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Rocktile – my first electric guitar

I’ve been talking a lot about wanting to buy an electric guitar one day. I really wanted to experience that kind of guitar play too. And now, last Friday I decided to buy one online. I bought it in a German music shop (Kirstein) in the Internet.

I bought a whole starter package with everything I need. It is a cheap one, but good enough to try a little. Beginning of this week, I got my guitar and I must say that I am impressed. I did not expect that amount of quality for such a low price. Playing e-guitar is really fun… I just need to keep it down because of my neighbors. The amplifier is only a 10W one, but it is enough to blow up my tiny room ;) What I bought is called “Rocktile Banger’s Pack E-Gitarren Set, 7-teilig Sunburst“.

Here a picture of my with my brand new guitar:

My first electric guitar

Movie recommendation: Kick-Ass

One of these days, I saw the movie “Kick-Ass“… I must say, I kinda fought with my self to see it, because I thought it was really stupid. Why? Because of a short clip I saw on TV, which took it out of context and because of the movie title (it does sound kinda stupid, doesn’t it?). But a trustworthy friend swore that the movie is frickin’ ass-kickin’, so I decided to see it…

Man, really… that movie is one of the most wicked I have seen since a long long time!

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250777/plotsummary

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Movie: Legion

Yesterday, Rene and me decided to go to the cinema, and we selected our movie by watching (half of) a trailer of “Legion“. We thought “Damn! That movie is gonna be ‘legiondary’”. Because of… let’s say some very strange and surprising scenes.

So, we went to Cineplexx Hohenems to go to see that movie! I must say, it was quiet funny (in a very creepy way sometimes). There were a lot of cool scenes, honestly… but the story is only medium to weak. Some pretty weird and illogical things happen there…

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Ubuntu 10.04 Looking-Forward


As you might or might not know, in 2 weeks + 1 day, the new version of Ubuntu will be released (April 29th 2010). And as every half-year this happens I am looking forward to the new version and its new features/look.

The thing that makes me most excited about all it this time is the even better support for nVidia graphic adapters. There is going to be a new open source driver version for nVidia adapters and better support for proprietary nVidia drivers. Not that is would be working bad right now, but improvement is always good, right? ;)

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Mexican Slang (also swearing)

For those of you, who want to visit Mexico in near or far future, I have something useful here… Mexican slang and swearing expressions… ;)

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Projector workspace

Some days ago I ordered a wireless keyboard for doing exactly this… making a workspace in the university with a projector! If you follow me on Twitter, probably you’ve already seen the picture, but if not, here a picture of it:

Projector workspaceIf you ever thought about doing that and you’re not sure “mmhhhh I don’t know if it would really be THAT awesome…”, I can tell you: IT REALLY IS AWESOME!!

Mouse (don’t know model name) and keyboard (MK300) by Logitech.

Music: FAttY SPiNS

Since some weeks, I am “following” a guy (Ray William Johnson) on YouTube who has a pretty funny (twice-weekly) show. I am already a big fan, but what I found out several days ago is, that he has a Rap band.

Yeah, I know what you are thinking… “Marc? Rap?? WHAT UP!?”. But this the one and only Rap band I like (probably only because of that guy… and of course the lyrics :D ).

Well, I like that band and even if you’re not a rap fan, but fan of funny lyriks, check out those “FAttY SPiNS“…

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Guitar: If A Song Could Get Me You

Lately I was playing guitar with my buddy René, when we found it funny to just check the charts in the radio and try to play it on the guitar. Well, one of the songs was “If A Song Could Get Me You” by Marit Larsen.

After watching the YouTube video and finding the guitar chords online, I decided to give it a try. Well, it feels pretty good playing it. It is easy to play and has a very nice rythm!

So my recommendation of the day for the guitarists here: If A Song Could Get Me You by Marit Larsen ;)

If A Song Could Get Me You

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iPhone 3G S

iPhone 3G SYesterday, I finally managed to set up a cell phone contract.

With the contract, I also got an iPhone 3G S. I always wanted to try a thing like that and well… now I have the chance to ;)

The first steps were a little bit weird, because I had to activate the phone with iTunes. Which is not available for Linux. And then they didn’t want to accept Austria as my location, because my credit card is from Luxembourg. But after that little problem, it was ready to use.

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ChooserToday, I found a link of an interesting test, which finds out which Linux distribution is the best for you. The following questions always depend on the questions you already answered. So it is even understandable for non-geeks ;)

The result for me was 100% Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Sounds perfect… I started on a Linux Mint system after which I fastly switched to Ubuntu :)

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