My office purchased a number of Flip cameras this week, so I’ve been testing one of them out. My early impressions are very positive, especially where design is concerned. It’s about the size of a pack of menthol 100’s and very lightweight. There are a minimal number of buttons to push. The designers definitely took a page out of the Apple book, right down to the boxy packaging the Flip came in.

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I went through a very cool video production training over the weekend, which has now turned me into a techie in the worst way possible. It’s so bad that when I picked up a new coffee maker at the mall last night (my other one pooped out on Saturday morning) I walked through Best Buy and proceeded to make the employee attending to the video cameras seem really dumb by asking questions he couldn’t answer. If he has any brains in him, he’ll read up on the product he’s supposed to be selling. So it’s possible that in the long run I have helped him perform his job better.

Part of me does this kind of stuff because I am a woman and I think it catches electronics salespeople, especially men, off guard who may look at me and think I wouldn’t know what I was talking about. I admit to a big chip on my shoulder about that, with this sport being the way to satisfy it.

And it’s not like I know tons of stuff, which is all the more reason to berate these people for not knowing the basics of their products. See? I am helping.

Oh and look at my coffeemaker! It’s so cute (and I got it way cheaper at Target).