17 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 10:16 PM
Tags: email, fear, Friends, sad, war
Awhile ago I got this email from a friend. It is about the Medical Marijuana problem with Iraq veterans. I thought you guys might like to read it. So here it is:
I just read the article you posted about medical marijuana and veterans and it definitely was intense. Its a shame that they are [...]
02 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 08:57 PM
Tags: annoying, bush, fear, iran, sad, war
I am not a fan of our current administration. I don’t like how they work, what they do or what they have done to our country. I haven’t voted them in. I have participated in removing them from office - without success.
And now that it seems we are on the eve of an attack [...]
20 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 12:20 AM
Tags: health-care, michael-moore, movies, sad, sicko
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 [...]
12 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 12:38 AM
Tags: authors, books, death, growing-up, kurt-vonnegut, life, literature, novels, sad
Yesterday Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite authors and a pillar my my upbringing, died. He was 84. I read my first Kurt Vonnegut book, Slapstick, when I was in 5th grade. It was really amazing. I was quite a bit young for the book, but it was a great follow up to Catch-22. hah. [...]
28 Mar
Posted by Harper in Technology at 02:20 PM
Tags: google, sad, seo, Technology
Usually when I blog about Google, I am happy. but today it is a sad sad Google day. For the first time since the days of metacrawler, a search for Harper Reed doesn’t return one of my sites as the first hit. This really hurts. I guess I have been slacker at my SEO. Gotta [...]
10 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 12:22 AM
Tags: apple, mythtv, phones, sad, torrentocracy, 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 [...]
24 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 12:45 AM
Tags: nokia, phones, pin, puk, sad, sim-card, toasted
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. [...]
09 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 04:32 PM
Tags: bugs, failure, gmail, google, google-talk, gtalk, sad
For some reason my google talk is broken for my person gmail account. It doesn’t log me in while i am in gmail, or gaim, or even using their gtalk client. Its really weird - because if i log in using another account - it works fine. But if i log in using my primary [...]
20 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 08:32 PM
Tags: chicago, comedy, experience, insanity, movie, sad, visitors
So i took my mom and my cousin cole to see Taladega Nights at the AMC downtown. They liked it and thought it was a hilarious movie. but that wasn’t the crazy part. The crazy part was in the beginning. We were all sitting their watching the movie chilling out and what not and i [...]
18 May
Posted by Harper in General at 08:51 PM
Tags: colocation, firewall, hacking, sad, servers
Man today sucked. Seriously. I haven’t had a BAD day in years. today. today was a bad day. I woke up and got in the shower. Got dressed. check my email. checked my text messages. and i had a txt from my buddy mike telling me my server was broke. so i checked it out. [...]
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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