spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0006
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0006.m4a
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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.
It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.
The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
---- ""
We got PSAs:
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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
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Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com
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Intro
Today we have a special treat.
I'm going to play an episode of the MSBPodcast that I did about a chat with a fellow MSer by the name of "Hillary Rubin"
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msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.
I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.
---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.
But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
"Thesis:"
As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.
I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.
Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.
Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.
You'll get to meet her after this next song.
---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
"Synthesis:"
Give me a break folks.
You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.
Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.
---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
"Conclusion:"
So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.
(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,
I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".
And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.
Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)
But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.
---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
Outro
----
Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
Song list
"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
----
Photo Credits:
All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)
----
Books:
go to by books page at
http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations
----
Links:
Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/
This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/
The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388
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You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or
email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
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Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
Monday, March 30, 2009
msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin
msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.
I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek [ http://twitter.com/YoGeek ] who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.
---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.
But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
"Thesis:"
As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.
I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.
Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.
Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.
You'll get to meet her after this next song.
---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
"Synthesis:"
Give me a break folks.
You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.
Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.
---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
"Conclusion:"
So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.
(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,
I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".
And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.
Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)
But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.
---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
Outro
----
Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
Song list
"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
----
Photo Credits:
All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)
----
Books:
go to by books page at
http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations
----
Links:
Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/
This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/
The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388
----
You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or
email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.
I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek [ http://twitter.com/YoGeek ] who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.
---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.
But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
"Thesis:"
As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.
I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.
Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.
Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.
You'll get to meet her after this next song.
---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
"Synthesis:"
Give me a break folks.
You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.
Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.
---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
"Conclusion:"
So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.
(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,
I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".
And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.
Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)
But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.
---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
Outro
----
Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
Song list
"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
----
Photo Credits:
All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)
----
Books:
go to by books page at
http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations
----
Links:
Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/
This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/
The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388
----
You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or
email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
Friday, March 13, 2009
wspc_P34kO1l_0013
wspc_P34kO1l_0012
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0012.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..
Never let on that you know what's coming.
---- "Magic GB Jazz" by: "AjT" http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=Album+de+Alain&st=album
Thesis:
This is a speech meant to persuade.
Although that implies that there would be some mode of thought that might imply some debate which would imply that I might wrong about the stance I took.
I seriously doubt that there can be any such error because I am reacting to any discoveries and adapting in kind, but not in direction, to any new facts which arise.
I am not going to try to persuade you of the correctness of my approach since I took the only approach that I saw as solving the most problems, including some that weren't anticipated in the least by the people who originally informed my own opinions about peak oil.
I have also drawn from my own experience. as well as the fractional ones evinced by the same people I have been studying.
Unlike most debaters and most debates, I am the first to admit that things are not black or white.
Heck, that aren't even gray. I'm overseeing over the construction of a rainbow.
Inductive reasoning, wherein I acquire facts and opinions in order to generate something more generic from the specifics, is tightly coupled with deductive reasoning, wherein I am attempting to test the rules as revealed to me in the first place.
I do these kinds of reasoning in order to come up with a suitable yet sufficiently open-ended kind of syllogism, or logical appeal, to solve the conundrums raised by peak oil. ([Greek: συλλογισμός — "conclusion," "inference"], [usually the categorical syllogism)] which can form a kind of logical argument in which one proposition [the conclusion] is inferred from two others [the premises] of a certain form. Thank Wikipedia for the actual definition: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism ])
I am now well aware of the 256 rules for crafting syllogisms. (Many of which don't apply here.)
Of course, I am "not" constructing any syllogisms because they are too fractional and would require a level of problem decomposition too fine to be useful at this stage.
In that respect I am actively guilty of treading on the logic of my argument in the same way that I always accused database analyst of always mashing separate and distinct objects together instead of respecting the articulations presented by the inter-object relationships. "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."
---- "Frogmouth" by: Bift http://amiestreet.com/music/bift/bift/frogmouth
Synthesis:
I achieved my understanding of peak oil by thinking of it not as a thing, or even as a series of things, of "if then" rules, but by thinking of it as a process, more specifically as a mathematical function of two intersecting curves.
The arguments for and against peak oil are illusory. They refer to specific instances none of which argue for or against peak oil but instead refer to degrees of the event of peak oil.
Peak oil consists of two intersecting curves, one of demand and the other one of supply.
The game of peak oil consists of reacting properly to the motion of the curves along the horizontal axis of oil and the vertical axis of price, and to the motion of their point of intersection which is the price point and its also where demand creation and demand destruction meet.
