Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

Tonight, Scott and I presented at the Chicago Ignite tech meetup. It was pretty fun. The event was “eventful” and the people were the usual. I was able to meet up with trow and the hosted labs guys - so that was good. It is always fun to involve ourselves in these affinity events. This [...]

IRC is a very strange place

I sit on IRC quite a lot. Most of the time in #corporate on efnet. I have been there pretty much everyday for the last 5 years. Kind of insane. I love shells. anyway, in the past couple months some friends and i were talking about starting another channel. So we brainstormed some channel names. [...]

Goddamn Stoners!

A friend of mine works for high times. So Charlie and I figured we would send them a small swag package - and then they would send us a swag package. Fun fun. And a simple transaction.. or so we thought.
Natasha is my friend who works for High Times.
Here is our chat log:
6/11/2007

Natasha: hey [...]

eek. I’ve been dugg!

So I am totally sleep deprived. I got back from Japan yesterday and didn’t follow the rules for avoiding jet lag - mainly I went right to sleep and then stayed up all night hanging out. So I decided to stay up all day today as punishment. Then I will go to bed normally and [...]

Sometimes blogs are sad

My brother and his wife are struck with a season of hard times. Its a bummer. He is a wonderfully happy person and I know they will get through this fine, but it seems that he is at that point I think almost all of us have been at, where it seems like there is no [...]

fukung.net - a new face to nata2.info

I was thinking about how I have a lot of domains that are not being used and how that pisses me off. It is annoying to have a domain that costs 12 bucks or whatever (stupid joker) and isn’t making money - when I could. And a lot of times I am not really mad [...]

Oh my god. I can see forever

So tonight i was awesome. I mean. i am always pretty awesome. but tonight i really ruled. I have been trying to send a text message to eveyone in my phone book saying the caption from the family circus cartoon on the right: “Oh my god. I can see forever.” However - my phone kept [...]

I redid jokesareawesome.com

Check it out here: jokesareawesome.com
I made it a bit more user friendly, made it a bit more web 2.0 and really fixed up the backend. The biggest  change is that i added youtube content and added all my nata2.info pictures. I want to start doubling my nata2.info income. hah. maybe by replicating the site. haha. [...]

hahaha. hiromi rules

so hiromi, morgan, matiss and i were all chatting and hiromi was talkign about japanese TV:

hiromi: Japanese comedians dress up like white people like michel jackson

That is genius in so many ways.

i rule

So i was persuing google and i was googling my name - yea know checking up on myself. doing a background search to see if i am insane and worth hanging out with. you know you do.. maybe not on yourself.. but i get concerned that i am too crazy. so i had to check.. [...]

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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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