msb-0168 The Limitations of Titles

msb-0168 The Limitations of Titles

intro

Actually this show is going to be about a lot of things; not the least of which is the peculiar fascination that philology and etymology hold for me...

But there is one thing that I wish to address right now, (and that I will return to in "part deux"); "Pediatric MS". [ http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=HOM_LIB_insidems ]

As good a job as the article did, and it did an excellent job, I am still hung-up on the distinction, the purely artificial and arbitrary distinction that people make between adults and children; as if there was any real distinction to be made. (Wake the fuck up! Pediatric has meant everything from nine months from birth up to 16, 18, 21 and 25 years old.)

Part of the hangup with pediatrics is our own image of cherubic infants.

I'd like to flail "skin from bone" of any person who thinks that.

"Get over it!"

Given the fact that my first attack came at sixteen, "sixteen!" and threw all the nun's carefully, some might say "painfully", induced handwriting skills into the garbage bin of my personal history, combined with the same image of rotund, red faced infants, (obese and hyper-tensive, as far as I'm concerned) pediatrics needs a real "extreme" makeover: home edition.

Ty Pennington, "Move that fuckin' bus, ya ass-hole; and run over some of those ageist retards on/in the way."

----"Tonight" by: "Carlina" http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=32124

Feedback comes first, so...

There is none from you.

But did you check out Herrad's latest 2 episodes.

Damn but that girl's going through a bad patch. Drop her some words of encouragement, won't you? [at http://accessdenied-livingwithms.blogspot.com/ ]

My stats are now at 15k downloads. :-)

And you can drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

---- "What Youve Done" by: "Carlina" http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=32124

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Meanwhile, "She who must be obeyed", a.k.a. my wife, found a great book for me.

"Understanding Disability Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights" by: Paul T. Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman, ISBN: 0-275-98226-2

I suspect that I will once again "wax eloquent with rage" when I get to the chapter on "Representations of Disability across Media".

What fucking representations of disability? We're in-fuckin'-visible, don'tcha'no. That's why this podcast even exists.

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In the mean time, I found this great Limerick while reading "Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan" [ http://www.rocr.net/index.php?p=20051208 ]

On the bosom of young Abigail
Was written the price of her tail
And upon her behind
For the use of the blind
Was the same information in Braille.

The only reference I found to this on the inter-web was one I found at http://www.reality-j.com/?p=100.

The attribution may well be ... "Anon,"



---- "Soar with me " by: "Carlina" http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=32124

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---- "The Most Perfect Word " by: "Carlina" http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=32124

Main Topic: "The Limitations of Titles"

I love the plasticity of the English language. It is both its strength and its weakness as a medium for expression.

I love memes which morph with every absorption.

Is the title of this piece a complete sentence or is it a fragment?

What do I mean when I use the word "limitations"?

What do I mean when I use the word "titles"?

There are denotations and connotations to be considered.

Actually, I think that, apart from the hundred year old comedy of slapstlick (and I know that I will get the humor historian criticizing me that "slapstick" predated film.) and the five hundred year old comedy of errors (and I know I will get some Pre-Elizabethan historian criticizing me that puns and sit-com predated Shakespeare,) "all" humor is derived from the confusion inherent in the difference between a word's meaning in one context or another.

---- "This is your time" by: "Carlina" http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=32124

Main Topic, part deux:

I loathe the image that gets projected on my "mental 'cave wall' " as I ponder the flickering mystery that is the word "pediatrics."

That of those cherubic (obese and hypertensive) infants. (Yes, I too am infected by those "Hallmarks Card" images that come from those "Currier and Ives" images that shaped the imagination of the parent of the entire planet. (Don't get me started on the cultural significance of the mass-media!)

MS can afflict anyone at any age.

That's just a fact jack.

That all depends on what we define as as an auto-immune disease that attacks myelin; but it is present at birth.

---- "how long will you be gone" by: "Carlina" http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=32124

Outro

msb-0167 I'm countin' I'm countin'

msb-0167 I'm countin' I'm, countin'

intro

One of the things I'm countin' is the number of downloads.

As of 12:00 Friday, June 22nd, 2007, when I'm writing this, I'm at 13,349. (Update: its 22:51 Sunday, June 24, 2007 and I am just a hair under 14k downloads. [Okay, so its its 13,997. That's, uh, pretty close to "a hair". {Update: its 10:03 Monday, June 25, 2007 and I'm at 14,033 downloads. That's what I'm talkin' about. You get the 'casts when you're ready for them. Who needs a schedule? (Its now 21:30 June 25, 2007 and I've got 14,068 downloads. Whew! [Its now 10:00 June 26,2007 and I'm at 14:123. The internet's always on somewhere, isn't it. ] ) } ] :-)

Seems like not that long ago I was thrilled at reaching 10k.

I didn't even notice passing 11k.

Then I said something about having reached 12k on msb-0163, and now I'm at 13k and its only msb-0167. That only four, count 'em, 4, episodes.

Like, "wow!"

The pace is picking up?!?

----"Space Monkey" by: "Jim Hodgson" http://www.jimhodgson.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

Ms. Chris [ http://azchick.blogspot.com/ ] is making grumbling noises on my blog I can only agree with.

Yep. Medicine sucks almost as bad as needing it.

But she did get to go to a concert featuring "The Police" that I can only drool about.

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My Nerdcore bro's are happy to be getting some air play.

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I just discovered some interesting thing in my email this morning. (See, its not "all" Spam. :-)

PatientsLikeMe [ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ] is a new site for, well, "patients like me" . (And neither are we all in the hospital nor are we all destitute charity-case wretches. [Like who can project them selves into "that?"])

Its a pretty sophisticated site with lots of information and its "a team effort" which means that they actually listen to you with your suggestions and your feed-back.

(Its more like a "community" site. You not expected to just to sit there and "sip from the fountain" ["drink the Kool-Aid", put up, pay up, shut up, while the parma co's screw us up; feeding us a line while seeing just how much we can tolerate and how much blood and cash they can draw from our veins and our wallets.])

Go and check them out. [ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ]

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Apart from that, there's isn't any feedback. [sigh]

We'll see if that situation remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

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

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---- "Smack the Monkey " by: "Pennenga" http://dpennenga.com/

Main Topic: "I'm countin' I'm countin'"

Its my blessings that I'm countin'.

Here's all the crap, all the minuses in my life.

Leaving the circumstances out of it (living changes your view of life itself,) lets just say it hasn't turned out like anybody thought it would.

Existentially, my body is my enemy, in a dispassionate, casual sort of way.

Infection, a particular, peculiar environmental trigger, related in some way to the flu virus, is at the start of a cascade which starts with a sniffle and ends in a hospital bed, with me lying in it, hoping that I don't lose too much, this time; that I will get over this, this time , and still be able to get up and get out of the bed.

I used to be a musician. I used to be a dancer. I used to be able to do a jillion things, including god-damn walking.

But MS robbed me of some of that, specially the walking. (I was through and well done with music and dance as a means of earning anything by the time I had my last exacerbation.)

---- "Digital Monkey " by: "Balkan Beat Box" http://www.myspace.com/balkanbeatbox

Main Topic, part deux:

Yeah, my life is full of crap, (as am I, [as I'm sure anybody'll tell you,]) but, all in all, I am blessed.

I have a job that is very cerebral, so I'm not stuck, unemployed, and unemployable, somewhere out in the boonies, waiting to get clobbered by that "great semi in the sky".

[censored by "She who must be obeyed"]

I have friends, not a lot of 'em, but the ones I have are the "best".

And I have this podcast.

You, my audience, have no idea how "vital" you are to my maintaining a sense of mental balance.

This podcast has seen me grow from feeling trapped in "an embittered dead-end" into a full and rich life.

Its not the material things that changed. [censored by "She who must be obeyed"]

Its my attitude to everything that has changed.

Since I began this podcast in February, 2006;

• I now have a post-secondary degree;
• I changed career from being a "Code Monkey" to managing them;
• I got some insight into how the new media, the inter-networked media will cause changes in the existing economic models we've been stuck with for the past century;
• I got some great feedback (albeit very occasional,) from you.

---- "Code Monkey" by: "Jonathan Coulton" http://www.jonathancoulton.com/

Outro

msb-0166 "Who'd a thunk it!?!"

msb-0166 "Who'd a thunk it!"

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----"Mech's Eye View" by: "LogicOne" http://myspace.com/logicthe1st

Feedback comes first, so...

Homer episode msb-gr-0002 went up last Wednesday.

Herrad is almost there with her episode msb-du-0005.

We're working out the kinks.

Apart from that, there's isn't any feedback. [sigh]

We'll see if that situation remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

---- "Claya Eyes Out" by: "IllGill" http://www.illgill.com/

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Speaking of InsideMS, I just received the June/July Issue. I was full of the stuff I've come to depend on from the NMSS (the "National Multiple Sclerosis Society".)

I should not be contributing to this segment so ... I'll shut up now.

---- "Network King" by: "CSHC" http://www.conyeezy.com/cshc

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---- "Crimson Twins" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks" http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/

Main Topic: "Who'd a thunk it!?!"

Yesterday, (Saturday June 16th 2007 as I write this, [who knows when you're hearing it]) there was an episode of "CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks" podcast [select and copy " http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml " and then paste it into your podcatcher,] that started off with an utterly fascinating segment about brain function.

Turns out there is a part of our brain that recognizes shapes and it doesn't mater how the brain acquires the shape, by sight (which is the normal path,) or by touch, or even by sound. (It would make sense, pardon the pun, that this is how "echo location" would work in bats and dolphins. [I can just that imagine some foods or smells might elicit sensations of shapes.])

This was proven by "Allison Motlook ", a researcher who participated in a "blind fold study" test where she was blind folded for five days, (figures or they wouldn't have called it a "blind-fold study", right? :-).

She experienced what might be called, for want of a better word, hallucinations; ("neuro-plasticity is the word,") seeing shapes and colors while being totally sight deprived by a light-tight blind-fold over her eyes.

(Go and download the show. [The instructions are on my site.] Its really fascinating.)

