Sebastian Rittau

Month: January 2006

  • Looking Forward to Grand Prix Hasselt

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    Grand Prix Hasselt is coming. I know because I have to catch a train tomorrow at 7 in the morning. I am really looking forward to the 8 hour train drive, which includes changing trains twice. (As a tribute to a fellow judge and blogger I give you anecdote #1: The second train changing will take place in…

  • Guildpact Prerelease

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    For a summary see the last paragraph of this post. Yesterday was the big prerelease for Guildpact. As always I judged it at the FUNtainment Game Center here in Berlin. It was a fairly successful event. With 97 players we had one the largest prereleases (the largest even?) in Germany. And that is considering that there were about five other…

  • Guildpact Card Wordings

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    Yesterday the FAQ for the upcoming Magic expansion Guildpact was released. I had a bit of time today and I came across two card wording that I don’t like: The FAQ entry for Goblin Flectomancer says: Goblin Flectomancer {U}{R}{R} Creature — Goblin Wizard 2/2 Sacrifice Goblin Flectomancer: You may change the targets of target instant or sorcery spell. The ability can target any…

  • Public Transport in Winter

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    It’s winter in Berlin. It’s cold and wet. There’s muddy snow. Using public transport during winter is not fun. It’s crowded and you have to wait on cold, windy stations. But today it was especially bad. Returning from university I was waiting at the S-Bahn station Adlershof. First, a passengerless train was passing the station without stop. Some wagons had…

  • Ubuntu (Non-)Collaboration

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    Today I discovered on Debian’s Package Tracking System that Ubuntu has patched my Netatalk package. The patch seems to be rather useful (start cnid_metad in init if the user requests it). I just wonder why it was never submitted directly to me. Isn’t it easier just to take the upstream message than to (re-)sync every time I release a new version? Below…

  • Blonde Joke

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    Normally, I don’t like blonde jokes, but this one is really good! Oh and: Happy New Year! But the really funny thing about this is that I stumbled across it on Planet Debian, a computer-related RSS aggregator. And while following the links, I came across The Ferret’s blog. Ferret is a well-known employee of the Magic web site and…