Can you use these skills?

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Wendy

Spaceman
Yes, it's me, Unregistered Wendy. I finally registered.

Okay, I know I mentioned it in an e-mail, but it may well have gone by the wayside with other issues.

If the skills aren't desired, useful, etc. . .Please say so.

I have skills in video and audio editing. I have professional quality audio editing software, and SOME plugins. I can do many conversions and some extrtactions, depending on the software I've been able to find on the net.

Most of the audio decoder/extraction software I have is for anime games, Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind, The Elderscrolls III.

The software I have for Audio Editing is:
SoundForge 5 & 6,
Cool Edit Pro
Acoustica
Music Maker 6
and then I go into some of the really old stuff as extractors and converters which I will not list here.

I also have a video editing suite.

I can take tapes, and other mpeg/DivX format video and edit it. String clips, cut out scenes & frames, add scenes/frames and output to MPEG II or III or DivX 4 or 5.

I can overlay audio and video. Syncing is primitive without timing tracks and blips, but doable.

I can manipulate wav files in my sleep. I have a fair selection of effects I can add to a wav and I can get more (Plugins) if they're free to download. Many are.

I also have photoshop 7 and a host of Adobe video/image software of that Genre.


If any of these skills are useful to you, PLEASE let me know. You helped me, I'd like to help you.

I can extract audio given the software. I can remove dead air from wav files. The audio/video/image manipulation software suites I have are NOT freeware, shareware or cheap, it's professional quality. My husband is a video producer/engineer, professor. I am an audio and image manipulation tech/specialist.

Maybe I can help? My sound hardware is full duplex and I have a soldering pencil and I know how to use it, so I can build the switch/patch box to pull audio the old-fashioned way, too. But I have to admit, my gaming style tends to lean to the Run-Away! school of combat.

If you think you can use someone like me on the team, PLEASE, let me know.

If not, a simple, we have someone with those skills and equipment, thanks but no thanks -- either public or private -- will suffice.

It won't hurt my feelings, nor will it diminish my enthusiasm for the game.

Thank you for ALL your help, it was greatly appreciated. This is the only way I can think of to show it.

wendy atsign* kimem dot* net

Wendy
 
Acceptance

Ridgerunner said:
"Welcome aboard, old friend."
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It's nice to feel wanted or needed.

Thanks.

Anything you need done, send it via e-mail. I'll work on getting a site where "Large" files can be uploaded, unless someone has a site -- already established -- somewhere I can use.

Wendy

P.S.
I don't think I want to even touch that tag line of yours.
<giggle>
Yes, I know, "Get my mind out of the gutter."
Don't even say it.
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oooh I have just the thing for you to help me on...
but I can't mention it here... it's a secret... I'll mail you soon
 
Wendy said:
It's nice to feel wanted or needed.


P.S.
I don't think I want to even touch that tag line of yours.
<giggle>
Yes, I know, "Get my mind out of the gutter."
Don't even say it.
W
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It's a military thing. Pull your own weight and don't complain about it.
 
Understood

Ridgerunner said:
It's a military thing. Pull your own weight and don't complain about it.
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Being an ex-shallow-water-sailor of the Hooligan Navy, I did understand it, I just had to be a snot.

Sorry. It was not meant as an insult.
 
There was a Marine by the name of Sgt. Fitzgerald back around '84 or so who did an "Imitation of a Coastie":


"Bale for Customs, bale for me. Bale for Customs, bale for me."

We all loved it.
 
Hrm. . .I got out in '83. . . HONORABLY, I blew out my knees falling from a mast in heavy weather, but. . .kinda fits the privateering nature of the game, doesn't it?
One for customs and one, two, three, for me. . .
 
Creak

Ridgerunner said:
Dang! You must be really old.

WE NEED SMILEYS IN THIS FORUM!!!
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That noise was Arthur somebody having a time of it in my hips and arms.

Ancient is as ancient does I suppose.

But seriously, I really do think that you need the incentive in Troy to get the newbies out of system faster, so they can get their collective arses handed to them. Besides, it's GREAT from a fiction standpoint. Think about it, the youngster, with a decrepit old ship, no options at all and barely has enough credits for a grubstake and a couple of landings. Looking and dreaming his life away as all the fancy ships fly in and out of port. If he just had a few more credits, he could just. . .
 
This from a Gob-type swabbie russpicker squid wannabe SAILOR.


And as far as your previous posts wondering if you have offended me, the way I approach other peoples' posts is, I look at them in the most humerous light first. Are they kidding, we're all just having fun etc. If it looks like they're being mean, nasty, or genuinely insulting, I'll either ignore the obvious inferior intelligence, or give it right back to them. I'll try to lighten them up a bit, first. And if they persist, out come the big guns.


You, on the other hand, are participating in some good old-fashioned interservice rivalry. (revelry?)
 
Well. . .why not revel in the rivalry? It CAN be fun.

Ridgerunner said:
This from a Gob-type swabbie russpicker squid wannabe SAILOR.


And as far as your previous posts wondering if you have offended me, the way I approach other peoples' posts is, I look at them in the most humerous light first. Are they kidding, we're all just having fun etc. If it looks like they're being mean, nasty, or genuinely insulting, I'll either ignore the obvious inferior intelligence, or give it right back to them. I'll try to lighten them up a bit, first. And if they persist, out come the big guns.


