pseudonym | jesper hauerslev
digital media wizard, hardcore gamer, lazy blogger, wannabe writer, aspiring photographer and all-round geek
i tweet...- i think...
- i see...
- i work...
- i create...
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Tweets
- I unlocked 10 Xbox achievements in Far Cry 3! http://t.co/XE3KXaDjCo
- Playing Far Cry 3. http://t.co/EMMZZ97VJw
- Right then! Got the costume, got the beer, got the remedies for Sundays hangover! Guess that means im ready for tomorrow's Aalborg Carnival
- Playing Far Cry 3. http://t.co/EMMZZ97VJw
- Playing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. http://t.co/EMMZZ97VJw
- Playing The Orange Box. http://t.co/EMMZZ97VJw
- In case you missed it here are the highlights from the Xbox One Reveal > http://t.co/zt0n0RmdZ2
- I unlocked the Giant Killer achievement in The Orange Box! http://t.co/XE3KXaDjCo
- Playing The Orange Box. http://t.co/EMMZZ97VJw
- hello Xbox One! I see you proudly continue the lifelong tradition of consoles being ugly bricks of plastic!
- Holy moly! We won? We won!! :-) #eurovision
- This is called a "bacon bomb"! This is #awesome! http://t.co/lw7nkDsN0X
- The Epic Battle Between Apple & Google Is All But Over - Who Won? http://t.co/to18m29QVS - i expect backlash from apple fan boys!
- Time for motherf*cking weekend now and not a minute too soon!
- today I got to say "added strings to static data". That's tech-talk for adding text to code in case you were wondering
- would happily maime and kill for some coke now...the drinking kind that is!
- RT @Censored_Pixel: This, THIS, is making me lol > http://t.co/ZQizbvZ0Yt
- stand back everybody! I'm coding...sort of! #gettinghandsdirty
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Posts
Here’s Transistor, the next game we’re making at Supergiant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTik6sYT_BE
Post from @jeffgerstmann on Twitter (via Scope)How very sad and true and funny this is!
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- play games and live longer...
I strongly recommend you watch this deeply personal TEDTalk from game designer Jane McGonigal on how she overcame a severe depression and gained more years… http://on.ted.com/t3kK
Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPleanwithit
Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.
This weekend’s tag was #WHPleanwithit, which asked participants to capture photographs of people standing next to and leaning in the same direction as unique or oddly shaped trees. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.
City lights. #london #hampsteadheath #trees #cityscape #lights #city #dusk #snapseed
One of my favourite views in all of London
Have an awesome Saturday friends. Stick this one in your armoury. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you”.
Post from @mrjakehumphrey on Twitter (via Scope)- spice up your life...
I was watching an old Danish comedy-show the other day. One of the sketches involves two well-off connoisseur discussing fine cuisine and that “you shouldn’t be afraid of spices!”
There is some deep truth in that. Don’t be afraid of spices when it comes to gastronomic endeavors. Or life in general.
You think about that for moment.
- dear diary...
Have you noticed how no one seems to keep a diary these days? Not a diary for keeping tabs on when to pick up your shirt from the laundry, when to meet with whats-her-face from the bank and so on. No, I mean a proper one! You know, one where you write about what you had for dinner, how your brother/sister/boss/neighbor is an unbelievable pain in the butt, how your parents/wife/husband/dog/cat are being soooo unreasonable, how no one understands you, how that guy or that girl is so unbelievable dreamy and how totally unfair it is that he or she never ever looks at you and so on.
Who actually keeps a diary like that these days? People keep blogs now instead but a blog not a diary because a blog is online. And if it’s online, it can be found by others and if it can be found by others it can be shared, commented on and judged by others…and diaries are not meant to be shared or judged!
That’s because a diary is a place for all things irrational. Its a place to share you fears, your thoughts, your concerns, your failures, your losses and your victories with a silent friend and then read years later by you! Rational or not, big deals or small. Doesn’t matter. A blog just can’t do that.
That is why you hid diaries under the bed, why you always had on with a lock and why you always kept the key for that lock hidden behind the loose wooden board in the wall by the window…or was that just me?
Yes, I used to keep a diary. Several in fact and even had one with a lock. I miss that. It was a long time ago but it was at a point in my life where I really needed somewhere to simply unload without having the load judged or commented on or me being told I was being silly or stupid or irrational. That is the whole point of unloading right there. You just dump it. No needs for comments or opinions because that won’t help you. And a small simple notebook was the perfect place to do so. Still is actually.
