Qik for iPhone
Just loaded Qik onto my iPhone. It seems pretty awesome, but I'll withhold final judgement till I've tested it for a couple days.
Basically Qik allows you to stream video from your iPhone to the internet live! Or close to live depending on your internet connection.
You can find my videos at [qik.com/erikperss...](http://qik.com/erikpersson)
Anyway more later!
Fap At Rear Entry
So many jokes... But lets take this seriously. So far as I can tell this is the only "Fap At Rear Entry" sign in existence. If you're so inclined you can find this sign near the REI in Issaquah, Wa. Right in between the "Kahhhhn Mongolian Grill" and the "Justify: Just for girls" store. Additionally a quick google search only brings up images that look like they came from this location.
So who or what should, "Fap At Rear Entry"? Well like any good college student my first instinct was to check Wikipedia for FAP. Surprisingly FAP has many meanings including the worst one, Fair Access Policy, also known as Bandwidth capping... But I digress.
Always Test your stuff before you deploy it...
So I feel like a rather large heel or whatever other insult is appropriate. You know that contact me page I have set up on erikpersson.com/about … Turns out I forgot to set it up to inform me when people actually send me a message. Awesome right? Anyway to all the people that I haven’t replied to, I apologize, I’m not actually that big an asshole, and I’ll have replies forthcoming…
Mia Culpa, Mia Culpa, Mia Maxima Culpa
Neil Gaiman and Caring About Characters
Interesting article by Neil Gaiman about writing about characters. Its one of those things that make perfect sense once you read it.
When I was a young writer I would come up with stories, and then put characters into them. And the character would often feel like, in Thurber's words, "a mere device".I think the breakthrough for me came when I started writing comics – because I believed in them. Because sometimes I would be using characters I hadn’t created, but simply cared about. And over the next few years I learned that if you cared enough about a character, what happened to them was interesting.
I’m not sure that’s much of an aphorism, but it’s important to care about them, about who they are and what they do. And (for me) for them to be people I would want to spend time with – I don’t really care who’s side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you have to want to spend time with them. If you met one of these characters socially would you talk to them, or make an excuse and flee?
(As a sidenote, I think the years I spent as a journalist doing interviews for magazines really helped as well. I learned a lot about speech patterns, and ways of describing people, and letting their words describe them. But more importantly, I learned that if you are actually interested, and not faking it, people will tell you anything, and you will take pleasure in their company. So talk to people, especially people you would normally avoid talking to. Find out their stories. Figure out how you would put them into stories, if you would, or just describe them with a few words.) Neil Gaiman
Austere by The Joy Formidable is most awesome
If you haven’t heard this song yet you need to. I’ll wait a minute while you listen. Ignore the trippy music video.
Pretty awesome, no? It sends shivers down my back at certain points. The song is called Austere and the band is “The Joy Formidable” . Anywho, Austere, and most of their original album, is available for download at the link provided up above. So quit reading and get with the clickin!