Wed, 27 February 2008  msb-0267 Diet of Wormsintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... The music this episode is all smalltalk about being small. (But we have reached our fifty thousandth download. MDMHvonPA, Homer, Herrad, Shauna, [all people who have helped me in the past, or the present,] myself and whoever else I manage to get on this podcast in the future have to be doing somethings right. :-) Why should I waste your time with idle chitchat. "Adelante la música" ---- "SmallTalk" by: "Jeso" http://www.jeso.nl/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" Check out one of the most innovative "sites" by one of the most innovative MSer personalities I have seen in a while. [ http://www.brainangles.zoomshare.com/ ] ---- "Red Smalltalk and the Lava Rose" by: "The Host" http://thehostband.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Stay Small" by: "The Receiving End Of Sirens" http://www.merchdirect.net/TripleCrownRecords/CDs/The_Receiving_End_Of_Sirens_The_Earth_Sings_Mi_Fa_Mi_CD?productid=8273 "Thesis:" Some days I can be mercifully quiet. (Now we have "Shauna MacKinnon" to listen to. :-) ---- "When Did You Get So Small?" by: "Todd Lerner" http://www.songforfree.com/ "Synthesis:" I have mentioned in passing, findings researchers have made about parasites and MS. I even podcasted about it on Charles' MSBPodcast. So here (as "Paul Harvey" [ http://www.radiohof.org/news/paulharvey.html ] would say) is the "Rest of the Story". There is something known as the hygiene hypothesis. Basically, immune system related illnesses such as allergies are more prevalent in families with fewer children than in large families. The fewer children in a family, the less opportunity a child has of becoming exposed to infectious agents, and that in turn results in a child's immune system remaining "weak" and the child more susceptible to illness or disease. So more siblings lessens your chances of developing allergies. There has been a steady rise in incidence in the developed world of allergies since the industrial age. And there has also been a steady rise in the incidence of auto-immune diseases, like MS and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The hygiene hypothesis has now been expanded to include bacteria and parasites. And the more siblings you have, the greater your chance of exposure to bacteria and parasites. (Can you see where I'm going with this?) Apparently exposure to bacteria and/or parasites stimulates development of regulatory T cells. "To use a rough analogy, an unbridled immune system (without regulatory T cells) has the dynamic of a rowdy, unchaperoned beer party. It is likely to overreact to slight or non-existent insults (analogous to allergic disease) and may even attack members of its own party (analogous to autoimmune disease). The role of the T regulatory cells of the immune system is similar to that of the bouncer, keeping the beer party in check." Great explanation from Wikipedia. A couple of years ago I was reading reports of the link between parasites and MS. And I also read Carl Zimmer's Book, "Parasite Rex", [ http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatures/dp/074320011X ] which talked of the rise of auto-immune disease since the Industrial Age. As we have gotten "cleaner" by improving sanitation and hygiene, we have gotten sicker. You've probably heard all the furor about the overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic soaps. As we kill off all bacteria, both good and bad, with these things, we leave ourselves open to attack by adapted bacteria, super-bugs as it were. There are studies being conducted using parasites to determine how helpful, if at all, they are to folks with MS. The nifty thing about these little parasites is that it looks like only a handful is needed for a beneficial result. And they don't reproduce while they're in you (they seem to want more romantic locales to do that). So once you get over the gross-out factor, it's not such a bad thing. ---- "Small Bodies" by: "Magnetic Four" http://www.magneticfour.net/ "Conclusion:" I hope you enjoyed that piece by "Shauna MacKinnon". Personally, I'll pass on the parasites, but I would not be averse to a, uh, a "symbiote" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiote_(comics) ]. [Then again, seeing what happened to Spiderman's...] :-). I'm looking forwards to Wednesdays' shows with "Shauna MacKinnon". ---- "Small" by: "Amy Abdou" http://www.amyabdou.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "SmallTalk" by: "Jeso" http://www.jeso.nl/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Red Smalltalk and the Lava Rose" by: "The Host" http://thehostband.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Stay Small" by: "The Receiving End Of Sirens" http://www.merchdirect.net/TripleCrownRecords/CDs/The_Receiving_End_Of_Sirens_The_Earth_Sings_Mi_Fa_Mi_CD?productid=8273 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "When Did You Get So Small?" by: "Todd Lerner" http://www.songforfree.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Small Bodies" by: "Magnetic Four" http://www.magneticfour.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Small" by: "Amy Abdou" http://www.amyabdou.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Mon, 25 February 2008 msb-0266 MS and Headsetsintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Shauna is going to be a weekly contributor. She's on on Wednesday's. Despite her feeling a little worse for wear with appendix bother, you should listen for her charming, if fast-paced voice on the next episode. (I must admit I have been infected by the laconic pace of life here down south. [You don't have to be a geography geek to appreciate now little north- and east-wards Nova Scotia is from New Jersey. {Man ... we're practically neighbors. :-}]) And if you have any words for Shauna, (like well-wishes,) drop me a line as charles at cmsbpodcast.com and I'll make sure she gets every last one of them. This week-end I spent some of my time going through my indie/podsafe music collection and I got stuck on [munk] like a needle in a groove. (Bet you that image confuses anybody born after the introduction of CDs. [From "A brief history of CDs" { http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/9802/9802article11.htm } "In 1982, the first Sony CD player called the CD-101 was released with Billy Joel's 52nd Street being the first musical production". {Man 1982. I was married and everything by 1982.}]) ---- I got a jump in my download stats, "quite" a jump, that tells me that I got a couple of new subscribers through iTunes and they've downloaded all hundred past episodes there or I've got a lot of new listeners and they're cherry picking the episodes they want. Welcome who and where ever you are. ---- You know how some people are "uber"-creative and spin-off entire industries, never mind companies or corporations, while the rest of us are stuck either following 'em, cleaning up after 'em, enjoying 'em and/or burying the dead in the debris? That's why they seem to change style at the drop of a hat, and leave a trail for others to follow but it only leads a little way into the forest, before disappearing, like they did, into a will-o-the-wisp. These people come into our lives of their own accord and leave likewise pulled by their own imperatives; pursuing their own muse; or should that be pursued by their own muse since they tend to be as driven as they are driving. They are classified as geniuses, brilliant, fickle or "low-expectation mother fuckers" depending on how productive they manage to be while in our mutual spheres of attention. But they're "never" classified as stable. ---- "I Am" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Grave" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Superheroes" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk "Thesis:" I ran into something [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7254078.stm ] at the BBC news website that got me thinking. You should click on the link to launch your web browser and stop/pause this recording (or go to MSBPodcast.com and click on it there on the website,) and come back after you've read it. Seriously... This podcast can wait. I've been on about using neuroplasticity to recover our functionality (and since applying it to my "Tai Chi" exercises I have noticed improvements in my movement and in my control, [and others have noticed it too so its not just wishful thinking on my part,]) when it comes to getting our somatic senses back. Now I'm thinking that there must be some way for these "gamer's hemets" to be used in some form of cognitive evaluation and therapy. ---- "Podpeople" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk "Synthesis:" Might not an "Epoc" style headset be useful in other ways? If we could extend our mental maps to something entirely external, and thus not influenced by sclera, and we train ourselves to extend our mental maps by providing immediate feedback, might this technique be used for rehabilitation. If we could control an avatar in some representation of 3D space and control its attitudinal positioning in that same 3D space, might that not provide some of the same feedback that we need to get our somatic sense back. I'm thinking that this would be extremely telling from a diagnostic sense as well. If we can decipher the patterns between the volitional signals and the muscular actions, we might be able to enhance the control over the volitional signals by augmenting and supplementing these and using our brains' own ability to extend its own inborn mapping abilities. The human brain is amazingly flexible and adaptive. ---- "30 Days" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk "Conclusion:" Perhaps we can help ourselves by using the tools and toys at our disposal in unknown or atleast in unimagined ways. I'm looking at the "Epoc" helmet and thinking that it could not only map how our brains' are different but it could mediate between the differences between them by translating between the signal paths that are at the core of the differences. On other fronts, I'm seeing what I can rig up so Shauna and I could do a show together. We've got both got Skype so now to see if "Naturally Speaking" can handle the both of us so we don't have to kill ourselves trying to create transcripts "on the fly." (Some of my listeners have hearing difficulties and like to follow along in the script just in case they might miss something. [What could I possibly have to say that was important enough to warrant it, I'm sure I don't know, but its all on every episode of my writing blog {at http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ }, on my podcast site (at http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ }, in the iTunes lyrics tab notes and even on the iPod 'about' screen.]) ---- "Bombshelter" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "I Am" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Grave" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Superheroes" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Podpeople" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "30 Days" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Bombshelter" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Fri, 22 February 2008 msb-0265 The Beebintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Grrr and fuck the world. I'm having one of "those" days. (Hey! Wadda ya want? Life's a bitch and then ya die; then they throw dirt at ya; if you're lucky they've at least waited 'till you were in the ground...) I love having symptom free days. (And that's most of 'em. :-) I hate having the other kind. My symptoms are "noisy" skin, discombulated coordination, (I hate feeling drunk without first having had the benefits of a couple of "good stiff belts",) and kee-rist only knows what's coming up next. I guess that I shouldn't , but I hate them days. What are your days like? (I mean, I don't want to pry but, what does a bad day feel like to you? [Since you know its going to be read out, I don't even have to use your names, {unless you want me to.}]) And I'm getting some smell-o-vision hallucinations. (Everything smells like old "tea!?!" [Am I whacked-out, or what? {Okay... The tea smell has stopped, so that was definitely what I classify as "transient". (Weird ... Just weird.)}]) On a positive note, I'm averaging one download every ten minutes, every day, all day long. I'm going to be at 50,000 slightly before I'd figured. ---- "Six Hours" by: "Zioneye" http://www.zioneye.se/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Radio **Single**" by: "Big Bang Radio" http://www.myspace.com/bbrmusic Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Six" by: "The Stepford Five" http://www.stepfordfive.com/ "Thesis:" Actually, I'm getting pretty good at identifying which area of my brain is being affected (or afflicted because I can never be sure if this a symptom of degeneration or, uh, ¿generation, if I don't have other symptoms. [I seem to be in fine fettle otherwise.]) Which gets me into the topic of this podcast, albeit in a convoluted fashion, which is that the Beeb, the British Broadcasting Corporation, (or is that Company?) has released a whole bunch of shows to iTunes as "podcasts". [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/directory/ ] (Got love the Beeb!) ---- "Sound Scientist-album version" by: "bill" http://www.billmusic.net/ "Synthesis:" How would you like your fancy, your hobby, your obsession legitimized in one swell foop, uh, one fell swoop? I'm "chuffed to little mint balls" (and I apologize to anyone who isn't a follower of Coronation Street [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street ] for using that expression,) that the Beeb, in its forward looking stance, has seen fit to peer into the future and scoped out that the internet was a liberating force, and not something to be stamped out. (Don't cha jus' love English? Check out that last sentence: "looking, seen, peer, scoped out" and all of which mean "glommed on". :-) They have legitimized podcasting and the internet as a source for information and media. Now they're going to come up with a business model which has local, regional, national and international features. (Yeah, I know. Its glaringly obvious. Now I'm just waiting for some idiot lawyer in California to try to patent it. Forget it dude. Its already got prior art.) ---- "Song of Sixpence" by: "4 and 20 blackbirds" http://www.4and20blackbirds.com/ "Conclusion:" Little by little and day by day, (who am I kidding, this was a huge leap into respectability,) podcasting is getting accepted as an ever more valuable player in the media landscape. Now excuse me while I "bask in the glow"... ---- "Hey Hey Sister" by: "Laura Clap" http://www.lauraclapp.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Six Hours" by: "Zioneye" http://www.zioneye.se/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Radio **Single**" by: "Big Bang Radio" http://www.myspace.com/bbrmusic album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Six" by: "The Stepford Five" http://www.stepfordfive.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Sound Scientist-album version" by: "bill" http://www.billmusic.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Song of Sixpence" by: "4 and 20 blackbirds" http://www.4and20blackbirds.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Hey Hey Sister" by: "Laura Clap" http://www.lauraclapp.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 20 February 2008 msb-0264 Seven Hit Wondersintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSB Podcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... While I was corresponding with "Rick Bone" of "Broken Feather", he asked me to tell him what was the best way to get my podcast. This is what I replied: The best and easiest way is to get people to listen is to send people to my website at http://www.MSBPodcast.com There they can: 1) listen from the web, and there's even a player right on the page, down the left hand side of the page, (WAY down because that's not really recommended unless you've got a really good connection) OR 2) click on the pod symbol next to the episode they want to hear and playing it through their browser, (that's not really recommended unless you've got a really good connection,) OR 3) right click on the pod symbol next to the episode they want to hear and save the episode on their machines and they can listen to it anytime they want, OR 4) subscribe to it through iTunes, there's a graphic they can click on (I've automated the process as much as I can,) which admittedly only a fraction of my listeners get around to, but its the option that works best with band pictures and web-site links (and it will eventually do the same for advertisers,) AND for users of options 3 or 4, sync the downloaded episode to your portable device, like an iPod. That's about it... ---- "Seven Beer Bitch" by: "Adrenaline Factor" http://perrisrecords.com/catalog/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=56957 Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Quarter To Seven" by: "SUBB" http://www.myspace.com/subb Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "On the Seventh Day" by: "Marriott Jazz Quintet" http://www.marriottjazz.com/ "Thesis:" Seven Hit Wonders is a strange title for an episode so I'd better explain myself. I figure that I've got seven episodes left between my posting this and the launch of my French podcast. There is not much new in the world of this MSer, for now. ---- "Seven Spiders" by: "Jeff and Bill" http://www.myspace.com/jeffandbillmusic "Synthesis:" While I say that, things don't "need" to change. The pace of change is either glacial, as in moving like a glacier, or striking, as in "Slap!", or both. The trick to coping with it all is to let it happen . (Its going to happen whether you want it to or not, so why fight it? [But be ready to jump back up. {I'm getting to be a "pain in the butt"but I feel its "essential" to fight and recover our functionality as quickly as inhumanly possible. (You do "not" want me to be your coach because I am "Ming the Merciless". ("Lift that barge! Tote that bale!!" ["Uh, shouldn't that be?" ... "No! Now get your backs into it, ya scurvy dogs!" :-])}]) Coping with change is tough. Coping with change is always tough. The kind of change doesn't even matter. Good. bad. It doesn't matter. Of course its a lot easier to get people to help you when you're coping with winning some money. (Hell, people will "gladly" volunteer. [In fact, if I win a million bucks, I'll even "let" one of you volunteer.]) If you're coping, may it always be with that kind of fun and sweet change, (but I suspect that, since you're listening to me, its the kind of change that needs "Ming the Merciless!") ---- "Seven Long Years" by: "The Heise Bros." http://www.theheisebros.com/ "Conclusion:" Yes, change is inevitable. It happens to everybody. It happens all the time. (There's "got" to be a song lyric in there somewhere. :-) As MSers, we've got to make sure we can let our neuroplasticity take all of the advantages it can get to help us "recover!" Yes, its a friggin' bummer, but it doesn't have to be "permanent!" We "can" get better because of "neuroplasticity". Then its a question of saying in remission and there's drugs to help with that. I just don't enjoy the delivery method. "Yikes!" ---- "Seventh Avenue Prophet" by: "Zox" http://www.zoxband.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Seven Beer Bitch" by: "Adrenaline Factor" http://perrisrecords.com/catalog/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=56957 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Quarter To Seven" by: "SUBB" http://www.myspace.com/subb album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "On the Seventh Day" by: "Marriott Jazz Quintet" http://www.marriottjazz.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Seven Spiders" by: "Jeff and Bill" http://www.myspace.com/jeffandbillmusic album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Seven Long Years" by: "The Heise Bros." http://www.theheisebros.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Seventh Avenue Prophet" by: "Zox" http://www.zoxband.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 msb-0263 Hand grenade! Quick! Catch!intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSB Podcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I know that the title of this episode is certainly strange, as will be the subsequent ones in the countdown to my "French" language podcast. Its going to be weekly at first because its a much tougher slog for me. French "used to be" my mother tongue. "Used to be" is one heck of a distinction. I am now what used to be referred to in Quebec politics as "un maudit vendu." (A damn sold out) The only question I used to ask is "Préférez vous etre vendus, oû être donnés?" (Would you rather be sold, or given away?) ---- "Monster" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- This was an interesting week-end. Rick Bone of the band "Broken Feather" [ http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 and http://www.lorishideaway.com/brokenfeather/ ] got in touch with me. Its was quite a revelation to hear them "singing" about "having MS". Some of the songs are quite dark, as you can inagine, but some are not dark and sing about overcoming MS. I will be in touch with them again. I'm trying to line up an interview and to get some tunes from them. ---- "Cherokees Dream" by: "Dreamweaver" http://www.dreamweaver.net/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Spirit Prayer" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 "Thesis:" Who is coming to my sites from "Fontenay-sous-bois"? (Just west of Paris. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fontenay-sous-boi&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl ]) Or "Hanoi, Vietnam"? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi ] Or "Mali" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali ] (I must admit it gives me a hoot-and-a-half to think that someone may be coming to my sites from "Timbuktu".) I wonder about my widespread audience. Who the heck are you? ---- "Im in Love with a Navajo Boy" by: "lunar drive" http://www.lunardrive.com/ "Synthesis:" That last song should clue you into the spread of languages on our planet. It should clue you into how they divide us (What was hat man singing about? In Navajo for Pete's sake!) while music unites us all and invites us all. Part of my befuddlement about this disease is its distribution. (Then again, we're all "human beings".) I've had hits from 122 countries. Of course these have been in countries where English is spoken, but still. How many of these people, (of "you", this "is" about you after all,) are out there? How are you doing? What are you doing? How are you doing at what you're doing? How many of you are actually doctors seeing what MSers are listening to? How many of you are actually care givers, wifes and husbands of patients, doctors, nurses, hospices and/or hospitals caring for MSers? How many of you are just curious, or suspicious, about this disease? Its not fatal by itself, (though I can come up with scenarios where i could be directly implicated.) If you wan't to know, from someone who's been there, its really a pain in the ass, (despite its' being an auto immune disease, because it affects the central nervous system it can affect anything you can feel and anything you can do.) Its a second order derivative disease. ---- "Drifting Away" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 "Conclusion:" I've got question about the linguistic groupings, the nationalities and the demographic makeup of my audience. You're from everywhere. I "do" wish you'd drop me an email ( charles at MSBPodcast ) And in an unashamed reference to Shauna MacKinnon, here comes one last track "Brrrds and Bugs": ---- "Brrrds and Bugs" by: "lunar drive" http://www.lunardrive.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Monster" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Cherokees Dream" by: "Dreamweaver" http://www.dreamweaver.at/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Spirit Prayer" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Im in Love with a Navajo Boy" by: "lunar drive" http://www.lunardrive.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Drifting Away" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Brrrds and Bugs" by: "lunar drive" http://www.lunardrive.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Fri, 15 February 2008 msb-0262 Bugs In Usintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSB Podcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Shauna MacKinnon of "Bugs, Bikes and Brains" fame [ http://bugsbikesbrains.blogspot.com/ ] is joining the podcast. (Yippee!! Yahoo! Hooray!) ---- "Night Worm" by: "Ardent Octopus" http://www.podshow.com/shows/?show_id=1669&mode=current Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop either of us an email at: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Wormhole Wipeout" by: "The Tsunami Experiment" http://www.myspace.com/thetsunamiexperiment Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send either of us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Wormhole" by: "Specimen 37" http://www.specimen37.com/ "Thesis:" I told you that Shauna and I had talked about creatures with more than four legs. I try to keep them out of my environment personally. Shauna seems to be a bit more lenient and kind towards them. But on this her first post here, she discusses our relationship with creatures with no legs. ---- "The worm escaped last night" by: "Steffen Coonan" http://www.steffencoonan.com/ "Synthesis:" A study was released recently detailing the number of creatures living in and on us as humans. (And I can't seem to find the link right now) It's more than we thought. Which is no surprise to me. I've been aware of the presence of these helpful organisms for a long time. I've been aware of the presence of the unhelpful ones almost as long. Basically, your bugs should stay your bugs. My folks and I joke that if we have an upset stomach or intestinal distress, it's because we ate someone else's E.Coli. Whether or not that's the case, a point is made: there are bugs in us and on us. The bugs we have in our gut have important jobs to do. They help us digest our food. They help us stay healthy and fight off illness. They sometimes make things difficult for the not so helpful bugs and protect us from the "evil" ones. But it's the bad ones that interest me. Tapeworms, hookworms, and the parasite that causes malaria, transmitted through the saliva of a mosquito. How these animals evolved into what they are now is what researchers are examining now. Any parasitic animal runs the risk of wiping itself out by being discovered. They are the cat burglars of the parasitic world, sneaking into an animal, taking what they want, and then dispersing to invade other animals. I remember a nine year old girl telling me she had a tape worm. As I was also nine, I thought that was interesting. I asked her what it did and where she had it. After she told me it was in her insides, I admit, I didn't think it was so cool. She also told me she was taking medicine to get rid of it. And of course at that age, I had heard of worms you could get from walking barefoot in the grass or from dog poop. But for some strange reason, I have always thought there must be some explanation of why these types of organisms live the way they do. There must be some benefit, not just to them, but to their hosts. Otherwise they couldn't have survived as long as they have. Some parasites quickly kill their host or disable them to the point that both parasite and host will suffer. People with sickle cell anemia are not susceptible to malaria. The sickle cell structure isn't amenable to the parasite that causes malaria, so the bugs can't affect the host. Did this mutation in haemoglobin in red blood cells allow those with it to survive while others didn't and thereby allow the mutation to become an inheirited trait? Did the mutation arise because of the parasite? Or was it simply a chance event that had a slightly positive result? I say slightly because while those with sickle cell survive malaria, they often have shortened lives due to the mutation, though in malaria ridden areas they do have an advantage. Since my diagnosis, I have often thought of MS in these terms: of what benefit is it to me to have MS? Has some virus or bacteria triggered the onset of MS? Perhaps the presence of one of those parasites keep others from settling in us. Perhaps MS evolved as a way to protect us from another, less desirable, disease. Perhaps the immune activity triggered by MS protected us from strains of plague or smallpox during the midle ages. On a related note, recent studies in south America and in Europe/Africa show a protective action of some parasites in people with MS as compared to those with MS but no parasites. But I'm not going barefoot in the grass any time soon. If you're really interested in parasites in general, read "Parasite Rex", [ http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatures/dp/074320011X ] by Carl Zimmer. It's an absolutely fascinating look at some of the earth's most reviled creatures. ---- "Wormwood" by: "Mark Christopher" http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=79724708 "Conclusion:" Her piece reminded me of a book I'd reviewed a while back: "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4". I hope you enjoyed Shauna MacKinnon's debut. ---- "Worm food" by: "Ruth Theodore" http://www.ruththeodore.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Night Worm" by: "Ardent Octopus" http://www.podshow.com/shows/?show_id=1669&mode=current album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Wormhole Wipeout" by: "The Tsunami Experiment" http://www.myspace.com/thetsunamiexperiment album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Wormhole" by: "Specimen 37" http://www.specimen37.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The worm escaped last night" by: "Steffen Coonan" http://www.steffencoonan.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Wormwood" by: "Mark Christopher" http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=79724708 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Worm food" by: "Ruth Theodore" http://www.ruththeodore.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[4] |
Fri, 15 February 2008 msb-0261 Got to tidy up. Company's coming. :-)intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSB Podcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Shauna is simply wonderful. As you may have noticed, She's redone the "set pieces" of the podcast, like the "Feedback" segment, where I tell you who'd been in touch with me, the "Feed Forward" segment, asking you for your input and the "Feed Me" segment offering to spread the word about a product good or service related to MS. (But "not" for free. If these people expect to extract some financial benefit, we should do so as well.). This way I won't have to put up with my own shaky voice. (Its just my body's that's episodically sick and struggles with sequelae. My mind is quite sound. [Advertisers have to see that I'm definitely "in for the duration" and that I can attract good voice-over talent. {And Shauna is definitely that. :-}]) Furthermore, it she finds me ads to run, she gets most of the money from running those ads. (Yeah... Sure... "From our mouthes to God's ear", as the saying goes. :-) She's in another country, but that doesn't matter. The internet operates trans-nationally. That's why have listeners in over a hundred and twenty countries. Not a lot of them in each, the "one in twelve-hundred" demographic still applies, but they're there. I wouldn't be surprised is she "could" charm somebody out there into a putting up a "no risk" ad on the server and the podcast download model. (Its only a $30 CPM, with an extremely focused M, but geographically, its really spread thin. I really think the first ones who are going to see the utility of advertising on this podcast are the drug manufacturers, when the have something new to announce to the world. [And they'll see that anything is "new" if you've never heard of it. {Like the newly diagnosed and those who have just had a relapse after a long time. (Like your's truly.}]) And while that is going on, "Je vais démarrer un podcast en Français pour les Francophone au Québec, en France, en Algerie, au Maroc, au Vietnam et tout partout ou-est-ce que l'internet se rend." This podcast as reached English listeners all over the globe. "Allons voir ce que je peut faire en Français" ---- "Road 2 Happiness" by: "Reed" http://www.myspace.com/reed Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop US an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Happiness" by: "Bart Banana" http://myspace.com/bartbanana Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "I wish you happiness" by: "Leanne Bugat" http://www.leannebugat.com/ "Thesis:" Its taking a long time for my flash of vision about the capabilities of niche podcasting over the internet, using the same internet for podcast discovery, to come to fruition. But it "is" happening. ---- "Happiness and Love" by: "Jennifer and Bill" http://myspace.com/jenniferandbill "Synthesis:" The writers' strike which just ended was concerned with paying the writers for the use of their material, their intellectual property, using the internet, regardless of which economic model or models, the studios eventually settle on. I don't pretend to know the politicking that went on behind the scenes. Frankly I'm not interested in the historical narrative side. (I'm no "John C. Dvorak" doing what he calls "prognosticating" [what I call "reading the news that somebody else wrote to report on what somebody else is doing and injecting his curmudgeonly and usually horribly short-sighted contrarian opinion"] raining on everybody's parade, telling anybody who'll pay to hear ... some drivel or other. [Its a good thing nobody ever takes people like him seriously or we'd all be dying of septic shock. {Never mind high-tech, there wouldn't never have been any map makers, "'Cause you're not going anywhere anyway." (He represents the voice of the "anti-self", the person who's world view is so blighted that his followers end up in a pile of corpses at "Heaven's Gate" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(cult) ])}]) My interest is in the generative, forward projecting side of things. What does or can this agreement mean? In what direction does this agreement take the writers? (The creative forces behind all of these media projects.) Well, it gives some options for profiting from the coming shift of media content creation for and distribution on the internet. (Like all seismic shifts, you're usually too busy trying to find some stability to see how totally the landscape around you is roiling around. [That usually takes people like me who take the time to look around {and usually end up losing our footing. (Hey, I've got MS. That makes me an expert at and on stumbling around but still getting somewhere want to go.)}]) Its not that the traditional media are going to suddenly disappear. They aren't. But there are only 1,440 minutes in a day and the internet gives us so many more options in the sources for our "violon d'Ingres," our hobbies, our passions, our data, our information, our knowledge, our wisdom. That means that we have to focus more and more on what we need. Face it, we're all being bombarded by car and beer ads 24/7. If I do the same, I deserve to be ignored as much as the others who are pushing this noise your way. But by focusing on what we MSers need, want and are stuck paying for (because nobody buys this stuff if they don't have to,) I can provide a service that I could frankly have used before my last and debilitating MS episode. (Maybe it didn't even need to be debilitating.) ---- "Something Like Happiness" by: "The Complements" http://www.thecomplements.com/ "Conclusion:" Its taking a long time for my flash of vision about the capabilities of niche podcasting over the internet, using the same internet for podcast discovery, to come to fruition. But it "is" happening. Its just a question of patience. I'm like a cat sitting in front of a mouse hole ... staring and waiting. Patient and secure in the knowledge that I'm not wasting my time. ---- "LOVE AND HAPPINESS" by: "WORKING GIRLS" http://www.myspace.com/workinggirls Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Road 2 Happiness" by: "Reed" http://www.myspace.com/reed album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Happiness" by: "Bart Banana" http://myspace.com/bartbanana album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "I wish you happiness" by: "Leanne Bugat" http://www.leannebugat.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Happiness and Love" by: "Jennifer and Bill" http://myspace.com/jenniferandbill album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Something Like Happiness" by: "The Complements" http://www.thecomplements.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "LOVE AND HAPPINESS" by: "WORKING GIRLS" http://www.myspace.com/workinggirls album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Direct download: msb-0261_Got_to_tidy_up._Companys_coming.__-.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:36 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 13 February 2008 msb-0260 What Is This? "MacBreak Tech"? [ http://macbreaktech.com/ ]intro Feedback comes first, so... Your safe. There isn't any ... Except from a band, "Dead Leaf Echo" They dropped me an email about their new album. As soon as its on the PMN you'll get a few tracks because they're a really, well, I don't want to tar them with an inadequate epithet. They have really complex melodies intertwined with some solid rhythms and some fairly good vocals. I'm reminded of the sixties ("Tangerine Dream", [ http://www.tangerinedream.org/ ] maybe, sort of, they're hard to slot,) when I listen to "Cry the sea." "Tough Talk" is another good tunes and its even available on their My Space page [ http://www.myspace.com/deadleafecho ]. "Poison Lips" is still a very good indie recording and its still available on the page. ---- "Music Man" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Everytime" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Whipporwill" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv "Thesis:" In a change of pace for my listeners (all of whom must be heaving a sigh of relief [Nah. They'd just "not" be my listeners, {I'm no Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh, who people listen to even when they hate them,}]) and in a move reminiscent of Kenji Kato "we now join a conversation already in progress." ... ---- "Lightening Over Cheyenne" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv "Synthesis:" ... I've just bought "Dragon Naturally Speaking" to transcribe the shows and, when it arrives and I'll let it loose after I've installed it on the PC (I basically own several Macs and a couple of Linux boxen.) Until then... You're screwed. Come back later and the text will follow this. ---- [not yet] ---- "Cant See The Forest For The Trees" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv "Conclusion:" Well, I hope you're going to enjoy Shauna MacKinnon as much as I did. We talked more than that, including about bugs, creepy crawlies, six legged things. I'll let her talk some more about that because she has something quite surprising to say about them and MS! Rather than giving you the disjointed rest of our chat, I'm going to end this episode here. I'm hoping that she joins my little train wreck of a podcast on a regular basis. The podcast would definitely change. (For the better... I know my limitations. :-) ---- "Learning To Balance" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Music Man" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Everytime" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Whipporwill" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Lightening Over Cheyenne" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Cant See The Forest For The Trees" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Learning To Balance" by: "Dave McCormick" http://www.myspace.com/davemccormickwv album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Podshow PDN {podshow-4ad0f2999a89309581b0509b976be70f} Direct download: msb-0260_What_Is_This___MacBreak_Tech__.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:43 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 12 February 2008 msb-0259 Things are about to change.intro Feedback comes first, so... Miracle of miracles. The employment front has just got a lot more hopeful round the old homestead. My wife has landed herself a job teaching "French" at a "Catholic" high school. (Who knew being "French" and "Catholic" would be useful one of these days? Specially these days. :-) Its not full time and not a lot of money, but it helps and its something entirely novel for her... I haven't seen her so busy or having this much fun in years. (We'll get back to the importance of "novelty" in living a full and fun life.) Now, she's back at school registering to get a degree in education. ---- My own employment situation has also improved. While I'm pretty sure that nobody will hire me until the United States stops being foolish and adopts some form universal health care policy. (One that pits each supplier company against all of the others, ["dog-eat-dog" style, because that's the "Flag Waving American Capitalist" way, {and the most effective way, as long as the Flag Waving American Capitalists have some competition, (because if they don't, you have an abusively exploitative cluster-fuck,)}] but with a single payer, the US gumint, sitting on the cash machine that's doling out the 15% of the economy that our collective health already costs us all anyway.) Meanwhile, I can take on contract work (which leaves me with "clients" instead of "bosses" [which is actually pretty sweet because, at those rates, I'm "not" tired.] Of course, there's absolutely "no" security; but, "What else is new?" I gave up on security back in the late seventies. I was just ahead of the curve. [Show me someone who's secure and I'll show you a guy who's bought a "pre-need" cemetery plot.]) ---- In the meantime, I am listening to the angelic voice of "Sheila Chandra". I don't know if she's podsafe. I've tried to find her email address, (I know she's somewhere in Britain,) to get her permission because the album "Roots and Wings" is a wonderfully soothing listen. "The Struggle" reminds me of the "tablas" exercises that an Indian friend of mine used to do. ---- "Trees" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Something Better" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Buddy" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ "Thesis:" Is there a phrase as charged with emotion as much as: "Things are about to change." We MSers usually interpret that as meaning "for the worse". (Face it when you've got the diagnosis of having a chronic disease, whether its relapsing-remitting or degenerative, you've already got the bad news.) But that's "not" the only way things can change. We need "novelty" to live a full and fun life. We need to face up to change and not be afraid of it because its not all bad. In fact sometimes, its friggin' "great!" Novelty and repetition are forever engaged in a battle for our focus (not "attention" but "focus" was the mysterious "force" I disparaged in msb-0253 in my review of "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 . [As it turned out the authors were using the "English Latinate" word "attention" when what they really meant was the "Greek" word "εστία" {pronounced "esteea"} or "focus". Then I was able to recognize it for what it really was.]) ---- "Willie" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ "Synthesis:" One of my main beefs with the Insurance companies, (and I am "not" going into a rant right now,) is that they barely allot enough recovery time to staunch the bleeding, never mind the hours and hours needed to wipe (and a few treatments with oxytocin would greatly help with accelerating that) and refashion a mental map of your body and its capabilities. Refashioning a mental map requires a great deal of repetition; a "great" deal. The point is not the same as is usually done in physiotherapy. Its one thing to rebuild meat, uh, muscles. Its quite another to rebuild nerves and have them work properly. Neurotherapy might be accelerated after a fashion by some drugs but it must be done properly and that means "patiently". Think of how many years it took you to learn how to walk properly. You spent a year flat on your back, then rolling over, then crawling before you even made it up to your knees. Then you spent another year toddling; teerering about, driving your chubby little legs like pistons at the ground in an effort to stop yourself from falling (much to the annoyance of any downstairs neighbors.) "Then" you learned how to stride. (Some of my upstairs neighbors have never mastered striding. Man, that's "annoying"! [When they're home, I can't record anything because of the "boom, boom" noise of their feet pounding the floor.{But its all part of living in a close knit community; where people are in and out if each other houses all day, (sometimes with each other's property [and sometimes with each other's spouses (but that's another kind of noise.)])}]) Well, "that" roll over, crawl, totter, stride rebuilding is exactly what you're trying to replicate, potentially all over your body and potentially with absolutely every part. Its "not" like strength training or physio rehab. It takes "time". The reps are not done to increase strength. They're done the increase control. And there's no rushing it. That goes for the impatient patient as well. You've got to ingest whatever substances cause you to increase your "brain-derived neurotrophic factors" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_factor ] so that you can remyelinate as quickly as possible. (The old saw of "Eat your fish. Its brain food..." that left us all severely unimpressed as children turned out [http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060304/bob8.asp] to have been right. Pink salmon is a tasty canvass on which we can apply a palette full of spices, herbs, marinades and other condiments, to boil, broil, roast, pan-fry or "sushi," [eat it raw, ] to chew our way to good neurological health. You know: Omega-3 oils and the like.) ---- "Get Together" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ "Conclusion:" We all need to have some fun and some enjoyment in life. We also need to take the time to recover. That means being able to start extremely small and see just how far we can push the rehab envelope. We need a novel approach, one that takes repetition as a virtue. (When I was learning to play guitar, I played some passages for hours and hours. [There was a pianist who went into an old age home. He used to play scales all day long. A nurse commented that it must sad tor the old man to be reduced to playing scales. His room mate got very angry with her and said: "Are you deaf woman? He playing scales ... perfectly." {Sometimes, music would just be a distraction from the skill building.