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IMDB Meme

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Found via Neil’s World. Copy the top 250 from imdb and mark the ones you’ve seen…Here’s my list:

  1. The Godfather (1972)
  2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  4. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  5. Seven Samurai (1954)
  6. Casablanca (1942)
  7. Schindler’s List (1993)
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  9. Citizen Kane (1941)
  10. Star Wars (1977)
  11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  12. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  14. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  15. Rear Window (1954)
  16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  19. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  20. City of God (2002)
  21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  22. Memento (2000)
  23. Psycho (1960)
  24. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  25. North by Northwest (1959)
  26. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  27. Amélie (2001)
  28. Goodfellas (1990)
  29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  30. Sunset Boulevard. (1950)
  31. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  32. American Beauty (1999)
  33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  35. The Matrix (1999)
  36. Paths of Glory (1957)
  37. Fight Club (1999)
  38. Vertigo (1958)
  39. The Third Man (1949)
  40. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
  41. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  42. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  43. Double Indemnity (1944)
  44. Das Boot (1981)
  45. Taxi Driver (1976)
  46. M (1931)
  47. The Pianist (2002)
  48. Rashômon (1950)
  49. Se7en (1995)
  50. All About Eve (1950)
  51. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  52. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  53. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  54. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  55. Chinatown (1974)
  56. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  57. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  58. Léon (1994)
  59. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  60. Alien (1979)
  61. American History X (1998)
  62. Modern Times (1936)
  63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  65. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  66. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  67. The Sting (1973)
  68. On the Waterfront (1954)
  69. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
  70. Raging Bull (1980)
  71. Ran (1985)
  72. Amadeus (1984)
  73. Life is Beautiful (1997)
  74. Touch of Evil (1958)
  75. The Great Escape (1963)
  76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  77. City Lights (1931)
  78. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  79. The Apartment (1960)
  80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  81. Metropolis (1927)
  82. The Shining (1980)
  83. High Noon (1952)
  84. Jaws (1975)
  85. Aliens (1986)
  86. Finding Nemo (2003)
  87. Annie Hall (1977)
  88. Braveheart (1995)
  89. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  90. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
  91. Fargo (1996)
  92. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
  93. Oldboy (2003)
  94. Yojimbo (1961)
  95. The Incredibles (2004)
  96. Blade Runner (1982)
  97. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  98. Donnie Darko (2001)
  99. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  100. The Princess Bride (1987)
  101. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  102. The Great Dictator (1940)
  103. It Happened One Night (1934)
  104. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  105. Forrest Gump (1994)
  106. Before Sunset (2004)
  107. Cinema Paradiso (1989)
  108. The General (1927)
  109. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  110. Mononoke-hime (1997)
  111. Rebecca (1940)
  112. Duck Soup (1933)
  113. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  114. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  115. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  116. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  117. The Big Sleep (1946)
  118. Notorious (1946)
  119. Smultronstället (1957)
  120. The Graduate (1967)
  121. Hero (2002)
  122. Unforgiven (1992)
  123. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  124. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  125. Patton (1970)
  126. Run Lola Run (1998)
  127. Toy Story 2 (1999)
  128. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  129. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  130. The Gold Rush (1925)
  131. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
  132. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  133. The Elephant Man (1980)
  134. Back to the Future (1985)
  135. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  136. Glory (1989)
  137. The Green Mile (1999)
  138. Ben-Hur (1959)
  139. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
  140. Grande illusion, La (1937)
  141. Manhattan (1979)
  142. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
  143. Platoon (1986)
  144. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  145. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  146. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  147. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  148. Shrek (2001)
  149. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  150. The African Queen (1951)
  151. His Girl Friday (1940)
  152. Ikiru (1952)
  153. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  154. The Searchers (1956)
  155. Mystic River (2003)
  156. Die Hard (1988)
  157. Amores perros (2000)
  158. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  159. Hotaru no haka (1988)
  160. A Christmas Story (1983)
  161. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  162. Life of Brian (1979)
  163. Stalag 17 (1953)
  164. Big Fish (2003)
  165. The Hustler (1961)
  166. Charade (1963)
  167. Gladiator (2000)
  168. Young Frankenstein (1974)
  169. Sideways (2004)
  170. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  171. The Straight Story (1999)
  172. Talk to Her (2002)
  173. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
  174. The Killing (1956)
  175. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  176. A Night at the Opera (1935)
  177. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
  178. Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
  179. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  180. Spartacus (1960)
  181. Lost in Translation (2003)
  182. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
  183. Magnolia (1999)
  184. Harvey (1950)
  185. Strada, La (1954)
  186. Ed Wood (1994)
  187. Sling Blade (1996)
  188. The Terminator (1984)
  189. Toy Story (1995)
  190. Groundhog Day (1993)
  191. Untergang, Der (2004)
  192. All the President’s Men (1976)
  193. The Lion in Winter (1968)
  194. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  195. Roman Holiday (1953)
  196. Festen (1998)
  197. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
  198. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  199. Trainspotting (1996)
  200. 8½ (1963)
  201. Finding Neverland (2004)
  202. Laura (1944)
  203. Brazil (1985)
  204. The Conversation (1974)
  205. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
  206. The Insider (1999)
  207. Almost Famous (2000)
  208. Dogville (2003)
  209. The Station Agent (2003)
  210. Gandhi (1982)
  211. Stand by Me (1986)
  212. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  213. Persona (1966)
  214. King Kong (1933)
  215. Fanny och Alexander (1982)
  216. The Exorcist (1973)
  217. The 39 Steps (1935)
  218. Rain Man (1988)
  219. Mulholland Drive (2001)
  220. Stagecoach (1939)
  221. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  222. Being John Malkovich (1999)
  223. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  224. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  225. Rio Bravo (1959)
  226. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  227. Network (1976)
  228. Snatch. (2000)
  229. 21 Grams (2003)
  230. The Thin Man (1934)
  231. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
  232. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  233. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  234. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
  235. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  236. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  237. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  238. The Right Stuff (1983)
  239. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  240. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  241. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  242. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
  243. Garden State (2004)
  244. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
  245. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
  246. The Untouchables (1987)
  247. Heat (1995)
  248. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  249. Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
  250. Kumonosu jô (1957)

