[Helpers] Comedy of errors.

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

At 05:22 AM 1/24/2006, Rich wrote:
> >    In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted
> > empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal
> > ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members...
> > which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it!
>
>Let me know if you still need a hand. BDSM is very topical for me!

   Rapidly becoming topical for me too, again! What is surprising is how my 
sense of humour has changed. Yesterday I was at the chiropractor filling 
out forms about the progress of my healing, for the lawyer and it was 
asking about pain in bed and pain in my social life.  I turned it around in 
my head and got serious gigglefits that brought tears to my eyes!

   I am happy with your taking care of the board, sorry if I stepped on 
your toes.. it is just I was there trying to polish it before closing down 
the email list, and it was easier for me to go ahead and adjust it, than to 
explain what I wanted.  I've set up other boards since I did that one, and 
experience has shown those with fewer topics do better. However, I think 
K-goddess may be beyond reviving...

   Since the email list closing message seems not to have been received by 
anyone but me, the comedy continues.


> >    I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post.
> > Did
> > you get either of those emails?
>
>yep! One received.

   K-goddess one?

> >    I got stuck on the K ebook because I felt something is missing... I
> > realize what is missing is more about K itself, for people who want to
> > give
> > the book to recently awakened, confused friends... some symptoms, more
> > about the process, etc.  I have renamed it: Kundalini awakening: essential
> > practices.
>
>My biggest problem when I write is I don't know who I'm writing to. if there
>is audience or recipient it is easy.

   Yeah, me too, always. Way easier to respond to a question from an 
individual, than to the great "out there" unknown audience.  One of my 
sticking points with completing a book... and the reason I am drowning in 
amitra in the first FST videos.  I tried to connect to everyone who would 
see it, like I connect to members when posting to an email list.

>  Covering all bases and all styles is
>impossible.

   Yup.

>  Maybe just writing about me is enough as people will tune in on
>this rather than something which may not be in their world.

   I dunno, I have tried it both ways. Writing only about me me me like for 
FST and domin8rex.com ends up sounding kind of self centered, egocentric.
  My years of working with people, gives me experience beyond my own.  In 
some ways I prefer the more anonymous voice I used for K-teacher.  I'm 
bored of autobiography, bored of my personal mythology.  I still have not 
been able to write an "about the author" page for K-teacher.  It was 
written from Witness, there is no "I"


> >    I got a used but legal, registerable copy of Macromedia suite MX (2004)
> > on ebay last week. It will arrive this week, with transfer papers.
> > Dreamweaver, flash, the whole meal deal.
> >
> >     I know you and others have offered to do flash animations for me, but
> > I
> > don't even know enough about how they work, to get the art prepared... and
> > Goddess put an idea in my head about doing live workshops in the modern
> > way, with additional clarity from powerpoint presentation.
>
>Flash is a killer! Need a brain expansion to get to grips with it.

  Maybe I should not try, then. Perhaps I just need a better understanding 
of its limitations and parameters.

>I found
>this program is an easier and cheaper way to make Flash animations in my
>opinion.
>
>http://www.swishzone.com/

   Thanks! Still waiting for the macromedia to arrive.

> >    I'm still shopping for an affordable, legal version of Adobe Creative
> > suite 2.  The legal, non academic versions are selling on ebay for >$500.
> > usd and some have gone over $900. Right now I am looking at an older
> > version... but I want Acrobat pro 7 because theoretically it has improved
> > file integration.
> >    It is selling for >$250. by itself, so I might as well get everything
> > even though I don't need all the bits.
> >
> >    I have photoshop 5 now, that is pretty old. Some parts of it, like the
> > ability to make transparent gifs, stopped working altogether when I got
> > XP... and the jpg compression algorithm sucks hairy moose cock.  I save
> > them full size and import them into my only slightly newer version of
> > Paintshop pro to compress them.  Sachiko has demonstrated to me how lame
> > that turns out!
>
>Well, another wicked program I love is Xara Xtreme. It's an effortless and
>creative drawing program and now supports Photoshop plugins. I finally
>bought it last week (US$79)!
>http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/default.asp?t=

   Hmm, cool. I have given up on Creative suite because my computer is not 
smart enough to run it. I was messing around in the back and saw the 
original sticker... "Boddhi Tree" was a hot fast custom made box back in... 
1999!!! Egad. Where does the time go?

    The idea of getting a new desktop and having to reinstall everything 
is... yikes. It is still smart enough for most of what I need it to do, so 
if I can get a laptop to do the DVDs, even if it is not faster, at least I 
can keep working at my desktop while the laptop is ripping vid.

   So, for the past few days I have been shopping for laptops on ebay until 
my head spins and I have to take a nap. The problem is I don't know much 
about them so I end up searching google and cnet reviews and getting 
confused.  I need it shipped USPS and sellers like UPS better...

   I really like the Sony VAIO line, I like the ergonomic sloped front 
profile and most of them have a DVD writer and firewire, and the software 
to do conversion.  Reviews on them are very mixed... and some of them are 
really heavy, 8+lbs.

  The bidding often goes beyond my budget, (even though I have increased my 
budget 3x!) and there are scams. I've had two sellers try to sell to me off 
ebay, I declined and later got an email that one of them was not who they 
claimed...  some guy wrote me in a panic that his account had been 
compromised with someone else using his username, and there was no laptop.

    I have spent way too much time on this. My gut instinct is failing me, 
when it comes to this shopping and I am losing faith in ebay security. Life 
is not meant to be this kind of struggle so I am asking what now Goddess? 
If this is not the right direction then let me know what is so I can get on 
with it.

   I called Brian and he sung the praises of a mac laptop, which is a new 
direction I had not considered.

   Any suggestions?


> >    Actually, I have a whack of Adobe stuff that came along with my digital
> > camera or photoshop upgrades... but some of it, like pagemaker, I have
> > never found useful.
> >
> >    A student recently asked about printing the lesson pages. They are not
> > very print-friendly as html, and it might be useful to provide a link to
> > print friendly PDF versions of each lesson.  Thus, my interest in Acrobat
> > 7
> > pro...
>
>Only need Acrobat Elements (if you can get it) or Acrobat Standard version
>to produce PDF files. There are cheaper alternatives
>(http://www.win2pdf.com/ is just US$35) that will do this for you.

    Could be just a txt file or a more printable html version for FST... 
but PDF is nicely secure.

    Some of the laptops I am looking at come with adobe elements installed, 
I think... I have looked at so many I cannot keep them straight in my head.

  I was interested in Acrobat 7 pro because it is supposed to have improved 
file integration.  I am not sure, but I am hoping that means I could embed 
a video or animated gif, which would be useful for ebooks.  I might be out 
to lunch on that one.

   I tried some freeware pdf makers that converted on the way to the 
printer, but they were no good, things got reformatted and moved around; 
titles appeared on the wrong page and images showed up in front of the text 
instead of behind.
   That is what made me think I had to go to Adobe to get what I need. I am 
likely to be wrong about that. Do you have those problems with the win2pdf 
program?

   Thanks for the support!