msb's The Disability Show

Thu, 30 July 2009

msb-0382 The Red Queen

YouTube videos:

"Red Queen Makeup" by: "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland"

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"White Rabbit" by: "The Jefferson Airplane" (This is the one I remember from TV. [God I feel OLD...])

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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.

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Feedback comes first, so...

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race ]

The famous fragment, uttered by Alice and the Red Queen, is from "Trough The Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

Indeed, its taking me all the running I can do to stay in the same place. But the decor is changing even faster.

This is the last month of the MSB's Podcast before it morphs into "The Disability Show."

Now lets get this show off the ground.

---- "Red Room" by: "Crash Anthem" http://www.myspace.com/crashanthem

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"

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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.

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Now I'm going to take the show down several notches in intensity. Can't live just on just rock and roll.

---- "Red Rooster" by: "Percy Strother" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast 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.

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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 ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

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The second sponsor is 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 from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

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The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

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I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

---- "Red River saloon" by: "Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios" http://www.sanjacintorecords.com/

"Thesis:"

I was reminded of the dialogue between Alice and the Red Queen in "Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

It is indeed taking me all the running I can do to stay in the same place.

The events in the real world are making a mess of space and time. Its too fast in some places and yet seems to be dragging its ass in others.

---- "red carpet" by: "cristylez" http://www.reverbnation.com/soulcerebral

"Synthesis:"

The book is progressing nicely and should be ready to go to print by the first of October, (three months ahead of schedule.)

I've got to get some quotes from people about the book. I've got some ideas about that. :-)

The title of the book appeals to me on several levels. That's all I'm saying right now.

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This September is the scheduled return of "The Disability Show" to the wire, (as opposed to "the air".)

WSPC will be hosting a live stream on Mondays afternoons at 17:00 EST (I will make it in time to work at WFMU because I've tried it and I don't have to actually be at their studios to do my "Community Desk" work :-) and I will be podcasting it later in the day on the RSS feed for those who can't attend to it right there and then.

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I'm making progress at WFMU where, to everyone's regret, Mr. Rushkoff is tending to a personal tragedy as his mother has developed cancer.

Maybe you could go to his site and order a copy of his book "Life Inc". [ http://rushkoff.com/books/life-incorporated/life-inc-distributors/ ]

Buy the book so you can read what a caring and truly gentle man this gentleman really is.

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I'm making waves, but not "The Air Waves", at WSPC where my marketing ideas are actually getting traction. (Life goes so much smoother when you can at least give the appearance of alignment.)

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I'm starting to attract a new audience, one that's not tied to having MS.

The concept of using social media like Twitter and YouTube to discover each other and to communicate, while cross-linking, is being used as the currency of the New Media.

That seems to be what has actually happened to me.

What this means in a larger context, well, I suspect, but I'm still sussing out.

This will probably the the feature for the first episode of "The Disability Show".

---- "Rust and Red" by: "The Ram Boola Black" http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject

"Conclusion:"

I suspect that my life is built up of intense ten thousand hour segments when and whereby I can and often do change careers. (That's the conclusion reached in "Outliers The Story of Success" by "Malcolm Gladwell" [ ISBN: 978-0-316-01792-3 { http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248634859&sr=1-1 }] when discussing the careers of everyone from Mozart, to Nobel prize winners, to Wall Street Lawyers to people who "don't" live in Harlan Kentucky. )

10,000 hours divided by 12 hours a day (told you, I'm driven to succeed, [that's a conservative estimate]) divided by 250 days a year gives 3 and 1/3 years 'till success. (Once again a very conservative estimate since I have been doing this show in my own obsessive/compulsive way two and then three times a week since February 2006, have marshaled it through several format changes, and am now making it jump through hoops as it responds to the new pull a new and enlarged audience.)

Figuring out how to make it pay, by abandoning my concept of money for handling the payments, was the last hurdle.

I'm a happy man. I'm going somewhere.

---- "Red Car" by: "Yuma House" http://www.yumahouse.com/

Outro

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

YouTube video list:

"Red Queen Makeup"
by: "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland"

"White Rabbit"
by: "The Jefferson Airplane"
(This is the one I remember from TV.)

Song list:

"Red Room"
by: "Crash Anthem"
http://www.myspace.com/crashanthem
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Red Rooster"
by: "Percy Strother"
http://www.black-and-tan.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Red River saloon"
by: "Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios"
http://www.sanjacintorecords.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"red carpet"
by: "cristylez"
http://www.reverbnation.com/soulcerebral
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Rust and Red"
by: "The Ram Boola Black"
http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Red Car"
by: "Yuma House"
http://www.yumahouse.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

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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 my 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

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You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

Direct download: msb-0382_The_Red_Queen.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:46 PM

Comments[0]

Mon, 27 July 2009

msb-0381 Sans sons, sans commentaires

msb-0381 Sans sons, sans commentaires

YouTube videos:

"Teardrop" by: "Massive Attack" (Video with lyrics)
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Direct download: msb-0381_Sans_sons_sans_commentaires.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Fri, 24 July 2009

msb-0380 Man, Oh Man

msb-0380 Man, Oh Man

YouTube videos:

"Man, Oh Man" by: "Persuasions"
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Direct download: msb-0380_Man_Oh_Man_Oh_Man.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Wed, 22 July 2009

msb-0379 Wretched Wednesday

msb-0379 Wretched Wednesday

YouTube videos:

"Wednesday Morning 3 A.M." by: "Simon & Garfunkle"
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Direct download: msb-0379_Wretched_Wednesday.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Mon, 20 July 2009

msb-0378 Monday, monday

msb-0378 Monday, monday.

YouTube videos:

"Monday Monday" by: "The Mamas & the Papas"
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Direct download: msb-0378_Monday_monday.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Fri, 17 July 2009

msb-0377 Man Friday, or, its Friday, man

msb-0377 Man Friday, or, its Friday, man

YouTube videos:

"Friday I'm In Love" by: "The Cure"
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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.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I've just been too busy to notice any.

I've given up on the surveys. Did'ja even notice....

I'm still doing community desk of "The Media Squat: for Mr Rushkoff. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=169090703 ]

I certainly encourage you to get it on iTunes. Just click on the image and I'll take you to the iTunes Store for the free subscription.

I'm still wading through all of this vinyl. Okay, I'm partially reliving my youth and having a gas doing it.

I was going through"The Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time" from the "Franklin Mint" and getting blown away by Louis Armstrong all over again.

The man was so good. He blew so true. Man oh man.

And I still have the "Smithsonian Institute collection of Jazz" and the "Time-Life collection of Swing Music" as well as a few hundred classical and Québecois music albums to media shift to MP3s.

---- "Latin Friday" by:"The Jackass-Penguin Show" http://www.myspace.com/jackasspenguinshow

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"

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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.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "Girl Friday" by:"Hoverfly" http://www.myspace.com/hoverflynow

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.

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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.

---- "Friday Girl" by:"FOLIO" http://www.myspace.com/nuwaveboi

Thesis

I am at a crossroads. One path leads to desperation, to poverty of the soul, the spirit and the body; while the other leads to being just another shill, with a poor soul, spirit and, because of my MS, a poor body.

I "know" I can't be a pitchman or a shill.

It simply wouldn't ring true.

I'm listening to two of them right now, as I write this. (Yes they have podcasts for everything now, don't they? Even the "Mary Kay" wannabe's of the world.)

They have such a glib and facile way of patting themselves on the back and filling the air with camouflaging words while they inch their way closer to your checkbook.

I don't even blame them. I want them regulated, sure, but not banned because they actually do some good, when they're not selling snake oil and aware of it. We'll get back to "Snake Oil" later.

These people inform us, they entertain us and, damn it, that's just what I wanted to do.

---- "Friday Evening" by:"Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

"Synthesis:"

I know I have to work or I'll go nuts and become an insufferable ass-hole.

I also don't want to be a broke-ass, insufferable ass-hole.

I also want don't want to lose this voice that I've found online, (and it may not cost a lot but its not free. [Not free to me anyway.])

I have a voice that's been heard over 150,000 times since I started podcasting.

That's actual complete down loads, not people gazing glassy-eyed at a blog posting but really, actively, downloading the shows.

People like to listen to the music, they like to listen to the stuff I say, sometimes. (I'm going to be modest and say that some of them can even tolerate my delivery.)

Maybe I can turn that into a service for my audience.

Maybe I can turn my talents for finding things out, finding pleasant tunes, and coming up with sensible suggestions, into a service.

I'm going to take my list of topics, my decidedly odd but sensible fog cutting no-BS outlook on life and write it in a book which will be coming out in January.

I'm taking this show into a shorter half-hour free-mium show and the premium will be a weekly full hour show.

