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

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I love metal. Seriously. I love it. And metal concerts are always full of the most interesting experiences. However - the last couple shows I have been to I haven’t really been into it. I remember back in the day when Matiss and I went to go see Dimmu Borgir and how awesome it was.  [...]

Oh my god. I can see forever

So tonight i was awesome. I mean. i am always pretty awesome. but tonight i really ruled. I have been trying to send a text message to eveyone in my phone book saying the caption from the family circus cartoon on the right: “Oh my god. I can see forever.” However - my phone kept [...]

I just saw torche.

It was awesome. Today was a much better day.
I am waiting at my house for 6 midwest yoyo kids to come over. We are going to a party. It should be exciting. yoyos for everyone!

dude! vh1 owns right now

So vh1 is doing “metal month” for may. This may be better than shark week! wtf. I didn’t think there was a possibility for something better on TV than shark week.
Check it out. Awesome. Best thing on television ever.

stupid sleep. i hate you!

So last nights late night game playing was maybe not the best idea to quell my sickness. but it ruled so much. we came to my work around 7 to play some half life deathmatch and counterstrike: source. and we left around 3:30am - totally inadvertently. we had planned to leave much earlier cuz both [...]

Metal Deli

So i was walking down lake on my way to work and i passed this deli that makes pretty good sandwiches and i noticed the super metal IRON MAIDEN fonted sign. This place has a dude that works there and he is METAL! like totally hard, dressed in black, long hair and smokes cigarettes all [...]

i am listening to some awesome music.

i think the mix is grave diggaz, front line assembly, himsa, bleeding through and fischerspooner. haha. it rules. it is also a lot better on shuffle. ;) I love mp3s. last night all I did was play video games. I played gish for about an hour - it is a lot of fun. I enjoyed the motif quite a bit. I do wish it really looked like the still gra…

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 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…

i suppose, i really do.

so basically I haven’t updated this thing in about 3 years. which is a long time. so I am going to “update” yall as to my whereabouts. so. I got this new job. it is taking a lot of my time. it rules. but I am in a different paradigm than I was when I was at the WB. basically I am totally engaged for 8 hours. I have to be much more accountable and I have to really justify my actions. th…

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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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