msb-0346 Banjo
Rocket Science Banjo - Julie Ann Johnson
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Dan Levenson,banjo camp
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First Look Inside (Kalimba Video)
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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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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...
I'm having fun playing the three show a week of classical music but every now and again, I just need to hear some real music played by real people.
This show is all about one of the realest instruments I can imagine.
More complex than just singing, blowing rattling on and beating on some drums.
I'll grant you that you can get some wonderful melodies out of some Kalimba and Mbira thumb pianos, (listen and watch video number 3,) but I'm feeling like banjos today.
It don't get more honest than the banjo.
---- "Clarinet Polka" by: "anonymous" http://www.msbpodcast.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"
---- "Banjo Roids" by: "ATL Producers" http://www.atlproducers.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.
---- Banjo Strings Promo by: " Larry Winfield" http://www.larrywinfield.com/
---- "Banjo Etudes, Vol I" by: "The Negatones" http://www.negatones.com/
"Thesis:"
Sometimes I get a hankering to hear some honest music.
Specially because I about to talk about something really unpleasant.
The financial sector is really unpleasant.
The people in it are some of the nicest people you'd wanna meet.
Its the financial sector itself, as an enterprise, which is immoral, amoral and proctological.
I worked in it for thirty years so I know the kind of group mind-fuck that happens to all who practice it.
The only thing I know of that worse is the job of tax collector and the toll it can exact on the souls of those who do it.
its the kind of job that marks you for failure, either at the job or as a human being.
Banking is like that and for the same reasons.
---- "Ol Time Banjo - Co Labs - Huber+Hart" by: "51bpm" http://www.51bpm.com/
"Synthesis:"
The financial market are melting down and we're stuck going back to the mid-eighties in terms of personal wealth.
Why?
Because they didn't stop extending credit to themselves until it was way too late and they'd bought too much of their own bullshit.
Its got nothing to do with us as people. Its got nothing to do with them as people either.
Well maybe a bit more to do with them because they're the ones who loaned out TRILLIONS on, uh, mistaken assumptions simply because they could. (The bond and other financial instrument rating agencies should all be run out of town, because they deserve it.)
The regulation wheels fell of the bicycle and they proved that they weren't mature enough to handle it properly. They rode off the road and into a swamp.
The financial system is built on trust and none of them are trust worthy.
The financial system is built out of currency, manipulation and barely honest dealings.
The problems started back in the mid to late eighties (yup, Reaganism and trickle-down was just about as sound a financial policy as "Just Say No" was a sound drug policy, [and a AIDS prevention policy. {Ronny and Nancy have the blood of "millions" on their hands.}])
Springtime in America wasn't. It was just snowing twice as hard on the people who weren't rich enough to be in the "In Crowd." and out of the blowing storm.
Poverty became something anecdotal in America, not because there weren't any poor, (there were millions back then and there's millions more now.)
Poverty was anecdotal because it wasn't the kind of news that you were supposed, or were going to be allowed, to read.
The ruling clique, the non-governmental cabal was in complete control of the media by then.
They'd spin what ever bad news managed to leak out into glorious peans to our elected leaders.
Hope you were going somewhere in the mid -eighties because you're headed exactly there again.
Forget about the fancy houses, the fancy cars, the fancy sex you had since then, 'cause boy you're fucked now, an' they aint' nothin' fancy about it.
---- "Banjo Boy" by: "Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand" http://www.shupe.net/
"Conclusion:"
We'll just see what happens.
Will we ever go back to being some corporation's wage slaves, under threat from every knuckle head with explosives strapped to his ass who's threatening to blow himself up and take our oil supply with him?
Or are we going to wise up and tell the financial markets to kiss our butts goodbye, tell the oil companies to kiss our butts goodbye and tie them all up in the internet's shining glass fibers, and leave them by the curb, with the other trash.
---- "Naked Under Leather" by: "Rubber Band Banjo " http://www.rubberbandbanjo.com/
Outro
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Sunday, December 07, 2008
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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.
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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 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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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!
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Things are looking up.
My podcasting résumé 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 Peter’s!
