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Tuesday, January 30. 2007
So Hannes tagged me, so here are five bits of information you might not know:
- My brother and I compete in finding the crappiest DVDs around. On my last birthday, he gave me Daniel der Zauberer, and it was hard not to puke while watching it. I got my revenge last christmas when I gave him Santa With Muscles—the IMDB trivia says it all.
- By a series of coincidences, I am mentioned in the credits of Mozilla-based browsers
- When I was younger, I played a bit of chess, however never really successful. However by a series of coincidences, I was captain of the German team at the 1999 World Cities Chess Championship in Shenyang (China). If you want to see how I was crushed by GM Hua Ni (currently #82 in the world), you will find a focal point of the game here.
- My first participation in a book project was translating a few chapters in a book on QuarkXPress, since the other translators were behind schedule. I selected topics much more diligently since. My first book was writing 50% of an encyclopedia. I was brought into the project so late that my name actually did not make it on the cover of the book any more, but only on the first page. I selected publishers much more diligently since.
- I have to travel a lot, and love to go to concerts wherever I am, so Ticketmaster is my friend. Unfortunately, I usually first buy the tickets and later check how to get to the venue, so from time to time I have to forfeit tickets. However quite often I am lucky and actually can attend. In 2005, among the concerts I attended were Live 8 in London and Oasis in Los Angeles; 2006's highlights included Guns N' Roses in Prague, Metallica in Nuremberg and Aerosmith/Mötley Crüe in Mountain View.
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