Nate Dawg and Hamster Pup, the Smallest Dog on Urth
Dec 28th, 2008 by msdanielle
Today I bought a Flip Mino sort of on the fly. But let me back up and tell you how my day started. I got a text message last night that my buddy Nate Whitehill was going to be in LA, so we decided to opt for a lunch get-together. Nate couldn’t have arrived on a prettier December day. Coming from Seattle, it was a welcome change of climate. And it was the perfect opportunity for us to visit again and exchange 2008 reflections and 2009 goals.
As expected, we talked about how our holidays went, our families, and gifts that were given and received. Nate is expecting a Flip Mino HD in the mail this Tuesday, a pretty awesome blogger gift from his father. We discussed video blogging and I got the urge to go buy a Flip for myself, with the intention of testing it for future video blogs. Since Best Buy doesn’t yet carry the HD in-store, I bought the regular Mino, and Nate and I are going to compare actual video quality once his arrives.
We traveled over to Urth Caffe, where we saw the tiniest dog I’ve ever seen in my life. It must have been about 8″ in length, all up, complete with pink knit sweater and pink hair bow, which Nate appropriately named Hamster Pup. Here’s the video I shot:
All in all, the video quality is pretty good. I did notice it got kind of wavy when I was swinging it back and forth, although I probably shouldn’t have been swinging it around so quickly anyway. I can’t wait to see how the HD compares. I’ll admit though, it’s super easy to use, and uploading the video straight from the software to Youtube was very simple. I’ll most likely be testing the Flip a lot more so look out for more random video blogs from me, coming soon!
[Please feel free to let me know if you have any Flip tips. Or how you think the Mino and Mino HD compare. Thanks!]
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Awesome hanging out with you today! I am glad you are going to start blogging again, and video blogging is even better. Embracing gadgetry is certainly a good goal for 2009 and now you have a head start!
Cute
What Nate said. I’m so happy to be back…and you will too! Now you guys got me looking at gadgets I probably don’t need. Thanks.
Hope the holidays have been treating you well. If I remember correctly, the Dot Com crew up in Vancouver had been playing with the Mino HD and their opinion was that the HD wasn’t any better than the standard.
I’ve got a few of the original Flip cameras myself but just haven’t done any video posts with them. You’ve got to move the camera a little slower when panning though, I nearly got motion sickness, lol.
oops! sorry lol
That certainly is a tiny dog! I’ve got a Flip but only used it a couple of times. It’s pretty cool though! Great to have you back!
thanks Nick!
Haha.. Sweeet.. xD