}]) We need "novelty" to live a full and fun life. We need to face up to change and not be afraid of it because its not all bad. In fact sometimes, its friggin' "great!" ---- Part of the novelty is the introduction of a new host of this little audio train wreck. Shauna MacKinnon is a fellow MSer from Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. She brings her "bona fides" to the podcast. She also brings year of experience in "radio", (yes the medium that I am trying to supplant for roughly half-an-hour, three times a week, in your listening schedules.) She's a blogger as well and she blogs at: "bugs, bikes, and brains" [ http://bugsbikesbrains.blogspot.com/ ]. You will be introduced to her in the next episode of the MSBPodcast. ---- "Silently" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Trees" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Something Better" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Buddy" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Willie" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Get Together" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Silently" by: "T. Nile" http://tamaranile.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Thu, 7 February 2008 msb-0258 Well, here we are again...intro Feedback comes first, so... Dang, I wish I knew what kind of music "Miss Chris" [ http://azchick.blogspot.com/ ] liked because I wouldn't feel like I'm flying blind. I hope she likes this and that it doesn't piss of her hubby. (It is definitely "not" insipid "girly chick music", but it feels like deep down, dirty, from the friggin' roots, use the block and kick off the "Tony Lamas" boots, kind of music that a "real man" would like. :-) Yeah! I hope she plays you this and you're, uh, "inspired". ---- I'm pretty pissed off at LibSyn because their fu.. uh, darn post editor is giving me lots of trouble editing these posts when I post them the site. I'm supposed to be able to get my Amazon "co-conspirator" links to work, but lately, it just sucks. ---- "Im A New Man" by: "Jason Ricci" http://www.myspace.com/jasonricciandnewblood Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Rocker" by: "Jason Ricci" http://www.myspace.com/jasonricciandnewblood Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Blackbird" by: "Stingray" http://music.podshow.com/sue_html/images/websiteIcon.jpg "Thesis:" You have noticed that the music is a lot more "Blues Rock" and a whole lot less "New Age-ish" in these episodes. I'm feeling a whole lot more "Blues Rock" and a whole lot less "New Age-ish" these days. I'm feeling "good" from the soles of my feet to the top of my skull. It got something to do with how much better I'm feeling about life in general and about knowledge in particular. ---- "Meet Me In The Middle" by: "Stingray" http://music.podshow.com/sue_html/images/websiteIcon.jpg "Synthesis:" I'm beginning to realize how much of my life was (and to a large extent still is) lived by instinct. Its done me plenty of good, instinct has, as I've careened from one job to the next, one career to the next, hell one wife to the next, (and pity me men because they actually like each other so you "know" I ain't getting away with nuttin'.) I'm now discovering how good my instincts were when I was recovering from the second episode (my first diagnosed episode,) back in 1985. I'm rediscovering the exercises I did back then. I am even discovering "why" I was doing them and how good they were for my sense of balance, for my sense of coordination, for my sense of "soma". (The sense that things belong together in time as well as space.) Damn, I feel like I've been living in a shadow all this time, an echo, seconds behind myself and in multiple images. I may never get back to who and what I used to be, but its so nice, (nah, as George Carlin said, "nice" is such a "flabby word",) its so "real" to be in touch with it. I feel like I'm emerging from a long tunnel, a long dark tunnel, without signposts or milestones to tell me how far I've traveled and no maps to guide my way. MS is an individual disease. Its is up to all individuals to make their own way as they gropes towards towards the tunnel entrance. There are no shortcuts to health. But armed with knowledge, we are able to wield the weapons that medical science put at our disposal, in our arsenal, with better aim and to better effect. ---- "Slaughterhouse Blues" by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.com/ "Conclusion:" So here we are again, with me not having more than a general feeling of where I'm heading, how fast I'm hurtling towards it or how badly I'm burning up, well, everything, as I get there. But its all good... Wherever I end up is where I am meant to be. I'll just keep crawling towards the light. ---- "Your Time Will Come" by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Im A New Man" by: "Jason Ricci" http://www.myspace.com/jasonricciandnewblood album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Rocker" by: "Jason Ricci" http://www.myspace.com/jasonricciandnewblood album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Blackbird" by: "Stingray" http://music.podshow.com/sue_html/images/websiteIcon.jpg album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Meet Me In The Middle" by: "Stingray" http://music.podshow.com/sue_html/images/websiteIcon.jpg album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Slaughterhouse Blues" by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Your Time Will Come" by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 6 February 2008 msb-0257 None So Blindintro .. Feedback comes first, so... The video scene at the front ot the blog entry has to be the most energetic and "balls to the wall" example of a "parkours" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/ ] chase scene I have ever clapped eyes on. Its almost worth learning "French" for. "Luc Bresson" is a film maker to watch. (Pun intended. :-) ---- Like Coleridge interrupted while writing "Kubla Khan," I too had an intrusion on my life and when my "man from Porlock" [ http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/notes.html#KublaKhan ] had departed, the great idea for a show had departed along with him, flown from my attention. (Actually, it was a great deal sadder than that. By the time the police cars and the coroner's wagon had departed from somebody having made the grim discovery that my neighbor down the hall had "shuffled off this mortal coil," things were a bit "tossed into a cocked hat".) But since I'm writing this a week or so "before" its posted, and "tweaking" it before releasing it so I figured I had time to get it back. And lo and behold, it did come back. Put down that shovel. My mind ain't gone yet. ---- Meanwhile, I am more and more amazed at the knowledge that I picked up from reading "The Brain That Changes Itself" by "Norman Doidge, M.D." (ISBN: 978-0-14-311310-2). The more I learn, the more I am amazed at how simple changes in the chemical architecture of our brain can yield such complex changes in behavior. Our brain is an awesome organ. Just awesome. ---- You're getting "Matthew Ebel" music in this episode just because I "like" Matthew Ebel. (Well, anyway, I don't hear any of you bunch complaining [and there's a lot more of you than you'd think.] :-) ---- "Downtown" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Trees" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Sally Went Down" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ "Thesis:" Apart from being a really cool name for a really cool band, (I looked it up. [ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=59089149 ] :-) "None So Blind" is the first half of a saying that ends something like: "As those who will not see." And so it goes. The media are never going to have a representational number of actors with disabilities (after all 15% of the population of this planet is disabled to some degree, [the actual individuals may drop in and out as people ail and recover, but its a fairly constant 15%]) This sad state of affairs is partly our doing. MSers don't like to see suffering either. Specially when its our own. ---- "Lost My Way" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ "Synthesis:" I come from "Québec" a strange place that seems to have very different "mores" than the rest of North America (and New Orleans ... Sorry, for you folk out "dere" ... "Norleenz"). It seemed like every damn film shot in Québec during the fifties, sixties and even the seventies had at least one scene (usually the funniest one in the whole friggin' movie,) taking place in a funeral home. We were used to death. It wasn't something scary to us. (Face it. When you're dirt poor and can expect to stay that way, from one generation to the next, you take your fun when and where you can.) Likewise when it came to showing the people, cripple sand all, making their way painfully up the steps of "L'Oratoire St. Joseph" in "Montréal". We just accepted the fact that in life's lottery, there were a lot more losers than there were winners. But that's in Québec and that's in the near past. I'm not saying that some of them weren't treated shamefully, shabbily and scornfully. (Specially if they had the good fortune to be born out of wedlock. [You have no f.... uh, no friggin' idea of what a mess we went through with "La Revolution Tranquille". {Bastards. We were all friggin' bastards when the Catholic church went to Hell in a hand basket.