Monthly Archives: March 2005

IMDB Bottom Meme

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After recently doing the IMDB Meme in which you take the best movies of all times and mark the ones you’ve seen, I thought: why not do the IMDB bottom meme – taking the 100 worst movies of all time and marking the ones I’ve seen (the current bottom 100 can be found over at imdb.com). Alright, let’s get it started:

  1. ‘Manos’ the Hands of Fate (1966)
  2. From Justin to Kelly (2003)
  3. Future War (1997)
  4. Tangents (1994)
  5. Space Mutiny (1988)
  6. Girl in Gold Boots (1969)
  7. Troll 2 (1990)
  8. Son of the Mask (2005)
  9. Hobgoblins (1987)
  10. Eegah (1962)
  11. You Got Served (2004)
  12. Santa with Muscles (1996)
  13. Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966)
  14. Backyard Dogs (2000)
  15. SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
  16. Daniel – Der Zauberer (2004)
  17. Ator l’invincibile 2 (1984)
  18. The Wild World of Batwoman (1966)
  19. Glitter (2001)
  20. Soultaker (1990)
  21. Werewolf (1996)
  22. Alone in the Dark (2005)
  23. Going Overboard (1989)
  24. Nuevos extraterrestres, Los (1983)
  25. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)
  26. Uomo puma, L’ (1980)
  27. Gigli (2003)
  28. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
  29. Stjerner uden hjerner (1997)
  30. 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
  31. Kazaam (1996)
  32. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
  33. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964)
  34. The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
  35. House of the Dead (2003)
  36. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
  37. Leonard Part 6 (1987)
  38. Robot Monster (1953)
  39. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
  40. Baby Geniuses (1999)
  41. Cool as Ice (1991)
  42. It’s Pat (1994)
  43. Hercules in New York (1970)
  44. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
  45. 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
  46. Dis – en historie om kjærlighet (1995)
  47. Bolero (1984)
  48. The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994)
  49. Simon Sez (1999)
  50. Rollerball (2002)
  51. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
  52. Mitchell (1975)
  53. Steel (1997)
  54. The Master of Disguise (2002)
  55. Marci X (2003)
  56. Teen Wolf Too (1987)
  57. Vercingétorix (2001)
  58. Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
  59. Shanghai Surprise (1986)
  60. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
  61. Captain America (1991)
  62. Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
  63. Mannequin: On the Move (1991)
  64. Spice World (1997)
  65. Ringmaster (1998)
  66. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
  67. Bride of the Monster (1955)
  68. Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
  69. Street Fighter (1994)
  70. Rhinestone (1984)
  71. Barb Wire (1996)
  72. Problem Child 2 (1991)
  73. Out for a Kill (2003)
  74. Mr. Nanny (1993)
  75. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
  76. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
  77. The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
  78. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
  79. Plump Fiction (1997)
  80. Double Dragon (1994)
  81. RoboCop 3 (1993)
  82. The Smokers (2000)
  83. Torque (2004)
  84. Cop & 1/2 (1993)
  85. Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
  86. Crossroads (2002)
  87. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
  88. The Foreigner (2003)
  89. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
  90. Jaws 3-D (1983)
  91. Soul Plane (2004)
  92. The Mangler (1995)
  93. Cyborg 2 (1993)
  94. The Cat in the Hat (2003)
  95. Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993)
  96. FearDotCom (2002)
  97. Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
  98. Mac and Me (1988)
  99. Iron Eagle II (1988)
  100. Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

Hmm, so I’ve watched 30 out of 100 :shock:
How about you?

Forums defaced

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Tonight one of my forums were defaced – I guess due to my recent unawareness of a critical update (phpbb version 2.13) :-(

No real harm done, but some work to do (thank god I keep backups of both databases and content at all times, so I just really had to do the following things:

  • Restore customized template – check
  • Restore parts of the DB – check
  • Change PW of the DB itself – check
  • Change PW of the admin-user – check
  • Notify the users of breach and suggest PW change – check

In total: 25minutes of my life…argh…and all that just to have a forum for my football-team… :mrgreen: )

How championship dreams…

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…can go up in flames in less than a week. After the recent success in our first match after the winterbreak (12-0 vs Hochdorf) we lost against one of our main competitors (SC Ludwigsburg) 2-3 on saturday. Today we wanted to get back some points against SGV Hoepfigheim II, but we didn’t – instead we lost another two points by playing 1-1.

