msb's The Disability Show

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0015

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Really short show this week and virtually no show notes.

This weekend was my birthday. I had a blast. :-)

SPC Regents Business Symposium 2009/11/06

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:43:00 GMT

I just went to the Regents' Business Symposium for Saint Peter's College.

Speaker's were:

Byron Pitts
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Bret Hammond
Ali Velshi

I've cut out most of the crowd noise, splices in some interviews carried on with all of the speakers by Professor Joseph Lamachia and put some Scarlatti (Sonata in E Major, K. 380) over the discontinuities.

Enjoy almost being there.

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0048

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:17:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0048

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0048.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> ""
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This is episode 48

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

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Last week I suffered from a major brain fart which wiped out this episode as I was saving the final product.

Yup a major oops. And its "mea culpa." Something broke in my workflow.

They happen.

Like I spent the week-end frantically preparing for, doing research on and eventually applied for a job on the SPC website with almost two megabyte of supporting evidence gathered while examining every damn page doing due diligence for the job of "Assistant Director of Web Strategies and Communications."

(Did you know the site consists of 1,890 page, 128 of which are there redirecting people to another page because of a structural problem in the page naming scheme [SPC uses numbers,] there is no versioning system, no galleries for pictures, [they're embedded right on the pages,] and some of the pages are there because test and development are being done in the production environment.

The SPC web site is really amateurish. And that is my professional opinion as someone who did it for banks. You would never entrust building an ATM to these people. )

Turns out that the job had been filled previously some time back, but nobody had thought to take the friggin' posting down.

Grrr. This is the kind of ineptitude that I keep encountering. "Its not my job..." or "I didn't know I had to take that down."

God how do these people keep food on the table, I'm sure I don't know.

The lack of coordination in this college is proof that the staff is almost dysfunctional.

Here comes the last side of record 5 and both sides of record 6 of "The Jazz Singers."

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This episode featured the following music:

"How High the Moon" by: "The Metronome All Stars feat. Billy Eckstine" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I'm Just a Lucky So And So" by: "Al Hibbler with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"There's a Small Hotel" by: "Joe Williams with Harry Edison & his band" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Dedicated to You" by: "Johnny Hartman and the John Coltrane Quartet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"It Had To Be You" by: "Ray Charles" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"When Did You Leave Heaven?" by: "Henry "Red" Allen & his Orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Think Of Me, LIttle Daddy" by: "Trummy Young with Jimmy Lunceford & his orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Mumbles" by: "Clark Terry with the Oscar Peterson Trio" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tea For Two" by: "Joe Mooney Quartet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Dear Bix" by: "Dave Frishberg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Chinatown, My Chinatown" by: "Slim And Slam (Bulee "Slim" Gaillard & Leroy Elliott "Slam" Stewart)" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Professor Bop" by: "Babs Gonzales" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Cloudburst" by: "Lambert, Hendricks & Ross" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"In The Mood For Love" by: "KIng Pleasure" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Yardbird Suite" by: "Bob Dorough" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Oh What A Night For Love" by: "Mel Torme" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0014

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:05:00 GMT

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0014

YouTube video(s):

"Swine Flu Song" by: "PutnamPig"

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

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I just ran across something (a couple of weeks ago as you hear it but this morning as I write this,) about our friend the swine flu.

Its [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/group/coping/forum/topic/show?id=1535194%3ATopic%3A16493 ] on the Disability Resource Exchange run by one of the sponsors of the MSB series of my shows: Rudy Sims.

I'll get back to Rudy later because he's a great guy and an inspiration. He's sparking of lots of ideas in my febrile little brain. :-)

---- "Wicked Eyed Mule" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

Before you get the idea that I don't take swine flu seriously, I do, and I don't.

"All," not some but "all," flu viruses begin their existence, mutating in the guts of Chinese ducks.

Swine flu, Spanish flu of 1918, Ethiopian large intestine flue of 1714 (I just made that one up, :-) it doesn't matter. They "ALL" begin life pullulating in the gut of Chinese ducks.

Get rid of Chinese ducks and the flu would be eliminated and we'd have to become prey to something else, like Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus, Ordog Fever, or Machupo virus, or the Marburg virus or maybe to the Ebola virus. (They're in Wikipedia, look 'em all up if you wanna gross yourselves out.)

It doesn't matter.

Something going to have our number.

We just happen to be susceptible to something in Chinese duck poop.

And despite the thousands of little tragedies it causes every year, things could be a lot worse.

---- "Too Late" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

The article goes on about hygiene (very important) and contagion (how to avoid catching all of the nasties out there.)

---- "Business Ain't Music" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

We should heed the advice to avoid people. Good luck in a school. Its like swimming in a cess pit of germs, disease and infection.

---- "Pay For This" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

Frankly, there are so many ways to "cease to be", to ring down the curtain and join the choir invisible, to [expletive deleted] snuff it that its a wonder that we're alive in the first place.

---- "So Many Ways I could Kill You" by: "Madsumo" http://www.madsumo.com/

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0047

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:59:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0047

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0047.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> ""
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This is episode 47

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

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I have been busy, busy, busy.

This week I finish off Roy Elderidge before starting with a 4 album series called "The Jazz Singers"

I'm going to pause between the songs to tell you something about who they've actually featuring.

Adelante la musica.

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This episode featured the following music:

"Dale's Wall" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Still Love Him So" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Wailing" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"How Long Has This Been Going On" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Hanid" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Undecided" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"My Honey's Lovin' Arms" by: "Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Ain't got Nobody" by: "Cab Callowy & His Orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Love Me" by: "Jack Teagarden" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" by: "George Thomas with McKiney's Cotton Pickers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"As Long as I Live" by: "Red McKenzie & The Spirit of Rythm" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I want a Little Girl" by: "Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie & his orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"You Set Me On Fire" by: "Pha Terrell with Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

'How High The Moon: by: "The MetronomeAll Stars feat. Bily Eckstine" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0013.5

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:47:00 GMT

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0013.5

YouTube video(s):

"" by: ""

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

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Sorry but this time I was following the lure of a job and the time I would have spent preparing a show was eaten writing up a new version of an old rÃsumÃ, emailing and snail mailing it.

For the next 49 minutes of so, you're going to hear one of my favorite musicians Aaron English.

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Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

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YouTube video(s):

"" by: ""

The music this time was:

album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:12:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> "Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge 1942"
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This is episode 46

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

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I discovered that even if:
â you keep complete backups (and I do,) and
â have spare equipment as backup (and I do,)
it still takes a lo-ong time to get a 319GB drive image off of the backup and restore it to the active drive.

And the studio is looking at using a terabyte drive.

Nah â I don't think so.

Using a pair of 500GB drives, mirroring each other, and ordering a new pair of drives when, not if but when, a 'live' drive fails is a good strategy to keep the studio running.

You can still be operating on the redundant drive while waiting for the new drives to arrive. (I'd order them then for two reasons:
1) the drives will both be fresh from the manufacturer and
2) the price is likely to drop between my original order and the replacement order.)

Then you're going to have to pull the data off the 'live' drive, make an incremental snapshot backup, roll the all of data onto the new drives, at least, a day or so after you've started the process, be able to swap the new pair in.

320GB of data is not like copying a floppy. Its more like copying 3,200 floppies. It takes more time than you'd think. A lot more.

500GB of data is just that much more, 180GB more.

And if you're wondering why I'm not just keeping the old drive.

It's matched twin has already failed.

How long do you think the survivor has?

Get ready to use it in some less critical use than keeping a studio up and running.

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Now, here comes some Roy Elderidge

Adelante la musica.

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This episode featured the following music:

"Here Comes Cookie" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Jangled Nerves" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Swing Is Here" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"After You're Gone" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Wabash Stomp" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Heckler's Hop" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"What Shall I Say" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Rockin' Chair" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"The Gasser" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Minor Jive" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fiesta in Brass" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"St Louis Blues" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Little Jazz" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Twilight Time" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fireworks" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Remember Harlem" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Easter Parade" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

One of my hard drives died...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Oopsie...

One of my hard drives died (won't mount,) and that's the one that holds all of my audio, show scripts, fragments, etc .

Sorry but I have to try to get it to work before I scrap it...

Okay, drama is done.

Drive is replaced but recovery takes time.

I know what I have to do to reduce that time.

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0045

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0045

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0045.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> "Money" by: "Pink Floyd"
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Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, its a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think Ill buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
Im all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, its a hit.
Dont give me that do goody good bullshit.
Im in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a lear jet.

Money, its a crime.
Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that theyre
Giving none away.

Huhuh! I was in the right!
Yes, absolutely in the right!
I certainly was in the right!
You was definitely in the right. that geezer was cruising for a
Bruising!
Yeah!
Why does anyone do anything?
I dont know, I was really drunk at the time!
I was just telling him, he couldnt get into number 2. he was asking
Why he wasnt coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
Screaming and telling him why he wasnt coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out

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This is episode 45

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

Here comes some more Louis Armstrong aka Satch'mo.

But first I'm going to reveal why I am about to leave you for, uh, snowier pastures, for my health â care, abandoning you to your own fates.

---- vvvv The Media Squat vvvv ----

As a Canadian, a member of a civilized and industrialized country, I would like to give some explanation as to why I am choosing to head back to Canada for my health care instead of staying here in the 'States.

Basically, I'm choosing to go the Snowbird route because Americans don't understand probability. (Which sort of explains all of "Las Vegas," doesn't it? A town whose entire "raison d'Ãtre" owes to the fact that Meir Lansky understood all too well the innumeracy of his fellow citizens.)

On the one hand this lack of understanding gives them endless optimism, even in the face of statistical certainty.

On the other hand, it puts them entirely at the mercy of their own ruthlessly efficient rapaciousness.

And smack in the middle is the unpleasant truth that there is a word for people who keep on repeating the same stupid mistake, hoping that this one time they'll get a different outcome, and that word is [bleep].

Lets look at the statistics gathered by the misnamed World Health Organization (I say misnamed because, for the purposes of this little "exposÃ," its really the view of the world as seen from the vantage point of the very 1960s, "looking for all the world like a enormous, humongous Fram air filter sitting in front a wall of dirty glass wall," building of the Pan American Health Organizations on the corner of East 23rd Street and E Street in Washington DC,) and those statistics, as revealed in actuarial tables, are that 15% of the population at some point, for some reason, for some duration of time is disabled.

"But the US is not the entire world," I hear you cry.

No, it most certainly is not.

That is reflected in the fact that the US is on par with really third rate, third-world countries, at the very bottom of a list of health care providers, 39th out of a list of 39 industrialized countries, surpassed even by Cuba. [ http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cuba-Has-Bypassed-the-US-i-by-John-Little-090512-856.html ]

(Who would have thought that. even after a forty year long embargo, a tiny little country, a single island in the Caribbean, deprived of access to the rest of the world by the mighty United States, would still be better able to take care of a poor mother and her new born infant, than the short shrift she would get in Washington DC.)

The individuals might change, that is shown as some fuzziness on a graph, by a wider bar delineating the arbitrary separations thereon, but the numbers are remarkably stable.

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The citizens of the USofA must face that they have a corporate monster in their midst, one that is entirely within their power to vanquish.

That monster dictates that it be fed first, last and, since it does not care about anything or anyone, that it be fed even if that means that you starve.

Like all parasites, it does not consider its host until it is dead. The "it" can refer to either the parasite or to the host and the parasite.

Lets consider the costs of not excising this fiscal cancer which is metastasizing in plain sight, right in your midsts.

Consider that the costs of health care are far more than just the formidable tab of illness in this country, (already by far the highest in the world.
[As an aside, did you know that your stay in a hospital is called hotel services?
Do you think any hotel or even "We'd leave a light on fur ya" motel X in the world would not be a smoldering pile of embers if it tried to pull the [bleep] that you're put through in a night in the hospital?
{And I spent five weeks in the Ottawa General Hospital, and no time at all in a Brooklyn hospital
(and guess which one has left me using a cane since, maybe I should have, uh,
[hint, it wasn't Ottawa,]) so I know that whereof I speak.}])

Consider that it constricts your movements. (Your "God Given" right to "head on the highway of your choice, tossing out Big Mac and artery clogging Freedom Fries wrappers onto the road, smoking big ol' fat Dominican cigars, looking for whatever opportunities lie over the next blighted ridge," is being curtailed and your horizons are being shrunk much closer, much tighter than those of the poor South American migrant workers you have to hire now 'cause there's nobody left to mow your lawn or to haul away your toxic wastes for the skin-flint wages you're willing to pay. [Except when you aren't even willing to part with that much and screw 'em out of the money. {Why not? What are they gonna do? Call the cops? (Bwahaha ha. I slay meâ)}])

Consider that you don't dare go anywhere to look for a better job either, because you might lose your coverage, so you are stuck in dead-end jobs, working for peanuts and feeling your life ebb joylessly away.

Consider that you better not dare get sick either because that might be considered cause for denying you coverage. (Think about that for a minute. "You don't dare get sick because that might be considered cause for denying you coverage." Then why are you paying for a policy?)

Consider that you'll probably get sick anyway, everybody does, sometimes severely (the actuarial tables say you're fighting one in eight odds to be the one in eight who does,) and then you'll discover that the insurance company may decline to cover you anyway.

(I'm sorry you got cancer but you didn't tell your doctor you had acne as a teen-ager so we're declining you your chemotherapy. And you owe us for the clinic visit because we decided to challenge it retroactively. [I wish I was kidding but the case, the HMO policy it exposed and congressional testimony where it was recorded has been well covered in the media and documented.])

Consider that the The #1 reason for personal bankruptcy in America, responsible for more than half of bankruptcies filed nation-wide, happens to be failing health. [ http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/10/3-top-reasons-why-people-go-bankrupt/ ]

Bush made it rougher to declare personal bankruptcy, and still about 2 million personal bankruptcies per year can be traced to medical expenses [ http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/other/hb050202c.htm ]

If the HMOs thought could get away with it, death would just transfer the debt to a person's inheritors so the survivors could just keep on paying for systemic failure.

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Consider that personal bankruptcy is rarely limited to one person.

People are rarely alone, so their wives or husbands or life-partners, children and pets are bankrupted right along with them.

If a parent fall sick, it usually means an abrupt end to the children's education, regardless of how well the children were doing.

That costs everybody every cent of what that child could have been earning (and of what taxes could have been collected on those higher earnings.)

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Consider that of those people, broken on the wheel of medical bills, have had to sell everything at fire-sale prices; house first, furniture as part of that, then car (which everywhere but the major metropolitan centers means you have just developed a bad case social leprosy,) clothing â everything.

Consider what your chances are of recovering from a severe illness when you're made homeless because of that very illness. Are they slim, or none?

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Incidentally, that cheapens the value of everything that anybody else owns.

The cost in dollar amount, an arbitrary figure at best, but nonetheless a reflection of the price of a product and/or or its production, and the value of things are shrunk before your very eyes.

Treasured pictures and "objets d'art" are immediately reduced to the cost of their constituent parts; thus a van Gogh is reduced to an assemblage of used old canvas and a few scrapings of pigment, an Annie Leibowitz photograph is reduced to the cost of a roll of used film; a Rodin sculpture is reduced to its weight its weight in metal, clay or stone.

That's part the true cost of not having health care in this country.

Lost opportunities squandered like so much chaff because of the greed and rapaciousness of some companies, some corporations, some eternal infernal problems that are holding you by the throat tighter and tighter and squeezing the life, the fun and the free will out of this country.

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Insurance companies are at a tipping point in their battle with the citizens of this country.

Are they really bigger than the 15% of the economy, of the population they are alleged to serve?

Then something is dreadfully wrong. [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213783/UKs-doctors-write-letter-U-S-politicians-battle-lies-NHS.html ]

The UK health-care runs at about 8% of GDP and provide universal coverage.

In the US it runs at around 16% of GDP and there are 45 million uninsured, 25 million under-insured.

The insurance only applies for the first time because after that its a pre-existing condition, and we have congressional testimony as to what that means.

The 'States is beginning an accelerating decline into irrelevance because it has frittered away the so called "Peace Dividend" that it got with the end of the "cold war", at the collapse of the Soviet Union, by countless fruitless pursuits.

The stock market started the Bush regime at 9,605 and eight years later, it stood at precisely 9,605. For business, the experiment with uber-capitalism has been a wash.

For the citizens stuck in a couple of trillion dollars of extra long-term debt, they've watched their future get mortgaged away.

Bush also took sympathy at the loss of the World Trade Center and turned it into universal opprobrium and hostility.

Bush managed to take The United States from a position of pre-eminence in all endeavors and reduced them into an economically and militarily deflated also-ran.
(Why do you think Kim Jong Un is laughing at you? He's leader of isolated, rinky dink North Korea and he's got more pull than the USofA. What he says goes. What Obama says is open to ridicule, endless debate and downright hostility.)

Oh and insurance company executives, don't think you can wave the flag like a magic wand.

Returning veterans have an entirely different view of combat and armed conflict that you do.

Don't think that the people who are thrown out of their homes are magicked away into a never-never land.

They may end up filling the trailer parks, but the memory of having owned a ranch house is gnawing at the insides of the people you have so disposed.

Don't think that you aren't at risk of joining them either

There are millions more of them than before Bush took office. The edifice of commerce is getting shakier by the day.

As the HMOs toss people and corporations aside to avoid doing their duty by them, you may get a surprise and suddenly discover that you have tossed out the wrong person or corporation, one who can hurt you, big time.

Those darn survivors are an inconvenience aren't they?

----

Consider that the never mindful, ultra capitalist "Wall Street" firms who are in bed with the HMOs, locked as they are in a mutual-fund embrace, and looking to squeeze the populace of the United States for the profit they should have had over the past eight years.

Consider that the stock market debacle, has erased all their gains and stands once again at 9,605.

Consider that the mortgage meltdown has left them holding their noses and holding their breath as they hold worthless paper.

Consider that the credit crunch has left them painfully exposed and forced to risk their own money instead of just screwing around with your money.

Consider that that means charging you, not mythical people, but you, ever increasing amounts for health-don't-care coverage while constantly and consistently denying any and all charges against that coverage, with ever increasing ferocity.

If you think it won't happen, look around youâ It already has.

The testimony is in your congressional record.

Health care for profit is not only an impossibility, but it is an obscenity; something only a parasite can regard as a right.

No one has a right to make a profit from the death and misery of the sick and the dying.

By the end of this decade, I'm heading to Canada, because I canâ Its my home...

Come to your senses.

If you lined up all of the high priced doctors end to end, they have not done as much for the common weal as the equivalent length of sewer pipe.

If you piled up all of the expensive drugs, recreational and otherwise, they haven't done as much for the common weal as the equivalent weight in mosquito netting.

A cost benefit analysis of the health-don't-care system you've got should clue you into the fact that you're getting screwed.

And don't tout the achievements of the drug companies too loudly.

If it hadn't been for the government finally walking the [beep] up because Rock Hudson looked like [beep] when he died of AIDS, most of the developments in pharmacology, therapies and genomics wouldn't have happened; not without the National Institutes of Health ponying up the money for some real research.

Health for profit is only good for preventive medicines, therapies and regimens, and those aren't covered by any of your damned health-don't-care policies.

I'm opting out because Americans don't understand probability.

What were the odds, unh?

That may be good for running a casino, but it sucks if you're the one betting your health on life's little lottery.

I've already lost that bet once and I'm not going to risk going through this twice.

I'm going to Canada for my health â because I can.

Home is where they have to take you in when you show up at the door.

I refuse to get sick in the United States.

Consider that Nicole Hollander once remarked in her cartoon strip "Sylvia" [ http://www.gocomics.com/sylvia/ ] about growing old in the United States: "You're best to do it elsewhere."

That's a sad commentary on what the children of the self-proclaimed "greatest generation" have become.

---- ^^^^ The Media Squat ^^^^ ----

Now, adelante la musica.

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Dusky Stevedore" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Solitude" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Swing that Music" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Darling Nellie Gray" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Red Cap" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Wonder" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Some Day" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"You Rascal You" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Song of the Islands" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Avalon" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Someday Sweetheart" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0013

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0013

YouTube video(s):

"Meds" by: "Placebo"

..

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

There is a phenomenon that I have always been fascinated by.

Its called "The Placebo Effect." [ http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect ]

Our minds are incredible things which have effects far beyond those we would expect.

Now, that does not extend to the mechanics of antibiotics and antivirals drugs discovered and refined since the middle of the last century, originally developed during another enterprise in killing, but placebos have effects which extend far beyond those of their components: "sugar, water, starch, and hope."

---- "Inertia" by: "Cat Jahnke (yong-kee)" http://www.catjahnke.com/

Because my father worked for Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, which became Merck/Frosst during his decades there, as a salesman, director of marketing and later as manager of their print shop, on and off of the Island of MontrÃal, I got exposed to all kinds of things that went on inside of that company.

Being a curious and interested kid, I listened intently, (and being a smart one, I shut up about it, so as not to remind the adults that I was indeed there. [You can learn the most amazing things that way. {Far more than people think they've revealed.}])

One of the most interesting was the measurement of the efficacy of drugs by the use of blind and double blind trials.

The technique was already old, having been conceived by "Claude Bernard" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard ] back in the middle and latter parts of the 19th century (He was a fascinating man from whom we have derived a lot of the scientific method, scepticism. I could do a show just about him.)

This was just after the second world war, when the power of the scientific method came to medicine, and there were any number of discoveries being made every day.

Journals were exploding in readership, and in content for all those new readers and writers. (Actually I would argue that those peer-reviewed scientific journals were the earliest manifestations of moderated blogging, being read by a motivated and specialized audience, any one of which could write in and contribute.)

Like all human endeavors, there were all kind of claims made and these were rife with B.S. from people selling "snake oil", which the scientific technique originated by Claude Bernard was quick to put to the test.

Any claim found wanting was usually found to be actionable instead and the Snake Oil salesman was, at best, "run out of town on a rail" [ http://www.takeourword.com/TOW204/page2.html ] (I'm quoting from a Take Our Word webpage here because it says it best: "The phrase in question here, of course, is riding the rail or to be run out of town on a rail. You may be surprised to learn that it has nothing to do with the railroad and everything to do with with a fence rail. How does one ride a rail? This is a form of punishment in which a person is tied or held to a rail that is then paraded through town, and often out of town, on the shoulders of two or more men, presumably strong men. The object is for all to see the transgressor and immediately recognize that he has done something wrong by virtue of the fact that he is tied to and riding on a rail, and thus to humiliate him. " )

At worst, these individuals were jailed for murder. (Making claims on medicines is serious business, because either people paid with their lives, leaving the inheritors to bury your mistakes, or people paid for the rest of their lives.)

---- "Inertia" by: "Josh Woodward" http://www.joshwoodward.com/

Placebos are bits inert "stuff" which should be having no effect, but "are," through the mechanisms of the mind and its ability to control the body.

Incidentally, I would recommend all interested people to download "All in the Mind" from the ABC Radio National [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330911 ] as Natasha Mitchell [ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/about/default.htm#presenter ] is a great host for an also great show.

---- "Inner Focus" by: "absentmachine" http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=44463417

Controls occur at arbitrarily determined levels, but in general the mechanisms are perceptive and reactive.

The first occurs on the perceptions of how well we perceive ourselves to be.

This is just operating at the level of our own abilities to put differing values on the same sensory inputs.

Thus, what is an incredibly painful experience in one series of circumstances involving the literal death of tissue or the tearing of lignin which hold our muscles in fibre bundles, under other circumstances becomes "one Hell of a great hot-barbecue sauce," or "a workout that'll put some inches on your biceps and some hair on your chest."

It depends on what your expectations are (like the anticipation of pain is often worse than the pain itself.)

The ability of fakirs or sufis [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakir ] or if you'd rather use the Indian words sadhu, guru swami or yogi, to put themselves in trance like states is one very easily explained, explored and useful way beyond the ability to lie on a bed of nails, to slap one's forehead bloody, to walk barefoot on a bed of coals, to achieve an altered state of consciousness.

This is the goal of users of recreational drugs and other substances. (I'll stick to beer, thank you,)

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

The second occurs at a more mysterious, nah strike that word, at a "less well understood," level of effecting remissions and outright cures when there are no commonly accepted causal relationships.

This is something I am familiar with at a superficial level because MS exhibits this, depending on what part of the brain is being used to carry the signals from the volition to the outcome. ("I have to move this leg" usually gets me a "Yeah, yeah, yeah â hold your waterâ" and a slow response from my body, while "Youch, that's HOT!" usually gets me a spastic hyper-reflexive jerk which certainly gets my hand off the handle of the pot and makes it become airborne, spilling its contents all over the damn stove.)

The mechanisms involved with semi-volitional healing, what used to be called "hysteria" by Freud or "faith healing" by revival tent preachers, neither term explaining a damn thing, involve the marshaling of the body's own forces, somehow.

We don't understand exactly what is involved at what level and in what order, we know that something is happening, caused by our own minds acting upon our own bodies to initiate a chain of events which leads us along a path from illness to wellness, but beyond the facts, we know very little and understand even less.

Well, two hundred years ago, we were burning people at the stake, one hundred years ago we were locking them up in asylums, fifty years ago we'd just discovered penicillin and that a lot of people still aren't too clear on the difference between causality and coincidence (and we won't mention the idiots who believe in demonic possession, vampires or space aliens,) so, no nothing surprises me anymore.

---- "The Awful Green Things From Outer Space" by: "Clouseaux" http://www.myspace.com/clouseaux

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

----

YouTube video(s):

"Meds" by "Placebo"
The music this time was:

"Inertia"
by: "Cat Jahnke (yong-kee)"
http://www.catjahnke.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Inertia"
by: "Josh Woodward"
http://www.joshwoodward.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Inner Focus"
by: "absentmachine"
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=44463417
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

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

"The Awful Green Things From Outer Space"
by: "Clouseaux"
http://www.myspace.com/clouseaux
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

msb-0388 Move Over MS

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:55:00 GMT

msb-0388 Move Over MS

YouTube videos:

"Move It On Over" by: "Hank Williams'"
..

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...

Shivver me timbers, oi missed "International Talk loik a Pirate Day", but it were few days ago , the nineteenth of September. Arrrr,,,

Sorry Miss Chris but the video to accompany this episode is by Hank Williams.

It seemed like a perfect accompaniment to the topic.

I know you're not into C&W, but at least its not on the program itself.

---- "I Gotta Move On" by: "Andre Bisson" http://www.andrebisson.ca/

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.

---- "Move On" by: "Wes Jeans" http://www.myspace.com/wesjeans

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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

My Book is out and Lulu are still [expletive deleted] but I don't have a choice anymore so lets make the best of it until I write a book about The Disability Show.

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

It is awesome.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

---- "Move On" by: "Robb McMahan" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

"Thesis:"

I'm sitting at my desk looking at some pointless and utterly unrelated images of people, and a bowl of fruit?

"moveoverms.org" sent me a email asking me to help them build an even better site.

[slow exhalation]

Wait. It gets even betterâ

---- "Move Your Mind" by: "Matt Mays & El Torpedo" http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Mays

"Synthesis:"

Their email ends with "We look forward to hearing from you soon."

Well, here's their chance to, for real.

Like I said, they're asking me to help them build an even better site.

The problem with websites are two fold.

First is that people don't like to read, may have trouble with reading, may read bring too much of their own experiences, or too little of their own experiences, to the information that's on the page. For a lot of reasons, MSers just won't stumble onto the site.

Second is that it actually takes a great deal of skill to express what you want.

I read an enormous amount, and I write everyday, day in, day out, week in, week out.

Its all I do anymore; its all I "can" still do anymore.

I live (and I die a little everyday,) by the old saw: "You may have thought your understood what you heard, but I don't think you realize that what said was not what I meant."

Writing something is damnably hard.

I am sticking to biographic and non-fiction because there's touchstones that I can feel as I stumble about, finding my way around in the dark here.

Part of the second problem is that most people who created the language were themselves healthy, or in denial.

This leads to situations like David Paterson, the blind governor of New York state, telling colleagues that he'll "see" them later.

It should be obvious to all and sundry that he'll do no such thing since he blind.

Language is clearly no help in "speaking truth to power."(What ever that is supposed to mean.)

There are a bunch of traps and pitfalls like this.

Then there is the fact that written English is entirely devoid of diacritical marks.

This leads to "tomayto", "Tomahto" situation in that nobody ever knows what the vowels are supposed to sound like, never mind colloquial usage and regional and multinational accents.

I include the entire written text of every episode along with the spoken word so that people can get my meaning despite the differences in pronunciation.

But straight ol' text doesn't get across any emphasis.

There are already many more shades of meaning which can be communicated without any need for visual explanation but just from my intonation.

---- "IF IT MOVES - IT AINT SAFE" by: "MADHOUSE" http://www.myspace.com/madhousedetroit

"Conclusion:"

moveoverms.org have sent me a email asking me to help them build an even better site.

Here's an idea, how about podcasting to your membership?

----

I just read something in the New York Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/technology/15speech.html?ref=technology ] that makes me despair for anyone living in this vast, stupid wasteland, controlled as it is by people who have for-profit rules to "prevent" things from happening with ruthless denial of access to health.

I have become convinced that health-don't-care is killing America as surely as disease is decimating its citizens.

Now I have to get the heck out if this country before *I* get sick.

I really don't expect to finish the decade in the 'States.

President Obama is a mighty good man but the safety net you have here in the 'States just catches you once you've already been made destitute by whatever got you.

I don't intend to live out the declining years of a vastly shortened life as a pauper.

Its tough enough being healthy in this country. I don't intend to try it being sick.

At some point soon, the podcasts will definitely be originating from MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada.

The health care system in Canada is beckoning (as opposed to the health-don't-care system here South of the border.)

Think of it as a reverse brain drain.

---- "Move" by: "Jen Elliott" http://www.citycanyons.com/jenElliott/index.html

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Move It On Over"
by: "Hank Williams'"

Song list:

"I Gotta Move On"
by: "Andre Bisson"
http://www.andrebisson.ca/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Move On"
by: "Wes Jeans"
http://www.myspace.com/wesjeans
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Move On"
by: "Robb McMahan"
http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Move Your Mind"
by: "Matt Mays & El Torpedo"
http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Mays
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"IF IT MOVES - IT AINT SAFE"
by: "MADHOUSE"
http://www.musicalley.com/music/artists/bandphotos/853744266_m.jpg
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Move"
by: "Jen Elliott"
http://www.citycanyons.com/jenElliott/index.html
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 my 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

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0012

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:14:00 GMT

wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0012

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_TheDisbilityShow_0012.m4a

YouTube video(s):

Medical Information : About Peripheral Neuropathy
..

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

This has been an interesting week capping off a very interesting summer.

It was full of discoveries.

Like I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Another discovery was "Peripheral Neuropathy".

---- "Isnt It Enough To Make You Nervous" by: "Trev Gibb" http://www.myspace.com/trevgibb

I am alway amazed at how reluctant some people are to talk about their disease (after all its not as if they asked for the crap to happen to them. There's no shame involved.)

But you always find one who is a fount of knowledge and inspiration and that make it all worthwhile.

This episode features something about "Peripheral Neuropathy" written by "Joe Bartoszek" for "The Disability Resource Exchange" group on "Peripheral Neuropathy". [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/group/peripheralneuropathy ]

The Disability Resource Exchange [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ] is a website started and run by "Rudy Sims".

In case you're wondering, I am a member.

---- "Nervous!? again?" by: "The Reel Banditos" http://www.reelbanditos.com/

Now I'll read Joe's words...

These are my symptoms. It all started about 10 years ago (I'm 59) with slight tingling in my feet.

I was pretty active...running 5 miles 3X a week, scuba diving and surfing.

At first I kinda shrugged it off. Then I noticed that when I was surfing I wasn't able to feel the board and my wipeouts were becoming frequent...there went my surfing days.

I then went to 3 different Podiatrists with no good explanation, finally one Dr recommended that I see a Neurologist.

This had been going on for several years and the tingling now became numbness with dull aching and the tingling was moving about 1/2 up my calves.

Well the Neurologist was reviewing my history and came to the part, occupation. At that time I was an engineer at the Cape working on the Space Shuttle (retired now).

His first question was: Do work at the Cape? (Yes). Have you been around rocket propellant? (Yes)....Hydrazine? (Yes). He then told me he had about 50 patients that had been exposed with the same symptoms!

(I then discovered that chemical exposure could cause Neuropathy(NP). Exploring around on the internet I found people working around fertilizers could develop NP.)

Back to me....

The Dr then did nerve conductivity tests to confirm the nerve damage, prescribed Neurotin for the aching and told that I was progressive, would not improve.

Then we set up a follow up appointment a year later. Well during that time I noticed that if I cricked my neck a certain way I would get electric shocks running down my legs.

I brought this to the Dr's attention as a "GeeWiz" experience. He immediately scheduled me for an MRI of my neck. Results were rather disturbing and he then scheduled me to see a neurosurgeon.

The surgeon wanted to operate ASAP on my neck, fusing 3 or 4 vertebrate, inserting rods and screws. I refused!

That didn't make him real happy. Warned me that if I injured mt neck, I could be a quad.

To make matters worse he told me to stop scuba diving immediately....Scuba is my life!!!

Well that four years ago and 500 dives later and I'm still not a quad...however the disease has progressed with tingling above my knees, my feet completely paralyzed.

I must use hand crutches and AFO braces to walk. My walking distance is very limited even with the crutches and I most resort to my wheelchair for any distance (shopping etc)....

But I'm still diving and teaching.

---- "Making Me Nervous" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

More of Joe's words...

Symptoms are related to the type of affected nerve and may be seen over a period of days, weeks, or years.

Muscle weakness is the most common symptom of motor nerve damage.

Other symptoms may include painful cramps and fasciculations (uncontrolled muscle twitching visible under the skin), muscle loss, bone degeneration, and changes in the skin, hair, and nails.

These more general degenerative changes also can result from sensory or autonomic nerve fiber loss.

Sensory nerve damage causes a more complex range of symptoms because sensory nerves have a wider, more highly specialized range of functions.

Larger sensory fibers enclosed in myelin (a fatty protein that coats and insulates many nerves) register vibration, light touch, and position sense.

Damage to large sensory fibers lessens the ability to feel vibrations and touch, resulting in a general sense of numbness, especially in the hands and feet.

People may feel as if they are wearing gloves and stockings even when they are not. Many patients cannot recognize by touch alone the shapes of small objects or distinguish between different shapes.

This damage to sensory fibers may contribute to the loss of reflexes (as can motor nerve damage).

Loss of position sense often makes people unable to coordinate complex movements like walking or fastening buttons, or to maintain their balance when their eyes are shut.

Neuropathic pain is difficult to control and can seriously affect emotional well-being and overall quality of life.

Neuropathic pain is often worse at night, seriously disrupting sleep and adding to the emotional burden of sensory nerve damage.

Smaller sensory fibers without myelin sheaths transmit pain and temperature sensations.

Damage to these fibers can interfere with the ability to feel pain or changes in temperature. People may fail to sense that they have been injured from a cut or that a wound is becoming infected.

Others may not detect pains that warn of impending heart attack or other acute conditions. (Loss of pain sensation is a particularly serious problem for people with diabetes, contributing to the high rate of lower limb amputations among this population.) Pain receptors in the skin can also become oversensitized, so that people may feel severe pain (allodynia) from stimuli that are normally painless (for example, some may experience pain from bed sheets draped lightly over the body).

Symptoms of autonomic nerve damage are diverse and depend upon which organs or glands are affected. Autonomic nerve dysfunction can become life threatening and may require emergency medical care in cases when breathing becomes impaired or when the heart begins beating irregularly.

Common symptoms of autonomic nerve damage include an inability to sweat normally, which may lead to heat intolerance; a loss of bladder control, which may cause infection or incontinence; and an inability to control muscles that expand or contract blood vessels to maintain safe blood pressure levels.

A loss of control over blood pressure can cause dizziness, lightheadedness, or even fainting when a person moves suddenly from a seated to a standing position (a condition known as postural or orthostatic hypotension).

Gastrointestinal symptoms frequently accompany autonomic neuropathy. Nerves controlling intestinal muscle contractions often malfunction, leading to diarrhea, constipation, or incontinence. Many people also have problems eating or swallowing if certain autonomic nerves are affected.

---- "central nervous piston" by: "el ten eleven" http://elteneleven.com/

Well, that was most elucidating. I'd like to thank Joe for explaining about neuropathy.

Something else I knew nothing about.

But now I DO.

That's what counts.

By the way, I have become a radio producer in my, uh, copious spare time; what with being unemployed and all. GRRRR!!!

My marketing director ideas for WSPC have taken root.

---- "Nervous" by: "Wil Deynes" http://www.myspace.com/wildeynes

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

----

YouTube video(s):

Medical Information : About Peripheral Neuropathy
The music this time was:

"Isnt It Enough To Make You Nervous"
by: "Trev Gibb"
http://www.myspace.com/trevgibb
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Nervous!? again?"
by: "The Reel Banditos"
http://www.reelbanditos.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

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

"central nervous piston"
by: "el ten eleven"
http://elteneleven.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Nervous"
by: "Wil Deynes"
http://www.myspace.com/wildeynes
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0044

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:11:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0044

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0044.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 44

As promised, I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, so you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

Before I launch headlong into some Jazz, (the sweet sounds of SatchMo' blowin' his horn are calling to me sumtin' fierce,) I'd like to make some observations about my media studies classes.

---- vvvv The Media Squat vvvv ----

The media are about to change for the better as Marshall McLuhan's dream of a global village gets going, in ways he never lived long enough to get more than a glimpse of.

In keeping with Douglas Rushkoff's theme of economic empowerment from the bottom up, on WFMU (my other job, as it were,) since the top doesn't seem to know which way the light shines, (like, from outside its colon,) I would like to tell you abut some things I have noticed about the media.

One management axiom holds that "perfect is the enemy of 'good enough'" and at some point "you have to shoot the engineers and ship the damn product."

But there is another axiom which ad supported media ignored until it was too late, "'Better' is death to the 'Status Quo'"

This has "no" application for "Mom-and-Pop" outfits except that it will give them the tools to compete with the former "Big Boys".

Lets take what is laughingly referred to as food by the average American.

How many pizzerias are there across the United States?

Like a hundred thousand.

How many mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous pizza, and I use the term very loosely here, processing corporations are there?

Likely there are fewer than you've got fingers, even if we hack off your thumbs with a Bowie knifeâ

You can repeat the question for every kind of food to be found around the planet. Chinese, Mexican, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Polish, English (though to be honest I have never eaten a burger as badly prepared as I had once at a Wimpy's. Country ale was a great discovery, but you can take most of England's grub and toss it somewhere deep, dark and anoxic. It sucked.)

You will probably find that its the same handful of mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous corporations who are trying to squeeze every fraction of a penny until Lincoln [bleeps].

(No wonder everything tastes like [bleep], and its the same [bleep] from Portsmouth Maine to Port Angeles, Washington and from Tampa, Florida to just north of Tijuana, Mexico.

Its utterly, unrelievedly, unpalatably, monotonously, toxically consistent across all time zones and from sodden melting pole to pole.

[The FDA is so screwing with you, big time.

They make horrible tasting, disease-friendly rules about the F;

they make laughably unsafe rules about the D,

because they're completely owned by the corporations who are having entirely too much fun giving it to you up the A.])

On the internet though, Mon-N-Pop and mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous corporations are both equal if their ads are good enough. (And that is were the money will lie. The demand for content production is about to sky-rocket. The delivery wont cost any more than a phone call. )

This has some wide ranging implication, (in that, the guy in the bread line next to you may have been working for ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, The Boston Daily Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, or any of the dozens of other media outlets trying to get by on ad revenue, but you'll at least have some marketable skill â while they won't! )

----

This has some severe consequences for television. The ad supported nature of the media is disappearing as fast as their old customers got onto the internet.

