May/13

Purchase Diary 2013 – April

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Apr 18th – €9.99 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1034

That’s My Boy (2012)

Apr 25th – €7.90 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1035

When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

Apr 25th – €4.90 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1036

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Apr 25th – €12.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1037

Total Recall (2012)

Apr 25th – €9.90 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1038

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2013
Tags: Battleship · Spider-Man · That's My Boy · The Lord of the Rings · Total Recall · What to Expect When You're Expecting · When Harry Met Sally...
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Apr/13

The Pilot Marathon Part 10

Deutsche Version | Part 9

Türkisch für Anfänger

(lit. “Turkish for Beginners”)

What’s the show about?
The show revolves around a German melting pot family, consisting of Metin Öztürk, a German police detective of Turkish origins and his son Cem, a wannabe gangsta and his daughter Yağmur, who’s living by strict Islamic rules.
On the other side you have Doris Schneider, a libertine psychoanalyst and her daughter Lena, whose BFF just left for America in a student exchange program and Nils, the baby in the family.
Now they try to build one family – but in actuality a war has just begun.

“Die, in der ich meine Freiheit verliere”
(lit. “The One Where I Lose My Freedom”)
Lena is happy to learn that her mother has stopped dating that “Albanian terrorist” when they announce that they are moving in together in a new home. Aside from the happy couple only Nils can see anything good in this and Lena and Cem almost instantly declare war on each other after Cem tried to bully Lena into wearing less “slutty” and more traditional clothes. For this he hires is “gangsta buddy” Costa which in itself is an odd combination since Costa is of Greek origin.

My Opinion
I love the show. Sometimes it gets a bit tiresome because Lena’s and Cem’s story is getting much more complicated and Lena’s sometimes too egoistic and egocentric but in the end they all grow up.

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Pilot Marathon
Tags: Castle · Doctor Who · Spuk im Hochhaus · Spuk unterm Riesenrad · The Sarah Jane Adventures · Torchwood · Türkisch für Anfänger
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Mar/13

Purchase Diary 2013 – March

Skyfall (2012)

Mar 4th – €12.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1027

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Mar 4th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1028

The O.C.: Season 1 (2003 – 2004)

Mar 5th – €0.00 ($18.00) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12335 – 12341

Argo (2012)

Mar 27th – €9.99 @ Saturn

Collection no. 1029

Looper (2012)

Mar 27th – €12.99 @ Saturn

Collection no. 1030

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2013
Tags: Argo · Dawson's Creek · Here Comes the Boom · James Bond · Looper · Men in Black · Schutzengel · The O.C. · The Transporter
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Mar/13

My GetService Pattern

In .Net the Interface System.IServiceProvider is a simple and elegant method to query services from other objects without having – or even wanting – to know how the class structure behind it looks like. Is the interface at that class implemented or at another? No matter, you query IServiceProvider and you get an instance of what you asked for.

That’s the theory. In reality the developer may have forgotten to add the new interface to the list after he implemented it. Or he forgot the IServiceProvider altogether.

That’s why I have this method to get what I want through several fallback strategies:

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Categories: Misc, Software
Tags: .NET · C# · System.IServiceProvider
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Mar/13

"Not do: Dead." – Monday Mornings

Monday Mornings @ Wikipedia
Monday Mornings @ IMDb

“Monday Mornings” are conferences within the Chelsea General Hospital and these conferences are about all the things that went wrong. Malpractices, patient deaths and social misbehaviour. But it also shows parts of the private life of the doctors working there and their different approaches to their chosen profession.

Monday Mornings was developed by David E. Kelley who’s more known as a developer of law(yer) shows just as Ally McBeal or Boston Legal. And in the end this show is not so different, because the MM conferences are basically the closing arguments of a trial where everyone explains their point of view of what went wrong.

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Categories: Short Review
Tags: Ally McBeal · Battlestar Galactica · Boston Legal · Monday Mornings · Pulp Fiction · Spider-Man · The Big Bang Theory
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Mar/13

Purchase Diary 2013 – February

The Bourne Legacy (2012)

Feb 5th – €11.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1021

Crank (2006)

Feb 5th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1022

Ted (2012)

Feb 5th – €11.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1023

The O.C.: Season 2 (2004 – 2005)

Feb 20th – €10.04 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 12301 – 12306

The O.C.: Season 3 (2005 – 2006)

Feb 20th – €10.04 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 12307 – 12313

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2013
Tags: Cougar Town · Crank · Hart of Dixie · Jason Bourne · Person of Interest · Ted · Terminator · The O.C.
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Feb/13

Purchase Diary 2013 – January

Bones: Season 7 (2011 – 2012)

Jan 10th – €0.00 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12297 – 12300

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

Jan 17th – €0.00 ($3.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 1014

Superman vs The Elite (2012)

Jan 17th – €0.00 ($10.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 1015

Turkish for Beginners (2012)
(Türkisch für Anfänger)

Jan 24th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1016

Cop Land (1997)

Jan 26th – €9.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1017

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2013
Tags: Bones · Cop Land · Justice League · Superman · Taken · The Avengers · The Expendables · Turkish for Beginners
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Jan/13

The Hunger Games

I recently read The Hunger Games trilogy

The story is about a post-apocalyptic world (i.e. North America) where there are no countries anymore. There are only 12 Districts and the Capitol. There used to be a 13th District but it was completely destroyed during the last rebellion of the Districts against the Capitol.

Now the Capitol rules with an iron fist and to prove their supremacy, each year the districts have to “provide” two children between the ages 12 and 16 – one girl and one boy. Then these 24 are sent to a fighting area which only one winner will leave alive.

The protagonist of the books is Katniss Aberdeen and she fights in the 74th Hunger Games for her very survival.

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Categories: Book, Short Review
Tags: Harry Potter · The Hunger Games
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Dec/12

DVD Statistics 2012

2012 End Statistics:

New Purchase Items: 193 (144 in 2011)
New Movies: 185 (thereof Blu-ray: 121)
New TV Seasons: 59 (thereof Blu-ray: 7)
New TV Specials: 3
New Special Interest: 7

Money Spent: 2,302.31€ (1,755.48€ in 2011)
Money Spent on Movies: 1,413.72€
Money Spent on TV Seasons: 839.59€
Money Spent on TV Specials: 22.61€
Money Spent on Special Interest: 26.39€

Avg Spent: 11.93€ (12.19€ in 2011)
Avg Spent on Movies: 7.64€
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: 14.23€
Avg Spent on TV Specials: 7.54€
Avg Spent on Special Interest: 3.77€

Running Time: 62,355m (43d 7h 15m)
Running Time Movies: 21,056m (14d 14h 56m)
Running Time TV Seasons: 40,043m (27d 19h 23m)
Running Time TV Specials: 456m (7h 36m)
Running Time Special Interest: 800m (13h 20m)

Cheapest Item: Clerks (2.07€)