More on the Segway
After going on about the Segway I thought I should own up to the fact that I was actually burning up to get one when they first came out, but restrained myself knowing my penchant for getting into a craze too early and paying either way to much, or getting a product that was obsolete before the mail person dropped it off on the front door step.
I still think they are cool, but impractical. Anyhow, I started to poke around the net regarding the Segway. I ran across a blog entry that featured a photo of the Segway Beta. This was a humorous mock-up showing a man riding a hand cart backward. The idea tickled my fancy so I decided to do a little promotional video spoof featuring this “Segway Beta”. Being relatively new to creating videos, I had a learning curve to overcome. It took me 8 hours to make a 1 minute spot with a few basic special effects. I won’t consider it time well spent until the video is viewed once for every minute I put into it.
I put the video on a Squidoo page. The page is a kind of mock landing page for the Segway Beta. I don’t expect that I will sell too many hand carts as a result.
All this, of course, is a huge diversion from what I really should have been doing, finishing up video for my Toilet website, and adding a section on rice to InDepthInfo. But sometimes you have to pick up a project because it is plain fun.