PBS, NPR, PRI and an alphabet soup of providers are already on the internet.

And why not?

With the mass media, the joke went, you knew you knew you were wasting half of your advertising money, if only you could know which half..

The lack of numbers of the mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous corporations will become apparent when their board members ask why they're still wasting share-holders' money.

Then, one after another, ad supported mass media will simply "cease to exist."

This won't just be television (They just went digital and now it'll have been pointless.)

----

The slide into oblivion by the newspapers and magazines is well documented by the "Newspaper Death Watch" types of sites [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ ] on the web.

The only ones that are even capable of hanging on are the ones who have been able to make the switch to hyper-localized news.

Even then. Google is handing them their heads on a dirty hubcap.

Magazines are going down in flames in a spiral next to them.

Several have crashed and burned already.

----

So what happens to movies then?

It won't be much fun down at the multiplex without the ads. (Not for you, the audience, since you're just the poor "schmucks" who wait patiently for the feature to start and don't give any more of a crap about the rest of it than you did before, but the retailers who are so desperate that they would advertise at a multiplex are going to run out of money.)

As even those people switch to the web, you'll be able to watch theaters get dowdier, get dirtier, and eventually, get shuttered.

----

Books are in less trouble, but their production and delivery is about to become a whole lot more on demand.

Kiss those tiny advances goodbye.

Then again, kiss those remaindered copies we used to discover walking through the stacks and the back-rooms goodbye too.

Serendipitous discovery done by browsing requires the waste of scarce resources.

Its going to be rough in the malls when Barnes and Nobles, Borders, the rapidly vanishing Walden Books, and the few other chains try to compete head to head with Amazon.

Competing head-to-head means going on the web, (its a lot cheaper than retail space,) doing books on demand, (its a lot cheaper than throwing out books as remainders, a lot cheaper than doing the writer's dance of getting an advance and then finding it spread to the next book and the next book and the â you get the idea.)

----

The various associations wont be able to do a thing about it.

The MPAA and the RIAA have already feasted on their own audience. Here's a clue guys, lawsuits don't get you repeat customers

These are industries built, not on talent but on mediocrity and "churn."

You burn us, you burn yourself worse.

We have something you need like the air we breathe: money.

----

This is a cautionary tale for any of the people currently slaving in the salt mines of ad-supported media.

Where have their customers gone? (Not the audience/readership, but their customers. The audiences/readership are just entries on the liability side of the ledger.)

Where have they gone indeed?

To the internet where its cheap, where they know where every cent of their advertising dollar is going because they're able to run their advertisements strictly on-demand, where they can take orders, track orders, tracks shipments, track customers, take suggestions and quietly quash complaints.

The bottom up meaning for the Media Squat is that the top-paying client list of elite content producers is vanishing, but this heralds lots "Mom-and-Pop" opportunities.

When the carnage is over the only ones who will be feeling bad are the current media oligarchies.

The current ad and content producers will still be around and thriving.

There'll be more of them and they'll have a lot more work.

---

As we look back over the century of pondering on what was really happening to the media,
through the lens of media studies,
from the groping towards a theory of media effects,
through Leni Riefenstahl and Nazi party propaganda,
to McLuhan's "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" and "The Mechanical Bride",
all of these explorations were doomed to incompleteness because they were all 1:N, meaning they were assuming that there was a fundamental difference between media producer and media consumer.

They were all wrong, only examining of one side of the equation which never seemed to be able to resolve itself into anything fundamental or true.

It couldn't of course.

For the first time, the internet is capable of going beyond the merest renting of megaphones by the greedy to the global village idiots so that they can hawk their schlock.

It enables true N:M connection between all people.

It subsumes the old 1:N communication model, which is just an existential case of N:M, in that for the first time, the consumers and the producers are communicating on the same level, through the same asynchronous, packet-switched network and they are able to carry on conversations.

[with apologies to "Suzanne Vega" for misusing her song "Blood Makes Noise",]

This is so much richer a form of communication than standing at the mouth of "a windy tunnel shouting through the roar and I'd like to give the information you're asking for" as it enables us to stop and think, rather than just react to the wrong clues and cues.

---- ^^^^ The Media Squat ^^^^ ----
"

Now, adelante la musica.

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Alone At Last" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Butter and Egg Man" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Struttin' with Some Barbecue" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"West End Blues" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symphonic Raps" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Basin Street Blues" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"When You're Smiling" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"After You're Gone" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Chinatown My Chinatown" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"All of Me" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Medley of Armstrong Hits" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"That's My Home" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0387 MS Together

Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0387 MS Together

YouTube videos:

"Together" by: "EXILE"
..

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 had some from Katie Pleiss of the "MSTogether" [ http://mstogether.wordpress.com/ ] word press blog.

I am in fact delighted to be of service to her, but wryly so because of the sentence in her email to me with reads "except maybe your advice could be focused more towards young adults with MS".

I don't think it was aimed at me personally but there it is.

I've thrived in spite of and survived with, MS long enough to become an author of "inspirational messages" for young people with this damnable disease.

Who'd've thunk it?

---- "Make This Together" by: "The Ram Boola Black" http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject

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.

---- "Together" by: "Dona Oxford (pronounced DOH-NYA)" http://www.donaoxford.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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

I wish I could send you somewhere to buy it, but sadly Lulu.co are a nonexistent bunch of lying sacks of [expletive deleted].

I'm currently shopping around for a more responsive service (ha!) than Lulu.com.

Quite frankly, people have started websites for less irritatation.

I wonder if anyone works there at all because, I have brought up a problem with their StoreFront, namely its BUSTED, since August 19, 2009, which has so far gotten neither discernible solution, nor resolution.

All I've ever got from them is auto-responder emails. NOBODY WORKS THERE!

Sandra P. is NOT a person. Sandra is P-ing on me and my complaint.

I want the money back that I shelled out to them for the ISBNs because they're useless.

I can't sell the book at all because the storefront is shuttered and hidden in gray...

If you were thinking of writing a book, look anywhere else.

For the service they provide, I'm actually thinking I'd be better off sending you to your nearest FedEx/Kinko's to pick up a freshly printed and bound copy of the PDFs of the text and cover. If you want they can even ship it to you via FedEx.

In the meantime, I had book tours and other promotion things planned that I've got to undo.

I'll keep you posted.

---- "Still Together" by: "The Dangling Success" http://www.danglingsuccess.com/

"Thesis:"

Katie Pleiss wrote me such a nice email that I suddenly find myself in the distinctly uncomfortable of serving as a role model or as an inspiration to some people.

Well â Lets look at it this way, you could do worse than following in my footsteps.

---- "Held Together" by: "Rod Kim" http://www.rodkimrocks.com/

"Synthesis:"

My first attack happened when I was sixteen.

Unfortunately it was over too quickly and was mild enough that, apart from sending my handwriting to "Hell in a Hand-basket"ÂâÂ it was more of a minor inconvenience and quickly glossed over.

I had my hormones to deal with at the time and they were much more distracting, as was the fact that that was the time I had a massive growth spurt, which left me a foot taller, a hundred pounds heavier and, because I wan't interested in getting picked on by girls anymore, it was "all muscle"â

My second attack was severe (it tried to freakin' kill me,) and I spent weeks in the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

I used the time in the neuroICU in the only way left to me, I thought deeply and at length about computers, object-oriented programming, system design, software implementation and when emerged from the hospital, I "grokked" it.
I didn't just understand it, in the words of Robert A Heinlein [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_strange_land ] I "grokked" it.

Then I spent a year rebuilding my body, my muscles and my nervous system until I had better physical control over my body than most people dream of.

----

"Anybody who tries to give me an ideological argument against single payer health care will find himself called a murderer, a torturer, an Alqeda Operative, an ideologue, an effete intellectual and whatever other buttons I can push because Canada's single payer health care system saved my life and it had saved my father's life years before.

The doctors are for it now, the hospitals are for it now, patient organizations are for it now.

The only ones left complaining are ignorant morons.

You're scared that some bureaucrat is going to make your health decisions?

Which ones?

The bureaucrats in Washington who don't have an axe to grind, just anonymous payments to process, or the ones at the HMO whose year-end bonuses depends on how much costs they can cut, and guess what? "Your cancer treatment is very costly."

As for the Ayn Randian principle that we can all stand alone an independent, I say, remember what kinds of people use expressions like "divide and conquer," war mongering barbarians!

It called civics, people, part of being civilized is that we take care of our people, not kick their bodies to the curve when they stumble or when they get sick.

If being a decent human being is un-American, then you can call me that.

Some things the rest of the world is right about.

The only countries left where there is no health care are Third World Hell-holes, like Myanmar, and the United States.

[climbs down from soap box.]

----

That symptom-free state of affairs lasted until 1997 when I had a third attack which left me walking with a cane, slowly.

The wonder of modern medicine is at it does you no good if you just wonder about what the Hell just happened to you.

Since then I have started this podcast, done almost 400 shows, gone back to College, taken media studies to deepen my understanding of
â where the media corporations were,
â what happened to who and how, and
â how to position myself and MSB Podast to help MSers.

I want to help "all" handicapped people by giving us a voice which is never heard in the media.

---- "When I Get My Shit Together" by: "Noam Weinstein" http://enoam.com/

"Conclusion:"

So that's my story, a bit of it anyway.

The bit where I've used podcasting to deal with my MS instead of burying it in the past.

The burial has cost me dearly because I was an idiot, living in denial.

I will never dance again; I "loved to dance."

I will never play guitar again; I "loved to play guitar."

And I will never go on hikes or walk-abouts again; I "loved" to walk.

Don't be idiots, deal with the situation and you will probably be okay.

---- "Everyones In This Together" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Together" by: "EXILE" proving that Boy Bands are truly an international phenomenon.

I hear shades of the 80s and the nineties in that video.

Strangely enough, the quality of the vocals is good enough to hold my interest despite the fact that I don't speak a word of Japanese.

The video production is so 2000 "Lets show some kid bouncing around as if the were doing some kind of Kung-Fu, skate-boarding rap," despite the face that the beat is vintage Michael Jackson.

Song list:

"Make This Together"
by: "The Ram Boola Black"
http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Together"
by: "Dona Oxford (pronounced DOH-NYA)"
http://www.donaoxford.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Still Together"
by: "The Dangling Success"
http://www.danglingsuccess.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Held Together"
by: "Rod Kim"
http://www.rodkimrocks.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"When I Get My Shit Together"
by: "Noam Weinstein"
http://enoam.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Everyones In This Together"
by: "Love = Action"
http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction
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 my 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

msb-0386 High gene, low gene, green gene, blue gene, red gene, dead gene.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:00:00 GMT

msb-0386 High gene, low gene, green gene, blue gene, red gene, dead gene.

YouTube videos:

The Genetic Conspiracy 1 of 3 about Monsanto
..

The Genetic Conspiracy 2 of 3 about Monsanto
..

The Genetic Conspiracy 3 of 3 about Monsanto
..

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'm sneaking this one in under the radar of talking about personal cleanliness, so here goes.

It is very important and it can be extremely difficult for people with poor coordination to brush their teeth, wash themselves thoroughly and take care of their appearance too.

[ http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1468169771061983546PDHtiw ] I know MSers would all like to have our hygiene taken care of by sitting in a tub of cool water and letting little rasps dispose of the mess we tend to leave behind, and on our behind.

"Reach around" means something different to an MSer.

"Kermit the Frog" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog ] held that "Its not easy being green", but it can also be tough sporting various hues and shades of pinks, yellows or browns.

But I have another topic to cover this episode so you can wait for the thesis, synthesis and conclusion where I will get to it.

And the synthesis and conclusion may be played on WFMU's "The Media squat" of on the last show of August.

Sorry but some things take precedence.

---- "Meat Market" by: "Sunspot" http://www.sunspotmusic.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.

---- "Sausage Meat" by: "Reggie s Experience" http://www.reggiesexperience.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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

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

----

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

And I've stopped apologizing about the price.

It is what it is and it costs what it costs.

If its not what you want to pay, then its not.

The podcasts are free and if you are getting them through iTunes you can even hang on to them and have all of the links ... forever.

If you want to find out what I'm all about, why I'm doing it and how, you'll pay the price because it'll be worth it to you.

If its not, then you don't pay. Simple enough...

You're already part of an exclusive club, an exclusive tribe.

You're an MSer.

Now go out and spread the word at "your" gathering place.

If "you" don't want to know, maybe someone you know "does" want to know the who, what where, when, why and the how behind niche market communication and MSBPodcast.

Talk with people near you because we're all in some niche of other.

Near might just be a figure of speech because some of the people who I am near, I'll never get to travel to to get some "face time".

That shows the true power of the internet.

---- "Meat Eater" by: "Fang Island" http://myspace.com/fangisland

"Thesis:"

Hygiene is also internal.

Has anyone noticed that their MS symptoms might seem worse after a heavy meal? (It used to be that I felt lousy, and still hungry, after eating a meal.)

After my last attack, my wife and I started paying more attention to what we ate, and not only did I stop feeling like logy crap after eating, but so did she.

Its not just MSers but "everybody."

---- "Brain Food" by: "David Emeny" http://www.davidemeny.com/

"Synthesis:"

vvvv CUT HERE FOR the segment for
"The Media Squat" With "Douglas Rushkoff"
on WFMU ----

The modern industrial processing of food, quite apart from the use of hydrogenated oil, too much salt to make up for the fact that they taste of nothing, aspertame, a witches cauldron of things with hard to pronounce names, like sodium benzoate, mono and di-glycerides, and corn product derivatives, which aren't food in the first place, results in low nutrition products never before seen in nature.

To improve the American diet all they would have to do is stop the corn subsidies.

All of these products would be revealed as costlier processes to produce food substitutes, not food, but food substitutes.

We have corn products in virtually everything.

We eat corn fed beef, chickens, fish and virtually all other food stock, that are so immunocompromised and raised in such unsanitary condition that they are injected with a constant stream of increasingly ineffective antibiotics.

We eat genetically modified crops and we eat more and more of them because we are still hungry after consuming them. We consume more and more sheer bulk but get less and less nutrition.

We chow down on "Round Up ready" plants with so-called 'terminator technology' that don't reproduce from one season to the next, because they're no longer able to. They're programmed to commit suicide after one season by producing only mules. Their seeds are sterile.

Thousands, thousands, of dirt poor farmers in India, who had taken out loans and bought what they thought were good seeds, committed suicide the following year when the seeds they had collected and reserved for the next year failed to germinate. [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html ]

The G.M. crops failed twice, once by still being liked by the local pests and again by being mules.

The loans were still due and the farmers didn't have "bupkiss" to pay them with.

They "drank" the insecticides that they should and would have been spraying on their crops if they hadn't listened to bull that the sales critters were spewing, because they only saw the sides of the holes they had dug for themselves and couldn't see a ray of hope.

This was a deliberate act of deception by the makers of genetically modified crops.

"Buy our magic seeds and they'll be pest resistant" they said..

They weren't.

Indian bugs weren't on the list of "tested for" pests.

"Hey one bug's pretty much like any other, right?"

Wrong...

The North American pests have learned that the stuff tastes like crap and just leave you feeling empty inside, so they have moved on to other food supplies.

The Indian pests hadn't seen the "Round Up Ready" ads I guess and they were still ignorant.

The seeds just tasted new.

The worst part of this is that these accountants without souls, are willfully, knowingly condemning their own children to a future of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and almost certain servitude simply because they can justify it as "Well maybe, but I have to work."

When the work you do puts thousands of people miserably and prematurely in the ground every year and billions of pounds of undigestible lard on the waists of sheeple, those people you treat like sheep, maybe you should take up a different career.

Someday, you will find out, to your horror, that sometimes "the sheep look up" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up ] and their revenge is as unfeeling, uncaring and exterminative as you were, calculating and wondering how long you thought you could get away with it.

I have an old family friend who "had" diabetes, high blood pressure and all sorts of ailments until she was laid off and decided she couldn't afford processed foods anymore.

Now her diabetes in gone, her blood pressure is normal and she no longer has strange ailments.

She is shedding the pounds of stuff that her body couldn't digest, slowly but she is losing the weight.

Coincidence, I don't think so.

She is full of energy, is feeling good and is sort of sleeping better. (Hey, she lives in Brooklyn, its noisy.)

She's found another job, but she's keeping the change in her diet.

I'm in an activist mood: Lets hear
---- "Foie Gras Violent Food" by: "Maria Daine" http://www.maria-daines.com/

"Conclusion:"

Try eating some organic food for a few weeks and see if it helps you control the food cravings, the eating and eating and still not feeling fed, the bingeing on processed food.

Slap those "Twinkies" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie ] out of your child's hands.

Slap those chips and those corn-syrup sweetened soft-drinks out of there too.

You know your child isn'l supposed to look like that, with those incredibly fat legs, chafing at every labored step, supporting that barrel of lard torso.

Humans weren't meant to look like over stuffed sausage casings, bursting with sweat at every exertion.

"Fat Albert" used to be a joke thought up by "Bill Cosby".

He was a caricature of a child, not a role model to be emulated.

Bill Cosby is still alive, for Christ's sake. But his audiences' children aren't.

A couple of generation of children have been, and are still. chewing their way into an early grave; condemning themselves into a life of struggle with their food, not realizing that that food had become their enemy by the very processes used to get it out the ground, into the feed of the animals, into the processing plants, and ultimately into their mouthes; gathering poisons, becoming more laden with toxins at every step.

The world of their own making, in which North Americans exist, because I can't and won't call this living, is laden with poisons, from the dioxins in their mother's breast milk to the toxic residue of the varnish used on their coffins.

I remember a cartoon appearing in "Mad Magazine", or maybe it was in "Playboy", where a bunch of marketing exec's were sitting at a conference table, smoking cigarettes, contemplating a box of kid's cereal and asking "What the heck? Why don't we just make it addictive?"

I'm worried that that joke was actually played on us, by the same kind of people who were evil enough to say that "we'd never buy collapsable steering columns on our cars because it would make them cost a couple hundred bucks more."

"Unsafe At Any Speed" [ http://www.amazon.com/Unsafe-Any-Speed-Ralph-Nader/dp/1561290505 ] by Ralph Nader revealed the math that said that the car companies could afford to pay for the burials of a certain amount of people who died with steering columns sticking into their chests.

Closer to agriculture, look no further than the Tobacco industry [ http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=6718394 ] whose entire production goes up in smoke, polluting on the way and filling graves with loved ones and making orphans of tens of thousands of people every year.

Draw you own conclusions.

Are businesses run by the worthless actuarial mentalities who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, inherently evil, or do you fantasize that some of these sub-human, semi-simian wretches might be salvaged, but only if the cost-benefit analysis shows a protracted positive curve?

I feel the same way about the weight-loss industry as Susan Powter, because these fat farming people would be out of business if their customers were able to climb down off of the consumer treadmill and eat real food, instead of the hydrogenated starch hydrosylate crap, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenated_starch_hydrosylate ] and polysaccharide [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysaccharide ] chemically derived glop.

Do your meals leave you with a bad taste in your mouth and pounds of fat that just stay in your ass?

Then "Stop Eating Crap!"

How about a high colonic that starts in your head?

Change your minds about the beneficence of business people and get a clue as to the "Banality of evil". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil ]

These people will shoot you, point blank in the face, and wonder "What's wrong with you? Why wont you talk to me?"

^^^^ CUT HERE FOR the segment for
"The Media Squat" With "Douglas Rushkoff"
on WFMU ----

---- "Worm food" by: "Ruth Theodore" http://www.ruththeodore.com/

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"The Genetic Conspiracy" parts 1, 2 & 3

When did this country start having an epidemic of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes?

Can you say "Since Monsanto started screwing around with the seeds we use for growing our food?"

Can you say: "Since they started selling genetically modified, "Round-Up Ready" seeds that commit "sepuku" after one growing season?"

Before then, you had to be a seriously delusional cow killing carnivore-wanna-be to get fat enough to ever contract gout.

Wake the hell up and stop digging your graves with your teeth.

Song list:

"Meat Market"
by: "Sunspot"
http://www.sunspotmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Sausage Meat"
by: "Reggie s Experience"
http://www.reggiesexperience.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Meat Eater"
by: "Fang Island"
http://myspace.com/fangisland
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Brain Food"
by: "David Emeny"
http://www.davidemeny.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Foie Gras Violent Food"
by: "Maria Daine"
http://www.maria-daines.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Worm food"
by: "Ruth Theodore"
http://www.ruththeodore.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 my 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

msb-0385 The Glass is Half Full

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0385 The Glass is Half Full

YouTube videos:

"Geek NASA" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"
..

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...

Holy smokes, promotion is a face time intensive business. I've got meetings and phone calls scheduled from here to eternity.

I'm having some problems with setting/changing the pricing on the books.

We'll figure something out.

Until then, at $6.25 the ebook is definitely acceptably priced.

The paperback "should" be around $12.95+S&H. Its $19.36.+S&H I know I'm a charity case, but nobody's going to go for it at that price.

I can only hope that book stores are able to buy the book wholesale for about $9.80 and that the book retailer is able to buy enough to sell it for about $12.95. Alright, maybe I don't make any money but at least it out there.

The hardcover "should" be around $25.+S&H. Its $32.10+S&H.

Luckily, the hardcover is a lot better looking. But its still not going to sell unless its competitively priced.

Dang, they look pretty good, but not that good. Somebody would have to really like me and, lets be honest here, I'm not that likable.

I know that there are other authors out there selling their books through Lulu for a lot cheaper than those prices.

Well, I learned a lesson.

You have to get in touch with a real live human being "first". No human, no desire to do business with you.

The options the systems opens to you won't necessarily get you where you want to go and they won't stop you for getting somewhere you didn't want to go.

I'll shop around for somebody else to publish my next book about "The Disability Show."

That one will probably appeal to 15% of the population instead of .0833%. That's a market with almost 200 times the number of people.

I want it to be affordable by handicapped people.

---- "Glass of Tea feat Dan Leeds, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Victoria Lavington" by: "1918 A House Divided Original Cast Recording" http://myspace.com/1918themusical

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.

---- "Stained Glass Hammers" by: "3jane" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3jane

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.

----

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 on 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 b oulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

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

----

Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg a couple of weeks ago.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

---- "Glass Elevator" by: "The Coloured Lights" http://www.thecolouredlights.com/

"Thesis:"

This week, "the glass is half-full" and my plate is definitely full.

I'm hunting down school books (Finally! The shipment came into the book store,) paper and pens which I no longer have the coordination to use legibly, a new power converter for my old PowerBook G4 (its an old Mac but it was built like a tank,) and starting to ramp up for my shows for WSPC.

Like a boy scout, I believe in "being prepared."

---- "Empty Glass" by: "Manny" http://sideshowmanny.com/

"Synthesis:"

Preparation is what makes the difference between success and failure in everything in life.

Failing to plan is planning to fail, at anything and everything.

Life hits you with things from all sides and its never what you expect.

As we are definitely aware, life consists of the crap that happens to you while you were waiting for something else.

In the case of this show's intended audience, that crap was MS.

Now I've talked about my cane, which is how I manage to get around and its about all I use. The rest of me is relatively unaffected.

My sensory nerves are blessedly not giving me any real, or "phantom" pain.

My effector nerves aren't too shaky with spasticity either, (though I occasionally suffer from a kind of "physical Tourettes" which makes picking up a glass or a cup a real bitch sometimes.)

I am just real slow to get moving and grooving. (I live my life like I was in a "AquaFit" class, walking around the bottom of a pool with the weight of the water resisting my every motion, but without the cooling effect of a pool. [As you can imagine, that makes getting around in the summertime heat and sunshine a really sweaty bit of work.])

Man, I could use a heat vest or some of that hurricane that's hanging 'round offshore just south of here.

Well, I've done enough editorializing, (or is that pontificating?), for one day.

---- "Under The Glass" by: "The Rhodes" http://www.myspace.com/therhodeseddierhodes

Noise or the utter absence of noise (like living in the neurological equivalent of an anechoic chamber,) can really mess you up, disorient you and in general make you a miserable person.

Well, at least, my glasses aren't too thick.

---- "(My Glasses Are) Too Thick" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks" http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/

"Conclusion:"

Its not so much a question of planning as it is one of readiness. You should be in a position to recover quickly when life swings that shovel at your face.

With apologies to the "Firesign Theatre" for providing me with the next meme, "When life slips you a mickey, you should be prepared to upend your life, head down the freeway of your choice to ..." Somewhere you didn't plan on being. Nobody does man."

Like Tom Lehrer sang: "Be prepared. That's a boy scout sacred creed."

---- "Be Prepared" by: "Tom Lehrer" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=305884605&s=143441

Outro

The next show will be on a topic dear to my heart and olfactory sense: "Personal Hygiene".

The one after that concerns some feed back and feed forward I recently received.

After that, I'll review (quite favorably,) "The Chaos Scenario" by "Bob Garfiel" of "On The Media" fame. [ http://thechaosscenario.net/blog/ ].

(And I'm going to find out how he published his book. At $13.95 its priced for success.)

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Geek NASA" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"

Song list:

"Glass of Tea feat Dan Leeds, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Victoria Lavington"
by: "1918 A House Divided Original Cast Recording"
http://myspace.com/1918themusical
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Stained Glass Hammers"
by: "3jane"
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3jane
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Glass Elevator"
by: "The Coloured Lights"
http://www.thecolouredlights.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Empty Glass"
by: "Manny"
http://sideshowmanny.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Under The Glass"
by: "The Rhodes"
http://www.myspace.com/therhodeseddierhodes
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"(My Glasses Are) Too Thick"
by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"
http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Be Prepared"
by: "Tom Lehrer"
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=305884605&s=143441
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 my 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

msb-0384 School's Almost Here

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0384 School's Almost Here

YouTube videos:

"School's Out" by: "Alice Cooper & The Muppets"

..

Alice Cooper Staples Commercial
..

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'm too busy this week to reply to any feedback that's not related to my book.

I'm trying to do some promotion and its turning out to be quite a chore.

I may be coming to a book store in or near your town soon.

I'll be the exhausted George Carlin look-alike long-haired dude with a red cane sitting at a table at the back of the Borders or the Barnes & Nobles near you.

I'll post up the dates and the locations as I book them.

In the meantime, I am trying out the new schedule and stuff I thought was only going to happen next year I'm trying out today, Sunday, August 16, 2009.

This will be the new regular schedule for MSB's Podcast.

The WSPC Disability Show will be happening on Mondays at 17:00 (5PM).

The WSPC ThymeWarp will be happening on Wednesday's at 17:00 (5PM).

---- "Dead Bodies in the Schoolyard" by: "Thin Acid Angel" http://www.thinacidangel.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.

---- "Cigarette Schoolgirl" by: "Nino Tirez" http://www.myspace.com/ninotirez

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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

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

----

Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg a couple of weeks ago.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The trade price, which Amazon would pay for ordering large quantities, goes down to about half of that but I'm practically eating my own shorts at that kind of ROI.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

Oh and thanks for asking JP.

The cover image was shot during the run of the "Christo and Jeanne-Claude" project called "The Gates" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates ] in Central Park, New York, on February 26th, 2005.

Yes, that is me, and that is my red cane.

It was cold that day which explains the black things on my hands. They're called winter gloves and, man, I needed them.

It wasn't very windy but the air was very damp and threatening with snow. That's the kind of weather that chills you to the bones.

I've been in Ottawa in sunny -40Â weather and it wasn't that cold.

---- "Schools Out" by: "Fire Underground" http://www.fireunderground.com/

"Thesis:"

I've been reading the book "Animal Spirits" by "George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller" (ISBN 978-0-691-14233-3 ) and its, uh, quite interesting.

There is a behavior which I haven't seen mentioned yet (it IS mentioned later in chapter 10, but I'm not there yet [okay, I have done a quick scan and the mention that I was hoping I would see ... I'm not seeing.])

Hmm... Could it be I made an original observation?

---- "Peaked in Highschool" by: "Jeff Mallon" http://www.jeffmallon.com/

"Synthesis:"

The savings rate in the United States is frankly pathetic and I think this may be another "animal spirit" as exemplified by "La Cigale" the "Grasshopper" in "Les Fables De LaFontaine" known to my Anglophone audience as "Aesop's Fables" [ http://aesopfables.com/ ]

There seems to be a natural "animus" that we humans tend to be profligate in good times and to crash and die along with our economies when times are lean, and right now, times are lean.

Almost every species does this, so we're hardly unique in this respect.

But we're supposed to be better at planning than an elk or a tiger or every other species out there (well "almost" every other species out there, insects have us beat. :-)

Millions of people are out of work and most of them are crashing right along with the economy.

With unwilling and unprepared for unemployment over 10%, the toll on citizens of this country is truly savage and getting desperate.

After 9/11 I was one of the "Gold Card Homeless" and was able to buy some shelter while my home, across the street from the World Trade center, was unreachable and the air around there was unbreathable.

Unlike a lot of my neighbors, I paid for my shelter out of my savings because I "had" some.

When I was able to return to work, I did, but not before.

That's the luxury of having squirreled away some savings.

Granted they were just about exhausted by then, but I'd had some, instead of coming back too soon, being a head-case and suffering from PTSD.

That's what my savings bought me, the time to work through it.

When most of my fellow workers who consult for the banking industry are wishing they could find employment flipping burgers, I am able to spend my time now going to school and bettering myself by returning to college while I am currently unemployed, because I managed my savings wisely the last time I *was* employed.

I wrote my book, and I will flog it, because I was able to write it and because I am able to do the promotion.

My savings gave me the option of doing so.

Unlike the guys out there at the end of their rope, thinking about suckin' on the business-end of a magnum, I "will" survive.

I will outlast this recession, and probably the next one too, because investors are idiots and I don't see the FTC having the balls to bitch-slap the weak-minded vulture capitalists out there at any time soon.

The United States is NO place to be if you're "sans le sou", "without two cents to rub together."

But seriously, if buy the book and you'll keep me traveling to a book fair near you, (or should that read FAR from you. :-)

I'm already thinking about the next book on podcasting and the disabled and other minority groups.

---- "Residential School" by: "SOL 3" http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada

"Conclusion:"

I've been told that being unnaturally cheerful and optimistic is a symptom of MS.

But I keep going back to "La Cigalle et la Fourmie".

I'm no economist, (or is that behaviorist?) but it seems that the necessary instinct to thrift is exactly backward in humans and other mammals.

We spend freely when times are good and we "tighten up the money supply" when times are bad, when that is 180Â from the way we "should" be doing it.

The profligate way leads to cycles of glut and privation, booms and crashes.

The thrifty way leads to the smoothing out of the road.

The crashes of the 1890, the 1930s, the 1970s, the 2000s, the minor recessions in between and this current crisis all show the same pattern.

The triggers for the recessions-slash-depressions may all be different but the cause for the crashes are all the same, people don't save any money when they have it, to serve as a buffer when its not coming in.

I'm sorry but I 'm just a man who thinks that its not a good idea to let greedy children run with scissors, specially when the children have a demonstrated and well documented history of self-inflicted economic injuries to themselves and to everyone else with their irrational exuberance [ ] ...

We must enforce thrift, not just encourage it, so this kind of crap doesn't cover the landscape again, like feces spraying around from the back end of a hippopotamus, wagging its short, fat tail furiously to aid in ensuring its wide messy and smelly dispersal.

As it is, I'm only asking that my listeners buy my book, a real object, not a bunch of empty promises, some hand-waving, smoke and mirrors.

---- "Charity Case" by: "MC Frontalot" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=80895957&s=143441

Outro

The difference between Lamborghini or Ferrari and Chrysler or GM is that, wait for it, the luxury car companies didn't over-extend themselves.

The recession just lopped off some of the waiting list. The factories are as busy as ever.

This seems to be a generalized malaise endemic of the atitude that kills car companies or wipes out entire populations, and causes extinctions of both corporations and fauna.

Lets hope we grow at least as smart as other nations' governments, like Argentina's which mandated that everybody "must" be saving for their retirement, and as a result, is weathering the financial crisis far better than us.

In several countries, there is a mandatory percentage of your salary that must be saved for your retirement.

Those are the countries who loaned the US Government the nearly one trillion dollars that the US Government now finds itself on the hook for. (And it may be the US Government that took out the loan but its the U.S. Citizens who have to pay every cent of it back.)

----

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

YouTube video list:

"School's Out"
by: "Alice Cooper & The Muppets"

Alice Cooper Staples Commercial

Song list:

"Dead Bodies in the Schoolyard"
by: "Thin Acid Angel"
http://www.thinacidangel.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Cigarette Schoolgirl"
by: "Nino Tirez"
http://www.myspace.com/ninotirez
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Schools Out"
by: "Fire Underground"
http://www.fireunderground.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Peaked in Highschool"
by: "Jeff Mallon"
http://www.jeffmallon.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Residential School"
by: "SOL 3"
http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Charity Case"
by: "MC Frontalot"
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=80895957&s=143441
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 my 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

msb-0383 Tertiary pain

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0383 Tertiary pain

YouTube videos:

Color Wheel for Kids: Demonstrations and Projects : Mixing Tertiary Colors for Kids
..

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...

This week is about the tertiary pain of a second-order derivative disease.

On a color wheel of agony, its sort of like mixing an orange flash of self-loating with the "red with shame" hue of embarrassment over feeling like we sometimes do.

And yet it is of primary importance that we realize that "we didn't do this to ourselves."

We couldn't even if we wanted to.

We just got sick.

---- "The Third Passenger"by: "BeebleBrox" http://www.acmerecords.com/beeblebrox.php

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.

---- "THIRD DRONE"by: "Jeff Rosiana" http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=2783e76c9e7a1ca62824199c1c3c8224

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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

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

----

Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg all last week.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

My book is out!

Oh my gawd, my book is OUT!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The trade price, which Amazon would pay for ordering large quantities, goes down to about half of that but I'm practically eating my own shorts at that kind of ROI.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I absolutely "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

---- "Anxiety, Third Movement" by: "Mark Heimonen" http://www.myspace.com/markheimonen

"Thesis:"

I'm going to quote from a page written by an MS blogger: [ http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/32873/80297/pain-ms ]

"Tertiary pain, the social, vocational and psychological complications brought on by primary and secondary symptoms, can be as painful, albeit it in a different way, as any pain associated with MS.

Those described here, and others like them, are life changing, sometimes devastatingly so, and rarely in a positive light.

MS steals our function, and it also steals our self-confidence, scrambles our social lives, and reduces or eliminates our independence."

If fact, that doesn't apply just to MS, but to all disabilities.

---- "On the Third Day"by: "Marriott Jazz Quintet" http://www.marriottjazz.com/

"Synthesis:"

Part of the tertiary pain that arises comes out of the ignorance is fostered by the US "health-don't-care" system.

The nose to the grind stone, shoulder to the wheel, fence-straddling rugged individualism of the "Horatio Algier" mythic hero was total bunk then, and its even more bunk now.

The only ones that like it are the same people, or the same kind of people, who preferred pinning their own customers like bugs on a steering wheel column as the result of a low speed crash rather than spend the three hundred dollars on collapsible steering columns, because they wouldn't pay for it, so that must mean that nobody else would pay for it either.

WRONG!

There is a kind of person who looks at everything through actuarial eyes.

Everything is on a profit and loss spreadsheet with these people or it doesn't exist.

They will go to their graves convinced that their own myopia must be the limit of everything.

These accountants of the soul would condemn their own mothers to a slow and painful death before they would consider helping their fellow man, because don't have an entry for being a decent human being on their spreadsheets.

I would laugh in their pathetic faces if it wasn't so tragic.

These people suffer from seriously withered souls.

They are deficient in the first and most human characteristic of empathy.

They can look at tragedy and never be affected by it.

These people represent the worst of humanity.

They can justify anything in support of their own cause and never even see what damage their unthinking, unfeeling behavior is having on their own society.

That's called being sociopaths.

Well turn about is fair play.

They just don't care about us as we suffer so we don't have to feel bad about their having to find another way to ply their trades.

Single payer health care is the "only" way to go and its been proven in every single civilized country, every single time its been applied.

No first or second world country has a health care system in such shameful disarray.

The US literally has a third world health care system and in Washington DC the infant mortality is looking up to that of bloody Haiti, for god's sake.

Tertiary pain looks like its going to stay unless and until we get rid of the block heads who clutter our horizon because people in the 'States are schizophrenic and self-delusional.

---- "The Third Passenger" by: "Monika Herzig" http://monikaherzig.com/

"Conclusion:"

Tertiary pain is tough, but it is one everybody can do something about at no cost to themselves.

Basically it just calls for people "not" to be such block-heads.

You want to hear something that should scare the defenders of the current "health-don't-care" system.

ALL medical expenses can be denied by the insurance industry.

ALL treatments are experimental because all of medicine is an imprecise field.

Doctors only ever practice medicine because, unlike engineering, nothing is ever guaranteed.

If ALL treatments are experimental then no surgery is ever justifiable.

Think of that as your coverage get dropped from a policy.

The insurance companies make their money by charging you for a policy and then denying you coverage that you paid for.

We'll get back to policies, coverages and the avoidance of risk in the next episode.

If you're hearing my voice, chances are that you didn't avoid risk well enough.

Sometimes right down to choosing better parents.

---- "Third Day"by: "The Alice Project" http://thealiceproject.com/

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Color Wheel for Kids: Demonstrations and Projects : Mixing Tertiary Colors for Kids"

Song list:

"The Third Passenger"
by: "BeebleBrox"
http://www.acmerecords.com/beeblebrox.php
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"THIRD DRONE"
by: "Jeff Rosiana"
http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=2783e76c9e7a1ca62824199c1c3c8224
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Anxiety, Third Movement"
by: "Mark Heimonen"
http://www.myspace.com/markheimonen
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"On the Third Day"
by: "Marriott Jazz Quintet"
http://www.marriottjazz.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The Third Passenger"
by: "Monika Herzig"
http://monikaherzig.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Third Day"
by: "The Alice Project"
http://thealiceproject.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 my 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

msb-0382 The Red Queen

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:46:00 GMT

msb-0382 The Red Queen

YouTube videos:

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

..

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

..

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...

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else â 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"

----

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.

----

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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

----

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.

----

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.

----

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.

----

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.)

----

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

----

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

----

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 my 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

msb-0381 Sans sons, sans commentaires

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0381 Sans sons, sans commentaires

YouTube videos:

"Teardrop" by: "Massive Attack" (Video with lyrics)
..

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...

Catch the video at the beginning of today's episode on the blogroll at libsyn [ http://msb.libsyn.com/ ] or the one on the MSBPodcast wiki... [ http://www.msbpodcast.com ]

Hell, if you used iTunes to podcatch it, or if you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, click here and now for the YouTube video. [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXI77b6OlpE ]

I can wait for you to come back. I'm not going anywhere, honest...

---- "Attack" by: "Force Theory" http://www.forcetheory.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.

And I'm making good progress on my book. You'll hear about it quite soon.

---- "Another Attack" by: "Zox" http://www.zoxband.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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

---- "Global Attack" by: "Ben Base" http://www.myspace.com/benbase

"Thesis:"

If you're NOT using iTunes, an iPhone or an iPod Touch, skip ahead to the song in the next chapter. (Oh, sorry, you probably can't...)

On an older iPod you could skip the chapter, but you couldn't link to the web.

---- "Attack of the Weiner Dogs" by: "Hardlogic" http://www.hardlogic.net/

"Synthesis:"

Okay, I had you chase off after the video "Tear Drop" by "Massive Attack" to accomplish the following things:

First, to let the video creep you out. (Its nearly good enough of a synthetic creation to do it. No, real babies don't sing in the womb and they certainly don't look like that, nor does a womb look like that either.)

Second, to let you experience how interconnected the user experience of .m4a audio file is compared to radio or even MP3 format files.

Third, to let you know that the theme for the TV series "House M.D." is a fragment of a very weird little tune by a very weird group of people who, by all rights should still be an indie band, but aren't.

And what does signing with a major label bring you?

Record distribution.

That it. Nothing else.

No more money than you can claw out of their fists.

No more promotion than you could afford to do on your own.

No more travel expenses than you're already paying for.

Lord help you if they actually fronted you any money, because you know you have to pay that back, don't you?

---- "Attack of the Green Men" by: "Moonchild Louis" http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4394084787

"Conclusion:"

This concludes our little demonstration of the linking capabilities of m4a files like the ones in this podcast.

We'll be back to normal next episode.

---- "Drum Attack" by: "Beats" http://client.337studios.com/

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Teardrop"
by: "Massive Attack"

Song list:

"Attack"
by: "Force Theory"
http://www.forcetheory.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Another Attack"
by: "Zox"
http://www.zoxband.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Global Attack"
by: "Ben Base"
http://www.myspace.com/benbase
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Attack of the Weiner Dogs"
by: "Hardlogic"
http://www.hardlogic.net/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Attack of the Green Men"
by: "Moonchild Louis"
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4394084787
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Drum Attack"
by: "Beats"
http://client.337studios.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 my 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

msb-0380 Man, Oh Man

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0380 Man, Oh Man

YouTube videos:

"Man, Oh Man" by: "Persuasions"
..

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...

Money and its value is central to the economy and, as we have seen in a space months, that value goes from a perception of being rock solid into the perception of being as evanescent as mist and fog.

I just watched the ascent of money on PBS. [ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/ ] Its a great, great show.

Money, and the value of money, is so central to our own sense of worth.

----

Well, its on. I've recommended that the student council have contra-accounts for the clubs, associations and organizations which will reduce their 'debt' owed to WSPC, the "Voice of St. Peter's College" by ten bucks an ad, at one week per ad run time...

If they "don't" use their ads and promote WSPC in their clubs, associations and organizations, they owe "us" ... The easiest way "not" to owe us is to use up their ad budget.

Its enough to make sure that they use WSPC but its not so much that they don't have to be judicious in how they use it.

The school semester is fifteen weeks long, the amount in the contra-accounts is enough to cover ten of those weeks.

If they have events at the end of the semester, they'll have to "not" use WSPC for some of those weeks.

---- "Ain't It Hard" by: "Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings" http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/stable_sharon.html

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.

And I'm making good progress on my book. You'll hear about it quite soon.

---- "Biggest Mistake" by: "Carrie Catherine" http://www.carriecatherine.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.

----

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.

----

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 ]

----

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.

---- "Just Feel Good" by: "Anduze" http://myspace.com/anduzemusic

"Thesis:"

I'm still trying to figure out what all can be done with the R16.

Man this thing is small but its like a hundred bladed Swiss army knife.

Cubase LE 4 is also this ginormous multi-functional Hydra that's a little, a heck, who am I kidding, the thing is absolutely overwhelming.

I am about to do battle with the Gorgon and I "will" slay her,

---- "Everybody's Talkin' Bout My Baby" by: "The Beatsstalkers" http://www.myspace.com/thebeatstalkers

"Synthesis:"

The worst part, no make that the best part, is that there is a large community formed around the products so there are all kinds of videos and project files (bet you didn't know every one of these podcasts is a project in Cubase, and any project can run away into becoming a symphony, or a crappy little jingle.)

Cubase seems to be this complicated monster that has been evolving, "sub rosa", hidden for years.

The layout of the visual components clearly shows a Unix architecture and aesthetics.

The dialogue flow is clearly "old school" and though it clearly must reflect several generations of reflection and refactoring, it never strays too far from its roots.

This thing quickly becomes a mess of popup windows and the screen quickly has a cluttered feel.

But that's to be expected when you're dealing with a hundred bladed Swiss Army knife. Its cumbersome and it gives you way too much control, stuff that you don't expect to ever use.

Still, it does give you complete control. You just have to learn when you don't give a crap about stuff and don't need to bother.

I'm going to have to read "all" of the manuals anyway because I'm an obsessive lunatic and want to know all of it.

That however is not going to stop me from using the small subset that I do need to use and know in order to do a better job of putting the audio together on these podcasts.

---- "If I Knew" by: "Femi" http://www.femimusic.com/

"Conclusion:"

I'm just going to take it by small steps.

I'm doing this because I am going to branch out.

----

I am writing a book of selected episodes from the podcast and its also about doing this podcast.

That's going to come out in January.

----

I will be doing this show live for an hour on Sunday's at 15:00 EST, here in new Jersey. It'll still feature a mix of indie tunes and talk.

----

I'm taking "The Disability Show", live for an hour, on Monday at 17:00 EST to a whole new level. It is going to feature talk over the phone and/or Skype, guests and topics other" than MS.

I'm communicating with Rudy Sims and he's giving me some hints and pointing in the right directions.

----

I'll also be moving "The Thyme Warp", live for an hour, on Wednesday at 17:00EST forward a few centuries, in attitude if not in actual chronology, and featuring music your grand parents probably grooved to.

----

I'm taking Friday's off for school work. That should do it for me.

---- "Gods of Almost" by: "Daughters and Sons"

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Man, Oh Man"
by: "Persuasions"

Song list:

"Ain't It Hard"
by: " Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings"
http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Biggest Mistake"
by: "Carrie Catherine"
http://www.carriecatherine.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Just Feel Good"
by: "Anduze"
http://myspace.com/anduzemusic
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Everybody's Talkin' Bout My Baby"
by: "The Beatsstalkers"
http://www.myspace.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"If I Knew"
by: "Femi"
http://www.femimusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Gods of Almost"
by: "Daughters and Sons"
http://daughtersandsons.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 my 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

msb-0379 Wretched Wednesday

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0379 Wretched Wednesday

YouTube videos:

"Wednesday Morning 3 A.M." by: "Simon & Garfunkle"
..

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 have to do some marketing manager stuff today, as I release this. "You" can hear it whenever.

While you're enjoying this show, I'll be "doing lunch" (as opposed to eating) and trying out some budget ideas for WSPC.

----

Ok, ok, I'll stop it with the classical MIDI music at the end.

Jeez.

A little culture never raised any welts, you know.

---

The UPS man came on Monday and brought me a neat little toy.

The Samson Zoom R-16 is going to be so much fun.

I have cleaned some space on my desk and installed it, but not ensconced it in there, because it is capable of doing remote 8-track recording and mixing.

(So now I'm going to be looking which bag to use to carry it in, along with some mikes, tripod stands, cables and gaffer tape.)

----

I'd like to introduce you to Rudy Sims and his disability resource exchange, which is a kind of social network for the rest of us, so I'm going to feature links to it in the Feed Forward segment.

---- "Midnight Wednesday" by: "Dave Howard" http://hiddenagendamusic.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"

----

Rudy Sims is not an MSer but he is someone who is very, very, active in the disability circuit, on Twitter, he has a wiki and has a couple of sites for people who are coping with disability.

He is currently running and promoting the Disability Resource Exchange [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ].

I would urge everybody out there to go and check out the site as its got a lot of people on it so there is a greater likelihood that somebody knows exactly how to help.

----

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.

---- "Wednesday" by: "Durango" http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/www.endgame.com.au

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.

----

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.

----

My next 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 ]

----

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/ ]

Rudy has Cerebral Palsy. I have MS. Somebody else has something else.

He is on Twitter.

I am on Twitter.

(Some people say I must be on drugs, but they're just mean and don't want to share theirs. [But enough about the for-profit health-don't-care system that all American are burdened with, {along with the poorest nations on earth, for whom an illness usually is a death sentence.}])

He also has a website called Coping With Disability [ http://www.copingwithdisability.com ]

This site shows the proper spirit and "can do!" attitude that says that he might be different from the norm, but his use of the technology available to him turns the barrier of disability into something much more manageable by using adaptive tools and techniques as an equalizer.

I admire him for that.

---- "Wednesday's Child" by: "Homespun" http://myspace.com/homespuntb

"Thesis:"

I'm glad that Rudy got in touch with me.

I'm thinking of branching out and reaching more people.

The problem with MS is those damned demographics.

0.0833% of a population is a damnably small base to build on, to try to reach all of the MSers out there.

---- "wednesday morning" by: "slackstring" http://www.slackstring.com/

"Synthesis:"

I'm trying to expand the listenership by appealing to everybody out there with any sort of disability, which as you know is around 15% of the population, or 975 million people on this planet alive right now...

Needless to say, the actual number of people is much smaller since, instead of 6.6 billion people, the relevant population that I can reach over the web works out to a measly half-a-billion English speakers, out of which a mere 75 million are disabled, to a varying degree and for a varying period of time.

Still 75 million potential customers and voters is enough to get people in economic or political positions to sit up and take notice.

I should get the various postal services, UPS and FedEx to sponsor me. No matter what, everything'll need shipping from the point where its made to your doors.

---- "7:30 Wednesday" by: "Spudnik" http://www.spudnikpop.com/

"Conclusion:"

I'm still an MSer but to even reach them all, I have to think larger than that.

So I'm tossing in my lot with Rudy, for a while in an effort to reach more of you.

The weekday shows are going to be music for all disabled people and the show will be a platform for ads for products which can make anybody's life easier, better or plain nicer.

---- "Wednesdays Song" by: "Martin Blasick" http://wednesdayssong.wordpress.com/

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"Wednesday Morning 3 A.M."
by: "Simon & Garfunkle"

Song list:

"Midnight Wednesday"
by: "Dave Howard"
http://hiddenagendamusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Wednesday"
by: "Durango"
http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/www.endgame.com.au
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Wednesday's Child"
by: "Homespun"
http://myspace.com/homespuntb
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"wednesday morning"
by: "slackstring"
http://www.slackstring.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"7:30 Wednesday"
by: "Spudnik"
http://www.spudnikpop.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Wednesdays Song"
by: "Martin Blasick"
http://wednesdayssong.wordpress.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 my 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

msb-0378 Monday, monday

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0378 Monday, monday.

YouTube videos:

"Monday Monday" by: "The Mamas & the Papas"
..

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...

Nope. None. Everybody seems to be taking the time off.

Enjoy yourselves. Its later than you think. (OMG did I really say that? [And an "Old Foagie" bonus for anybody who can remember who sang that? {And I'm not talking abut those "Johnnie Come Latelies", "The Specials", I'm talking about the original singer with "Guy Lombardo.}])

Which helps explain the YouTube video at the front.

Ahh, "The Mamas & The Papas." Mama Cass died much too young and her voice was silenced before we got to really hear it.

I'm still promoting the "Media Squat" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=169090703 ] with "Douglas Rushkoff" because I'm still doing it. I have to say I have fun doing the community desk stuff.

And Mr. Rushkoff is such an inspiration. Why do you think I'm writing my book?

---- "Goodbye Blue Monday" by: "Anna Laube" http://www.annalaube.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.

---- "Looking Out On Monday" by: "Greg Johnson" http://www.gregjohnsonmusic.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.

---- "Monday Blues" by: "Hardwire Speers" http://www.hardwirespeers.com/

"Thesis:"

so now that you know my plan for world domination (and if you don't know it, click now to get the episode, [ http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/msb-0377+Man+Friday%2C+or%2C+its+Friday%2C+man ]) what do you think of it?

---- "Monday Afternoon" by: "Philippe Saisse" http://philippesaisse.com/

"Synthesis:"

Its my plan to reduce my patter on the free shows (but not the sponsorship messages,) and still maintain the same three shows a week.

They'll just be a half an hour long. Like this one...

Sunday's is when I will be doing my hour-long show for paying customers.

That show will feature music, emails, voice mails via Skype, maybe a cohost (I'm trying, okay, I'm trying.)

---- "houzy monday housy" by: "Muzik 4 Machines" http://muzik4machines.com/

"Conclusion:"

So what do you think of the idea?

I really need to know if you're on board with the idea on if you think I'm nuts.

Also how many of you are interested in a book about my MS, my life and some show notes?

---- "Monday" by: "Specimen 37'" http://www.specimen37.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
and
"Allemande"
by: Carlo Calvi"
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/midiplay/playmidi.shtml?midi/n1/cal01
no album
via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"Monday Monday"
by: "The Mamas & the Papas"

Song list:

"Goodbye Blue Monday"
by: "Anna Laube"
http://www.annalaube.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Looking Out On Monday"
by: "Greg Johnson"
http://www.gregjohnsonmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Monday Blues"
by: "Hardwire Speers"
http://www.hardwirespeers.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Monday Afternoon"
by: "Philippe Saisse"
http://philippesaisse.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"houzy monday housy"
by: "Muzik 4 Machines"
http://muzik4machines.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Monday"
by: "Specimen 37'"
http://www.specimen37.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 my 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

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

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

YouTube videos:

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

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 QuÃbecois 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"

----

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.

----

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.

---- "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.

----

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.

----

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. :-)

----

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 QuÃbec.

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 Rebifâ, 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

----

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

----

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 my 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

msb-0376 Wyrd Wednesday

charles@msbpodcast.com — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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.

..

SOUR 'æããéè (Hibi no neiro)'
..

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...

Okay, there isn't any. Considering that its been about my opsies lately, I don't mind. :-)

---- "The Angels Tell Her" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.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.

---- "John Badertscher" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.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.

---- "Skin" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Thesis

There's not much happening because there's too much to do.

I am currently digitizing all my vinyl and that has to be done in "real time".

So I'm going to play some music by the "Wyrd Sisters" and the video is one of their performances too.

Its also the name of one of a series of DiskWorld novels by Terry Prachett featuring a bevy of central characters, none more central than Granny Weatherwax, (though Nany Ogg would beg to differ.)

---- "Travel" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

"Synthesis:"

I am torn about whether to continue on my original course or to tell you of the awe and majesty of he Disk World and so lift your lives from the dreary and the mundane up to the imaginative and fantastic.

I "was" making this a show about imagination and the perfect execution that is shown in the second YouTube video accompanying this episode but...

Oh Hells!

Here goes very little.

Sit, sit. Are you all sitting comfortably?([shouted] Sit the [expletive deleted] down!)

We're going to go on a overflight of a most unusual place, consisting of a disk of earth and water, resting on the shoulders of four gigantic elephants all riding on the shell of "A'toon" the space faring turtle.

This place, a plate which is an entire world, consists of a pair of continents and an enormous ocean girt round by a circumfence.

The continents are the separate XXXX, aka Terror Incognita, and the Agatean Empire on the counterweight continent which is thinly connected to the main conjoined kingdoms of Klatch and Ramtops.

Its populated by all manner of characters from the wizards of the unseen university in Ankh Morpork to the witches of Lancre and from the
fearsome residents of the mountain of Ãberwald to the sinister touaregs of the deserts of Djelibeybi, passing through the more colorful characters who make The Shades in Ankh-Morpork such an interesting place to visit, at high speed.

Yes, cartography of the place is quite fascinating on the diskworld.

---- "Unforgiven" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Conclusion:

Now, I will endeavor to tell you that heads much wiser, and closer to the block, than mine have determined that "A'Toon"is a "female" space-faring chelonic.

I'll let that sink in, shall I?

What adventures can be had on a disk, carried on the shoulders of four elephants, riding atop a space faring turtle?

Let your imaginations run wild... Terry Pratchett certainly did.

---- "The One That Never Was" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Outro

----

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

YouTube video list:

"The Wyrd Sisters" by" "The Wyrd Sisters"
and
"æããéè (Hibi no neiro)'"
by: "SOUR" which is one of the most clever image construction and composition jobs I have ever seen.

Song list:

"The Angels Tell Her"
by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"John Badertscher"
by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com"

"Skin"
by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Travel"
by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Unforgiven"
by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The One That Never Was"
by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
http://www.wyrdsisters.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 my 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

msb-0375 One in Tweve-Hundred

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0375 One in Tweve-Hundred

YouTube videos:

Paramore Misery Business Music Video (HD)
..

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.

----

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

----

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

msb-0374 Gasbagin'

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0374 Gasbagin'

YouTube videos:
Gasbags 1/10 (1941)
..
Gasbags 2/10
..
Gasbags 3/10
..
Gasbags 4/10
..
Gasbags 5/10
..
Gasbags 6/10
..
Gasbags 7/10
..
Gasbags 8/10
..
Gasbags 9/10
..
Gasbags 10/10
..

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:

â 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

â 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'nÃ [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

----

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

msb-0373 Just goofin around with numbers.

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

msb-0373 Just goofin around with numbers.

YouTube videos

"I DonÂt 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
..

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.

----

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.

----

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

----

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

YouTube video list:

"I DonÂt 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

----

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

msb-0372 And we're off

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0372 And we're off

YouTube videos

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

..

Horse Racing Movie
..
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.

----

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 MontrÃal, QuÃbec, 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...

----

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.

----

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
â "Chou China",
â the "Old Babylonian Period",
â the "Third Dynasty of UR/Sassinian Period",
â "Old Kingdom Egypt",
â the "Harappans",
â the "Hittites",
â the "Mycenaeans",
â the "Mauryan Empire".
â the civilizations of "Monte Alban",
â the "Hohokam" and
â 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 "QuÃbecois" 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 :
â "resource depletion",
â "new resources",
â "catastrophes",
â "insufficient responses to circumstances",
â "competition with "other complex societies",
â "intruders",
â "confllict/contradiction/mismanagement" by the "soit disant" power elite,
â "social disfunction"
â "mystical" causes,
â the '"chance concatenation of events" and
â "economic explanations'

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

msb-0371 Further Complex Musings

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0371 Further Complex Musings

YouTube videos

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

.

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 YouTube video at the front of this episode comes to you from Sweden courtesy of Una Prosell and I think I'm going to let her suggest some videos from now on.

----

Some days are better than others. :-)

Monday was a good one.

You should all download WFMU's "The Media Squat" with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=309882144 ].

Dang, he's got good delivery and a good message.

Oh and I got acknowledged at 1:00:36 of "The Media Squat"

---- "Lost Civilization" by:"satya" http://music.download.com/satya

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.

----

And now I want to mention Chris Sheridan of MS with no fear [ www.mswithnofear.com ] again as he's got some helpful thoughts [ http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/cat/depression-treatment.html?3690 ] on depression and MS.

I think having MS is depressing enough, thank you veddy much, and can empathize with people who suffer from depression because of their MS.

Like Chris, I avoid taking medication and after watching my father work for a pharmaceutical firm for years and years, I got an exposure that has definitely left me with a jaundiced view of anything without measurable causality.

The link is for a self-hypnosis e-book course. At nearly $100, its rather pricy so make sure its right for you, but if it is, buy it.

[Stage whisper: And tell me if you got anything from the course. I'll feature "you" as well. ]

---- "Classical Civilizations" by:"Ben Base" http://www.myspace.com/benbase

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.

---- "Civil Revolt Part 1" by:"Kou Chou Ching" http://www.myspace.com/koucc

"Thesis:"

Well, that shows you that rap is a sentiment and an attitude, that's not tied to a specific culture. We have Chinese rappers.

We're back to "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 ]

Its such a rich, rich vein to mine.

The beauty of reading about the causes of failure of civilizations means that we can avoid their old mistakes, and have to find new ones instead.

But as long as cupidity is married to stupidity, the search "will" continue.

Its the same kind of behavior and reasoning that strikes anyone confronted with a sign saying "Don't Touch This!"

Any maintenance person can tell you that the worst place for fingerprints and around "Wet Paint" signs.

---- "educated" by:"citizeN" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

"Synthesis:"

Its a damnable human foible to rationalize an explanation, and if it sounds in any way plausible, to stop the investigation right there.

While that might sound sensible, people also believed that the earth was flat just because Aristotle had said so.

Always consider the source. Does it have any credibility in the area?(I wouldn't trust Aristotle to give me any astronomy lessons any more than I would trust a Korowai native to teach me about cooking. [Look it up. Wikipedia is a fount of knowledge.] )

He also thought that insects arose spontaneously from mud. I don't think even the most ardent creationist can believe that.

So what makes a Complex Society Collapse?

What gives rise to a complex society in the first place?

The part of all this that gives me hope is that the introduction of the internet gives rise to a mechanism for handling complexity so utterly breath taking that it has led to the utter collapse:

â of newspapers, while leaving people vastly more informed than before and able to find information to further their own education,

â of the RIAA, while freeing the artists of the oligopolistic model of music and sound production and consumption,

* of the mystico-econo-political structures of religion,

â of the out dated modes of production and consumption as we have witnessed in the collapse of the real estate and durable goods,

â of the off-shoring and out-sourcing of labor both for physical goods and for skilled labor.

Of course its not all skittles and beer you know. We have seen various non-states, such as criminal organizations, terrorist networks and other nefarious no-goodniks, take full advantage of the information flows possible since 1995 with the introduction of the web. They were much quicker to see the potential of the internet than the rest of the legit world.

Now I just have to survive while everything is up in a heaval.

The book was a great thought provoking read.

---- "Soul Education Feat. TearS" by:"The Lyrical Prophet" http://myspace.com/thelyricalprophet

"Conclusion:"

Anybody who says anything to me is likely to find me very skeptical.

I don't need to know the details (okay, I LOVE to know the details, all the details, all of the little niggling "drive you nuts with the endless stream of questions" details,) but I am going to ask that person to run a "sanity check" on whatever idea they advance.

If they can't, then screw 'em, and their half-ased idea.

Bugs do NOT arise spontaneously from mud, okay Aristotle?

But we have seen complex civilizations rise and fall several times all over this continent within a single lifetime, mine, in the sixties.

QuÃbec was so truly, deeply, completely and utterly transformed by "La RÃvolution Tranquille", the quiet revolution, that the death of the "old" agrarian QuÃbec civilization and the birth of the "new"industrial QuÃbec took place almost entirely while I I was still in grade school.

The 'States was also going through some major changes at the time too.

Everything from what we were to who we thought we were and our relationships to each other was dragged kicking and screaming into a new normal.

No we didn't all die and the world didn't come to an end for most people, but the change was total and complete.

I will get back to civilization, culture, politics and technology next episode for one last whack at this book.

---- "Uneducated Guess" by:"3rd Man" http://www.acmerecords.com/thirdman.php

Outro

----

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

Video list:

"Teach me" by: "Magdalena Konefal" www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal picked for me by Una Prosell

Song list:

"Lost Civilization"
by:"satya"
http://music.download.com/satya
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Classical Civilizations"
by:"Ben Base"
http://www.myspace.com/benbase
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Civil Revolt Part 1"
by:"Kou Chou Ching"
http://www.myspace.com/koucc
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"educated"
by:"citizeN"
http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Soul Education Feat. TearS"
by:"The Lyrical Prophet"
http://myspace.com/thelyricalprophet
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Uneducated Guess"
by:"3rd Man"
http://www.acmerecords.com/thirdman.php
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

msb-0370 In Case of Emergence

charles@msbpodcast.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0370 In Case of Emergence

YouTube videos

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

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

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.

----

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. :-)

----

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

msb-0369 Oops

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:59:00 GMT

msb-0369 Oops

YouTube videos

Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
..

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...

Oooo, I'm going to be doing the show for Mr. Rushkoff somewhere else next Monday.

He's recording it at "Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th and Broadway" and I'm going to check out their studio equipment. :-)

Dang, I was up all last night reading a fascinating book titled "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 won't bore you with the details ... yet :-)

Today you're getting only some music.

---- "Dannys Incredible Music - all garageband loops" by:"D*anny Fong* (Some Tracks Feat. A cappella quartet, 'Mixed Nuts' or other friends and family)" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=c5a8499e2956c0c0e1e98d2c2438f014

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.

---- "Loops and Scales - Part One" by:"Darren Lock" http://www.darrenlock.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.

---- "Haiku of Loopster" by:"HatHead" http://www.hatheadmusic.com/

Thesis

I told you I'm exhausted, late and I need a coffee.

---- "Whoops I ODd - Live in San Francisco" by:"NOFX" http://www.fatwreck.com/

"Synthesis:"

You're going to get a few podcasts from my all-nighter.

---- "loopseeeee" by:"none" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

Conclusion:

Now I'm going back to bed. Yawn

---- "not the shifties oops" by:"The Shifties" http://myspace.com/theshifties

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Dannys Incredible Music - all garageband loops"
by:"*Danny Fong* (Some Tracks Feat. A cappella quartet, 'Mixed Nuts' or other friends and family)"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=c5a8499e2956c0c0e1e98d2c2438f014
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Loops and Scales - Part One"
by:"Darren Lock"
http://www.darrenlock.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Haiku of Loopster"
by:"HatHead"
http://www.hatheadmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Whoops I ODd - Live in San Francisco"
by:"NOFX"
http://www.fatwreck.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"loopseeeee"
by:"none (Guess he was shy, or stupid)"
http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"not the shifties oops"
by:"The Shifties"
http://myspace.com/theshifties
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

msb-0368 Intrinsic Worth

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

msb-0368 Intrinsic Worth

YouTube videos

The Kiva Story
..

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
â your paychecks or investments are poured into anonymous institutions,
â 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
â 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

msb-0367 Stay Focused

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0367 Stay Focused

YouTube videos

Focus- Hocus Pocus (live '73)
..

Johnny Winter-Highway 61 Revisited (Centralia PA.)
..

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

msb-0366 Lazy-Ass Journalists

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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 MontrÃal 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

msb-0365 Its not all about me you know

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:40:00 GMT

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

msb-0364 Things are starting to heat up

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0364 Things are starting to heat up

YouTube videos

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

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...

One of the advantages of using the wiki, or even just using LibSyn's blog roll, is that the shows are evergreen, meaning that the shows stick around as long as I can keep up the payments.

I just spoke with my professor and we're going to get all kinds of crap sorted out before the school's fall term when the usual suspects gets back from, for the lucky ones, trying to replenish their pocketbooks or for the unlucky, or very lucky ones a summer of indolence and sloth.

One of the advantages of being the Marketing director is that I get to run all these promotional ideas and all these money making schemes by him.

I'm sure that there something that can be worked between the school and BarbCo so that we can use either blank sleeves, or sleeves pre-stamped with the WSPC logos and she can keep on giving to the charities.

---- "8-Bit Heat" by: "Adhesion" http://evilresidence.com/adhesion

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"

---- "Midnight Heat" by: "TWiG" http://www.myspace.com/twigsbeats

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 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.

---- "Heat" by: "Lance Wing" http://www.lancewing.com/

"Thesis:"

I often have a hard time with the heat.

The mental image of my body outline seems to get looser leading me to "rattle around in my somatic cage" which causes a lot of spilt whatevers, trouble getting up and getting to places, and generally being a spaz.

In the coming months I will be hugging the AC.

---- "heated" by: "Homeliss Derilex" http://www.myspace.com/homelissderilex

"Synthesis:"

I have often wondered why I become, uh, less defined when the heat is on but since it happens, I just go with it and cope as best I can.

Luckily I don't have to go outside much when the sun is out.

I suppose it has something to do with muscle relaxation and the need for greater neurological control to maintain muscle tone.

I will be engaging in late day activities and becoming vampiric in my habits, staying out of direct sunlight.

Maybe I'll even start to watch old shows of "Forever night" on Hulu [ http://www.hulu.com/forever-knight ] or something similar.

Watching "From Dusk Till Dawn" with Quenton Tarentino" [ http://unlockhulu.com/?p=634 ] ought to get me in the right mood.

The beginning of that film is pretty intense but it settles down to mere murder and mayhem, until the last half hour.

Then it gets intense again... (Guess who loves Robert Rodriguez, [undoubtedly ably aided by Quentin Tarantino. :-])

---- "The Heats To Blame" by: "Casey Desmond" http://www.caseydesmond.com/

Conclusion:

The loss of definition of my mental image of my self, the loss of "soma", is one of the most annoying things about my MS.

I hate becoming spastic just because its warm outside.

---- "New York City Heat" by: "Dead Heart Bloom" http://www.deadheartbloom.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"8-Bit Heat"
by: "Adhesion"
http://evilresidence.com/adhesion
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Midnight Heat"
by: "TWiG"
http://www.myspace.com/twigsbeats
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Heat"
by: "Lance Wing"
http://www.lancewing.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"heated"
by: "Homeliss Derilex"
http://www.myspace.com/homelissderilex
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The Heats To Blame"
by: "Casey Desmond"
http://www.caseydesmond.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"New York City Heat"
by: "Dead Heart Bloom"
http://www.deadheartbloom.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

msb-0363 Home

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

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

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

YouTube videos

Advance Patrol - "BlÃgula fÃrger"
..

Advance Patrol - Soy De La Calle
..

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 donât 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. Thatâs why weâre 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 MalmÃ, 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

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

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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 NeurologyÂ 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:
   â   Ependymal cells which secrete cerebrospinal fluid,
   â   Radial glia which serve as a scaffold on new neurons migrate,
   â   Schwann cells which are another kind of cell which are responsible for generating myelin
   â   Sattelite cells which surround neurons in sensory, sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia.
   â   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

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

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

Theme Song to Alfred Hitchcock Presents
..

Theme Song to Mister Roger's Neighborhood:
..

Theme Song to The Peanuts (Linus and Lucy)
..

Theme Song to The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
..

Theme Song to Mission: Impossible
..

Theme Song to The Twilight Zone
..

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 video's this time are all from the golden age of TV.

Of course this starts with Alfred Hittchcock and ends in "The Twilight Zone" but that's because I've had an extremely wyrd weekend.

The kind of weekend that serve as the foundation for books, of applied psychology.

But to keep my sense of humor I'm listening to the podcast of "A Prarie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon"

Podcasts have really gone in different directions since I got into them in February of 2006.

I'm NOT complaining.

All these heavy hitters are just legitimizing what I knew in my gut years ago.

---- "Breaking my heart" by: "Marie Crehan" http://www.myspace.com/MarieCrehan

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"

---- "Blackheart Blues" by: "Melissa Forbes" http://www.melissaforbes.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,

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.

---- "Lonesome Hearted Woman's Blues" by: "Plastic Soul Band" http://plasticsoul.jp/

"Thesis:"

Here I go again boring my listeners with talk about the new media but you're my sounding board and you keep me grounded. (I "hear" your comments when I get too far off the beam. Some of you are definitely not shy about telling me I'm quote, "Full of it" unquote.

The last show left people with the impression that I didn't think much of the MS International Federation, or at least of their advertising agency.

I DO think highly of them and that's why I don't want to see thing running afoul.

---- "My Heart" by: "flattstreet" http://www.flattstreet.ca/

"Synthesis:"

Peer Baneke of the MSIF replied to me.

HE wants to see things running smoothy as well.

There is a common bond between our two global organizations. Apart from the obvious, I mean.

His is trying to bring some global coordination to the admittedly medical and non-commercial endeavors of the local MS societies all over the world,

Mine is dedicated to bringing something entirely different to my world-wide internet audience, namely a sense of normalcy for us all, hearing about the therapies, goods and services and products that could improve our day-to-day lives.

We will be continuing our conversations because we have much to offer each other.

It turned out, it wasn't an agency. Its actually being done in-house by someone who's not in the media industry.

---- "Kind Hearted Woman" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

"Conclusion:"

So I went from a rant over ineffective communications to a collaboration.

Let be a lesson to me.

---- "Crippled Heart Blues" by: "Lana Martino-Smith" http://www.lanamartinosmith.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Breaking my heart"
by: "Marie Crehan"
http://www.myspace.com/MarieCrehan
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Blackheart Blues"
by: "Melissa Forbes"
http://www.melissaforbes.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lonesome Hearted Woman's Blues"
by: "Plastic Soul Band"
http://plasticsoul.jp/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"My Heart"
by: "flattstreet"
http://www.flattstreet.ca/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Kind Hearted Woman"
by: "Johnny Nicholas"
http://topcatrecords.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Crippled Heart Blues"
by: "Lana Martino-Smith"
http://www.lanamartinosmith.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

msb-0359 Beautiful Day

Thu, 28 May 2009 16:12:00 GMT

msb-0359 Beautiful Day

YouTube Beautiful Day:
..

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...

Yesterday was the first World MS Day.

I discovered that in an email in my inbox yesterday afternoon.

What the hell kind of event promotion is this?

By the time "anybody" could find out, the day's over...

I know for next year but ... jeesh.

How the hell do they get any participation?

People were just discovering this too, as I could tell by the low number of followers on twitter.

More on this later in the episode. Suffice ti to say that that execrable campaign is why this episode is 24 hours late.

I threw away the episode I had prepared, flung it at the freakin' wall, and created this episode instead.

---- "The First Time" by: "Audio Spaghetti" http://www.myspace.com/audiospaghetti

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"

---- "First Run" by: "Jon Schmidt" http://jonschmidt.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,

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.

---- "First Date" by: "Danko Jones" http://www.dankojones.com/

"Thesis:"

I love finding out about things on the very day that they're happening.

What is this?

Planing to fail by failing to plan?

The FIRST thing you learn about promoting an event is to get the word out in time for people to react.

This was the equivalent to getting a reprieve from the governor half a day after the feakin' lever's been pulled.

And twenty seconds on the news after the event has happened earlier that day is definitely NOT it.

For event promotion, the news is,not the right name for it, its the "olds"

That, at best, is PR and that serves to build a brand, not to advertise an event.

---- "First Contact" by: "Specimen 37" http://www.specimen37.com/

"Synthesis:"

I am going to read you a tweet from someone who thought it referred to something else:

"thought that World MS Day.org was an anti-microsoft day, after looking at some tweets. Need a rest :/"

Microsoft. MS. Get it?

That's some truly execrable promotion.

That tells me that this World MS Day promotion was probably thought of by somebody who doesn't know squat about marketing and certainly doesn't know diddly about how to host a event promotion.

Actually it was probably thought up by some intern who's working the "Charity Desk" at some advertising firm.

They only ever checked if the kid was screwing up, but they never checked if the kid was doing what was required and necessary.

Okay, I'm here to prevent this from happening to the next media event.

Lets get at least one term out of the way so we can all be on the same page.

In this case, its page 758 of "Advertising and Promotion" by George E Belch and Michael A. Belch, ISBN: 978-0-07-310126-2 [ http://www.amazon.com/Advertising-Promotion-Integrated-Communications-Perspective/dp/0073255963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1243458632&sr=8-1 ]

I know its expensive, like $135, but a professional should know what's in it.

Promotion is the "coordination" of all 'seller-initiated' efforts to set up channels of information and persuasion to sell goods and services or to promote an idea.

The Multiple Sclerosis International Federation and its member MS societies for any individual, group and organisation involved in the global MS movement, are selling the idea of an event called."World MS Day",

One of the best blog posts about promotion of an event, as opposed to event promotion, is by Stephanie Booth [ http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/14/5-lessons-in-promoting-events-using-social-media-back-to-basics/ ]

Go and read her blog entry. You'll see what a half-hearted, half-assed effort this World MS Day was.

Basically, it says, in French, with lots of English translation later on in the blog entry for the intellectually challenged, that promoting these events takes TIME and EFFORT.

What you get from this absolutely "half-past-too-late" effort is an expensive waste of your charity donations.

There are lots of ways for promoting your global efforts, and they did employ some of them, after a fashion and way too late.

The overall endeavor at coordinating the work of people, firms, government agencies and NGOs and

the work in meshing the various media including broadcast, (meaning the national media,) the local outlets, television, radio, newspapers and other print media,)

and the labors in getting coverage from the internet media, (using sites like Hufffington Post, or Digg.com, or by recruiting blogs, podcasts, video podcasts and the like)

was utterly PATHETIC.

Its MS people.

Do a friggin' google search for "Multiple Sclerosis Blog" and get in touch with the people about a campaign you want to run.

Don't wait until the day of the friggin' event and expect people to suddenly rise magically up to help you, like Aristotle who thought that bugs arose spontaneously from mud.

It doesn't work that way people. This is real life.

I've already been smacked in the friggin' face by a heavy shovel called MS.

Don't throw dirt in my face, using your own ignorance and ineptitude to add insult to injury.

---- "The First" by: "LOB Tech Tones" http://www.lobtechtones.com/

"Conclusion:"

The MS society here in the 'States and the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation get a big FAIL on promoting the World MS Day.

Lets hope they get their act together next year because they obviously didn't do that this year.

This freaking' mess, well, it stunk.

I rate the effort as worse than amateurish, worse than dilettante-ish, worse that ignorant and uninformed.

I rate it as a waste of good money and there ain't none us got money to waste.

---- "first and last" by: "theStark" http://thestark.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"The First Time"
by: "Audio Spaghetti"
http://www.myspace.com/audiospaghetti
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"First Run"
by: "Jon Schmidt"
http://jonschmidt.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"First Date"
by: "Danko Jones"
http://www.dankojones.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"First Contact"
by: "Specimen 37"
http://www.specimen37.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The First"
by: "LOB Tech Tones"
http://www.lobtechtones.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"first and last"
by: "theStark"
http://thestark.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

msb-0358 What's Happening?

Mon, 25 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0358 What's Happening?

YouTube The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
..

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 love these videos like the one that accompanies this episode.

Its about the Hubble Deep Field Camera.

Talk about taking the long view.

I could have run with another which was about taking the odds of something bad happening, and odds are if you're listening to this you'd already beaten the odds and know full well crap happens and know it happened to you.

Its about the theory and practice of risk assessment that was never applied under the last administration.

We all know what that led to:
â global economic melt down,
â rancor at undeserved bonuses that equal the combined GPD of several small backward nations, like Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, and the like,
â a deep recession that seems to be depression, I lost my job and that's enough to depress anybody, and punctuated by perfidy, (or do you like being screwed by Bernie Madoff and sociopaths of that ilk?)
â global terrorism from a small band of suicidal/homicidal psychopaths, one of which is still occasionally taking up broadcasting space and time, oh, and some angry shit from "Al Queda" too.

---- "Happenstance' by: "Torley on Piano" http://torley.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"

---- "Happening Again" by: "Roche Limit" http://www.rochelimit.ca/

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.

---- "I Never Thought it Could Happen" by: "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

"Thesis:"

This episode starts with a question: "What's Happening?"

I think we all could/should/would ask he question far more assertively, given how slowly things really happen.

The pace is part of the problem, of course.

Once an episode or exacerbation is past, the human instinct is to blot the surreality of the temporary sensation, or the loss of sensation that was brought to our attention, or the loss of control, or the tremor or spasticity.

---- "Things Happen Fast" by: "Fuzzy Logic" http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylogic44

"Synthesis:"

Human memory is very selective, or let me restate that another way, human recall of memory is very selective.

We may be able to recall the smooth complexion and freckled face of the red haired young doctor-to-be who admitted us to the hospital all those years ago, but we don't let the memory intrude upon every waking moment of our lives after that.

And the previous sentence is plural because I'm sure she admitted lots people during the same period. Each of us will carry his or her own memories of the event.

There are a great many ways that MS can express itself; as many ways as there are nerves for the disease to attack.

The problems come from the confusion that arises with attempting to cure the reported symptom, say in Montel Williams case "My feet are burning", which any physician worth his salt would treat with anti-fungal remedies, which would be entirely useless since the actual problem may be a patch of myelin scraped off the nerve anywhere along the path from the feet to the brain.

That is one of the problems with MS.

Its a disease that affects people in way that challenge the thinking capacity of most medical personnel.

Its a topological disease, affecting the transmission of signals throughout the central nervous system and the brain, when or while we are forced to report our symptoms topographically, on the surface of things.

Just to make things, we can't even describe the triggers to the causes of the effect we can actually report on to the doctors who ask us "Where does it hurt?"

In my case, it doesn't even hurt (thank heavens.)

---- "It Can Happen To You" by: "Creamy.dk" http://www.myspace.com/creamydk1

"Conclusion:"

It started with a moment of "What's Happening?" for me in Mr Miller's history class, lord, so many years ago... I wasn't even sixteen.

As I just got back from shuffling to the store to get us things to celebrate Memorial Day with, I heave an inner sigh at memories of how fast and effortlessly I used to dance around life.

If I could take a single lesson back to my younger self, it would be it would be to relax.

Stress causes a weakening of the immune system to disease, but it them comes back with a friggin' vengeance, and that sucks.

And to eat more duck.

I hate ducks.

Specially since I love the taste.

All, and I do mean ALL, flue viruses are bred in the gut of Chinese ducks and my MS triggers seem to revolve around strains of flue.

---- "make it happen" by: "luminous" http://www.luminousrecording.co.uk/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Happenstance"
by: "Torley on Piano"
http://torley.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Happening Again"
by: "Roche Limit"
http://www.rochelimit.ca/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"I Never Thought it Could Happen"
by: "nathan timothy"
http://www.nathan-online.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Things Happen Fast"
by: "Fuzzy Logic"
http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylogic44
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"It Can Happen To You"
by: "Creamy.dk"
http://www.myspace.com/creamydk1
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"make it happen"
by: "luminous"
http://www.luminousrecording.co.uk/
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

msb-0357 Things range in rage

Fri, 22 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0357 Things range in rage

YouTube Road Rage by Catatonia
..

Road Rage
..

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 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 recording this in a studio on a day that is approaching 85ÂF. (30ÂC.)

Man, that's just too hot for me. I'm cowering here, next to the air conditioner and hugging it.

---- "Cowards All The Rage" by: "Ann Lynn" http://www.annlynnmusic.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"

---- "Red Red Rage" by: "the Radio Knives" http://www.myspace.com/theradioknives

Feed Me comes third, so...

The other day, I was tweeting my sponsor, (I LOVE saying that word, sponsor,) [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (the link is 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 show and I'll take you right to his web page.)

I'm still in love with my t-shirts, I'm wearing one right now. The one of them that says I'm "guitarded." I bought two of those so the other one went in the wash. It looks like its holding up well to the detergents.

Its beige and soft and I'm just loving it.

I'll be able to confirm this in a few days but I may have another sponsor. I think so... Just watching the post.

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 a spill,

This is just a good idea.

So good in fact that I am breaking my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

But, as a concession, I have got Barbara to look at her purchase page and she is offering a percentage of the unit price to go to a variety of charities, the MS Society being among those.

---- "Heathen Rage" by: "Corey Harris" http://telarc.com/

"Thesis:"

I was supposed to take a course on digital recording, which would have been an easy three credits for me, since I have lots and lots of practice, right?

Right?

Wrong!

Only the truly ignorant think they have nothing to learn.

I was looking forward to the course, but it didn't reach the desired number of stoonts, so I have plenty of time off to worry about the economy, the fact that i can't find a job and, I need distractions to take my mind off of my troubles.

A job would be a great way to do that.

---- "Sheeps rage" by: "JeSo" http://www.jeso.nl/

"Synthesis:"

I can't over estimate the importance of work,

it doesn't ever have to be as lofty as meaningful or fulfilling work.

It just needs to be something that we can do to feel useful in the larger scheme of things.

We disabled people need to work just as much as the next person. Possibly more considering the extra costs of medicines, therapies and treatments.

But we're shut out by the larger community who see somebody just taking up space so they give them work that is beneath them, that anybody could do, and that garners resentment by the person who's stuck with the task.

Meanwhile the job will get done poorly by somebody who's sure he could do better and the handicapped can just go suck eggs. (Or suck air more likely because air is free, its the breathing masks to filter out the pollution that cost money.)

I'd like to lay the blame for this squarely at the manager's feet because they are in the position where they could do the most good but instead opt for what is the most expedient.

They sincerely don't give a second thought to the disabled who they can get, at some tax saving to their employers, because they know that they can underuse somebody else and abuse them later.

---- "Rhodes Rage" by: "Kerry Politzer" http://www.kerrypolitzer.com/

"Conclusion:"

Ever get the feeling that I don't think much of the people who, after all, were my peers?

Privilege and responsibility don't enter into consideration. when reaching a hiring decision but expediency does.

This is not a meritocracy. Nobody gets what they deserve.

Your boss was not selected or hired because was the most competent; he was merely the most expedient.

And now we end off with something that sounds more like what we think we'll hear when the word rage is in a song's title.

---- "RoaD RaGe" by: "Intrabyte" http://www.myspace.com/intrabyte

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Cowards All The Rage"
by: "Ann Lynn"
http://www.annlynnmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Red Red Rage"
by: "the Radio Knives"
http://www.myspace.com/theradioknives
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Heathen Rage"
by: "Corey Harris"
http://telarc.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Sheeps rage"
by: "JeSo"
http://www.jeso.nl/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Rhodes Rage"
by: "Kerry Politzer"
http://www.kerrypolitzer.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"RoaD RaGe"
by: "Intrabyte"
http://www.myspace.com/intrabyte
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

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0011

Mon, 18 May 2009 20:03:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0011

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0011.m4a

YouTube: ..
----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Sick" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

This has been an interesting weekend.

It was full of discoveries.

First and foremost if the singer that just filled your ears at the opening of this episode.

That powerful set of pipes belongs to a breast cancer survivor who's the sole focus of the music on this episode.

"Bif Naked" has got to be one of the best ads for cancer treatments to cross the airwaves in, like, for evah.

More about her later, but for now ...

---- "Honeybee" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Thesis:

Who else could make a song out of killing a bee in her kitchen?

The next discovery is about helping everybody, even the heathy but over burdened student body.

I have something on my website by BarbCo [ http://barbco.biz/ ] (but if you're capable of getting the episodes in .m4a format you can just click on the image,) [something] that would have saved a few dropped coffee cups and soft drinks as I made my way around the campus.

---- "Red Flag" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Synthesis:

Barbara Hranilovich got in touch with me because I seem to be the only person who's doing stuff like bringing entertainment to the handicapped and actually looking for sponsors.

She'd already got her CADDi on an episode of Rachel Ray but as anybody'll tell you, getting one showing on anything is clearly not enough.

What it lacks in frequency, being only one showing on a stream, it also lacks in coverage, being only is areas where Rachel Ray is shown.

She's hoping that podcasts, with their repeatability and their long tails can help her with the frequency.

I'm doing my bit to expand the coverage and to multiply the reach of her own ads.

---- "River Of Fire" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Synthesis continued.

So I'm trying to talk Bif Naked into making an appearance in New York by telling her that there is definitely interest.

I'd love to read her tattoos and have her on my podcast,

---- "Save Your Breath" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Conclusion:

Go BifNaked.com, go BarbCo..biz, may we all become successful each in our own way and each in our own time.

---- "Welcome To The End" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Sick"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Honeybee"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Red Flag"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"River Of Fire"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Save Your Breath"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Welcome To The End"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0042

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:13:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0042

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0042.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 42

I had fun on Monday at WCBS FM.

It was an interesting visit.

I would never work there on-air. Man's got to know his own limitations after all, but I'd love to write for the guys on-air.

I'm still doing what I started on my internship at WFMU. Since its also podcast, you can also tune in to "The Media Squat" With Douglas Rushkoff any time of the day or night.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

-----

I even got my own sponsor now (It only took me three years , eh? :-)

Todd Wallbridge of TM Designs has started a website called MSTShirts.com [ http://www.mstshirts.com ] for promoting and selling art by artists who have MS, and T-Shirts of course.

By purchasing a shirt you will help support an MS artist and a donation is made to NMSS to further research into finding a cure.

The shirts are good quality cotton material and the print on them is really durable. Well worth it.

I'll get into more descriptions but they're on the site (just click now if you're listening in m4a format and it will launch your web browser to MSTShirts.com [ which is actually a repeater to http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

On behalf of MSers, I want to tank Todd for his support.

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

I really don't feel like listening to classical music anymore right now.

I was just listening to some Madeleine Peyroux and it has put me in an entirely different mood.

You're going to get a mix featuring song stylings of different divas who have some space on my iPod

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"
by "Madeleine Peyroux"
http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/flash_content/main.html
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Legend In My Living Room"
by "Annie Lennox"
http://www.annielennox.com/
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Vogue"
by "Madonna"
http://www.madonna.com/
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Money Changes Everything"
by "Cindy Lauper"
http://www.cyndilauper.com/index.php
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pornographer's Dream"
by "Suzanne Vega"
http://www.vega.net/
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow"
by "BjÃrk (Sugarcubes)"
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Sugarcubes
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0356 Summertime

Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0356 Summertime

YouTube
..

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress, released on February 1, 1972 as a single by the Parlophone Records label.

It was yet another example of how friggin' clueless the suits are.

it was not being promoted in the least by EMI/Parlorphone since the Hollies had recently signed with Polydor.

I shouldn't wonder that they went to Polydor if that was the kid of support that the artists could expect from EMI/Parlorphone.

In yet another example of closing the barn door after the horses had all been barbecued in the smoldering ruin, when the record hit #2 in the 'States, EMI/Parlorphone finally figured out that it was being played, despite them and that it would have been worth promoting after all.

Idiots...

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Okay, the weather here in Joyzee is unexpectedly chill but school's out so it feels summertime.

So you're getting a summertime themed episode.

People, and I use the term loosely, have been dropping crap email in my in box and leaving stupid spam comments on my show episodes which indicate that they aren't listening, or even reading the friggin' script, so why should I possibly be interested doing them a favor?

---- "Hot Fun In The Summertime" by" "Sly and The Family Stone" http://www.slystonemusic.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"

---- "Summertime" by" "Billie Holliday" http://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Yesterday, I was tweeting my sponsor, (I LOVE saying that word, sponsor,) [ http://twitter.com/Art2Shirt ] (the link is 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 show and I'll take you right to his twitter page.)

What I was actually twittering about is of no real consequence but the fact that I could just twitter him a note says something about the man.

He's connected, asynchronously, with the rest of the world.

I'm still in love with my t-shirts, one of them says I'm "guitarded." (Two of them really because I like his stuff so much i bought two of the same one.)

Its beige and soft and I'm just loving it.

Ok I was weird as a child and fought ever having to change my clothes until my parents struggled and wrestled whatever new garment they has bought for me on my skinny little xylophone of a rib cage.

They would have had much better luck with thee shirts like these because they feel great on my skin.

---- "Summertime" by" "Bob Crosby" http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,418789,00.html

"Thesis:"

I don't have anything of any consequence to impart today (as if I ever did.)

I just want to play some tunes about summertime.

Some are happy an some are sad.

Its a season not a mood but since I melt in the heat, its not the best time of the year for me.

---- "Summertime" by" "Janis Joplin" http://www.officialjanis.com/

"Synthesis:"

Man, I loved playing that version of 'Summertime" by "Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company."

That was some classy guitar work and I spent many an hour adapting it to a nylon string classical as opposed to the electric guitar James Gurley played at the time (I think it was a Fender Stratocaster.)

People may think that summer is a grand ol' time, but it means a couple of months of distinctly uncomfortable weather for MSers.

Well, except for Miss Chris out in the western deserts of the USA, but its a dry heat, isn't it.?

Personally, it doesn't matter if its wet or dry, its HOT.

I run, make that, I hobble over, to my air-conditioned office, sit in my nice cool chair with the wide open waffle pattern back and cruise the web all day until the temperature gets back to something that I can take.

Right now, its in the sixties maybe the low seventies and I just LOVE it.

---- "Summertime" by" "Glenn Miller" http://www.glennmillerorchestra.com/

"Conclusion:"

Now I just want to end off on the fun side of summer.

When this song first came out, I knew that I absolutely loved summer, even if now I don't.

Ray Dorset, a.k.a. Mungo Jerry, was outrageously fun, way back in 1970.

---- "In the summertime" by" "Mungo Jerry" http://www.mungojerry.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Hot Fun In The Summertime"
by: "Sly and The Family Stone"
http://www.slystonemusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Billie Holliday"
http://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Bob Crosby"
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,418789,00.html
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Janis Joplin"
http://www.officialjanis.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Glenn Miller"
http://www.glennmillerorchestra.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"In the summertime"
by: "Mungo Jerry"
http://www.mungojerry.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

msb-0355 Tee for two and two for tees

Mon, 11 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0355 Tee for two and two for tees.

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This past week has been taken up with finals.

But I have been hearing from people and there has been some twittering.

---- "Seance" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

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"

---- "Bygones" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I have a sponsor.

I have a sponsor.

If you click on the "MS T Shirts" icon on my blog entries, on my wiki or if you are listening on iTunes or another player which knows about .m4a formatted files you will be taken to the web site of people who do art and who have MS.

There's only seven of them so far with more coming soon (we MSers are a talented bunch,) and I can tell you that they are great T Shirts.

I got one "Little things" by "Mark Carpenter" and its a nice print on a well constructed T-Shirt.

6.1 oz., 100% cotton preshrunk jersey. Set-in rib knit collar and sleeve cuff. Double-needle stitched collar, cuffs and bottom hem. Quarter-turned body to eliminate center crease.

I feels great and I think I will be wearing this for years, It feels solid.

I'm geeky enough to just love "Brain Storm" by "Elizabeth Jameson". Its four slices of an MRI set and, well I'll just read you her note:

"My artwork involves a dynamic collaboration between the disciplines of art and science. I became an artist only after I was diagnosed with the disease of multiple sclerosis, and my current work consists of self-portraits based on magnetic resonance images (MRIs), or brain scans that documents the effects of the disease of multiple sclerosis on my brain.

This artwork is apart of my Brain Series, that consist etchings on paper and paintings on silk They explore the brainâs mystery, beauty and complexity and express my fascination with living with a chronic illness that involves the brain. My goal as an artist is to increase our understanding of the brain by making medical imaging more accessible to those who view these revealing pictures."

she says: "I am a wife, mother, friend, public interest lawyer, as well as an artist. I have progressive multiple sclerosis"

She even has another t-shirt in the same MRI image vein.

---- "You make Me Feel" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

"Thesis:"

Well my exams are over. Mazeltov and Hosana.

I'm currently off at WCBS to take a look around there (and to get to know them and to introduce myself to them.[Hey, maybe they need an inside man... {Ya never know}])

Then, I'm going off to WFMU to do my bit for my internship with "Douglas Rushkoff" on "The Media Squat" [ http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/03/douglas-rushkoffs-media-squat-debuts-tonight-on-wfmu.html ]

Its crazy but I actually like it, manning the community desk calling people up and setting things up.

The "Life Inc." wiki [ http://lifeinc.pbworks.com/ ], which is based on Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, has been set up and, now that I have more time to devote to it, it should get going for real now.

---- "Over Now" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

"Synthesis:"

The busier I am, the less time I have to complain about anything.

I have been a firm believer in Wikis since I first read the book by "Ward Cunningham" and "Bo Leuf" [ http://www.amazon.com/Wiki-Way-Quick-Collaboration-Web/dp/020171499X [

I have been using Wikipedia since it was filled with entries about little towns in England and little else.

I have also been particularly interested in the power of collaboration since I stated writing for money back in the late eighties and early nineties.

It went hand -in-hand with being so software developer who saw that collaborative software development could accomplish a whole lot more than being "the lone genius in the backroom."

I didn't mind being "the lone genius in the backroom" and it paid well but it was ultimately limiting.

A person can only accomplish so much unaided.

That's why I was a early supporter of egoless programming, software reviews and thorough software design.

My only regret was that I didn't get to push software design technique any further than I did.

---- "All I Want" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

"Conclusion:"

Keep on pushing, and pushing and pushing yourself.

Its the only way to let yourself know you're still alive.

---- "Dangerous" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Seance"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Bygones"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"You make Me Feel"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Over Now"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"All I Want"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Dangerous"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
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

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:17:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 41

I started my internship at WFMU on monday manning the community desk for "The Media Squat" With Douglas Rushkoff.

It was fun but one of the pieces of software is absolutely in major need of some software QA and possibly a UI rewrite.

Darn thing kept losing focus as I was trying to type and throwing all key keystrokes into a bit bucket without giving me any auditory feedback.

And that's my professional opinion as a software developer, team leader, project manager and QA analyst.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

I love Squirrel Nut Zippers so we're going to hear something from the album "Hot".

The tune is called "Memphis Exorcism" and I'll be playing it under the great news I want to share with all of you.

"Memphis Exorcism" by "Squirrel Nut Zippers" http://www.snzippers.com/
- -

I even got my own sponsor now (It only took me three years , eh? :-)

Todd Wallbridge of TM Designs has started a website called MSTShirts.com [ http://www.mstshirts.com ] for promoting and selling art by artists who have MS, and T-Shirts of course.

By purchasing a shirt you will help support an MS artist and a donation is made to NMSS to further research into finding a cure.

The shirts are good quality cotton material and the print on them is really durable. Well worth it.

I'll get into more descriptions but they're on the site (just click now if you're listening in m4a format and it will launch your web browser to MSTShirts.com [ which is actually a repeater to http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

On behalf of MSers, I want to tank Todd for his support.

"" by ""

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Memphis Exorcism" by "Squirrel Nut Zippers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Scheherazade, Opus 35 (The Kalender Prince)" by "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils)" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symfoni nr 6 i h-moll, Pathetique" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pianosonat i b-moll )" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0010

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:20:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0010

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0010.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Building To Last Forever" by: "after touch" http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

I just spent an interesting Saturday at the College attending a leadership seminar.

I sort of came automatically with my new role as marketing something or other for WSPC.

It turned out to be a whole lot more interesting than I'd originally though.

Lets get one thing straight, I've gone to a lot of "team building exercises", "management retreats", colloquia and seminars.

I knew what to expect. Lots of huggy feelly crap, clap-trap, and twaddle.

But surprise surprise; it actually turned out to be better run than some of the ones my previous employers had shelled out the sheckels for.

---- "Building Blocks" by: "Anthony L Smith" http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandid=106300

Thesis:

The only problem with the career building part of the day long sessions was that it was not, I repeat not, disabled friendly in any way, shape of form.

I am, uh, mobility challenged and as such was left literally sitting, wall flower like, along the wall while observing the action occurring at the center of the hall.

Okay, I enjoyed it because I have a perverse and nasty sense of humor which would probably get my face slapped, at the very least,, should my thoughts ever be open for public scrutiny. :-)

---- "Building Around It" by: "Elika" http://www.elikamusic.com/

Synthesis:

Its a sad fact, but I will never fit in.

Now that I've finally got over myself, I still can't fit in...

It took me years to recognize that I really was uh, uniquely qualified and that not everybody could do what I did.

it took me many more years to accept my MS, after it became obvious to everybody else that something was wrong, though schlepping around with a friggin' cane made it kind of plain and simple, even to me.

It is just as plainly obvious to everybody with eyes that I am a lot older than everybody else on campus.

So why am I, make that was I, so pissed off that people were missing the obvious about the fact that all of the team building exercises were designed in such an exclusionary fashion?

---- "Burning Building" by: "Joe Peters"

Synthesis continued.

Its all a part of the exclusion principle.

Its in fact the most pernicious part.

Unless somebody is in my shoes, they don't ever think of anybody who might be in my shoes, of anybody who might be in any other shoes but their own.

That is why all of the professions and skilled trades in the world have a bunch of checklists, to make sure that they don't friggin' well forget that there are at least fifteen percent percent of the world who is different from them, no matter how different they think they AREN'T.

That's more that one in eight people who are having to struggle, to strain or to cope with the fact that the system builders are structurally differently from themselves.

---- "Building A Better Boy" by: "Machine Boy" http://www.machineboy.co.uk/

Conclusion:

Yeah, I'm handicapped.

I can't dance.

That doesn't mean I can't think.

---- "Stop That Building" by: "Verticals" http://myspace.com/surftheverticals

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
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ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Building To Last Forever"
by: "after touch"
http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Building Blocks"
by: "Anthony L Smith"
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandid=106300
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Building Around It"
by: "Elika"
http://www.elikamusic.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Burning Building"
by: "Joe Peters"
http://cdbaby.com/all/joedaiwarriors
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Building A Better Boy"
by: "Machine Boy"
http://www.machineboy.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Stop That Building"
by: "Verticals"
http://myspace.com/surftheverticals
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:48:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040

Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

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This is episode 40

I got the internship at WFMU so I will be helping Mr. Rushkoff with the community desk of "The Media Squat".

I got a really quick introduction to their production desk last Monday and I really liked the people I'll be working with.

Plus I've got to help them set up a community wiki (PBWiki.com to the rescue) and get it hooked up to their existing web set up, get some content prepared and out it out there for feed back from the community.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

I love acappella so we're going to hear something from the album "Brontosaurus" by "Da Vinci's Notebook".

"Enormous Penis" by: "Da Vinci's Notebook" http://www.amazon.com/Brontosaurus-Da-Vincis-Notebook/dp/B00006RZH0

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Enormous Penis" by: "Da Vinci's Notebook" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symfoni nr 6 i h-moll, Pathetique (tredje satsen)" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pianosonat i b-moll (tredje satsen, Begravningsmarsch)" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Zampa - Ouvertyr" by: "Ferdinand HÃrold" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"TannhÃuser - GÃsternas intÃg" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"KrÃningsmarsch" by: "Giacomo Meyerbeer" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"The Washington Post" by: "John Philip Sousa" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

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And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0009

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0009

media files:

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----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Tiny Bubbles" by: "Idle Fingers" http://www.myspace.com/ziggyzu

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

I've just spent a sleepless night reading, nay devouring, "The Dead Man" by "Joel Goldman" http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp

I loved reading the book.

The plot was tightly written, the characters were believable, their motivations were just as believable and the whole thing was masterfully crafted.

So well crafted that it going to take me a few days to try and come up with a review that does the book justice without revealing a thing.

---- "Space Bubbles" by: "Chad Nantai" http://chadnantais.com/

Thesis:

Mr. Goldman is turning into a master writer; one who can be compared with the best mystery writers out there, alive or passed away, and he needs not fear being out-shined by the company.

This book was a delight to read and kept me wondering from beginning to the penultimate chapter.

His description of the motivation was masterful and he didn't stretch my credulity in the least. (Some writers I have been tempted to review I ultimately didn't because they committed the sin of stretching the thin film I call my ability to suspend disbelief until the bubble burst.

---- "Bursting Bubbles" by: "cat malojian" http://www.catmalojian.com/

Synthesis:

Like I said last week, I enjoyed reading abut a hero who's life is as crapped up by disease as mine is (different disease means different crap but the same general reaction to it.)

The manifestations of the disease may be different but the feeling of interruption and my reaction to it are entirely too familiar.

In Mr. Goldman's case, it manifests less intrusively that an MS exacerbation but because it is more violent though of shorter duration doesn't mean that its any less disruptive.

---- "Funk Bubbles" by: "Funk Bubbles" http://taiwanmilk.com/

Synthesis continued.

In effect, I am going to make this show episode about nothing because I am still wondering about how to treat the review in such a way that it tantalizes and teases while revealing nothing (sort of like a stripper doing a fan dance. :-)

Suffice it to say that I do NOT want to reveal the McGuffin of the book, that crucial detail without which the book is entirely puzzling but when revealed explains so much.

The other characters in the book are fleshed out enough to be believable.

Mr Goldman successfully returns to the theme of familial loss enough to retain the sympathy he had created in the first character that the books ultimate conclusion is fitting (even though the return of his spouse and the departure of his friend with benefits leaves the reader with a sense the tragic.)

---- "Burst The Bubble" by: "Cruiserweigh" http://www.myspace.com/cruiserweight

Conclusion:

The books ends with an entirely optimistic sentence.

There will be an interesting sequel.

---- "Creative Burst" by: "Sean Boyle" http://www.modernbizzle.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Tiny Bubbles"
by: "Idle Fingers"
http://thoughtprocess.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Space Bubbles"
by: "Chad Nantai"
http://chadnantais.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Bursting Bubbles"
by: "cat malojian"
http://www.catmalojian.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Funk Bubbles"
by: "Milk"
http://taiwanmilk.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Burst The Bubble"
by: "Cruiserweigh"
http://www.myspace.com/cruiserweight
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Creative Burst"
by: "Sean Boyle"
http://www.modernbizzle.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

wspc_P34kO1l_0015

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

wspc_P34kO1l_0015

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0014.m4a

YouTube ->..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

---- "Ain't No Cure For Love" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Thesis:

I just started reading a new book by someone I reviewed and interviewed about a year ago.

I'm talking about Mr. Joel Goldman. http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp

He writes really, really well and I find his books to printed on mouse traps, because they are really really hard to let go of once you pick one up.

---- Closing Time" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Synthesis:

Joel Goldman is a great suspense / mystery writer.

I was introduced to him with his book "Shake Down" which I reviewed and, since I have MS and he has "The shakes" which afflict his character Jack Davis, as a fellow sickie, he was good enough to let me interview him.

I have the latest "Jack Davis" novel and its absolutely a page turner.

I'f I didn't have to do this show and registration for classes and my internship and crap like that, I would be finished this book already because its that good.

I have to tear myself away to take care of mundane details because the consequences are too dire for me to ignore. (Or at least my wife tell me so, and in no uncertain terms.)

---- "Democracy" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

We even managed to get a sponsor.

Sponsor: Prince of Pizza

---- "Suzanne" by: "Peter Gabriel" http://www.amazon.com/Tower-Song-Songs-Leonard-Cohen/dp/B000001EZK

Synthesis Part Deux

I am starting an internship next Monday.

I am lining up the paperwork but its the kind of work I'd do out of love, never mind the marks.

I'm going to do my best to help the station WFMU and WFMU.org.

I have been looking at their website and I'm going to suggest that they should have a page that opens up into a wiki.

I'm also going to suggest that I be allowed take their entire collection and digitize it (And it is one big-ass collection of vinyl and CDs) and put it all on their intranet so that they will never have to worry about their collection getting physically damaged.

It can even be backed up and a copy, or three, of the back up be kept off site for protection.

Instead, their DJs can call up any tune in the entire collection from the library, mix and match their play list and enjoy the music.

---- "First We Take Manhattan by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Conclusion:

Okay, I'm going to finish the book tonight as its a real page turner.

---- "Dance Me To The End Of Love" by: "Leonard Cohen | Madeleine Peyroux" http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/flash_content/main.html

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:40:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039

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Video Links

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This is episode 39

I think I've landed an internship at a radio station [ http://wfmu.org ] and I'm not worried about it folding before I get there.

I'm trying to get an internship with Douglas Rushkoff who's doing the show "The Media Squat". [ http://mediasquat.net/ ]

Its an intelligent show with an intelligent host, intelligent guests talking about intelligent things.

Definitely "not" Fox's TMZ (which is one of the most vapid, vacuous and vain shows e-v-e-r-.)

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

"Bees and Flowers-Joe Smallwood's Reel" by: "Duane Andrews" http://www.duaneandrews.ca/

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I've got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Bees and Flowers-Joe Smallwood's Reel" by: "Duane Andrews" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Rhapsody in Blue" by: "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symphony #9 In E Minor, Op. 95, B 178, "From The New World" - 1. Adagio, Allegro Molto" by: "Antonin DvorÃk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Grand Canyon Suite, Third Movement: On the Trail" by: "Ferde GrofÃ" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0008

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0008

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0008.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

Things are hotting up 'round the ol' homestead.

I've sent messages to Sir Harold Evans of publishing fame and to the US Postmaster General Mr. John Potter about my ideas to increase revenues for the post office, create a subscription or paid article retrieval for the press and, uh, save democracy for those who can afford it (or they can go the the public library and get the news there.)

I've also just discovered radio station WFMU 91.1 in Jersey City. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU ].

I have also been catching up on their podcasts and I absolutely LOVE what I hear.

One show in particular has caught my ear: WFMU's The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://www.mediasquat.net/ ]

Smart host. Smart topics. Smartly done. Its a great show.

So great that I'm going to try to volunteer and do an internship there.

---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046

Thesis:

Ooo boy.

I just waiting for the mail to come.

I'm about to get to review another book by Joel Goldman.

I'm going to interview Mr. Goldman again.

I originally did the last interview with Mr. Goldman almost a year ago back in show msb-0292.

---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband

Synthesis:

I really enjoyed reading his first book.

I enjoyed talking with him about the book and the main hero / protagonist, a man who was flawed and sick with a neurological condition, just as I was, am and will be until I kick the frackin' bucket.

---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php

Synthesis continued.

I am waiting on tender hooks for deliveries, emails and dispatches from near and far.

---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/

Conclusion:

I'm having way too much fun with this sh, uh, stuff. Yeah, stuff will do.

---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Golden West"
by: "Reginald Clair"
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"The Golden Shovel"
by: "Frozen Carp"
http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Blue and Gold"
by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band"
http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold"
by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team"
http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Goldie Hawn"
by: "Butane Variations"
http://www.butanevariations.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Tide Of Gold"
by: "Frank Thewes"
http://www.music-is.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0038

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0038

Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 38

Well, we're coming onto Easter Break.

Is it routine if its always broken up with holidays?

And we've got a real sponsor this time"

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

"Swing Low" by: "Bill Furner" http://www.macjams.com/artist/thetiler

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I've got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Swing Low" by: "Bill Furner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Agnus Dei" by: "Samuel Barber" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Cavalleria rusticana" by: "Pietro Mascagni" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fidedio" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tannhauser" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Psalm 39" by: "Maurice Greene" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"La Traviata" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0007

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:12:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0007

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0007.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- ""

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Failure to plan on someone else's part constituted an emergency on my part. Grrrrr....

I'm going to replay the last episode with Hillary Rubin

----

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.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"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.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

----

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

wspc_P34kO1l_0014

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:46:00 GMT

wspc_P34kO1l_0014

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0014.m4a

YouTube ->..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

---- "Menopause Graduate" by: "Lima Charlie" http://www.limacharliemusic.com/

Thesis:

some days I just got the blues.

This is one of them gray, dirty ol' days.

I'm tired, dirty, I feel soiled, not just dirty but like dirt.

The rain is not washing my sins away. Its just leaving me a stinkin' pile of slimy slag.

---- "Bluez Comes Callin" by: "Billy Jones" http://www.billy-jones.com/

Synthesis:

If you are playing this on an .m4a player, you're getting all the band pics and web sites, if you ain't I'm going to read them all at the end'

---- "Devil by my side" by: "DemianBand" http://www.demianband.net/

---- "Lake of fire" by: "Jerry Forney" http://www.jerryforney.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

---- "Sparrow in the rain" by: "Jerry Forney" http://www.jerryforney.com/

---- "Howling At The Moon" by: "Kenny Neal" http://alligatorrecords.com/index.cfm?section=artists&artistID=18

Synthesis Part Deux

Then again, I'm feeling down and l-a-z-y.

Sometimes I feel like I'm just here wankin' off.

---- "Hummin Blues" by: "Harrison Kennedy" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

---- "Same Damn Time" by: "Mike Andersen Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Conclusion:

I'm tired. Things are not going so great and I'm feeling hard done by. Screw the world.

---- "Heard The Angels Sing" by: "Ramon Goose" http://www.ramongoose.com/

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037

Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 37

Man, I'm so frigin' worn out today...

My wife had a paper due today so she was up really friggin' early to work on it...

Man I did not get a good night's sleep...

"I'm tired" by: "Erik Kjelland" http://www.myspace.com/erikkjelland

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

Good thing that this show is so engrained into my routine that I think I could do it in my sleep.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"I'm tired" by: "Erik Kjelland" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet" by: "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture" by: "Jacques Offenbach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Nocturnes: Nuages" by: "Claude Debussy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"L'ArlÃsienne Suite #1 - Prelude" by: "Georges Bizet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ Symphony": First Movement" by: "Camille Saint-SaÃns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Premier livre de piÃces, No. 15: Le Coucou" by: "Louis-Claude Daquin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0006

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:01:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0006

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0006.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- ""

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Today we have a special treat.

I'm going to play an episode of the MSBPodcast that I did about a chat with a fellow MSer by the name of "Hillary Rubin"

----

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek [ http://twitter.com/YoGeek ] who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.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"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.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
---- Outro The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere. And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the top

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek [ http://twitter.com/YoGeek ] who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.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"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.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

wspc_P34kO1l_0013

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

wspc_P34kO1l_0013

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0013.m4a

YouTube ->..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

---- "Architecture And Design" by: "amb26" http://amb26.com/

Thesis:

So what do I make of Peak Oil, of this slowly unfolding disaster?

Yes, everything will change... Again.

My father couldn't even understand what I did for a job.

My grand father couldn't even understand what my father did for his job.

Everything is "always" changing.

The screaming idiots out there are the fools who believed that the world has "ever" stood still.

We'll adapt.

I am going to introduce you all to a vastly under appreciated multi-media work:
"The Oral History Of Modern Architecture" by: "John Peter" ISBN: 0-8109-3889-0, which combines a profusely illustrated book with a CD.

I am also give you the URLs to some free podcasts (F_R_E_E, even poor stoonts can afford free,) such as:

AIA (the American Institute of Architects,) Architecture Knowledge Review
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=160877729

[Architecture] On The Air
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=152487730

KCRW's Design and Architecture
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330703 Architecture

---- "Dancing to Arcitecture" by: "Tris McCall" http://www.myspace.com/tmccall

Synthesis:

Unlike most of these "The Sly Is Falling" alarmists, I don't see this as a great emergency.

Over the next fifty years we will see a lot of changes. If only because almost nothing currently built will still be standing in fifty years and most certainly be rubble in a hundred years.

Whether they're changes that we want / need or they're changes that kill us, only time will tell.

But the advantage of getting even a passing acquaintance with architecture is that you'll see what the architects will be proposing as things get moving.

Right now, they're laying off everybody.

The economic melt down is a blessing in disguise.

The current crop of employers, outfits like Gensler, URS, HOK, HKS Inc, Perkins+Will, Skidmore Owings & Merrill to name a few, are going to be quite surprised at the creative energy that's actually being unleashed.

KCRW's podcasts are quite realistic...

---- "Constant Architect" by: "Lejeune" http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=lejeune+constant+architect&st=all

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

---- "Macroarchitecture - Original Mix" by: "Kernel Drop" http://www.mp3.com.au/Forms/MediaView.aspx?MediaId=108997

Synthesis Part Deux

All of these things, all of these examples of creative destruction, are happening along with an energy crisis, as exemplified by
peak oil,
alternative energy programs,
recycling programs,
the exploration of
virtual meeting spaces and
telepresence,
the dying of the printed word and
the newspapers that depended on an entire economic model which just doesn't work anymore, and a whole host of other game changers, are the future.

---- "The Architects of Faith" by: "The Jade Farrows" http://cdbaby.com/cd/jadefarrows

Conclusion:

Look to the architects because they are the weather vanes who are drafting the future, quite literally.

Of course, the concentration camps of the Nazis had their own architects too.

That another reason why you want to watch the architects.

---- "The Architect" by: "The States" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=258961014&s=143441

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0036

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0036

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This is episode 36

Sorry about Monday's Disability Show.

I took a nap at noon on monday. I thought it was going to be for a minute or ten.

Next time I opened my eyes, I'd missed Jeopardy!

Crap!

I have been waxing nostalgic of late. Here is a voice from my past.

"Weather" by: "Kaye" http://www.last.fm/music/Polopop

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

Okay, I'm back on track and next Monday's Disability Show promises to be entertaining as well as informative.

I'm interviewing Hillary Rubin who's an MSer like me but is not defined by her disease.

She hosts teleseminars about wellness once a month (so you are going to hear about those as well as whatever else she wants to talk about.)

Her next teleseminar is TONIGHT so stay near the phone and get ready to dial.

Here are the details:

Dial-In#: 1-218-486-1300
Passcode: 588383

This live teleseminar begins at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Weather" by: "Kays" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Carnival Overture, Opus 92" by: "Antonin DvorÃk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Die Fledermaus: Overture" by: "Johann Strauss Jr." here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Le Roi malgrÃ lui: FÃte polonaise" by: "Emmanuel Chabrier" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Opus 65" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Waltz in E-flat Major, Opus 18, Grande valse brillante" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite for Strings and Flute: Badinage" by: "Ottorino Respighi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major: Third Movement" by: "Franz Joseph Haydn" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0035

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:13:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0035

Direct link to the episode:

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This is episode 35

Meh, I'm still digesting everything I learned at IBS.
Some was useful, some was merely entertaining, some was downright ill and so was I.

My nose was running like "Ben Johnson" [ http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1298/9812ben.html ] with hemorrhoids. (If you don't know who Ben Johnson is/was, you are not a Canadian and/or not into athletic competition, or who Dr. Jamie Astaphan was. [He bred prize winin' goats on St Kitts, mon.])

But I leaned lots of stuff.

There are definitely more thing under heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy,

"Across The Universe." by: "Beatles" http://www.beatles.com/core/home/

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

I'm so glad Spring Break is coming up. I'll only have one class during.

Whaa haa haa.

I don't even get to go away during spring break.

My wife is off to Japan and I'm stuck here in Jersey City...

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Across The Universe" by: "The Beatles" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Otello: Willow Song" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"La Forza del destino: Overture" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Cavalleria Rusticana: Easter Chorus" by: "Pietro Mascagni" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"La Donna del lago: Tanti affetti" by: "Gioacchino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Barber of Seville: Largo al factotum" by: "Gioacchino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo" by: "Giacomo Puccini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Fidelio: Mir ist so wunderbar" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Faust: Soldiers' Chorus" by: "Charles Gounod" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034

Direct link to the episode:

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This is episode 34

Turning out to be an extremely short week podcast wise.

Monday's "The Disability Show" wasn't, because of the snowfall in and around Jersey City.

So the show that was downloaded via iTunes is actually next week's show. Which works out because I won't have the time that weekend to record a new one.

Next, IBS.

No its not an assessment of my rhetorical skills.

It where I'm going to be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At a conference. In New York City.

College is fun ... I think ...

"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" http://www.geologicrecords.net/

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

I just had a thought "a propos" of nothing.

What if we were to buy PDFs of our newspapers via iTunes, with RSS distribution of the files sort of like podcasts, and collection of the money through Apple?

Imagine getting an in-depth version of the stuff you get on the web for free now but delivered up in a PDF file; with all kinds of value added stuff like pictures, interviews with the writers about how the piece came to be written...

It could even be a ZIP file conbining different content.

I'm just sayn'. It could be worth looking into...

Given the grim coverage of the melt down in the news publishing market it might be a solution. (I often post to the "Newspaper Death Watch" [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ ])

Now to get the word out to the New York Times... (Done)

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16: First Movement" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Sonata in C Major, Opus 53, "Waldstein": Third Movement" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor K466: Second Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Impromptu in G-flat Major D899, No.3" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Arabesque, Opus 18" by: "Robert Schumann" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Nocturne in B-flat Major: Opus 9, No.1" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0352 Lets see how this helps.

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:04:00 GMT

msb-0352 Lets see how this helps.

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Well I am much calmer this week. (Yes, I think the msb podcasts are becoming a weekly features, mixed in with the disability show, the thyme warp and peak oil podcasts.)

I'm too old, too sick, too tired and too wise to put up with the intersine warfare otherwise known office politics sucking the joy out of my life.

I left the kids to it. If they think it important and worth keeping score, I wish them luck.

But I've noticed that they're no different from their 'rents, when all they know how to do is say "you can't" "you shouldn't" and "Don't".

Life belongs to those who seize it.

The nay sayers just hold smoke.

You can make any case you want for not spending the trifling sums, and argue 'till the cows come home, but I'm podcasting to a whole bunch of people and they're not.

One of us is smart, and ... Well, you can finish that sentence yourselves.

---- "Water From The Well" by: "Bill Kahler" http://billkahler.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"

---- "another farewell" by: "carmichael" http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am not even bothering anymore.

These shows are my gift to you.

Enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "The Well" by: "Soma Sonic" http://www.somasonic.com/

"Thesis:"

I'm sitting here still feeling the loss of my mother.