}]) But back to my main point (I do have them you know,) we were aware as a society of who were members of our society. That included the 15% that's currently utterly ignored by the media: the handicapped whose contribution to society won't be measured in dollars and cents. "You" stand up to Marlee Matlin [ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559144/ ] and tell her she can't act because "you" don't think the world is ready for a deaf actress. Go on. Just make sure you dial 911 first. ---- "Lift Me - Live in Second Life" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ "Conclusion:" All that needs to be done to correct the imbalance in the media is to get us the same representation as there is in reality. But that will "never happen" because the media are all built on tissues of lies, occasionally hiding behind a veil of civility. The problem we all seem to have, is in selecting leaders that don't understand that they're only part of the 85%. Likewise our media should reflect the proportions of reality. I'm not talking about about giving us leading roles or crap like that, ( though it would be great to have movies by, on, for and/or about us,) but just have "the scenery match the view." If the media production would respect the merest proportionality, the exhausting drag on the economy that having 15% of the population being disabled causes can be acknowledged. I think that that would go a long way towards eliminating the causes of a lot of our problems. ---- "All I Want Is You" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ I've got a piece from my misspent youth that I managed to "find": [ http://www.lordbuckley.com/LBC_Misc_Pages/LBC.html ] Its Marc Antony's Funeral Oration (Cf. Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2, lines 74-108) as re-crafted in the "Hip Semantics" of "Lord Buckley." [ http://www.lordbuckley.com/ ] "Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies, Knock me your lobes, I came to lay Caesar out, Not to hip you to him. The bad jazz that a cat blows, Wails long after he's cut out. The groovey is often stashed with their frames, So don't put Caesar down. The swinging Brutus hath laid a story on you That Caesar was hungry for power If it were so, it was a sad drag, And sadly hath the Caesar cat answered it. Here with a pass from Brutus and the other brass, For Brutus is a worthy stud, Yea, so are they all worthy studs, Though their stallions never sleep. I came to wail at Ceasar's wake. He was my buddy, and he leveled with me. Yet Brutus digs that he has eyes for power, And Brutus is a solid cat. It is true he hath returned with many freaks in chains And brought them home to Rome. Yea, the looty was booty And hipped the treasury well. Dost thou dig that this was Caesar's groove For the putsch? When the cats with the empty kicks hath copped out, Yea, Caesar hath copped out, too, And cried up a storm. To be a world grabber a stiffer riff must be blown. Without bread a stud can't even rule an anthill. Yet Brutus was swinging for the moon. And, yea, Brutus is a worthy stud. And all you cats were gassed on the Lupercal When he came on like a king freak. Three times I lay the wig on him, And thrice did he put it down. Was this the move of a greedy hipster? Yet, Brutus said he dug the lick, And, yes, a hipper cat has never blown. Some claim that Brutus' story was a gag. But I dug the story was solid. I came here to blow. Now, stay cool while I blow. You all dug him once Because you were hipped that he was solid How can you now come on so square Now that he's tapped out of this world. City Hall is flipped And swung to a drunken zoo And all of you cats are goofed to wig city. Dig me hard. My ticker is in the coffin there with Caesar, And, yea, I must stay cool til it flippeth back to me." Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Downtown" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Trees" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Sally Went Down" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Lost My Way" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Lift Me - Live in Second Life" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "All I Want Is You" by: "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Mon, 4 February 2008 msb-0256 10,000,000 (In Binary)intro "Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1" by: "The Richter Scales" .. Feedback comes first, so... Yeah, I "wish" I had ten million downloads. Hah! Not even in my wettest, nastiest dreams. Instead I'm looking up at binary 10,000,000 per day. (Still that none too shabby considering the numbers: 1 in 1,200. [And that's "up," not at. I'm not quite there yet. {I'm frankly impressed considering the fact that all my feed back has been from either the bands I've featured or from MSers. That's an incredibly focused group.}]) I'm just the DJ for this little podcast, this little audio train wreck. (Okay, I have to do everything else too, from printing business cards to marketing [and I frankly suck at marketing... {I don't think I could sell lighter fluid to "Torquemada." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada )}]) ---- I'm starting, (reading, [finishing, {finished}]} "The Brain That Changes Itself" by: "Norman Doidge, M.D." ISBN 978-0-14-311310-2 and it is "Fantastic!" Not to put too fine a point in it, if chance favors the prepared mind, pursuing my reading in the sequence that I have ("Steven Pinker"'s "The Stuff of Thought" to "Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee"'s "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" to "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley"'s "The Mind & The Brain",) has put me in the extremely enviable position of being able to "grok" the words on the page. I was able to determine what the approach needs to be for "anyone" to try to cope with MS by retraining our brain to do what our minds want done. The techniques are as individual and idiosyncratic as the expressions of MS but the process of tailoring the treatments is the same. And, quite apart from the use of neuro-plasticity to overcome the effects of this disease, its so refreshing to be able to see and understand what the Hell I'm trying to accomplish by making up and doing these exercises. I also understand now that most physiotherapy clinics (and the insurance companies which support them,) give up "too damn fast". ---- "FT Marcie Vocal Mix" by: "DEREK TheBandit VS James Nelson" http://www.soundrepublic.co.za/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Two Timin´ Lady" by: "Eager To Please" http://www.myspace.com/egr2plz Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" The next tune reminds me of another podaster "P.W. Fenton" on "Digital Flotsam". ---- "The Word" by: "3 Blind Mice" http://www.catsaway.com/ "Thesis:" You may have noticed that what I do mostly is "read". I'm like a funnel for all the information out there. I also plumb the depths of the PMN to find you some music (but don't worry "Miss Chris" [ http://azchick.blogspot.com/ ], I'll warn you in the title if I play Country&Western. :-) The goal of the existence of this podcast is to provide some music (a lot of music [and I'm working on seeing how I could plays "requests" from the audience as part of something called "The Organization for the Preservation of the Soundtrack of Our Lives." {But the requester has to tell me "why" he wants the tune and "what he was doing at the time".}]) But you have to tell me in an email (to the usual: charles at MSBPodcast.com.) It can't be something currently on the air (like about 99.9% of the music out there. They've already been pulled off the air. The consolidation of radio has shrunk the playlist down to a handful of new music songs and some churning of a couple of hundred songs. ["If I hear "Freebird" one more time, I'm going to spew all over this damned bar!"]) ---- "Hospital Problems" by: "A Spectre Is Haunting Europe" http://www.aspectreishauntingeurope.com/ "Synthesis:" I read mostly for two reasons: First, I have "always" been an avid reader. My mother was the head librarian for "Ville LaSalle", amongst a few other careers, my father was a printer, and I swear I have ink for blood. When I was a kid (like really young,) I used to read. (And there was no such thing as a bad book in my family. I was reading "Le Petit Simonin" when most of the other kids were doing whatever the hell it was that they were doing. [I also learned to read English from comic books. "Stan Lee" was my deity. {I know he's "not" but everything he touched was so-oo goo-oood.} I still keep an onomatopoeic speech style because of him.]) In the eighties I read a book a day for over a year (Now I'm not saying I slept too well. I used to fall asleep at 03:00 and get up at 07:00 everyday.) I'm obsessive about reading. I'm compulsive about reading. I can't think of living in a world without the ability to question those who aren't present or those who have "gone before". And the internet, combined with Google, has so expanded my life that I am an unadulterated creature which depends on it for my very life. Second, I have MS. I'm hardly going to go out dancing, now am I? What the hell else do I have to do with my time? I lost my job (I wasn't allowed to do it properly anyway. [Yeah, I know. Sounds like "Sour Grapes" right?]) I wrote for a living (albeit a meager one,) in the nineties. I can only hope that I am still as entertaining now as I was then. I am of course dependent on the willingness of others to support me. (despite the amount of money I have earned on my own [Sadly those are done. {I seriously doubt that I'll ever have anything to do with DP/EDP/Informatics/IT/MIS ever again.