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

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

old boy.

old boy been working hard. dang dang darn. today I shoudl get my mac mini. so I planned for its arrival. I brought a fancy knife that I use to open things like apple computers, I brought a couple dual headed screwdrivers. and I brought a camera. I am ready t welcome the little guy into the new world. this has brought me to start thinking how silly the things I carry on my person are. so…

free ipod

so everyone is asking me how I got the free ipod. well. iw ill detail the steps:

I went to freeipods.com and signed up (june)
I posted the referer info to all my friends - no one did it ;)
I posted the referer info to nata2.info ( a pretty high bandwidth site) and a lot of people signed up and no one completed the offer.
I waited 6 months
I…

my room is a mess

seriously. it is a crazy mess. it just exploded the other day and I haven’t had a chance or …

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.

i am going to punch your arms with a stick

this weekend was pretty fun. I hung out with the fam. yea know the drill. I apparently let my parents car out of the closet. stupid cars. hiding ALL THE TIME. here be pictures.
here are other pictures of a diffe…

i just woke up and i have bad breath.

work is awesome again. on friday I did a bunch of stuff getting acclimated with flash and such. kinda fun. then I got bored and wne to drop off some cds to my “boss.” he was in his office with this dude listening to music. they were listening to death from above 1979. so I hung out and we all talked about death metal for about 40 minutes. totally awesome. I love it. then me and some fri…

fixored

i fixored my compxor. I am happy. desk tops are nicer than laptops. and they make me happy. I need dual lcds however. and a new ipod. I need to sleep first though. saw bourne supremacy tonight. it was good.

IJA - i.e. i like to juggle lots.

i have been away. oh yes. I have been away. i got to buffalo on wednesday night. dylan arrived shortly after I did and we went to the renegade show at this really awesome space called sphere. The renegade show was pretty awesome - mark faje was really funny as the MC and r…

stupid sick :: jokesareawesome.com

i hate being sick. it totally blows. I love black metal. I really don’t know how they are related. but I have listened to black metal for the last couple months. and it rules. today was all emporer.
i got bored of choosign music for my ipod - so I let itunes do it this time. it did a pretty good job. I am proud. anyway. last night I played yoyo and cleaned my room. it was co…

so i woke up

and freaked out a bit. I finally calmed down and found out that it will all be ok. I wasn’t freaking out about anything in particular. just freaking out. more of a nervous situation than anything. it was pretty weird. it is funny when you create scenerios in your head and they matter SOOO much - yet 15 minutes later you are like.. “ehh whatever.” basically I woke up, went home, saw that my serve…

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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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