As I was saying, before we got rudely interrupted by a Reality Shift, after a very slow start, I managed to squeeze out three ammy inductions into the microphone before Oz had to leave for a week’s recording & mixing sessions. He mixed them and mastered them and I have them on a CD on my desk. The thing is, I don’t know what I should do with them now.
Even though I’m a game developer and level programmer, I have no clue how to handle social media in the 21st century, and I’m such a short-timer that I think I won’t need to, so I simply ignore it.
Problem is, that means we don’t get the ammy inductions out to you, just because I don’t know what media to put it on to get it usable by you.
We can squeeze it into some sort of app. That gives it sex-appeal, but doesn’t satisfy, because an app takes up too much room on your mobile device, and you wouldn’t be able to handle more than two or three — they’re rather large files.
Okay, so where does that leave us?
It leaves me standing around in the Middle Ages wondering where did everyone go??
The answer always eludes me. So where was I??? Oh, yeh… sex appeal mobile app, right. Okay, so if we don’t do it as an app, what can we release?
How about MP3 audio clips? That’d work, and it’s still on the mobile and what’s more, you don’t need a mobile, just an MP3 player of some sort, and they can run as low as $2 and even $1 at the zillions of “dollar stores” that have sprung up throughout this depression.
Speaking of depression, if you’re a short-timer like me, you’ll appreciate my “How to Die Club“, where we learn to die gracefully, regardless of circumstance. It’s a living.
If you have a morbid fear of death, come join us in the Death Club; we’ll make quite sure it sticks to the ribs.
Ammy induction project, right…stay on subject, gorby.
Duh, okay. Ammy induction project. Um…uhm…..sigh…uh…
Come on, gorby, get it together. We wanna know about the ammy inductions.
Ammy inductions? Oh, yeah. We were talking about ammy inductions just a moment ago… Oh, I remember now, it’s something about memory.
No, gorby, how are you going to release the ammy inductions?
Oh. I don’t know. I told you, I don’t know much about the 21st century, and I have no intention of picking up the social media skills. I won’t be around when they become the only way to communicate; the time is not far when I won’t be able to talk to my great-grandkids, because they only text, they forgot how to speak.
If we produce the ammy inductions as MP3 files, how do we deliver them? Download? Thumb drive? CDR? I really don’t know the considerations here.
Seems to me that most folks would prefer all the inductions on one thumb drive; they can take off the ones they want to use and leave the rest in storage on the thumb drive.
That puts the earliest release date at next spring.
I have three inductions in hand at the moment. Claude tells me that we will have to pay the same price for three inductions on CD Baby as we would for a whole dang album.
I dunno. It’s a matter of only pennies difference, but the time difference of releasing everything all at once in one media package is so great, at least six months to a year, that I thought we might put them up as I finish them, one by one, then at the end of that process, which I project at about a year, we put them all onto a thumb drive for release as a single composite piece.
That means that the folks who downloaded them one at a time but get them right now, will pay slightly more, or a lot more, I’m not sure, than those who wait a year to buy the whole package at a discount price. How much? Not sure. You tell me.
I’m good at prepping the material. I can lay it out, get it onto a recording device, and go through it with Oz to get the best sound, the best quality and the best magickal imaging out of it, then from that point on, I watch with dumb amazement as it gets converted into media and is marketed through social media, something which I have not and will never experience.
I have no idea what facebook might look like. Never been on it, don’t ever intend to take a peek, not at all curious, just slightly frustrated that I can’t help out in this area; I just don’t know what makes social media tick.
It’s about motivations, obviously, but I’m in no way in touch with the times. I don’t need to be in order to do my job, so it’s one more thing I can let go of, don’t have to mess with.
My job quite obviously does not involve marketing.
Back in the 20th century, I had to do it all, but now, with wonderful folks around to help out, I can concentrate on my part of the task, which is doing things like creating the Ashram, making new Orbs, new ammies and improvements in the SuperBeacon and Ghost Radio.
My other tasks include Zombie Girl Comics and the greeting cards and of course the music; I’ll be making a lot more music in this Reality Zone.
You have to remember that this is my first time here, and your first time, too. In this Reality, music dominates the scene, and I do a tv show every day, at various times relative to my blood pressure and heart rate.
I’m sure grateful to those who helped to make the video broadcasts possible; after 8 long years of not having any LIVE video broadcast, we were helped into it by SpaceBuddhaa, from Prosperity North. I’m looking forward to meeting her in person sometime; maybe she and Hoodoo will come for a workshop or convention. I’ve seen photos, of course, but meeting someone face-to-face is very different.
In this Reality Zone, we’ve never actually met, although they, as well as other couples in my workspace, have attended workshops of course — but in this Zone, I have never done an in-person workshop since 2001, the year of my first surgery.
ALL of my events, except the Labor Day Convention, are conducted STRICTLY IN-ASHRAM. All my workshops for the past ten years have been in the Ashram, here in this Zone. This is the first year that I have enough mobility to be able to consider for the first time having in-person workshops, such as bonsai & gardening, but it won’t be this year, maybe next.
Yes, Claude put us into Second Life back when it first started on June 23, 2003. In this Reality Zone, we built the Ashram up to its present size over a ten-year period, like I said, so actually, I haven’t met many of you except in the Ashram.
