2013 was rad! Here is some stuff.

First off, I have no idea how to blog. Please bare with me here

Here is a list of awesome things that happened in 2013:

(In absolutely no order)

• I hung out with Hiromi a lot
• Hiromi got promoted. yay
• Hiromi and I bought a condo in Chicago
• I continued to grow and work at the company that Dylan and I founded
• I worked with rad people (and still do!)
• I purchased a few awesome domains
• I got a better company name
• I continued to be a part of a secret cabal of great people
• I played around with bitcoins
• I played around with home automation
• I played around with loud speakers
• I learned a lot about golang.
• I hacked on many raspberry pi boards
• I continued to use VI
• I used a lot of sublime edit 2 (now 3)
• I played enough minecraft for 2012, 2013 and 2014
• I ate at a lot of great restaurants
• I was on the team that won a Webby
• I made my parents car zebra striped
• I spoke publically a LOT
• I did a TED talk about the future of politics for TED U at TED
• I was on TV a lot
  • In Italy
  • In Singapore
  • In Australia
  • In Japan
  • In the UK
• I was in the news a bunch
• I was mentioned in a couple of books
• One of the books talked about how terrible I was
• I was on the cover of an italian music magazine
• I called German data laws stupid in the german press
• I filmed a game show with a bunch of comedians
• I co-wrote an editorial for the New York Times
• I complained a lot
• I played three pro-werewolf games
• I sledded and almost died
• Google searches for “‘harper reed’ speedo” contain more results
• I said “awesome” a bit less
• I, unfortunantly, used “lol” in chat more
• I traveled a lot
• I stayed in many insane hotels
• Hiromi was able to accompany me on a lot of the trips
• I visited six of the seven continents
• I visited the following countries:
  • Australia
  • Chile
  • England
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Macao
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Switzerland
• I flew around 184,922 miles
• I flew 18 different airlines
• I visited 39 airports
• I became a mileage weirdo and “earned” status on two airlines
• I hung out with a few insane people
• I met a bunch of people who I hope to interact with again
• I prepared for 2014
• I ripped all my CDs to FLAC (hopefully for the last time)
• I purchased jogging pants jeans
• I bought four button up shirts
• I purchased a tuxedo
• I now own five button up shirts
• I listened to a lot of terrible music via some nice headphones
• I watched my brother juggle fire
• I got my dad a foghorn
• I played around with fiverr a bunch
• One day on twitter I fixed everyone’s problems
• One day on twitter I annoyed all of my friends
  • ok. I annoyed my friends more than one day
• I made a lot of jokes
• I went to inauguration
• I went to a White House holiday party
• I purchased a couple meteorites
• I met a guy who has the largest meteorite collection in the world.
• I talked to a brother about meteorites
• I participated in the Seven on Seven competition
• I got a couples massage with a world famous artist
• I got asked about the NSA a lot
• I learned a lot about the NSA from various new sources
• I spent a bit of time at News Limited and The Guardian
• I communicated via PGP way more than 2012
• I hated using GPG
• I never found an answer to why I track a lot of data about myself
• I continued to track a lot of data about myself
• I tweeted 7,722 times
• I retweeted 1,585 people
• I completed 63 books on my Kindle
• I walked 1,620,867 steps according to my fitbit
• That seems to be about 5,178 steps a day
  • I only wore my fitbit 313 days :(
• I lost two pounds
• I used public transportation 530 times
• I listened to 16,904 songs according to Last.fm
• I uploaded 647 photos to flickr, instagram or twitter
• I ignored linkedin and facebook
• I forgot a lot of cool stuff that I did in 2013
• I did not post one blog entry

I imagine I forgot a lot of awesome things. It was a great year. I can’t wait for 2014!

Yay!

Here are some pictures from the 2013: