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Happy thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving!
It has been a long and lazy day today. Pretty awesome. We are about to head out to a party at our friend Jill’s house. it should be fun. There were so many options this year. Quite a few people offered to include us in their families thanksgiving - it was a hard [...]

Christmas parties are pretty awesome.

This pass weekend was the skinnyCorp Christmas party and what not. It was awesome. An entire weekend of entertainment, debauchery and insanity. Pure insanity. Fun Fun.
The insanity started at work around 4. The entire day had been insane, with a supposed real world appearance and our Internet going down, so when 4pm rolled around [...]

After a really nice long week in Colorado I am sadly back in Chicago and back to work. We had a fun time. I got in two Fridays ago.
I arrived in Colorado the Friday before thanksgiving. My plane was arriving late - so my brother and his wife Sarah picked me up. We then drove [...]

So i haven’t updated in awhile. that is.. i haven’t updated since the beginning of thanksgiving weekend. Oh what a weekend it was. Filled with unimaginable excitment and fun.
On wednesday i arriveed. my mother had made all of us kids (dylan, jon, me, sarah, and my cousins) fur vests. Most of them were wolverine [...]

gray. i am starting to hate dismantling.

today everything I am wearing is either grey or black. even my underwear and socks. it is kinds funny. I didn’t mrean to and I didn’t really think about it until I was on the train. but yea. everything is grey. hah. it is still sad out today. the weather is nice though. the sun. however it is cold. it is kinda how I feel right now. last night morgan sent me an email that r…

valentines eve. umm.. nope.

so this weekend was pretty fun. on friday I hung out with morgan and we went to a art opening at my friend lenores gallery. the opening was fun - but the hanging out was really good. after this event, we went to a party where a pinata filled with cayan pepper was exploded prior to our arrival. it was rather abrasive on my poor nasal passage ;). we hun…

happy xmas and such

So we had a great xmas. I am glad to be back but I was really happy to be able to spend christmas with my family. my cat had a hole in it. it was gross. but apparently it is getting filled in or has gotten filled in. it was …

thanksgiving was a sham..

So I just got back.. well not just but recently got back from my parents house in colorful colorado and we had our fake thanksgiving. it was really nice. a bunch of people came and had fun with us. the best was watching kile and the crew

ok dohkee. so i have slept

This weekend was insane. as you may be able to tell from the crazy blog entries. I was a madperson. So.. on saturday I went to quad cities juggle fest. it was a lot of fun. I hung out with mark and some nice jugglers from carleton college. we juggled a bunch. I love juggling with little kids - who are as good as I am. hah. at five or so I went to the theatre with mark.. and hung out with the perf…

Week end.

I had a good weekend. I hung out all sorts of good friends and heard the downlow on everyones holiday. What a nice thing holidays are. I need another one so I don’t get so sleepy. ;) On saturday miriam and myself went to a rather humorous play called “cooking with elvis.” It was quite interesting and had some very funny moments - it was also slightly depres…

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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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