For those of you who follow my Twitter feed, you may have noticed several posts that led you to believe I’d taken up running as a pass time. In reality I’ve been spending my time a playing Canabalt. Written in just five days, sporting glorious 8-bit black-and-white graphics, and thoroughly addictive–Canabalt is possibly the best …
Category Archives: Amusements
Bengies drive-in
I’m considering heading up to Baltimore to visit Bengies Drive-In this weekend. Here’s the expected lineup: Fri and Sat: 7:15pmSun: 6:45pm Fri and Sat: 8:45pmSun: 8:15pm Fri and Sat: 10:30pmonly
R/C Plane: Supercub
I’ve been enchanted by flying animals and aircraft my entire life. I’ve always wanted to get into radio control aircraft, but the time, complexity, and cost of radio control aircraft kept me away. These days modern high-density lithium-poltmer (lipo) batteries and foam aircraft have addressed the issues that kept me out of the hobby. For …
R/C Cars: Stampede & RC10B4
With the Blade MCX buzzing around the house Kim mentioned that she had felt deprived one christmas long ago. It seems that her brothers got radio control trucks and she didn’t. I tried to make it up to her by giving her a r/c car for Christmas. Based on lots of information on the Internet, …
R/C Heli: Blade MCX
While stuck in Kim’s basement immediately following my first surgery, I was looking for something to keep me entertained (besides CNN and the election). After some Internet research I settled on an E-Flite Blade MCX radio control helicopter. I’ll go over the in’s and out’s of this little heli and provide a small review in …