{"id":2506,"date":"2009-05-15T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2009-05-15T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T09:00:29","slug":"time-sink-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2506","title":{"rendered":"Time Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long since passed the point when celebrating a birthday is a big deal \u2014 the last party I had was for #30, where we all dressed in black to mourn the passing of my youth.  Fortunately the rumors of its death were greatly exaggerated (at least the behavioral part).   But I used this year&#8217;s birthday as an excuse to buy a high-speed video camera (Exilim EX-FH20).  It arrived a few days ago and I&#8217;ve been playing with it a lot.  Soon, perhaps,  I&#8217;ll actually install the user&#8217;s manual from the CD and read it.<\/p>\n<p>So expect some postings of things gratuitously shot in slow-motion, with no real point to them (in stark contrast to so many of my posts) other than some thing shot in slo-mo look pretty cool.  I suspect that many of my belongings will end up broken, but that that the destruction of my property will be exceeding well-documented.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an early attempt, lighting a match in a candle flame, at 1000 fps.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A-xZiyrnA5s?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A-xZiyrnA5s?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long since passed the point when celebrating a birthday is a big deal \u2014 the last party I had was for #30, where we all dressed in black to mourn the passing of my youth. Fortunately the rumors of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,57,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tmi","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}