78 out of 250…could be more (as I’m a true movie nut) although some of those movies are just too old for me (I really don’t like ooold movies all that much)…

PWD

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PWD = Posting while drunk…I can’t even remember the last time I came home after 6am, but now it happened again (6:21am here). Nice birthday party of my mate Bernd!

I think it’s time to get at least some sleep until the next birthday party of my mate Welf goes down tonight…boy you gotta enjoy those back-to-back birthday parties….:wink:

Commonly Confused Words – Test

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Advanced Beginner
You scored 100% Beginner, 73% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 55% Expert!
You have a good understanding of beginner and advanced commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of the beginner and advanced level questions correct. You didn’t get as many of the intermediate level questions correct, but don’t fret. This is not a bad score at all. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don’t use them properly anyway. You got a respectable score.

Not bad as english isn’t my first language :mrgreen:
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New car stereo

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Finally my new car stereo is (almost) completed. Today the long awaited new rca-cables arrived, so I ripped apart half my car (you wouldn’t believe how much stuff you have to remove to pass some cables from the frontend to the rearend of the car. But now it’s done and the sound is brilliant (finally no generator noises in the system anymore :mrgreen: )!

In the process of revamping my car stereo I used the following new components so far:

  • Sinus Live Bandpass to replace the crappy Magnat Tube
  • new speaker cables for all rear components (high-quality cables with diameter of 2.5mm (speakers) and 6mm (subwoofer))
  • new MxM-Germany RCA-cables, triple shielding, aluminium-foil isolation, 24karat gold connectors

Now only the new front speaker are missing – as soon as they arrive my “dream-machine” will be completed :tup:

Roundup

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It’s been some days since I lasted posted some “major content”, so now that I’ve got some spare time, I thought I should do a roundup of things:

  • I decided that two exams covering 7 different academics is just too much, so I signed off one exam yesterday (the one covering 2 academics, as I’m already on a good way to master the one with 5)
  • Today parts of my new car audio system arrived, namely the new amplifier (as the old one gave up on me over a week ago) and a new subwoofer (Sinus Live DB 250) to get some nicer bass-sound. I spent 1.5h today to mount everything properly and pass some new lines. Sure enough the tweeters got a nasty whistle now…so I will have to pass the new RCA (“Cinch”) cables, I just ordered, next week…then everything should be :tup: :tup: (hopefully)…
  • NBA News: So the Philadelphia 76ers acquired All-Start forward Chris Webber – cool, maybe that’ll result in an more interesting eastern conference (Philly: A.I. + C-Webb, Miami: Shaq + Flash). Apart from this trade there were numerous others right before the trade deadline – Boston got Antoine back, Dallas landed Keith van Horn, Golden State got Baron Davis…crazy stuff going on, you can read all the transactions here
  • Personal sports: After the last match was canceled due to snow, it seems that the upcoming match on sunday is canceled, too. There’s just too much snow on the pitch (we trained on about 20cm of snow on wednesday which wasn’t all that much fun). This isn’t all that good as we’re all hot to get the season started again, then again it’s a free sunday, so why do I complain ;-)
  • International Football: All in all it’s not looking all too good for german teams in both UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup. CL: Bayern 3-1 Arsenal :tup: , Leverkusen 1-3 Liverpool :tdown: , Bremen 0-3 Lyon :tdown: :tdown: . UEFA Cup: Aachen, Schalke and VfB Stuttgart all out :tdown: :tdown:
  • Apple launched the new iPod Mini…didn’t have the chance to have a look at it, but will do so asap…

That’s it for now. Hopefully I’ll have more time to post over the next few weeks as I’ve got a little bit less stress now that I canceled one exam…

So long…have a great weekend!

NBA Allstar Game 2005

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Not a bad game so far, although I’m missing the whole “Showtime” basketball a little bit. More layups, three-pointers and turnovers (West already more than 20) than nice dunk/alley-oops. I don’t know if it’s the thin air up in mile high city or what? The only real highlight so far: Vince “Air Canada”/”Vincanity” Carter’s pass to himself of the glass…

On another note: 04:48am…I guess I’m going to get some sleep now as I’m really tired and this game isn’t keeping me on the edge of my seat at all (this is really the first time I’m not watching an NBA allstar game till the end)…so, I’ll call it a “night” – Go Dirk! Go West :-)

Update: So the East won it 125-115 and Iverson got the MVP award…so I guess my decision to get at least some sleep was right :wink:

Firefox downloaded 25 million times

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Wow, now that’s a nice number! I guess more and more people are at least giving it a try as there (almost) nothing but praise for it found around the net. In celebration of that the Mozilla Store is offering 25% rebate on Firefox T-Shirts, polos, plush-toys and hats until 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, February 17. So get yours. (More infos can be found here).

No wonder that Microsoft sees the need to release IE 7 earlier than planned :wink:

WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn

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The new version 1.5 of WordPress is out, get it here.

But be advised – there might be a lot of work to it (if you’ve customized a lot of stuff!).

My To-Do-List:

  • Reinstall AntiSpam-Solution – Done
  • Get site to work at all – Done cheers Aaron
  • Get Gravatars to work again properly – Done
  • Update smilies – Done
  • Get different versions to work again – WAP+Mobile
  • Get about, advertise and contact working again… – Done, you gotta love the new pages function
  • Get WP-Grins again…
  • add WP-Stats again…
  • …

Sidenote: The only thing that bothers me is that they included the whole no-follow thing and there’s no way to turn it off (yet) :tdown: – Fixed thanks to John :tup: !

FC Marbach II 2-2 TSV Affalterbach II

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The last friendly match before the restart of the season was a good one, although the weather really played it’s tricks on us (it started snowing just before the start of the match and shortly after that the whole field was covered with snow).

Best thing: I came into the match at the end (around the 80th minute?!) and scored the 2-2 :mrgreen: :tup: :tup:

Lack of updates

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I guess you already noticed that I didn’t post all that much recently. That’s due to the fact that I’ve got exams on the horizon (March 16th = Wissensverarbeitung (Knowledge Processing) and Verteilte Systeme (Distributed Systems); March 18th = Mensch-Rechner-Interaktion I+II, Arbeitswissenschaft, Technologiemanagement, Service Engineering) – as you see I’ve got to prepare myself for 7 concurrent subjects with scripts ranging from 200 to 600 pages :shock: .

That’s why I try to focus on that and cut my online time – hence the lack of updates…