Dear Foursquare, you are idling a bit. Please fix these bugs!
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Sebastian
I love location-based game/service/juggernaut, that’s no secret. I can’ even put my finger on “why”, I guess it’s part of tracking my life (for a detailed intro into tracking look at the ‘Quantified-Self Series‘ from Third Wave). However, there are a couple of things that really bug me. A lot. For a company that has […]
Preview: Reading 2012
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Sebastian
As for the last couple of years, there will be a reading list for 2012. Last year was pretty good, I worked my way through 24 books. Some of them were short, sure, but the ideas still valuable. After 28 books in 2009 and 18 in 2010 two books/month is a nice pace, considering that […]
2011 in Review: Top 10 albums
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Sebastian
2011 marked a year that brought me back to music a bit more. I saw more concerts than last year, played more guitar and listened to more. My top 10 of the year: Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events Amos Lee – Mission Bell Trivium – In Waves Symphony X – Iconoclast Whitesnake […]
How Steve Lukather influenced my guitar playing and learning
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Sebastian
This is going to be a longer and stream of concsciousness-type of post, so if you lose interest just jump to the final paragraph for the morale of the story… My alltime top 5 guitarists are probably Paul Gilbert, Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, who can ever tell. There was a time […]
Der schönste Tag in einem jungen Leben…
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Sebastian
Und auf einmal sprechen Dich die Jungs von Metallica an und bieten an, als Vorgruppe aufzutreten…
In der Weihnachtsgeschenkbäckerei: Alltagshelden
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Sebastian
Bei meiner Frau im Arbeitszimmer sieht es zurzeit so aus: Und solche Stapel gibt es viele. Denn meine liebe Frau hat wieder ein Buch “geschrieben”, mit einer befreundeten Designerin umgesetzt, und in Kleinauflage produzieren lassen, diesmal eine Art Freundebuch, also Poesiealbum oder “Das ist meine Schulklasse” – ihr erinnert euch? Schade, dass man damals so […]