I still have some of those diaries around somewhere. At least I think I do. Would be good fun to look through them now nearly a decade later. I imagine it would be an equal mix of head-shaking and surprise at how surprisingly deep and profound one can be when writing things for your own eyes only.
I’ll let you know if I find them.
Cyber bullying…
this is how it feels everytime I walk into a Starbucks with my battered old PC laptop
(via Scope)
This is me all the time.
I CAN’T EVEN HANDLE THAT WALK
This pretty perfectly sums up conventions.
Using the Force!
- a cup of tea and a book...
- “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”
- - C.S. Lewis
One of our fiends former roomates, Sharon, is an amazing artists! She is fascinated by Disney and oriental paintings so she came up with the idea of combining the two. This is the result…and it’s all hand drawn!
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- dear algebra...
- "Dear Algebra,
- Please stop asking us to find your X!
- She is not coming back and no, we don't know Y either."
- - Unknown
I’m a big fan of anime so I got quite excited when I found this comprehensive guide to the best of anime. This gives plenty of inspiration to newcomers and the more experienced viewer. Some real quality titles here from sci-fi classics Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion to the more quirkier ones like Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Tekkon Kinkreet. I’m just surprised why other worthwhile titles like Appleseed and Ninja Scroll didn’t make the list.
- london memories...
2012 was a year very much unlike any other. Lots of good stuff happened and some bad stuff too. And then there was the unexpected stuff which turned the world completely upside down like me getting an offer I couldn’t refuse; a job as a producer with a Danish game-developer.
This offer marked the beginning of a new and exciting journey that I am very much looking forward to. I have already taken the first steps yet even as I do so, I cannot help but to look back at another journey that came to an end so that this one might begin.
That journey was an exciting one and one that has changed me in ways that are both deep and profound yet find hard to describe. So rather then to try and put the impossible to words, I thought it best to simply write down some of the many beautiful memories I have of living in the greatest city in the world for eight years and to cherish them forever as I make my way down the ever winding road in the next chapter of this great adventure called Life:
- - Hampstead
- - Talking to a random man on the bus who started crying with joy when he talked about his love for his home country (sadly never mentioned where that was!)
- - Celebrating St. Hans with a grand night out with friends and roomies from “The K”.
- - Monday nights at Sports Bar
- - First day at work at BBC
- - Meeting my one, my love, my precious, my Ania!
- - Camden’s many stalls and shops selling all manner of quirky wares
- - Saturday morning washing at the local laundromat
- - Drinking something hot at Starbucks
- - Going to Waterstones and browsing books
- - Being in the audience for The Jonathan Ross Show as he Wossy interviewed Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman.
- - English breakfasts
- - Working late on Sundays to help out on ITV’s Dancing On Ice at the George Lucas Stage at Elstree Studios
- - Greenwich, especially around Christmas
- - Strolling up and down Kensington High Street
- - Moving into our flat in Kilburn with the working fireplace and massive open terrace.
- - Swinging by a KFC or “dodgy hot-dog man” after a drunken night out
- - Heading to the pub after a hard days work
- - Lord of The Rings Extended Cut marathon with my room mate!
- - Going to the Anime All-Nighter at The London SciFi Festival and getting all hopped up op on Red Bull, sugar and coffee.
- - The Matrix Trilogy and Lord Of the Rings All-Nighters at the IMAX
- - Sitting by Gabriels Wharf at 6 o’clock in the morning feeling like London was mine and mine alone.
- - Watching Dart Vader march up the red carpet with his stormtroopers at Leicester Square for the premiere of Star Wars Episode III.
- - Being dragged along to Guys & Dolls in the West End and sitting so close to the stage we could see Ewan McGregor’s spit!
- - Getting glammed up for the Children’s BAFTA Awards and mingling with the stars!
- - Filming BAMZOOKi for BBC Children’s at Elstree, the same studio where they filmed The Muppet Show.
- - Seeing the Christmas lights on Oxford Street from the top of Parliment Hill
- - Getting a last minute ticket to go and see Depeche Mode close the Download Festival in Hyde Park
- - Watching Moby live at the Camden Roundhouse
- - Donning an all-white outfit for White Sensation at the O2 Centre
- - Sleeping outside on our terrace on a warm summer night in June
- - Farmers Market at Queens Park
- - Getting an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour at Horrid Henry: The Movie at Shepperton Studion and talking to one of the camera-men who had just come back from filming Pirates 4 (apparently Johnny Depp is a “very nice bloke”!)
