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

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THEY LIVE again. for the second time.

last night was pretty fun. I hung out with hannah. we went to the faint. but first I slept until 8. rule. I love naps. I nede to eat better and sleep better. that is the way to the future. anyway. I hung out with hannah and we saw the faint. it was pretty good. tv on the radio ruled me.

woah

i resigned today. I start at my new job in a couple weeks. scary. totally scary. but it will be fun. I am excited. some risks. some new experiences. i am pretty sad to be leaving world book though. I really liked working with all my coworkers. I will of course miss them.
much more later…

the angels of darkness sweep over you.

i fixed it. well I thought I did. until it wouldn’t reload. I think that our internet here is really slow. I can’t even ssh to my boxen. weird. and dumb. wierd and dumb. together at last. man it has been a long caffiene drenched day. umm. yea. so anyway. my original post was going to be like this: so I modified my photolog recently - I made it so the most …

party

so my party was fun. I had a good time. it was great fun to see everyone. I was disappointed that some people didn’t get a chance to show up. but whatever. I now know who my real friends are. haha. umm jk. or am I ;) we had a huge number of people turn out and we ended up drinking all my beers and wines. it was quite nice. john from

nyc nyc

So yesterday was nuts. I got up made sure I was packed for nyc and went to work. at work - I was whisked away on a cruise around lake michigan for employee appreciation day. We got free food - expensive drinks and generally had a nice time. I got to meet some of the new young people. I think we are going to start a young person club. it will be pretty dope I think… then at 2:00 or so we left.. …

too bad

HikinHaTTeR (3:15:02 PM): it’s pretty good for sure… i’m at a point now where I have very little sense of time there are no clocks here and my pocketwatch battery died the other day so now I have day time and night timeSome day.. the tropical life.. will be mine

tee hee
worldbookjason (3:40:47 PM): how the hell d…

Corporate Culture

Sometimes, just when I think I understand something it explodes and blows up in my face.. making me look silly and dumb. One of those things is corporate culture. I think it is very similar to the rings on a tree, but rather than age - it maps how slow to change the corporation is. Take my institution, it is a very old and rather successful company. Ithas ma…

psyops

Some people I am currently working with jsut told me about a crazy and very interesting genre of work. It is the PSYOPS. The propaganda and psychological movement behind the government and war. It seems very very cool. I also have been thinking recently about security and what I want to do when I grow up. I don’t know as of yet. Hmm.. maybe be some kind of…

Audreyhacking is famous?

I was looking at some statistics about one of my sites and I noticed that on NOvember 16th, 2001 the employees from the following companies were surfing to audreyhacking:
cyberstreet.com, mcgraw-hill.com, worldbook.com, 3Com.com, xpedite.com, exxon.com, vmware.com, boeing.com, midway.com

  

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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