[sdiy]Oktoberfest and LED pollution on to vintage LEDs

[Aaron Day]

Ah my run on sentence.

I know that Augustiner and Tegernseer are two different breweries. I  
just didn't make that clear in my lazy writing. Illiterate in two  
languages....

Back (somewhat) on topic: With overbright LEDs replacing many forms of  
outdoor display lighting I am guessing that light pollution (in  
addition to noise and drunken Ami/Brit/etc. pollution) will be added  
to the list of complaints for the festival. Driving behind any new  
Audi on the Autobahn is even worse. Those red brake LEDs sear into my  
skull making me half blind.

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So bright LEDs are a pain on synths and as a result we are all tuning  
the brightness down on the newer blue & white units. Has anyone found  
an affordable source for old/vintage LEDs? Hazy, melt-y amber, deep  
red and greens that you see on very old test eqpt and airplanes?

Off to see if the Spätkauf has Oktoberfest beer....


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On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Florian Anwander wrote:

> 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
>
>
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