We had to open up a safe deposit box that we've since discovered that she still owned when she'd gone into a home. (A polite euphemism for "we parked her somewhere safe until the inevitable". [I don't kid myself, I was a horrible son, but I was the son she raised me to be.])

Its depressing and my eyes are almost watering.

Its been months since she died but the strange sense of forever being cut adrift on a wider sea still makes it hard for me to breathe.

I am my mother's son after all...

But that's not what the topic of the next few (2) shows are going to be about.

These shows concern venture capitalism.

---- "Everything Is Swell In Weehawken" by: "Jim Testa" http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta

"Synthesis:"

Its very strange the attachments we form and the ties that we bind ourselves up in.

When we techies get in bed with venture capitalists we are basically signaling that "they", meaning the venture capitalists, can make a lot of money in this podcasting racket.

But podcasting is not a place with broad base appeal by definition.

Oh it might be enough for me to make a living, eventually, but I'm hardly going to be selling beer to the masses. (Ok ... "Pacifico Clara" which is a great tasting beer, and I'd say that even if they paid me. [In fact, I've got in touch with them to tell them about podcasting.])

By definition, its a place where a lot of work is going to go into supporting a few podcasters for small, but quite measurable, results.

I'm no Leo Laporte with thousands of fans who tune into the podcasts and swamp the sponsor's sites with click-throughs.

Actually with the .m4a formatted files I use for these shows, I can take you to a specific web page in your browser or even launch your email client to possibly send an email to whoever would like you to send them a email.

Its really connected and it works with iTunes on Macs, on PCs, it works with iPhones, iPod Touches and it can even give you more information on a lowly stand-alone iPod.

If you're a musician, its great that I could bring you to a web site where you could buy the tune your hearing.

If I'm discussing something, I can put links to web pages filled with more information on the topic.

If I'm mentioning a product, I can put links to that too.

---- "Well Run Dry" by: "Juneteenth" http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth

"Conclusion:"

No, venture capitalists won't take any notice of podcasting because they don't see the ROI in it for them.

But podcasts are for a self-selecting audience, tailor made for makers of anything, producers of anything, that serves the audience's constellation of needs, people who want the answer to the old conundrum of not being able to advertise in print because its too expensive when they can even find a magazine that fit their demographic.

The "newspaper death watch" site is just filled with opportunities.

The print version of the "Bataan Death March" happening right now is the inevitable consequence of companies establishing their presence on the web and being able to eschew print advertising.

That tells me that their rates of return on the web are acceptable when compared to print advertising.

Not great ROI, but acceptable at getting the word out, (something where podcasting could/should/would help,) and with answering their customers and potential customers in ways that print media advertising never could.

Say goodbye print.

---- "TREAT YOU WELL" by: "steph" http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp

Outro

----

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

Song list

"Water From The Well"
by: "Bill Kahler"
http://billkahler.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"another farewell"
by: "carmichael"
http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The Well"
by: "Soma Sonic"
http://www.somasonic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Everything Is Swell In Weehawken"
by: "Jim Testa"
http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Well Run Dry"
by: "Juneteenth"
http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"TREAT YOU WELL"
by: "steph"
http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp
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

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0005

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0005

media files:

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YouTube -> .Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
..

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Its midterms which means don't expect too much.

I got to prepare for a public speaking class and cram stuff into my head and its not as easy as it once was.

---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731

Thesis:

As we get older, our memory changes.

Both the storage and the retrieval of memories.

It probably has something to do with the hippocampus as it lapses into senescence.

---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction

Synthesis:

Storage of memories is something that happens when the hippocampus detects the need to shift impulses from short term process memory to long term structural memory.

Don't ask me what, when, where, how or or why.

There's easily a couple of dozen doctoral dissertations and a few Nobel prizes awaiting whoever solves those puzzles.

The indexing mechanism seems to to be as close to holographic as we can get but the actual quality of the memory seems to degrade over time.

Oh, the problems with trying to do the same things, the same feats of monastic memorization that used to come so easily when I was young,

I still have crud in my head from when I was a kid.

The buildings I used to play in, the building I used to read comic books in, the buildings I used to have sodas in are no longer standing but I still recall the pattern of the tile floor on the way from the front door to the left side of the store where they kept the comic books.

I sill have stored memories of going from our balcony to the next one where my friend lived without touching the ground, two stories below. And the guy died years ago.

---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/

Retrieval is yet another area which on an old fashioned map would be labeled "terror incognita".

The indexing mechanisms which enable the incredible feats of remembering the dusty, bleached wood look of the board I used to stretch across the space between balconies al those years ago, must be interfering with my adding new memories at some point.

And that's why you're getting an abridged version of the show.

The crap I have to get into my head in fact runs counter to the ways I learned to cope with being a software developer, and a testing manager.

I have in fact learned to scan and I read by exception.

Things don't stick to my conscious unless they're "NOT" what I'm expecting to see and read.

---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/

Conclusion:

Oh my achin' head.

----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I might acknowledge receipt of your emails but don't expect intelligent responses for a while.

This episode featured the following music:

---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/

---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731

---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction

---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/

---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/

----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/

wspc_P34kO1l_0012

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:44:00 GMT

wspc_P34kO1l_0012

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0012.m4a

YouTube ->..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

Never let on that you know what's coming.

---- "Magic GB Jazz" by: "AjT" http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=Album+de+Alain&st=album

Thesis:

This is a speech meant to persuade.

Although that implies that there would be some mode of thought that might imply some debate which would imply that I might wrong about the stance I took.

I seriously doubt that there can be any such error because I am reacting to any discoveries and adapting in kind, but not in direction, to any new facts which arise.

I am not going to try to persuade you of the correctness of my approach since I took the only approach that I saw as solving the most problems, including some that weren't anticipated in the least by the people who originally informed my own opinions about peak oil.

I have also drawn from my own experience. as well as the fractional ones evinced by the same people I have been studying.

Unlike most debaters and most debates, I am the first to admit that things are not black or white.

Heck, that aren't even gray. I'm overseeing over the construction of a rainbow.

Inductive reasoning, wherein I acquire facts and opinions in order to generate something more generic from the specifics, is tightly coupled with deductive reasoning, wherein I am attempting to test the rules as revealed to me in the first place.

I do these kinds of reasoning in order to come up with a suitable yet sufficiently open-ended kind of syllogism, or logical appeal, to solve the conundrums raised by peak oil. ([Greek: ÏÏÎÎÎÎÎÏÎÏÏ â "conclusion," "inference"], [usually the categorical syllogism)] which can form a kind of logical argument in which one proposition [the conclusion] is inferred from two others [the premises] of a certain form. Thank Wikipedia for the actual definition: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism ])

I am now well aware of the 256 rules for crafting syllogisms. (Many of which don't apply here.)

Of course, I am "not" constructing any syllogisms because they are too fractional and would require a level of problem decomposition too fine to be useful at this stage.

In that respect I am actively guilty of treading on the logic of my argument in the same way that I always accused database analyst of always mashing separate and distinct objects together instead of respecting the articulations presented by the inter-object relationships. "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."

---- "Frogmouth" by: Bift http://amiestreet.com/music/bift/bift/frogmouth

Synthesis:

I achieved my understanding of peak oil by thinking of it not as a thing, or even as a series of things, of "if then" rules, but by thinking of it as a process, more specifically as a mathematical function of two intersecting curves.

The arguments for and against peak oil are illusory. They refer to specific instances none of which argue for or against peak oil but instead refer to degrees of the event of peak oil.

Peak oil consists of two intersecting curves, one of demand and the other one of supply.

The game of peak oil consists of reacting properly to the motion of the curves along the horizontal axis of oil and the vertical axis of price, and to the motion of their point of intersection which is the price point and its also where demand creation and demand destruction meet.

There's nothing to argue with. Its just two horizontally moving curves, one high-y sloping down to low-y and the other one low-y climbing up to high-y.

Like "Foghorn Leghorn"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn ] once famously said, "I say, I say ... you can argue with me son, but you cain't argue with mathematics."

Now the implications of the motion of the two curves are the rapidly rising and falling price of oil, and the steady trend upwards as supplies fall over the next century, world-wide.

Guys, remember taking your date out in your jalopy telling the gas jockey to "fill her up" while holding your arm over the roof line, out of eye shot of your date, and holding up one finger per dollar you actually wanted him to pour into the tank.

Of course not. You're probably all too young.

Since the seventies, its been a pose with both hands held up in supplication, tendering your wallet to the one armed bandit at the pump.

Some horizontal slides of the supply curve have never slid back to the position they originally held.

What's fun is that as supply destruction takes hold, just by OPEC withholding their oil, before the demand can react to the new equilibrium, the price at the pump jumps up vertiginously.

(Remember the summer of 2008, with $4.00+ price at the pump. Its got to do with the lag time between supply pricing and demand adjustments. Its even out of the hands of OPEC. The price went up immediately because the oil companies weren't going to do "you" any favors. OPEC upped the supply and even dropped their price but it takes even longer for the greed to dissipate. They weren't going to benefit by charging you less, now were they?)

So what do we have left to disagree about?

What direction we want the avalanche to fall? (Yeah ... You stand there... You wait... You get buried... I'm running, Jack. With my cane I need to take a good long time 'cause I'm not interested in playing "Frosty The Snowman.")

---- "Gunslinger" by: "Danny Weis" http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Spot-Danny-Weis/dp/B000CA91D0

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "If I Had One Wish" by: "DJ Suicide" http://www.crossphade.com/press.html

Synthesis Part Deux

As I asked before: "What have got left to disagree about?"

The shape of the world that will emerge from this lubricious debacle is up to us, entirely up to us.

If we do nothing things are going to change anyway and I can bet you that we won't like the change, because, like the Red Queen said, "It takes all the running I can do to stay in the same place."

So we're going to face a challenge.

How can we face it with the minimum amount of effort for the maximum benefit. Or we can be bull headed and suddenly discover that there's only three hundred and sixty million of us and there are nineteen times as many people competing for oil.

Oh and by the way we can forget about buying oil from Venezuela. The Chinese already have dibs on it. While we weren't looking, they've been turning all the foreign assets and debt that we've been forcing on them into hard currency and buying everything all over the planet with our own fiscal instruments.

Was Wal*Mart good for America?

Not only did we decimate our own production capacity by off-shoring everything, not only did we wreck our commercial infrastructure by building these huge soulless identical box stores where we all bought the same identical crap no matter what, but we sent all of that money to Asia to do it.

Now they hold so much of our debt that we've basically screwed the pooch.

If we're stupid enough not to get off the barrel, we can look forward to paying much, much more for our oil.

I figure we've got fifty years before we're hoisting a glass of "Penzoil" [ http://www.pennzoil.com/ ] like it was a $160,000, in 1985 dollars, bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux. [ http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html ]

Ok. We are idiots. We have not been paying attention and ignored that silky sound of sharpened tempered metal slicing into our own throats.

The choice is do we smarten up and pull back from oil now or does our collective head fall into the bloody basket.

Personally, it will happen on such a time scale that I don't have to care.

I have no issue and I have nothing riding on tomorrow.

The question is not mine, but its "yours."

Are you going to get off of oil nicely, with sure, measured steps, or will get your daughters' tubes tied and make your sons' into castrati.

---- "Last Tango In NYC" by: "The Four Bags" http://amiestreet.com/music/the-four-bags/offshore/last-tango-in-nyc

Conclusion:

The world is not nice, not fair, not gentle.

It makes mince meat out of the complacent.

Don't be complacent.

Now, how can we get ourselves out of this situation?

That is the thesis of the next speech.

---- "The Rosochacha" by: "Greg Federico"
Outro

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And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

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spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0033

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0033

Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 33

I'm adopting this first song as my own marching song for better mental health.

Sometimes I feel that "A Change Would Do You Good" (by "Sheryl Crow",) http://www.sherylcrow.com/

----

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

----

I just love the line "Hello its me, I'm not at home. If you'd like to reach me, just leave me alone."

Goes well with this evening's theme: "Tender Moments".

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"A Change Would Do You Good" by: "Sheryl Crow" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden" by: "Frederick Delius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Gadfly, Opus 97: Romance" by: "Dmitri Shostakovich" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Romance for Flute in D-flat Major, Opus 37" by: "Camille Saint-SaÃns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Romeo and Juliet,Suite No.1, Opus 64 A: Balcony Scene" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Sospiri, Opus 70 by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Fourteen Songs, Opus 34, No.14: Vocalise" by: "Sergei Rachmaninov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Fantaisie-impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Opus 66" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Don Quixote, Opus 35: Dialogue Between the Knight and Servant" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Don Giovanni K527: LÃ ci darem la mano" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPv C's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0351 Damn I'm out of control ANGRY!

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:23:00 GMT

msb-0351 Damn I'm out of control ANGRY!

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

There is not much.

I'm afraid I have been neglecting to post on your blogs, but my wife came upon an entry on "BlindBeard's MS blog" [ http://blindbeardsmsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20%25%5E%23%24*%20SSA ] that moved me to write a response to her old post.

I really feel her pain.

I am becoming possessed by a generalized feeling of anger. (When it gets to rage, get the fuck away for me as far and fast as your legs will carry you or your wheel chair can roll you.)

Part of me knows that it does no good to rail against the situation, but another part of me wants to shake the fucking life out of the idiot lawyers and judges who sit on the SSI's bench, sticking their legs out to trip up the unwary cripple.

What the fuck kind of people are these?

No wonder Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI "The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."

I have never met a bunch of people, and I use the term people very loosely, more deserving of death by strangulation, after I have had the very great pleasure of flailing the skin from their bones.

"
You blocks!
You stones!
You worse than senseless things!"

The worst part is that I "know" that its not the hiring managers' fault.

I never get past HR because I "might", not "do" mind, just "might", need medical care and that would send everybody's premiums up.

So they go the next candidate on the list after making some non-discrimitory noises...

This country needs a good dose of smelling salts and to get their heads out of Richard M. Nixon's dead ass.

This country needs single payer universal health care "not" on any employers tab.

Oh my "gods!"

I need some "Hariprasad Chaurasia" [ http://www.hariprasadchaurasia.com/ ] to calm down.

I'll be back in half an hour after some meditation and some breathing exercises.

I am boiling in a maelstrom of anger and I'm the heat that's causing it to boil.

---- "My Baby Done Hurt Me" by: "Aux and Big Mike"

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 Know You Are Hurting" by: "Panda Kopanda" http://www.pandakopanda.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am not even bothering anymore.

These shows are my gift to you.

Enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Love Hurts from the Musical Saint Peters Umbrella" by:"Wright and Hudson" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=5195

"Thesis:"

I'll be going to the IBS (Intercollegiate Broadcasting System) conference on March 6th, 7th and 8th.

It should be interesting.

Apart from the fact that every other conference I have ever attended posted their schedule on a grid with the rooms on one axis and time on the other axis, which made it much easier to see what was going to be where when.

Whine whine, bitch, bitch, complain, complain.

---- "It Still Hurts" by: "Jeff McMullen" http://www.myspace.com/jeffmcmullen

"Synthesis:"

Attending conferences used to be one of my favoritest ways of passing some time away from home and office, pretending that I was working while pressing the flesh, schmoozing and boozing.

I have attended many conferences related to my old obsession of programming, object-oriented programming and other techie things.

I used to enjoy the feeling of being a room full of other tech gurus (well the first day, the following morning it was always a bit rougher getting up any enthusiasm until after a "Bloody" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail) ] and the third cup of coffee...)

Still it was a lot of fun going away to conferences and trying to come home with as much swag as we could carry.

Linux conferences were always good for a year's supply of T-Shirts.

Smalltalk conferences weren't as good for the wardrobe but I used to make all sorts of contacts and meet old friends from prior conferences.

Sometimes the conferences were paid for by my publishers. That was sweet.

If I could get my ass there, they'd pay for my attendance.

That was specially true if I was on any panels. (But I rarely was. [I'd never been one for the politicking and maintaining the relationships required to appear as a regular on the conference circuit. {Its too much work and I would rather have been doing something else. (I always got along better with the equipment than with the people using the equipment. [What do you think? Clinical Aspergers' { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_syndrome } or what?])}])

---- "Truth Hurts" by: "Lisa Redford" http://www.lisaredford.com/

"Conclusion:"

Its never easy to shake an obsession.

I know because I am an obsessive S.O.B.

At least I have learned how to let go and ... move on.

---- "Hurting is to Blame demo" by: "boy novice" http://bnss.podshow.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

Song list

"My Baby Done Hurt Me"
by: "Aux and Big Mike"
http://tonewheelorchestra.tripod.com/hub/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"I Know You Are Hurting"
by: "Panda Kopanda"
http://www.pandakopanda.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Love Hurts from the Musical Saint Peters Umbrella"
by:"Wright and Hudson"
http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=5195
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"It Still Hurts"
by: "Jeff McMullen"
http://www.myspace.com/jeffmcmullen
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Truth Hurts"
by: "Lisa Redford"
http://www.lisaredford.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hurting is to Blame demo"
by: "boy novice"
http://bnss.podshow.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 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

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0004

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0004

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0004.m4a

CSN&Y - Ohio

YouTube -> ..

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit) (Single)" by: "The Knife" http://www.last.fm/music/The+Knife

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

----

Intro

Well, I guess my prospective guest didn't want to be interviewed.

That's okay. Some people want to stay quiet. Some people are intimidated by the the thought of speaking into a microphone.

That's another kind of handicap, one as visible as high blood pressure but just as debilitating.

Its a form of self censorship when its not warranted.

We'll just go on, as we always do, leaning on our crutches, our canes or wheeling on by.

---- "I am Canadian" by "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" http://www.deadtroll.com/

Thesis:

Coming from Canada as I do gives me a different perspective on the issue of health care.

Why on earth is the United States asking employers to shoulder the burden of health care?

This is a specially glaring hypocrisy in the face of how the United States is treating its military personel.

Apart from particularly glaring aberrations at Walter Reed medical center, during the reign of "Bush the Younger", when out of sight was out of mind and not out of pocket, the people of the United States treat their military very well.

---- "Zhong Guo Ren Min Jie Fang Jun Jin Xing Qu (Marching Song Of China Military)" by: "China Military Philharmonic Society" http://us.dada.net/audio/10705835/China-Military-Philharmonic-Society-Shao-Xian-Dui-Tui-Qi-Qu-(Flag-Drawing-Back-Song-Of-Youth-Army)/

Synthesis:

Health care is particularly poorly served the moment you really need it.

When you really need it, you are likely to be at least temporarily unemployable (and, quite likely, unemployed.)

Most likely, through some accident or infection, you are taken out of the work force and are put at the mercy of people without any mercy.

I refer to the accountants who can look at their balance sheets, look at you, and not see any difference.

While I acknowledge the need for accountancy, I don't believe that they should ever be put in charge of anything.

The current multi-trillion dollar banking debacle and fiscal melt down was the result of people who knew the cost of everything but the value of nothing.

And "we're" left holding the nothing.

---- "Holding Nothing" by: "noel" http://bitmunk.com/media/6425677

Imagine you're working for somebody and you come up with a way to stop having to pay for a growing problem.

You can rightly figure that getting that off the books will get you a bonus.

Health care is a growing problem and by getting rid of the source of the problem, all these sick people, you can save your company huge sums every year.

I mean, you're a company, not a charitable institution, so why should you as a company be expected to pay for all these sick people.

So you look for loop-holes, hire them under different rules, anything so you're not stuck with their health care tab.

Never mind that the current health policy system was started as a kind of Ponzi scheme [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme ] started by Nixon to save his political butt, (I mean, people were dying in the street after having had to burn through their life savings, [The more life savings, the longer people were able to delay the inevitable impoverishment, until it became terminal, {"viz:" you died in the street because you were broke. (The seventies were an ugly and hazardous time in America, I would refer you to Kent State for an example of how dangerous it, and Nixon, really was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings].)}])

New policy adherents would subsidize the costs of taking care of the the current policy holders while the insurance salesmen pocketed the money. (Sort of like the way Bernard Madhoff paid his dividends. [Hey! It worked fine, until people needed the money and he didn't have it. Given the quality of the SEC's oversight, "quid custodiet ipso custodes", its the only reason he got caught, {but, in retrospect, it was inevitable, wasn't it?}])

---- "Four Dead In Ohio" by: "Crosby Stills Nash and Young" http://www.csny.com/

Conclusion:

The current health-don't-care system has features reminiscent of, and is administered like, a huge Ponzi scheme.

Money goes in, profits are pocketed and as little money as the insurer can get away with paying without causing an insurrection goes to actually pay for health care.

The money is being paid by employers, people who aren't really liable and aren't likely to suffer if they shirk their responsibility (In fact, they're likely to profit from doing so.)

So it goes back to the same area of social responsibility.

Is the United States grown up enough to take care of its sick?

Or is it going to become the only developed nation on the planet which trips over the dead and dying naked bodies of its citizens in the street?

The jury is still out.

---- "Jury's Out" by: '' Dave Nevling" http://www.davenevling.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

wspc_P34kO1l_0011

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:11:00 GMT

wspc_P34kO1l_0011

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0011.m4a

YouTube ->. .

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

The Smashing Pumkins "Zero"
..

Never let on that you know what's coming.

---- "Saved by Zero" by: "Fixx" http://www.thefixx.com/

Thesis:

While I intend to concentrate this audio column on "dealing" with society as it finds a new equilibrium in an energy impoverished landscape, I should point you to some resources for information about peak oil.

There are books, blogs, mailing lists, podcasts and movies which can serve to persuade you that the world as we know it "is" coming to an end. All of these information resources will do that and more.

Mind you, I took a longer perspective and since we'll take about 250 years to go through all the oil (and after 150 years we're about halfway through all the oil there is, [but there's going to be a whole lot more people after the shrinking puddle of oil that's left,]) I figured that we weren't going to disappear gently into that long goodnight quite so easily as that.

Some distopians would have you believe in a "Mad Max" scenario, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max ] others would point to "Mullah Omar and his merry bunch of murderers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah_Omar ] as the way that things were going to go down, but that's just such a stupid waste that I can just dispense with it.

We aren't going to suddenly forget how to read or write and we aren't going to all become microcephalic imbeciles overnight.

---- "Return To Zero" by: "TAPKAE" http://tapkae.com/blog/

Synthesis:

This must perforce be a recapitulation of my own journey to awareness.

It all started with some rumblings I'd heard about from an accountant regarding long term investing and why 30 years was the longest term they gave for depreciating assets.

From that thoroughly dull and bo-o-ring introduction to the subject came the realization that John D. Rockerfeller had made all of his fortune exploiting the oil in Pennsylvania and then Texas/Oklahoma. (Standard Oil lasted until 1920 before it got broken up because ol' John D. was a ruthess bastard and ran his business like it too...)

Unlike the causes of the First World War, which had to do European marketing rights for Silesian pigs, "I kid you not," the second world war happened mostly over oil.

And the United States had a lot of it and nobody else did. But that didn't last long. War burns through a few billion barrels of the stuff.

The British had always enjoyed screwing with the boundaries of countries within their possessions. If things were running left to right, they set the national borders up and down.

Like they did to the Turks remnants of the Ottaman Empire, the Kurds, the Sunni, the Shiaa in Mesopotmia (which covered Turkey, Iraq and Iran,), the factions in India (which took an extremely nasty, bloody civil war to partition themselves into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh,) Afghanistan, which is at best a loose amalgam or warring tribal areas, and the pattern is repeated all over Africa and in the Pacific.).

After the second world war, the United States and Great Britain had deposed the rightfully elected but intelligent, left-leaning "Mohammad Mosaddeq" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddeq ] in 1953, the year I was born, in order to put up the puppet potentate known as "Mohammad RezÄ ShÄh Pahlavi" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi ] so Aramco could get at the oil reserves in the middle East, I hadn't heard bugger all about anybody extracting any oil out of Pennsylvania ground.

That was because it was cheaper to suck it out of the sand in Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and ship it all those thousands of miles in the largest ships ever built that to try to suck any more oil out of Pensylvania.

Then "M. K. Hubbert" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] working for Shell Oil in Texas made some predictions about when he'd be able to retire. He did some "back of the envelope" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope_calculation ] and came up with a peak oil for Texas in 1972.

So if you're wondering why we're supporting Israel and Saudi Arabia, fighting in Iraq, and paying pennies on the dollar to keep the Nigerians government as corrupt as it is, its because of access to oil.

That lack of oil is the reason we don't give a crap about Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Tsvangirai, a starving populace or an economy in absolute free fall with the Zimbabwean dollar being backed by Mugabe's fillings.

US citizens might make some righteous noises but, on the face of the actions the American government takes throughout the world, we aren't very nice, and therefore, we aren't very popular.

---- "Glass" by: "The Panic Attacks" http://www.myspace.com/thepanicattacks

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "A Moment In The Glass" by: "Lo-Fez Beagle Chowder" http://eukt.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1454

Synthesis Part Deux

So now that you understand who's what, what's what, where's what, when's what and why's what, how about some other sources so you can compare with the other nuts out there who are still at the "Chicken Little" stage of discovery.

Most of the sources are easily found online. (When you have something this spectacularly, sensationally scary, you want to be heard.)

The problem is that peak oil is an economic fact. Its basically just a story of commodity depletion and the turn over of the economy as it adjusts to the new reality.

The economy has done this for thousands of years, through every supposed revolution in energy source, from canine, to bovine, to equine, to avian, to cetacian, to petroleum, to hydrolic, to hydro-electric, to electric, to nuclear, to termo-nuclear from afar a.k.a. solar.

We have gone through all sorts of "revolutions" and at a meta-level they have all led to that most dreaded thing in the human condition: change.

Google knows all so go and google "peak oil".

Don't worry about the debunkers.

They're just arguing about the actual timing,

Or worse, they're saying that the world is never going to run out of oil and denying the evidence and the lessons that came from Pennsylvania, Texas, Prudoe Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea oil fields, the Western US continental shelf, Venezuala, Nigeria, Iran and Iraq.

---- "Koyaanisqatsi" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi

Conclusion:

So you've just been exposed to some more information about peak oil from the soothsayers of suffering, the diviners of doom, the predictors of pain, the inauspicious augurers.

No wonder I don't want to go there.

Besides we have about a hundred years to affetuate the changes we need to enact to make the world a livable place without using any oil.

In order to do it right, we need to start now, but we can take baby stept, dudes and dudettes, baby steps.

We can make mistakes and correct them as we go, rather than hurtling full speed towards either a brick wall or a precipice.

---- "Organic" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

YouTube -> Rush - Tom Sawyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA

This is episode 32

In yet another example of the perversity of the human spirit here is "Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by "Guy Lombardo"

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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This evening's theme is "In Praise".

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by: "Guy Lombardo" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Op. 52/6, D 839, "Ave Maria" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Stabat Matar: Cujus animam" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Ave verum corpus K618" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Requiem, Opus 48: Pie Jesu" by: "Gabriel FaurÃ" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Cantata BWV80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Chorale)" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Gloria V589: Laudamus te" by: "Antonio Vivaldi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Miserere: Psalm 51" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Requiem: Libera me (Excerpt)" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Exsultate, jubilate K165/158A" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite 6 E Major, BWV 817" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:20:00 GMT

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Here it is, Friday, February 13th, almost St. Valentine's Day and I'm supposed to tell you that the way of life you know and cherish is kicking its own ass to the curb?

I don't think so...

Here's some music for your raging hormones...

---- "People are still having sex" by: "La Tour" http://www.discogs.com/LaTour-People-Are-Still-Having-Sex/release/177970

Thesis:

Peak Oil is a stretch, an arc, on a curve when we go from being an oil rich planet to being an oil poor planet. (More curves intersecting curves again, oil discovery, oil production, oil extraction prices rising above and oil sales falling below)

At the risk of seeming flip about it, "This is not a risk, its an opportunity".

Yes we're going to see a lot of changes and change always has its dogmatic enemies. (Sorry folks but as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, change will happen. Nothing lasts forever. Deal with it.)

The YouTube video which accompanies these posts is alarming and a bit of a bummer because it has to be. The word is not universally out there.

But you shouldn't be "that" alarmed about it.

We have plenty of time to start ducking the shovel that's swinging at our collective face.

---- "Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll" by: "Ugly" http://www.myspace.com/uglyamerica

Synthesis:

The best way to dodge a bullet is not to be in its path in the first place. That's simple physics.

However, this isn't about dodging bullets, avoiding shovels to the face, or even trying to juggle chain saws.

Its about seeing things and reacting intelligently.

My intended audience is all made up of college students. And at a Catholic private college, no less. You were all smart enough to get here.

You are probably going to be smart enough to see the writing on the wall (a scrawled oily smear saying "I'm dead and I was killed by... uh... uh.. [drops like a sack of potatoes.])

Coming from the eastern side of Canada and the United States, as I do, I'm big on public transit. In Weisbaden, Germany I didn't need a car at all. I took their buses everywhere,

I'm even bigger on no transit at all.

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Here's a question for you.

What form of transportation carries more passengers that all of the other form combined, planes, trains, buses and automobiles, in near perfect safety and with zero CO2 emissions?

The answer?

The elevator.

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The biggest problem with trying to use an elevator comes from the fact that the holes are all in a straight line up and down.

Imagine if you could go sideways?

You not only punch in your floor (vertical destination) but your site (x & y horizontal destination.)

For most trips, you'd never need to sit down so we just provide hand holds for lateral shifts.

Imagine being in a big building. A really big building. A friggin' humongous building.

Imagine you're on the "street level" of the Petronas Towers but instead of two huge cylinders for living spaces, there's like fifty of them, and instead of one sky bridge about half-way up, there's like twenty all shuttling elevator cages around up and down and across on mag-lev tracks with "film cog" carriers.

We already know how to build Petronas towers.

We already know how to build cog railway cars.

We already know how to program systems to handle elevator cars.

We already know how to build all of this zero emission stuff.

We've just never attempted it at the proper scale ... yet.

Okay, just so you know. I come from MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada.

Its frigin' COLD in the winter time in MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada.

Like for a week in February it hovers around forty degrees below zero. That's friggin' cold.

Did you know that you could live on the south shore of the St. Lawrence river, get to work down town, across the river, go see a friend for supper in the north end of the city and get back home in the worst weather, (when its a blizzard outside or when its too cold to snow,) without even needing a woolen sweater?

The streets are deserted because of "Le Metro" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro ] which whisks almost a million people between work and home underground.

If you live somewhere with direct access to the Metro, you look at ol' man winter through the windows of a "brasserie", never get cold and never get your shoes wet with slush.

And it the same with the hottest days of summer. We could ignore the weather...

MontrÃal is a nascent archology.

So I'm just saying that the system has already been proven to work.

---- "Jungle Juice" by: "All Crazy" http://www.myspace.com/allcrazyphilly

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "Turn Me On" by: "Valentino Casanova" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=3cP&q=%22Turn+Me+On%22+by%3A+%22Valentino+Casanova%22&btnG=Search

Synthesis Part Deux

I'm not one for whining and bitching.

I'm not one for moaning and groaning.

I'm already too old for peak oil to do more to me than screw up my retirement, if I had any left after the financial melt down killed off my potential clients , took care of my retirement money and screwed over me but good. [Like the old Chinese curse says, I'm living in interesting times.])

So what can I do right now? And what can I see in the future as a way of possibly helping myself? And you too?

Right now, I'm getting rid of my car. Hey I can actually do it. I live within hobblng distance of public transit. In New York City and environs, owning a car actually detracts from your mobility.

If you don't live the same way, you'll have to move wont you.

I'm not going to sugar-coat it.

Forget about owning your own cars unless they're electric. Forget about needing cars too when you can take an elevator/people mover anywhere you'll need to go.

Forget living in the suburbs unless you are independently wealthy.

But there are plenty of ways we can live together, but apart, in archologies.

Farming too can be done in climate controlled conditions. No more worrying about the rains being late or coming too often. No more worrying about how to get the produce picked, or to get it to to market.

---- "Sexy Noises Turn Me On" by: "Salt-N-Pepa" http://www.saltunrapped.com/

Conclusion:

MontrÃal is an example, a starting point, showing us what is possible already.

Its got lots of problems that it inherits from its older infrastructure, but its a mile post.

Now lets think big, really big, and really modern.

(That should get the architects really interested. Build an archology and name it after yourself.)

---- "I'm Too Sexy" by: "Right Said Fred" http://www.rightsaidfred.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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And we're ending off with something originally composed by "Fats Waller" ( http://www.muziekweb.nl/shared/cat/ti/index.php?tnr=JDX1086 ) but I have no idea of where picked up this recording.

---- "Sextette from Lucia" by: "Royal Italian Marine Band (Musical group)"

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

YouTube -> Tsugaru Shamisen 'n Tuvan Throat Singing
..

This is episode 31

I've always had a slightly evil slant on the stories people tell each other.

Its called bullshit and it deserves to be shoveled into a pile and set afire.

I was specially struck by "Virginia Woolf" in "A Room of One's Own"making the point that if Shakespeare had had a sister, it wouldn't have mattered if she'd been better than he was, she'd never have got a word in edge-wise.

That's why I've always loved "Siobahn Fahey" who sings divinely on "You're History" by: "Shakespeare's Sister" http://www.shakespearssister.co.uk/

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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This evening's theme is a "String Serenade".

And I have an idea on how to close out this evening's show. Heh heh.

(If you're getting the show via the web, your browser's letting you in one the joke and if you're catching the show via iTunes, look at the end of the chapters list. :-)

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"You're History" by: "Shakespeare's Sister" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade for Strings in C Major, Opus 48: Waltz" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Sonata in A Major: Fourth Movement" by: "CÃsar Franck" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Concerto No.1 in E-flat Major: Third Movement" by: "NiccolÃ Paganini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Concerto in G Major K216: Second Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade, Opus 6: First Movement" by: "Josef Suk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Andante festivo" by: "Jean Sibelius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Opus 28" by: "Camille Saint-SaÃns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade for Strings in E Major, Opus 22: Fifth Movement" by: "Antonin DvorÃk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"A Demonstration Of Sygyt And Kargyraa"" by: "Shaktar Shulban" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Walking On Broken Glass" by: "Annie Lennox" http://www.annielennox.com/

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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Intro

I have noticed, when I can look up from the ground when getting around this campus, that there are several other disabled students and that they are negotiating the campus with varying degrees of difficulty.

They aren't much helped by the architecture of the place, which is a mish-mash of donated buildings built in an age when the disabled were at best ignored and at shut out of public view.

---- "Walking The Dog" by "George and Ira Gershwin"

Thesis:

This show concerns one delightful young woman I met while we were both a bit winded from making our way up the stairs to the third floor in "McDermott Hall" (and we were a bit winded from the exertion, not because we're fat, though that is another kind of disability, [the young lady in question is "Runway Model Thin" and would be the envy of any of the geeks I have known over the years to drape over their arms {They would pass out at the thought of her actually being "in" their arms. ("In your dreams 'Pipe Stem' ... In your friggin' wet, little dreams.")}])

I can't help but wonder at how magnanimous she feels towards the architects of this place, the dudes who simply ignored the mobility needs of five percent of the population, not out of malevolence, (or at least, I "hope" not out of malevolence,) but out of sheer "never look up from their drawing board" ignorance.

(Can you smell the theme of next weeks' show by now? I'm hoping you'll get to meet her.)

---- "Walking My Baby Back Home" by: "Nat King Cole"

Synthesis:

I find that the biggest problems in architecture can always be pointed to by ignorance.

Nobody knew about frequency of oscillation so the "Tacoma Narrows Bridge" swayed in the wind and went down like a "ribbon on a stick" held by a rhythmic dancer, who'd just taken a bullet for the team.

And this was in nineteen forty folks.

We're not talking about our stupid old ancestors building cathedrals in the Middle Ages here; back when the height of construction technology was the flying butress.

We're talking about unintended consequences of structural members in motion. The kind of stuff architects are paid to damn well know about. But they didn't and several million bucks of bridge ended up in the drink.

How about we try to focus the architects' attention way closer to home and get them to stop putting things like elevators in out of the way places, that's when they even realize that nobody, hale or disabled, wants to walk up five stories.

---- "Walking Down China Town" by: " " http://www.myspace.com/keenanclassicaljazz

I used to be a student of architecture way back when.

My heroes were people like Le Corbusier (who'se gigantic architecture was so unappealing a place to live that Brasilia was populated against the will of the people living there. They actually preferred living in the shanty towns of the workers who built Brasilia.)

They were people like Mies van Der Rohe, whose Teutonic twist to architecture led to sterile and unlivable places. He was a genius. His followers were hacks barely ever rising above the mediocre. They might have been inspired, but they were still fools.

I was also quite fond of Robert Venturi and his post-modern style, I. M. Pei, Walter Gropius, Oscar Neimeyer, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, R. Buckminster Fuller, Gio Ponti, Paul Wedlinger, Paul Rudolph, Mario Ciampi and others.

Now I'd like to take a sledge hammer to their knees and see how the experience of making their own way through their own monstrosities would affect their ideas of architecture and how it affects pedestrian traffic flow through it.

I bet it would result in a lot of changes.

No more sweeping grand staircases with elevators tacked on as an after though and tucked away like they were ashamed of how shoddy and ill conceived their construction really was.

We can only hope that the experience of crap refits as lip service to the ADA won't be repeated, that is when they're even attempted, like the ridiculous wheel chair lift in the McDermott hall up to the admissions desk and first floor and nowhere else; unlike Hannaberry Hall which is in violation of even the most liberal interpretion of the ADA.

---- "Walking Contradiction" By: "Green Day"

Conclusion:

Like Monty Python once said, "That's the kind of blinkered Philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."

Yes, architects have a lot to answer for. I have rarely met one that even looked up from the guidelines books to see it those guidelines are even applicable or if they are sufficient.

Most of these books deal with floor loads and structural stress limits and only rarely cover things like usability.

I'm going to try to talk her into making an appearance next week.

---- "Design for Living" by: "Flanders and Swann"

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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YouTube ->..

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---- "Another Day In Paradise" by: "Phil Collins"

Thesis:

This episode is going to be a little, uh, different.

I'm being a lazy so-and-so and combining some classwork with this show / podcast.

Part of this evening's show is going to be an explanatory speech on PeakOil.

I know, I know, that's what we had with the first seven weeks of shows, the last half of last term, fall 2008.

I am doing this to kill two birds with one boulder.

So let's all watch as "birdie go bye bye,"

---- "My Blue Heaven" by: "Bob Crosby"

Synthesis:

This is an expository speech, wherein I reveal something to"inform" the listeners, as opposed to a suppository speech, wherein I just pull fiction, masquerading as fact, right out of my ass.

So sit back for the next five to seven minutes, and let my palaver lull you into complacency.

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How many of you know where oil comes from?

We're not talking geographically, we're not talking geo-politically, we're talking physically.

It doesn't come from the gas station either.

Oil comes from the ground.

There is some nonsense about it all being from fossil plant matter that died millions of years ago and oil is the result of bio-mass putrefaction. Which works fine until you realize that some of the oil exists in large pockets under the ocean and there is no way that plants lived anywhere near there in billions of years.

There is also some nonsense about it being produced (and I really mean excreted,) by anaerobic bacteria which live everywhere inside the crust of the earth and which we have only recently discovered.

(See, there are new things under the sun, way under the sun. The major part of the planet's bio mass was unsuspected. [ http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/1027_Bacteria_Found_Thriving_Deep.html ])

It doesn't really matter.

The source is immaterial. Its a slow process (in fact if you believe in actual fossil fuels, it has stopped.)

What matters is that we've been using up to sixty million barrels of the stuff a day, and, barring the current, hopefully temporary, economic slowdown, we're going to use it up until its all gone.

We're right now at an inflection point: Peak Oil, which means that we're about half-way through all the oil we've found to date and all of the oil we're going to find.

