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Ein Tankerunglück könnte für ein kleines Meer wie die Ostsee verheerend sein.
Ist ein kleines Meer eigentlich ein Meerchen?

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Ich verkaufe im Moment einige Bücher aus meiner Schul-/Studienzeit:

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of current English - Wörterbuch passend für Englisch-Leistungskurs
Meyberg, Vachenauer: Höhere Mathematik 1
Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media Lesenswert. War wichtig für's erste Semester Medieninformatik
Bronstein, Semendjajew, Musiol und Mühlig: Taschenbuch der Mathematik Das Nachschlagewerk für Mathematik schlechthin.

Bitte kaufen! d;

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Folge 118, mit einem Bericht zu Mass Effect 2 (ab 9m38s).
Der gleiche Bericht, ohne Kommentare aus dem Off.
Zwei Stühle, eine Meinung, ursprünglich als kurzes Pro und Contra gedacht, letztendlich aber ein 50-minütiger Dialog (Podcast?) zum Thema Mass Effect 2.

Ich guck das immer im Internet Explorer, weil deren Seite früher nicht im Firefox funktionierte. Keine Ahnung ob das immernoch so ist ... Jedenfalls sehenswert und ziemlich spoiler-frei.

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Mama hat mir Post geschickt, "Berufswelt 2010", lag den Lübecker Nachrichten bei.
Auf einer der ersten Seiten findet sich ein Interview mit Stefanie Heinzmann, die Überschrift:
"Ein Abschluss zu haben ist wichtig"
Scheinbar nicht so wichtig, insbesondere wenn man Zeitungsartikel verfasst, ist Grammatik. O_o

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I decided to give ME2 another go after all, this time attempting to play with the hardest gameplay setting, and also going for renegade.
I'm currently playing the first recruitment mission and I think I've already died more often than I did the entire first playthrough.
Also, I forgot to assign skill points to my team mates, which didn't make the first mission any easier ...
I've given up for now. Two krogans is just too much to deal with. I'll retry tomorrow ...

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Today I got two CDs in the mail that I'd ordered a while back.
These are the first two CDs I own with the band name starting with O it appears.

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Im currently in the rather unique position to choose between two decent jobs. And right now several people, some higher up, are holding their breath waiting for my decision.

The situation is as follows:
Steffi, my former boss, has filed for bankruptcy, which means no one's available to head the local Europcar branch. Europcar, though downplaying the whole issue, are desperately looking for a replacement. Steffi has arranged for a potential successor, financially able to do it, but without the neccessary personnel. Me, I've had a meeting with that successor, offering to be the personnel they're missing.
The current service partner in Lübeck has also asked me to come work for him. He's desperately looking for someone, and in fact it's the fourth time he's asked me.

So, now it's my choice. The existance of the local branch pretty much depends on me accepting to work for the new guy here. If I decline, I assume it'll take about a month for them to find a viable alternative. Quite the power for someone currently on Hartz IV. (:

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I was just going to play the Dragon Age DLC, but when I loaded the savegame I noticed I'd just entered Redcliffe and I can't get out. I need to finish that quest there first. o_O

[update] Then later I found out I'm not actually in the mood to play Dragon Age. O_o

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So, I'm done playing through Mass Effect 2. According to the load screen I spent around 50 hours on it. Looking forward to the next one. And DLC hopefully. The game lets you continue after finishing the main quest.

some random notes ... )

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There were a lot of negative points about the game in my "first impressions" post, but as it turns out, most of them don't much matter.

second impressions ... )

Done rambling. Bed now.

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For some reason the media center receiver service lately uses up a lot more CPU than normal when recording. Oh, and I usually delete the recordings right away because it also fails to record properly. It used to work just fine running in the background while I play games, but today when it suddenly started up I had trouble even saving in ME2 and quitting.

Now, ME2 takes ages to load a game, and sound stopped working in-game too. And I don't have much of a clue what might be causing it ... ):

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When you visit Earth in Mass Effect 2, it tells you that the length of a day is 23.9 Earth hours.
That reminds me a lot of a comedy show I used to watch as a kid. In a news programme parody, they announced that Michael Jackson, surprisingly, only came second in a Michael Jackson lookalike contest.

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If you buy fish for your aquarium, you need to feed them.

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... bin gerade zurück aus Niebüll. 7.5-Tonner abholen und zum Kunden bringen.
Ist bei dem Wetter echt nicht spaßig sowas in der Gegend rumzufahren. Schneefall, starker Wind. Die Straße kann man kaum noch als solche erkennen ...

Na ja, alles gutgegangen. Jetzt geh' ich schlafen.

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I'll try to keep this spoiler free )

This has been rather longer than I expected it to be. And I'd intended to be in bed about two hours ago too. (Last night had been a little short).
All in all, these notes make the game sound a lot worse than it is. I still like it, and I'm pretty sure I'll finish it too, maybe even re-play. It's just not this Really Big Thing I expected it to be. Lots of missed chances for improvement.

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I really like BitTorrent:

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You must be level 3 ... )

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Preis bei Bestellung: EUR 64,95
Preis bei Versand: EUR 64,90
Günstigster Preis bis Erscheinungsdatum: EUR 64,90
Menge: 1
Gesamte Ersparnis: EUR 0,05
Also bekomm' ich quasi noch Geld raus!!

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ätsch! (; )

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... Nevermind, just got it.

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Ever noticed how Mass Effect 2 abbreviates to "me too"?
It says "Lieferung wird zugestellt" at 10am today. I want my game dammit!

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One advantage of the internet is that you can make a new piece of information available quickly to everyone interested.
One advantage of online advertising is that you can offer current special deals to those that might be interested.

An example of bad advertising - Offering a special sale that ended four days ago ...


Then again, who knows ... I might have been the first person who even noticed this ad ...

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Oops, I didn't even realise it's already been released on BitTorrent ...
No point in downloading now though, since amazon.de already sent my copy off.

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Quick update:
The ductwork in my apartment has been installed in such a crappy way that the water doesn't flow properly. There's always a little bit left inside the ducts, and since the ducts run near the outside wall of the building the drain duct is frozen solid.
The guy who was supposed to get it working again has given up, since there's nothing he can do to prevent it from just freezing again. It seems that the entire drain pipe has to be removed and a new, insulated one installed, with a bit of a decline too because currently the "decline" is facing the wrong way.

Anyway, a plumber came along around 1pm to take a look at things. Now his boss is doing a cost estimation, and actual work on the issue might start the day after tomorrow.

Oh well, since there's currently puddles of water all over my apartment I've decided to take a bath in the bathroom sink. At least I feel clean again now.

I'm quite pissed off anyway. I'm not blaming the weather of course, nothing you could've done about the freezing temperatures. I do blame crappy craftsmanship though. If those ducts had been installed properly, this all wouldn't be neccessary now.

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So. Ich kann nach wie vor weder Spüle noch Dusche benutzen.
Dem Abflussrohr fehlt Gefälle, so dass sich Wasser sammelt. Außerdem verläuft das Rohr an einer Außenwand, und das gesamte Rohr ist jetzt zugefroren.
Ganz toll.
Nun muß wahrscheinlich ein Teil der Wand im Bad, vielleicht auch in der Küche, aufgemacht werden, und es muß ein neues Rohr verlegt werden. Im Moment weiß ich noch nicht, wann das passieren soll.

Mal abwarten ...

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