[sdiy] Rapid Electronics Oktoberfest

[Florian Anwander]

One Answers to two replies in one mail to keep the offtopicnoise amount 
lower ;-):

To Aaron
 > Augustiner Oktoberfest is truly a beer of the gods as is anything made
 > by the Tegernseer Brewery.
Ouch: Augustiner is brewed by the privat Augustiner Brewery in Munich. 
Augustiner Hell ("hell" does not mean "home of devil" but "clear") is 
the best beer in Munich, but their Oktoberfest beer is not the best.

Tegernseer brewery is a part of the breweries of the State of Bavaria 
(like the Hofbraeuhaus). They make great beer too, but it is not offered 
at the Oktoberfest. Only breweries located in Munich are allowed to sell 
beer there.


And to Michael Zacherl:
 >> Florian (who went to a school which was 80 meters from the Wiesn)
 > ... and you don't suffer from a permanent damage?  ;-)
In school we had a pause from 10:30 to 10:50. While the weeks before the 
start of the Oktoberfest we spent this pause over at the fair ground 
whatching them build up the roundabouts and rollercoasters. One day the 
workers of one roundabout invited us to do a ride because they had to 
test the light show and had to have the roundabout running - so we 
thought: a five minute ride is no problem. Unfortunately  the roundabout 
had a technical problem - it did not land again. We ran for one and a 
half hour round and round and round in this roundabout which went up 
completely to the upright position: 
http://www.freizeitpark-welt.de/freizeitparks/bobbejaanland/fotos/2004/fly_away01.jpg
. When we came back to the classroom, the teacher looked at our more 
than pale faces and didn't say anything at all. I don't think I suffered 
permanent damag-ag-ag-ag-ag-ag-ages.

;-)

To keep this at least at the end ontopic. Those years I thought, that 
the electronic kits which can create sirene sounds for the roundabouts, 
might be modified to become a synthesizer and that would be quite cheap 
solution for the instrument of my dreams. I finally ended with a Elektor 
Formant kit...

Florian