The upshot of the whole thing is that our brains experience far more than we give it credit for. No area is ever really dead just because we happen to deprive it of the primary source of stimulation. The visual cortex is alive and kickin' even when you're blind.

---- "Remember Back " by: "ProjektZero" http://www.myspace.com/ProjektZero

Main Topic, part deux:

This test leads me to wonder what would happen to a brain with a lesion, (or two, [I have no idea who large this region of the brain actually is, {or even where it is located,}]) affected by "sclera".

Might some people lose the ability to recognize the shape of things?

I seem to have a weakened sense of "soma", or body image, when trying to extend it to my car.

I used to "wear" my cars like a second skin and driving them was a joy. I was one with the car, driving 'round corners, backing up as effortlessly as driving forward, starting and stopping with "precision".

These days, I'm actually uncomfortable driving around. Trying to squeeze between cars is laborious and worrisome. Trying to parallel park is an adventure, a exercise in moving, but not like "U-Haul" meant in those ads of yore.

Having MS really sucks for mobility. Not only do I walk in 'slow motion" but I drive like it too.

And driving I should really be able to do at my old pace because it requires no strength on my part and I'm hyper-reflexive so my reaction response is much faster than a normal person's.

But now I'm now scared of-slash-by my spasticity.

---- "Give em More" by: "LogicOne" http://myspace.com/logicthe1st

Outro

msb-0165 The Costs of Being Wrong.

msb-0165 The cost of being wrong.

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----"Invisible" by: "Nefrit El-Or" http://nefritel-or.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

There's isn't any.

We'll see if that situation remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

---- "Invisible Man" by: "Mercury Sol" http://www.mercurysol.net/

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---- "The Invisible Man" by: "John Miles" http://www.iacmusic.com/johnmiles

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That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

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---- "Invisible Boy" by: "Jake hook" http://www.jakehook.com/

Main Topic: "The Cost of Being Wrong."

Part of being wrong, of failing, of screwing up, is that it costs.

(Post-implementation reviews will always reveal something to be learned, if some person is smart enough to do one, instead of taking success as an inevitable result, or of just walking away and washing one's hands of the entire mess.)

It always costs.

Not always in money, but it can cost plenty.

In medicine, the costs never seem to be borne by the ones who are doing wrong. (Except in those rare cases where you can prove gross negligence.)

Everybody's expected to just suck it up, shut up and limp on out; or to go into the ground. (Architects can only advise their clients to plant vines... Doctors can always bury their mistakes...)

With MS, and this is something that any and every MSer is intimately acquainted with, because of the nature of the disease, patients go through several rounds of testing, leading to mis-diagnosis, leading to more testing, leading to more mis-diagnosis, and round and round it goes until the symptoms reveal themselves unambiguously, usually during a bad episode (usually called a severe crisis.)

By that time, some damage is usually permanent.

Being damaged often costs a career, a marriage, a family, a shattered ego, a life irretrievably altered. Some of the costs are absolute bitches to pay and some are absolute killers, and not just of the budget.

All life is balanced on a razor's edge and we're sliding on down. (OUCH!)

---- "invisible beatnik" by: "chris hardy" http://www.soundclick.com/chrishardy

Main Topic, part deux:

Part of the costs of being wrong is the cost of clearing out and cleaning up whatever screw up, ding or scrape was the result of screwing up. (If it had worked properly in the first place, you wouldn't have to clean up a mess, now would you? [Problem is that the medical profession only rarely has to bear those costs.])

Then you can begin anew.

Part of the problem of beginning anew is that the "tabula rasa", the clean slate, is that the slate is not usually that cleanly wipe-able. There are "sequelae".

I am not a diagnostician. In my day job, as a software testing project manager, I very rarely have to run diagnostics on computer systems. I'm not looking for systematic problems, so I very rarely have to look at anomalous behavior and try to determine a source. (In fact I am specifically looking for the opposite: I am verifying that my systems are well behaved.)

I am not qualified to say where the problems lie when things aren't working, only that the behavior observed is the proper and expected one. (Well not explicitly qualified, but I can usually hazard a damn-good guess. :-)

Doctors are faced with some of the same problems.

For the most part, they just apply heuristics (rules of thumb,) and leave the stochastics (the guess work,) to the diagnosticians.

Doctors aren't given to the kinds of rigor of procedure while maintaining a flexibility of thought required of diagnosticians. (The best living diagnostician isn't. Its an AI program called Mycin. [But it requires updates with new diseases and new symptoms, and that those updates be done in a form that it can understand. {As such its a dead-end, except that it will usually score higher on accuracy than an average doctor.}])

And that's part of the costs of being wrong.

---- "Invisible Armies" by: "Amy Abdou" http://www.amyabdou.com/

Outro

msb-0164 Self-diagnosis and other difficulties.

msb-0164 Self-diagnosis and other difficulties.

intro

----"Buskers Blues" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

There's isn't any.

We'll see if that situation remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

---- "Dark Blue" by: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

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Say "your" piece on this segment.

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---- "BABABLUETANGO" by: "ALESSIO ZARA" http://www.alessiozara.com/

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Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Jupiter Blue" by: "after touch" http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html

Main Topic: "Self-diagnosis and other difficulties."

You know I have some real problems with self-diagnosis.

Its worse than representing yourself in court, where you have a jackass for a lawyer and an ass-hole for a client.

We often know better than we can describe what our symptoms are, but are they the symptoms or are they the symptoms of something deeper...

The issue is that MS affects the Central Nervous System. (Its an auto-immune disease but our nervous system is the thing under erroneous attack [When its our joints, we call that some form or other of "arthritis".])

As such we can't trust what our body is actually telling us. (Phantom sensation)

Nor can we trust that it will hear what we tell it and then do what we thought we told it to do. (Spasticity)

---- "Blue Days" by: "2AM" http://www.2amband.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

Another complication about diagnosing MS is that MDs, even specialists, are full of knowledge but they are not necessarily any better at thinking than we are.

They expect the patients to describe their symptoms and then they apply "heuristics" (that's a fancy Greek word for "rules of thumb",) to treat the symptoms they heard described.

But they are human beings like the rest of us and not used to, (or in some cases, not capable of,) dealing with unintentional misdirection.

The result is all those friggin' misdiagnoses.

Here's another fancy Greek word: "Stochastic". That means "Guessing".

I would suspect that the average MD is like the average human being in that he really doesn't like to guess at anything (He's got the degrees to "know" what's wrong, right?) As such, he makes a lousy diagnostician.

What's wrong with us, with MS, is "never" reflected in our symptoms.

(I can just imagine walking into a clinic and telling a doctor that I am having trouble with a lesion in my lower brain. The doctor would look at me, nod gravely, make sympathetic noises, and whisper to the guys with the valium and the rough white coat with the long sleeves and leather straps to stand by ... close by.)

Because of MS's differential functionality in an algebraic world, having MS sucks from the ground up.

Its a bitch to describe because there are no directly describable symptoms.

It requires diagnosis from a professional neurologist.

---- "BLUE" by: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/

Outro

msb-0163 Johnny Nicholas

msb-0163 Johnny Nicholas

intro

Through the wonder that is the PMN, the Posdsafe Music Network, I just discovered a blues artist that I just "love".

----"Sleeping With the Devil" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

There's isn't any.

We'll see if that situation remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

I have now reached over 12,000 downloads, so I know that people are downloading the shows...

---- "Mandolin Boogie" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

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---- "Phonograph Blues" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Johnnys Deathray Boogie" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

Main Topic: "Johnny Nicholas"

From the bio for the album "Broke Again":

"Since the mid-Sixties, Johnny Nicholas has been playing the blues from both coasts, as well as points in between. During that time he has enjoyed apprenticeships with some of the music's most revered names, and he has taken a decade-long hiatus to raise a family and build up its Hill Top Café in the Central Texas Hill Country."

Yeah.

This guy's got the chops to play the blues; know what I mean?

---- "Teardrops On My Windowpane" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

He's got lots of music out on "Top Cat Records" [ http://topcatrecords.com/catalog.htm ] and if ever somebody deserved to be heard, its him.

If you too like what he's got to play and like the licks and riffs the man is laying down, go to "Top Cat Records" [ http://topcatrecords.com/catalog.htm ] and buy his albums.

He's got four albums there:

• "Broke again,"
• "Livin' With the Blues,"
• "Thrill on the Hill,"
• "Rockin' my Blues to Sleep."

If you want to read the liner notes to know who "Floyd" is and who are some of the other collaborators on the albums I've featured on this episode, like the woman who sings on this next, last song, you should go and buy the albums. :-)

---- "Woke Up Screamin" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

"Johnny Nicholas", you da man!

Outro

msb-0162 Momentary Lapses

msb-0162 Momentary Lapses

intro

----"Wind Song" by: "Trespass" http://www.trespassband.net/

Feedback comes first, so...

Miss Chris wrote a comment on "msb-0164 Self-diagnosis and other difficulties", (I know that were not there yet on the podcasts, but she was responding to my blog [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ] which has about a week's worth of my scribblings done before I do my 'casts,) in which she was lamenting the general level of ignorance about MS in the "medical profession and even among neurologists".

I think I'll do the casts and let you reach your own conclusions. :-(

---- "Wind" by: "Second Story" http://www.second-story.net/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

We'll see if that silence remains the same after my ad for MSBPodcast.com appears in "MS Insider" :-)

---- "Vientos del Norte / Northern Winds" by: "Los Dorados" http://www.losdorados.info/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

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---- "Broken Windbreak" by: "Kwyjibo" http://www.acmerecords.com/kwyjibo.php

Main Topic: "Momentary Lapses"

One of the most annoying, and worrisome, and irritating and sometime traumatic aspects of MS is its seemingly mysterious appearance and disappearance from the lives of MSers.

Its a differential calculus where the symptoms are a derivative function in our otherwise algebraic lives.

Its phantom pain and spasticity, (cross-talk and modulation distortion,) caused by the frayed cabling we call our nervous system and by the lesions in our brains.

I was out for dinner yesterday, (Saturday June 9th, 2007) celebrating the graduation of a friend who just received her master's degree. ("'Mazletov' Lizzie!")

When walking back, slowly, from the restaurant to the subway station, I had plenty of time to think about what effect this was having on my mobility.

I mean ... everything worked, my legs are fit, my balance was fine, my muscles are healthy, my bones are all unbroken and unbowed0

So what seems to be the problem? (Why couldn't I just walk at my old pace? [What is it with this slow, plodding, walk? {Its not like there was anything physically wrong... (Yet here I was, staggering under an imaginary weight.)}])

The answer to this dilemma is of course that its a "derivative problem".

I have some lesions in my brain, "in my brain", that interfere with my ability to send the thought ("move me [from here to] there") and turning them into volitional signals ("move the legs in this manner") from my brain to my nervous system.

It also turns out that the brain structure, the, for want of a better term, nerves, affected by scarring ("sclera") also have some incoming effects.

Somewhere between my feet and my consciousness, some nerve signals are now now always reporting that my feet are cold and, uh, ill defined.

Driving now requires me to check the position of my feet every so often to get visual confirmation of their position on the pedals and reinforce my sense of "soma" or body image. They are always where I left them, on the pedals, but I now avoid routes like the "Pulaski Skyway" which require more neural finesse that I feel comfortable mustering up.

---- "Wind Cries the Blues" by: "Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

The severity of the effects, the spasticity and the phantom noise, aren't constant. They depend on the amount of "thermal noise" the nervous system is experiencing.

That's is why we "need" air conditioning. Being in a cold room is a necessity if we're going to have to move around with any speed and/or grace.

And it doesn't stop there.

I remember one MSer I met in Ottawa who was in a real bind. He was forever feeling that he had to go to the bathroom. Even right after going, he felt that he had to go again, or still.

The configuration of his "sclera" was such that he was getting "neural reports" to his consciousness that his bladder was full, even when it couldn't possibly be because he'd just emptied it.

Man ... That must have been "annoying." (I have occasionally experienced the same symptom, but it was usually after a couple of beers or a couple of glasses of wine, so I usually was relaxed enough not to let it get to me as I used the conversation with friends to focus my attention away from my bodily functions.)

---- "When the Winds Die Down" by: "Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Outro

msb-0161 Latin Beats

msb-0161 Latin Beats

intro

This episode features all Spanish music.

There's method to my sudden madness.

(Okay, its not so sudden. People have been saying I'm as "mad as a hatter" for years. :-)

----"Breezer" by: "easyflow" http://www.easyflowmusic.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

My home server has gotten updated so that I can accept files from my contributors. At least its working for me but there seems to be some problems with the FTP clients on their machines which has to be solved though. (I also bought a UPS which will take care of some fragility problems, updated the Linux to use the newest kernel and a whole bunch of software. Man my room temperature box is running "HOT!")

On other news; my show is showing a definite uptake from within PodSchow.com [ http://www.podshow.com ].

For some reason, (okay, its because I don't beat people over the head with MS, but I do feature well put together shows,) people seem to appreciate the shows and the music selections.

---- "La Salsa" by: "Don Betto" http://www.donbetto.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.

---- "Cada Dia" by: "Josh Lopez" http://www.joshlopez.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Vencedora" by: "Jessica Smith-Wright" http://www.jessicasmithwright.org/

Main Topic: "Latin Beats"

I'm still on the look out for international contributors who want to get into podcasting.

I'm willing to pay for a USB mike and podcasting software for French, German and Spanish speaking people (with MS of course) and host their shows on MSBPodcast so they get picked up on iTunes and the share in free subscriptions we are able to pick up from any advertising f orMSBPodcast. (I'm even willing to share my format, convert their 'casts from MP3 to m4a so that they can have some verifiable way to out any MS related ads in their own languages.)

The MSer support group meeting was last Wednesday (yesterday as I write this) and one of the topics of conversation was about how hard it is to do outreach to the Spanish communitiy because, while we may be united by a common disease, we are separated by language.

---- "Bay of Pigs" by: "rough sax" http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomroughsax

Main Topic, part deux:

There's a world of music out there and a world of MSers whom we should be serving in our own way by giving them music and hope (As in "I hope that this or that product, therapy, good or service works for you to alleviate this disease and its symptoms".)

We can't depend on mass media to even tell us the truth with the news, never mind about stuff specifically for us MSers, (since we're a really niche market with only 0.0833% of the mass market out there.)

This podcast is my own answer to this need.

"Note to potential advertisers:"

I like Adam Curry's recent realization about podcasting. I'm paraphrasing rather than quoting here but:

Think of "pod-casting" as a sort of "Internet Radio" (the "'casting" part) which puts the audience in control of the where (the "p" in "pod"is short for "portable",) and of the when, (the "od" in "pod" is short for "on-demand" .)

They can "tune it in", whenever they want to, where ever they happen to be, using whatever device/delivery mechanism they like.

MSBPodcast can have text (in pdf files,) pictures (in jpeg files,) audio (in mp3 & m4a files,) and/or video (in m4v & m4p files) with URL links to an advertiser's web site, delivered to the audience's desktops or to their mp3 players (like Apple's iPod, or the Zen Stone, or the Sandisk Sansa Express, or the Cowon D2, or Samsung's YP-T9J.)

Unlike broadcast radio, where your message falls on deaf ears far more often than not, the audience is "self-selecting".

The ads are reaching "only" people who are interested.

The advertising model used on this podcast guarantees you that you only pay for "actual hits", unlike paying for broadcast media where the audience may be otherwise engaged and not paying attention to your message or not be interested at that moment.

---- "Tango In F" by: "rough sax" http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomroughsax

Outro

msb-0160 Unforgettable Mess

msb-0160 Unforgettable mess

intro

----"Taxi Driver" by: "Bus Stop Stallions" http://www.busstopstallions.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

In "msb-0157 The FuMP, just for fun" I wrote that I didn't like musical theater.

That's not quite right.

I can truly appreciate when its done it its proper setting; that means in a theater, with actors who can sing or singers who can act.

(Not with people who are merely doing something like my wife's cousin and her husband do, which I must say I am quite ambivalent about

[I mean they're obviously having a lot of fun doing it, {but I'd hardly want to be subjected to their caterw.., uh, singing, (yeah ... lets be kind and call it singing,) on a regular basis.}])

When its just audio and out of the setting, the context, without the rest of the experience, it can be disconcerting (an apt choice of word :-) since the experience that they are reliving is not a shared one.

(There... I've "explained myself" ... satisfied? :-)

---- "Tramp Taxi" by: "Bramboline" http://www.bramboline.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.

---- "Black Galactic Taxicab" by: "Alex Brumel" http://www.alexbrumel.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "BAJA TAXI" by: "BRAIN BUCKIT" http://www.brain-buckit.com/

Main Topic: "Unforgettable Mess"

Back on "msb-0154 Memories" I wrote/spoke that we transfer things from short term memory to long term memory using a very simple structure in the lower brain.

As it turns out the New Scientist has an article [ http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11983&feedId=online-news_rss20 ] "Forgetfulness is a tool of the brain" which confirms the process and provides a reason for it:

"Whenever you’re engaging in remembering, the brain adapts. It’s constantly re-weighting memories," says Kuhl. "... we see it reverse memory to weaken competing memories. This is something that probably happens a lot in the real world."

A good example is the confusion that arises when we change passwords on our computers or email accounts. We often mix up old and new passwords at first, but through repetition we develop a strong memory of the new password and forget the old one.

"The process of forgetting serves a good functional purpose," says Michael Anderson of the University of Oregon, US, who was not involved in the study. "What these guys have done is clearly establish the neurobiological basis for this process."

Memory is an active thing, which might be why I am always forgetting people's names.

The people have changed in my perceptions of them since the first time I initially heard their name.

(Okay. I'll admit that its a cop-out for me because I'm always forgetting people's names as long as I am just learning about them.

[That's why I write such good emails. It's a way of getting people's names in "muscle memory," which gives me another path to recalling their monikers. As long as my memories of people keep changing, {which is what really happens when you first meet them,} I really have to come up with alternate neural pathways to "retrieve/recall" their names,

{like "Christine" who is the head of my MS support group, as opposed to names of childhood friends, like to "Jose Peto," whom I haven't seen in many, many decades and who's neural representation of his name hasn't changed since grade school because that's when we lost track of each other.}])

---- "Lime Green Taxi" by: "Cassandra Kubinski" http://www.ckubinski.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

Now if only I could "stop" remembering every embarrassing, dumb, bone-headed thing I've ever done in my life.

Then again, it informs me and usually doesn't clutter my judgment that badly and may even stop me from putting my foot too deep in my mouth.

I guess its all good.

Being "eloquent with rage" might be very satisfying to the soul, but its very unsatisfying to the bank account, or to the cash flow. Plus you get a reputation as a "hot head."

---- "Born in a taxi" by: "Blk Sonshine" http://awol.objector.org/artistprofiles/blksonshine.html

Outro

msb-0159 Platinum Blue

msb-0159 Platinum Blue

intro

----"We Could Be Currys" by: "Crush" http://www.crushland.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

I just [Saturday June, 02, 2007] caught "Minority Report" on "ABC".

It was so chopped up with ads as to be almost unwatchable.

It was such a derisive edition that it was pathetic.

At the most climactic moments I was subjected to pizza ads; "pizza!"

Followed by "BINGO!"

And television wouldn't exist without the car companies.

How in the ever loving name of the "fuck" are you supposed to maintain continuity with complete and utter "crap" like that?

I promise you I will "NEVER" do that to my audience.

The ads all go at the end, all together with their own chapters, images and web links.

I am an aggregator, a reluctant DJ. I'm not a butcher.

I scour the podsafe music network to find songs that I hope will relieve the tedium of life in a world where some people would think so little of you as to broadcast stuff at you that is chopped up and interrupted by such utter and absolute "CRAP."

I also promise to my advertisers that I will never treat their their information with such cavalier disregard of their content.

Oh, and do you know what I remember of the ads on that show?

Only that they were "annoying".

---- "Tomorrow" by: "Tipping - Marucci - Dube" http://cdbaby.com/cd/tippingmaruccidube

Feed Forward comes next, so...

