Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
woah. now george bush is bargaining with terrorists after telling the world that the U.S. will not bargain with terrorists EVER. I love how the U.S. treated North Korea completely different than Iraq. North Korea was telling everyone who would listen that they have nuclear weapons.. the U.S. basically told North Kor…
error
24 Mar
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 07:20 AM
Tags: cars, iraq, php, rock, war, watership
So I went to an oscar party tonight. I showed up and suddenly realized that my rocker charade was not going to cut it at the formal party I found my self at. Heh. my friend carl was like.. are you the hot guy or the weird guy.. well I was the weird guy.. but soon I became the hot guy.. oh so hot.. so the oscars.. I am so glad michael moore said what he said. it is imaportant to get that mes…
ben a. wile
28 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:29 PM
Tags: bush, business, google, harper, iraq, reed, school, search, server, terrorism, war
I for some reason had an aversion to updating my website this week. I think it was cuz I was so busy at work. serious. I was crazy busy. and it was frustrating things I was doing. for some reason - everything I tried to do didn’t work. I was annoyed. and most of the stuff was just stupid. heh. like I had done it one hundred times before and none of it worked this time. dumbass things. hehe. but …
upgrade
21 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 07:22 AM
Tags: action, audrey, audreyhacking, bush, community, hacking, hosting, humor, iraq, job, movies, music, server, video, war
i really need to upgrade servers. I need like 3 more. One for a firewall, one for web hosting and one for backups. That would rule.
i price them at around 4k. So if anyone wants to give me 4k. I would be happy ;)So apparently audreyhacking.com is in wired this month. Somewhere around page 75. I really need to g…
our world rules
14 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:21 PM
Tags: asia, birthday, chicago, dylan, humor, iraq, php, reed, source, terrorism, war
Happy Valentines dayToday is my brothers birthday. Happy birthday dylan. for your birthday I got you a nuclear war threat.
sweet huhI love the our leaders ability to really fudge certain things.. like the propagand…
icon = religious graphics
12 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 08:17 PM
Tags: author, bush, family, fear, humor, insane, iraq, jokes, php, terrorism, war
So washington is prepared. I would be so surprised if we were to receive a air strike. could you imagine what would happen. beside the fear and trauma that would occur. I mean every aspect of our life would be affected. It would be insane. I am not ready fo that. I am ready for
TDD for ALL States
07 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:40 PM
Tags: action, bush, chicago, iraq, matiss, php, politic, politics, tools
I need to fix my car. when I say fix - I really mean register and insure it in chicago. I also need to get a chicago license. I have been skirting the law for awhile now and I can no longer do it(btw I am insured.. just not registered.. ugh). heh. last night matiss and I invited some cats to come over and watch the spooky michael jackson interview. boy that d00d is a weirdo. jesus. it is all very…
gerbil
24 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:40 PM
Tags: aim, blogs, bush, disease, iraq, juggle, matiss, sex, war, women
i don’t know what that means. does anyone remember the realgerbil page that mocked the realdoll page? remember the picture of the gerbil being violated.. heh. I wish I had saved that. what genius.. anyway.. at the Middle East Web Log there is a nifty article about how saddam is hidi…
friend jon
16 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 02:45 PM
Tags: bush, business, greeley, iraq, Technology
My friend Jon got an article written about him in our hometown newspaper. Check it out. He walked a long way. Wierd - there is appare…
A simulation..
14 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 11:16 PM
Tags: ipod, iraq, politic, politics, rock, war
A simulation of war with IRAQ. RULE. I have always loved propaganda, but the whitehouse is dumb as rocks when it comes to this stupid wa…
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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