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eclipse shortcuts
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 | IDE, Java, Quirks | 2 Comments
Kids, after a hard day’s labour I Crtl-Alt-S’ed myself into the team sync perspective to commit my stuff. After doing so this conversation happened in our team room today:
What was the shortcut for getting back to the Java perspective again?
Hmm, dunno, hit Ctrl-Shift-L
What’s that?
That’s the shortcut for the shortcuts.
True Story. 
P.S. Technically Ctrl-Alt-S doesn’t mean “switch to the team sync perspective” but “sync with repo” implicating a switch to the team sync perspective.
P.P.S. Don’t tell me to use Ctrl-Shift-F8 – first, it’s not “switch to Java perspective” and second that’s the dumbest non-accessible shortcut ever. I always reassign it to Ctrl-Tab thus being far more convenient IMHO.
P.P.P.S. Yes, I know you can assign a shortcut to the not bound by default Java perspective.
P.P.P.P.S. If you are still reading this you didn’t get the post’s joke. It’s not about the Java perspective at all. 
New word(s): 9 terms for being sick
Friday, January 1st, 2010 | Language, Quirks, Vocabulary | 1 Comment
What’s a better way to celebrate new year’s eve than attending your bro’s wedding (congratz again, Tim and Thilo), having a hip hop battle where you ruin your wedding suit’s trousers and discussing the vast variety of words for “throwing up” with an English army man. A great night indeed!
I was pretty proud I already knew 7 words – impressing the crowd, embarrassing me performing the appropriate gestures with my new friend from the UK to each way. Jo taught me one more, to honk. My wife then gave me the last one, which I first didn’t take as a way to do it but more as a descriptive term – but people really say something like “to be sick on the floor”.
Okay, enough of an introduction, here is my list of words for being sick:
- throw up – the well known term
- vomit – slightly informal
- puke – colloquial
- barf – a big shot straight forward
- hurl – like a barf, but done in an 120°+ horizontal angle
- huee – the sound you make just before you ralph! (dont know the spelling though)
- ralph – the sound you make after a few huees!
- honk – new word from Jo, I am sorry I forgot the appropriate occasion for this one
- be sick – new word from Liz
The “sound” descriptive ones (my favourites!):
New since last night:
Impressive, right? Don’t take me wrong, I am not specially attached to this topic, it’s just a fun thing to discuss at a late night party with a few drunkards. Dictionaries even provide a few more terms, but that’s kinda like cheating. Consider giving it a try next time you are at a party with a few friends that don’t mind talking about, well, being sick 
Geek joke
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Language, Misc, Quirks | 1 Comment
Today somebody posted a nice geek joke in our team chat, it seems to be quite common, but nevertheless it was new to me:
Why do programmers always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
If you dont get it, read the Mathematical jokes Wikipedia article for an explanation. But I assume that people who dont get it right away wont find it funny even after reading the explanation. Revenga of the nerds! Merry Christmas
Harddrive cleanup: returned from oblivion
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | Language, Misc, Quirks | No Comments
OMG TEH SPAIDER WUZ THIS BIG!!11!!!!
So funny! Cleaning up my hard drive I found this lolcat … scary shit indeed!
For more of them have a look at my favourite lolcatz or visit icanhascheezburger!
New word: placeholder
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | Language, Quirks, Vocabulary | No Comments
I was pretty astonished finding out that this false friend is none.
If you are German, think for yourself whether you would have guessed that “placeholder” is indeed the correct translation of “Platzhalter“.
New word: scurvy
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | Language, Quirks, Vocabulary | No Comments
I came across this one watching “The IT Crowd” (hilarious, don’t miss out on it even if you are only remotely connected to an IT job) – Jen is babbling about herself being the employee of the month, when Roy asks Moss about a former employee of the month, Richmond:
Roy: What ever happend to Richmond?
Moss: He got scurvy! (looking aghast)
(laughter…)
Well, I have to admit that I didn’t get the joke, maybe because I am not a native speaker … is scruvy used for kids only? Or is it a word used in a specific situation? Whatever, I just learned a new word … even if it just for my passive vocabulary due to not fully understanding the meaning.
Review: Gran Torino (2008)
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | Language, Movies, Reviews, Vocabulary | 1 Comment
Holy sh*t! This one really blew my mind! First a word about Mr. Clint Eastwood, whom I want to give some kudos here. When I was a kid I associated the name Clint Eastwood with a gunslinger, nothing more, nothing less. He proofed me so very wrong, thankfully, just remember the Oscar winning Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby (not my piece of cake, though).
This time we see him as director, producer and main character. Again, you might think what could come out of an ordinary gunslinger being the sole responsible person for a movie? Right, horseshiat you say, but this one is definitely an exception that proves the rule!
Imagine yourself being an elderly war vet (gunslinger, anybody? jk) living in a suburb that becomes more and more of a slum. Gangs, bullies and some gooks (just using the term from the movie, no offence intended) moving into your old neighbour’s house. And then, one night, they step on your perfectly mowed lawn, smashing your precious garden gnomes …
This is just a very basic description of the story, no Gran Torino mentioned yet. I did this on purpose, not to spoil anything. I just want to make sure you get the idea and hopefully be teased enough to go see this masterpiece on the big screen! Try to see it non-dubbed, I wonder how they will translate all these wonderful swear words.
Perfect, a pollack and a chink!
How are you doing Martin, you crazy italian prick?!
Walts! You cheap bastard! I should have known you come in, I was having such a pleasant day!
Now, what’d you do, ruse some blind guy outta his money, gave him the wrong change?
Who’s the nip?
Oh, he’s the pussy-kid from next door, I’m just trying to man him up a little bit.
Hmm.
You see kid? Now that’s how guys talk to one another.
A must see! Thanks Mr. Eastwood!
9.5/10
Review: Vollplayback Theater “… and Justus for all” Tour: Die bedrohte Ranch (33)
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | Reviews, Theatre, Vocabulary | No Comments
Radio plays performed on stage, that is what the Vollplaybacktheater (VPT) does. The “tapes” are played back and the artists perform what is happening in the play. You can imagine, that this opens a whole new perspective on theatre as well as on radio plays. VPT plays are simply hilarious and a really good way to spend spare time.
Vollplaybacktheater - Don't miss it!
My first VPT session was “Die drei ??? und die rätselhaften Bilder”, since then I have been an abiding attendee, mostly premier shows. But beware, this stuff is not necessarily suitable for kids, even if it may look like it, the main audience’s age is 30+ – people who listened to these plays when they where kids.
Check out this short clip to get an idea what I am talking about:
9.5/10 – legendary!
Legolize me!
Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Gadgets, Language, Misc, Vocabulary | 2 Comments
Not quite accurate, but still funny, my legolized alter ego:
Nick Prosch legolized
You want to try legolizing yourself? Reasonably Clever host the mizer (another artificial word created by the web…). To all the headhunters out there: the tattoo is fake and I wanted to be a rock star all my live
NSD5: The terrible twos
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | Misc, Vocabulary | 1 Comment
Day 5 is just as day 4. I want to commit an act of defiance and smoke. It’s not really a physical pain any more, merely something missing. And why should I keep myself from something I want to do? That doesn’t make any sense. Reason still overrules custom and I am sure that these ambiguous feelings will cease sooner or later.
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