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

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

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….

heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:

[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job

So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…

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…

hey hey itunes haxors

i made a quick little hack. you can get it here. WARNING. it is REALLY REALLY rough. but it will be a lot better soon. we are gunna give it the “treatment.” basically it is a webserver that listens to a pre desposed port and servers a static page. this page takes from it whatever song is currently playign in itunes and displays it. it also displa…

i drove my bike all around.

last night I got home from work. went to the mega mall and got my yoyo case. it rules. so insane. haha. I will take a picture. matiss got a cell phone. haha. ;) i rode my bike a bunch yesterday. apparently around 15 miles. I haven’t rode a bike in years. it was interesting to find myself getting back in to the hang of it. I can now ride for a long time with no hands. it is pr…

oh yea. thats right. no idea whats going on.

i woke up this morning with both a strange sickness in my throat and an feeling that I had lost all ability to type. it was weird. this weekend was pretty good. I basically just hung out with some friends, saw some good shows and all that nonsense. It all started on thrusday. oh yea. crobar. we all hung out. hiromi was drinking a little more than she usually does so that was hilarious….

yoyoyo all the good men are dieing.

so the past month - I have reengaged my ears in a black metal journey. it is awesome. I

i just got up

i am supposed to go juggle with matiss.
however. I lost matiss.
where is he.

The dog I grew up with is really sick aand being put to sleep right now. it is pretty sad. she was old. and she was a good dog. last night was fun. it was a good friday. I hung out with hiromi, claudia, felix and felix’s crew. we went to crobar and chilled. it was nice. I drank a lit…

i am incredibly tired.

i feel better. even matt said I looked and acted more chilled out. I really feel more chilled out. morgan and I talked and came to a point where we are in the same space/place. I think it will work out. we obviously have to redefine our relationship. and how we work together. but that is totally fine and completely appropriate. I think she said it best with an analogy to the gears in a car. going…

The disaster it could have been…

Last night was so dope. We, the J.O.D. juggled at chris holmes’ electro shw at te metro. it was sooo much fun. all my friends were there - and it was great to juggle with matt, matiss and brad. so much fun. here are pictures. The show was insane. first we started wit…

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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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