We started using rock oil, a.k.a. petroleum, in the middle of the eighteen hundreds, when whale oil became extremely expensive and hard to come by.

Made a tycoon out of John D. Rockefeller; after the U.S. Civil War.

Standard Oil, which got so much wealth for ol' John D., got broken up because he was basically an emotionless, egoistical bastard and the company got to big to live.

But the "powers that were" needn't have worried.

There's no oil left in Pennsylvania, is there?

There no oil left in Texas, is there?

Actually, there's no oil left in the continental United States, is there?

There's almost no oil left in the North Sea, is there?

There isn't that much left in Prudhoe bay, is there?

The Catalina coast and the entire Gulf of Mexico is getting depleted enough that the oil companies are looking at the real-estate off the deeper coast of Florida.

The Canadian Tar Sands are still unrecoverable though they're hovering around the break even point.

Oh, there's some oil left out there all right, but its not economically viable; meaning that it costs too much to recover, to pump it out of the ground.

The story is the same in Russia, off of the coast of Asia, in the ocean bottoms, even in the Middle East.

Its the same ... everywhere.

So we've got us a "situation" on our hands.

"Chicken Little" was right.

The sky "is" falling.

He had help in the voice of "M. King Hubbert" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] a research scientist with the Shell Oil research laboratories in Houston Texas, who did some simple math and made a few predictions that have since been borne out.

He saw the oil reserves in Texas and predicted that they were going to peak in the seventies. He saw that every barrel drawn from that point on would be drawn at a bigger cost from a dwindling supply.

And sure enough he was right.

Oil is a finite commodity and suffers from the same problems that all commodities run into.

Their supply runs out.

That is to say that in the immediate term the consumption demand curve outstrips the production supply curve.

When dealing with natural sources, the species can even go extinct.

The biggest problem facing the dodo was that it was big, fat, flightless and tasty.

This last point is not the problem facing other species, like the "Komodo Dragon."

And tastiness is not the issue.

Utility can be enough to seal a specie's fate.

As surely as the islanders on "Rapa Nui" ran out of trees to use as rollers to move their "Aku Aku" from the quarry in the central peak out to the beaches round the island.

Rather than bitch and moan, whine and complain and run around yelling "The American Way Of Life is under threat," just face facts.

It was a great hundred and fifty years but the oil is becoming prohibitively expensive on the down-side of the peak oil.

It doesn't matter that the extraction technology is still improving. Its an incremental improvement.

It doesn't matter that that there are still pockets of oil being discovered, even though they are getting smaller, deeper, farther and "not" cheaper.

The hunger for energy, although in order not to mix metaphors, I should say "the thirst" for oil is growing as fast as the population did over the last century, going from less than 1 billion to over six and a half billion.

It still takes a woman nine months to give birth regardless of how many women are assigned the task, while it will take the aggregate of humanity only a little more than 16% as long to consume the same amount of oil that mankind consumed during the period of time from 1850 to 1914.

Basically we're all screwed if we try to keep on the same gravy train that the Western World has been on since the end of the First World War.

"Can't do it. No way JosÃ. Won't fly."

If that's all you see, you're sure that we're all going to Hell in a hand basket.

Now, I'm upbeat about this and I'll tell you "why" in the next segment.

Here's a foreshadowing of that episode:

    "The world we know has been created, in its entirety, since the introduction of oil a hundred and fifty years ago.

    Nothing that exists now could even have been imagined then.

    The biggest game changer, the mother of all unintended consequences, the internet. born out of a project by the US Military to build a scalable communication system capable of surviving nuclear devastation, couldn't even be imagined back less than fifty years ago.

    In another hundred and fifty years, its all going to have to change again... But remember, change is cumulative...

    There are no more "buggy whip" makers, but then there is no more need for them. There isn't going to be any need for them in the coming age either."

This is not a problem folks, this is an opportunity.

---- "If I Ever Lose This Heaven" by: "Quincy Jones"

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "Stairway To Heaven" by: "Led Zeppelin"

Conclusion:

So that was my expository speech, wherein I expostulated, exaspiratedly about the execrable human condition; that we tend to look through a glass, darkly, when it doesn't matter if its half-full or half-empty, we simply have "got" to stop drinking from it.

The bottom of the glass is visible and the pub is closing.

We're just going to have to find something else to drink, somewhere else.

But then, all of life is change isn't it...

The folks who rail against change are really railing about the fact that they've got to move their butts, possibly exposing their heads, to determine where the next bucks are going to come from.

Guess what?

I don't exactly know either, but its going to be a lot more fun finding that out than it is just sitting here, in the dark, along with all of the other Ethnic Mothers of those old jokes.

Have I succeeded in informing you of the facts (change is inevitable, unavoidable and even predictable,) and of my attitude toward those facts (it can't happen fast enough for me...)

---- "Heaven Must Be Boring" by: "George Hrab"

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

We're going to close off the week with

"HeavensaLie" by: "Lacuna Coil"

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Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

This is episode 30

I'm getting more comfortable with introducing new music in with the old because there's a lot of music that fits into the mould of classical music without actually being music so old that it was all written and played long before we were born by people we couldn't possibly ever meet.

Take for instance "Myth of Beauty" by: "The Carnies" http://www.myspace.com/thecarnies

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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This evening's theme is Myth & Magic, so cross your fingers and toes, wish on a star, kiss a frog, throw a horse shoe over your shoulder with a pinch of salt and pepper and let's "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Myth of Beauty" by: "The Carnies" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - 7. Arabian Dance" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Danse Macabre, Op. 40" by: "Camille Saint-SaÃns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"El Amor brujo (Ritual Fire Dance)" by: Manuel de Falla" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Sonata in G Minor Third Movement (The Devil's Trill)" by: "Giuseppe Tartini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Magic Flute (Overture)" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Swan Lake, Act II Introduction" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchajkovski" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Planets: Uranus, The Magician" by: "Gustav Holst" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Bogatyr Gates (in the Capital in Kiev))" by: "Modest Mussorgsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

'Alchemy" by: "Mythos" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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YouTube -> Dire Straits - Industrial Disease [Sydney -86]
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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Pre-Existing Condition" by: "The Motion Sick" http://www.themotionsick.com/

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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Intro

The first and most important thing in this life is education, but it may not be what you think of as education.

I am casting my little net about, learning things about business models in an age that is internet enabled, (some would say internet disabled, [if not outright obliterated.])

While micro-payments offers a general solution for media, it still encounters difficulties and producer resistance (as opposed to consumer resistance) because of the high transaction charges from financial service providers. (Its a freakin' miracle that Apple was able to negotiate rates as low at they were to keep the cost per tune to merely 99 cents!)

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Coming up this week, the Wednesday Thyme Warp is going to to be about "Myths and Magic".

Also coming up this week, I'm going to have a different take on Peak Oil, because I see it as a great opportunity for America to do what its done best: rise up to a challenge and spit in its eye.

Its not time to wax nostalgic back at some imaginary idyll; its time to look at it with a rising sense of purpose.

That's coming on Friday's show.... In the mean time...

This show is a chance for students at St. Peter's College to both learn about disability, the concepts and the realities of disability, as well as to teach about disability, by exposing the audiences, both on the campuses of St. Peter's College and on the world wide web, to the problems faced by 5% of the population (That's "325,000,000" [three hundred and twenty five million] people, one in twenty people on the planet, alive today, right now, that is the number the W.H.O. [the World Health Organization] estimates fits their definition of disability; points along the continuum from permanently to temporarily and from totally to mildly disabled.)

---- "Sick as a Dog" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Thesis:

Celiac Disease is one of those diseases that can run the gamut from mild to total disability and its currently incurable.

Because of the number of people afflicted (1 in 133 people according to one website [ http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/index.htm ]) and the fact that its not deadly, research is being done on it, but not enough to change anything.

Because its not a "popular disease" (meaning its not one spread through sexual contact, ) afflicting less that 1% of the population and not gruesomely terminal, if you've got celiac disease, you're stuck with it.

---- "Sick And Tired" by: "Eric Clapton" http://www.ericclapton.com/

Synthesis:

The same website [ http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/index.htm ] has lots of basic information about

    * What is celiac disease?
    * What are the symptoms of celiac disease?
    * Why are celiac disease symptoms so varied?
    * What other health problems do people with celiac disease have?
    * How common is celiac disease?
    * How is celiac disease diagnosed?
    * How is celiac disease treated?
    * The Gluten-free Diet: Some Examples
    * Points to Remember
    * Hope through Research
    * For More Information

Now my guest it going to try to tackle his own discovery of these points one by one, in four minutes... :-)

Take it way

[...] "Apologies but my guest is "live" on the show. Not in this podcast."

---- "MSick" by: "Mark Speckman" http://cdbaby.com/cd/speckman

Conclusion:

Celiac Disease is no joke.

The immune system, (something I'm intimately acquainted with, what with my M.S. that used to try to kill me every 15 years or so, [the immune system]) gets its wires crossed and attacks part of the whole that it should instead be trying to protect,

---- "Sick" by: "Bad Acid" http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/4981/default.html

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Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:57:00 GMT

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media files:

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YouTube ->..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

---- "Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Thesis:

Peak Oil isn't just a concept or an idea, though it is that, but peak oil is the harbinger of a change that is coming that is going to sweep everything into a great big pile.

As reality changes to accommodate this new elephant in the room, we're going to have to be creative in the options choices we're all going to make.

Peak oil spells gloom and doom for our way of life, but it does not spell gloom and doom for mankind.

Our dependence on oil is a historic aberration which saw enormous changes coming in, and it will see even more enormous changes going out.

We're not going back to an agrarian society since we have seen the population rise beyond what could be supported by the unaided soil.

Either we succeed in this endeavor or we're going to have to play at being "Pol Pot" with world-wide "killing fields". (Pol Pot I'll remind you killed merely in person in five in Cambodia with his agrarian reforms.

We would have to kill four persons in five the world over to achieve a sustainable and supportable population using only the techniques which existed pre-oil, or about a mere century-and-a-half ago.

---- "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Synthesis:

So lets deconstruct peak oil as a series of phenomena which correspond to a modification of Mazlow's pyramid.

Man can live

* Without air: four minutes.
* Without water: four days.
* Without food: four weeks.
* Without sex: Forget it!

Okay, on a less facetious form, lets examine the "real" "Mazlow's" pyramid [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs ].

Basic human needs are:

* physiological,
* safety and security,
* love and belonging,
* esteem and
* self-actualization.

Given the fact that we're knocking every blessed thing into a cocked-hat, lets examine the most basic needs, the physiological:

* Food
* Water
* Breathing
* Excretion
* Sleep
* Homeostasis
* Sex

Back to my facetious pyramid.

"Air" will be pretty much in the same supply it is now.

It might even be cleaner for the same reason that foxes have moved back into Detroit. The base state for a post-industrial society is pretty much the same as for a pre-industrial one. Clean air, plenty of sunshine and lots of "critter space".

You will be relieved to hear that "water" will still flow down hill. Hydroelectric dams will still work. (The lubricants for the turbines "will" require some work.)

You will be relieved to hear that water will still evaporate too. (Of course, clouds "will" form where and when they want to, mostly away from the catch basins of the hydroelectric dams.)

The rest is a bit more problematic.

"Food" production currently demands large areas of land. Unfortunately, that also demands large quantities of oil to accomplish some things:

* farming (for fertilizers, pesticides, moving dirt around harrowing, and harvesting.)
* transportation of produce to market,
* transportation of seed to the farm to begin with,
* maintaining markets (though that is the province of anybody from your local green grocer to a huge box store,)
* moving the produce back to your home.

The problems come primarily from three very disturbing facts:

* First we have to, uh, think different.
* Then we have to overcome the distance between the farm and home.
* Lastly we we have problems of un-cooperative weather, un-cooperative soil, and un-cooperative labor conditions on the farms.

The solutions to these require some attitude adjustment on our part and on the part of the nice folks who build our cities.

---- "Little Bird" by: "Annie Lennox" http://www.annielennox.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "100% Pure Love" by: "Crystal Waters" http://www.theoneandonlycrystalwaters.com/

Okay back to urban planning.

We've got to refit and insure that all new construction is mixed industrial, agricultural, residential and retail.

Preferably in the same building!

I gave the order because we need that the construction of our "archologies" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology ] be pretty much in that order.

We have to stop thinking so "cheap and cheesy", slapdash and jury-rigged, and instead start thinking of habitation as things fitting together and complementing each other.

Now that cheap oil and therefore cheap energy are disappearing from the landscape, the things that depend on cheap oil and therefore cheap energy must disappear also.

I am advocating the creation of arcologies not out of some Utopian visions but because its preferable to the distopian visions that come to the mind's when trying to keep the outside out and the inside hermetically sealed against it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, because he was born and lived some of his life before the era of widespread cheap oil, had designed the principles of a dymaxion arcology out of necessity back when the twentieth century was new.

He was trying to solve the problems of sustainability for his time and now, after the oil enabled diversions of two world wars, countless skirmishes, failed regimes, failed implementations of failed political ideas, countless deaths to serve no purpose, failed religions and false prophets, its time we put down the "Kool-Aid" and started back on the path he'd glimpsed "through a glass darkly" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_a_Glass_Darkly ] but still more clearly than most of us ever see.

One of the prime principles of his dymaxion philosophy is to extract the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people from the smallest amount of material.

I am not advocating blind acceptance of everything he wrote. The man could have clearly benefitted from some linguistics courses which would have helped him with his need to coin new words.

But the concepts for reforming refitting and creating the new urban arcologies are clearly there.

Imagine living contained in buildings of currently unimaginable size where all of our physical, emotional and spiritual needs can be met, all of our transportation requirements are local.

Imagine living in Dubai ... everywhere.

We'll return to this theme of arcology at several point during upcoming episodes.

---- "Children (Dream Version)" by: "Robert Miles" http://www.robert-miles.com/

Conclusion:

Peak Oil is going to change everything in a wave of innovation or leave us high and dry gasping for breath and grasping at straws stuck in an empty oil barrel.

Its actually going to do both. Some people won't be able to loosen their grasp and will end up holding nothing and burying their children, dead from a millions causes all related to their acceptance of scarcity.

Some people will be able to see that you can only accept things with open hands and will end up owning everything of any value and leave a legacy to a future they can't even imagine.

Some of the innovation that is coming will affect how and where we live and that requires the most open mind of all.

---- "Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba" http://www.morcheeba.co.uk/

Outro

Oh and by the way:

I just want to thank the people who left the nice comments on the blog, sent me email feedback on the podcast of "The Disability Show".

And to my wife who's been chiding me for having thought small all these years, when the need was for exactly this kind of show, "Yes Dear. You were right..."

In this episode, we heard:

"Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk"
"Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/
"Little Bird" by: "Annie Lennox"
"100% Pure Love" by: "Crystal Waters"
"Children (Dream Version)" by: "Robert Miles"
"Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba"

and we're going to close off the week with

"A Deeper Love" by: "Aretha Franklin"
"The Voice Of Enigma" by: "Enigma"
"Such Great Heights" by: "The Postal Service"
"Bodyrock" by: "Moby"
"Beachball" by: "Nalin & Kane"

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0029.m4a

Video Links
This is episode 29

With apologies to "Bored of the Rings" (1) this week its all about the pastoral squalor one finds outside of the urban area, away from the nascent, semi-arcologies of Jersey City and the other cities huddled in the shadow of New York City, (itself a nascent arcology).

(A ha! Some fore shadowing of this Friday's "Peak Oil" show. [Arcology... Arcology... What the heck is is an arcology? Tune in Friday and find out why it may save your children's and their children's butts.])

In keeping with my habit of stating episodes of this show with, uh, future classics, in sort of the theme of pastoral squalor in here is

"The Drop System" by "Pastora" http://myspace.com/pastoramusic

(1)"Bored of the Rings"is a National Lampoon take on J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and probably came out, like the original, way before any of you attending this school were born.

[ http://www.teenink.com/Books/article/1507/Bored-of-the-Rings/ ]

To quote:
"Boggies are an unattractive but annoying people whose numbers have increased rather precipitously since the bottom fell out of the fairy-tale market. Slow and sullen, and yet dull, they prefer to lead simple lives of pastoral squalor. They don't like machines more complicated than a garotte, a blackjack, or a luger, and they have always been shy of the 'big folk' or 'biggers' as they call us. As a rule they avoid us, except on rare occasions when a hundred or so will get together to dry-gulch a lone farmer or hunter. They seldom exceed three feet in height, but are fully capable of overpowering creatures half their size when they get the drop on them. . . . Their beginnings lie far back in the Good Ole Days when the planet was populated with the kind of colorful creatures you have to drink a quart of Old Overcoat to see nowadays."

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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The theme this evening is Pastoral scenes.(Pastoral Squalor as I like to refer to it, like scenes of rusted farm equipment in the fields and rusted heaps if the front yards of tumble down barn yard shacks, in desperate need of a coat of paint [or cleansing arson.]

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"The Drop System" by "Pastora" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Lark Ascending" by: "Ralph Vaughan Williams" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite Pastorale: Idylle" by: "Emmanuel Chabrier" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Brigg Fair" by: "Percy Grainger" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Opus 68, "Pastoral": First Movement" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"English Dances, Set II, Opus 33, No. 1" by: "Malcolm Arnold" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Rosamunde: Entr'acte No. 2" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"St. Paul's Suite: Fourth Movement (The Dargason)" by: "Gustav Holst" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Divertimento in D Major K136: Third Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:15:00 GMT

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show/podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by: "Green Day" http://www.greenday.com/splash_black.php?accesscheck=%2Flogin_check.php

Intro

This show is a chance for students at St. Peter's College to both learn about disability, the concepts and the realities of disability, as well as to teach about disability, by exposing the audiences, both on the campuses of St. Peter's College and on the world wide web, to the problems faced by 5% of the population (That's "325,000,000" [three hundred and twenty five million] people, one in twenty people on the planet alive today, right now, that the W.H.O. [the World Health Organization] estimates fits their definition of disability.)

---- "Wake me up when this Math Class Ends" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Thesis:

As the title of the show might give a hint, we're here to expose people to the, uh, wonderful world of the disabled. (Though the wonder might be limited on one side by "Hunh? What? Why?" and the other side "Oh, give up man. They'll never get it." [I'm just being polite. The epithets that are sometimes applied by both peoples to the ones standing on the other shore are not fit for dissemination.])

Seeing as how this is an institution of higher learning and people have to meet certain eligibility requirements to get here, its a self-selecting kind of elite who get to be students here at St. Peter's.

We represent the plus side of the bell curve as far as IQ goes.

Yet we struggle with the same question of "otherness" that any disabled person faces; that blank stare, that uncomprehending look that says "What do you people want anyway?" not recognizing that what we want is "not to be thought of in that way."

---- "When The World Ends" by: "Dave Matthews Band" http://www.davematthewsband.com/

Synthesis:

Actually the introduction to this show touched on one point, (the statistical,) while my thesis touched on one other point, (the existential,) that are two sides of the same coin.

Being one person in twenty yields a formidable number, three hundred and twenty five million people on the aggregate are disabled to some degree spanning the range to having a mild "kink in the armor", to having a "thoroughly bent frame".

The problem is that disease and disability manifest themselves in myriad ways and we, all human beings, immediately begin to subdivide the concept of disability into the prevalence of each.

Its one thing to know that the prevalence of MS affects in in twelve hundred people, or 0.0833% of the population, or a mere 2.9 million people (see how putting an actual number, as long as its a cognitively grokable one*, puts a volume of people behind a mere statistics,) its another thing to be prepared to deal with the varying degree of disability that MS can bring.

(* Grokable numbers are those related to things we can understand. Otherwise, our imagination fails us and we can't really grok, or holistically comprehend the entirety of the concept. Like drops in an ocean [or even in a bucket,] things get confused into a blur)

---- "Boys & Girls" by "Blur" http://www.blur.co.uk/

We're "all" different and we "all" suffer from and labor under differing degrees of disability.

Some people are not visibly affected by it, as I wasn't for the thirty years from sixteen when my hand writing went to hell and my manual dexterity was shot through with tremors, to my last attack in 1997 when my mobility was affected and I was left using a cane.

My first guest suffers from "Coeliac disease" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celiac_disease ] which while incurable can be controlled by dietary means.

Some people are handicapped as the result of some traumatic injury, some insult to the system which leaves them unable to fully function.

Some, like me, are handicapped as the result of some disease which leves them unable to fully function.

The truth of it is that none of us wanted whatever happened to us to happen, but shit did indeed happen, to us.

But that doesn't mean that we've given up or that we're fit to give up on.

There are some things which can be done which make our lives easier, and incidentally can make everybdy else's lives easier as well. (And I definitely want to adress the PATH system's policies of sticking handicapped ramps and the station's elevator out of the way and in difering places in every accessible station as particularly deserving of my oprobrium, invective and venom.)

---- "Old Friends/Bookends" by: "Simon & Garfunkel" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel#External_links

Conclusion:

I hope that this show inspires us through our own example.

Disability is existential and experiential.

We "all" suffer from some delusions of perfection and we sometimes feel shame at not reaching the ideal of physical beauty or functionning.

Its what keep the plastic surgeons employed after all.

For the most part the entire cosmetic industry is entirely fueled by the hopes that whatever deception we weave before the eyes that behold us can last ... long enough. (Ha! As Shakespeare wrote "What fools these mortals be".) [ http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/lord-what-fools-these-mortals ]

The worst part is when the disabled are not accommodated as part of making the traffic flow better for everybody, but are instead shunted aside and forced to be an inconvenienced inconvenient.

---- "Family And Friends" by: "Rob Szabo" http://www.robszabo.com/

Part deux (brings me back, doesn't it.)

I am going to try to bring somebody into the studio with some form of disability every week.

I have some one lined up to speak on Celiac disease.

Just like I have my "bona-fides" with MS, my guest has the same qualification to speak on and about Celiac disease.

We're "not" medical experts, we're the afflicted/affected.

Take it away and ... "educate me" ...

[ I'll get his transcript later ]

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Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028

Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 28. This week its all about the Russians.

So I'm starting off with some Russian's of my own. And "nyet, I am not attempting to pronounce it"

Okay "Goryacho" by "Ozonoviy Sloy"

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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I'm very busy so lets get on with it.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Goryacho" by: "Ozonoviy Sloy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No.5 in D Minor, Opus 47: 2nd Movement" by: "Dmitri Shostakovich" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"String Quartet No.2 in D Major 3rd Movement (Nocturne)" by: "Alexander Borodin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture" by: "Mikhail Glinka" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Marche Slave, Op. 31" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Russian Easter Festival Overture, Opus 36" by: "Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Alexander Nevsky: Alexander Nevsky's Entry into Pskov" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev" by: "Modest Mussorgsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:09:00 GMT

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media files:

This episode of Peak Oil is coming about a week before I'm ready so you're getting a selection of music.

You'll hear

"Accompagnata:JONATHAN: Ye happy people, with loud accents speak" by: Georg Frederich Handel"

"Speak Low" by: "Glen Miller"

PSAs

Promos

"Beds are Burning" by: "Midnight Oil"

"Hey Ya" by: "Outkast"

"Scheduled Rhymes (Feafuring "Recycle Bin") by: "PC Speaker"

"Bio Willie" by: "Master Speak"

"Speak Low" by "Kurt Weil"

"Where Do The Boys Go? (Extended Version)" y "Men Without Hats"

"Independence Day (Podcast Version)" by "Jesta"

"Ends" by: "Everlast"

"SlackTime" by: "Greendome Sheck"

"It Must Not End Like This" by: "Blind With Rain"

"Blow at High Dough" by: "The Tragically Hip"

"Superman's Song" by: "Crash Test Dummies"

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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027

Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 27

The first ThymeWarp of 2009.

But its not the first show I have done for the year.

I started on Monday with an episode appearing on MSBPodcast.com in which I hope to raise everybody's consciousness about disability.

I am going to be writing a word of three about education and the disabled to the PauWow. (Wether they choose to publish it is something else. -)

I hope to have some other disabled students for the last half of the show.

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ThymeWarp is an easy show for me to put together. Wednesday are going to be a snap.

I'll just scrape my iPod for something I figure you'd like for an hour of classical music and put it out on a podcast.

There is no live component to the show. After all, I'm hardly going to feature an interview with one of the many decomposing composers who's music I feature.

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The friday shows are going to be a lot tougher.

I'm dropping the 'book review' portion of "P34k O1l" (those episodes are still available on MSP's Podcast and on iTunes if you want to go back and listen to them, or listen to them again.)

We'll be instead seeing what other people are saying about the phenomenon of peak oil and the changes that running out of oil is bringing about to our economy and to our way of life.

That one is going to require a lot of research and writing. Good thing I'm so freakin' obsessive.

I don't know what's up with my life but I'm feeling pretty jazzy these days so I'm starting off with "Addicted to Oil" by "Mr Tunes"

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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I'll be picking up the new promos and PSA when I show up in school , uh, earlier today. (You do realize that these shows are pre-recorded. Its actually Tuesday and school starts tomorrow, when I'm due in the studio to play this at 17:00 )

This episode is all about morning mists.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Addicted to Oil" by: "Mr Tunes" ( http://www.projectopus.com/mrtunes ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Quiet City" by: "Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade for Strings in E minor, Opus 22: First Movement" by: "AntonÃn DvoÅÃk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Holberg Suite, Opus 40: Sarabande" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Chanson de matin, Opus 15" by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Opus 11: Second Movement" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Carmen, Suite No. 1: Intermezzo" by: "Georges Bizet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Oh' What A Beautiful Morning" by: "Glenn Miller" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite No. 1 in G major: Sarabande" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 73: Second Movement" by: "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

msb-0350 A New Beginning.

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:54:00 GMT

msb-0350 A New Beginning.

Mocean Worker - Shake Ya Boogie
..

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
..

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 button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Okay I've been away for a month and people are still downloading the show's episodes. I "must" be filling some form of need out there... What's weird is that people were downloading the ThymeWarp episodes almost as much as the indie music episodes. (Okay maybe half of you were picking up the episodes but there genuinely seems to be some interest, [ though the audiences were different and coming from different URLs. {Neat huh?!?}])

I've been gone for a month and today, I feel good.

I'm using new software to put together the 'casts, "Ãbercaster" from "Pleasant Software of Offenburg/Germany" [ http://www.pleasantsoftware.com ] as well as doing a version on GarageBand, plus "Transmit" [ http://www.panic.com/transmit/ ] and "OmniOutliner Pro" [ http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/ ] to compare the two and see if there is any benefit to using "Ãbercaster" apart from using its more 'cast specific interface.

I'm still putting

    * the text of the casts on "Blogger" [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ],
    * the text and the audio of the casts on "LibSyn" [ http://msb.libsyn.com/ ]
    * the whole mess on my "wiki", [actually at http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/TheShows ]
    * and is referred to from "MSBPodcast.com" [ http://www.msbpodcast.com/ ].

I'l try this out for a while and let everybody know which is easier to work with.

You should never know which is which by listening, though you will know because some episodes will be repeated and labeled with msb-xxxx-Ã

This week, I will be making changes to the scheduling of this show by getting it on the school roster.

MSBpodcasts will be on Mondays for an hour, along with ThymeWarp which will be on Wednesdays for an hour and P34k O1l which will be on Fridays for an hour.

This also means that I have access to the schools music licence and licencing agreements, (yay I can use "any" music I want,) and access to their equipment when putting together the shows.

I'll also be able to host 'call-ins' and/or 'call-outs' over the phone and/or over skype. "You" can now become an active part of the show.

Being web cast/streamed means immediacy while being podcast means permanence.

Today I'm in a jazzy mood. Since I am covered by the school radio's copyright license, I no longer have to put up with my 'indie only' rules.

---- "Lighten Up Francis" and "Hey Baby" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.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"

---- "Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Everything I've been reading, (like "Secrets of Social Media Marketing" by: "Paul Gillin" ISBN: 978-1884956-85-0), is still, and always, geared towards the widget makers of the world; not for the generation of web-o-nauts like the Leo Laporte's, Adam Curry's, and me who are starting to get our message out there that podcasts, webcasts and other web 2.x ways of connecting people together.

There are books out there that tell you how to sell your widgets to your first-time or existing customers on-line (that was and is the promise of web 1.0) and that tell you how keep in touch with them (that was and is the promise of web 2.0), though you sometimes have to do "damage control" when you over promise and under deliver.

Books on bloggers and blogging, on podcasts and podcasting, on vidcasts and vidcasting, on wikis, on twitter style messaging, on IM, on email, are fine at giving people the "how to's" of the nuts and bolts of point to point communications but they don't help much with something essential.

They don't ever answer the questions related to "How do you get the word out about you and your products out there in the first place?"

How do you find some audience out there who might be interested in whatever you're selling because they're interested in the content of the show.

A well informed public is a joy to behold but for the most part,the educational system does not inform their students about anything but the origins, the early history, of whatever they teach.

Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, St.Thomas of Aquinas et alia may be fine but they don't help in the least with whatever problem you're coping with in this, the modern world.

In this, the modern world, we don't necessarily have the luxury of sitting down and figuring out the best approach to the solution. (There's lots of problems that are way over my head to even define, so never mind finding a solution. Jeesh...)

---- "Tres Tres Chic" by" Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

"Thesis:"

Over the past three years, I have operated this podcast because it was an opportunity for me to work through my deep and soul-smothering anger at having MS (okay its wasn't the only thing I took very personally, I'm still a bit pissed at some sociopath thinking that it was okay to stage a bit of "Arab Street Theater" in Manhattan and kill about three thousand people, some of which I worked with, and to tear a hole in my sky.)

It has morphed into a wider purpose.

As the broadcast media have imploded fiscally while their content has exploded all over the internet, I have become one of the "early adopters" of the new focused-casting.

---- "Chick a Boom Boom Boom" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

"Synthesis:"

Since February 2006, episodes of the MSB Podcast have been downloaded, as of this 'cast, over 110,00 times.

That's "downloaded", not just "one my web pages was discovered by accident by somebody looking for Microsoft's B class stocks" (I use separate counters for tracking webpage hits,), but the entire episode was fetched through iTunes, or, far more interestingly, downloaded by somebody actually clicking on it after reading the show notes.

This was an active choice that was made by someone, an MSer or someone who interested in the program.

Okay, its a small community. What else could it be? We MSers only represent 1 in 1,200 or 0.0833% of the general population. Add caregivers plus the occasional visitor and you could get some spikes to occasionally double the figure over time.

There are lots of 'casts which get download numbers which dwarf this.

But there are some communities which this would dwarf.

There are some communities which are so small they only exist as footnotes in some encyclopedia.

From tribal languages with only a few hundred speakers to diseases with only a few hundred sufferers, there are minorities which make us, we MSers, look like a multitude.

I just saw a Barbara Walters special with "Patrick Swayze" on his struggle pancreatic cancer.

Each year, this disease affects about 38,000 people in the United States, usually fatally.

Each year, MS affects many time more people per year, but thankfully not fatally.

But it does point out that Patric Sayze, those afflicted with pancreatic cancer, and the other people afflicted with other rare diseases, are in the same boat as us.

In a world "without" an internet to weave us all together with a fiber-optic glass thread, we are all marooned on separate desert islands, isolated, scared, lonely and, to be blunt about it, dying (, like a Saturday Night Live skit about post-phenomenological philosophy in the Nixon era, [funny "not!"]).

But in a world "with" an internet, the economics of scarcity become replaced by the economics of wealth, of information richness.

"All" share in the discoveries of any.

In the battles with our separate battles with our respective diseases, we can all benefit.

Just like the battles with AIDS, primarily begun after Rock Hudson was struck down with that disease, have yielded, if not a cure, then at least treatments for MS, who knows what "we" might discover that could be of help to Mr. Swayze and other people afflicted with other diseases.

---- "Float" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

"Conclusion:"

Over the past three years, over the past 110+ thousand downloads, I have operated this podcast because it suited my needs.

It has morphed into something with a wider purpose.

I'm staying out here because, I am needed by people who don't know me, or even of me, yet.

---- "Que Bom" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Outro

This where it will get interesting.

I hope to feature a guest, a disabled person who's attending this school, St. Peter's College.

Apart from the usual gripe fest and showing off our sacred and respective scars, like a bunch of Yorkshiremen:

"I was hospitalized for three days before a nurse came into our room."

"Room? Luxury. I had to sleep in a corridor."

"Sleep. Oh we never slept. We used to get woke up at three in the morning by the nurses who would ask us if we needed sleeping pills."

"Well, of course we had it tough. The nurses used to come around with wooden mallets and if you uttered a word, they used to play "Whack-A-Mole" on you."

Apart from that hilarity, I hope to provide some insight into health care policy, disabled mobility issues, disabled access issues, disabled employment issues and whatever else my guests want to talk about.

----

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

Song list

"Lighten Up Francis"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Aural & Hearty"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Hey Baby"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Aural & Hearty"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Siss Boom Bah!"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Cinco de Mowo!"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Tres Tres Chic"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Aural & Hearty"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Chick a Boom Boom Boom"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Enter The MoWo"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Float"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Enter the MoWo"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Que Bom"
by: "Mocean Worker"
http://www.moceanworker.com/
album: "Cinco de MoWo!"
via: iTunes Music Store

----

We had no guest today. I thought I'd play some tunes off a CD I'd discovered recently.

"Justify"
by: "ATB"
http://www.atb-music.com/
album: "Trilogy"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Desperate Religion"
by: "ATB"
http://www.atb-music.com/
album: "Trilogy"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Renegade"
by: "ATB"
http://www.atb-music.com/
album: "Trilogy"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Beautiful Worlds"
by: "ATB"
http://www.atb-music.com/
album: "Trilogy"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Starts Came Out"
by: "ATB"
http://www.atb-music.com/
album: "Trilogy"
via: iTunes Music Store

"Feel Alive:
by: "ATB"
http://www.aqtb-music.com/
album: "Trilogy"
via: iTunes Music Store

----

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

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Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:22:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0026.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0026.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 26

Don't forget to head over to Roy Irving theatre tonight because as soon as this show is over WSPC Unplugged is "happening",

All my friends are going to be there filling you ears with great indie music, live, unplugged, on stage.

Yes, I'm gonna be there with my mobile remote recording rig, even though: "I Dont Like To Travel" by "Byther Smith" ( http://www.black-and-tan.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

----

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Here's another promo:

"Head on over to Roy Irving Theater on December 8 from 6:30-8:00pm for WSPC's Unplugged!

That's right. Right after this show, switch gears, switch tracks, get up and go, go, go.

Don't miss the opportunity to hear live music from up and coming artists including Saint Peter's own stars!

The entry fee is free and food will be available for sale (well ... our sale, your purchase :-).

But cheap pizza and Pepsi is cheap pizza and Pepsi.

Its for a gooood cause: US!

So don't miss out on a good time!"

Remember that's Roy Irving Theater on December 8 from 6:30-8:00pm for WSPC's Unplugged!

----

This episode is all about musical travels.

Feets get moving and "Adelante La Musica"

1, 2

Just a reminder, WSPC Radio is hosting WSPC Unplugged this Monday December 8 from 6:30-8:00p.m in Roy Irivng Theatre.

Stop by to hear live music from up and coming artists including stars from our own Peacock flock here at Saint Peterâs!

Donât miss out on the chance to mix, mingle and learn more about WSPC Radio.

Bring your fan club!!

3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9

----

This episode featured the following music:

"I Dont Like To Travel" by "Byther Smith" ( http://www.black-and-tan.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Piano Sonata in A Major: Third Movement (Rondo alla Turca)" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Miroirs: Une Barque sur l'ocean" by: "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Le Boeuf sur le toit, Opus 58: Excerpt" by: "Darius Milhaud" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Il Viaggio a Reims: Overture" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"A Lenda do Caboclo" by: "Heitor Villa-Lobos" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Africa, Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 89" by: "Camille Saint-Saens" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Pacific 231, Mouvement symphonique No.1" by: "Arthur Honegger" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Sentimentals: Colonial Song" by: "Percy Grainger" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

And I'll see you over at Roy Irving theater. Pizza, pepsi and some T-Shirts are all going to be for sale for a very good cause, US!

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Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:04:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 25

Things are never as bleak as they are painted. (Ok sometime they're even worse but the Gordean Knot called my money situation is slowly becoming untangled. [Wadda ya want? I'm hardly Alexander the Great, now am I? Not for me the hacking through with great big whacks of my sword. {Honestly, it's more like slicing a salami with a pen knife.}])

The situation is no longer quite: "Twisted in Knots" by "Telling On Trixie" ( http://www.tellingontrixie.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

----

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake some right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

Here's another promo:

"Head on over to Roy Irving Theater on December 8 from 6:30-8:00pm for WSPC's Unplugged!

Don't miss the opportunity to hear live music from up and coming artists including Saint Peter's own stars!

The entry fee is free and food will be available for sale (well ... our sale, your purchase :-).

But cheap pizza and Pepsi is cheap pizza and Pepsi.

Its for a gooood cause: US!

So don't miss out on a good time!"

Remember that's Roy Irving Theater on December 8 from 6:30-8:00pm for WSPC's Unplugged!

----

Things are looking up.

My podcasting rÃsumÃ is out there and there's a nibble already.

Yahhhh.

And I came up with another good "tour de phrase" the other day about the necessity of learning project management.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

1, 2, 3

Just a reminder, WSPC Radio is hosting WSPC Unplugged this Monday December 8 from 6:30-8:00p.m in Roy Irivng Theatre.

Stop by to hear live music from up and coming artists including stars from our own Peacock flock here at Saint Peterâs!

Donât miss out on the chance to mix, mingle and learn more about WSPC Radio.

Bring your fan club!!

4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Twisted in Knots" by "Telling On Trixie" ( http://www.tellingontrixie.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"The Sleeping Beauty, Opus 66: Waltz" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchajkovsij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"La Boutique Fantastique - Cancan" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"CoppÃlia: Festive Dance & Waltz Of The Hours" by "LÃo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Cinderella Suite No. 3, Opus 109: Pavane" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Les Sylphydes: Waltz In E-Flat Major, Opus 18, No. 1" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin"here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Petrushka: Shrovetide Fair & Danse Russe" by: "Igor Stravinsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Sylvia: Les Chasseresses & CortÃge De Bacchus" by: "LÃo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"The Red Poppy, Opus 70: Phoenix & Russian Sailor's Dance" by: "Reinhold GliÃre" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:28:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 24

I gotta get myself a paying gig.

As it is I'm just hemorrhaging money. I can't keep this up forever.

In fact I'm ... "Bleeding Over" by "something to burn" ( http://somethingtoburn.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

----

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

Okay, I gots to find me some money. Some cash. Some lucre. Some dineros. Some drachmas.

But I resent having to pay Guru.com out of my dwindling pile of sheckels just to look at a job that might or might not be in the least bit interesting.

That kind of information should be free. I'm not applying, not buying, so by locking it up behind some electronic teller, they're not doing me or the guy looking to sell something any good.

The fact is that I'm a podcaster and a podcast producer.

I know what I'm doing as evidenced by this program, (which is my late mother's taste in music, not mine, but then I always liked a challenge.)

I've got around 400+ podasts under my belt and over a hundred thousand episodes published.

I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Now I just have to convince somebody else that they need to do some podcasting.

The main difference between doing a radio show and a podcast is RSS.

But what a difference that makes.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Bleeding Over" by "something to burn" ( http://somethingtoburn.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Piano Sonata #8 In C Minor, Op. 13, "PathÃtique" - 2. Adagio Cantabile" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"SÃrÃnade mÃlancolique, Opus 26" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Symphony No.3 in E-flat Major, "Eroica": Second Movement" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Trauermarsch: In gemessenem Schritt, streng wie ein Kondukt" by: "Gustav Mahler" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Elevazione (For Oboe and Cello)" by: "Domenico Zipoli" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Henry V: The Death of Falstaff" by: "William Walton" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:26:00 GMT

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media files:

mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0007.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0007.m4a

YouTube -> ..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

If you get you head out of there, you see that the world is not a uniform shade of brown.

