Transrapid – When we hear that word, we think of a
German engineering masterpiece that never was set
operational on any official track however. But Shanghai
did in 2003 between Pudong and the outer City border.

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While Dolby Cinema is a topic since 2014, There are not many
cineplexes that have at least one Dolby Cinema capable cinema
available. in London, UK the first one has opened it’s doors in
January 2019, now in Munich, D the next one will open soon.

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it was great but I guess I got a little too much of the good stuff. Some head-
ache and some strange feeling when walking… and the weekend’s over again
Dang! Hate to leave so quick again. Now I have 6 hours of traveling ahead of
me and for sure a very unstable cell network as it is always!

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So the weekend is almost gone again! Really sad to see three days to pass by so quickly.
It makes me feel kinda sad to leave my friends in Munich again and go back to the usual
workload week in Bern. But hey, no work, no effort, no money, honey! So best to put all
my energy into the next work week and do the best to visit my friends in Munich again.

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Well, apparently it seems that my iPhone won’t connect to ANY form of network right now,
so my updates will be online on sunday/monday. Sorry for that inconvenience. But hey,
this blog won’t be dead because of this. So what’s coming around today? Well… despite the
fact that this ghastly coldness also is present in Munich, I took the chance to shop a bit.

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Today I have read an article on c’t that the Leibniz Rechenzentrum  in Munich is about to
build up a new building that shall house a new 3 PFlops/s supercomputer that is being
built up with 14’112 SandyBridge-EP processors providing 112.896 cores for calculation.
If it goes online next year, it could be #2 on the Top500 list. The leader does 8 PFlops/s.

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So, this is the sunday post of me realizing that Rosiv is back in Munich again. Strange but yet
normal: You really miss good friends when they return to their home. Knowing that it will
take some months until you see them again. Well, the weekend was a real nice change to the
average days and discovering some Geocaches also made some fun although we didn’t…

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October 14th, Munich 5a.m. – What’s so special about this time and date?
Well, Rosiv is waiting for getting his hands on the new iPhone 4S and decided to
get in the waiting line at this time that grew until Rosengraben which means
approx 100 metres of people! (300 upon a blog entry). YIKES!

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…and with it my stay in Munich. As it is very late now, I am going to upload the pics and
videos tomorrow. The corresponding post(s) will be updated. Please check back
tomorrow for more to come. Enjoy the rest (40 minutes) of the weekend and begin the
new week with power and good feelings!

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Now the 178th Oktoberfest is officially started. The mayor of Munich traditionally has
opened the first barrel of the 2011 Oktoberfest beer in the Schottenhamel Festzelt.
Last year 6.4 million visitors have come to the 200-years-Oktoberfest (me included).
Let’s see how many people will have their throats beered this year! Enjoy!

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…how do they relate? You may say: One can spot Munich from
atop via Google Maps and try to find all S-Bahn trainstations…
True but as of today, another service from Deutsche Bahn has
reached Internet era.

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What do Karlsplatz (Stachus) in Munich and Zytglogge in Bern have in common?
They’re both famous places as they have well-known landmarks on them.
Good point, but they have also something else in common. It can’t be the size as
Karlsplatz (Stachus) is way bigger than Zytglogge… so what can it be?

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