Technical dittifulties II

[captainsblog]

We weren't through with the bugs, though.

I got an email this afternoon from another of the Good People around these parts, thanatos_kalos, needing some voice assistance with a spoof video she's doing for a class project for her Masters'.  I'd passed on this previously mainly because my high-teknikul setup here lacked one vital thing: a microphone.

I rooted through drawers. I went to the neighbor's home to see if they might have a mike. No ruck.  But then I had a brilliant idear: phone it in.

I'd never done a phone post, but I knew, from some of you who have, that they come out on the other end in perfectly lovely .mp3 files.



So off I toodled to the Land of FAQs, locating the secret local number for the task (one of only three north of Westchester, from what I can tell), called it, and.... nothing but a terse "Goodbye" and a hangup.

I tried it again after discovering the need to authorize my phone number. Goodbye.

I waited awhile and tried yet again.  Goodbye.

I tried numbers in bigger cities, numbers in smaller cities. Goodbye.

Finally, I needed to run additional errands, so moi said Goodbye, stopping at MallWart on my way home to get the cheapest mike I could find.

Yet you KNOW I had to try one more time before futzing with Sound Recorder on the PC.  I dial Miss Goodbye one more time and.... "Welcome! to the Live Journal Voice Post System!"

Anybody wanna buy a slightly used microphone?

Didn't think so.

Goodbye.