But you will see something that scares the crap out of most people, from Einsteins to head-bashed stoners: "Change!"

You will see change that you can't ignore, like getting older, that you can't beg, plead or wheedle out from, like taking the garbage out, and that refuses to go away, like your friends and families when you're having a temper tantrum.

Peak Oil is not an option.

Peak Oil is not an elective.

Peak Oil is not going away. But the oil is...

It took our grandparents, our parents and ourselves a hundred and fifty years to get to this point.

Lets see what we can do over the next fifty years to wean ourselves, our children and grand children from the addiction to oil. (Notice I'm not looking forward beyond that. Our addiction to oil is not a long term problem. [It wouldn't even be a problem if it wasn't for our capacity and willingness to wage war at the drop of a "kepi", {busting everything up,} and the fact that there are "way" too many of us around right now.])

Ultimately, its about our future as a species.

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"Take it all away" by "Buddahead" http://www.buddaheadmusic.com/

----

We've got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

----

Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the sixth and final chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Managing the Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations", delves into everything that could/should/would be done to try to make it a softer landing

"Chasing the Clouds Away" by "Sinister Dexter" http://www.sinisterdexter.net/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This chapter, the last in the book before some end-notes, a bibliography and the index, offers some hints, clues and heuristics about surviving the inevitable collapse of the oil based energy infrastructure.

It offers them in subsections entitled:

"You, Your Home and Your Family" which examines
* Energy usage,
* Alternative Energies,
* Your Home
* Finances (with a multi-page sidebar captioned Resources for Home and Family,)

"Appropriate Technology" which gets into
* health care
* food
* transportation

"Your Commmunity" which delves into
* food
* water
* local economy
* public power
* community design
* local governance
* intentional communities (with a multi-page sidebar captioned community resources,)

"The nation" which flies over
* Alternative energies and conservation
* food systems
* financial and business systems
* population and immigration
* US foreign policy
* transportation
* activism (with a sidebar captioned resources for national policy changes,)

"The world" which takes a really wide view

and he offfers us a final word.

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"Hideaway" by: "Matt Stern" http://www.myspace.com/matthewstern

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

So we've reached the end of then book but not the end of the story...

I feel that he's a bit more pessimistic than the situation really requires.

The hard part is how to manage a soft landing, one which will see the emergence of electricity generated by renewable natural sources of energy rather than by burning oil.

Next week, I'll be rebroadcasting the shows from number 1 on, until the end of December.

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"Drive Away" by "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

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This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Take it all away" by "Buddahead" http://www.buddaheadmusic.com/

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Chasing the Clouds Away" by "Sinister Dexter" http://www.sinisterdexter.net/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Hideaway" by: "Matt Stern" http://www.myspace.com/matthewstern

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Drive Away" by "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"Take It All Away" by: "Jacob Groten" http://www.myspace.com/jacobgroten

"fading away" by: 'lunarspeed" http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/www.myspace.com/lunarspeed

"Party Down The Hall" by: "The Stone Coyotes" off of the "Fire It Up" album

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Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:08:00 GMT

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This is episode 23

Did you enjoy the holidays?

I like Thanksgiving a whole lot more than Christmas.

I'm sorry but when Santa Claus outfits have to fight for shelf space with turkeys and pilgrims outfits, that tells me that Christmas has simply just got too commercial.

Since Canada had its Thanksgiving much earlier than the 'States (mostly because the harvest comes much earlier,) if Christmas intruded in on Thanksgiving there, I'd have grown up a very upset child, what with the image of a fat, blood spattered Santa Claus his snow white beard flecked incarnadine with the very life's blood of his victims, (really, why do you think the suit's red?) holding a dripping hatchet, seared into my young febrile brain.)

"You Upset My Soul" by "Billy Jones" ( http://www.billy-jones.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to ASCAP/BMI.

----

Now Mr. Obama's been elected, we can get onto the business of hating him for his own personality and his own self, instead of punching at straw men and shadows.

All will return to normal as his promised change is turning out to be the same tired old faces from past administrations, spouting the same time worn policies that we'd already grown tired of and cast from office and into the pit of general oblivion.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Moonlight Sonata: First Movement" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K525: 2nd Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Morzart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Nocturne in F Minor, Opus 55 No.1" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Serenade in F Major, Opus 31: Notturno" by: "Wilhelm Stenhammar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"3 Small Tone Poems - Summer Evening" by: "Frederich Delius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"TannhÃuser: Lied an den Abendstern" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune" by: "Claude Debussy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Chanson de nuit, Opus 15 No.1" by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Waltz, Op. 39/15" by: "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Coppelia - Notturno" by: " LÃo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Minute Waltz" by: "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:06:00 GMT

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Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

In 2000, Daniel Quinn raised a question without answers.

To quote, he said:

"If we continue ... to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as Hell, when our children, or their children or their children' children are going to look back on us, on you and me, and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monster's were these people?'"

But to demonize us is too easy and not entirely accurate.

A fairer question might have been "My god, how ignorant were these people?"

A more salient questions might be "My god, how unthinking were these people?"

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"Unconscious Thoughts" by "Absolution Project" http://www.absolutionproject.com/

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We've got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

----

Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Fifth chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "A Banquet Of Consequences", delves into everything that will happen.

Its not that might happen. Its WILL happen. How we cope is up to us. If we can make a silk purse out of this sow's ear, then we can have a soft landing, one we will be able to walk away from.

It could also be that we're too stupid, stubborn and unrealistic to mitigate the end of the oil era and Mad Max will have been a prophetic vision.

"Tame Thoughts" by "Warm in the Wake" http://warminthewake.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This fifth chapter, entitled "A Banquet of Consequences", explores the pros and cons of a whole lot of things. (Okay, I'm more optimistic than the author, I see some things as pros that he sees as cons.)

Basically he IS right in thinking that this affects every single human being on this planet, and that this will cause a great deal of change to the individuals, the social groups, the cities, and the city states (which I believe are the only way to organize people, because we have had over a century and a half, almost as long as we've had oil, [coincidence, I don't think so!] of wars, genocidal conflicts and simmering hatred to show us the failure of attempting to aggregate human beings into larger groups.)

This chapters covers:

* The Economy: Physical and Financial
* Transportation
* Food and Agriculture
* Heating and Cooling
* The Environment
* Public Health
* Information Storage, Processing and Transmission (I put more faith in the internet's ability to transcend birder's that he does,)
* National Politics and Social Movements
*The Geopolitics of Energy-Resource Competition
** The Middle East
** The Caspian Sea
** South America
** China
** Britain
** The Balkans
** Regional Rivalries and long-term strategy
ending off the sections with something subtitled
* Taking It All In

In a side bar at the end of the chapter called "When, exactly does the party end?" he get into the six things that he believes would herald the end of the end.

He IS right in thinking that we're all going to die.

Yeah, we're all going to die...

Guess what? We're all going to die regardless...

Guess what else? Our way of life is also going to die, as surely as the oil is running out.

Some of the cities we've built are dying right now perched as they are on the edge of some precipice, vulnerable to any natural disaster.

We're going to have to change our attitude towards child rearing from an individual's efforts to a tribal responsibility.

----

"I'd never thought" by: "Last Minute" http://www.myspace.com/lastminuteofficialspace

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

Next time we'll explore chapter Six "Managing The Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations"

We'll have reached the end of then book but not the end of the story...

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"I Never Thought it Could Happen" by "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

----

This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Unconscious Thoughts" by "Absolution Project" http://www.absolutionproject.com/

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Tame Thoughts" by "Warm in the Wake" http://warminthewake.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"I'd never thought" by: " Last Minute" http://www.myspace.com/lastminuteofficialspace

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"I Never Thought it Could Happen" by "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"Thought You Should Know" by "OpheliaX" http://www.opheliax.net/

"Afterthought" by "Conservative Man" http://myspace.com/conservativemanmusic

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Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:05:00 GMT

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This is episode 22

I've just heard from Herrad, a fellow MSer friend of mine from Amsterdam.

She'd been going through a bad patch because she'd been coping as best she could with a neurologist who was a complete idiot.

She finally jettisoned him. (That wasn't very difficult, he never saw her as she kept getting worse and worse... [Some doctors should be selling shoes, not doctoring and neurologists are the worst of the lot. {The field seems to have attracted all the cowards, the people who don't want to deal with emergencies, or with blood or any of the other messy bodily fluids.}])

After a few aborted attempts we're going to try to put together another podcast.

(How else but for, with and through the internet would this even be possible.)

"Loss Of Feeling" by "Blind With Rain" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to ASCAP/BMI.

----

The field of medicine seems to be a real strange mix of saints and sinners. Far more sinners than saints.

While the harrowing of heroes seems to be the common media interpretation, the sad fact is that these people believe their own press far too much.

In Israel they had a doctors strike that lasted two years, two full years, and during that time, the mortality rate went "down."

When the strike was finally settled, the death rate went right back up.

Tell me why do we need doctors?

For emergencies, right.

If we ate right, exercised and stopped doing foolish things, we could avoid most elective surgery and actually live longer, happier and healthier lives.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Loss Of Feeling" by "Blind With Rain" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35: 2nd Movement" by "Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Prelude in D-flat Major, Opus 28, No.15: Raindrop" by "FrÃdÃric Chopin" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"String Quartet In F, Op. 3/5, "Serenade" - Serenade" by "Franz Joseph Haydn" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"The Pearl Fishers: Au fond du temple saint (excerpt)" by "Georges Bizet" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Serenade for Strings in E major, Opus 22 (4th Movement)" by "Antonin DvorÃk" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Elegy for Strings, Opus 58" by "Edward Elgar" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat Major, K595: 2nd Movement" by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Madam Butterfly: Un bel di" by "Giacomo Puccini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Valse triste, Opus 44" by "Jean Sibelius" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Symphony No.3 in F Major, Opus 90: 2nd Movement" by "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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This is episode 21

The worst thing about being ambivalent is that you never know if you should be happy about something ... or not!

I've had a roller coster of a time over the past couple of days.

It was bad, then todays its good, and my future's so bright I gotta wear shades but still ...

"I Have a Bad Feeling About This" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to ASCAP/BMI.

----

I have nothing but loathing for the kind of low-lifes you encounter in the world of finance.

I've worked all my life with the scum of the earth, "viz" for banks, and every time I left one contract after another, I prayed that I'd be able to find proper work for somebody making something real instead.

The quick shuffle bull-shit and lying straight to everybody's face is the reason why.

Now lets hope that they've lied their last lie.(Wall Street still has the nice buildings but they've got metaphorical flames roaring from the office windows, and some of these buildings have been refurbished and gone condo.)

Lets hope I never have to do that again.

I like working at the studio here at St. Peter's College.

Never thought of myself as a recording engineer but, if the foo shits, wear it.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"I Have a Bad Feeling About This" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Adagio in G Minor (for Organ and Strings)" by "Tomaso Albinoni" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Piano Quartet in A Major, "The Trout" Fourth Movement" by "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Water Music, Suite No.1 in F Major: Air" by "George Frideric Handel" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Appalachian Spring: Excerpt" by "Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Humoresque in G flat major, Opus 101, No. 7" by "Antonin DvoÅÃk" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Romance No.1 in G Major (for Violin and Orchestra), Opus 40" by "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 16 - 2. Adagio" by "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Symphony No.2 in E Minor, Opus 27: 3rd Movement" by "Sergei Rachimaninov" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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YouTube -> ..

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

The world is running out of oil.

This is not a theory.

This is not a "Chicken Little" run around in a panic dire prediction of the coming of the apocalypse.

This is a fact.

We're here asking "What'cha gonna do aboud id?"

The time for inaction is past.

----

"Snake Oil" by "Jenny Dalton" off of "Fleur De Lily"

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We've got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

----

Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Fourth chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?", delves into the sources of alternate energy and alternate chemical feed stocks which could/sould/would replace oil.

"Cod Liver Oil" by "Great Big Sea" off of "The Hard And The Easy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This fourth chapter, entitled "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?",
explodes the myths that the world as we have known it is coming to an end, as much it explodes the the myth that the world can continue without going through a lot of change.

While geo-political reality can continue, there are going to have to be some changes made and some accommodations reached.

That's the part f this that seems to be so difficult to get Americans to understand.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad ] may be a lousy communicator, easily outraged and easily outrageous, but Iran, (meaning the rest of the power structure, made up of unelected imams who can take a longer term view that the four or eight years we have here in the West,) [Iran] is not being stupid or intolerant in wanting to wean itself off of oil.

The leaders of Iran see the writing on the inside of the bottom of the oil barrel.

They want to survive peak oil and to be in some kind of shape to go forward.

Which they won't be if they are dependent on oil, bullied by some foreign power into squandering time, that most precious of resources, and get to its depletion beyond economic recoverability.

Nuclear energy may be one of the most viable long-term sources of alternate energy.

It is not perfect. It is not without its long term waste storage problems.It is not portable or even movable, and it does noting to address the other non-energy components of oil use.

But its a part of a long-term solution.

Most of the solutions come up with so far have fallen well short of even that much.

Bio fuels from corn is utter stupidity. Quite apart from the fact that human beings eat corn as do far to many of our own food sources, corn isn't even that efficient at the conversion.

There are lots of other cellulosic ethanol feed stocks that are much better that corn.

Some of the alternatives, wind, hydro, geo-thermal, nuclear and so on are discussed, along with the shortcomings of each.

While each of them falls short of the black gold standard, in combination they may accomplish enough.

----

"The Secret..." by: "Lacuna Coil" off of "Lacuna Coil"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

Next time we'll explore chapter Five: "A Banquet Of Consequences"

We're almost finished folks. As opposed to being wiped out.

----

"Pornographer's Dream" by "Suzanne Vega" off of "Beauty & Crime (Bonus Track Version)"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

----

This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Snake Oil" by "Jenny Dalton" off of "Fleur De Lily"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Cod Liver Oil" by "Great Big Sea" off of "The Hard And The Easy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"The Secret..." by: "Lacuna Coil" off of "Lacuna Coil"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Pornographer's Dream" by "Suzanne Vega" off of "Beauty & Crime (Bonus Track Version)"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"The Word" and "Emily has Compassion Fatigue" by "3 Blind Mice" off of "Good Grief" and "Before They Were Famous"

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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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This is episode 20

I'm still riled about ComCasts's cavalier disregard of its customers and thinking of them as mere bovines to be milked.

I'm not "anyone's" "cash cow."

Its a mistake to even think of anybody that way.

People have not been an asset, to be abused as all assets ultimately are, on anyone's spread sheet since the proclamation of emancipation.

On the other hand, you seem to like the Halloween episode since that has garnered an astonishing amount of downloads. (In checking, it got downloaded several times to the same IP address so there are, uh, "repeat performances." I'm glad you enjoyed (and are enjoying,) the Halloween show. :-)

That tells me I'd better get back to doing my show.

"American Nightmare" by "Kevin K And The Real Kool Kats" off of "Perfect Sin" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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I'm really NOT trying to give a lecture on MacroEconomics, MicroEconomics or even Business Ethics (I know, that sounds like a oxymoron, like military intelligence, Catholic University or Soviet Justice,) but somethings are just too important to gloss over.

I only wish I had golden pipes like My Radio II Professor or that I could write as engagingly as Terry Pratchett.

I am a flawed vessel, but, regardless of how flawed the container, the message still pours out.

The message is that it is fundamentally self-defeating to look to on to short term gain as a "be all and end all."

Like any mathematical theorem or AI proof on searching and sorting, there are local maximas which, while seeming to yield the greatest benefits for the least effort, are illusory traps, at best.

There are computational islands, with peaks or valleys which are deeper or higher that those surrounding you right now.

They may be local points on a slope whose limits can be much more pronounced than your local scope can ever reach.

But you can only find out by doing your homework and keeping on searching.

Despite the counter intuitive nature of long-term investing being based on something which may not yield immediate benefit, the tactic of "The Company Store" has proved to give the least long term benefit. (And that's to the very company that owns the store! Its an illusory maximum.)

The only ones who pursue it are like monkeys with their hands in a small mouth jar, holding onto a banana for all they 're worth, despite the fact that their holding onto it means that that they're unable to actually eat the banana.

They have stopped searching. Their scope is too limited and too limiting.

The job of a CEO, and that means you Mr. Roberts, is to be able to distinguish between when you're making a profit and when your just a monkey hanging onto a banana in a small mouth jar, and could ultimately make a lot more money by letting go.

What I ran into last week is the worst piece of corporate governance I had encountered in decades.

It is absolutely transparent, illegal, actionable and short sighted.

I'm sorry but ComCast is breaking the law, and several moral codes and ethical edicts as well.

Its not one of these "traffic shaping" p2p issues where there might be so wiggle room to maneuver their butts about, saying "Well its our network and we're just protecting it from Mac using 'creative types,' and the '"communist free-software Linux using peer-to-peer pirates" out there".

This is a clear policy implemented to either get their customers to lease their routers, at their non-competitive prices, and your objection that you already had a perfectly good router cuts no ice with them, or you'll just do without.

Guess what Mr Roberts?

I'm doing without ... Without ComCast.

If the share holders glom onto it, its going to cost ComCast more than they can guess, I guess.

Somebody deserves to be fired immediately, "'sans" golden parachute."

If this was one of my old format shows, I'd have lots of podsafe tunes with lyrics and music appropriately chosen for the theme of corporate greed.

Instead we'll make due with Classical music, written back when opinion was ruled over by fiat, even when the autocrat was obviously insane with syphilis or some other form of venereal disease.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"American Nightmare"by "Kevin K And The Real Kool Kats" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Carmina Burana: O Fortuna" by "Carl Orff" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Etude in C Minor, Opus 10 No.12, "Revolutionary" by "Chopin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43 Variation No.18" by: "Sergei Rachmaninov" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Tosca: Vissi d'arte" by: "Giacomo Puccini" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Opus 74: Fourth Movement" by "Pyotr Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Bolero" by "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Violin Concerto in G Minor, Opus 26: Third Movement" by "Max Bruch" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Romeo and Juliet, Opus 64: Romeo at Juliet's Tomb" by "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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This is episode 19

And I have a serious point to make.

Interspersed with the music, off of the album "From The New World", I'm going to make some comments about something incredibly pernicious that just happened potentially to all ComCast customers...

"The Revolution Will Be Cybercast" by "Karmella's Game" off of "The Art Of Distraction" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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THE STORY STARTS with my waking up, way too early, the same as I always do, and going to my computer, the same as I always do.

On Wednesday morning, November 12, 2008, I woke up to find that my ComCast cable modem was dead.

I uttered a few expletives, got on the phone and scheduled a maintenance tech.

I was supposed to wait all afternoon for them.

Well, I have a life. I cant hang around half the day waiting for them.

I have a show to record and put on air. (WSPC's ThymeWarp Episode 18 :-)

Well, I don't know if they came of not, I wasn't here, so I called again.

This time a spoke to a young woman who informed me that I'd have to hook up my PowerBook directly to the internet, WITHOUT my router/firewall. (I already don't like having my machine exposed to all the nasties out on the internet. I wanted to get back behind my firewall ASAP.)

We eventually got a DHCP address from them and I thought that I'd be able to get my router hooked up again and that was going to be the end of it.

Wrong...

It didn't work. After speaking to ComCast tech support, it turned out that they didn't support my router.

'Scuse me? Support my router?

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"Fanfare for the Common Man" by ""Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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'Scuse me? Support my router?

Why is your modem which is supposed to be a simple dumb device providing a simple dumb service interrogating and worrying about my router?

Oh, I see. One of your supported routers, Like the one you sell?

Meaning that my existing equipment which I bought only months ago is now landfill?

Uh, that's a blatantly anti-competitive, illegal, coercive, strong-arm tactic.

YOUR router will work fine while MY router wont.

Why does your CABLE MODEM even care?

I'm not going to shell out any money for a device which does not do what it says its supposed to do.

If ComCast doesn't "approve" of the equipment (or if the equipment maker hasn't paid a kick-back to ComCast,) then the equipment doesn't work on ComCast's network.

Heck, by extension, lets think big here, there's millions of Digital TV sets about to go live on February 2009, and if a TV set manufacturer doesn't come across with the dough, they suddenly find that none of their TV sets work on ComCast's network.

Oh and if you bought one of those sets... Well you're screwed, blued and tattooed aren't you?

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"West Side Story: Scherzo and America" by "Leonard Bernstein" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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The kind of mentality that can come up with this crap is so small and tight-assed that you can see whence came the "company stores" (for whom you carried sixteen tons and what did you get and ended up owing your soul to the company store.)

Is that the kind of America we have? Where you can only buy crap the company sells you, at the prices they want you to pay, for lease terms they happen to like.

And if it doesn't work very well or for very long, well tough.

Is that the kind of Republican "Uber State" that we're left with after eight years of Bush policies.

Is this any kind of legacy to leave to your children?

If you were in at the creation, good for you because you can forget about any more creation.

Remember when leasing a pink "Princess Phone" was Ma Bell's ultimate expression of condescension to consumerism. (Note leasing, NorthernElectric actually owned the handset.)

I DO. And I'm only fifty five.

I was already six or seven when my dad, feeling flush after a promotion, got a pink "Princess Phone" for our apartment.

We broke up Ma Bell because of their extremely restrictive policies which were a brake on the economy, on innovation and on personal freedom.

I guess that now its the cable co's turn.

We cant afford the kind of blinkered Philistine pig ignorance that would be quite happy at stifling all innovation, so that nothing interferes with corporate greed.

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"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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Now its Thursday afternoon and I'm beginning to think that I may have underestimated how petty and vindictive ComCast might be.

After tweets back and forth with some entity describing themselves as "ComCastCares" where I stated that I was not interested in taking the conversation "off line" with this entity, my connection is now dead.

Its easy enough to do. They just have to disable the IPv6 address of my cable modem. Now I'm renting an ugly RCA door stop.

They're actually making my case for me.

If it wasn't for the internet connectivity available through the school, I'd effectively be silenced.

But guess what guys? You've got some competition.

What next? Am I going to meet with an unfortunate accident?

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"Rhapsody in Blue" by "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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Screw it!

I call's 'em like I sees 'em.

They think they can push me around. Well, I don't need a wheel chair yet.

Something smells rotten in the walls of Philadelphia where ComCast is headquartered.

If "Seigneur" Roberts, the CEO of ComCast, doesn't like it ... tough.

I can see the slope he wants to push me down.

Its the same one we spent the past five decades climbing up.

Some ignorant intern, the kind of MBA with no memory who expects everybody to be a stupid as he obviously is, without a thought in his head or a scruple in his breast was all proud of this scheme he thought up.

"Oh Mr Roberts, "tugs on forelock", if only we could just make it truly addictive. We could save millions on advertising alone... As it is the suckers'll have to buy our modems, our routers, our TV sets, at the prices we set, serviced on our terms for the most we can gouge the suckers for to watch the cheap crap we shovel at 'em."

ComCast is in serious need of some busting up and some competition.

Lets break up the monopoly over districts that the cable use to prevent you from having any choice in you cable provider.

Lets engage in some "good ole fashioned Trust Busting." The kind of thing that can make an attorney's reputation and do a State AG's political status plenty of good.

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"A Child of Our Time, Negro Spiritual: Deep River" by "Michael Tippett" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Maple Leaf Rag" by "Scott Joplin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"The Stars and Stripes Forever" by "John Philip Sousa" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

"Rodeo: Hoedown" by "Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:29:00 GMT

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This is episode 18

I feel French today.

(As Keyz, a fellow podcaster, remarks, its not the French language he hates, its the actual snooty "nose up in the air, we're so much better than you uncultured swine" typical French attitude he hates.

I pointed out to him that it would help his case if he wasn't so uncooth himself and didn't point with chicken bones at them while laughing, shaking off bits of meat and sauce as he was berating them.

[I made up that last bit. I've have never held his attitude in anything other than the highest regard.

{Please don't kill me Keyz.}])

And to prove it I'm going to play some Piaf.

"A L'enseigne De La Fille Sans Coeur" by "Edith Piaf" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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I'm going to do something I rarely get the chance to do, which is plug somebody else's podcast show ... but let me give a shout out for "the Awful Show" [ http://www.thamike.com/awfulshow/ ] starring " Da Mike, Nerraux, Keyz, and Jo-el along with a retinue of characters, interviewees, odd-balls, musicians, nerdcore rappers and the like.

Catch their show live (on cringehumor.net ) or on a podcast (on an iPod, a Zune or what ever else you use to catch RSS. They are fun-nee)

As long as you can be cool with the language, (so you've been warned [so coming back at me saying "Ooo, the language. Do they kiss their wives with those mouthes?])

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Flying Dutchman: Overture" by "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Sea: First Movement (Seascape)" by "Frank Bridge" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship" by "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Spartacus: Adagio of Phrygia and Spartacus" by "A. Khachaturian" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Le Corsaire, Overture, Opus 21" by "H. Berlioz" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Tintagel: Excerpt" by "Arnold Bax" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:30:00 GMT

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

M.K. Hubbert made a simple statement of fact back in 1956, back when I was three years old, which explained what had happened to the Pennsylvania oil fields and made a straight forward straight-line extrapolation as to when the oil fields in Texas and Oklahoma could be expected to run out: 1970 Â 4 years.

He was ignored because a) nobody wanted to hear him and b) he was making a scientific prediction on resource availability and the cost of extraction in the face of other factors (and it sounded about as urgent as that at the time,) but he was right within the tolerances he had specified.

The oil on the American mainland became economically irrecoverable in 1972.

If it hadn't been for the Saudi oil and gas fields being there and ruled over by potentates, like Ibn Saud, and the various emirs scattered around the middle east who lorded it over corrupt lands filled with corrupt potentates, (and the one exception, Iran, was ruled over by democratically elected Mohammed Mosaddeq until he was overthrown by the CIA in 1953 at the behest of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, (better known as British Petroleum, [and now calling itself rather benignly "Beyond Petroleum." {a.k.a. B.P. which is utter B.S.}])

This deposition of a formally-elected civil government was "a critical event in post-war world history", because it re-installed the unpopular Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was even more paranoid that Richard M. Nixon and, unlike Nixon who wielded an Old Boy's Club known as the C.I.A. , instead Pahlavi had a murderously efficient Intelligence agency known as the Savak with which to repress any dissension.

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"Addicted to oil" by "Mr. Tunes"

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We've got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Third chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Lights Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End", delves into M.K. Hubbert and the other bunch of Cassandras who are in the rising chorus of voices warning with dry boring old statistics what is going to happen as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow.

"Blood Is Thicker Than Oil" by "The Undercover Hippy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This third chapter, entitled "Lights Out", introduces us to the history of oil extraction, history being a relative term, since it starts in 1859 and the present is only 150 years later.

But it goes into what we've done during these hundred and fifty years.

The story of energy, and specifically the story of oil, is the story of economics, meaning supply and demand.

We are starting to be engaged in the ultimate fight for a dwindling supply, and there is no doubt about that [ http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/4724 ] one quote says "The peakists have won ... to the peakists I say, you can declare victory. You are no longer the beleaguered small minority of voices crying in the wilderness. You are now mainstream. You must learn to take yes for an answer and be gracious in victory."

The source of the quote [ http://www.peakoiltaskforce.net/ ] is the British government, conceding that peak oil is a fact.)

We are facing an increasing demand expected to 40 billion barrels per years, or up by 60% from the levels of the turn of the millennium.

M.K. Hubbert back in the 1950s saw the equations written on the wall.

They spelt out, with mathematical certainty, the curves that the oil and gas fields production yields would trace as the fields reached their maturity (some would say their senescence!)

The chapter is very boring, showing with charts, tables, graphs and power point types of crap that they were well aware or what was going to happen, when it was likely to happen, followed by charts showing what happened when it did happen.

Most of the field yields, of all of the major and the minor oil producers, are examined, in detail.

Some of the other major peak oil Cassandras, people like Kenneth S. Deferyes, L.F. Ivanhoe, Walter Youngquist, amongst others are quoted as well.

Being fair, Hubbert Critics are also given a place.

But there seems something rather Pollyanna about economists piping up about about supply and demand and Pareto curves etcetera, when there is so much they know nothing about,

(lets be honest here, John Kenneth Galbraith and John Maynard Keynes, or even Karl Polanyi, don't strike me as the kind of men one finds up in a derrick wrestling with multi-ton equipment while suspended above a gantry floor.

[Pushing a pencil and making a chart does not give one any perspective nor does it have any influence on what the oil people already know: Like blood draining into the desert sands, "Oil Is Running Out!"])

The point is made, at length and in detail, that peak oil is made up of many little peaks which add up to one big peak.

The book then makes the points for damn near everybody before closing the chapter with the question: "Who Is Right? Why Does It Matter?"

The point is very ably made that the state of the economy of course influences some of the timing and in turn the timing of events in our economy is dependent on the state of events.

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"Computer Bitch" by: "Blood Bank"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

There have been a lot of people involved in telling us the truth which we have not heard because, until the coming of the web, the distribution and dissemination organs were too tightly controlled.

All governmental channels only want you to hear how wonderful "The Great Leader"ÂâÂ is, right up until they take "The Great Leader"ÂâÂ out to a basement somewhere and shoot or hang him ) or

There is more money to be made selling your ears to "The Good News ÂâÂ" about some "schmijick" or other, paid for by the munificence of some "schmijick" maker or other.

"You want to know about what?

Hey Joe!? ... We got a sponsor called "Peak Oil? ...

Nah? ... Can't help ya..."

But the voices are starting to make a insistent sussurous [ http://www.globaliamagazine.com/?id=482 ].

Next time we'll explore chapter Four: "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?"

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"stop writing songs about california" by "Mellow Core"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

By the way, msbpodcasts (which now includes this show, PeakOil, the thrice a week classical show ThymeWarp, both of which are being recorded for St. Peter's College, as well as the occasional piece I'm doing for my original audience of MSers,) is now showing download statistics around 102,000 downloads.

It seems to be just as popular as it ever was. And I'm getting an evaluation from my Radio II teacher so that it can get better.

(But there are issues and techniques which don't apply with podcasts. (a weather or traffic or news report would be worse than noise

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This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Addicted to oil" by "Mr. Tunes"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Blood Is Thicker Than Oil" by "The Undercover Hippy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Computer Bitch" by: "Blood Bank"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"stop writing songs about california" by "Mellow Core"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

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Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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This is episode 17

Ya carry sixteen tons and whadda ya get?

Well, we done that show already, With Scarlatti. I can only lake about an hour of that before it gets on my nerves.

Harpsichord is too punctilious and Scarlatti may have been a genius but there are things about the quality of the sound as it issues forth from the instrument that just overwhelm any performance or performer.

So this time, to recover from that, we're going back to the big bands with an opener I'm betting is going to do much to make amends:

"Seven Come Eleven" by "Benny Goodman Orchestra" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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This episode, you're getting the music I'd picked out for the previous show.

Not one to waste a play list, we'll "Hail Britannia" for under an hour and then you can enjoy your suppers (unless you've caught the podcast so I have no idea of when you're listening,) and go and watch Jeopardy! or get up to whatever devilment your little hearts desire.

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" by "Gustav Holst" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture" by "Otto Nicolai" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Fantasia On Greensleeves" by "Ralph Vaughan Williams" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Country Gardens" by "Percy Grainger" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Sir Roger de Coverley" by "Frank Bridge"here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"London: Knightsbridge" by "Eric Coates"here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Finale" by "Benjamin Britten" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Elizabethan Serenade" by "Ronald Binge" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Banks of Green Willow" by "George Butterworth" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Salvator Mundi" by "Thomas Tallis" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Variations On An Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma" - 10. Nimrod" by "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Fri, 7 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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Video Links

This is episode 16

Now I've pushed it off the table. Real time was an interesting concept but badly flawed. So I'm recording this show on Monday.

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So excuse me if I write some notes while putting this show together.

I'm still feeling strange today. (Its only been an hour since I recorded Wednesday's show. [How Mercurial do you expect my moods to be?])

I forgot to mention that Thursday I have an appointment wit the dentist's hygienist to get my teeth cleaned, oh, and its, well, it was for you, but its going to have been my birthday...

So lets pick out a song for my birthday. Yeouch... 55, the double nickel. .

Hmmm...

Ahhh, how bout something by Tremolo'55

"king biscuit time" by "Tremolo'55" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

----

I had a program all picked out on "Hail Britannia" but ... screw it.

I like Scarlatti and I just happen to have MIDIs of his 555 sonatas so we're going to listen to 'em for the rest of the hour.

It'll will free me up for some of the other stuff I have to do.

'Scuse me while I set the kitchen timer here and we're going to listen to my iPod shuffle through the list of the sonotas that Scarlatti created as exercises for his Spanish and Portuguese students at their virginals and harpsichords.

Domenico Scarlatti was a talented Neapolitan harpsichordist, son of Alesandro and brother of Pietro Phillipo. (Yeah, I know not exactly top 40 material that's burning up the charts with a bullet,)

In 1719, after many travels through out the various kingdoms on the Italian peninsula he arrived in Lisbon and was a composer at the court of Spanish and Portuguese nobility. (The country of Italy still being centuries in the future, [waiting for its Unification by Garibaldi {yes,its the same Garibaldi that lived on Staten Island.}])

His most enduring works are those little finger exercises he composed for the little flowers that fell from the wombs of the "Iberian Donnas."

Sorry my anti-establishmentarian roots are showing. (Yes its true, your host is one of dangerous types, the gifted who will not bend to anyone's will, but who always question the reason for the existence of somebody's authority. [They would have force-fed me hemlock. :-])

The work was utterly brilliant and he defined the A-B-A partitioning of most of the music composition that followed after and that continues to this day. (Scratch a tune these days and its a direct lineal descendent of the sonatas pioneered by Scarlatti.)

Every piece you're getting today can be found online but you would be better served if you got the 34 CD set recorded by the late Scott Ross [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ross_(harpsichordist) ]

Scott Ross taught at "L'UniversitÃ de Laval" inches north of MontrÃal. (Of course you just know I'm blowing the bugle for a friend.)

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"k493",
"k176",
"k351",
"k426",
"k422",
"k188",
"k046",
"k082",
"k162",
"k394",
"k308",
"k087",
"k508",
"k547",
"k516",
"k108",
"k335",
"k164",
"k161",
"k336" by Domenico Scarlatti here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

msb-0344 A special message to my MS wellness group.

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT

msb-0344 A special message to my MS wellness group.msb-0344 A special message to my MS wellness group.

Lets pretend that I'm giving away a computer because I feel munificent, benevolent and rich.

I am none of those things.

I have MS just like the rest of us in this wellness group.

I'm pretty lucky that my MS has been in relapse for a while right now and that its not actively trying to kill me.

I am giving this PC away because I had it to give, being one of the thinking man's toys I had picked up when I was still working.

The computer is a thinking man's toy.

Its has been able to start, give some underpinning and some proofs to an entire field mathematics, whole and entire and able to explain nature in an entirely new way.

But fractal mathematics is neither here nor there when you've got MS. Its cute but frankly, unless you're a mathematician, who cares?

We MSers are able to benefit from an entirely unintended consequence of living in this modern world.

We MSers are already benefiting from:

    * the result of an experiment in telephony by the DOD who were trying to keep the lines of communications open even if part of the fabric of the network had holes torn in it by nuclear bombs, giving us the internet, and
    * the result of some work by the DOD and NASA in miniaturization, to see if we cold lob things over at the Soviets, giving us the microchip.

Combining the power of:

    * a really cheap way of putting circuits together, (courtesy of Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby,) with
    * a really cheap way of connecting machines together, (courtesy of the Nerds who defied all logic and got the internet working, because they could,) with
    * a really cheap way of finding information, the search engine, (courtesy of Larry Page and Sergey Brin who funded Google, the winner of the search engine wars,)

gives us the world as we have it now.

Its a world that I like living in.

Its got plenty of room for me, its got all of data I need, all of the information I need and helps me find out about all sorts of things.

Does this make me smarter?

No.

It does not.

It can't get into my head and make my brain grow. (But we'll get back to that before I'm done this evening, I promise.)

It makes me a better informed person; it makes me someone who, by being better informed, is able to find out what is where and means that I am better able to evaluate drug regimens, medical teatments, (because we live in this country and we're still waiting for what every other industrial country has: single payer universal health care,) insurance plans.

[unboxing the everex]

[setting it up]

[getting onto the web with Google]

[answering questions about Google, and using it to find information about MS, MS treatments, etc.]

[putting it back in the box and raffling it off.]

Now we're back talking about how the internet and the computer can't get into my head and make my brain grow.

That's true, it can't, but it can make my brain grow more interconnections between neurons and solidify existing connections through repeated use of certain neural pathways.

There is a field of medecine which is studying the mechanisms of something called neuroplasticity and it turns out the mechanisms of neuroplasticity are directly opposed to those of Alzheimer's with its increasing plaques and lesions and the death of large parts of the brain.

Will using computers keep you from getting Alzeimher's?

No, but it could give you a chance at dealing with it better than sitting there like a bump on a log until you become no smarter that the log you're sitting on.

MS is a disease of the immune system.

It gives the immune system cues that make the immune system attack the nervous system.

The nervous system is a key component of the command and control system that is the primary element in making us who we are, how well we move, the spasticity we exhibit, how well we feel, the phantom pain we react to.

Lets use the circumstances that led to the internet to create another unintended consequence, the finding if effective treatments and cures for MS.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0015.mp3

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Clay Shirky - Where do people find the time Part 1

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Clay Shirky - Where do people find the time Part 2
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This is episode 15

Now I'm pushing it. We're nowhere near real time and I'm recording this show on Monday.

I've got a very busy week, with things to plan, meetings to attend,

I'm meeting with academic advisor at 1:00PM today, my Francophone group, tonight.

Tomorrow I've got the cat groomer and I've got to remember to bring home bags of cat food, for the end with teeth, and tubs of kitty litter for the end without teeth. I've also got my class tomorrow evening and I've got to br ing my laptop, backup terabyte drive and a USB microphone. (They're going to record show promos if I have to make them.)

Wednesday, I've got my MS Wellness group meeting and I'll be giving a presentation of the internet, the media and MS, and I'll also be giving away an Everex desktop computer.)

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So excuse me if I write some notes while putting this show together.

I feel strange today (what else is new? :-) so I'm starting this show with a tune that juxtaposes several things and arrives at a musical statement I feel hangs together nicely:

"Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese And Milk" by "Stark Effect" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

----

The theme of this show is "Bittersweet Memories".

Well, with making it to fifty-five and realizing all of the mistakes that I've made along the way, lets hope I don't come up with too many more.

Now: "Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Swan of Tuonela" Opus 22, No.3" by "Jean Sibelius" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"Adagio for Strings" by "Samuel Barber" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Violin Concerto #1 In G Minor, Op. 26 - 2. Adagio" by: "Max Bruch" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K467: (2nd movement)by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp.

"String Quartet nr. 12, in F Major,Op 96, "American" 2nd movement" by "AntonÃn DvoÅÃk" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"Sonata in G minor for Viola da Gamba, BWV 1029 (2nd movement)" by "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp.

"Cello Concerto in E minor, Opus 85: (3rd movement)" by "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp.

"Dido and Aeneas, "Dido's Lament" by "Henry Purcell" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

We're slowly but surely running out of oil.

It took us a hundred and fifty years to get here, which means that none of the people who started that fire are still around.

And if any of you wonder about the truth of this, there is no oil left in Pennsylvania is there? The source of John D. Rockekeller's money done dried up didn't it. There's no Penn left in Penzoil.

There isn't much oil left in Texas or Oklahoma either. Its either all gone or now too expensive to get at in the scattered small pockets left .

Why? Because its a natural resource and, like the trees on Easter Island, like the forests and grass lands that used to cover the Sahara, like the trees that used to cover Elsemere Island in Canada's arctic for that matter, things change and yesterdays resource filled land is tomorrow's stinking desert.

We are on the point of a quickening slide down a roller-coaster ride where oil and everything made from it are going to cost a whole lot more and more as billions, billions, of people are willing to bid on a barrel of oil.

The price of oil is going up because of that fact alone; but when combined with something observed by M. K. Hubbert in the 1950's, peak oil which led him to predict when the US oil fields would run out, well, we'd better get ready for oil prices without a ceiling and the sky's the limit.

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"Break Everything" by "PATTY HURST SHIFTER" off off "TOO CROWDED ON THE LOSING END"

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We've got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the second chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Party Time", delves into the history of energy use by man, from the discovery of fire to the discovery of oil.

Of course the resource is both a source of energy and a source of raw materiel.

"Broken Windbreak" by "Kwyjibo" off of "The Rise Of Kwyjibo"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This second chapter, entitled "Party Time", delves into the history of energy use by man,

   â   since the discovery of fire, in times immemorial,
   â   through Medieval Europe, when the energy source was wood,
   â   through the coal revolution, initially occurring in China about 4,000 years ago but spreading to Europe in the thirteenth century when it was used in metal working due to the higher temperatures achieved by coal-fed fires,
   â   to the use of "petroleum", which is Greek for "rock oil", to make up for the rapidly dwindling biotic supplies of oil, like vegetable oils, whales oils, animal tallows and other sources of lubricants required by an ever expanding industrial regime,
   â   to the development of the cracking, distillation and other refining of oil and the micacle of fire from a non-biotic source other than coal.

The fortune amassed by legal, illegal and occasional downright criminal means by John D. Rockefeller in both money and power still lasts to this day.

But the story of petroleum shifts from being just an energy source, like fires in a bucket with strikers gathered all round it, huddling for warmth.

The development of Organic Chemistry and the sheer usefulness of petroleum as a feed stock for its processes, led to its adoption in agriculture for fertilizers, for use in the internal combustion engine which revolutionized the field of transportation, which involved warfare, both in the commission of war and of the decisions taken about splitting up the Ottoman Empire and the inevitability of the actual outcomes of both the world wars, led, in an almost direct line to the next topic of the next section in the chapter "Oil, Geopolitics and the Global Economy: 1950-1980.

After a wide ranging exploration, the next section of the chapter "1980-2001: Lost Opportunities and the Prelude to Catastrophe" goes into the sheer blunders committed in the name of securing control over oil.

Virtually everything that has happened since has had no impact on the crisis or the solution. (Over 4,000 dead Americans,and tens of thousands of dead Iraqis and Afghanis and citizens of other countries who's only crime was sitting in a cafÃ or walking down a street targeted by some terrorist or other.)

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"Broken Wings (For Chet)" by: "Melissa Forbes" off of "No More Mondays"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

So instead of weaning ourselves off of oil, and onto renewable fuel and energy sources, the price of oil has been controlled to within a few dollars to keep it cheaper than to pursue the hunt for energy alternatives.

Until the US economy has crashed, look at your and/or your parents' 401Ks for irrefutable, dollars to doughnuts, confirmation, and its not burning because it has run out of fuel.

Basically, like the Aesop's the sad tale of "The Grasshopper And The Ant", winter's here and we have put nothing away for the cold wintry days.

Next time we'll explore chapter three: "Light's Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End"

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"Cherokee's Dream" by "Dreamweaver"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

This episode featured the following music:

    * Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

    * "Break Everything" by "PATTY HURST SHIFTER" off off "TOO CROWDED ON THE LOSING END"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Broken Windbreak" by "Kwyjibo" off of "The Rise Of Kwyjibo"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Broken Wings (For Chet)" by: "Melissa Forbes" off of "No More Mondays"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Cherokee's Dream" by "Dreamweaver"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"Party Down The Hall" and "Fire It Up" by by: "The Stone Coyotes" off of the "Fire It Up" album

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Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:01:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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McFrontalot of Nerdcore
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McFrontalot of Nerdcore - The funniest videos clips are here.

This is episode 14

We're nowhere near real time and I'm recording this show on Sunday.

How did you like Friday's Halloween special?

How did you like the special Halloween show on after mine featuring "woodstock".

6 to midnight. It kicked some serious, uh, butt, didn't it? :-) Thank heaven for Vincent Price...

A veritable "Tour de Force" wasn't it. And man we were sweating our butts off in that studio. They have got to do something about the heat or the air conditioning or something.

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So I'm now back to doing it the regular way and playing some thing which might well become a classic, (yes, only time will tell.)

But I just love this song and I think it does deserve the kind of longevity that the song refers too.

"This Old Man" by "MC Frontalot" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

And remember, you can be a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat.

The politics don't have a thing to do with the parties.

You could even be, , a free thinking independent.

Just go out and vote.

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

----

The theme of this show is "The Magic of Italy".

I wonder when I'll have done enough magic around WSPC...

I wonder when I'll have shown that the wiki works,

I wonder when I'll have convinced the rest of the people at WSPC that they should get with the program and record all of their promos,

I wonder when I'll have persuaded them that they could/should record any of the shows that don't need interaction with the audience.

Shows with elements like the news, or shows like this one, or P34k O1l, my other show, or Audio Welfare, or KTHKSHI or The 12 O' Clock Rock, The 411@4, The Back Beat, The Cheat Code, The Raven Effect, The Real Music Show, or The Tech Tree.

There's other shows that I haven't listed here, but they would take and respond to any interaction, if they could get some of course.

Anyway this is NOT going to degenerate into a ineffective and ineffectual bitch fest.

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Capriccio Italien, Op. 45" BY" Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp.

"Symphony No.4 "Italian" In A Major Opus 90 (1st Movement)" by "Felix Mendelsson" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Roman Carnival, Opus 9" by "Hector Berlioz" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"Violin Concerto No.2 In B Minor, Opus 7 "La Campanella" (3rd Movement)" by "NicolÃ Paganini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"The Barber Of Seville, Overture" by "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

"La Danza Tarantella" also by "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

msb-0343 The law of Unintended Consequences

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:53:00 GMT

msb-0343 The law of Unintended Consequences

The Unintended Consequence
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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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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 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...

There's nothing to feedback at you except that you still seem to be there, downloading the shows and pushing me over "a hundred thousand downloads."

That's incredible, but its true.

You've put up with my lousy delivery, dubious musical tastes and moods over 100,000 times.

I hope to continue for a while longer.

---- "Mothers Uncle" by: "Ernie Payne" http://www.black-and-tan.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"

---- "A Mothers Love" by: "Roscoe Chenier" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

But I seem to be shedding a lot of weight instead.

It would help if the big media companies could figure out a way to make money off the internet. That would mean that I could too.

I suspect that its going to be a meritocracy, where content will be king and POV will count for everything.

Lets hope that the "unintended consequences" happen sooner than later.

---- "Sweet Mother Blues" by: "Mean Gene Kelton and The Die Hards" http://www.genekelton.com/

"Thesis:"

The unintended consequences that I was referring to in the title of this post are the results of what gets displaced in the tub of commerce when big things like the internet, peak oil and the disintegrating financial markets serendipitously slosh lives and a way of life down the over flow.

Stick with me folks, this is going to be a three episode run plus a wrap-up episode, of heavy-duty thinking (interspersed with music of course,) that should take us through November.

---- "Mother Mary" by: "Bang Tango" http://www.perrisrecords.com/bango.htm

"Synthesis:"

Lets begin with the internet.

The DOD experiment in building a scalable communication system capable of surviving nuclear devastation is at the true heart of the state we're in.

I'm not going to bore you with a history lesson. Its only 50 years old after all. That's not enough time to have a history; that's barely enough time to have a definition.

We're going to explore the the internet from its nature, from its structural and functional aspects.

Taking the tack of a typical five year old who simply accepts that things have always been the way they are, when you can get a five year old to even admit to thinking, we're going to look at the way things are.

Unlike a typical five year old, we're also going to look around to see what the internet displaced, just a few examples, nothing exhaustive; don't worry.

The internet was initially started as an experiment in a scalable network structures. The idea was that if the phone systems went down, the military command and control structure should be able to communicate with its surviving appendages of the military/industrial complex. (Remember the "Eisenhower's 'Farewell Address' to the nation?" [go back to "msb-0205 Farewell Address {Eisenhower's, not Mine}" if you need to.] That was one of the more fateful speeches uttered by a president.)

That experiment was successful beyond its wildest dreams.

The cold war was getting underway and the phone system of the day was simply not up to the task because of its reliance on a "trunk and exchange" communication system.

That set the stage for what would become DARPA, the X.25 switching network, the internet, e-mail (which started as a hack so that machine A could talk to machine B and as a verification of the connection, so that the operator of machine A could send a mesage to the operator of machine B. (There were no such things as sysops and sysadmins, 50 years ago.)

Well lets look at what this displaced, what slopped over onto the bathroom floor shall we?

The entire internal structure of the telephone network was made entirely digital, packet switched and made essentially faster while it made sending a packet from any point to any point damn near free.

That's a systemic change and entirely "sub rosa".

While extremely expensive, it was paid for by me and thee and was accomplished on the regular equipment maintenance schedule. (It didn't occur to anyone to bother to charge separate fees for this until later [when we "paid for" "fiber to the home" for years, while the telcos delivered exactly and precisely 0 feet and 0 inches of it.])

In the meantime, the developments in electronics, funded by DARPA and NASA, (the DOD and its buddies who were sending "meat in a can" up in space in an effort to put something up there that they could drop on the Soviets,) led to miniaturization and the development by Robert Noyce, who was at Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby, who was at Texas Instruments, of the integrated circuit which solved the interconnection problem. (One of the greatest lacunae in the latter quarter of the 20th century is that this approach is not widely known and emulated.)

Then from intel, Motorola and a host of now smaller players came the 4004, the 8008, the 8080, the z80, the 8088, the 8086, the 80x86, the 6502, the 6800, the 680x0 series, the Pentium series, the PowerPC, the Lisp machine series, the Dandy series from Xerox, the POWER architecture from IBM etcetera, yahdah, yahdah, yahdah. They operated at kilohertz and now they're operating in gigahertz.

RAM went from being little magnetic doughnuts strung on wires to chips (made of silicon or, when you needed speed, germanium,) and measured by the Kb then by the Mb and now by the Gb.

At the same time, storage you could have on your desktop went from bits and bytes, to kilobytes, to megabytes, to gigabytes, to terabytes.

And since then, out have gone the telephone operator, the secreterial pool, the word processing pool (which has come and gone;) the system operator is another highly valued dinosaur, and just as extinct.

The very concept of a cutting room has been left on the cutting room floor of history.

I'm "not" complaining.

The lack of cut up pieces of negatives is a positive as far as I'm concerned.

The truth is that almost nobody has not been affected by the internet and of the information embodied therein.

But with the creation of the internet came the creation of the world wide web and, inevitably, the creation of the search engine, and of Google.

The printing press is becoming HTML, XML, and yesterday's New York Times, or the Mizzima News in Jadhavpur, Kolkata, is becoming distributed without a single tree having been felled.

A billion forms used in govermental business are all .PDFs, transmitted at the speed of light, stored reduntently in RAID storage systems and instantly accessible to anyone with a password or a (in)decent hack.

The grand telephony experiment that began as an attempt to survive the command and control communication problem that the DOD created for itself with the Manhattan project, has certainly evolved, (some might say metastacized, [specially the millions who have seen their way of life disappear.])

The feature creep that military acquisitions are all subject to spread like oil over waters and the heating up of the economy has turned it into a highly combustible vapor. (But we're doing those later...)

---- "Mother Natures Way" by: "Lumberjack Mafia" http://www.lumberjackmafia.com/

"Conclusion:"

The internet is the mother of all unintended consequences, but its own parents, oil dependency and war, and its twin children, "peak oil" and "the meltdown of the financial markets" are combining to change the world in in ways that are quite apocalyptic.

Think on this:

    There are more people alive right now than have lived on the planet before, "ever."

    More people, corporations and governments are on the internet today than existed and screwing wit the lives of more peple that have been screwed with before, "ever."

    Even the poorest Egyptian fellah, Indian peon or Burmese peasant has a cell phone these days with call-waiting, voice mail, text messaging and internet access.

What has this done to the top down autocratic structure?

How can you maintain an autocracy or plutocracy in such an open environment?

Where everybody can see what the king is wearing, or "not" wearing...

Next episode, we'll get into some of the rest of what spilled onto the bathroom floor.

---- "A Mother's Love" by: "Ozark Insight" http://www.saundersstreetrecords.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

Song list:

"Mothers Uncle"
by: "Ernie Payne"
http://www.black-and-tan.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com

"A Mothers Love"
by: "Roscoe Chenier"
http://www.black-and-tan.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com

"Sweet Mother Blues"
by: "Mean Gene Kelton and The Die Hards"
http://www.genekelton.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com

"Mother Mary"
by: "Bang Tango"
http://www.perrisrecords.com/bango.htm
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com

"Mother Natures Way"
by: "Lumberjack Mafia"
http://www.lumberjackmafia.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com

"A Mother's Love"
by: "Ozark Insight"
http://www.saundersstreetrecords.com/
album: "none"
via: http://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:

Just click here [ http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations ] to go to the Book Recomendation wiki page.

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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

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Mon, 3 Nov 2008 01:49:00 GMT

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Halloween Theme Song
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Halloween Theme
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AVE SATANI- GREGORIAN (THE OMEN)
..

This is episode 13. On a spooky Friday... Haloween...

We're now near real time but I'm going to the same halloween parties you are so in order to entertain myself as well as other stoons, this show is being recorded on Thursday night.

I intend to eat, drink and make merry for tomorrow we die. Mouahaha ha, ha,

second track:
*hack*, *cough* *wheeze*

Ha ... ha ... choo!

Igor And shut those damn werewolves up, will you?

Igor: Dang, I told 'em to sweep the cobwebs into this place and let the dust of the ages settle.

But no. It has to be done right away.

Like now Igor.

Hop to it Igor.

I never get to ...

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Well, thanks anyway Igor.

( I'll never let him pick the music. Have you ever hear a Transylvanian Rapper.

What they lack in musical talent, they make up for in sheer excruciating lyrical dis-ability.

They GAVE lessons to the Vogons who are now the third worst poets in the multiverse.

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And as is my wont, (as opposed to my won' t,) I'm starting this show with something that may yet be popular.

"Toccata och fuga i d-moll, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565" by "J.S. Bach" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

And remember, you can be a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat.

The politics don't have a thing to do with the parties.

You could even be, , a free thinking independent.

Just go out and vote.

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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The music for this show is "all over the place and the purely classical theme of this show has been drop kicked in the fork and sent packing to the netherworld, .

Igor: Master, master, can I read a poem?

Master: Must you?

Its just a short little tiny one.

"See, see the dead sky
Marvel at its big puce depths.
Tell me, Eugene do you
Wonder why the lung fish ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel bright.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your specious facial follicular growth
That looks like
A fractal ligonberry.
What's more, it knows
Your sprat potting shed
Smells of grape.
Everything under the big dead sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm rancid milk."

Master:

Oh for Bram Stoker''s sake. Don't encourage him.

He'll be all "Titus Andronicus" for most of next week.

Ah, well ... Let the beatings begin...

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565" by "J.S. Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Haloween Mistake" by "CanTrip" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Halloween" by "Fishing For Comets: here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Halloween Girl" by "Ghosts On The Radio" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Halloween" by "Coffin Shakers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Halloween" by "Retail" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Ghost With The Most" by "B Movie Brits" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Closer To The Animal" by "AliMan" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Ghost Of A Band"by "THE RAILS" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Im not very good at being scary" by "gilly slinn" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Scary Guy" by: "Maria Danes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Fearful" by "Hungry Lucy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Fear of Reason" by "Lumberjack Mafia" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

..

This is episode 12.

I'm working on a special show for Halloween. That's this Friday. The classical theme may go straight in the crapper for this one. (Not that that matters.)

We're now near real time.

Its so friggin' cold tonight in my little home office that I'm seriously contemplatin' setting a roaring fire in a trash can out in the side yard below the window.

Maybe I could burn some old tires, 2 by 4's, trash an' crap like that next to a giant inflatable rat.

Times are tough... My union buddies can use all the help they can get these days.

Speaking of tough times....

Tonight confirmed my feelings about this show: in the school, nobody listens.

One of my fellow students reviewed every show but mine. Like that's supposed to make me feel good. I don't even get reviewed when its the friggin' homework. Yeah, sure. Go suck an egg...

Like the video says in the show notes, its a communications break down, and of the dumbest kind.

Thank heavens for my podcast listeners...

Some of you have started to download the shows again.

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And as is my wont, I'm starting this show with something that may yet be a classic.

"If Farts Were Made Out of Superball Stuff (w/ Fart Sounds)" by "Lynn JULIAN aka CookieCutterGirl" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

-----

Imagine if you did not have your cell phone, facebook or myspace page, twitter account or your IM or Skype ID to communicate with your friends?

Well, political refugees in Elizabeth (?? NJ [?? facility]) only have Snail Mail to communicate with, and yet they pay one dollar per stamp.

Community Service is asking for your help by buying stamp books for these refugees during October.

Use the Drop Off box at Community Services

This ends this Friday.

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BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

And remember, you can be a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat.

The politics don't have a thing to do with the parties.

You could even be, , a free thinking independent.

Just go out and vote.

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:
"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

----

The music for this show is "Air of Spring" off an album by the same name.

Its a statement of sheer optimism...

Spring will come again... Eventually... Just as it does in Helliconia... (By Brian W. Aldiss ISBN: 978-0743-444 729 )

[ http://www.amazon.com/Helliconia-Spring-First-Book-Trilogy/dp/0743444728 ]

No news yet on the show promo. But I'll pretend that its going to happen.

Tonight, the magic word will be, but that would be telling...

Listen and wait for it.

Meanwhile,

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Holberg Suite, Opus 40: 'PrÃdludium'" by "Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" by "Frederick Delius" here on WSPC'sThymeWarp.

"The Four Seasons No 1 in E, RV269: Spring"by "Vivaldi" here on WSPC'sThymeWarp.

"Songs Without Words, Book 5, Op.62, No.6, 'Spring Song'" by "Mendelsson" here on WSPC'sThymeWarp.

"Symphony No.1 in B-flat, Opus 38: Fourth movement 'Spring'" by "Robert Schumann" here on WSPC'sThymeWarp.

"Schwanengesang, 'Das FischermÃdchen'" by "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC'sThymeWarp.

"Horn Concerto No.4 in E Flat, (third movement) 'Rondo'"by " Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC'sThymeWarp.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

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media files:

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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

P34k O1l is a strange concept to wrap your minds around. (I asked my "Radio 201" classmates if "any" of them had heard of peak oil. I got some great "deer in the headlights" stares. I really want these guys and gals to catch all of the episodes of this show because they're so incredably unprepared. I'm podcasting this show for "them.")

How can we run "out" of oil?

How can we "run" out of oil?

Easy, use more than we make (or more accurately, than we find; we don't make any outside of a laboratory,) and eventually it will become scarce and then scarcer, and cost more and more, and more.

Don't think it can happen?

Texas "used" to have oil didn't it? And now it doesn't.

Pennsylvania used to have oil, didn't it? And it hasn't for quite a while.

(Made John D. Rockerfeller the richest man on earth for a while, then he died. "Sic transit, gloria mundi")

What happened? Peak oil for the 'States did. Back in 1972.

It doesn't matter if you think that oil comes from dinosaurs (like a few naive folks out there do,[fossil fuel indeed,]) or if you think that oil is the result of abiotic, geological processes and that oil arises from underground and therefore inorganic, anaerobic sources.

The fact is that, either as non-renewable fossil fuel, or as geologically slowly renewing abiotic fuel source, we're running out.

Our resource depletion outstrips resource discovery (or natural production.) And its only going to get worse.

Here's a site for some media you can go and get: http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/ into Google, iTunes and watch it whenever, (if you've got a video capable player, you can even watch it wherever.)

Its not a perfect movie but if you need something to scare the crap out of you, it can do that.

Its a bunch of rich white dudes becoming a bunch of, uh, concerned, rich white dudes hoping that they don't get burned in effigy or lynched when it plays out.

Googling "Peak Oil" gives you a wealth of stuff, some of which is utter crap and some of which is reasoned, well researched, well thought out stuff.

Stuff like "Peak Oil" [ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2141508903056009420 ]

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"In Search of Cryptic Authors" by "Stavka (Andy Lightfoot)" off off "Against The Programme"

----

We've got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

-----

Imagine if you did not have your cell phone, facebook or myspace page, twitter account or your IM or Skype ID to communicate with your friends?

Well, political refugees in Elizabeth (?? NJ [?? facility]) only have Snail Mail to communicate with, and yet they pay one dollar per stamp.

Community Service is asking for your help by buying stamp books for these refugees during October.

Use the Drop Off box at Community Services

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

Theyâre here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If youâre a sports fanatic, you wonât want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch âDan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.â

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peterâs College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the first chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

"Business Ain't Music" by "Maria Daines" off of "Wisdom's Tooth"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

The first chapter is called "Energy, Nature and Society" and it explores the earth's energy budget, 1,372 watts of sunlight energy hit every square meter of this planet.

It then goes into how nature uses that energy in, "Energy in Ecosystems: Eating and Being Eaten" which gets us into a system's "carrying capacity", that is the maximum population load per species.

There are lots of examples of things exceeding an environment's carrying capacity and having population crashes or outright extinction.

Some of those things are people who altered their environments, exceeded the carrying capacity of the new environment and died various kinds of messy, slow and agonizing deaths. (Extinction is "never" clean, quick, or painless.)

It then goes into how people use that energy, "Social Leveraging Strategies: How to Gain an Energy Subsidy" which gets us into the exploitation of some mechanisms for expanding the environment's carrying capacity.

    * takeover
    * tool use
    * specialization
    * scope enlargement and
    * drawdown.

I am not going to repeat everything that the book says, including the sources. Go and buy a copy. This is a "precis" not a copyright violation.

It then goes into how, since we've outstripped the earth's carrying capacity through our increasing dependence on one non-renewable resource: "OIL", we're going to have to manage "Complexity and Collapse: Societies in Energy Deficit" and gives examples of civilizations that didn't.

Lastly it goes into "Applied Socio-Ecohistory: Explaining the American Success Story" and explores the chemistry of energy historic and current role of energy and its effect on social economic, military and political structures.

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"Business As Usual" by: "Sudden Death" off of "Die Laughing"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

I hope you're paying attention (I mean really, "really" paying attention, [ I'm not worried if you're enjoying the show. { This is college radio after all, aint nobody's listening but us stoonts... } ] )

The history of all society is the history of the search for exploitable sources of energy.

Until the harnessing of hydro power and then steam, that source was the dog, the horse and the oxen; basically animal power.

Then about 1850 one of the animal sources for energy, whales for oil to light our lamps with, became extremely scarce and extremely expensive. (You will find this to be an economic truth which will haunt you for your entire lives, your succes as human beings will be directly related to your sucess at husbanding resources of varying scarcity.)

Over the next six shows, we will explore the world as it will unfold, as hinted at in "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

If, no, when, you get the book, read it and email me about your own thoughts, at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com.

This plea for comments, reaction and contribution goes for everyone, since the show is being podcast on MSBPodcast 'canal', and is available on the web, as well as through iTunes, and as streamed here on WSPC.

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"Communicate" by "Brian Scibinico"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

This episode featured the following music:

    * Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

    * "In Search of Cryptic Authors" by "Stavka (Andy Lightfoot)" off off "Against The Programme"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Business Ain't Music" by "Maria Daines" off of "Wisdom's Tooth"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Business As Usual" by: "Sudden Death" off of "Die Laughing"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Communicate" by "Brian Scibinico"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

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Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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Brigitte Fontaine - Genre humain

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This is episode 11.

We're nowhere near real time. Its Friday night and I'm working on next Monday's show.

So did anybody catch today's show?

Friday October, 24th 2008?

Anybody? Anybody? (I feel like I should soon be mumbling "Beuler? Beuler?")

(Gad, there was nobody in the studio and I don't there's anybody listening either. [I think I'm going to put a link to a video on the show notes just to draw in the YouTube addicted. {Okay, its not original. I was doing this in my MSBPodcast show notes too, as an extra.}])

Well, I'll just soldier on knowing that I'm far older, weirder and more awake/aware than most of the "Discipulus somes."

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In keeping with the habit, (not the discipline or the tradition, [get over yourself,its a habit, a custom, a practice, a wont,]) we begin with "La Femme A Barbe" by "Brigitte Fontaine" off of the album: "Genre Humain," just because I wanna.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

-----

Imagine if you did not have your cell phone, facebook or myspace page, twitter account or your IM or Skype ID to communicate with your friends?

Well, political refugees in Elizabeth (?? NJ [?? facility]) only have Snail Mail to communicate with, and yet they pay one dollar per stamp.

Community Service is asking for your help by buying stamp books for these refugees during October.

Use the Drop Off box at Community Services

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BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

Besides. If you don't vote, you'll have noting to complain about when the selected elected officious officials bend you over and do you dry...

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:
"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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The music this show is "Great Overtures" off an album by the same name.

I have a yen to start a promotion on and for this show, which will probably cost me nothing 'cause it feels like nobody's listening anyway.

I'd use a magic word somewhere in my show, (maybe, the name of a piece of music on my iPod [and its got over 13 thousand tunes as of right now, and some of these are just plain weird, so It's going to be beyond guessing.])

I'd have this in over its own flourish in between tracks.

(And I'm NOT writing it in the show notes either. You have to LISTEN! [And because I'm also podcasting these show, I will give a week from from the air date to award the prize. {Because this prize is also open to my MSBPodcast listeners, as well as to my WSPC listeners, I will be paying for it out of my own unemployed pocket if one of them wins.}])

The first time, to get my feet wet, so to speak, I'd give away some WSPC T-Shirts.

I'm running this past professor Lamachia.

Meanwhile,

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Carmen Suite" by "Bizet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Overture to Candide" by "Leonard Bernstein" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"La Traviata, Prelude" by "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Oberon Overture" by: "Carl Maria von Wever"

"The Wasps, Ouverture" by "Ralph Vaghan Williams" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"The Marriage of Figaro, Overture" by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Overture" by "Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"The Yeomen of the Guard, Overture" by "Gilbert & Sullivan" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

I'll let you know what Professor Lamachia and I work out about the promotion.

You will of course be kept in the loop.

What the heck, you're potential winners,

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Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMT

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This is episode 10.

We're nowhere real time. It's Wednesday night October 22, 2008 and I'm feeling inspired.

Apart from the major portion of this show being an expression of love (as in the album "Expressions of Love") I made some off hand reference to professor Lamachia about having some Tuvan throat singing music.

We had a good laugh, but I started remembering when they'd come to "The Knitting Factory" back in November of 2001 (if memory serves me.)

My wife, her cousin and her husband, and myself were in serious need of distraction, some sultan wannabe Fascist imbecile having recently torn a hole in our sky and brought down our next door neighbor in a piece of Arab street theatre.

We we're wandering, still a bit shell-shocked, through our old haunts in lower Manhattan when we happened upon the Tuvan Throat Singers of Richard Feinman fame.

I had the distinct pleasure of seeing these artists play the tunes you're going to hear frst and last.

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We begin with "Medly Of Throat-Singing Styles" by "Kongar-Ool Ondar Accompanied By Doshpuluur" off of the album: "Deep In The Heart Of Tuva"

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We got PSAs:

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Are you hardcore enough to go without talking for 24 hours?

Then stop by Campus Ministries to sign up for the Montserrat Retreat which runs October 25-26.

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

-----

Imagine if you did not have your cell phone, facebook or myspace page, twitter account or your IM or Skype ID to communicate with your friends?

Well, political refugees in Elizabeth (?? NJ [?? facility]) only have Snail Mail to communicate with, and yet they pay one dollar per stamp.

Community Service is asking for your help by buying stamp books for these refugees during October.

Use the Drop Off box at Community Services

----

BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

Besides. If you don't vote, you'll have noting to complain about when the selected elected officials screw you.

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tomorrow in this time slot at WSPC:
"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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The WSPC wiki is up and running and will be a resource for everybody on the WSPC staff. It can also be accessed "non-destructively" by anybody else. "Yay!!!"

Most of the selections on this show will come off of the CD "In Classical Mood, Vol 05: Expressions of Love".

But the first tune will come off of "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, which caused riots in Paris when it was unveiled to an over excitable public; we're then going to have plain classical and then the music will come off of "Koyaanisqatsi (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)" which is the equivalent for an unromantic age, and the show will book-end with a closing shamanic prayer by "Kongar-Ool Ondar" for Richard Feinman off of the album "Deep In The Heart Of Tuva"

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"Bolero" by "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Romeo & Juliet Overture" by "Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Romeo & Juliet Overture" by "Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"The Planets, Op. 32 - 2. Venus, The Bringer Of Peace" by: "Holst" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Porgy & Bess - Bess, You Is My Woman Now" by "Gershwin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"The Maiden & The Nightingale" by: "Granados" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Koyaanisqatsi" by "Philip Glass Ensemble" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Shamanic Prayer For Richard Feynman"" by: "Kongar-Ool Ondar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

And you can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT

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Direct link to the episode:

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This is episode 9.

We're almost real time.

Ah, its the apprentice nobleman's life for me. I shall cut such a dashing figure on the marbled floor of the hall of mirrors.

And we're not going to France. The ladies there tinkle under their skirts. (Mel Brooks had half right in "History of the World Part 1." French nobility also included women.

No. This episode has for a theme "Nights in Vienna".

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We begin with "The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz" by "Tom Lehrer" off of the album: "Songs by Tom Lehrer" and its all downhill from there. "-)

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We got PSAs:

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Are you hardcore enough to go without talking for 24 hours?

Then stop by Campus Ministries to sign up for the Montserrat Retreat which runs October 25-26.

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

-----

Imagine if you did not have your cell phone, facebook or myspace page, twitter account or your IM or Skype ID to communicate with your friends?

Well, political refugees in Elizabeth (?? NJ [?? facility]) only have Snail Mail to communicate with, and yet they pay one dollar per stamp.

Community Service is asking for your help by buying stamp books for these refugees during October.

Use the Drop Off box at Community Services

----

BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and vote!

Do your patriotic duty.

Besides. If you don't vote, you'll have noting to complain about when the elected officials screw you.

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BED: "Money" by "Theory In Motion" or "Money, money, money" by "ABBA" or "An Honest Job" by "Treat Her Right"

The Office of Career Services is having its 25h annual fall career fair.

Interview for Jobs!

Network with more than 40 companies!

Bring plenty of rÃsumÃs and

dress for success.

It will be held Wednesday, October 22, 28 at the

McIntyre Lounge in Dinneen Hall

from 09:00 to 13:00 (1:00PM)

Al Saint Peter's College students and alumni alumnae are welcome.

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There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tomorrow in this time slot at WSPC:
"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that 4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the pre election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to the RIAA.

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Lots of stuff happening.

I need to write stuff, get a wiki working, read a ton of email, and send replies, listen to a web seminar at 19:00.

I need some slack time for my slack mind. All of the selections this show will come off of "In Classical Mood, Vol 04: Nights in Vienna"

"Adelante la musica"

Streaming here on WSPC's Thyme Warp

"The Blue Danube" by "Johann Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Symphony #94 In G, "Surprise" - Mvt. #2" by "Joseph Haydn" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Moment Musical #3 In F Minor, D 780"by "Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Pizzicato-Polka" by "J. Strauss, Jr." here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Die Fledermaus - BrÃderlein, BrÃderlein" by "J. Strauss, Jr" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Liebesfreud" by "Fritz Kreisler" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Symphony No. 8 in F Major Opus 93, Second Movement " by "Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Morning, Noon & Night In Vienna" by "Suppe" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Radetzky March" by: "J. Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Roses From The South, Op. 388" by "Johann Strauss II" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Der Rosenkavalier - Waltz Sequence #2" by: "R. Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

And you can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:30:00 GMT

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Bed: "Machinery" by "Might Could" off of "All Intertwined"

Intro

Welcome to P34k O1l.

A show about surviving the apocalypse by someone who doesn't expect to, not by much anyway.

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"The Fight That No One Can Win" by "Life Has Teeth"

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We've got PSAs:

----

Are you hardcore enough to go without talking for 24 hours?

Then stop by Campus Ministries to sign up for the Montserrat Retreat which runs October 25-26.

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

-----

Imagine if you did not have your cell phone, facebook or myspace page, twitter account or your IM or Skype ID to communicate with your friends?

Well, political refugees in Elizabeth (?? NJ [?? facility]) only have Snail Mail to communicate with, and yet they pay one dollar per stamp.

Community Service is asking for your help by buying stamp books for these refugees during October.

Use the Drop Off box at Community Services

----

BED: "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by: "John Philip Sousa"

Don't forget to get out and register to vote if you're not already.

Voter registration forms can be found in the library.

And go and vote.

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BED: "Money" by "Theory In Motion" or "Money, money, money" by "ABBA" or "An Honest Job" by "Treat Her Right"

The Office of Career Services is having its 25h annual fall career fair.

Interview for Jobs!

Network with more than 40 companies!

Bring plenty of rÃsumÃs and

dress for success.

It will be held Wednesday, October 22, 28 at the

McIntyre Lounge in Dinneen Hall

from 09:00 to 13:00 (1:00PM)

Al Saint Peter's College students and alumni alumnae are welcome.

----

There are still no prerecorded promos

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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could" off of "All Intertwined"

Thesis:

Welcome to the show that will give you a little history about what happened and tell you what you can expect to happen next.

I don't want to scare the crap out of you, but if that's what it takes to wake you up than, so be it.

My own epiphany happened early last year, in 2007.

I came across a web site that led me to some other web sites and, after a bit, I started to ask myself if these kooks could just happen to be right. I bought a book (not an unusual event for me.)

It was called "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This book in 275 pages gives you all the insights you need to get started in surviving the oil era (I can't even call it an age, like the "Bronze Age" or the "Iron Age", its less that two hundred years old, and, in that short period of time, we've managed to blow through around half of it.)

Knowing the All American propensity for ignoring people until it was half past too late, I started to look through the cracks and discovered exactly what M. King Hubbert meant by the expression "Peak Oil".

By the way, if you doubt that ignoring people is what America does best, to its own detriment, does the name William Edwards Deming ring a bell with anybody?

He invented the entire field of statistical sampling, quality control and a methodology that was utterly ignored until he had to "leave the 'States" and go to Japan, where he turned around Japanese industry and, now that Toyota is eating GM's lunch, the value of his approach has been recognized.

How about the name R. Buckminster Fuller?

His Dymaxion car and the principles that guided his engineering and his architecture led to the Geodesic domes and his fame lives on in Material Science in "Fullerines" and nanodevices.

M. King Hubbert stated back in 1956 that peak oil in the 'States would occur between 1966 and 1972.

The peak in US oil production occured in 1970 and the oil reserves have been going down until there's no economically recoverable oil left. We've been squeezing the shelves on both sides of the continent dry ever since.

We're going to cover the book over the next six weeks. (One per chapter.) We're also going to give reference to the other sources of information on the web and point you to a whole series of YouTube videos on the subject.

And I get to play all this podsafe music for you while scaring the bejeezus out of your complacency, but forewarned is forearmed so its better that you know, rather than being blindsided by what will inevitably happen, and can make plans around weaning yourself off of America's oil addiction.

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"First Date" by "Danko Jones" off of "Sleep Is The Enemy"

Bed: "Watching The Sky Fall" by: "Hugh Campbell" off of "The comedown machine"

Synthesis:

In 242 pages + end notes, a bibliography and an index, Mr. Heinberg manages to deflate the accomplishments of the past century and a half and depress the hell out of anybody who thinks that its just going to go on the same as it has been.

Its not a particularly fun read. (Sort of like my MS diagnosis was not a fun read.)

But after spending the first 5 charters and 200 pages establishing how oil got into our lives over the past one hundred and fifty years and altered almost every aspect of our power structures, the books launches into how we're going to have to manage the collapse of those power structures.

If we do this with a modicum of intelligence, the changes don't have to be the equivalent to Afghanistan under "Mullah Omar". (Shoot me now, because its just a question of time before he'd order his zealots to do it.)

The questions are myriad and the answers are always going to be "yes!"

    * Yes, we're going to have to do everything in a sustainable manner and
    * yes, we're going to have to factor in things like the energy required at every step of a product's life cycle, and
    * yes, we're going to have fond memories of airline travel, private travel and even rapid travel, and
    * yes, we're going to hate to commute and share the rides,
    * yes, we're about to say goodbye to living in the suburbs, except for retirement communities,
    * yes, we're going to have to recycle because we're no longer able to afford the cost of hauling away trash, and
    * yes, we're going to have to deal with the resentment of everybody on the planet,
    * yes, we're going to wave bye bye to fruits and veggies from everywhere on the planet,
    * yes, we're going to get used to eating locally grown varieties, (which tends to be an oxymoron, variety will be limited to whatever you can order from a seed catalog and grow in farms and co-ops like the one my wife and I belong to,) and
    * yes, we're going to have to get over having the kinds of hospital expenditures we've got now, (the HMOs are going to be absolute Hell to deal with as prices rise,[unless we wake up and have a health policy based on reason like the rest of the world's industrialized countries,]) and
    * yes there are all kinds of things that are going to have to change and,
    * yes, we're looking at a few major plagues and other ecological disasters that we won't be able to avoid, (floods in low lying areas, typhoons and hurricanes leaving more cities like New Orleans and leaving entire countries like Myanmar/Burma, earthquakes shattering economies like in China's south...)

The list goes on, but basically you're going to be left to rely on your own physical resources.

But, and this is the biggest and heaviest "but" we're ever going to have, we'll have a wealth of information at our fingertips since, while the schools may have to move because there's no more "energy in the budget", we've still laid down the foundations of the next economy, the next world order, in shining glass strands.

We're looking at hydro-electricity and bandwidth becoming becoming essential to life in the post-oil world.

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"Me Llaman Calle" by: "Manu Chao" off of "La Radiolina"

Bed: "Take Time for the Tub" by: "Derek K. Miller" off of: "Penmachine Sessions"

Conclusion:

Over the next seven shows, we will explore the world as it will unfold, as hinted at in "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

While its the kind of book that you reject as impossible because everything, and I do mean everything, "everything" that you know is going to change, or as improbable as man flying around in some machine (I am older than commercial jet service and my grand-fathers were older that aviation itself, so that argument flies out the window,) its also the kind of book that will not be denied.

Even unscientific non-believer creationists drive cars, well except the Amish, (and we'll look at them in more detail later. :-)

When we run out of oil, meaning when its just not worth it to suck it out of the ground like we've been doing, because we're gettin' pretty red in the face and about to pop an artery, well, we "all"run out of oil.

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"Esperanza" by "Sophia Ramos" off of "Her Majesty"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

This episode featured the following music:

    * "The Fight That No One Can Win" by "Life Has Teeth
    * Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could" off of "All Intertwined"
    * "First Date" by "Danko Jones" off of "Sleep Is The Enemy"
    * Bed: "Watching The Sky Fall" by: "Hugh Campbell" off of "The comedown machine"
    * "Me Llaman Calle" by: "Manu Chao" off of "La Radiolina"
    * Bed: "Take Time for the Tub" by: "Derek K. Miller" off of: "Penmachine Sessions"
    * "Esperanza" by "Sophia Ramos" off of "Her Majesty"
    * Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"
    * "Clockwork Family" by "Dan Warren"