04 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 01:39 PM
Tags: elections, obama, politics, president, video, 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 [...]
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 [...]
09 May
Posted by Harper in General at 03:35 AM
Tags: flickr, home, jon, travel, video
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 [...]
14 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:09 PM
Tags: apple, business, harper, juggling, phone, video, yoyoing
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…
14 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 11:36 AM
Tags: games, metal, server, Sites, video
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…
12 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:05 PM
Tags: chris, christmas, games, matiss, music, sushi, video
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 -…
09 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 02:04 AM
Tags: cell, insane, ipod, job, metal, nokia, phone, rock, video, war
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.
25 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 01:26 PM
Tags: action, amjad, books, chicago, coding, crobar, games, google, halloween, harper, hiromi, internet, job, juggle, matiss, movies, nokia, nyc, philosophy, phone, school, search, Sites, tools, video
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…
11 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 10:30 AM
Tags: aim, blogs, books, business, corporate, crobar, fashion, games, hiromi, india, job, matiss, politic, porn, rock, video, war
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…
13 Sep
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:42 PM
Tags: action, business, college, hong, kong, metal, nokia, phone, rock, video
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…
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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