msb's The Disability Show

Mon, 29 June 2009

msb-0370 In Case of Emergence

YouTube videos

Emergence - Complexity from Simplicity, Order from Chaos (1 of 2)
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Emergence - Complexity from Simplicity, Order from Chaos (2 of 2)
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intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Some of you (okay, only one of you,) questioned my putting my plans for January 3rd 2010 on the feedforward already.

I'm starting in July because these shows have an enormously long tail.

Some people may not pick up this show until December. I wish I was kidding.

My upload stats read like a novel in two dimensions.

One dimension is the monthly total downloads, which seems to be stable.

People come from the web or via iTunes and the web ones come and go, ebb and flow. (That what you get with podcasting. That's not what you want with web streaming...)

The other dimension transverses across the entire history of the podcast and reveals downloads of positively ancient shows. (Since they're not current affair shows, that's okay. [What I find funny is the people who like a show so much they download it multiple times. If they would just use iTunes, this would not be a problem {or cost me multiple times the bandwidth.])

Podcasting might be fine for some messages but its absolute death for others.

If you're running a contest or promoting an event, don't even think of using podcasting unless you're willing to start real, real early.

You'll get people replying long after its all over.

I am getting a lot of hits from people doing Google searches because I have complete show notes (for any listeners out there with cochlear implants, [you know who you are , :-] or on the days I mumble, mutter and chew my words its nice to have written backup.)

What's even more amazing to me is that a lot of those people, the ones who find me through googling, download the show, (even after they've read what I'm about to say and can read the text of everything they're going to hear.)

Creepy isn't it?

Must be that some people want to hear the indie music I pick.

I seem to have some taste and its not just in my mouth.

---- "Emergence" by: "Insidious New World" http://www.insidiousnewworld.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Emergence" by: "Kmotiv" http://www.kmotiv.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

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I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Emergence" by: "Trifonic" http://www.trifonic.com/

Thesis

I'm still digesting the book "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by "Joseph A. Tainter (ISBN: 978-0-521-38673-9 ) [ http://www.gettextbooks.com/search/?isbn=978-0-521-38673-9 ].

While I agree with some of his conclusions, I am wondering just how far they could/should be brought.

Its fascinating to confront widespread civilization collapse. Its also fascinating to realize its happened before, within my lifetime.

---- "EMERGENCE" by: "v.f.d." http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords

"Synthesis:"

I am also wondering the role of the internet, this accidental world changer issued forth from the US military as a means of communications that was capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust, as possibly defining a new supra-nation-state class of organization.

Its tantalizing to see the nation-state reactions in the face of recent events in Iran and the attempt of China to have PCs come pre-installed with "filtering" software, ostensively for stopping kiddy porn.

(Give me a break These people sold their children into servitude until Mao Zedong took the country away from the pre revolutionary influences of war and opium. [Yes, Mao used to be the GOOD guy.])

Once filtering software is installed who is going to control it? Not the people who are stuck with it, that's for sure.

The internet, since the creation of the web and its release from its non-profit and military limitations in 1995, (just a little over a dozen years ago,) has become absolutely indispensable to any complex society.

We're not talking about the Taliban and other pathetic psychopathic losers who actually want to turn back the clock about a millennium to make sure that they're in power, (over a bullet-strewn dung-heap, but they'd be on top, for a little while, until they ran out of food or bullets.

[What were the Taliban demanding before "Bush the Lesser/Latter" invaded Afghanistan? FOOD!

The Arabs world wasn't helping him either. They couldn't have cared less about the one eyed hate filled nut-job.

Bush only had to wait a few months and they would have traded Bin Laden in for a "Quarter with Cheese" and a six-pack...

BUT NO!

He had to send in the military to shuffle rubble with bombs and bury the evidence.

{Mullah Omar was a far worse threat to the ideology of a militant Islam than the west ever was.

(Bush was a simpering semi-simian who should have been prevented from running for any office higher than a dog-catcher in some Louisiana parish.)}])

[ Climbs down from soapboxes and gets back to the topic at hand.]

Does the internet make inevitable the emergence of supra-national globe-spanning complex civilization divided, not along arbitrary nation-states but along linguistic barriers.

Organization of people via linguistic affiliation spans the globe.

Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, whatever... This method of aggregating people, and tying them all together with the internet is emerging, inevitably, inexorably.

Because of the nature of technology, the internet and its utter disregard for who's actually using it, means that we MSer are another way of aggregating a subgroup of the world population not merely by language but by interest, in this case, medical interest.

In this case nationalistic division makes absolutely no sense; it runs counter to logic and even to common sense. , (not that I'm claiming that humans ever show much of either.)

---- "Emerge" by: "Shnikies" http://www.rockband.com/users/schartrand77/gallery/detail/P/3236072

Conclusion:

The internet is what is making this podcast possible but it is emblematic of the wider range of options and of difficulties.

How do we stop nations and other state apparatus from interfering with health care, (Sticking their fingers into what is not in our interest to let them interfere. [ In fact its not even in their own interest for them to interfere with health care. ])

Obama may think he's got a hard fight but its almost trivial.

Only insure the uninsured and leave the rest alone.

Pretty soon he'll see the employers get the HMOs off of their books in pretty short order.

When its no longer necessary for them to cary all that HR debt, worry and expense, they WONT.

Then we'll have stage one of a world wide health care system.

---- "Music for Emergencies" by: "Stoat" http://www.stoatmusic.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Emergence"
by: "Insidious New World"
http://www.insidiousnewworld.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Emergence"
by: "Kmotiv"
http://www.kmotiv.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Emergence"
by: "Trifonic"
http://www.trifonic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"EMERGENCE"
by: "v.f.d."
http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Emerge"
by: "Shnikies"
http://www.rockband.com/users/schartrand77/gallery/detail/P/3236072
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Music for Emergencies"
by: "Stoat"
http://www.stoatmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: 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. :-)

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Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

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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-0370_In_Case_of_Emergence.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Fri, 26 June 2009

msb-0369 Oops

msb-0369 Oops

YouTube videos

Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
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Direct download: msb-0369_Oops.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:59 PM

Comments[0]

Wed, 24 June 2009

msb-0368 Intrinsic Worth

msb-0368 Intrinsic Worth

YouTube videos

The Kiva Story
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intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

tis episode is based on the concept of "intrinsic worth."

I was listening to the "Science Show" from Australian Broadcasting [ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/ ] and it sparked some thoughts.

I am starting to find all kinds of podcasts and, given the fact that I've had to rescan twice a day almost every day and the new digital channels come in spottily at best, podcasting has an opportunity to really make some real inroads right now.

---- "lend me your love" by: "slackstring" http://www.slackstring.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Where dat Money Go?" by: "David Ippolito" http://www.thatguitarman.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Coz They Invented Money" by: "Gravitator" http://gravitator.vox.com/

Thesis

This show is all about "intrinsic worth".

Part of the intrinsic worth of money is how easy or difficult it is to get access to it.

The video at the front of this episode concerns a micro-lending bank known as Kiva; there's no other word for it, it has lenders and borrowers. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization) ]

Its a bank.

---- "Money Ain't Time" by: "The Halley DeVestern Band" http://www.myspace.com/halleydevestern

"Synthesis:"

Working with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://rushkoff.com ] has opened my eyes to lots of things we could be doing about fixing the things that are just plain wrong with the financial system.

This is a system where
• your paychecks or investments are poured into anonymous institutions,
• lent out to other anonymous institutions, (who work out secret deals for access to your money, [regardless of how you might feel about it,]) and
• where you earn almost nothing after inflation, (since a 2% interest rate on your checking account means you don't even break even.)

These financial institutions and banks are little more than just storage places for information about your money.

They certainly are less than ideal investment vehicles for you. (Your investment vehicle is out of gas right from the start so neither you nor your money are going anywhere.)

If you would like to have a small loan, you're out of luck because the old structures of the financial institutions aren't geared up for small.

Their fees are based on a a fixed startup cost plus a percentage of what they lend out.

Since small loans equals small fees, they aren't interested in small loans. They're interested in getting fees as large as possible.

I worked for financial services firms where the accuracy of bond transactions [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(finance) ] were calculated to 11 digits on either side of the decimal point.

They were likely looking to exceed those limits for 30 year bonds for large clients. Eleven digits come to 99 billion,999 million,999 thousand,999 units of whatever currency you care to negotiate in. (The long term US debt is now in the tens of trillions of dollars so my software would not be capable of handling that by three orders of magnitude!)

Now imagine you are a Peruvian native with a small food stall or a small store.

You need $100 to upgrade your stock, add on to the layout of your store or improve your capacity to do business.

Are you going to go to a bank?

You can't even afford a loan big enough to fill out the paperwork they would require you to take.

You can't make it worth it for them to know that you exist, but you still need the shelves or the stock or the cart or the bicycle.

That's where micro-loans and micro-lending come into play.

You get to know the person who's going to use your money directly because you direct who is getting access to your money.

The amounts are really small but you can even join a group to share the risk.

The opportunity exists to make friends and business partners across the globe doing something rewarding.

---- "Money" by: "Theory in Motion" http://www.myspace.com/theoryinmotion

Conclusion:

Check out Kiva [ http://www.kiva.org/ ] and get involved.

You can actually lend, not give, not donate, its not a charity, lend a small sum of money to an individual who'll be known to you, who's actually going to use it to improve his or her life, affecting the lives of those around them and who will actually pay you back.

All for a fraction of the cost of the money you're losing everyday (The recent financial melt down is costing us plenty and will continue to do so for the next 30 years, or until the next time somebody asks the idiots in the financial markets "which card is the ace". [shuffle shuffle shuffle, three card monty,{ the answer is its none of them silly, the ace got palmed before the cards were ever laid out on his little table.'}])

---- "Money Control" by: "Voide" http://www.voide.net/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"lend me your love"
by: "slackstring"
http://www.slackstring.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Where dat Money Go?"
by: "David Ippolito"
http://www.thatguitarman.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Coz They Invented Money"
by: "Gravitator"
http://gravitator.vox.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Money Ain't Time"
by: "The Halley DeVestern Band"
http://www.myspace.com/halleydevestern
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Money"
by: "Theory in Motion"
http://www.myspace.com/theoryinmotion
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Money Control"
by: "Voide"
http://www.voide.net/
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0368_Intrinsic_Worth.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:45 PM

Comments[0]

Mon, 22 June 2009

msb-0367 Stay Focused

msb-0367 Stay Focused

YouTube videos

Focus- Hocus Pocus (live '73)
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Johnny Winter-Highway 61 Revisited (Centralia PA.)
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intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I'm an unashamedly great fan of the "Diskworld" novels by Sir Terry Pratchett and I have just been in touch with the young woman who's currently running the "From Rim To Hub" podast. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=301780640 ]

This a very young woman who obviously needs some help, so I offered.

How did I know she's a young woman?

She didn't know how to pronounce Abba (she called them a.b.b.a. like it was some form of meter measurement and she she'd obviously never hear of the Bee Gees, A.K.A. the Brothers Gibb.)

Oh Key fringgin' Christ, I felt do OLD. :-)

But that's the way the cookie crumbles.

---- "Focus" by: "Platypus Complex" http://www.myspace.com/platrio

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"

---- "Inner Focus" by: "absentmachine" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Soft Focus" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php

Thesis

The theme this episode is "Stay Focused" because that's so important for MSers.

And so exhausting too.

You have to stay focused on "everything".

If you're anywhere where you'd really like to let your hair down and really enjoy yourself, you cant really let your hair down and enjoy yourself because you're concerned with things like spasticity or even falling over.

Its hard to gracefully get a little tipsy on vino when you are either favoring one hand, and single handedness is a symptom of MS, or sloshing a glass of red all over yourself and your nice white shirt.

---- "Soft Focus" by: "Black Nite Crash" http://www.blacknitecrash.com/

"Synthesis:"

Stay Focused sounds like one of my darling wife's mantras.

But frankly its gets tiring never letting go, cutting loose and actually having the rest of that beer.

"In Vino Veritas", "Truth from wine", used to be the old Roman way of proving who your friends were.

You'd lounge around the "vomitarium" attending to the orgy, getting pie eyed, and quaffing to your heart's content. (Quaffing it like drinking except you spill more.)

The following morning all that could even be remembered was forgiven. but the truth was known.

(Yes "vomitarium" sounds disgusting, and it was, but they were Romans and they totally owned the world, sort of like the "soit-disant" nuptual parties of the days of prohibition or the Bacchanals of Bernie Madoff and the like, [The libertine attitude of the Paris Hiltons of this world came from somewhere, you know?])

Lord I sound like a drunk but its been so long since I've had a pint or three at a pub with a friend while we bullshit and chew the rag.

That's one reason I miss Eugene since he returned to the "spawning grounds" to help take care of his old, cantankerous father, way the heck out on Long Island.

And Long Island makes me think of "Long Island Ice Tea".

Damn. I think I need a drink.

Heck, Its the week-end, i've got nobody who just dying to see me, so I think I will go out on this grey afternoon, do my slow dance between the rain drops and pop on down to the booze sore and buy a bottle of red for the pork chop we're having for supper.

---- "Drinkin With My Guitar" by: "ATL Producers" http://www.atlproducers.com/

Conclusion:

MSers are faced with dilemmas because we can't ever really relax.

But if ever you want to turn the computer loose on something fabulously fun, try the "12 Days of Hogwatch" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207871434 ] to get 12 short videos about the Diskworld and get a glimpse at the imaginative mind of Terry Prachett.

Best of all ... its free.

Oh, the "Centralia" "Highway 61 Revisited Johnny Winter YouTube video at the front of this episode is because I know somebody, originally from round there as it turned out.

The story of the underground fire there is a cautionary tale for us all.

Unchecked passions burn deep and lay waste to the surface.

---- "I Need A Drink" by: "Adam and the Walter Boys" http://www.adamandthewalterboys.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Focus"
by: "Platypus Complex"
http://www.myspace.com/platrio
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Inner Focus"
by: "absentmachine"
http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Soft Focus"
by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team"
http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Soft Focus"
by: "Black Nite Crash"
http://www.blacknitecrash.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Drinkin With My Guitar"
by: "ATL Producers"
http://www.atlproducers.com/
(And I HATE a record company taking an artist' work and putting their name all over it because its NOT sustainable.)
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"I Need A Drink"
by: "Adam and the Walter Boys"
http://www.adamandthewalterboys.com/
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0366_Stay_Focused.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Fri, 19 June 2009

msb-0366 Lazy-Ass Journalists

msb-0366 Lazy-Ass Journalists

YouTube videos

Leon Redbone Lazy Bones
.

.

intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I ran into this tweet yesterday from MS_Bloggers:

''About MS: Learning Increases Myelination: Researchers at Oxford have proven that, when people learn a new.. http://tinyurl.com/lyshof "

@MS_Bloggers Fabulous news, but why aren't I seeing it? (Recently laid off, back to college yet again...) Or maybe I'd be worse off...

It was actually pointing to an little tiny piece [ http://ms.about.com/b/2009/06/18/learning-increases-myelination.htm ] at about.dom by Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D. which basically said less that I could on the same subject without pretending I'm anything other that somebody who'se seen my own MRIs.

So of course that started me thinking on how much money and just fuss is being made by regurgitating trivia of dubious distinction.

---- "Lazy Tuesday" by: "KCentric" http://www.kcentricity.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Lazy" by: "Leiv Reed" http://www.myspace.com/leivreed

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Lazy Loser" by: "Lima Charlie" http://www.limacharliemusic.com/

Thesis

Like I said in the feedback segment, I am exploring just how much the medical world has learned since I was diagnosed, and why, and how much is just hand-waving, supposition and flat-out BS.

I'm sorry to employ a Hagelian dialectic technique as a point of view, (the 19th century form of exposition of thesis, synthesis conclusion,) and twist it into what surely must sound like a screed, but this is the kind of patent nonsense up with I will not put. (And the last sentence, lifted from Winston Churchill, should tell you that there is not much up with which I don't put.)

---- "Lazy Bones" by: "B.D. Lenz" http://www.bdlenz.com/

"Synthesis:"

In learning about our disease we need to put on our hip-waders and venture out into a swamp of supposition, unknowns masquerading as facts, logical fallacies that say that naming something is the same as finding a cure, and mystics who leave it up to the vagaries of the random smiting by the elder gods.

I think we can dismiss the elder gods at a single glance since MS doesn't spare anyone based on religious belief. If you're alive, you're brain is fair game regardless of who it bows to, or doesn't as the case may be.

Back in the mid-eighties when I was diagnosed using a lumbar puncture and a at the time brand new PET scan, we really didn't know much about the working of the brain, (not even the mind, but the brain, the fundamental carpentry which served as its scaffolding.)

We had names for the features found in the undifferentiated grey goo that fills the void between our ears, but that's really not the same as knowing what the heck any of it did, why or how.

I can refer you back to an episode five shows ago (msb-0361) which told you about the the five types of glial cells.

What I can't find out very easily is when the discovery and naming of the different glial cell types came about.

I suspect that the use of Latin and Greek obscures that fact that the types were unknown ten years ago.

Wilder Penfield and his crude brain mapping experiments at the Montréal Institute of Neurology in the nineteen-thirties had begun to unravel the mysterious skein that overlays itself atop that carpentry.

The functioning of the brain was being elucidated painfully slowly by chance, accident and mishap, since autopsies don't tell you much about living people.

The treatments for MS have all arisen from the study of AIDS.

They're crude but effective, and that's pretty much all we're getting from big pharma, so suck it up.

Its going to be a race for your pocket book using modifications on the systems of delivery from now on.

The delivery mechanisms are going to go from Injections, to ingestion, to inhalation.

The drugs themselves won't be a cure. That's too hard to do and requires to much time.

The curative discoveries will come from geneticists and epigeneticists.

---- "Lazy" by: "Francis Collete" http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj

Conclusion:

The overall outlook for MS treatments is mixed.

There will be no cures but the treatments will get more effective, until things really change under the onslaught of medical knowledge.

Lets hope our progeniture may never know first hand about demyelination.

The reporting of issues related to MS will be quieted then.

No more articles of Latinate bafflegab, no more futurama pronouncement of "In the coming decades ...", no more scary-slash-tear-jearky appeals to your pocket books by someone with a perfect smile, a perfect body and total lack discernible empathy.

Unfortunately, that will take time, money and research into fields not yet even dreamt of by people with more energy than I've got.

---- "Lazy girl" by: "The Bank" http://www.thebankrockband.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Lazy Tuesday"
by: "KCentric"
http://www.kcentricity.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy"
by: "Leiv Reed"
http://www.myspace.com/leivreed
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy Loser"
by: "Lima Charlie"
http://www.limacharliemusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy Bones"
by: "B.D. Lenz"
http://www.bdlenz.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy"
by: "Francis Collete"
http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy girl"
by: "The Bank"
http://www.thebankrockband.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0366__Lazy-Ass_Journalists.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Wed, 17 June 2009

msb-0365 Its not all about me you know

msb-0365 Its not all about me you know

YouTube videos

Hooverphonic - Mad About You
.

.

intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Its not all about me you know.

I started this podcast with two things in mind at least:

The first was to relieve the absolute media vacuum about MS and the products that makes our lives easier.

The podcast is mainly about you, because if you're listening to me, you most probably have MS.

I want to be a vehicle for information in a non scary way about all the things people out there doing things and making for us MSers.

And it has started with my finding two sponsors.

Yes I'm flogging product but I've actually tried the stuff out first so I can honestly report on its quality.

I actually own some of these T-Shirts and i can report that they're good stuff.

The CADDI is also necessary stuff and its well made.

The second thing was to do well by doing good. I'm not in the lest ashamed of wanting to make a buck. I need to live too.

---- "Song About You" by: "The Cartwheel Club" http://www.myspace.com/thecartwheelclub

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"

---- "Crazy About You" by: "DAVID MILLER" http://www.davidmiller.us/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Thinking About You" by: "Magdalena Konefal" http://www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal

"Thesis:"

I missed monday, AND I KNOW IT, thank you.

ComCast has been a real Yo-yo. Both the company and, I hate to call it so but, the service.

Sadly, I HAVE to use them exclusively because cable companies have a geographic monopoly and Verizon FiOS REFUSES to come into this area.

Why that is, like, we don't know, eh?

[...ribersack-a-fraglesack-a-ribersack-a-fraglesack...arrrgh...]

I have spare computers, spare drives, spare cables, spare mikes, a spare console, a wireless virtual private network and a cabled one.

I have a UPS which will give me two hours and seven minutes of power if the building power goes dead.

I have ubiquitous redundancy, all over, everywhere...

I only have a single point of failure in my house in my house and that's my internet connection.

Of course, that's the one that picks that day to go dead, then live, then dead again, then... Grrr!!!!

----

Now where was I?

Oh yes, its not all about me.

Its "all about you".

---- "All about you" by: "Luman" http://www.myspace.com/denilsson

"Synthesis:"

Like the song said, it is 'All About You".

The reason its not all about me, is that its all about helping us all with the products that other people produce to make our lives better.

Now my sponsors aren't makers of products that we need yet, but its starting.

When I can recruit the company that make my cane to sponsor me, I will do so with great delight.

The same with whatever you're using right now that you feel might be of help to somebody else.

I'm admittedly rough on shoes but I don't really suffer from the "foot drop" problem that I have seen ads for, so do they work? Which one are you using? Can you recommend it/them?

That's one for the feed forward segment.

----

Here's another one, but it could be for the feed me segment:

"The Courage Center" [ http://www.couragecenter.org/index.aspx ] is an organization which takes care of the needs of plenty of people, such as those with MS.

They're located in Minnesota, in and around Minneapolis.

While that's only a small footprint on the planet, this podcast goes where ever the internet goes, I am sure that some of their people, both staff and service providers as well as their service clients, are using the internet right now.

While I am not claiming to provide a complete advertising solution for them, I am a portion of that solution in ways that the former media never could be since those media were burdened with production and delivery costs that were orders of magnitude greater than that of the internet.

If they wanted to reach the Mers in the Minneapolis area, i've got/had some.

If they wanted to reach MSers in the Minnesota area, I've got/had some.

Look at the map on my MSBPodcast.com Wiki. I've been in peoples' ears all over the planet.

And, to tell you the truth, that the part of this podcasting that always gives me the giggles.

---- "All About You" by: "Shemekia Copeland" http://www.alligatorrecords.com/

Conclusion:

I will readily admit that when I started this little adventure, it was all about me.

I felt hard done by. I had survived September 11 and one of my fellow workers hadn't.

He was a great guy and nobody deserved to in a blaze of Osama Bin Laden's Arab Street theatre. Nobody ever deserved to go that way.

I had got away from and with my MS for almost twenty years until reality reared up in my path and dropped me with a roundhouse kick to the crotch.

I felt like crap, wounded, harried and unexpectedly ashamed.

The US is Ultra Competitive, not ultra conservative. It weeds out the weak with ruthless efficiency, regardless of what it ultimately costs them.

"Look at ME!" seems to be the operant meme.

