Simeon Pilgrim

A few weekends ago we purchased a big 32″ LCD TV (big to us!). It came with a hard-drive recorder, and it is working out fantastically.

The TV and HDD Recorder have enough features to be causing learning difficulties for others in the house, but chase-play and no tapes is winning wife-acceptance-factor points.

After some much needed cabling upgrading, the Wii looks much better running 480p. GameCube games don’t look so flash, as they are running 576i, and there is colour sharing…. but I’m almost finished Zelda - Wind Waker.

I would like to buy a better cable for the MacBook to connect with, as the mini-DVI to Composite doesn’t run high-def, but that’s on hold to see what comes out of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference next work. I am hoping for a beefed up MacMini. I would like to see a blend of the AppleTV’s connections, and the Mini’s flexibility (network connectivity and video codec’s.

Well I have owned my v3 lama for a few weeks now, and I am loving it just as much as the day I got it. Still got the Airwolf tune playing in my head….

I am no longer hard landing it, or putting it into the walls, etc. but the crashes I have now are much harder… yet still the v3 lama lives.

Here is the state of the heli after the second time the aerial got sucked up into the blades

Some white electric tape, then super glue, and the tail is fixed.  After smashing the blades, I swapped to hardened blades. Here it is, waiting for the battery to charge before the next mission……

It has arrived, my brand new eSky Lama V3.

I’m very excited about it, and after having played with the kids Mini Mosquito Helicopter’s that they got given last weekend, I was hooked.

As Shannon said of the Mosquito, “they are the crack of RC helicopters“, totally agree.

Michaela expects me to have it broken before the weekend is over, so it’s good to start with the bar high!