UPDATE: All is well, phone line is working again!
Erf… something’s wrong with the High Orbit phone line. Until we get things figured out, you’re gonna have to email your audio comments or drop a comment on one of the blog posts.
Thank you for your patience, your patronage is appreciated.
It’s true! Podcasting not only sells albums and tracks on iTunes, but it makes money for the podcasters as well.
Here on the High Orbit Podcast, every link to iTunes or CD Baby is an affiliate link, so if you buy someone’s cool album from those links, I’m supposed to get a small commission.
Well, my first check arrived in the mail today, and I couldn’t be happier. See, look at the joy on my face!
See? You actually can earn money from podcasting! It’s true! With this single check I could… well, play some tunes in a jukebox, or buy one single iTunes track, or buy 1/3 of a small latté.
Yeah, the check is for a whopping $1.09, but it’s a small battle won against the RIAA. Isn’t it? Right?
So I finally have the High Orbit Podcast back online. Granted, I still need to record a new episode, but it was something of a chore just to get the domain name back in my control again. Note to self… don’t register a domain for anything less than a decade. Ever.
I just spent last night recording a mashup episode of Accident High Hash Orbit with my man CC Chapman. Problem is that I need to edit a bit, throw in the enhanced features, and get it on the site. I’m about to drive to New York in an hour, tho, and I have to pack.
I would have so much more time to make this show if Earth would finally adopt rocket-powered transportation.
I’ve been playing quite a few concerts in Second Life lately, and hopefully some of those attendees will show up here. If you’re new, welcome! If you’re not new… well, trust me I’ll have a new episode up soon. Really I will.
Still getting used to my new studio setup. The new MacBook arrived and changed everything. I know, a poor craftsman blames his tools, yadda yadda… but hey, I’ve been blaming Prodo-1 for most of my problems since day 1, so this shouldn’t be much different.
If you needed a bit of convincing that CC Chapman really did breakdance back in the day, here’s some photographic proof. It’s actually a frame from the movie, Breakin’ 2. Who’s that in the background with the red sweatband?
Photo courtesy of Dan Gorgone.
For those of you wondering why the UTF Revolution doesn’t exist in Second Life, it’s because virtual reality is, like, so 1990’s, man. Seriously. Didn’t you see The Lawnmower Man? Bad news all around.
Second Life could very well kill Pierce Brosnan, you just watch.
So if you’re reading this, I strongly recommend you embrace your First Life. It’s more fun to live this stuff without the server lag anyway.
Okay, so, Barack Obama is running for president of the United States. He could honestly be the first black president, which is a necessary and welcome step forward.
Those of us living a bit further ahead on the timeline, however, are yawning. When the first non-human wins the oval office, I’ll be impressed. Until then, it’s just another humans-only club.
Power to the multiple-appendaged people!
Speaking of sci-fi… I caught one of the SciFi Network’s original movies last night. If you missed The Core and Armageddon, you could catch a bad remake of both of them in Deep Core.
The SciFi Network has a tendency to create brilliant series and unspeakably horrible movies. I swear this masterpieceofcrap had cardboard sets.
My main pain, though, was watching Wil Wheaton humiliate himself. I’m a big fan of Big Willie– loved him on CSI and that other show, and I think he’s a brilliant writer, definitely want to get him on this show –but how did he read this script and think it’d be good for him?
They cast Wil in the Steve Buscemi role from Armageddon. Yeah. Picture Wil Wheaton as a roughneck oil-drilling explosives expert on a South-American drill site. Now picutre George W. Bush as the Nameless Warrior in Hero.
For the 20,000th time… Wil, please just stick to being a geek and come on this show where you’ll fit right in among the droids and the aliens.
This is your captain speaking…
I’ve been receiving a lot of good hate-mail lately– The “good” kind, by the way, is when people love your show so much that they berate you for taking a month to get a new episode out. It’s touching, really, and it’s honestly my favorite kind of motivation out there. Even if I was getting paid to do this (which I ain’t), the motivation would be the people who are dying to know what happened on that Ghost Ship.
Well, in case you weren’t aware, your humble captain lost his day job recently and has been scrambling to get some things rolling so he doesn’t starve to death out here in space. The schedule’s been tighter than usual, but come December 8th I’ll be a full-time entertainer again.
That means, hopefully, you’ll have so many new episodes you’ll be sick of me by 2008. A captain can dream, anyway.
So stay tuned… I’ll actually be giving away free stuff in the next couple of episodes. And maybe, just maybe, introducing a new character.
