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

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see.. i told you so.

So i had written some crappy post on how i made this it said:

here check it out here. i have been listening to only t. rex. i love it.

After thinking about it - i decided that this weekend deserved a better entry than “yea look here blah blah blah.” So here goes.
Friday was [...]

it appears as though

i haven’t really been blogging like I should. eh.. I get annoyed with it. so I don’t do it. and then my friends and family contact me and yell. haha. so then I start again. heh. a “never ending” cycle of horror. heh. eh.. it isn’t so bad. I don’t really mind it. I just haven’t had all the extra time in the world. only about half of all the extra time.
speaking of extra time. I ha…

stupid sick :: jokesareawesome.com

i hate being sick. it totally blows. I love black metal. I really don’t know how they are related. but I have listened to black metal for the last couple months. and it rules. today was all emporer.
i got bored of choosign music for my ipod - so I let itunes do it this time. it did a pretty good job. I am proud. anyway. last night I played yoyo and cleaned my room. it was co…

when dinosaurs attack

so this day has been weird already and it is barely 9:30. first last night I got home from juggling club and was notified that my paypal account was terminated due to 3gscreensaver having porn on it. I actually don’t know if that was the reason they just sent me a terse email with this link. so I am…

i amaze myself with my ability to not die.

hehe. this weekend was an incredible experiment in what I can take - mostly in regards to sleep deprevation - but also in regards to alcohol poisoning. which is really something I am not exactly proud of - but it was a lot of fun. so it all started on thrusday. me and some friends went to a smartbar party - and then to crobar. I had to try out my new “drop my name and you can get into crobar for…

itunes.. automagic updating of recent listened to songs

recently apple released a pretty good COM sdk for its itunes program. my friend ajc created some sample code that would post whatever song you are listening to currently to a webpage. I found this pretty cool. and quite handy. so I implement my own v…

i’ve got no legs. i’ve got no legs..

So there is this new movie out called whole which is about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - or the want to become a amputee. I haven’t seen it - however it will probably be interesting. we have seen this stuff before, but not to such an extent as outlined in the movie or in

Colorado

Well I am incolorado again. Thanksgiving and all. It is nice. I like seeing my family. Recently I thought up some ideas for movies. I will prbably post them sometime. hehe. maybe I will dream them. I am going to see britney soon. weee. meanwhile I will be programming like a monkey…

ROBOCIDE!!!

Hey yall . I want everyone i know to go and download robo code and build a java robot and we shall figth. It rules, you use real java to write a simple robot)much like NQC mindstorms programming), and you then put the robot in an arena with other robots and you fight each other It rules. It is real real cool. You gotta check it out. It is called RoboCode and …

K*star

Man.. back at school..
I got/get to see k*star now. so nice it is. I am excited for everything. It will be two months on wednesday(10th). Hmm.. excitment.. i got an A in my last class.. hehe.. no work.. well a little.. but it was programming so it didn’t count.. well i am off to chill…

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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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