There's nothing to argue with. Its just two horizontally moving curves, one high-y sloping down to low-y and the other one low-y climbing up to high-y.
Like "Foghorn Leghorn"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn ] once famously said, "I say, I say ... you can argue with me son, but you cain't argue with mathematics."
Now the implications of the motion of the two curves are the rapidly rising and falling price of oil, and the steady trend upwards as supplies fall over the next century, world-wide.
Guys, remember taking your date out in your jalopy telling the gas jockey to "fill her up" while holding your arm over the roof line, out of eye shot of your date, and holding up one finger per dollar you actually wanted him to pour into the tank.
Of course not. You're probably all too young.
Since the seventies, its been a pose with both hands held up in supplication, tendering your wallet to the one armed bandit at the pump.
Some horizontal slides of the supply curve have never slid back to the position they originally held.
What's fun is that as supply destruction takes hold, just by OPEC withholding their oil, before the demand can react to the new equilibrium, the price at the pump jumps up vertiginously.
(Remember the summer of 2008, with $4.00+ price at the pump. Its got to do with the lag time between supply pricing and demand adjustments. Its even out of the hands of OPEC. The price went up immediately because the oil companies weren't going to do "you" any favors. OPEC upped the supply and even dropped their price but it takes even longer for the greed to dissipate. They weren't going to benefit by charging you less, now were they?)
So what do we have left to disagree about?
What direction we want the avalanche to fall? (Yeah ... You stand there... You wait... You get buried... I'm running, Jack. With my cane I need to take a good long time 'cause I'm not interested in playing "Frosty The Snowman.")
---- "Gunslinger" by: "Danny Weis" http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Spot-Danny-Weis/dp/B000CA91D0
We got PSAs:
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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
---- "If I Had One Wish" by: "DJ Suicide" http://www.crossphade.com/press.html
Synthesis Part Deux
As I asked before: "What have got left to disagree about?"
The shape of the world that will emerge from this lubricious debacle is up to us, entirely up to us.
If we do nothing things are going to change anyway and I can bet you that we won't like the change, because, like the Red Queen said, "It takes all the running I can do to stay in the same place."
So we're going to face a challenge.
How can we face it with the minimum amount of effort for the maximum benefit. Or we can be bull headed and suddenly discover that there's only three hundred and sixty million of us and there are nineteen times as many people competing for oil.
Oh and by the way we can forget about buying oil from Venezuela. The Chinese already have dibs on it. While we weren't looking, they've been turning all the foreign assets and debt that we've been forcing on them into hard currency and buying everything all over the planet with our own fiscal instruments.
Was Wal*Mart good for America?
Not only did we decimate our own production capacity by off-shoring everything, not only did we wreck our commercial infrastructure by building these huge soulless identical box stores where we all bought the same identical crap no matter what, but we sent all of that money to Asia to do it.
Now they hold so much of our debt that we've basically screwed the pooch.
If we're stupid enough not to get off the barrel, we can look forward to paying much, much more for our oil.
I figure we've got fifty years before we're hoisting a glass of "Penzoil" [ http://www.pennzoil.com/ ] like it was a $160,000, in 1985 dollars, bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux. [ http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html ]
Ok. We are idiots. We have not been paying attention and ignored that silky sound of sharpened tempered metal slicing into our own throats.
The choice is do we smarten up and pull back from oil now or does our collective head fall into the bloody basket.
Personally, it will happen on such a time scale that I don't have to care.
I have no issue and I have nothing riding on tomorrow.
The question is not mine, but its "yours."
Are you going to get off of oil nicely, with sure, measured steps, or will get your daughters' tubes tied and make your sons' into castrati.
---- "Last Tango In NYC" by: "The Four Bags" http://amiestreet.com/music/the-four-bags/offshore/last-tango-in-nyc
Conclusion:
The world is not nice, not fair, not gentle.
It makes mince meat out of the complacent.
Don't be complacent.
Now, how can we get ourselves out of this situation?
That is the thesis of the next speech.
---- "The Rosochacha" by: "Greg Federico"
Outro
The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.
Like the show? Listen.
Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0012.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..
Never let on that you know what's coming.
---- "Magic GB Jazz" by: "AjT" http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=Album+de+Alain&st=album
Thesis:
This is a speech meant to persuade.
Although that implies that there would be some mode of thought that might imply some debate which would imply that I might wrong about the stance I took.
I seriously doubt that there can be any such error because I am reacting to any discoveries and adapting in kind, but not in direction, to any new facts which arise.
