Goodness I must have sounded very plaintive yesterday because my post received a lot of sympathetic ‘buck up’ responses. Sheesh, don’t feel sorry for me. I do okay. I’m in a book for pete’s sake! How many people are in a book, I ask you?
…Heidi Perryman, a former child psychologist who, through willpower and single-mindedness, has become one of the planet’s foremost authorities on Castor canadensis….Ask a fellow Beaver Believer to characterize Heidi Perryman, and the primary descriptor you’ll hear is “force of nature.” Perryman’s primary endeavor is Worth A Dam, an online nonprofit that serves as a comprehensive clearinghouse for beaver science and coexistence techniques; a beaver news outlet, updated daily; and a sort of gossip blog for the castor cognoscenti.
Ben Goldfarb “Eager”
And the book won the Penn science writing award so we know it MUST be true! No more sitting around pining over some piddly donation. Do not despair. The sun also rises. And yesterday I finished something I’m very proud of an can’t wait to share with you.
In order to fully docuent my efforts allow me to explain that it meant stripping out the audio from another film from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission that I loved but thought wasn’t punchy enough, and using audacity to re-sequence the clip to my liking with background noises to emphasize the point. Then downloading it as a wav. file and it then uploading it to audioacrobat to turn it into an MP3 file. Then getting it to Powtoon with images so it could be worked into an instructive video.
Probably 5 days of work but my goodness I’m pleased with the finished product. Please share with all your friends before the copy right police come to take me away.
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Oh and happy Easter!
