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Petting Llamas in Texas

Now that I'm back from SWSX, somewhat over my jetlag, and BarcampBrighton2 is over, I'm looking forward to a few weeks of productive work in Brighton.

But first, Llamas.

During South-by, a bunch of us hit the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo. What an experience!

Part of the experience included an encounter with a petting zoo at the fair. Other memorable highlights for me were my consumption of a pizza on stick (which was then outdone by Leah Culver eating a Beef Sundae), five-year-olds riding sheep, and a sheepdog-riding monkey (which I, unfortunately, missed.)

Here's the video of the petting zoo, shot on a FlipCam courtesy of Adobe and edited online (on my Eee PC and on my Mac) using the excellent JumpCut.

(The lovely thing about this combination -- an Eee PC, FlipCam, and JumpCut -- is that you get a video editing solution under $400. Crazy cool!)

Creative Commons LicenseThe Petting Llamas in Texas article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.

4 Comments

  1. $400? Only if you live in the USA. The FlipCam Ultra might be a mere $149 from Amazon.com, but they won’t ship to the UK and amazon.co.uk want £189 (ie about $370) for the same thing! I get really quite ****ed off with US company’s ripping us off like this.



  2. pauline

    You have an eeepc?! I’m waiting impatiently for a localized keyboard (CH), would love to hear your impressions…


  3. I hope you enjoyed your epic encounter with the llamas. We have thirty of these gentle, beautiful creatures at our ranch in Minnesota, and they’re a ton of fun. Llamas rock!


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