Man. It has been a long time since I really felt like blogging. Blogging is weird sometimes. I finds myself being VERY busy and not having the time nor energy to blog thoroughly, so i end up forfeiting an entry, when i could have easily whipped up a couple paragraphs describing whats going on. I [...]
05 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 02:54 PM
Tags: business school, etribes, kovinets, marketing, sidney levey, speaking, travel, university of arizona
The other weekend, Charlie and I, flew to the University of Arizona to speak at their Thinking Forward Leadership and Innovation in Marketing Conference. It was a cool experience. The people who were involved with the Conference are rather intelligent and they really blew my mind in regards to their thoughts on Threadless/social media/Internet communities. [...]
11 Mar
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 11:41 PM
Tags: Friends, parties, party, startups, sxsw, travel, traveling
I am finally recovered from my flash travel/party tour. Being shuttled around the country going to parties is a rough life - let me tell you. It was awesome. I met some great people and saw some really cool stuff. It was really cool how much overlap occurred between the boulder crowd and SXSW.
Startup people [...]
05 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 08:37 PM
Tags: austin, boulder, colorado, parties, sxsw, techcocktail, texas, travel
I will be in Colorado tomorrow for Tech Cocktail Boulder. It will be awesome to be a part of this event in Boulder. I will be officially representing skinnyCorp - so come get some swag and hang out! For those that have never been to a Tech Cocktail, it is a meet up style event [...]
31 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 09:19 PM
Tags: colorado, fun, hiromi, marriage, parties, travel
So the other weekend, Hiromi and I went to colorado to celebrate our marriage with our friends and family. It was fun. It was a party a year in the waiting. We had a ton of friends come and had some really nice parties at my parents house. Only a little bit of mayhem and [...]
22 Apr
Posted by Harper in Technology at 04:30 PM
Tags: california, mysql, mysqlconf, santa-clara, skinnycorp, Technology, threadless, travel
Ivan and I are in Santa Clara this week for the mysql conference. We are going to learn how to make threadless so fast that it breaks hearts. That is really fast. We got here a bit earlier today and have been waiting for our rooms to become ready. The weather is great - about [...]
05 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 01:50 AM
Tags: avec, chicago, dining, eating, family, food, green-zebra, hard-rock-hotel, travel
This weekend my parents visited. It was really awesome. They haven’t visited since Hiromi moved back - and they really wanted to see her. So they stopped by for a quick trip and some excellent dining.
They got in Thursday night - so Hiromi and myself went downtown and visited them at the Hard Rock Hotel [...]
24 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 06:44 PM
Tags: ana, boeing, connexion, internet, irc, plane, travel
I am currently flying at 36000 feet and going around 600mph. I am using my laptop and its connected to the planes wifi. Weird. I didn’t know planes had wifi. hah. But apparently this one does. And more importantly, its free cuz they are canceling it soon. Its from the Connextion by Boeing, which is basically [...]
19 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 02:23 AM
Tags: christmas, hiromi, japan, new-years, travel
So I leave on Sunday to go visit Hiromi in Tokyo. I am excited. It will be my 3rd time visiting her this year and I will be there for 13 days! whooo. I will be spending most of my time in Tokyo (I think), but we will be traveling to Yamanashi to celebrate new years with [...]
13 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 08:46 PM
Tags: amazing, big, family, fun, harper, hiromi, japan, life, marriage, tokyo, travel, yamanashi
So Hiromi and I are all married up now. Exciting. It was a weird and bureaucracy filled trip these last couple months and it all culminated with an excellent trip to Tokyo with my dad and Hiromi and us getting hitched.
So, apparently, attempting to get a visa to the U.S. is a bunch of work. [...]
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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