16 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 01:25 AM
Tags: blogs, crazy, internet, mom, movies, music, parents, sleepy, travel
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 [...]
30 Aug
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:40 PM
Tags: crobar, food, metal, mom, rock
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…
12 Apr
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 11:31 PM
Tags: fear, india, mom, nerd, php, server, war
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.
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30 Mar
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 01:52 AM
Tags: mom, server, war
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*…
10 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:12 PM
Tags: advertising, aim, chicago, chris, family, google, hacking, hong, ipod, kungfu, linux, mom, nerd, phone, php, reed, search, security, tools
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
02 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:10 PM
Tags: chicago, chris, crobar, food, games, hong, insane, mom, phone, politic, rock, server
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 …
20 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:49 PM
Tags: juggle, juggling, mom
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…
15 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:52 PM
Tags: computers, juggling, matiss, metal, mom, phone, phones, Sites, video, websites
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…
12 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:18 AM
Tags: amjad, chris, crobar, experiment, food, insane, mom, phone, sushi, video, war
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…
22 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:37 PM
Tags: action, cars, dad, experiment, family, hiromi, mom, phone, Sites, websites
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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