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

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So i don’t usually do it. i only do it when i feel its easy – or maybe when it is hardest. i don’t really know. i imagine you can totally tell by reading my past entries. regardless of how easy or hard it is – i totally thinkthat i need to blog sometimes. and [...]

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METALLICA!!!

haha.
so this weekend was pretty ridiculous. it was generally out of control. basically I just hung out and did the things that make my life incredible. haha. it all started on Wednesday (of course). so for the past couple weeks I have been working nights a lot. so I have also had a LOT of screwed up sleep – i.e. none. especially at night. soo… on Wednesday I was struggl…

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oh yea

casshern will be an awesome movie. check out the trailer. >my work may send me to india. that would be pretty cool. ahh. I pull so much bandwidth and have such a fast connection. rule.
rsync: wrote 5848268254 bytes read 2629260 bytes 1479554.31…

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i begin the resurrection of my servers

so I sent my boss notice today that I will be taking friday the 9th of april off. this means that I am officially upgrading my servers in the near future. this increases the stress level and my need to work. ;) no more hanging out. haha. well a little hanging out. it won’t take that much time really. I magically and with great luck configured my other box so upgrading should (**should*…

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hahahahaha. once again.. i rule

so a week or so ago I went to this party for the chicago thong organization, it was really funny and strange – but my friend chris and I participated in the activities and wore thongs and capes(which was the costume of choice). well later that night we were at a club and one of our friends snapped this really great

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whew

So on Thursday night – I accidentally went and bought some clothes. It was ridiculous. I should never be allowed in to certain far too expensive stores. However I got a hot pair of pants.. not a pair of hot pants mind you.. but yea. So I gotta return some stuff and keep some stuff. I really can?t deal with pants without belt loops ? I just feel insane when I am not wearing a belt. Heh. Yea about …

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madfest weekend.. fun fun

so madfest ruled this weekend. I had a bunch of fun. on friday – I picked my mom, brother and sarah up from the airport adn picked up our rental car. the car happened to be the largest car I have ever driven – a ford expedition. it was huge. I felt like I was in a semi. heh. but we all piled in and drove to brads house and picked him up. we then drove to madison and went to bed. on saturday we wo…

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yoyo website

the last couple days I have been working in all my spare time to finish this yoyo website. I think it is going to be really fun. I will be doing a bunch of fancy things to make it good. I am excited to attempt a new website. I haven’t made one in a couple of weeks. video editing is different. I think we need to eventually reshoot a bunch of stuff. but that is…

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yo yo yo

for the love of god it was a great weekend. Work has been interesting. a lot of drama and going forwards-ness. it is nice. finally stuff is getting done. but at the expense of a lot of comfortability and weird weird situations. anyway..On friday I came home and took a nap. I talked with ladawn a bunch on the phone which was awesome, she seems to be doing wonderful. I decided that my roo…

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ice skating and such

On saturday – my mom, dad and hiromi all went to the hobby shop to look for hobbies for my father. he didn’t find anything so I later went back and got him a 130 in 1 electronic experimentation kit and a fancy radio …

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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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