Don’t 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
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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
"Coppélia: Festive Dance & Waltz Of The Hours" by "Léo 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: "Frédéric 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 & Cortège De Bacchus" by: "Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira
"The Red Poppy, Opus 70: Phoenix & Russian Sailor's Dance" by: "Reinhold Glière" 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
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.
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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 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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 résumé 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 Peter’s!
Don’t 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
"Coppélia: Festive Dance & Waltz Of The Hours" by "Léo 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: "Frédéric 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 & Cortège De Bacchus" by: "Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira
"The Red Poppy, Opus 70: Phoenix & Russian Sailor's Dance" by: "Reinhold Glière" 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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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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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, "Pathétique" - 2. Adagio Cantabile" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp
"Sérénade mélancolique, 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
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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, "Pathétique" - 2. Adagio Cantabile" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp
"Sérénade mélancolique, 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
Monday, December 01, 2008
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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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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
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/
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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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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.
----
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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Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
----
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: "Frédéric 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
"Tannhäuser: 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: " Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp
"Minute Waltz" by: "Frédéric Chopin" 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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
----
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: "Frédéric 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
"Tannhäuser: 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: " Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp
"Minute Waltz" by: "Frédéric Chopin" 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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spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
----
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 "Frédéric 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 Dvorák" 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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
----
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 "Frédéric 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 Dvorák" 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
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Oops! I'm over my limit at LibSyn.
Oops! I'm over my limit at LibSyn.
The audio for
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I'm also taking off until next week.
Happy Thanks Giving...
The audio for
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I'm also taking off until next week.
Happy Thanks Giving...
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YouTube ->
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?"
----
"Unconscious Thoughts" by "Absolution Project" http://www.absolutionproject.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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 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...
----
"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
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0006.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_000.m4a
YouTube ->
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?"
----
"Unconscious Thoughts" by "Absolution Project" http://www.absolutionproject.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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 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...
----
"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
Friday, November 21, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0021
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0021
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0021.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0021.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
----
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 Dvořák" 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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0021.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0021.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
----
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 Dvořák" 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
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
wspc_P34kO1l_0005
wspc_P34kO1l_0005
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0005.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0005.m4a
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"
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0005.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0005.m4a
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"
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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"
Monday, November 17, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0020
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0020
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0020.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0020.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 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'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"
----
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.
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0020.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0020.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 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'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"
----
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.
----
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
Friday, November 14, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0019
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0019
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0019.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0019.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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, 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 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?
----
"Fanfare for the Common Man" by ""Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
'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?
----
"West Side Story: Scherzo and America" by "Leonard Bernstein" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
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.
----
"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
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?
----
"Rhapsody in Blue" by "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
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.
----
"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.
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0019.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0019.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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, 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 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?
----
"Fanfare for the Common Man" by ""Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
'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?
----
"West Side Story: Scherzo and America" by "Leonard Bernstein" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
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.
----
"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
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?
----
"Rhapsody in Blue" by "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's Thyme Warp.
----
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.
----
"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.
----
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
Thursday, November 13, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0018
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0018
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0018.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0018.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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, 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'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
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0018.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0018.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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, 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'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
----
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
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
wspc_P34kO1l_0004
wspc_P34kO1l_0004
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0004.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0004.m4a
YouTube ->
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
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 ± 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.
----
"Addicted to oil" by "Mr. Tunes"
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 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.
----
"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"©™® is, right up until they take "The Great Leader"©™® 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 ©™®" 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?"
----
"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
----
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"
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0004.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0004.m4a
YouTube ->
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
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 ± 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.
----
"Addicted to oil" by "Mr. Tunes"
----
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.
They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.
If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.
So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”
Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s 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 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.
----
"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"©™® is, right up until they take "The Great Leader"©™® 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 ©™®" 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?"
----
"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
----
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"
Monday, November 10, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0017
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0017
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0017.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0017.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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, 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.
----
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
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0017.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0017.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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, 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.
----
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
----
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
Thursday, November 06, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0016
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0016
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0016.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0016.m4a
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.
-----
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.
----
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, 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'Université de Laval" inches north of Montréal. (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
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0016.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0016.m4a
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.
-----
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.
----
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, 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'Université de Laval" inches north of Montréal. (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
----
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
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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:
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.
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.
- 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,)
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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