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Japan Tech Friends

A couple weeks ago, I was in japan for some family events. It was a great trip. Hanging out with Hiromi’s family and friends was awesome. Since we were going to be spending some free time in Tokyo, i decided to reach out to the Tokyo tech community and meet some people.  I emailed my [...]

Going to Japan.

So I leave on Sunday to go visit Hiromi in Tokyo. I am excited. It will be my 3rd time visiting her this year and I will be there for 13 days! whooo. I will be spending most of my time in Tokyo (I think), but we will be traveling to Yamanashi to celebrate new years with [...]

Marriage. TOKYO.

So Hiromi and I are all married up now. Exciting. It was a weird and bureaucracy filled trip these last couple months and it all culminated with an excellent trip to Tokyo with my dad and Hiromi and us getting hitched.
So, apparently, attempting to get a visa to the U.S. is a bunch of work. [...]

whew.. almost all done..

So everything worked out and Hiromi and I were married on tuesday. It was really fun. and really barely more than signing a paper. which i liked quite a bit. Today we did the first part of the visa stuff. It was insane. and really crazy. totally stressful. government offices are annoying and really bureaucratic. [...]

so.. my experience in tokyo

Sorry i have been in such a “not blogging” mood, but i have been in a real bad state since i got back. I got back last saturday and of course was jet-lagged. As soon as that was over i realized that i had contrated some space cold from either the plane, the train [...]

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i just woke up… heh. 19 hours of sleep

hahaha. i didn’t mean to. i had set my alarms for 8pm last night. but apparently i didn’t hear it or anything else until about 2 today. hah. whoops.
Well.. i was going to write up my experience in japan. I still think i will. However not right now. I also need to annotate all my [...]

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i made it to tokyo

The flight was long. I mean… LONG. I was sleepy so i slept all the way. but i still got bored on the plane. I really needed to bring a book – but it was dark and i didn’t want to wake up my neighbors. but i made it. Immigtation was sooo easy. They just [...]

  

Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. 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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