The free-mium will of course contain at least one ad for the premium show, as well as any ads from any and all of my sponsors.

The price for ads on episodes of the free version of the show is that the advertiser must be willing to put up reciprocal links. As long as they're willing to put up an ad for me, I am willing to carry an ad for them.

That's it.

Sweet, simple and cheap.

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The price for ads on on the premium show is going to be extremely expensive.

I'm not going to say I'll never run one, but damn near, because I'll have priced access to your ears out of reach.

I also intend to host it right off of the wiki and it will cost $5/month or $50/year. That should cover my band width and hosting expenses.

There will be virtually no ads on the paid version since you have already paid.

When I discuss a product, it'll be one I use, because I used it.

Expect the same kind of show, with a thesis, synthesis and conclusion because it works, mate it flippin' works.

Its going to be an hour long and recorded live on Sunday's at 15:00 EST.

One of the computers will have Skype for dial-ins.

I'll have all of the songs, audio effects and everything else cued up on my D.A.W. (my digital audio work station.)

Rockin' hot-ness.

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I intend to make most of my folding money with my writing. (I don't need to pretend that I'm Stephen King. I'm not. Nor do I need to command his kinds of rates. My needs are a lot simpler.)

This January, I'll be releasing a book of the scripts of these shows and some personal/inspirational history.

The print version'll be numbered 1 to 5,000, individually printed and autographed (You have to see my handwriting to get "that" joke.)

The price will be $19.95, plus shipping and handling.

An on-line PDF will be delivered "free" to my $50.00/year subscriber, with the hopes that they'll buy the hard-copy,(like I did for the book "Free" by Chris Anderson. :-)

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It's now later as promised in the Thesis. This is an aside I'd started and it took a bit of time so rather than clip it, it deserves to end this synthesis.

(My old man worked for Merck [Merck, Sharp and Dohme at the time,] and he didn't give up on the company like Kurt Vonnegut did.

He too could have become disillusioned. Instead he rose up through the ranks and became a district sales manager.

[Then his kidneys failed and he was one of the first dialysis patients to "not" go bankrupt trying to pay for it, for a little while anyway, because of the new socialized medical system in Québec.

Instead of dying right there and then, after burning through all of the family resources first of course, {the for profit health-don't-care piper wants his pound of flesh and there is no "Portia" to save your butt from their "Shylocks",} he went on to another twenty years of being a dad, paying his taxes and working as the printing manager for Merck-Frostt Canada.

Don't give me the BS about that being the first step on the slippery slope to socialism.

Its called being a "Responsible Citizen".

We know that some 15% of the population is disabled to some degree at some point, The individuals change but the ratio over a large enough sample is remarkably constant. {For profit health care is health-don't-care and, yes, its only sub-human scum that try to deny what its true and real cost to us all really is: misery, pain and premature avoidable death. ("Sorry Johnny but the choice is between your lungs and three hours of keeping my corporate jet with the gold plated dinner service up in the air, so, you have to DIE, MOFO, DIE!")}])

---- "Five OClock Friday" by:"Christy McLaren" http://www.clubshedlive.com/

Conclusion:

So I'm going to wait a month and collect your emails and we'll see if I am full of caca of maybe I've got something here.

I have had feed back from Greece, from Holland, from Canada that was so good that I had people who were co-hosts or running their own shows.

Lets get some feed back from you.

Here is your action item, click on the link now, right now, [ mailto;charles@msbpodcast.com?subject=I use these products because I have MS ] and to write me about the things you use day to day because you have MS.

I have things I use everyday things that I'd never use if I didn't have MS, things like Rebif™, things like my canes, things like the MS T-Shirts, things like the CADDi.

What products do "you" USE in your lives, because of your MS?

Please tell me.

---- "'Friday Night" by:"Todd Carey" http://www.toddcareymusic.com/

Outro

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
and
"18 Century Suite #1"
by: Anonymous"
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/midiplay/playmidi.shtml?midi/b/1suite
no album
via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"Friday I'm In Love" by: "The Cure"

Song list:

"Latin Friday"
by: "The Jackass-Penguin Show"
http://www.myspace.com/jackasspenguinshow
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Girl Friday"
by: "Hoverfly"
http://www.myspace.com/hoverflynow
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Friday Girl"
by:"FOLIO"
http://www.myspace.com/nuwaveboi
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Friday Evening"
by:"Big George Jackson Blues Band"
http://www.black-and-tan.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Five OClock Friday"
by:"Christy McLaren"
http://www.clubshedlive.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"'Friday Night"
by:"Todd Carey"
http://www.toddcareymusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

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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 my 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-0377_Man_Friday_or_its_Friday_man.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Wed, 15 July 2009

msb-0376 Wyrd Wednesday

msb-0376 Wyrd Wednesday

YouTube videos:

The Wyrd Sisters, perform in New Jersey to help raise money for a friend in need of a liver transplant. Featuring Pirate Chris from the Pirates of the Cape.