- - Being in London for the Olympic Games and feeling the excitement and the positive vibe.
- - Taking my mum to the theater to see Phantom of The Opera for her birthday
- - High tea at The Wolseley
- - Going to a wedding inside Pinewood Studios!
- - Seeing Westminster up-close for the first time
- - Being interviewed on BBC News live after having watched The Da Vinci Code
- - Going to the opera to see Swan Lake, Don Giovanni and Hansl & Gretl (not all at once of course)
- - Occasionally bumping into various celebrities like Ricky Gervais, Andy Serkis, Gok Wan and Cillian Murphy
- - Sitting in Ania’s car one cold December evening and drinking champagne straight from the bottle…just because we could!
- - Interviewing Robbie Williams, James MacAvoy, Will Ferrell, Ed Norton and Jason Isaacs for Soccer Aid 2012!
- - Jazz concert with Malene Mortensen and then having the balls to ask for her autograph afterwards…and getting it!
- - Accidentally stealing a whole bottle of champagne on a night out in Covent Garden.
- - Seeing Jonathan Ross wrestle at the Kapow Comic Convention
- - A friendly snow-ball fight between me and Ania and two random strangers as the first winter-snow fell.
And so many more…
Somebody did a funny restrospective “to do” list for 2012 and judging by the things crossed out he or she had an eventful year. On closer inspection I can see I’ve done a few myself (not saying which). Glad to say I didn’t do all of them though :)
Cross off what you’ve done:
- Gotten a new piercing.
Dyed my hair.Ended a relationship.Started a new relationship.Been on a long car/bus journeyPassed an exam.Met someone who’s now an important part of my life.- Cried on someone’s shoulder.
Had a massive fight with a boy/girl.Received flowers.- Had a Valentine.
- Written a letter using pen & paper.
- Gone to see a therapist
Been prescribed medication by a doctor.- Read a really good book.
- Gone to the zoo
. Spent too much money on unnecessary things.Traveled by train.Cried over a member of the opposite sex.Spent the day out in the sun getting a tanSlammed a door out of frustration.Had an anxiety attack.- Babysat for a friend’s child.
- Had a BBQ
- Gone to the fair.
- Gone bowling.
Seen a film at the cinema in 3D.- Gone on a date.
Been the only sober one on a night out.- Helped someone home after they had been drinking.
Stayed up all night.Talked on the phone for over two hours.Supported someone who’d received bad news.Watched some kind of live sporting event.- Read an entire book in one day.
- Bought a DVD the day it was released.
- Eaten McDonald’s more than four times in a single week.
- Cried as a result of exam stress.
Met some incredible new people.- Gone to great parties.
- Fallen backwards off a chair.
- Broken my glasses.
- Worn a watch for the first time in years.
Cried over someone in my past.Spent hours aimlessly browsing the internet.Thrown up.Cried over a film.Gone out of my way to avoid an ex-boy/girlfriend.- Fought with someone in public.
Been in a relationship for a year or longer.Cried in front of someone I adore.- Lost one of my closest friends.
- not so "wunder"...
I have a bit of a scatter brain so to keep my mind organised (and my sanity intact) I write a lot of “to-do” lists. Enter Wunderlist, this amazing cloud-based organizer that used to let me write all the “to do’s” I wanted, organize them into lists and then have them all sync up so I could access them from web, tablet or mobile. I say “used to” because Wunderlist isn’t as “wunder” as it used to be after they released Wunderlist 2. Some recently added tasks are simply not there anymore, and nothing syncs up. When they do, Wunderlist insists on showing me tasks that I already completed… last year! Not only that but the app itself doesn’t support landscape view making it pretty much useless on tablets which is where I tend to use it the most, like when you are in a meeting and quickly need to type down some action points.
I fail to see why anyone thought launching such a big update a few days before Christmas would be a good idea much less releasing a sub-par app that ditches horizontal for tablets, making it damn near unusable. Wunderlist have said that landscape mode will return in a future update but then why on Earth would you release it in the first place? You would’nt get away with releasing something like that on iPad so why do you think you can get away with it on Android?
It’s all these things combined that means I am now very close to ditching Wunderlist all together and go back to using Astrid which seems to have improved drastically while I was “away”. Not an easy decision because I used to consider Wunderlist one of my key apps, right there on the top of the list with Evernote.