Monday, August 24, 2015

Getting the Reverend Sasquatch Process to Start Processing Processes

The title is one of many reasons English is impossible to learn.

Steps

Reverend Sasquatch donate button on the blog sidebar (or somewhere on the page) because the blog is the link for anything coming out of the video.  The other option is to send them to Duck Soup with a special page for the purpose but that's exceedingly dry.


Skype connection still pending.  If there isn't any easy solution then the alternative is to run Skype on the laptop and run the audio to the mixer to bring it in with the signal from the mike.  I should be able to patch that input into Wirecaster without needing the other computer but that hasn't been successful, thus far.  There's also the option of using the iPad but that's so weak and I don't think the audio port works anyway.  (I dropped it in Greece and Yevette dropped it in California.  The End for the audio port.)


Mike is on a boom but the mike is directional and would not pick up Miss Mona well.  The fast answer is to use a second mike so an answer does exist but more hardware is hardly ever the optimum answer.


Miss Mona is shy and that shows all the more her courage in doing the solo bellydance bit for the Cincinnati show but still she's shy and isn't kicking her heels over the idea of being on-camera.  We are talking about it as she doesn't think the dialog is funny when she's been a part of it and that stuff gets thigh-slapper funny.  A bit more talking on that and maybe we get past shy.

(Miss Mona:  I asked God and he didn't say anything)

Don't worry about it.  He never does say anything.

(Miss Mona:  lots of people say God talks to them)

Sure they do and right after that they will tell you to send them money and he will talk to you too.  If he still doesn't say anything then obviously you weren't faithful enough ... or didn't send enough money to show your spiritual heart is true.   That ain't right.

(Miss Mona:  no, no, that ain't right)


(Ed:  that's to be the hook, I take it)

You win today's Golden Sasquatch (virtual), Dagwood.


Write final disclaimer about no disclaimers.  There are fewer and fewer explanations of things as the expectation is you have done the reading or you wouldn't be here.  Writing an explanation for something which, for any reasonably-educated adult, should be known is patronizing and of no value.


Additional testing today to determine why there is an echo of the online signal when, to all appearance, it has been muted.  How is that getting past and out to the monitors.


Review using Canon mini-cam as alternate video source with the built-in cam for general Sasquatch blather and the alternate to pull whatever it sees.  That will connect via USB and we'll see how well that works, how much potential for switching between video sources, etc.


Review cueing alternative input media.  Wirecast is capable of feeding pre-recorded video but that leads to Reverend Sasquatch playing VJ for Scarborough videos and that is not a direction in the planning even when the consideration exists.


The biggest emotional step is in anticipation of what may happen on a call as if you learn nothing else from the Internet then you'll at least get the enormity of the loneliness.  Lots of them pretend they are not but you can feel it.  Facebook is the English way of quiet desperation Pink Floyd described.  It looks like it's all cheerful with bright colors but those are some seriously angry motherfuckers.

So Sasquatch isn't angry.  He thinks the world is highly amusing, especially since so many are so confused over the philosophical aspects of it.  The rules are simple and few and you don't even need to believe a God exists to follow them.  There really isn't any particular reason for it but faith doesn't need one.  That's not a bad thing as it's dangerous thinking to get too enamored of cause and effect because it doesn't take long in life before it's clear some things happen without apparent reasons.

For example, this parasite, Charles Beale, cheats me out of ten grand for my music kit.  We can analyze what turned him into a sleazy, grasping fuckhead and find a reason but that doesn't explain why he picked me.  Some things happen without reasons.


(Ed:  who is Miss Mona?)

Miss Mona is Yevette is Donika is Daisy is ...  I'm not the only one fielding multiple characters.


(Ed:  what if someone steals your idea?)

That only works if they steal me.  If people want to use these steps to set up their own video channels, why not. Have a ball.

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