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

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

AT&T is screwing the Deaf Community

Man. This really gets my goat.
I have always had an interest in accessibility of technology by people who are differently abled, but i usually concentrated on seniors and children. It never occurred to me the challenges that a deaf person would have interacting with mobile phones and all that (I mean - i was aware [...]

New clothes

So for awhile i have been paying attention to the BAPE/BBC phenomona that is invading hiphop. I guess i should say it has invaded hiphop. Anyway. I have admired the all over print, crazy foil, insane patterned hoodies and shirts for far too long. I am going to try and acquire some stuff that is [...]

omg. insanity. chicago cops

so tonight I went to crobar. my friend dayle met me. he is crazy. I am crazy. we hung out. he was giving me a ride home and he got pulled over. he may or may not have been driving crazy. I don’t know. however we got pulled over. the cops pulled their guns and told us to get out with our hands up. we both did. they made us get out and they searched us rather throughoughly. (that is spelled horrib…

my birthday party at crobar. heh. funfun

I am sitting here listening to the misfits. oh how I love the misfits. heh. I could listen to last caress every day. heh ;)
so anyway.
last night after work - hiroimi and I went to the body worlds
exhibit. it was hand down the craziest thing I have EVER seen. EVER.
totally insane. real people. dead. and made into plastic. totally
crazy. I don’t relaly know what to think….

just the other day

i was hanging out in colorado enjoying the 63 degree weather.
worryign about sunburn. wathcing my cousins run around being insane.
spray painting stuff. breaking stuff. yea know the usual family get
together. and then I come back to chicago. everything breaks and BAM it
becomes 20 degress. wtf. this is not allowed. i am ready for
summer. I am ready for something exciting. this proj…

camophone

so today I played a bit with campphone. it is insane. I caller id tricked most of my friends. this is a VERY scary tool. never trust anyone.

heh.

i have accidently slept every night until about 1 for the past 3 days. I come home from work and “read” a book and then wake up in the middle of the night. tonight I caught myself and woke up at 11:45. wheee.i am reading these insane fantasy novels that matiss lent me. I don’t usually like fantasy nobels - however these are incredible. they are called the “vlad taltos” books - the first …

so busy. but almost done.

check it out. the first step: yeknom industries. w00t. you will have to wait until later to see what comes next. being so busy I have barely had enough time to notice the insanely smart people who “hang” on the internet. basically I mean.. google employees. heh. for some starters - Chris Wetherell seems to be quite…

interesting milestones.

i was playing around with my blog software and I noticed something pretty cool. I have taken over 1000 pictures with my nokia cell phone cam and have roughly 2525 pictures total in my photolog. I have taken pictures of a bunch of neat stuff. it is pretty cool. I have wanted to make a view that is the text from the blog and the pictures all in one fancy view. but I haven’t. maybe soon. haha.

whew. finally updated. for real.

it has been a weird couple days. It all started last wednesday. tommie called me to alert me of his presence and invite me to scissor sisters. that ruled. we hung out then. and then we went to crobar and I broke myself. i hadn’t been feeling good. so I stayed in bed friday. then we…

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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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