Only... Not really. But! In a fit of insanity in the shower, I decided to do something I really hadn't thought of in the history of having a blog: An audio post. What was intended to be a quick way of conveying the ideas I had turned out to be over an hour's worth of voice so I don't know how efficient it turned out, but it was really fun to do and almost more fun listening to myself afterwards, because I'm hearing just how... Funny I am. And I'm being serious, because it seems I have a way of saying things in hilarious tones and I don't even realize I'm doing it at the time, and then I catch it when I hear it the second time around.

Anyway, here are the first seven parts of me talking... Mostly checking microphone volume and making sure everything works properly, since I've never done something like this before in my life. I had to break Skype's perfect volume settings to get it working, but that'll have to be fixed later.

Test Audio - Part 1
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Test Audio - Part 2
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Test Audio - Part 3
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Test Audio - Part 4
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Test Audio - Part 5
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Test Audio - Part 6
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Test Audio - Part 7
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Okay, so after I'd worked on getting everything situated, I settled down into a discussion on what I thought had impacted my life the most... And it turns out to be Myst and the community and how it prepared me to deal with the world at large in a way that was friendly and easy to adjust to. Actually, my talking shifted more towards my most vivid memories over how it all impacted my life, but I guess the vivid memories prove that it was such an influence.

I made three parts, each one is about 15 minutes long and each one weighs about 3MB, which really isn't too bad for voice audio, but I'm going to try to see if I can get that to weigh less... I don't know, though, because 22kbps is about as low as I want to take it. Peter Heck puts his audio clips online at 11kbps and 11khz and it sounds really weird, so I don't know. Then again, his clips are 15 minutes long and weigh only 1MB, so we shall see... If I even decide to continue this method of blogging. I guess it depends on how many people listen, eh? So here are the three main parts:

How Myst Impacted My Life - Part 1
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How Myst Impacted My Life - Part 2
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How Myst Impacted My Life - Part 3
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And then I hit a wall as far as what I could say about Myst, but was still incredibly bored, so I decided to ramble on for another 15 minutes in what turned out to be an experiment to see what I would come up with. As you could probably imagine, it wasn't long before the conversation tipped to the political scene, although it's really more about how I lump Democrats into a huge pile when I probably shouldn't.

What Do I Talk About When There's Nothing To Talk About
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So there you go, folks... As I've recently begun to say: Knock yourself out! And tell me what you think... I found it enjoyable and very nice to be able to hear exactly how I'm saying the things I'm trying to say, and that does wonders for communicating the proper feeling. Not at all thinking about replacing text posts with audio posts, but I may start including audio clips for blog posts so you can hear what I'm saying, I don't know! We shall see, oh yes, we shall see. SO LEAVE A COMMENT!

This entry was posted on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 3:05 am and is filed under General.