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

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

Obama: yes we can

This weekend I went and volunteered for the Obama Campaign. It was a great experience. I showed up at 12pm and stayed until around 5. I was surrounded by great people who all believed in Obama and his movement. Quite inspiring.
I worked on validating submitted volunteer information. it was tedious work. I went through about [...]

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 [...]

So i finally came back.

I am currently at home. Hanging out. Having a great time. It is sometime sooo nice to be home. I forget that about traveling.
Anyway. I have posted all the pictures from this weekend. We have Jon’s Graduation, some night juggling pictures and then pictures of Jon’s biodiesel setup.
The trip was nice.
Next weekend i am going [...]

oh yea. says the octagon

i really like yoyoing. I made up a couple trick. I am calling it harper rolls. haha. I really can’t do it yet. soon. then video. then RULING?!
there is a HUGE juggling convention this weekend. but I am sadly going to have to stay home nad work. it sucks. stupid work. always getting in the way. I am going to punch it. right in the head. PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH.
i picked up a surp…

i am listening to some awesome music.

i think the mix is grave diggaz, front line assembly, himsa, bleeding through and fischerspooner. haha. it rules. it is also a lot better on shuffle. ;) I love mp3s. last night all I did was play video games. I played gish for about an hour - it is a lot of fun. I enjoyed the motif quite a bit. I do wish it really looked like the still gra…

woooooooooooo hooooooo

this weekend was really fun. I liked it. basically I just hung out and played video games, went to clubs and drank vodka. yea know. the usual. it all started on thrusday (as it always does)… so thursday I went to sushi wabi with claudia. then to sonotech. and I saw elisa. I was so excited. I hadn’t seen her in ages. I lke my friends. then we went to bungalow to see jordan and chad -…

interesting milestones.

i was playing around with my blog software and I noticed something pretty cool. I have taken over 1000 pictures with my nokia cell phone cam and have roughly 2525 pictures total in my photolog. I have taken pictures of a bunch of neat stuff. it is pretty cool. I have wanted to make a view that is the text from the blog and the pictures all in one fancy view. but I haven’t. maybe soon. haha.

heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:

[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job

So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…

my eyes are dripping tiredness

however, I don’t feel very tired. I really don’t understand how it is that I am able to lead this weird dual life. my friend adam equated it to the original mods from the 50s and 60s. he said they used to have normal jobs(working 9-5) and look like business people - then after work they would transform into these fashion seeking scene people. right after my friend adam told me this he started s…

trout. i mean lobster.

i really want to go dancing - big band style. all of a sudden. or just watch triplets of belleville. something. just not be up or at work. I am tired of wearing “business casual” clothing. I really want to just wear jeans. or whatever. just something that isn’t “business casual.” I suppose I will get over it. ;) I go through these…

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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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