{"id":2010,"date":"2008-04-19T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2008-04-19T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T14:10:06","slug":"flip-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/flip-out","title":{"rendered":"Flip out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty happy about that Flip Video Ultra I bought a few weeks ago. It looks like Pure Digital, the manufacturer, is pretty happy with the response, having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/08_17\/b4081076893508.htm\" target=\"_blank\">turned the marketplace upside-down<\/a> in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>I know I haven&#8217;t posted much video yet, but I&#8217;ve been too busy to sit down and figure out optimal settings, edit clips, etc. So, in honor of his first seder tonight, here&#8217;s a new clip of Rufus going crazy on that pheasant-toy of his (you may recall that he <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-pheasants-are-revolting\/\" target=\"_blank\">tore the head off the guy<\/a> about 5 minutes after we bought it):<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u9VCMLo706A&amp;hl=en\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty happy about that Flip Video Ultra I bought a few weeks ago. It looks like Pure Digital, the manufacturer, is pretty happy with the response, having turned the marketplace upside-down in the past year. I know I haven&#8217;t posted much video yet, but I&#8217;ve been too busy to sit down and figure out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/flip-out\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flip out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,27],"tags":[113,112],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis","category-big-business","tag-dog","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-wq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1977,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-pheasants-are-revolting","url_meta":{"origin":2010,"position":0},"title":"The pheasants are revolting","author":"Gil","date":"March 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a Flip Video Ultra last week, so expect more dumb movie-clips like this one of me and Rufus fighting over a toy we bought him 10 minutes earlier: Or you can downoad it here.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000V1PXMI","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4739,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dog-tags","url_meta":{"origin":2010,"position":1},"title":"Dog Tags","author":"Gil","date":"December 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been putting in 12-14 hours a day in my home office this week, laying out our big Contract Services Directory year-end issue. 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