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weekend oh yea

so this weekend i hung out a lot. it was awesome. i came home from work early on friday (holiday) and hung out with matt and hiromi. we went and got beers, pop, cheese and thai food. then we watched new poilce story. so so good. it was about jackie chan - a screwed up [...]

casshern and itunesblogger

I got all my movies last night. i had ordered a bunch: casshern, in the mood for love, 2046, kung fu hustle, a world without thieves, colored bloussoms, new police story and old boy. i am pretty excited.
i went ahead and watched casshern. it is incredible. one of the weirdest movies i have [...]

i HATE the usps. seirously i HATE them

So i have been ordering from hivizone, a hong kong asian cinema store, for about 4 years now. and they send via speedpost - which eventually turns into USPS. well. goddamn USPS always makes receiving packages a nightmare. so for the second time in the last six months i have placed an order with hivizone [...]

lalala. connect the dots.

this morning I woke up early. like 7:00. I was having a dream wher ei was invader zim and I was able to time travel (a combination of the two things I did last night between 2:30am and 4:00am). it ruled. I just buzzed around and had time traveling problems. I am currently reading this book by authur c clarke. it rules. I forgot what it is called. I have not bothered to look at the titles of the l…

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…

trout. i mean lobster.

i really want to go dancing - big band style. all of a sudden. or just watch triplets of belleville. something. just not be up or at work. I am tired of wearing “business casual” clothing. I really want to just wear jeans. or whatever. just something that isn’t “business casual.” I suppose I will get over it. ;) I go through these…

My Trip

here is what I am going to do this winter:

Chicago - New York - London - Belfast - Glasgow - London - Vienna - Zurich - Helsinki - Saint Petersburg - Moscow - Tel Aviv - Beijing - Xian - Guilin - Guangzhou (Canton) - Hong Kong - Xiamen - Shanghai - Seoul - Kagoshima - Tokyo - Seoul - Beijing - Xian - Chengdu - Kunming - Hanoi - Bangkok - Bali (Denpasar) - Adelaide - Hong …

trains like buses

I am mad at boston. mostly cuz it doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. the roads all go this way and that. I was not aware of how drasticly logic chicago’s roadway system was until about 45 minutes ago. also wtf is with the trains that make NO sense. serious. No sense at all. and they are really buses.. acting like trains. not trains at all. slackers…bush is kinda dumbi have no dou…

welcome back.

So I am now at work. Vacations are nice. some would say vacations are kick ass. I woudl tend to agree. The last couple days have been a DVD binge. I purchased 19 dvds from my brothers hollywood video store and got 11 from hong kong. I am excited. Soon I will have to make a dvd database so you can all peruse my dvd collection. I also plan on buying a new tv soon.. probably a wega. but I don’t kno…

  

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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