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Say "your" piece on this segment.

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MDMHvonPA's shares his "Roundup of the blog-o-sphere" with us.

MDMHvonPA's Roundup 2007-06-05

It's been quite some time since I've had any time to make a pass at a roundup. The forces of the universe tend to act against me in ways that are completely undefinable. Whao ... serious déjà vu! But I swear, this type of thing NEVER gets in the way of my hobbies. Heh, I should go back and see how many weekends I complain about how it was too hot or too rainy to mow the lawn. A nice ven diagram of my topics and the bleed between posts would probably be rather pedantic. Weather, gardening, lawn-mowing. I suppose substituting leaf-raking or snow-blowing for lawn-mowing as weather dictates would be ok. The incipient kvetching will continue until further notice.

Speaking of snow, I understand that Linda is having a bit of a heat-wave over at Brain-Cheese. [ http://brain-cheese.blogspot.com/2007/06/never-so-happy-to-hear-it-rain.html ] She does mention that her previous life in the warmer climes had given her the steel temper to match that of the demons from the lowest planes of hades, but her new Blue State environs do not usually let the local thermostat vary much between the 45-75 zone. The fact that we here in the swamplands of the Haupertonian Heatsink had 45 in the morning and 85 in the afternoon would have driven much of her fellow Emerald City Edenites swoon. Go over and offer her a glass of mint julip.

Zoom down south a thousand miles or so and you'll notice a slight warming trend. Not that Miss Hot-Hot-Hot Stuff Chris [ http://azchick.blogspot.com/ ] would notice. What? 120 degrees in the shade? The sun wearing Bermuda shorts and whisking sweat from it's brow? Burr, get me a jacket! And just because it's not quite toasty enough for her, she takes a vacation to temperate Las Vegas!? Now granted, most of that town is covered with a gigantic Tupperware lid and air conditioned to preserve the clients in a semi-cryogenic state (just mobile enough to pull those levers and play keno), but JEEZE!? I hear if you stand still on the streets of Vegas, if you wait long enough you will sink into the asphalt and become one with the town. Nova Scotia anyone?

A bit closer to EST, YodaMomma [ http://yodamamma.blogspot.com/2007/06/bugz.html ] is also in a cooler world, but must contend with the insectoid invasion that comes along with a more temperate clime. I too encountered a tick this past weekend with was quickly pointed out by one of the Tyrants and disposed of in a rather brutal and final manner. Lyme disease; no thank you - I've already got a heaping plate of hurtin'. And I certainly hope that her 'tater bugs stay put up there in the hinterlands. My own taters are doing just fine and have not been exposed to those fiends. Sure, the weather is nice up there, but man, the resident fauna is not to be envied!

Scan a bit more to the East and you find yourself in the back-yard of the FOB (Forward Operation Base: Ithaca, NY). Pat at the MS Companion [ http://mscompanion.blogspot.com/2007/06/update-at-star-gazette.html ] is struggling under the icy glare of the Glassy corporate eye. Not so much the chill of a bitter NE spring morning, but the even greater freezing effect of a stone-cold corporate entity squeezing a few more drops of blood out of a dessicated turnip. Funny about the printing.paper-media industry, they are all for the little-man so long as the little guy is not working for them. Pat, I'm sorry for your situation there ... some times living on the cusp of a change in the social dynamic just is not fair. Bop on over and give her a morale boost, we all could use one every so often.



...

So, how is the weather in your neck of the woods?


---- "Mysterious World" by: "IF" http://soundclick.com/ifusa

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Gone" by: "Black Lab" http://www.blacklabworld.com/

Main Topic: "Platinum Blue"

I was catching up on my podcasts of "Science Friday"with "Ira Flatow", and they were having a show on musical analysis algorithms.

The company "Platinum Blue" [ http://www.platinumblueinc.com/ ] has a music analysis tool, Music Xray [ http://www.platinumblueinc.com/tabid/53/Default.aspx ], that can take a song and tell the music producer if they have a "hit" on their hands.

It analyzes the music to detect some sixty characteristics. (The actual mixture of factors and the actual factors are proprietary and closely held.)

Its based on a wide range of music from classical to country to rap and has an analysis of all sixty factors from thousands of individual "hits."

It says nothing about the actual creativity in the piece.

Okay, this might be a disaster for the "bland"-izing of music, "or" it could be a tool for musicians out there to know how to tweak the arrangement of their music to figure out the actual parameters of their music to make it better for them and better for us all of us listeners.

They could turn merely good songs into what we call "hits."

---- "Bajoran Sunrize" by: "King Midas" http://www.waynebo.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

I have always believed that there were some things about music, some mathematical properties, that are linked to our ears and how we process sound in our ears, how we transform that sound into neural impulses and how we interpret it.

(You just "know" I'm linking this to our neurons and their MS induced cross-talk and harmonic distortion and noise. [Lord knows its fucked my career as a guitarist {while improving it in some ways.}] :-)

I believe in the computational power of the human brain and the influence of music, hell our near obsession with music, on our intellect.

If you're interested in the subject, try reading "Music and Memory" by Bob Snyder, ISBN-13:
978-0-262-69237-3 [ http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3699 ]

They have a whole lot [ http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/default.asp?cid=46&pcid=2 ] of books on the subject.

You might also want to check out the Computer Music Journal [ http://204.151.38.11/cmj/ ] from MIT press.

Some last words...

The music they call "hits" now was almost universally reviled when it was first heard.

They had riots in Paris over the first performances of Ravel's Bolero.

Likewise over the performances of Beethoven's works.

And Chuck's Bery's and Jerry Lee Lewis's performances were definitely "not" appreciated nor well received by the parent's of the fans.

Does the computational analysis tool tell you anything about that?

---- "Variation On Bolero" by: "theStark" http://thestark.com/

Outro

msb-0158 Aaron English

msb-0158 Aaron English

intro

----"Like Smoke" by: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

I'm just shutting up and letting you enjoy the music.

---- "Very Very Heavy" by: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.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.

---- "Animals Like Us" by: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Deep Blue Quiet Places" by: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/

Main Topic: "Aaron English"

I love this singer/song writer.

Its like listening to a "Peter Gabriel". Its the same kind of vibe.

His bio says:

"Seattle-based piano-man and singer-songwriter Aaron English, with his seven-piece band, plays sophisticated, world-beat-influenced pop-rock."

His site has a review that puts it better than I can:

"...a talented new artist in a class with other stylistically challenging singer-songwriters such as Peter Gabriel, Joseph Arthur and Perry Blake... potent lyricism, eloquence, and beautiful sublime melodies that reach much deeper than simple pop songs..."
- Mark Newman, Progression Magazine

Man.

This is what song writing and music crafting is "supposed" to be.

---- "Mandeleine" by: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

Go to his web site, (the links are "hot" [clickable] on the show, and they're in the lyrics tab in iTunes, and on the show notes at http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ and at http://www.MSBPodcast.com ) and buy the whole album.

"The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon" will blow you away, and there are others albums there as well.

---- "The Lullaby of Loneliness" by: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/

Outro

msb-0157 The FuMP, just for fun.

msb-0157 The FuMP, just for fun.

intro

----"Tom Smith - Tech Support For Dad" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Feedback comes first, so...

This show is also distributed over the Podsafe Music Network (at msb.podshow.com ) and I have had a few hits coming from there.

I feel quite satisfied about that.

My commercial/economic model isn't affected by this in the least since my show makes reference to the actual sources I want to refer the audience to.

The more ways I have to reach an audience of MSers, the better for me (and hopefully for you too. When this takes off, we can "all" benefit from getting information we "need". :-)

I'm going to help "Herrad" and from "Homer" by putting their shows together in m4a format, with chapters, images and URLs blended into their MP3s.

I'll also be able to add links to their ad content that way so they can start running ads to MS related products and therapies.

---- "Tom Smith - EULA Dancing" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers what ever "you" want.

Drop me an email: charles (at) MSBPodcadst.com.

Oh, there is this quote I found while mucking through /. [http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=237001&cid=19352707]

Its by Lawrence Kubie:

"The measure of health is flexibility, the freedom to learn from experience...to be influenced by reasonable arguments...and especially the freedom to cease when sated.

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns."

I guess, MS not withstanding, that I'm healthy.

Speaking of freezing things...

---- "Tom Smith - Hyperspace Cryogenic Insomnia Blues" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

The ads will all run at the "end" of a show and have their own m4a chapters with images and links to a full ad on my site or click-through to their own sites. (That will also be going through my site so that they can be properly tracked for any references I provide.)

You, my gentle MSers, shouldn't be bothered by any of this. You can opt to listen to these or turn off early (and possibly go back and find these later when "you" decide that you're interested.)

So...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Sudden Death - World Robot Domination" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Main Topic: "The FuMP, just for fun."

Sometimes, I put together shows for my own amusement.

I like some stuff just because I need some fun, and I got a lot of giggles putting this show together.

This is partly because I'd go nuts sitting around trying not to feel miserable and partly because I find stuff that's funny.

I also find stuff that I want to scrape off of my shoe, (but you you're not subjected to those. :-)

Then again, there's a lot of stuff that gets into our email-boxes that really shouldn't ever get there.

---- "Tom Smith -The Most Trusted Man In Nigeria" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Main Topic, part deux:

"The FuMP" is an acronym that stands for "The Funny Music Project".

From their bio on the PMN (Podsafe Music Network) I can tell you that's its:

"Rob Balder. Possible Oscar. Raymond and Scum. The Great Luke Ski. Tom Smith. Sudden Death. Carla Ulbrich. Worm Quartet. And some of their crazy friends. We are The FuMP -- The Funny Music Project. And we're redefining comedy music, twice a week!"

Comedy music, as opposed to musical comedy, which usually is neither musical nor comedic.

I like what these "Guys and Dolls" are doing (and I promise you that that was the last reference to a musical comedy that I will make...maybe... :-)

And what show about humor would be complete without a reference to the most essential(?) but most reviled group of individuals in existence.

---- "Lullaby for Lawyers" by: "Steve Newman & Friends" http://www.britishsongs.com/

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