From f687b31a341c766673856d17c068a0d058e213cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:01:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Wednesday, uetliberg, steak, radeon --- content/blog/wk10day3.md | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ static/img/headline/aletto.png | 4 +- 2 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/wk10day3.md b/content/blog/wk10day3.md index c250b7d..af54186 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk10day3.md +++ b/content/blog/wk10day3.md @@ -1,32 +1,102 @@ --- title: "Week 10, Wednesday: Exploring Zurich with Tim" date: 2024-10-02T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- {{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/bala.png" alt="Credit: Bala DNB Mixes, YouTube" >}} +Today the weather is supposed to be overcast, but dry -- knock on wood. I think it's a good idea to +do a little tour of Zurich city, and take in the sights. Tim and I take the train to Zurich at +10:25, and we start off from the Zurich main station tracking the river _Limmat_ upstream towards +the lake. Here, there's a lot of old historic buildings to enjoy. One of the first places we go is +up the walkway to a vestige lookout point at Lindenhof. From here we can see the east side of the +city over Limmat. We plot a path through Niederdorf and along all of the architecture this city has +to offer. + +Zurich has a few churches, notably the [[Sankt +Peter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter,_Z%C3%BCrich)] with its large face clock spanning 8.7 +meters and is the largest clock face in Europe. There's also +[[Fraumünster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraum%C3%BCnster)] with its beautiful copper roof, +and the larger [[Grossmünster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossm%C3%BCnster)] church with +its two domes. We take a look inside the Grossmünster and admire its church organ, and then +walk along lake Zurich and into the city again. + +I have an idea, seeing it's lunch time, we should go eat a _Kanonenputzer_ (English: Cannon +cleaner) at the _Zeughauskeller_ at Paradeplatz. This is a super touristy place, but often times +locals eat here also because the food is really really good. In this place, we grab an amber beer, +order a 50cm (20") sausage, rösti and sauerkraut. It really hits the spot for me, and I love +having visitors around because it makes for the perfect excuse to visit Zeughauskeller. + +Marina mentioned that there's a _pop-up_ museum of Breitling, a swiss watch maker, in town. We +stumble across it at the Rennweg. A friendly bouncer greets us as we walk through the door. Inside, +we take a look and there's a staircase down. We take the stairs and in the corner of his eye, TIm +sees somebody sprinting at us waving his hands and chewing on a sandwich. Maybe we should be paying? +Either way, downstairs we start looking at the history of this watchmaker, and the guy has swallowed +his food and comes to talk - the museum is indeed free, but they'd like us to register and leave our +name and e-mail address. That's a little price to pay for all these beautiful time pieces. + +From our place in Brüttisellen, I have shown Tim a radio tower on _Uetliberg_ our local hill to +the west of Zurich. It has two towers, one of which has a plateau some ten meters above the ground, +with stunning views. Tim is in! We take the _Uetlibergbahn_ train up from the 410 meters or so of +Zurich city, top the 870 meters of Uetliberg. It's a bit colder up here! But we have our jacket and +(Nora!) sweater to help keep us warm. From here, we can see all the way to the Alps in the South, +the Bodensee up North, we can see Zurich airport, the big white dome of the Masoala forest of the +Zurich Zoo, and it's overall a really nice trip up. + +At about 15:35 we decide to make our descent to Zurich and onwards to the house. There's a package +for me when I get home: four MPA linecards for IP-Max have arrived, in a huge box with boxes, as per +standard operating procedure the volume to goods ratio is off the charts. All of the packaging gets +discarded, and I put the MPAs in the IP-Max stash in IPng's serverroom. + +Dinnertime rolls around, and tonight I get my favorite: a 2.3kg filet of _Limousin_ beef. This stuff +is simply divine! With it, I make baked potatoes in the oven and some steamed veggies. But of +course, the main piece is this wonderful barbecued steak with chicago seasoning rub. Because it's a +tip, it's thicker on one side and decidedly thinner on the other - this means for those of us who +like _saignant_ (me) or _medium-rare_ (Tim, Quinn) or _medium_ (Marina), I only have to make one +piece and the rest sorts itself. The steak comes out perfect. + +{{< image src="/img/arc.png" width="9em" float="left" alt="story arc" >}} + +Now it's 21:00 and I am looking at my watch literally every three minutes, because the _Story Arc_ +of Tim's visit will soon continue. You see, the order we placed for the video card was at 00:30 last +night (technically, today!) and they've said they will flash deliver this unit between 21:00 and +22:00 today. As we hang out at the dinner table, at 21:30 on the dot, the courrier rocks up with my +USB hubs and video card. Yaay!! We install it and take a screenshot of us de-installing nVIDIA and +installing RADEON drivers. We nailed it - MSFS starts up and plops us in a cockpit with working +radio, navigation, switch panels and instrument panels. The whole nine yards works! We spend the +rest of the day flying from Zurich to Dübendorf and Fehraltorf; and from Eindhoven to Breda. We +fly in a Cessna 172 (with navigation!), a Cessna 152 (old school), and a Diamond DA40NG (with glass +cockpit). 