I am not going to try to persuade you of the correctness of my approach since I took the only approach that I saw as solving the most problems, including some that weren't anticipated in the least by the people who originally informed my own opinions about peak oil.
I have also drawn from my own experience. as well as the fractional ones evinced by the same people I have been studying.
Unlike most debaters and most debates, I am the first to admit that things are not black or white.
Heck, that aren't even gray. I'm overseeing over the construction of a rainbow.
Inductive reasoning, wherein I acquire facts and opinions in order to generate something more generic from the specifics, is tightly coupled with deductive reasoning, wherein I am attempting to test the rules as revealed to me in the first place.
I do these kinds of reasoning in order to come up with a suitable yet sufficiently open-ended kind of syllogism, or logical appeal, to solve the conundrums raised by peak oil. ([Greek: συλλογισμός — "conclusion," "inference"], [usually the categorical syllogism)] which can form a kind of logical argument in which one proposition [the conclusion] is inferred from two others [the premises] of a certain form. Thank Wikipedia for the actual definition: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism ])
I am now well aware of the 256 rules for crafting syllogisms. (Many of which don't apply here.)
Of course, I am "not" constructing any syllogisms because they are too fractional and would require a level of problem decomposition too fine to be useful at this stage.
In that respect I am actively guilty of treading on the logic of my argument in the same way that I always accused database analyst of always mashing separate and distinct objects together instead of respecting the articulations presented by the inter-object relationships. "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."
---- "Frogmouth" by: Bift http://amiestreet.com/music/bift/bift/frogmouth
Synthesis:
I achieved my understanding of peak oil by thinking of it not as a thing, or even as a series of things, of "if then" rules, but by thinking of it as a process, more specifically as a mathematical function of two intersecting curves.
The arguments for and against peak oil are illusory. They refer to specific instances none of which argue for or against peak oil but instead refer to degrees of the event of peak oil.
Peak oil consists of two intersecting curves, one of demand and the other one of supply.
The game of peak oil consists of reacting properly to the motion of the curves along the horizontal axis of oil and the vertical axis of price, and to the motion of their point of intersection which is the price point and its also where demand creation and demand destruction meet.
There's nothing to argue with. Its just two horizontally moving curves, one high-y sloping down to low-y and the other one low-y climbing up to high-y.
Like "Foghorn Leghorn"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn ] once famously said, "I say, I say ... you can argue with me son, but you cain't argue with mathematics."
Now the implications of the motion of the two curves are the rapidly rising and falling price of oil, and the steady trend upwards as supplies fall over the next century, world-wide.
Guys, remember taking your date out in your jalopy telling the gas jockey to "fill her up" while holding your arm over the roof line, out of eye shot of your date, and holding up one finger per dollar you actually wanted him to pour into the tank.
Of course not. You're probably all too young.
Since the seventies, its been a pose with both hands held up in supplication, tendering your wallet to the one armed bandit at the pump.
Some horizontal slides of the supply curve have never slid back to the position they originally held.
What's fun is that as supply destruction takes hold, just by OPEC withholding their oil, before the demand can react to the new equilibrium, the price at the pump jumps up vertiginously.
(Remember the summer of 2008, with $4.00+ price at the pump. Its got to do with the lag time between supply pricing and demand adjustments. Its even out of the hands of OPEC. The price went up immediately because the oil companies weren't going to do "you" any favors. OPEC upped the supply and even dropped their price but it takes even longer for the greed to dissipate. They weren't going to benefit by charging you less, now were they?)
So what do we have left to disagree about?
What direction we want the avalanche to fall? (Yeah ... You stand there... You wait... You get buried... I'm running, Jack. With my cane I need to take a good long time 'cause I'm not interested in playing "Frosty The Snowman.")
---- "Gunslinger" by: "Danny Weis" http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Spot-Danny-Weis/dp/B000CA91D0
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
---- "If I Had One Wish" by: "DJ Suicide" http://www.crossphade.com/press.html
Synthesis Part Deux
As I asked before: "What have got left to disagree about?"
The shape of the world that will emerge from this lubricious debacle is up to us, entirely up to us.
If we do nothing things are going to change anyway and I can bet you that we won't like the change, because, like the Red Queen said, "It takes all the running I can do to stay in the same place."
So we're going to face a challenge.
How can we face it with the minimum amount of effort for the maximum benefit. Or we can be bull headed and suddenly discover that there's only three hundred and sixty million of us and there are nineteen times as many people competing for oil.