But that only lasts until the next distraction.

And that is why I am trying to distract you, while I inform you.

But enough about you.

---- "Not Another Song About You" by: "Tris McCall" http://www.trismccall.net/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Song About You"
by: "The Cartwheel Club"
http://www.myspace.com/thecartwheelclub
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Crazy About You"
by: "DAVID MILLER"
http://www.davidmiller.us/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Thinking About You"
by: "Magdalena Konefal"
http://www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"All about you"
by: "Luman"
http://www.myspace.com/denilsson
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"All About You"
by: "Shemekia Copeland"
http://www.alligatorrecords.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Not Another Song About You"
by: "Tris McCall"
http://www.trismccall.net/
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0365_Its_not_all_about_me_you_know.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:40 AM

Comments[0]

Fri, 12 June 2009

msb-0364 Things are starting to heat up

msb-0364 Things are starting to heat up

YouTube videos

Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On (Live 1992)
.

Direct download: msb-0364_Things_are_starting_to_heat_up.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Wed, 10 June 2009

msb-0363 Home

msb-0363 Home

YouTube videos

Living with Multiple Sclerosis:
.

.

Link to video "Home" [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU ]

intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Te first video that accompanies this post is from Chris Sheridan. More on Mr Sheridan later in the feed forward segment.

The second video that accompanies this post is in HD (if you getting this in iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image and I'll take you there right now [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU ])

Its got some of the most beautiful aerial cinematography I've ever seen.

I watched it in HD on the home/office laptop and most of the footage is absolutely stunning.

It ends well too.

I agree with the conclusion of the movie: "Its too late to be pessimistic."

Its not an embed because that wasn't an option. You've got to go to Google to watch it.

---- "Home" by: "WAZ"

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"

----

I just came across a tweet on Twitter that immediately caught my attention.

Chris Sheridan, a.k.a @ mswithnofear is an MS blogger who seems to be my kind of person.

He has a video on YouTube (at the front of this post or you can click right now [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5joocCR0u6U ]) that tells you to go to his site and download his ebook.

So I've just downloaded his free ebook from his site. [ http://www.mswithnofear.blogspot.com/ ] and it all makes sense.

I'm trying to line up an interview with him.

I detect a kindred spirit in his "can do" "full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes" attitude.

I wish that this book had been around back in 1985 when I was diagnosed.

Best of luck to him.

---- "Home" by: "Degrees" http://www.myspace.com/degreestranas

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

What the picture doesn't say however is that the the sleeve of the CADDi is customizable.

I'm going to try to get St Peter's College to carry it with their school logo on it.

The same thing goes for WSPC, the school's radio station.

I'm also going to pitch it at WFMU.org which i where I'm currently interning fr Mr. Doughlas Rushkoff [ http://rushkoff.com/ ] and at WBAI.org as promotional items to give away on fund raisers and the like.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Home" by: "Great Northern" http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com/

"Thesis:"

I'm on again for a course on digital recording at school.

I'm also taking my vinyl and media shifting it to CDs and MP3s.

I should end up with a honking huge iTunes library. My music collection will end up almost filling a 320GB drive with over 20,000 items, continuous play time is going to run to maybe a couple of months

You can look forward to the next 400 shows recorded during the school semesters being made up of the results my media shifting.

Part of the reason is that I can get away with it because the school's licensing agreements.

This podcast is sort of under the radar while I'm in school, part of WSPC web streaming my show, so I can play anything.

---- "Home" by: "Oswald" http://www.oswaldtheband.com/

"Synthesis:"

I'm listening to a podcast of "The Wall Street Journal This Weekend" as I type this, not for financial news (in my case finance is very simple, how poor have I gotten today?) but it is a sign of how fast the podcasting world is changing.

It is getting less insular as it moves from high-tech cults of personality like Adam Curry, Jason Calicanis, and Leo Laporte et alia, to non-profit broadcasters like NPR, PBS and WFMU et alia, to corporate outfits like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other corporate communicators.

I just have to stay alive and podcasting while the production techniques of other mass media outlets are melting down under the onslaught of the desertion of advertising from mass media.

I have some ideas that when I find a job again, i will start advertising in Momentum though it will not be to convince MSers to tune in but instead to convince makers of stuff for MSers to use MSBPodcast to get their stuff in front of people.

Its the same old story, a chicken and egg situation.

---- "Home Soon" by: "Little Fish Big Pond" http://myspace.com/littlefishbigpond

Conclusion:

I'm all set for my summer recording course.

Wish me luck. I could use the marks, the skill or just a job in a recording studio.

---- "Take Me Home" by: "Noodlebox" http://1-21media.com/noodlebox

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Home"
by: "WAZ"
http://www.myspace.com/waz
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Degrees"
http://www.myspace.com/degreestranas
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Great Northern"
http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Oswald"
http://www.oswaldtheband.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home Soon"
by: "Little Fish Big Pond"
http://myspace.com/littlefishbigpond
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Take Me Home"
by: "Noodlebox"
http://1-21media.com/noodlebox
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0363_Home.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Mon, 8 June 2009

msb-0362 Arrgh I'm a pirate (Its legal)

msb-0362 Arrgh I'm a pirate (Its legal)

YouTube videos

Advance Patrol - "Blågula färger"
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Advance Patrol - Soy De La Calle
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intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Sorry about last Friday's show but I have to go out and try to find a job so I can't always be here doing this.

You know I'm sick of the record industry getting in the way of the artists.

I stumbled upon "Advance Patrol" while reading a screed about how the RIAA and its various European equivalents had tried to advance their trial against "The Pirate Bay" by claiming that artists were getting ripped off.

And they were, by the **AAs.

"Advance Patrol" hadn't heard a word of the **AA's law suit until it was happening and "didn't want any part of this."

They want to to get their music to be heard.

It does nothing for their appearances and live shows to have the music locked up in the vaults of the record company's lawyers.

To quote the site: [ http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/english-press-release-advance-patrol/ ]

"We never asked to be plaintiffs in this case," Gonza from Advance Patrol explains, "they used us as scapegoats in a fight in which we don’t wish to participate. We refuse to be used in a war against our fans.

"You cannot legislate away file sharing," Gonza says. "Those who fileshares our music are also those who appreciate it the most. "

"They are my friends, and friendship is something to be valued highly. That’s why we’re giving away El Futuro to the internet, to our friends."

---- "El Futuro" by: "Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

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"

---- "Mi Gerla" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Soy De La Calle" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

"Thesis:"

The music this time is torn from the headlines.

Uh, what headlines?

There's no more newspapers worth mentioning and the ones that are left didn't have that on the front page.

Its another way we've got to get used to this new media, this incredibly affordable new media, this responsive, inclusive, cheap to produce and distribute new media...

This tripe is course is coming from the same oligopolies that think that they control everything and want you to pay more and more for less and less. (You start out with something interesting but expensive and end up with a mirror being held to your face and you're on "The Biggest Loser" because you are the biggest loser.)

Their days are coming to an end simply because we're out of money.

They won.

Its all theirs.

Now screw off and leave us alone.

---- "Mi Vida" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

"Synthesis:"

I have noticed a lot of things in my fifty five years on this planet.

The most disturbing one I have seen is the perversion of the rule of law by every tin-pot dictator who thought that he was getting away with it and doesn't give a crap about what is left after he's gone. (I use the male personal pronoun advisedly. Only a man, or an extremely grasping woman, can be that pig-headed, short-sighted and stupid.)

I refer to the clinically paranoid Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Ze Dong, Robert Mugabe Kim Il Sung (who was named 'Eternal President" after he died,) and his son Kim Jong Il and every other sump for the people's money and energies

Now the pathetic pattern is being repeated here, not by our elected officials but by the captains of industry and the lawyers who are in collusion with them.

The music industry, which is the least productive and the most malignant force on earth, and which has been Hell bent on stamping out every innovation in sound reproduction since the invention of the player piano, is at it again, suing people for things that aren't infractions and corralling artists against their wills or keeping them in the dark.

But we now have a weapon which they can't dismantle because they need it even more than we do, the internet.

We are able to fly in under the radar of the oligopolists and wrestle our freedoms out from the very people who would shut us down using the technology that they themselves depend on.

---- "Eres Mia" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Conclusion:

I think that its about time we stopped having to pay a bunch of non musical lawyers for every piece of entertainment that reaches our ears, wether we want to hear the crap or not.

I think its about time we stopped paying for lawyers who try to make time stand still and to stop the tide from ebbing and flowing.

I'm all for the rule of law but I'm not for its abuse.

All laws should come with a sunset clause of 25 years, after which time they are either renewed or they are struck from the books and no corporation, of any kind, should be allowed own copyrights, of any kind.

Disney will survive and GM will not.

And we're ending off with one last number in Spanish by a group that's fundamentally Scandinavian.

Only in Europe could you get this kind of multi-cultural personal enterprise...

The videos at the front of this episode are definitely in Scandinavian. Advance Warning are a hip-hop band from Malmö, Sweden.)

Click on the image, go and grab the torrent and don't worry 'bout it.

Its a tool and you're doing nothing illegal, regardless of how you piss-off the RIAA, ASCAP/BMI and the alphabet soup of leeches on music out there.

And because YOU are in control, you ARE in control and you don't even have to do it.