🥰 + +Since we had three USB 7-port hubs, and one of them was suspect, we _also_ fix the hardware issue. +We replace 3x7 hubs with 2x10 USB v3 hubs, and all ten of the FIPs come to life. Instrument panels +a-plenty, I am super happy: we've made it! But the night is late (with which I mean 03:30) and we've +had so much fun bouncing around here, that we still keep one small but important task for tomorrow: +enabling all the switches for fuel pump, mags, pitot tube, cabin and carb heat, and so on. That +whole panel doesn't do very much at the moment, and we just keep it as-is with the engine running at +the start of the sim. + ## Pictures of the Day {{< gallery-category >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1727.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1729.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1730.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1731.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1732.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1733.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1735.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1738.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1740.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1741.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1742.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1744.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1745.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1747.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1750.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1751.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1754.JPG" caption="" >}} - {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-03/IMG_1758.JPG" caption="" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1727.JPG" caption="A selfie of Tim and I on the Lindenhof lookout, with behind us the Limmat at Niederdorf" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1729.JPG" caption="A picture of Sankt Peter church with a very large clockface. I think they're compensating" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1730.JPG" caption="This is Fraumünster including its church and tower." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1731.JPG" caption="This rhino was a gift from Credit Suisse to the city of Zurich" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1732.JPG" caption="We cheers with an amber beer at Zeugkeuskeller in Zurich, Switzerland" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1733.JPG" caption="Our meal is a Kanonenputzer, which is a 500mm long pork sausage with mustard. As a side, we have rösti and sauerkraut." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1735.JPG" caption="We stop by the Breitling pop-up museum at Rennweg. Here, the guy panics a bit as we elude his welcome (he was eating a sandwich), but we're still allowed in. Thanks, Breitling-guy!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1738.JPG" caption="A the top of the Uetliberg transmission tower, we overlook the city and the lake and the Alps. It's windy up here, but beautiful views, despite the overcast weather" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1740.JPG" caption="There is also a Swisscom transmission tower here with a glass floor one third of the way up, where people used to have their point-to-point transmission into specific places in the city, mostly for news purposes." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1741.JPG" caption="A panoramic view as seen from the transmission tower on top of Uetliberg, we are 900m elevation here" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1742.JPG" caption="The train down Uetliberg makes a few stops and is doing mostly regenerative braking as it slides down the mountain side" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1744.JPG" caption="IP-Max got a delivery of a few MPA 4x10G cards for their ASR9k fleet. They go into the stash!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1745.JPG" caption="I am proud to report that this is the very first bottle of wine that I manage to open with this hideous bottle opener." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1747.JPG" caption="The beef filet as it's grilling on the barbecue. This is ~1'050 grams, just enough for two (j/k)" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1750.JPG" caption="Marina magically became magnetic after our meal. She can now stick potato chip bags onto her hand. How cool is that?" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1751.JPG" caption="The courier dropped off the RADEON video card and two USB hubs. Yaay!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-02/IMG_1754.JPG" caption="It would be my absolute pleasure to toss that nVIDIA crap and install RADEON instead. And: it works a charm" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-03/IMG_1758.JPG" caption="Tim is on final at LSMD (Dübendorf Military airport) with our flight simulator, now that it actually works!!" >}} {{< /gallery-category >}} {{< gallery-modal >}} diff --git a/static/img/headline/aletto.png b/static/img/headline/aletto.png index e40104f..c5b85bc 100644 --- a/static/img/headline/aletto.png +++ b/static/img/headline/aletto.png @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 -oid sha256:d6506c04d542efbc20908118123e5cbedcf4829af1a751594ef86459117f3bfb -size 138005 +oid sha256:071e3e379f2e4bc0c82b7e26f9ecd6d4035e2405da3004d5032c73249b72218a +size 138749