(I’m writing this from my iPaq, and that is pretty geeky. A little slow, but geeky.)

I achieved two geeky milestones this weekend. The first is that I installed Anapod on my PC. No, it gets better! I wrote about Anapod a week ago or so. It is a sync tool that can replace iTunes for music management of an iPod. It does not have a store, like iTunes, but for someone like me who already has a fair-sized library, you get what you need, plus some pretty cool extras. One of those extras (here comes the geeky part) is a built-in streaming audio server. So obviously, I just *had* to listen to the music on my iPod wirelessly over wifi from my HP h4155 iPaq. Pretty pointless, yet somehow satisfying!

Geek event #2:

You know those cheap plastic helicopter toys that fly 20 feet high or so after you pull on a string-wrapped axle? Well the neighbor kid had one which his dad promptly broke after two pulls. Not to be discouraged, we took the launcher apart to get at the axle. A bit of hacksawing produced a small mandrell that, once a screw was inserted, fit *perfectly* into the chuck of my Dremel tool! After a couple of practice runs, I had it flying pretty well. When next at my computer, I’ll upload some pics and a short video.

Media: (the guy in these is my neighbor Steve)
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Videos: low-quality (322k avi) / high-quality (1.38mb avi) [Windows Media Player 9 required, sorry if you don't have that, I'm playing with codecs so bear with me.]

[4/11/04 11:34pm edit: added hyperlinks and photos & stuff]