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heh. on the road.

I am in a truck stop in indiana eating some food. We should get into columbus around 2 or so. Then I will be installing my servers tomorrow. It is kinda nerve racking. Cuz I gotta do good ;).

The drive is fun. I forgot how bogan indiana is. It reminds how fun the indy 500 is. Haha. I gotta find me some race fans. Flourescent colored shirts and all. Hah.maybe I will drive …

the angels of darkness sweep over you.

i fixed it. well I thought I did. until it wouldn’t reload. I think that our internet here is really slow. I can’t even ssh to my boxen. weird. and dumb. wierd and dumb. together at last. man it has been a long caffiene drenched day. umm. yea. so anyway. my original post was going to be like this: so I modified my photolog recently - I made it so the most …

hurts

so apparently paris hiltons birthday was on friday. she turned 23. hah. i turn 26 soon. that is really weird. I am almost 30. haha. I am sitting here listening to the cash money records platinum hits.. bouncing in my chair.. looking like a fool as usual. yea know.. the…

wow.

so it rained really hard for a long tie tonight. well not too long but like 30 minutes. the hippie guy that lives next door told me that a tornado was spotted 30 miles away. whoa. that would be crazy. in the country tornados touch down and nothing happens. but here havoc wuold insue. whoa. so after he said this - I immediately took off all my clothes and put on my nike basketball shorts and went …

Happy Birthday to me

Today is my 25th birthday. I am happy. Last night I hung out with a bunch of cool cats and we went to iggy’s and ate dinner. we got there about 11:50 so it was a good time. I drank beer and coke - not together.. mind you.. I am not like some of my friends.. hehe.. ;). it was fun. they sang happy birthday to me.. and succeeded in embarrasing me slightly. I like that.
WW3 seems like i…

Strange encounters with beast men.

So this weekend was incredible. It was also INSANE. seriously. on friday I hung out with a bunch of friends at the ladytron show. Which btw, was really great. ladytron did a remarkable job of representing their sound exactly how it is on the record. Dayum.. that concert was such a fashion show.. heh. so fun. my friend rachel c…

surprise surprise

It is interesting that when UN is trying to push weapons inspections and congress is giving all of our money to defense that the dow drops. I think that bush should hurry up

today is kinda weird

something is strangely off about today. maybe it is the cloud cover.. maybe the temp. maybe the wind.. maybe the lack of reality within my already pallid life.. maybe the drama I make up in sentences like the last one. ;).. but no matter what it is.. it looks like bush and his iraq issue is coming to a head.
apparently a outspoken and often-ally of bush is making statements about how

indy 500 - b00ya

So this weekend was quite somthing. Friday night I went out with friends to a coupl eclubs. and hung out with “rockstars.” it was fun. They are all very nice. And strangly.. a high number of them are apparently computer people. it is wierd. I ended up staying out til 5 that night which was a shock to myself. I didn’t mean to at all. heh… whoopsso after a late start.. my friend kayne …

Sometimes..

This weekend was good, my friend from high school, megan, came and visited. It was fun to be around her again.. ever since friday my life has been very very surreal. After I got home from work - I immediately got a huge headache. HUGE. it was horrible. I stumbled around and then a firned picked me up. I passed out in her car and awoke to find myself in a nice indian resturant. ahh.. how nice. I a…

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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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