Now it’s not looking good at all: before the two matches we were only one point behind 1st place and were clear 4 points to 3rd place. Now we’re stuck in 2nd place (but only due to the fact that SC Ludwigsburg still has a game more to play) with the competition back in the game (SC Ludwigsburg did their homework today by winning 6-0) and the first place is out of reach for now (6points)…

Boy oh boy…

Current standings:

  1. Dersim Ludwigsburg – 14 games played – 37 points
  2. FC Marbach II – 14 – 31 points
  3. SC Ludwigsburg – 13 – 29 points
  4. TSV Ludwigsburg II – 13 – 26 points
  5. Türkspor Oberstenfeld II – 14 – 21 points
  6. GSV Höpfigheim II – 12 – 21 points
  7. TSV Neckargröningen II – 14 – 20 points
  8. KSV Besigheim – 14 – 19 points
  9. Anadolu Marbach – 14 – 14 points
  10. TV Aldingen II – 12 – 13 points
  11. SKV Erligheim II – 14 – 12 points
  12. SGV Hochdorf II – 14 – 6 points
  13. Spvgg Schlößlesfeld II – 12 – 3 points

Age of Mythology – Game 7

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The first 6 player game ever and a really interesting one. After a slow start (losing all the early battles) it really came down to the end…Kai, Nico, Ralf and me had the chance to win, but I blew it (not buying a winnig point with the main temple) – Ralf built the wonder and hence won, despite a tie between him and me (the first tie-breaker rule: whoever builds the wonder is winning in case of a tie)…

Final Standings:

  1. Ralf – 8 points (tie-breaker rule: he built “the wonder”)
  2. Ingo – 8 points
  3. Ines – 2 points
  4. Nico – 0 points
  5. Kai – 0 points
  6. Wolf – 0 points

Overall winning standings:

  1. Ingoal – 3 wins (7 games played)
  2. Ralf – 2 wins (7 games played)
  3. Ines – 1 win (5 games played)
  4. Nico – 1 win (6 games played)
  5. Jens – 0 wins (1 game played)
  6. Wolf – 0 wins (1 game played)
  7. Kai – 0 wins (6 games played)

Online game madness

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So it’s saturday and I’m playing the ultra fast version of “Die Staemme”.

Location: Office of Osthoff innovations, Marbach
State: Detonized, 3 cups of coffee down, 1l of Cherry Coke down, more to go
Number of in-game villages: 12 3
Number of players around: 2 3 6 5
Total head count: 5
Points: 14043
Time: 9:43

More updates following…

Update: 22:21 Our biggest player was just killed and is down to one village with 1000 points…we were able to hold off more than 6000 high class units, but in the end we didn’t stand a chance (the player who attacked has got more than 20 villages…)

Update: 23:49 Second big wave of attacks against our 2nd biggest player…we’re still holding on, but the situation is getting tight…

Update: 0:33 Big wave on our (now) biggest player was held off! Now it’s time for me to develop a little more, spent the last 2hours building defensive troops and fighting on foreign battlegrounds…

Update: 01:03 Lost the second big battle…so we’re another village short :-(
It’s starting to get really annoying here…damn!

Update: 01:26 Just got my second village. On another note: another wave of heavy offense on our (now) third biggest player…

Update: 02:09 First attack on me…got hit with 500 of every kind and dropped 500 points :-(
Still holding up…

Update: 03:04 Going 12hours straight…weeeee….nothing happening for a while, so I’m upgrading my stuff…hopefully I’ll get to crush someone later on…

Update: 04:40 Just got my third village….yes, it’s going up up up :-)

Update: 05:24 We just pull off a real big attack…got a 6500points village for Kai…groovy…now I’m going to build up a big army and will try to bust a 12000points village for myself ;-)

Update: 06:00 6 o’clock in the morning…yippi…reach the 10k mountain…awake for 18h…playing since 15:00 yesterday…so 15h straight :mrgreen:

Update: 07:27 Good morning world…everything going our way now…less than 7 hours to go until the game ends…maybe we can crack the top ten after all :-)

Update: 08:08 Ooooh my, now it’s on…the #1 player (over 300.000 points) is attacking our biggest player :-(

Update: 09:14 Alrighty…we’re about to wrap it up, now we’re attacking one of our mates here (Nico)…then we’re going to stop playing…finally :-)

Update: 09:43 Finito, time to catch some sleep…yawn…

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)…

Recent absence

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Yes, I’m still alive – didn’t have much time to post something though. With an exam coming up on friday I’m trying to study as hard as possible and spend as little time online as possible. I’m really looking forward for this thing to be over as my head is full, full, full of knowledge waiting to burst out. Hopefully everything will be fine, I guess you can’t do more than prepare properly – I’ll find out on friday and keep you updated (I guess Saturday)…

So, here’s a quick round-up of things:

  • Fantasy footie Weeks 27 and 28 (34 points/929 points total – 10 points/939 points total)
  • It seems that after three weeks of canceled matches we’re going to play on sunday – thank god, it’s really hard to get into gear when you’ve been training for around 8 weeks (after the winter break) without a single real match (we’ve played some friendly matches, but that’s just not the real deal)
  • I’ll be around more after the exam as mentioned above. One exception though: Sat April 2nd – Sat April 16th…VACATION :mrgreen: (more about that soonish)

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: