Tiny Helicopters!!!

It's on top of the DVD burner....no not the purple stuffed lizard...yes my PC is an autobot...from Cybertron. Enough about that. I'm talking about the the little tiny helicopter. With the flames on the side. It looks like my helicopter is tearing ass around the office...but it's just sitting there.

For now.

That is a remote control helicopter. It's about 5 inches long. It's $30 of happiness. I bought it at Radioshack. Mostly I fly it into the wall. Or behind my desk. Fortunately it has a blinking blue light that shines like a beacon of hope when it crashes behind some furniture. If that light wasn't there I would have lost this tiny marvel of modern technology behind the laser printer several hours ago. I would have given up looking for it and said: "Well, I had about $30 worth of fun". But I saw that blinking light and found a yard stick and pushed it out from behind the printer, and now we're flying around the office again.

Soon after I began my helicopter flying career, other people in my office wanted to join the fun. Now there are several different remote control flying machines in the air.

We have a conference room. That room is now known as 'Thunderdome' and there are helicopter fights around lunchtime, and again before we all go home. And then when we get here the next morning....ok, so for right now, the majority of our day is occupied with airborne battles.

If you can imagine the sound of electric toothbrushes being used like swords in a swordfight...that's pretty much what a tiny RC helicopter fight sounds like.