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Another quick one with a finding from the net:



Obviously this is an ad for Tipp-Ex, but it's utterly cool and definitely funny enough to be mentioned. Be sure to try out "talks", "eats", "kicks", "marries", "shoots", "pictures", "cuddles", "urinates", "washes", "Tipp-Ex" and (of course) "humps". Even though there seem to be a lot of things to do with the bear, I miss some internet memes likes "tazes" or "blends", but well, I guess you can't have 'em all.
Also it's kind of cool that more companies seem to realize the possibilities of Youtube and the Web2.0 instead of just doing what they did all along. Let's get nerdy!

P.S. Please leave a comment if you find more cool things to do with the bear!
P.P.S. Funny comic is funny!

After several months of waiting, the most mighty Fitbit has arrived today! When I read about the nifty little toy in late May, I didn't think it could be much of a problem to get one of these. Well, of course I was wrong.
One of the main issues was that (due to missing radio approvals) Fitbit doesn't ship to countries other than the U.S., so Markus and I asked the guys from Dollarpig for an offer. Their offer sounded reasonable and we agreed. That time the Fitbit website said that they have to fulfil queued orders and distribution of new orders should start on June 15th.
Now it was just some "minor" supply bottlenecks, exchange rate fluctuations and the German customs that stood between us and our toys and it was only three months later when they arrived. /me is a happy boy with a brand new toy. /me will post more after trying out everything.
All in all ordering stuff from the U.S. still seems to be a bit of an adventure. For goods not to be delivered directly to Germany, I can definitely recommend Dollarpig, they did a good job and the delay wasn't their fault at all!

Last week we went to the movies to see Inception. Karsten called this one a complete mind-fuck and I couldn't agree more. It's been a decade since I saw an action movie that complex and that layered. Even though you constantly have to concentrate on all the seemingly irrelevant details and a running time of nearly 150 minutes, Inception didn't feel long-drawn-out or even tiring for a single second. The movie is beyond brilliant, don't miss it on the big screen!
By the way: Most of you might have missed Kevin Smith's latest movie "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", because it didn't make it into too many German cinemas. It surely enough is not as good as Clerks or Dogma, but it's still a hilarious funny and also romantic movie, so give it a try!
Today David presented me a piece of ancient technology for my collection of CPU's - an IDT WinChip C6 from 1997 that he recovered from some office PC. How cool is that? Many thanks! Gosh, I wish I didn't give away my mighty Slot-A Athlon as a "loan", these beauties seem to be hard to get nowadays... that'll teach me!

P.S. It's been awhile since I successfully destroyed some of my non-IT equipment, but yesterday it was about time. When I brought back my stuff to kitchen after having lunch, I found my stalwart pot red-hot and totally annealed. Obviously I forgot to turn of the heat after pouring of the spaghetti. R.I.P. poor little fellow... you've been a trusty friend through countless packages of pasta!
P.P.S. One more for the road. I chose rather not to think about it and giggle painfully embarrassed instead. It's a mad world...

It's done! Tonight I installed a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 as a replacement for my (literally) broken hard disk. With the help of the extremely useful DiscWizard tool from Seagate I cloned the old HDD's data within two hours time and now my box is back as if nothing ever happened. I love it when a plan comes together!

Karsten, who returned from his trip to Scotland, today pointed me to this video. Even though we didn't play Quake 3 at a very high level it's just awesome to watch this guy play, to hear his explanations and to see how he's been completely in control of the game with all it's complex mechanisms and timings.



I think this is a must see for everybody and it shows very clear why gaming can be real sports. If you ever played a shooter at a certain level yourself, I think this is even more mindblowing.

On Friday - just one week after Jamba's summer party - we went to Leipzig to visit 5C Basic at their first annual (;)) summer party. The guys also invited a suckling pig which happened to be a very tasty conversationalist. Despite the return run being not exactly edifying we had a very, very nice evening at the fireplace, thanks for having us.
On Saturday I had quite a hard time getting up early enough to get some new parts for my computer (Why do computer shops close at 3 p.m.?!?!) but with the help of Micha I managed to be there in time. I bought the new power supply unit (Your right Arno-Lars-Micha, it is always the power supply unit...), took the opportunity to clean my case and physically killed my hard drive's SATA port. D'oh! Fortunately I was able to somehow attach the cable to the electrical contacts and run a backup. What was meant to be gaming weekend turned into a torturous backup party. But folks I won't complain, 'cause I sweated blood when I fist spotted the whole cable mess and I am kind of delighted that I was able to secure my stuff anyway. Don't be as silly as I am, disk it or risk it!