I am quite positive that I have gadgetitis. Gadgetitis, Noun, general meaning: A severe and debilitating disease specifically related to a love and craving for gadgets. Side effects can be late night ebay searching, maxed out credit cards, and a grating voice that people flinch from whenever you utter the words "Guess what I got!"
This is not to say that gadgets make me sick, or that I'm contageous (although I very well might be... perhaps I'll get myself one of those trendy face-masks that are so big in cyber fashion). What I mean is that I love love love gadgets. I love tablets and iPhones, I love hand-held video games, I love those tiny little picture holders that you hang from your key chain, and I love love love the flip! I also love my My Little Pony candy dispenser, but that is another topic entirely...
What I have discovered is that Rusty also has gadgetitis. Whenever there is a new app for the iPhone that seems spiffy (and have you seen the LogMeIn one? Seriously, remote desktop from my phone... yikes, it's awesome! Right, all tangents aside...) he can't help but spend as much time as possible talking to us about (or talking us into) it. Rusty also likes gadgets for the front page of Mindfly's website, not unlike how I enjoy the many little gadgets that I have on my own blog. He has a flickr feed, I have a flickr feed. He has the business portfolio, I have my personal gallery. There are similarities here, people! Perhaps we're kindred spirits?
That said, I happen to have videos of my cats embedded into the sidebar on my site. Rusty wants to embed videos of his cats onto the Mindfly site. Okay, I lie I lie. He actually wants us to embed videos of ourselves into some sort of spiffy .NET control that I won't understand at all. Developer/Designer language barrier, my friends, as sad as it may be. And with that purpose in mind, he went out and purchased the marvelous flip for the office. Of course, like children at Christmas, the Deathstar (most especially me... darn that gadgetitis) dove into it in a manner akin to a piranha feeding frenzy. And W.D. Weems (aka Kyle) was a happy guinea pig for testing out the functionality. Therefore, without any more ado, may I present to you yet another amusing moment in the life of W.D. Weems?
If you want to check out more Mindfly videos before we get the control on our front page, feel free to check us out on youtube. Otherwise, be afraid, be very afraid... the gadgetitis is spreading, and you may find yourself dragging a flip home next (I know I'm going to be...).
