi, japan, travel
The flight was long. I mean… LONG. I was sleepy so i slept all the way. but i still got bored on the plane. I really needed to bring a book - but it was dark and i didn’t want to wake up my neighbors. but i made it. Immigtation was sooo easy. They just [...]
09 Mar
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 04:24 AM
Tags: ambientagent, gumstix, hiromi, myspace, nerd, php, podcasting
The last couple weeks have been ultra nerdy. It has been great. I got my gumstix and have been rocking that - attempting to get a handle on how i am going to make that work. It doesn’t seem like it will be all that hard to theoretically make. I am worried about having to [...]
22 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 12:56 AM
Tags: add, apartment, hiromi, ramble, roommate, tv
and sleep deprevation is destroying my ADD.
I really feel that ADD helps me work on all my projects. For instance today: I worked on extratasty for 3 hours, I played with the stompbox and the verizon card for 3 hours and I did “research” on some other projects (jacobs sync hah) for awhile. But - [...]
03 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 01:16 PM
Tags: api, chicago, christmas, flickr, hiromi, killhannah, nye, rails, upgrading
I am lost in regards to what to listen to. I need something new. Or old. i don’t know.
This is really amazing. For some reason people are taking “famous” videos and making them “stable.” It is quite interesting and makes watching the videos a bit more mysterious - cuz the video becomes much more [...]
28 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 01:38 AM
Tags: awesome, chicago, console, emulation, games, hacking, hiromi, jpan, psp, skinnycorp
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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