I just placed an order with Creek Hobbies for a Snelflight Hoverfly.
The Hoverfly is a small, electric remote-control helicopter. It is for indoor use only, since it plugs directly into the electrical mains and is designed mostly as a trainer for larger RC helis.
Still, it’s a fairly cool looking toy. Lift is provided by three propellors mounted on the main rotor, instead of by the main rotor itself. Each propellor is controlled independetly, supposedly making the model very responsive to control inputs.
The general theory behind this thing is that you get started on this thing, so that when you get a real RC heli, you don’t crash it into the ground straight-off. The Hoverfly is mechanically simple and fairly light, so a crash is less likely to cause expensive damage to the model (or you!).
I’ll post a followup when I get this thing.
Posted by pmk at April 21, 2003 1:18 PM | TrackBackI’m at an internship. I don’t like it. The work could be okay if the office weren’t so stultifying.
Some reasons I don’t ever ever want to work in an office
- People getting sick. We ought to do it the MoveOn way, where somebody being sick means they sniffle on the conference call. And if you get sick at home, at least it’s not because you were in an airtight box with sneezing co-workers.
- Printing, stapling, hole punching, and sorting
- Looking busy
- What, I can’t sing?
- Office people make dumber jokes
- Office people are more passive-aggressive
- Our IT guy is going to Harvard Divinity School. Not inherently bad, just wish he knew IT.
- Regular hours
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Clichés in e-mails. GAAARRRR!
That doesn’t cover it (I don’t like bureaucracy either). But going forward:
Things I will miss about offices
- Staple removers
- The morning subway ride. Maybe.
Okay, I wouldn’t have written any of this if I weren’t in an office, trying quite hard to amuse myself. Time for lunch.
Posted by: Randall Farmer at April 24, 2003 10:43 AM