Too Much Gear?

Some people love technology and some people are afraid of it. The Great Plotnik is a little of both. But how can you not love this tiny Flip Video Camera?



The Great PunkyDunky, who now works a lot shooting in HD, told Plottie about this little video camera, which supposedly combines good sound with excellent HD video. Of course, that all depends on how good the video-audiographer is. You download your files onto your computer via USB and then keep shooting.

But here's the problem.

Plotnik loses EVERYTHING, sooner or later, especially small things. Big things, like cars and kids, even semi-small things like wallets, he can keep track of. But small gizmatos can easily fall through the cracks in his brain. So if he does what he is contemplating, he will be on a small sailboat with: laptop, phone, camera, charger for phone, charger for laptop, charger for regular camera batteries, download cable for regular camera and now Flip Camera. There is NO way he won't lose at least two of these items.



This is the template. Plotnik has never forgotten what went on inside this shaman's hut in Zululand. What if he had the Flip Camera? He could now listen to that incomparable music and see the supplicants on their knees with the candles...

OK, probably he would be listening to a lot of hum with a little singing and watching a ton of darkness with a few figures in motion. He already knows the truth: that his memory is putting on a better show than any amateur camera ever could. And he did get a few pictures with his little Canon Sure Shot.







Here's a secret -- Plotnik always laughs at tourists with videocams taking pictures of themselves waving their fingers and saying: "Hi, Mom! Hi Dad! Look! We're on Maui!" But this little guy is, like, tiny. Nobody'll know, right?