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

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

gravity’s rainbow

once again and for real this time i am going to attempt to read and finish gravity’s rainbow by pynchon. holy jesus - that guy is verbose. man. its like reading a freshman philosophy class without all the poor prosylytizing and nonsense. it is just thick as hell and full of words. its nice though. [...]

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 [...]

i remembered that mark verbos was playing his live set at smartbar (and by remember i mean greg told me). It was amazing. Verbos is quite something. i love distortion and hearing it build and seeing him do his little knob thing. haha. so good. i took some pictures. He has posted an MP3 [...]

she wants revenge is my new favorite band.

however.. there is one downside.. the songs do sound the same. but mike said it best:

Mike Compton: wtf, every one of these songs sounds the same
Home Aim: haha
Mike Compton: i was all “wow, this is a long song” it was actually already on track 3

hehe. LUNCH TIME!

HARDCORE! heh. sometimes i love nyc

Last night after i interupted mark, tommie and their manager jim with a bunch of hifi equipment we decided to go to a barbeque hosted by lenny dee of hardcore techno fame. hah. It ruled. Everyone at the BBQ was from back in the day. It was like the gabbers greatest hits bbq. so [...]

So i was working with seth - wrapping up my summer gig and hanging out a bit. and he was telling me that he was going to throw out some water damaged audiophile equipment that he had laying around. He then offered me the equipment - and i of course said YES.
Ever since i [...]

tonight / this weekend

I am having a hell of a time staying on task. I really have NO idea what day it is or where i am. haha. well i know i am on my couch. watching shitty TV and wishing i had an office. But soon it will all change.
I have been planning a bit more, [...]

busy busy busy

This last couple days have been insane. So obviously i was in nyc working. then i hung out and partied all night in manhatten with amjad. That ended with us eating tater tots at 4 in the morning. and INCREDIBLE idea. seriously. whoever invented that was smart. S M R T. then the plane [...]

the best thing i have ever seen.

(this time i am not lieing)
check this out

So last night i went with scott to see Billy Corgan’s new show. My friend brian is playing keyboards in it so it was nice to see. The stage is amazing and i like billy’s new stuff. it was weird cuz i haven’t been to a concert in a very long time. so being [...]

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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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