Got my weekends back

Television production has slowed down for the year, so I have my weekends back for the time being.

And...last Tuesday I asked her, and she said yes!

the age of the toy helicopter

I have come to the opinion that 2006 is the year of the toy helicopter - the year when real, 3-D flying, untethered radio-controlled helicopters have escaped the rarefied world of middle-class portly moustached technicians, glow engines and computerised radio systems and have turned up in disposable bubble packs on racks in toy shops. Electric of course. No doubt advances in Lithium-Polymer batteries and similar technology have resulted in power systems that are light enough and cheap enough to get a plastic foam toy off the ground and hovering in someone's suburban garage on Christmas Day. YouTube has a good collection of people's attempts at flying such contraptions, along with some truly amazing skills with machines from the forementioned category on display.