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where the deer and the antelope play. where seldom is heard a discouraging word. and the eyes eat cowboys all day. Oh yea. it is the weekend. I am soooo sleepy. I am going to have a meet and greet. and then have a meet and sleep. and t…

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Those are my cousins. of course they are awesome. and I will be hanging out with them tomorrow. it should be fun. I am flying out tonight….

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fixed

i am fixed. but now I need a new book. I imagine I will wait until tomorrow – when I am in colorado. or maybe I will get one tonight. and then I can read it tomorrow. on my way to colorado. here are some pictures: y bar a week ago, and

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i suppose, i really do.

so basically I haven’t updated this thing in about 3 years. which is a long time. so I am going to “update” yall as to my whereabouts. so. I got this new job. it is taking a lot of my time. it rules. but I am in a different paradigm than I was when I was at the WB. basically I am totally engaged for 8 hours. I have to be much more accountable and I have to really justify my actions. th…

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heheh.

he got his present. hehe. rule. hoepfully some good pictures will come out of this.

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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…

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bam. it is done.

Ok Ok. so I have been reading Anna Karenina. It is amazing. seriously – possibly one of the better books I have ever read. I am fascinated with how thorough Tolstoy covers the story. and how the story seemingly covers everything. it is soo good. I love the feeling of want that is associated with re…

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once again sleep is the loss

i can’t seem to sleep. I mean. I did take a nap from 10:00-12:00 haha. it wasn’t so much as a nap as much as it was an alcohol enforced sleep. heh. the plan was to have all of our friends meet us at the bar that is really close to my house. it worked very well. we got there arou…

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heh. on the road.

I am in a truck stop in indiana eating some food. We should get into columbus around 2 or so. Then I will be installing my servers tomorrow. It is kinda nerve racking. Cuz I gotta do good ;).

The drive is fun. I forgot how bogan indiana is. It reminds how fun the indy 500 is. Haha. I gotta find me some race fans. Flourescent colored shirts and all. Hah.maybe I will drive …

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accurate punctures

so I went and got accupuncture last night. I think I am done for a bit. I originally went to alleviate some back pain I had gained from wrestling – however the back pain is gone. so wheni arrived yesterday I realized that I really had know ailments for her to manipulate. I was perfect. so the session ended up just being weird and boring I mean.. it isn’t really suppsoed to be entertaining – but …

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. 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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