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

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The iPhone is nifty

Yesterday my friend Bryce was in town for the FBLA national meet. Pretty cool. We walked all over Chicago and I made sure we swung by the Apple store to check out the iPhone. Pretty nifty. I don’t know if it is a replacement for a smartphone - but it certainly is swell. The maps [...]

This weekend was pretty fun. Hiromi and I hung out a bunch. We went and saw Grindhouse. it was entertaining. I didn’t like planet terror. I realized half way through that I really don’t like a lot of Rodriguez’s horror movies. I like Sin City and his none zombie movies. Not his zombie movies. However, [...]

I got a new Nokia N73

So I sold my Nokia E61 to my friend Scott - he will probably use it more than I and he doesn’t mind it not having a camera - and I used the money to pick up a Nokia N73.
The Nokia N73 is a really nifty phone. It is a bit longer than [...]

A nice sad video

Watch this french commercial. I found it rather nice. In a sad sort of way. I like stuff like this.
The last couple nights, I have watched the lord the rings trilogy. It is pretty awesome. I love it. I bought all the movies when they came out and had watched them sporadically after I [...]

Goddamn fancy phones

So i am on the train and i amd playing with my phone and i end up frying my sim card. apparently nokia has some security implementations that will fry your sim card if you enter the pin code wrong more than 5 times and then enter the PUK code wrong more than 10 times. [...]

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 [...]

If you guys were really my friends

You would buy me this: Nokia E60
It is hard to not buy it. But i need to wait until i get paid extra or something.. man.. so tempting. stupid computers.

Nokia N80 is released

I was talking to my “phone connection” and it looks as though the nokia N80 is out in the wild. You can check it out here. The N80 seems like a pretty cool phone. it has all the features that one could possibly want - good camera, good os, good form factor and wifi.
I think [...]

skype. long distance. radio waves. and yoyos

this weekend was a good time. I flew to minneapolis to engage in a juggling festival. it ruled. I saw lots of cool friends. sadly tomorrow is work. hey all my far away friends (i.e. bec, miriam and ella) I am n…

Nokia 7610

So on new years day i got a little “carried away” and got my Nokia 6600 wet. The joystick immediately stopped working and all hell broke loose. i was unable to do anything fancy like call or text. it was so annoying. so i got out my nifty little Sony-Ericcson t610 and continued my day. [...]

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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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