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

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Sicko. You need to see this movie.

The other night i was somehow able to see Michael Moore’s new movie: Sicko. It was amazing. Really sad and funny at the same time. It told me what i already knew - but added a bunch of person touches to it as well.
One thing it mentioned that I didn’t know - was that [...]

My birthday was awesome

Yesterday was pretty fun. It all started in the morning when I woke up and was able to wear the fancy new jeans Hiromi got me. Then I went to work and hung out. I just got my first memcached server and I got it running and hooked up to some of our code. It [...]

So tonight May convinced me to go see Children of Men with a friend of hers. It was quite something. I really enjoyed it. It was relay sad and harrowing, however was completely brilliant. I went in to the movie with no expectations and had no idea what it was about nor what the idea [...]

oldboy

I just watched the korean movie oldboy (read this if you want to ruin the movie). Jesus Christ that movie is insane. I was not ready for the endeavor of watching that movie. Quite something. I rather enjoyed it. I am a sucker for movies that have good soundtracks. The story blew my mind. I [...]

p2ptv client for osx

Is there no p2p tv client for osx. You would think the chinese woudl be able to port something fancy like tvu or tvants or even pplive to osx easily enough. It would certainly make my life easier. hah. well. if anyone knows of any - let me know. and democracy player isn’t really what [...]

oh yea.

i am pretty sure i was a bit tipsy when i wrote my last rant/entry. hah. but nobody knows. i can’t possibly imagine that it makes a whole bundle of sense.
Last night i watched “Lost in translation” and a bit of “Endless Sunshine of a blah blah blah.” Tonight i am watching “Jesus’ Son.” Such [...]

spiders are apparently good luck

So i was playing computer and a spider crawled down my screen. It was really little. really really little. but now that it has disappeared i feel it crawling all over my body. heh.
I think my favorite new movie director is Michel Gondry. I was not aware that he was a drummer. Apparently he played [...]

So hiromi got here monday. it has been really fun.
On monday I picked her up and we hung out around my house. Went to our friend becca’s house and hung out.  It was fun. After that we went home - picked up chris - went to irazu and then went to the empty bottle to [...]

LOGO network is awesome

I have been watching the shittiest TV lately. It is horrible. horrible. I watched 4 hours of hallmark tv. first a movie about christmas and then some movie about some heart wrenchy crap. it was so bad. so i changed channels and watched TNT. First i watched money train, then passenger 57 and then i [...]

weird…

there is a thunderstorm outside. its november. wtf.
i am sick. i haven’t gone out in awhile. i have slept a LOT. a whole LOT. and cleaned. and got really fast cable internet. DSL is lame. i am sad - cuz i really liked speakeasy. but they were too expensive and cable was so [...]

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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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