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SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'
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Direct download: msb-0376_Wyrd_Wednesday.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Mon, 13 July 2009

msb-0375 One in Tweve-Hundred

msb-0375 One in Tweve-Hundred

YouTube videos:

Paramore Misery Business Music Video (HD)
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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.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Thanks [name withheld] for telling me that it would be better if I carried all the videos over onto the MSBPodcast.com site rather than leaving them off, and for pointing out that there was a problem with the third and fourth videos on the libsyn.com feed.

They're all fixed up now and a lot easier to find numbers 2 to 10.

---- "A Rare Breed" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

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"

Today marks the beginning of a week of celebrations at MSWorldExpress. It runs from July 13 through to the 19, 2009. They are thirteen years old.

They still don't understand squat about promotion or advertising and I got this news, literally hours ago, instead of having the time to properly pitch it to you.

Given the reception lag between the time I get the news, put it on the wire and when you pick it up, hear it and respond, the monday event is absolutely dead to you.

The Next Veterans Affairs (VA) Patient Education Conference Call on Managing Cognitive Issues and Mood Changes in Multiple Sclerosis is a total wash.

I definitely don't expect you to drop everything and rush over there there, if there's any there left.

But they did give me enough lead time to tell you about something.

And I Quote:

The Next MSCast is This Week!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Topic:      Commorbidities and Key Factors That Affect Quality of Life
Speaker: Dr. Alex Rae-Grant, MD of the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center
Date:       Thursday, July 16th
Time:       1 - 2 PM Eastern Time

To sign up for this webcast and submit questions please Click Here [ http://www.mscast.net/Register.aspx?Signup=Y&CEActivityID=3094 ]

To view the Schedule of Events, Planned Topics, Sign-up for future events, or listen to a previously recorded MSCast, please Click Here [ http://www.mscast.net ] for the MSCast Home Page.

Please send feedback on any of the MSCasts to mscast@msworld.org

Folks, "comorbidity" is spelt with only one "m".

But I pronounced it like you'd sent it, with two "m"s.

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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.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "On My Way" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

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.

---- "Far Away" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Thesis

The title of this post refers to our rather dismal position in the firmament of disease.

Like black holes, many are super massive, like cancer, the center of every galaxy is proving to harbor one, many more are small, like stellar mass, like the common cold, but to date only a few are known to be in the middle scale of a few thousand solar masses, like MS?.

---- "The Night Drive" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

"Synthesis:"

To stretch a metaphor even further, we are extremely rare creatures. Only one in twelve hundred people on this planet are afflicted with MS.

This bodes well for the population just as it sucks to be us. Only 0.0833% of the people on this planet seem to get MS; mostly between the polar regions, where its too cold to live long enough to notice MS, and the equatorial region where there's plenty of other other ways to die first before MS is anything more than a contributory factor.

Being only one in twelve hundred means that we are way too small a population to ever attract any attention from the major media, where figures like 20% minimum market are being bandied about.

The WHO (the World Health Organization,) estimates that some 15% of the world's population is disabled in some form of other at some point or other.

That's still some 5% too low.

MSers making up 0.0833% means that we can't ever expect to get more than a mention on the evening news about something that's already happened. That's NOT PR, that's TOO LATE!

While we're never, ever going to get on the media, we ARE on the internet, in force and with permanence, BUT that does not mean that the lessons learned in advertising about timeliness, frequency and reach of a message don't apply.

Sending an email out one day before an event is a waste of my time and deserves to get ash-canned by my spam filters.

I hope you folks get in touch with people at the incorrectly named "Astute Technology [ http://www.astutetech.com/contact.asp ] to send them an email to tell them that just because they're using the net to reach targeted individuals, they're not supposed to ignore the civilities about giving people enough time to react.

We're "not" all hanging onto life by our fingernails just waiting for their pronouncements,

---- "A Time For War" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Conclusion:

I love writing the text for these episodes .

Where else could I ever compare this disease to an astrophysical phenomenon and make it stick.

MS is a black hole where my dancing ability has forever disappeared beyond some event horizon while the rest of me has been stretched, spaghetti-fied between the big bang event of my birth and my own upcoming, inevitable heat-death.

Yep, I do enjoy the writing, indeed.

---- "Misery" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Outro

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
and
"Prelude No. 1"
by: J.S. Bach
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/bach.html
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"Misery" by: "Paramore"

Song list:

"A Rare Breed"
by: "Mellow Rex"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"On My Way"
by: "Mellow Rex"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Far Away"
by: "Mellow Rex"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The Night Drive"
by: "Mellow Rex"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"A Time For War"
by: "Mellow Rex"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Misery"
by: "Mellow Rex"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
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-0375_One_in_Tweve-Hundred.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[0]

Fri, 10 July 2009

msb-0374 Gasbagin'

msb-0374 Gasbagin'

YouTube videos:
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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 waiting for things to arrive.

I've got a book coming, the dead-tree edition of "Free - The Future of a Radical Price" by "Chris Anderson".

He's is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and he's got a nice voice and delivery.

I'll be giving you the Amazon link to the dead tree edition because I think there's any more free downloadable ebook copy.

(The book is here at last. [

And here is a two-tiered business model:

• one tier is a free model for the little birdies {the cheap, cheap, cheap} which is, perforce, an ad supported model {viz: my sponsors} and

• one tier is a free-mium model where for a subscription price of $50.00 per year the ads are separated out onto their own section of the wiki and don't intrude into a weekly, hour-long version of the program of the music with my commentary.])

I'm also waiting for a Samson Zoom R16 8 Track SD Recorder Controller Interface and then everything about my recording of this show might change, or it might not... It depends on various things...

I just bought a new cane.

Its the same ergonomic type as my current red one. (Red in nature is a warning, as in "Don't screw with me 'cause I can "kill' your [expletive deleted { Indian Elephant Sound effect }] ass!")

Ever notice that the curve on a cane is one way while the curve of your hand i diametrically the other way.

My "pommel" handled cane provides me with the best and most stable support. I'm hoping to get an email from the manufacturer. (I've got other potential sponsors in mind too.)

---- "trash bag" by: "arthur yoria" http://www.arthuryoria.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.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

----"Heart-Shaped Bodybag" by: "Jeremy Jacobs" http://www.zagboodle.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.

---- "Dirtbag" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Thesis

I'm taking a break this episode and digesting the dead tree on tender hooks version of "Free - The Future of a Radical Price" by "Chris Anderson".

Wednesday, I watched episode 1 of "Ascent of Money" which to quote the PBS website, is "A four-part series that chronicles how the modern financial system came to be, including the evolution of money, the relationship between money and war, the role that risk plays in creating wealth and the interconnected nature of the global economy."

I'm waiting on tender hooks for my Samson R16 8 Track SD Recorder Controller Interface.

Its quite a trial testing all of these virtual "control surfaces" but I think I'm going to be sticking with the one that comes bundled in, Cubase 4 LE (the LE means "bundled in", doan'ch'nö [No Sir, I did not know. :-])

It seems to be the best of the lot.

---- "Dirtbag" by: "Will Kriski" http://www.willkriski.com/

"Synthesis:"

So I'm sitting at my desk with a three computers computer keyboards (2 Mac laptops and a PC desktop,) an M-Audio KeyStudio 25 MIDI keyboard, a Behringer 1204 FX mixer three mikes, four external hard drives and I'm going to have to make room for my new R16. Since the mixer is being replaced, it can go and old PowerBook can go too I guess.

I'm already going through some Cubase 4 LE videos and literature I found on the web in anticipation.

I'm facing some question as to where I'm going to put the DAW (the digital audio workstation.) Something is going to end up on the floor. You'll see why in a moment.

I'm listening to another audiobook"The Conservatory" by "Michele Roger" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=292035313 ].

I wasn't into chapter two but I was seized by an intense wish to get into composing again.

Chapter 1 ends with a little improvised Irish piece piano and harp piece called "Separation of Body and Soul" that stirred something in me that I had long thought out of reach.

I will be using my MIDI keyboard, some instrument samples, GarageBand, Cubase 4 or some combination of the two and I will be composing and playing again.

It will not be live, like I did with my guitar, but I will instead be using all of this technology to play again.

I will enjoy making music again. Composing two part inventions, partitas and whatever else strikes my fancy.

It'll take more time but it will be easier to get the timing right than it ever was. No more practicing and endless repetition.

Its been so long. Too long.

---- "Kick Bag" by: "BronweN" http://www.bronwenmusic.com/

Conclusion:

I'm going to enjoy this.

When the R16 gets here I'm going to move some things off the desk and set myself up to do all kinds of things with it.

MIDI instruments are my FRIENDS.

As you will see in the upcoming episodes, no, don't worry, I wont subject you to my own paying, but I will start inserting pieces as my theme and incidental music.

---- "Bag Of Tricks" by: "Rohan" http://www.rohanforsale.com/

Outro

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
and
"Le Bal"
by: Bizet
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/bizet.htm
no album
visa Public Domain

YouTube video list:

Gasbags 1/10 (1941)

Song list:

"trash bag"
by: "arthur yoria"
http://www.arthuryoria.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Heart-Shaped Bodybag"
by: "Jeremy Jacobs"
http://www.zagboodle.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Dirtbag"
by: "Brad Sucks"
http://www.bradsucks.net/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Dirtbag"
by: "Will Kriski"
http://www.willkriski.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Kick Bag"
by: "BronweN"
http://www.bronwenmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Bag Of Tricks"
by: "Rohan"
http://www.rohanforsale.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-0374_Gasbagin.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[2]

Wed, 8 July 2009

msb-0373 Just goofin around with numbers.

msb-0373 Just goofin around with numbers.

YouTube videos

"I Don´t Want To Party" by: "doublePark" http://www.myspace.com/doublepark via "Una Prosel"

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"nobody knows your name" by: "statistics' http://www.last.fm/music/Statistics/Often+Lie
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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 the lack of a show on Monday.

They were redoing the front step to our building, noisily.

It was worse than the usual. I can usually mask any residual noise with the show theme laying as a bed under my voice.

It turned out that the evening was no damn better. I had to listen to a car's defective alarm all frickin' evening and all frickin' night until the car's battery eventually ran down, at about 4:00 AM.

If nobody cares enough to put a stop to it, what's the point of a car alarm?

I would have cheered anyone who shut the thing up. It could have been thieves with a flat-bed truck. I still would have applauded.

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I'm listening to and will soon read "Free - The Future of a Radical Price" by "Chris Anderson" who is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine.

More on this next week as its too large a topic to cover in a single show.

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This week, I'm just goofing around.

This weekend was the Fourth of July and I enjoyed great ribs, wine and fireworks galore over the Hudson river.

Last week, what with the Collapse of Civilizations, was heavy enough that I don't want to tax anybody's brains today, least of all mine, okay?

I'm going to reveal to some of the listeners (and a couple of you "have" asked,) the secret to having a successful podcast which keeps grinding out episodes week-in week-out, like sausages shooting out from a sausage making machine.

Euwwww. What a disgusting visual.

---- "In Numbers" by: "Vs. {verses} (Richard Seypka)" http://www.reverbnation.com/richardseypka

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.

Another week and another disappointment. Lining things up on a grid is getting to be a real pain, you kno'.

Lining up images in the grid should be easy, but in PBWorks, it ain't.. I'm missing something in their interface or they are.

Try number two 's coming... In HTML with CSS .

----"Numbers" by: "SingLadies" http://www.myspace.com/singladies

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.

---- "The Rondelles-Safety in Numbers" by: "The Rondellles" http://www.krecs.com/

Thesis

I'm going to tell you how these shows are put together, not because they're so difficult, once you know what you're doing, they aren't, but because I want some people, potential contributors to this podcast, to get a load of how light a time commitment this truly is.

---- "Safety In Numbers" by: "the saving graces" http://thesavinggraces.com/

"Synthesis:"

Basically it a question of getting a form which can accommodate just about everything I want to pour into it.

The MSBPodcast program format that has evolved over the years so that its takes me longer to decide what to do than to execute on the program.

One thing which has helped me is going back the the data mines and seeing reality smack me upside the head.

My stats have made a few things abundantly clear: that having the show notes is actually useful to you and that you "do" read them before you download, or decide NOT to.

I am looking at the shows with the lowest listenership, like, lower than everything else, and that tells me that you all made a conscious decision to stay away from all 42 of my WSPC Time Warp.

The stats for those shows were just abysmal. Though I don't really understand why? It should be pretty decent music to get you through dinner time.(Thats as maybe but I bet that if I had written proper show notes, putting the shows in some historical perspective with personal anecdotes about the scandalous salacious behavior of the artists at the time, you would probably have wanted to hear that.)

I'm probably going to encounter the same general lack of enthusiasm for my upcoming school series about "Classic Jazz"and "The Big Bands" on WSPC, but that's my cross to bear. and you'll hear about why in a couple of paragraphs.

I have "much" better download stats for the WSPC Disability Show and for the WSPC Peak Oil.

The absolute best download stats are for the shows that Herrad did for us years a couple of ago, in Dutch mind, for the much smaller population of the Netherlands.

That tells me two things, well three really, the Dutch really like her voice, they really like her taste in music, I have to find a female host or co-host, like pronto.

Its turns out that you, my audience, is a lot more selective than you could ever be with traditional media where you DON'T have any show notes.

That imposes some burden on me to come up with better show notes for the upcoming WSPC series on Jazz and the Big Bands.

Luckily, I "do" have some commentaries on the recordings themselves and I will try to communicate to you the enthusiasm with which I discovered these albums.

Okay, I was a weird kid but I truly enjoyed these albums as a kid. They have a great deal of musicality and feature some great performances by some great artists.

---- "Paint by Numbers" by: "Shawna Caspi" http://www.shawnacaspi.com/

Conclusion:

So I hope you have a better appreciation of how I can do this podcast, read, study for college, have a wife, have a life and still find time to listen to my music (and I do... I do,) and to listen to my podcasts (which I also do,) and listen to my audiobooks (amongst other books I have on the go, I'm listening to the audio version of a vampire novel: "Underwood and Flinch" right now. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203424910] . Its really good and I can't wait to discover how it turns out, but I have to because the author only releases one chapter a week.)

I figure as long as I'm interested, and I can communicate that, and I hope I'm interesting enough to be listened to (and/or have my show notes read.)

---- "Numbers" by: "Pompeii" http://www.myspace.com/pompeii

Outro

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

YouTube video list:

"I Don´t Want To Party"
by: "doublePark"
http://www.myspace.com/doublepark
via "Una Prosel"

"nobody knows your name"
by: "statistics"
http://www.last.fm/music/Statistics/Often+Lie

Song list:

"In Numbers"
by: "Vs. {verses} (Richard Seypka)"
http://www.reverbnation.com/richardseypka
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Numbers"
by: "SingLadies"
http://www.myspace.com/singladies
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Safety in Numbers"
by: "The Rondellles"
http://www.krecs.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Safety In Numbers"
by: "the saving graces"
http://thesavinggraces.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Paint by Numbers"
by: "Shawna Caspi" http://www.shawnacaspi.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Numbers"
by: "Pompeii"
http://www.myspace.com/pompeii
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

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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

----

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-0373_Just_goofin_around_with_numbers.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:00 PM

Comments[0]

Fri, 3 July 2009

msb-0372 And we're off

msb-0372 And we're off

YouTube videos

"Johnnywise" by: "Modern Caveman" www.moderncaveman.com via "Una Prosel"

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Horse Racing Movie
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The song is actually "Out Of My Head' by: "Mobile" http://www.mobiletheband.com/

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.

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Feedback comes first, so...

At the front of this episode's posting is another excellent video from Sweden, once again suggested by Una Prosell.

My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think that's more a function of, uh, advancing years than MS, but I still remember the fun I had at a "Race for MS" with a difference at the "Rideau Carleton Raceway", back in 1988, (or was it '89)

The took charity to new heights, the restaurant at the grandstand, and put the fun in fundraising.

Hence the second video.

But the band is actually"Mobile" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_%28band%29 ] from Montréal, Québec, Canada, my old haunts until the autumn of 1983.

i just down loaded a freebie .mp3 from their site and I'm going to play it last.

---- "The Race" by: "The Goldstars" http://www.thegoldstars.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.

The website redesign looks like crap so I have to come up with some other design approach that allows me to get what I want done done...

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I just want to say I have been enjoying my chats with "Tingly Feeling" [ http://www.tinglyfeeling.com/quality-life/various-updates/#comment-12021603 ] who's really newly diagnosed and finds it all still a bit bewildering, (my world and welcome to it "Tingly") and with Carla [ http://beyonditall.net/ ] who seems to be a smart MSer with a good taste in canes.

