i enjoy work. it is fun. the people are nice. i am excited to get relaly involved and spend days and nights here. haha.
i have a lot of monitor at my desk. a combined amount of 47inches. w00t. the best is the little 7″ lilliput display. totally for irc and by irc i mean [...]
10 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 12:10 AM
Tags: family, hiromi, travel, yoyo
It rules. I am having a great time. it is really fun to hang out with my cousin cole, my mom and hiromi. I am going to miss hiromi when she leaves.
Cole is becoming a pretty good yoyoer. that rules
19 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 03:19 AM
Tags: awesome, clubbing, hiromi, movies, music, nightlife, party
I am having a hell of a time staying on task. I really have NO idea what day it is or where i am. haha. well i know i am on my couch. watching shitty TV and wishing i had an office. But soon it will all change.
I have been planning a bit more, [...]
07 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 05:32 PM
Tags: agile, blogs, books, coding, development, engineering, firefox, gtd, hiromi, management, projects, rails, ruby, yoyo
Yes. it is true. i am freakishly busy. and of course while being freakishly busy i find the most time expensive hobby ever. So matiss and i have been playing quake 3 again. We were playing the requiem mod for hours, but it got kinda boring so we switched to the urban terror full conversion. [...]
13 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 01:46 PM
Tags: hiromi, hungry, mark, matiss, movies, websites, wedding
Last night hiromi and mark and myself went and saw mr. and mrs. smith. it was pretty nice. Really funny. a lot of good relationship jokes. The only flaw was that we got there late so we had to sit in the very front row. kind of a bummer. but it ruled.
This weekend was [...]
23 May
Posted by Harper in General at 12:06 AM
Tags: bike, books, crobar, danielle, google, hacking, hacks, hiromi, music, programming, psp, rails, ruby, trex, wedding
So i had written some crappy post on how i made this it said:
here check it out here. i have been listening to only t. rex. i love it.
After thinking about it - i decided that this weekend deserved a better entry than “yea look here blah blah blah.” So here goes.
Friday was [...]
13 May
Posted by Harper in General at 10:09 AM
Tags: amara, ella, hiromi, party, taiwan, yoyos
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 [...]
08 May
Posted by Harper in General at 11:22 PM
Tags: blogs, clubbing, cole, hiromi, wordpress
it is kinda late. hiromi and i are waiting for food. how i love you food. my new friend who i will soon destroy. food. my friend food.
i have been sick and sleepy for the last couple days. It sucks. last night i just stayed in and screwed around. did nothing. slept most of [...]
hiromi got a blog. heh. i hooked her up. hopefully she will use it. UNLIKE MATISS. heh.
anyway. yea. the new ruby on rails (i.e. raspberry) ituners.com is almost done. i am excited. it is pretty sweet.
17 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 01:08 PM
Tags: birthday, books, college, games, hiromi, irc, matiss, museums, Sites, tools, war, work
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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