Satuday, little brother Andrew tried his hand at racing his E-Maxx.

He crashed out horribly on every other turn, the first time he was on the track. The second time was slightly better, the third time he pulled into third place on the first lap, and then his car died, and he was out for the rest of the day.

Andrew has a deep seated, subconsious belief that in order to exceed others, and achieve mastery, he must not do things the way others do them. But the potentially frustrating part in watching him learn something new, is that he will not do things the way others do them utill he has tried almost possible alternative. I just had to stay out of his way and let him learn. With time he almost certainly will go on to be the track champion for his class of cars - but he is going to get there his way and nothing you can say will sway him from doing things “his style”.

Andrew is great brother. I’m in awe of many of his skills.

I’m think I’m going to go to the bank tomorrow and say, “Can you launder some money for me please?” Then, I’ll pull out a plastic bag from my pocket. With tweezers I will gingerly lift out this:

Yuck! It’s a mold-covered $100 that I lost, and then found.

I’m learning to fly an RC helicopter on the computer. (It’s much more fun than an RC plane.) After about a hour of concentrated flight time after lunch, I’m having my traditional changing-environment-”hang over”. Right now if my head begins to move away from the computer screen, my brain instinctively tells my body to push the nose down and add more collective! It’s a weird feeling. :D

I’m so used to just knowing what people I respect think about things, that when I go shopping for some non-normal items, I feel like I am missing an arm. Take shopping carts, for instance. Yesterday I was looking for one. Quick, take a look at this list on DMOZ and tell me which ones have the things I care about. It ain’t gonna happen in under two hours. There is way to many of them.

But hey, if I can see the news I’m interested in in NetNewsWire, surely, eventualy, one day, I can see the products I’m interested in. What I really want to do is see what people that think like me think. That way when I hit unfamilier territory, I know where to look first.

So as the second step in a possible journey to build a UAV, I’ve gotten the G2 Light RC aircraft simulator. So far this evening I can fly, but I have a problem telling where the view is actualy pointing. With time of course, I will get good at it.

I just found One Way Out Fonts. Their site is a almost entirely flash, with PHP based X-Cart cleverly integrated behind the scenes.

I’d never seen a “good” flash site until this one.

PS: I want some of those fonts. This is why I don’t have a credit card. It keeps me from spending money.

Recently I’ve had three seperate people come up and want an online store. This morning I was looking at Yahoo! Store. Anyone used it? What do/did you think about it?

One of the guys is an artist, selling his paintings, and will want a very “artsy” looking store. Is the store design flexible enough to let me have pretty much full control over the page?

You know those cute little 80x15 buttons? Well Bill Zeller made a php script that generates them, and then Kalsey made a front end for it. Nice and spiffy.

High on the list of cool things is this hovering, missile-like, vtol, Helispy. The vidoes are almost mindbending.

I found a nice commercial UAV, too bad it’s $35,000.