Christian Iversen's blog

As you might know, I have a veritable stockpile of computer hardware. In order to get a little more space available, and perhaps make a few monetary units along the way, I’m putting the parts together, and selling them as second-hand computers.

So if you know anyone who’s interested in a cheap (but tested) computer, let me know. I also have spare parts for pretty much anything, if you need something fixed ;-)

So, people call other peoples who cares too much about grammar by sometimes the name of they are known as are “Grammar Nazis”. And yes, that last sentence was deliberately broken, so no complaining.

Now, if you’ve ever wondered how these people came to be, the following video should explain it all.

Watch it. Now who put these pencils in my hand!?

Yesterday, after work, I went to the best music shop in town, Aage, to try a new guitar.

My own guitar, the Schecter Omen 6 FR, while being immensely fun to play on, is not the most expensive or well-constructed guitar. It was, however, cheap, which is always nice.

Now, I’ve pretty much read exclusively good things about the EMG-81/85 combination of pickups for electric guitars, and I wanted to try them out. My guitar comes with El Cheapo pickups, only good for recognizing what you’re playing, but without much tone to them. This was not obvious to me before, but it’s glaringly obvious now that I’ve tried a “slightly” more expensive guitar. It costs 5 times more than my guitar, and it really shows. The feeling is vastly different. Everything is might more tight and precise. The build quality is much better, and the tone is amazing! I must have EMG pickups on my next guitar. They sound perfect, and they look amazing as well!

The only problem with that guitar is that it’s much too expensive to buy. A minor detail, I guess. I wish I were a millionaire.

So, after finally getting over my ilnesses (ilnii?), I celebrated by going to a concert.

The event Copenhagen Guitar Battles was held in Amager Bio. It consisted of 8 very talented young guitar players from around the country, competing to win the title of best shredder. The defending champion, Jonas Larsen, defended his honour, and happened to win again. I thought it was a very close final round, and I’m not entirely convinced Jonas was the better winner. He did, however, have a better stage performance.

All in all a very fun night with some very impressive guitar playing.

My good friend (and business partner), Thomas Damgaard and I just turned in our university project “Database Adapters”. It’s a pretty interesting piece of work, if (and only if) the following two conditions hold:

• I must say so myself
• You are interested in this very narrow subject

So right after we turned in the paper, we go on vacation. And of course, on the second day of my vacation, I get more sick than the proverbial leper colony. Now, real leper colonies, after all, would probably be worse off. Proverbial items are, in my experience, often safer and more innocuous.

At one point I had asthma, influenza, cold sores and bonitis at the same time.

Ok, bonitis is a made-up disease, but it still doesn’t feel very good when you have it!