}]) ---- "Disease" by: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ "Conclusion:" Keep me in mind and call on me (or drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com ) when you're traipsing down memory lane. I still have 400+ vinyl records (only a fraction of what I used to have. I used to cover the walls with shelves full of 'em,) and 800+ CDs. Maybe I've got the song somewhere, or we can work something out. (If you have a story, you have music as a soundtrack to that story. Tell me about it. and I'll feature it. :-) Problem is that I still couldn't play you any selections from "Eeffin' Annie, Down Home" unless I come up with the same kind of story. This is an "amazing" album. (If I ever find a copy of "Moonquake", you're going to hear stories from my misspent youth. [Oh wow! I still remember "not" blowing smoke into "Fern's earache", instead scaring her into the campus nurse's office with some information about "mastoiditis". She was an "Aphrodite", a "Venus on the half-shell". Something you would weep at the thought of some disease blemishing that flawless skin, touching that perfect face. {If you had ever "seen Fern", (and, by all that's holy about the feminine form ... I had [insert heavy satisfied sighing.] Every delicious inch of her. God, she looked "unbelievable". [If only I had taken pictures of that succulent body, but photography was very far from m mind at those times.])}] :-) ---- "My Radio" by: "Bill Janovitz & Crown Victoria" http://www.qdivision.com/janovitz/index.html Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "FT Marcie Vocal Mix" by: "DEREK TheBandit VS James Nelson" http://www.soundrepublic.co.za/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Two Timin´ Lady" by: "Eager To Please" http://www.myspace.com/egr2plz album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Word" by: "3 Blind Mice" http://www.catsaway.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Hospital Problems" by: "A Spectre Is Haunting Europe" http://www.aspectreishauntingeurope.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Disease" by: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/Work" by: "Naughty Jack" http://www.naughtyjack.co.uk/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "My Radio" by: "Bill Janovitz & Crown Victoria" http://www.qdivision.com/janovitz/index.html album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Thu, 31 January 2008 msb-0255 The Wonderful World of Workintro Feedback comes first, so... I love work. I could watch it all day. Apart from that, you've been spared. Tomorrow, it will have been two years since I started this podcast. I'm going to treat my wife and myself to a great dinner out. ---- I'm reading "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge M.D." ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 and I can tell you that its definitely worth the read. Within the first 10 pages, I discovered the true mechanism of the "vestibular sense", (We've all got "six" senses, not just the common five of "hearing, sight, taste, touch, and smell",) and got some insight into why MSers' sense of balance is so skewed and "what can be done about it." I will never look at walking around (or standing at the top of some stairs [and "knowing" that it freaks me out,]) in quite the same way. I have meditated on this and determined that, yes, my vestibular sensors might be fine (those the three accelerometers [one per axis] mounted in liquid in each ear,) but the "reason" why I tend to get the "wobblies" is that the sensations from the accelerometers is drowned in sclerotic noise. Now that I know that, I can probably do something about it. (Using the neuro-plasticity of my brain to route the signals in such a way [either rerouting or redundantly getting the information] that I will once again be able to balance on one foot.) This book is "awesome". ---- "WORKING, SWEATING" by: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Living To Work" by: "Jagaver" http://www.jagaver.co.uk/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Upper Working Class" by: "Tim Ratcliff and Ken Bailey" http://www.westfieldrecording.com/ "Thesis:" Work has changed several times in the past hundred years. Our great-grand-parents would scarcely think that what we do is work. Neither would our grand-parents for the most part. The nature of mercantile activity has changed in the developed world (and even in the developing world [who else is getting these podcasts and/or able to read the blogs?]) Its all part of the evolution of the working class from its origins in the agrarian revolution that saw us changing from hunter-gatherers to farmers. The whole thing was amazingly slow until it hit an inflection point about a hundred and fifty years ago with the British. (But the problem of work was the same the world over [Mostly, that we all have to do it. Even in Japan. :-]) ---- "Workman" by: "Mogura" http://www.camnet.jp/mogura/ "Synthesis:" Originally mercantile activity was restricted to royalty, signing treaties, (usually spread through oral history when a man's word was his bond,) then it was restricted to a specialized class, the merchant class, (hence the term "mercantile", [the prime ones of which were "bondsmen" {now relegated to something fit only for "Stephanie Plum" ( http://www.amazon.com/One-Money-Stephanie-Plum-Novels/dp/0061009059 ) novels. Except that the entire banking industry and the entire insurance industry is worth $0.00 without bondsmen.)}]) The current system evolved slowly from its ancient origins until the middle of the nineteenth century. Lets step gingerly over the century that saw the rise and stumble (I won't say fall because they're still around,) of the robber barons and other people whose charities are "still" around. In the old days, people used to schlep to the corner store. Forget about choice then. Mercantile activity was limited to what a peddler could carry. Then, the industrial revolution seemed to be dominated by "push" merchandising. You made a product and had a sales force "push" it onto the rubes who would shell out for it. (That's what the sales force saw because they were dealing with middle men who were shelling out the "schekels" in the hopes of selling it themselves.) People were so sick and tired of nothin (that's what they owned) Then came the postal service. The "Age of the Catalog" was born. You dropped a letter in the mail with a money order in it to order what ever widget you saw on the page of the catalog and they shipped something very closely approximating it. (You have no idea what advancements in society had to have happened for the bondsmans' trust to spread to the postal institutions and "le commun des mortels". They'd been stuffing their money in their mattresses before then, and the banks were just fatter cats with fatter matresses.) Then came the telegraph and later the telephone. Most of the time, a phone book and a phone call used to be enough to get you whatever your heart desired. (Interestingly enough, the spread of the telephone was responsible for enabling more rapid communications over shorter distances.) Advertising, telling people what you've got to offer, really took off after the introduction of broadcasting in the nineteen thirties. The rules and roles of advertising were fixed back at the early part of the twentieth century. Certain codes of truthfulness were established such that we "could" be aghast at "Winston Smith's" [ http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/index.html ] dilemma at having to wonder how many fingers were indeed being held up by his torturer in the "Ministry of Love". Of course, this high standard of scientific correctness, and the immutability of evidenciary proof, has always been considered to be inconvenient by politicians and other pond scum who would rather we just believed whatever we were being told, and paid "no attention to the man behind the curtain". [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ ] Take the spoonful of "snake oil" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil ] and shut the hell up. ---- "Work" by: "Naughty Jack" http://www.naughtyjack.co.uk/ "Conclusion:" Then again, there are ancient advertisements, in "Latin, for Janus' sake", to entice people to attend events at the various forums. Merchandising and advertising have always gone hand and hand. Even before the words existed. "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose..." ---- By the way, I just saw something in the New York Times that gives me hope [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/fashion/31SKIN.html?ref=technology ]. It seems that advertising agencies are starting to notice that Rome is burning around them, (notably that the broadcast media are dying,) and that if they want to survive, they have to move to something else (like blogs and podcasts/video podcasts.) ---- "Dirty Work" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "WORKING, SWEATING" by: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Living To Work" by: "Jagaver" http://www.jagaver.co.uk/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Upper Working Class" by: "Tim Ratcliff and Ken Bailey" http://www.westfieldrecording.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Workman" by: "Mogura" http://www.camnet.jp/mogura/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Work" by: "Naughty Jack" http://www.naughtyjack.co.uk/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Dirty Work" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0-670-06327-7 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[5] |
msb's The Disability Show
From iTunes:
"As a newly diagnosed MS'r I was so pleased to find a podcast that didn't just center around information about a bleak future.
I'm trying to retain a sense of humor here... and relaxation plays an important part.
Thank you Charles, for what must be an exhausting venture for you. I'm with you all the way !!!"
-Jean
The Podcasts
Survey:
Syndicate This Site:
Links:
