Smuggling By RC ‘copter
Great idea for a scene:
A toy helicopter is believed to have been used in an attempt to smuggle drugs into a prison.
Guards at Elmley Prison in Sheerness, Kent, spotted the remote control miniature aircraft flying over the walls of the jail and heading for the accommodation blocks one night after it was picked up by CCTV cameras.
It had a small load beneath the fuselage, thought to contain drugs.
The toy or its cargo was not found.
However, staff could not find any trace of either the helicopter or the package which it appeared to be carrying underneath it when they searched the Category C jail.
‘Using a mini-helicopter to get contraband into jails is unprecedented. When officers spotted it they nearly fell off their chairs’, a prison source told the Sun.
‘It could have been drugs or a mobile phone in the package. It is possible it was a dummy run.’
Not much more to add, but I have to remember this for down the road.
Posted in Current Events, Underbelly on January 27, 2009 by Jesse
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Wizard101
As I’ve likely mentioned, my good friends (Todd, James, and Jason) in Austin work on Wizard 101 – a pretty spiffy tween/family-oriented MMO.
Massive Gamer Magazine posted a review last month.
Posted in Games, Writing on January 12, 2009 by Jesse
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Connections: October’s Fools
I just noticed one of my co-workers has put up a game design/writing blog (though mostly he seems to be talking about Windows7 – boo! Get a Mac! Or stay on XP! 
Gord and I often talk games, game design (he has a particular fancy for games like Gloom, Zombies, and Graverobbers from Outer Space), and movies.
Here’s Gord in his own words:
This is my corner of the web to rant, rave, and pontificate about things that interest me, which will likely be very heavily biased towards science fiction movies and TV, video games, and news on science/technology/archaeology/anthropology. I’m just going to dive right in tonight with my first post on today’s experiments running Windows 7.
You can see more of Gord’s writing at:
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Lions & Lambs 2009
Jesse & Kaila (Malamute) Scoble, Niagra, 2007
Insert usual responses as to why this blog hasn’t been updated in awhile – work, holidays, personal development projects, and so forth – and of course I may “make a resolution” to update more, but I’d only be lying to myself.
On the home front, well, things are busy. If you are in the need to know, you should know. If you think you are, but don’t, shoot me an email and we’ll sort it out.
Posted in General on January 7, 2009 by Jesse
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