So Hiromi and I got a new car. A Nissan Versa. It is not a big car. It is tiny and has good safety ratings. Hiromi is currently driving it back from colorado. I am excited to see it. I am not sure but it may feature a continuously variable transmission. Which would be really [...]
10 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 05:18 PM
Tags: skinnycorp, update, work
So I got my computer set up at work. Its nice to finally be able to check email, catch up on my news and generally get my Internet presence back. Now that I can hang out on the Internet - work is starting to seem more like work and less like a crazy place. Everything [...]
i am pretty sure i was a bit tipsy when i wrote my last rant/entry. hah. but nobody knows. i can’t possibly imagine that it makes a whole bundle of sense.
Last night i watched “Lost in translation” and a bit of “Endless Sunshine of a blah blah blah.” Tonight i am watching “Jesus’ Son.” Such [...]
So i am kinda tired. i have been sick for the last month. it is lame. First i thought it was just jetlag mixed with matiss’s germs from his sickness mixed with being in tokyo and then the US so fast. But then it never really ended - so i decided that i probably have/had [...]
13 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 01:41 AM
Tags: crazy, steam, verbos, work
So this weekend was pretty cool. On friday i took a long nap and went to smart bar with kira. Mark verbos was doing his live P.A. bit. It was pretty awesome. I really like the knob tweaking and acidish noise that occurs whenever mark does his thing. The new smartbar is really dope. Crazy [...]
So yesterday i worked a lot. It was awesome. I enjoy being in a position where i really like what i am working on. It makes staying on task that much easier. In the past, when i was working at other companies, i would often have to work on two or three things of my [...]
09 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 03:44 AM
Tags: asterisk, awesome, books, projects, threadless, voip, work
Whew.
I have this secret plan to start blogging more regularly and to up the level of intelligence that go into the posts. I am trying to diminish the amount of “so. i went to a club and then i went to another club and there were people” posts - instead having “so. i went to [...]
I needed a quick break while working on yellowikis.us. a site that is supposed to take over the world (we shall see… we shall see…) - so i fixored my blog. pictures and tags should work again and it should now rock. i need to tweak the theme a bit. make it less busy and [...]
05 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 01:17 PM
Tags: extratasty, skinnycorp, upgrading, wordpress, work
I upgraded to wordpress 2.0. easy as pie. really. quite easy. hopefully it just works from now on. it took about.. umm.. lets see.. including this blog post: 3min. haha. i love it when things just work.
I have been working quite a bit on extratasty. it is dope. it is getting a quite good reception [...]
08 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 04:28 AM
Tags: asterisk, awesome, squidoo, voip, work
So asterisk is amazing. i have been plating with it quite a bit. I recently hooked it up at skinnyCorp and got it to be there PBX. it is quite amusing to have that much control and granularity with the phone system. I am contemplating rolling out a small scale service based on the asterisk [...]
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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