---- "Birds in a Rat Race" by: "Mountain Mirrors" http://www.mountainmirrors.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.

---- "The Rat Race" by: "Julia's Window" http://www.juliaswindow.com/

Thesis:

I'm not doing a review or a critique of 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 ]

I'm just giving my take on it and what thoughts the book sparked in me.

---- "Rat Race" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine

Synthesis:

Though the book was extremely interesting, the complete lack of guidance into applying this book to the present and possibly the future was one of the first things that I noticed on this, my second pass at rereading the book, (I've already dog eared the book on pages I found, uh, interesting. It now looks as interesting as I'd found it to be.)

Of course that was expected from a book put out by an organization dedicated to "New Studies in Archaeology".

It discussed the civilizations of
• "Chou China",
• the "Old Babylonian Period",
• the "Third Dynasty of UR/Sassinian Period",
• "Old Kingdom Egypt",
• the "Harappans",
• the "Hittites",
• the "Mycenaeans",
• the "Mauryan Empire".
• the civilizations of "Monte Alban",
• the "Hohokam" and
• the "Haurii."

It utterly ignored "Angkor", "Ayutthaya" and other so called "jungle civilizations."

While not reflective of the current civilizations, I believe it shed a great deal of light on the newer civilizations, such as the "Khmer", dynastic Russia, the "Soviet Empire", my own "Québecois" civilization, the "Cuban" under Fulgencio Batista and then under Fidel Castro, and countless others.

It discussed these in terms of "declining marginal returns" and it made one very telling point, that, and I'm quoting here, "collapse occurs, and can only occur in a power vacuum" and "What may be a catastrophe to administrators (and later observers,) need not be to the bulk of the population. It may only be among those members of a society who have neither the opportunity nor the ability to produce food resources that the collapse of administrative hierarchies is a clear disaster."

It covered declines and falls in terms of :
• "resource depletion",
• "new resources",
• "catastrophes",
• "insufficient responses to circumstances",
• "competition with "other complex societies",
• "intruders",
• "confllict/contradiction/mismanagement" by the "soit disant" power elite,
• "social disfunction"
• "mystical" causes,
• the '"chance concatenation of events" and
• "economic explanations'

The book ends with a list of trends to watch for in terms of:
• agriculture,
• minerals and energy production,
• research and development,
• investment in health,
• education,
• government, military and industrial management,
• productivity of GNP for producing new growth and
• some elements of improved technical design.

All in all, it was a most illuminating read.

---- "Nitro - The Race Leader" by: "Dr. Awkward" http://drawkward.net/

Conclusion:

So we've come to the end of "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 ]

I hope I haven't bored you too much. Read it yourselves and tell me that i've missed things (I always do,) and whether or not you think I'm full of pie in the sky or just plain crap.

There is a quote from Branett and Morse at the end of the book which I just love:
"No society can escape the general limits of its resources, but no innovative society need accept Malthusian diminishing returns."

No, its got nothing to do with MS.

That is not the point of these podcasts anyway.

They're supposed to be about how we're "coping" with life while providing a platform for advertisers to reach out to us MSers with the products they are selling to make our lives better.

Tomorrow is the "Fourth of July", so to anybody who is uploading it today tomorrow or this weekend, I wish you a happy fourth.

---- "Electrolove" by: "Mobile" http://www.mobiletheband.com/

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Johnnywise"
by: "Modern Caveman"
http://www.moderncaveman.com
picked for me by Una Prosell

"Out Of My Head'"
by: "Mobile"
http://www.mobiletheband.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

Song list:

"The Race"
by: "The Goldstars"
http://www.thegoldstars.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Birds in a Rat Race"
by: "Mountain Mirrors"
http://www.mountainmirrors.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The Rat Race"
by: "Julia's Window"
http://www.juliaswindow.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Rat Race"
by: "The Groove Mine"
http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Nitro - The Race Leader"
by: "Dr. Awkward"
http://drawkward.net/s
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Electrolove"
by: "Mobile"
http://www.mobiletheband.com
album: "Tales From The City"
via: http://www.mobiletheband.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-0372_And_were_off.m4a
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:00 AM

Comments[1]

Wed, 1 July 2009

msb-0371 Further Complex Musings

msb-0371 Further Complex Musings

YouTube videos

"Teach me" by: "Magdalena Konefal" www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal

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