I’m a geek and say so pretty proudly, yet I am no big fan of fantasy stories, role-playing and stuff. I know geekdom is deeply rooted in games like “Dungeon & Dragons”, generations of nerds have sat around tables and diced out whether their sword would defeat the orc or simply break in two. I’ve always loved “The Neverending Story” … Read More
Welcome to 2008 / Willkommen in 2008 – mixed
Hi! Willkommen zu meinem ersten Blogeintrag in diesem Jahr, der auch gleich noch zweisprachig wird wobei ich nicht einfach eine Übersetzung mache, sondern einen Teil auf Deutsch und einen zweiten auf Englisch. Als erstes möchte ich eine kleine Filmempfehlung geben, denn ich war letzte Woche quasi unfreiwillig in Till Schweigers neuer Romantikkomödie “Keinohrhasen”. Ich war auch schon sehr angetan von … Read More
Me at the Movies
I think I mentioned it briefly [..no I just checked, and I didn’t…], but last year in October I had the opportunity to be an extra in an german television movie called “Die Todesautomatik”. I was with them for a day playing an east-german soldier first and then playing a warden in a jail. As I was an extra (or … Read More
movie watched – The Prestige
I love movies but due to many circumstances I almost never watch a movie when it comes out. Neither do I read recent books or play recent games for that matter. I’m always ‘a little’ behind whereas ‘a little’ can sometimes means many years. I fell for Star Wars over ten years after the third movie was made, I saw … Read More
Should Germans Laugh About Hitler?
article at Spiegel Online This question was asked last week prior to the release of director Dani Levy’s new movie “Mein Führer” starring german comedian Helge Schneider as Adolf Hitler. Well, you can read what others said about that. I prefer to know what I talk about (well, sometimes) and therefore I went to see the movie tonight. In short: … Read More
George Carlin / Blogger out of beta
Well, christmas is over (I sent out christmas wishes on deviantArt this year, so you’d like to read them out here) and therefore it’s time for some serious senseless wisdom again. I just read my daily joke newsletter Cyberjoke 3000â„¢ by Al Lowe and he introduced a video of comedian George Carlin talking about him being a modern man. It’s … Read More
Picasa for Linux
Picasa is a free software download from Google. Now available for Linux! So what, you might ask. BUT: Picasa is (imho) the coolest app for sorting, editing and publishing pictures. I use it with Win**** and it’s really great. Now it’s available for your Linux box. Hopefully Google will feature more software on Linux soon. I don’t plan to switch … Read More
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The Simpsons as philosophy
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The Simpsons as philosophy Well, actually I found this article through a thread in alt.fan.blade-runner. I’m a big fan of Blade Runner (book, movie and game) and therefore look through the subjects regularly. Just to use the opportunity, together with another german fan we just started a german blog to bring interesting BR … Read More
things u want to do vs things you have to do
Just recently I realised how precious time can become (at times) especially if you have certain stuff going on that you are (more or less) forced to do (e.g. because you have promised in a contract-kind-of-way) and things you’re doing for fun. Of course in the best case those two groups are the same but, hey, life’s not always a … Read More
iTunes Companion
Hey, here’s another really cool prog although it’s -only- a widget really. It’s called iTunes Companion and it does the following: It automatically grabs the album title of the song your currently playing and looks for the fitting album art on amazon and google (if you don’t have it already of course). Then it puts it in its own window … Read More
Neues Urheberrecht: Kabinett kriminalisiert Kopierer – Netzwelt – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten
Neues Urheberrecht: Kabinett kriminalisiert Kopierer – Netzwelt – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten Apparently they finally did it. Quiet, sneaky and nearly unnoticed the german parliament made a new copyright law. The process has taken some years now and it included new aspects to secure technologies like DRM, copy protection and comparable techniques. They started with banishing all software that breaks … Read More