You, on the other hand, are participating in some good old-fashioned interservice rivalry. (revelry?)
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Gob-type? could be. By which definition?

Swabbie? until I progressed beyond E2 and became an ET-Striker, (Secret Squirrel at your service) definitely. It's what EVERY boot learns FIRST.

russpicker? You might be pushing things

SQUID? - Never, EVER on this earth was a Coastie EVER a squid, unless s/he transferred in from the USN. I know of NO Coastie that EVER went the other way.

Wannabe Sailor? I was an Eagle Crewmember for a short while, Dearheart.

I WAS a sailor in the TRUEST sense of the word. You haven't lived until you've ridden the cargo netting beneath the bowsprit or heard the sails lufting in the breeze as you come about. I fell from the mainmast of that old girl. I tried to get a bit too squirrelly I guess. BUT, at least I wasn't an air-headed Airdale.

=)

The statement that we need smileys in this forum is too right.

But we need to watch the OFF topic, Suck-up. They've been getting testy about it.
 
Gob was WWII slang for a squid.

Sailor wannabe = Coastie = can't handle the BIG waves in the DEEP water. You know, blue water over the flight deck, screws coming out of the water, 90 degree rolls, stuff like that.


Ah, the wind in the sails. The very definition of serenity.


Someday, the trip down under on a boat of my own will be a reality.

Until then, I guess I'll keep slaving away trying to get a Drayman.


(I see you're a deadbeat, too. Get a Class A liscense and come drive for me.)
 
Well. . .this really belongs off topic, but. . .

Ridgerunner said:
Gob was WWII slang for a squid.

Sailor wannabe = Coastie = can't handle the BIG waves in the DEEP water. You know, blue water over the flight deck, screws coming out of the water, 90 degree rolls, stuff like that.


Ah, the wind in the sails. The very definition of serenity.


Someday, the trip down under on a boat of my own will be a reality.
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Well, Suck-up, if THAT is the definition you're usiung for gob, no. Squids are USN not USCG. Get it right. LOL

A squid is a NAVY sailor. Quite the insult to a Toastie Coastie. Squids learn very a VERY narrow MOS compared to a Coastie. Our motto is Semper Paratus. Always Prepared.

Off-the-books it was:
We've done so much, with so little, for so long, that Uncle Sam thinks we can do anything with nothing forever.

A Navy MOS might be as narrow as one piece of equipment. A USCG MOS was field wide. My specialty was electronic communications. ALL comms gear, not just one radio, but ALL radios. The specialties of the day were LORAN, (Long Range Aids to Navigation -- now supplanted with GPS), Radar and finally Radio. Crypto was the only radio subheading.

It really is an insult to an old Coastie to call them Squids, which, by OUR definition meant Navy. It would be akin to calling all fliers, in all brances of the service, members of the Army Air Corps. IF you were a USAF, USN or USCG airdale, you can understand my vehament knee-jerk response to that. It was one of the few insults I would get into a brawl over. No-one wants to be told they belonged to another branch of the service. Especially when they liked where they were very much. AND if you were a Navy Airdale, YOU are a SQUID.

For the record:
Coasties are in -- and were in -- all major task forces on the high seas. We come into our own in shallow water, but we were and are assigned to all USN task forces. The cutters and crews are USCG, but the paint-job might be USN.

During WWII the coxswains (sp?) -- pilots -- of the Higgin's landing boats were USCG. During Vietnam, they manned the river patrol boats and did all harbour patrol.

Today, they essentially do the same with Navy task forces. Harbour patrol is a specialty. But to get there from here, they sail with the fleet -- in cutters that most Navy skippers wouldn't dream of taking to sea. They think they're too small and MUCH too shallow drafted.

A good joke about USCG skippers is:
When civilian skippers see a USCG cutter they get the heck out of the way. . .FAST. Nowhere in the water is safe. They might get rammed and sunk by accident.

USCG does iceburg patrols in the North Atlantic. Cold, lonely and dangerous duty, keeping track of burgs and floes and keeping shipping lanes clear.

They man lightships, ships that remain at anchor in the ocean hundreds of miles out in the middle of nowhere maintaining a beacon in all weather, to keep the merchantmen off the rocks and shoals. I think the last lightship has been retired, but I'm not sure.

They maintain waterborn aids to navigation in the seaways. You know, boueys and the like. All those things that keep the USN knowing where they are and where they should be going.

As for deep water and heavy seas. . .when I fell from the mainmast doing emergency repairs to the equip. mounted there, the ocean swells were measured at over 20' visibility was in yards, not tens, hundreds, or thousands of yards, just yards and they almost lost two boats trying to get me out of the drink. I was "retired" shortly thereafter with a disability rating.

We smile when we're called shallow water sailors, but we're there when you need us because your 46' sloop is foundering off the shoals after your dinner party ignored the warnings of the hurricane or souwester that was due to come through that afternoon.

Oh, and the most dramatic of all, when your vessel has managed to go under in heavy seas, we get you out of the drink before the bait (you) becomes dinner. I give to you, The USCG, the longest CONTINUOUS sea-going service in this country.

Cheers!

For those of you in the USN, I'm glad as hell you're there and I DO appreciate the job you do. Without you, we might as well hang it up.

Wendy.
 
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