---- "Perdoname" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"El Futuro"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Mi Gerla"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Soy De La Calle"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/ album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Mi Vida"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Eres Mia"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Perdoname"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0362_Arrgh_Im_a_pirate_Its_legal.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Wed, 3 June 2009

msb-0361 We don't call them Reds now, do we?

msb-0361 We don't call them Reds now, do we?

YouTube videos

intro

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The music this time is all coming to you from Siberia courtesy of "Ozone's Layer" which happens to be the English for the band's name: "Ozonovly Sloy."

Its 1:59 in the morning.

I've got insomnia, (or maybe I am getting back to my old "four hours a night" sleeping habits,) and right now I'm listening to podcasts of neuropod. [ http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod/index.html ]

I'm a bit obsessive. (My wife just said: "A bit? A BIT? You're a freakin' lunatic! Turn off the light, come to bed and get off the freakin' computer!" Yes dear... I'll just finish this paragraph, put my headphones on, and I'll just close the door shall I?[A nice way of saying: "I'm not"])

You can get NeuroPod from the iTunes Music Store by clicking on the image right now and I'll take you right to it.. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=293009177 ]

I find myself fascinated by the brain and its functions.

Specifically these days I'm fascinated by the role of glial cells (More on this later in the podcast.)

I also listen to the Neurology® podcast from the American Academy of Neurology but that one is a bit tougher.

---- "ZVONI... /Call Me.../" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

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"

---- "RUSSIAN MORNING AFTER PARTY" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Thesis:"

The music is the Russian again, just because. I play a lot of it because I like listening to it.

I'm going to tell you about things that live in our heads other than the neurons.

In fact they seem to be the same as the traces in electronic circuits.

Everybody's caught up in the number of transistors and resistors and capacitors as indicative of the power of computers, but if its wasn't for the lowly traces between the so called active components in the circuits, you'd have nothing but a pile of dirty sand instead of a working computer.

Here now are the seven types of less sexy non-neuronal glial cells that make up more of our human brains than do the neurons.

My source for this episode is primarily Wikipedia and its references. (And Google of course. [As we often say 'round the house here: "Google knows all" {Its just that its a total dick about only being a purely "reactive" source of information.}}])

---- "BRUSH-GIRLIE/SADO-MASOCHISM GIRL/" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Synthesis:"

In this episode, I am making up for my own ignorance of the inside of my own head.

As it turn out, the inside of my head is made up of a lot more interesting stuff than just undifferentiated gray goo.

Then again, the universe is made up of a lot more than just the the stars we see in the night sky.

I'm going to go from the largest cells by sheer mass to the smallest ones, out on the periphery.

First are cells that grow the fatty sheath called myelin. Those are called Oligodendrocytes and they make up about 75% of the mass.

Then come cell that anchor to their blood supply, regulate the chemical environment in the brain, build the "blood-brain" barrier, have their own chemical transmission system using calcium and IP3 (Inositol trisphosphate)Those cells are called Astrocytes and they make up about 17% of the mass.

Then come MIcroglia which make up about 6.5% of the mass that's between our ears, being broken down into:
   •   Ependymal cells which secrete cerebrospinal fluid,
   •   Radial glia which serve as a scaffold on new neurons migrate,
   •   Schwann cells which are another kind of cell which are responsible for generating myelin
   •   Sattelite cells which surround neurons in sensory, sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia.
   •   Enteric glial cells (which are found in our digestive system.)

Actual neuronal cells make up about 10% of the gray goo that's between my ears (and elsewhere as it turns out. [Who knew that my stomach contains its own brain.])

---- "COLD WAR" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Conclusion:"

Our brains are absolutely fascinating organs and the complexity of the neuronal circuitry, and the effects that arise from the complexity of the interconnection of all of the cells are extremely interesting since it results in the emergence of... us.

I take very great exception to the view of he dendrites and axons are the be-all and end-all of neuroscience.

The various sources I have examined over the years divide the brain into neurons and glial cells and hold that glial cells are nothing but the servants of the neurons.

Bullshit..

I want to clarify that MS is NOT a disease of of the brain.

Its a disease of the immune system which attacks the myelin sheath (which we just saw is produced by two glial cells, the oligodendrocytes and the Schwann cells.)

---- "ON THE VERY BRINK OF SKY /KAMCHATKA/" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"ZVONI... /Call Me.../"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"RUSSIAN MORNING AFTER PARTY"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"BRUSH-GIRLIE/SADO-MASOCHISM GIRL/"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"COLD WAR"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"ON THE VERY BRINK OF SKY /KAMCHATKA/"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: 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:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

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-0361_We_dont__call_them_Reds_now_do_we_.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Mon, 1 June 2009

msb-0360 Making enem, uh, friends across the world.

msb-0360 Making enem, uh, friends across the world.

Theme Song to Alfred Hitchcock Presents
.