Is that a camera?

I like gadgets. I can’t help it. It’s an addiction.

I put together all of my birthday money and used it to buy my most recent addition to the gadget collection – a Flip UltraHD video camera. Now I can shoot mind-numbingly boring home videos in stunning clarity and resolution. If you don’t believe me, check out the test video I shot just minutes after getting it out of the box – yep, that’s The Dog peeing in 720p. Ain’t technology great?

It’s a breeze to shoot and transfer video to my computer for editing, so I’m hoping that means I’ll use it more often than the video mode on my still camera (which was okay, but not the best to work with).

I’ve been hesitant to break it out in front of The Girl because she’s figured out that you can look at videos/pictures on the back of most cameras nowadays. So now anytime I get a camera out, she’s unwilling to pose for a picture; she immediately starts reaching for the camera so she can watch that baby.

I got the Flip out the other day during breakfast to try and grab some video of her eating a cereal bar and about 40 seconds into it, she figured out that it was a camera of some sort. And, of course, she started acting like a little ham:

Trouble streaming? Turn off HD by pressing the red button to view a smaller bandwidth version.

She hasn’t figured out yet that you can watch videos on this one too, so maybe I’ll actually get a few recorded before it becomes impossible to get her in front of the camera again.

Fries at the bottom of the bag

• Rawwwwwwrrrrrrrrrr!
• When you’re one, writing on the sidewalk is pretty freaking exciting.
• It would be cute when our children walked holding hands if it didn’t look like someone’s arm was being broken in the process.
• One of the pop-up windows on the Microsoft Windows 7 student site leaves a little to be desired.
• Following up on yesterday’s post, I’m giving serious thought to purchasing a pair of Vibram Five Fingers. Anyone have some experience with them and be willing to offer some feedback? (Other than they’re freaky/ugly. I already know that.)