In the previous Reality Zone, we were preparing for lots of visits and thinking of buying a campground. In this Reality Zone, no such plans exist. Everything here revolves around the Ashram and online gatherings and Orb runs.
Here, we have VOICE COMMUNICATION in the GODD levels. Press a button to talk to your teammates. We also have a very different GODD engine, with very different effects. In this Reality Zone, Dick made explosive and fragmenting particle bursts, underwater effects and Tibetan Wheels, things we never had in the previous Zone.
The Labor Day Convention has always been open to in-person attendance, but in this world, which is one full step closer to L3(15)a than the previous Reality Zone, the primary focus these past ten years has been to teach through the Ashram.
Those of you who arrived with me in this Reality Zone will definitely have the advantage. You now know the present conditions and situations and should find it easy to let the previous reality dim and fade away.
Fortunately for you, I created bumpers and buffers in the Ashram, at various points, in order to help you adjust more rapidly to the new reality, and to more easily find solutions to your balance issues really fast, due to my many billenia of level writing skills, which I highly recommend.
In this Reality Zone, the Blueline Academy is very strong, but its aims and methods are very different from that of the Zone we just left.
Building classes in the Ashram will revert back to Beginner status. Most of you can’t keep up with the present building skills your Avatar had before the change, in this Zone. Oh, the Avatar is smart, but you aren’t smart enough yet to know what your Avatar knows.
One very different aspect of the present Reality Zone is that real-life money issues should resolve for the better. This is a much more relaxed zone, and actually in this zone, we have a much larger membership in the work-circle community than we did back there.
I can’t speak to any other areas of the New Reality yet, haven’t plumbed it to see what’s what. Awfully busy preparing for the Celtic Fair, where I’ll be making and selling copper and silver jewelry and offering handmade Celtic Greeting Cards, wands & walking sticks.
Claude redoubled the effort to create a channel on livestream that had been made by SpaceBuddhaa several years ago on the older broadcast system.
Yesterday, Claude managed to create the same exact station again, but this time on the newer format on a new web-page that they had inserted since the original channel was created, so with a channel on the new system they’ve set up to handle our kind of video traffic, we’re now up & running, with a minimal FREE setup & service, on NEW.livestream.com — not livestream.com, get it???
Problem is, to get the service we really want on new.livestream.com, we hafta cough up $1,000 bucks a month, every month. That’s $12,000 we just haven’t got to spend.
As a result, we’re on the FREE service, so there are some features clearly missing.
You’ll have to work harder to get on with us, and it will be harder for the uninitiated to find us and to join us on the air.
We can’t be found in the site’s search engine; the free service doesn’t include that. As a matter of fact, it doesn’t include hardly anything beyond the fact that you can probably get on there, and see and hear us okay.
Without this broadcast ability, we could not possibly do the upcoming workshops and convention, or the ICW, nor any of the projected events we have in mind for our brand-new LIVE video broadcast station on new.livestream.com.
Ammy induction…stay on subject, gorby.
So what about it?
Should I release the ammy inductions one at a time, as I complete them?
Or should I wait a year, until they’re all done, and then ship them all out together, on a Thumb Drive???
Ought I to just wait and see?
Should I shelve the whole project and bring it out again in five years or so???
I fear that if we just wait and see, what will happen is what always happens in an institutional setting; the project will fall through the cracks, only to emerge ten years later to everyone’s surprise.
So I have to leave it there. Still no clue as to how to proceed. I’ve got three ammy inductions in my hand — actually on my desk to the left of keyboard — and no idea whether to put them aside or put them on a download site.
If you have a preference, please express it. I will take no response at all as a resounding “no” and will conclude that you are not interested.
If you remain silent when a vote is called, your vote is counted as “no”. If you don’t participate in an Ashram event, I must assume disinterest, and there will be no second event.
I’ve made three ammy inductions. If you want them, and more to follow, speak up.
Okay, I gotta run; still tabulating the world-changes, calculating how to catch the wave. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.
I’ll be in-Ashram tonight, working on my lecture space in the Chen-Rig Temple. We will be able to have Darshan there soon. After ten years programming in Second Life, you’d think I could work a little faster, but like my friend Richard Starkey says, “Time takes time.”
I hope you’ll look around. This Prosperity Ashram is not the same as the one you were in before. This very mature 11-year-old Ashram is celebrating its 11th year of service, as you’ll see on the sign when you enter the Chen-Rig Temple, which is the Center of my Teaching here in this Zone.
Many folks are taking this opportunity to make the changes in their lives that they have wanted to make. Fair warning: the changes you work for today will not take effect until the next Major Reality Shift, due sometime in the next few years, will keep you posted, as I did the previous times, by announcement in my Chen-Rig Temple, as always.
Just now getting used to the idea of video broadcasting. It will certainly be a new and very exciting experience; I’ve just started feeling quite comfortable wiggling my Avatar around as my voice emanates from our radio station into the Ashram space.
Ah, well, live & learn, adjust, adjust, adjust…
In a New World, anything is possible. Will you have the Will-Power to make your work and your work-world and the world of everyone around you a little better?
Or will you hesitate?
See You At The Top!!!
gorby