Are any of you African Big Game hunters on Twitter? Do any of you gals or gals Tweet? Kpete, I know you must be on Twitter! We both probably have the same problem of meeting the 140 character limit, right? "Bloviating", as you called it. Yes, we are "bloviaters" in a fun way. Love the word by the way, am using it regularly, as you can see. Takes up a lot of characters though, on those limiting posts.

"The Bloviating" Moja



Moja

Moja:

I only wish that I had messages of sufficient import and frequency that I could inundate friends, colleagues, and the unsuspecting with hourly electronic kernels of my extemporaneous wit and wisdom and daily routine.

Unfortunately, from my experience anyway, Tweets inevitably degrade over time to communiques of mind-numbing banality. Having a college chum alert me that he is increasing his bran intake at lunch only causes me to sit in dread for the next Tweet that triumphantly announces his sought after bowel movement.

Many of us live lives the only constant of which is the drum-beat continuum of unyielding work. What started with phones, faxes, beepers, cell phones, and emails has now seen the logical next step: an assault of typed-out electronic messages that are both permanent and ephemeral - delivered to your person wherever you might be. And despite their bankruptcy of substance - in most cases - they nevertheless pulse-pulse-pulse a nagging, guilt-driven sense of obligatory response. (After all Twitter is at its core a participatory technology. So, by subscribing to a friends Tweets, we are not only sentenced to a death-march of unyielding trivia, but are expected to respond back with our own prognoses of deficatory health, etc.)

Now having said that, the important exception to all of this is when we find ourselves fortunate recipients of news updates from genuine 'people of interest', those whose lives can influence ours, hopefully for the better. Hearing the latest travel and adventure details of someone like you, Moja, gives those of us with far less glamorous lives the opportunity to share vicariously - and electronically - the experiences of your peripatetic wanderings.

Just don't expect any interesting Tweets in return...

Maybe this tread is a place to also ask whom might be on SKYPE as that is proberbly a much better option to communicate than TWITTER !!

Your thoughts, Peter

Well---atleast you and I are on the same page. I actually am not a Tweeter. Yet I am curious if there are any hunters who are. From the time the automatic coffee grinder churns out the first batch of Joe at 5:00 a.m. to the hour of midnight, when I close the book to my latest military/mystery novel, (currently reading Dead Shot)...I have not a single moment of time to be involved with the substance bankrupt tweets, as you've aptly described. And to this day I have declined all requests from my self indulged media clients to follow their hourly updates, as they get on the plane, deplane, get a Starbucks and then a manicure.

What is the world coming to! You're right!
Can you imagine me Tweeting to the hunting world?

"Just spotted the world record lion here in Bots."

"Field judged his skull to be 30-inches."

"Standby, setting up for shot on anthill. Gotta put my sat phone down now and pickup .416"

"Oops, just told by PH lion hunting banned here in Botswana."

How's that for a "death-march of unyielding trivia?" You're right, that's all that stuff is. For now I'm gonna stick to email or the occasional mass send out newsletter. I don't even have time to "blog" for gosh sakes, about the latest Moja travels and adventures. If this huntin' stuff ever starts to pay the real bills, I might consider Twitter, but who's gonna listen to that jabber?

I've been known to stretch the limits, yes. But I haven't fallen totally into the crapper!

Moja

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Originally posted by SableTrail: Can you imagine me Tweeting to the hunting world?

"Just spotted the world record lion here in Bots."
"Field judged his skull to be 30-inches."
"Standby, setting up for shot on anthill. Gotta put my sat phone down now and pickup .416"
"Oops, just told by PH lion hunting banned here in Botswana."

Moja

Wait a second, Moja! Now that's a message that I'd join Twitter to get!

I can see me sitting in a board meeting or waiting in yet another airport lounge only to have the phone alert me with a Tweet that somebody, somewhere is doing precisely that which I wish I could be doing. Hell, that's justification for Twitter right there! The only downside for you would be your satellite phone bill. You'd probably need a Congressional bailout after your first season in Africa. (But your stateside fans would be quite appreciative ...)

I have Facebook and i must say its great, ihave met alot of hunting "friends" from US/Tanz/Zim/France and so on, alot of professional hunters post on daily basis when they not are in the bush and dont have internet connection. (Van Blerk, Fico, Fulvio, Buzz amongst other i believe have FB).

Moja:

Since I am basically a technological, um, moron, I don't even know what Facebook or Twitter are. I sorta have this AR thing figured out though.

So anyway, what's the update on the new DVD? Inquiring minds want to know, etc.

And when does the new show start? For that I will have to have my seven-year old show me how to turn on the television and the DIRECTV.

Thanks!

Paul:

The editor is still working on it. It's an epic! Now trying to decide if we offer it in a two disc package or cram all the layers of digitization on one disc. That's a fancy way of saying it's being edited in such hi-tech fashion that even the memory on a double layer single disc may not be appropriate to handle it once it's been mastered. Let's say August for sure. Maybe July. The holdup was the panel of judges I formed to determine the top 10 shots of all time. Put 10 hunters in a room and you can find alot of things that they disagree on. Finally they came to some consensus!

I'll keep ya posted about the show. No promises until the DVD, book and cape buff target is released.

I thought you were the tech type Paul. Thank God for the young sons.

Moja,

Hell no I'm the last thing from a tech type. I'm a numbers guy.

Well at least one of the buffalo in Botswana, if not both, has to make it into the top ten, eh?

Looking forward to all the upcoming stuff.

does can't wait to get back to Africa club have due's or crying towels?? I have been home for 2 months after being there for 8 months DAM I MISS IT