Oh and by the way we can forget about buying oil from Venezuela. The Chinese already have dibs on it. While we weren't looking, they've been turning all the foreign assets and debt that we've been forcing on them into hard currency and buying everything all over the planet with our own fiscal instruments.
Was Wal*Mart good for America?
Not only did we decimate our own production capacity by off-shoring everything, not only did we wreck our commercial infrastructure by building these huge soulless identical box stores where we all bought the same identical crap no matter what, but we sent all of that money to Asia to do it.
Now they hold so much of our debt that we've basically screwed the pooch.
If we're stupid enough not to get off the barrel, we can look forward to paying much, much more for our oil.
I figure we've got fifty years before we're hoisting a glass of "Penzoil" [ http://www.pennzoil.com/ ] like it was a $160,000, in 1985 dollars, bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux. [ http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html ]
Ok. We are idiots. We have not been paying attention and ignored that silky sound of sharpened tempered metal slicing into our own throats.
The choice is do we smarten up and pull back from oil now or does our collective head fall into the bloody basket.
Personally, it will happen on such a time scale that I don't have to care.
I have no issue and I have nothing riding on tomorrow.
The question is not mine, but its "yours."
Are you going to get off of oil nicely, with sure, measured steps, or will get your daughters' tubes tied and make your sons' into castrati.
---- "Last Tango In NYC" by: "The Four Bags" http://amiestreet.com/music/the-four-bags/offshore/last-tango-in-nyc
Conclusion:
The world is not nice, not fair, not gentle.
It makes mince meat out of the complacent.
Don't be complacent.
Now, how can we get ourselves out of this situation?
That is the thesis of the next speech.
---- "The Rosochacha" by: "Greg Federico"
Outro
The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.
Like the show? Listen.
Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034
Direct link to the episode:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034.m4a
Video Links
YouTube ->
This is episode 34
Turning out to be an extremely short week podcast wise.
Monday's "The Disability Show" wasn't, because of the snowfall in and around Jersey City.
So the show that was downloaded via iTunes is actually next week's show. Which works out because I won't have the time that weekend to record a new one.
Next, IBS.
No its not an assessment of my rhetorical skills.
It where I'm going to be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At a conference. In New York City.
College is fun ... I think ...
"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" http://www.geologicrecords.net/
----
We got PSAs:
----
PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety
----
Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com
----
I just had a thought "a propos" of nothing.
What if we were to buy PDFs of our newspapers via iTunes, with RSS distribution of the files sort of like podcasts, and collection of the money through Apple?
Imagine getting an in-depth version of the stuff you get on the web for free now but delivered up in a PDF file; with all kinds of value added stuff like pictures, interviews with the writers about how the piece came to be written...
It could even be a ZIP file conbining different content.
I'm just sayn'. It could be worth looking into...
Given the grim coverage of the melt down in the news publishing market it might be a solution. (I often post to the "Newspaper Death Watch" [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ ])
Now to get the word out to the New York Times... (Done)
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16: First Movement" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Piano Sonata in C Major, Opus 53, "Waldstein": Third Movement" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor K466: Second Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Impromptu in G-flat Major D899, No.3" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Arabesque, Opus 18" by: "Robert Schumann" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Nocturne in B-flat Major: Opus 9, No.1" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
Direct link to the episode:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034.m4a
Video Links
YouTube ->
This is episode 34
Turning out to be an extremely short week podcast wise.
Monday's "The Disability Show" wasn't, because of the snowfall in and around Jersey City.
So the show that was downloaded via iTunes is actually next week's show. Which works out because I won't have the time that weekend to record a new one.
Next, IBS.
No its not an assessment of my rhetorical skills.
It where I'm going to be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At a conference. In New York City.
College is fun ... I think ...
"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" http://www.geologicrecords.net/
----
We got PSAs:
----
PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety
----
Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com
----
I just had a thought "a propos" of nothing.
What if we were to buy PDFs of our newspapers via iTunes, with RSS distribution of the files sort of like podcasts, and collection of the money through Apple?
Imagine getting an in-depth version of the stuff you get on the web for free now but delivered up in a PDF file; with all kinds of value added stuff like pictures, interviews with the writers about how the piece came to be written...
It could even be a ZIP file conbining different content.
I'm just sayn'. It could be worth looking into...
Given the grim coverage of the melt down in the news publishing market it might be a solution. (I often post to the "Newspaper Death Watch" [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ ])
Now to get the word out to the New York Times... (Done)
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16: First Movement" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Piano Sonata in C Major, Opus 53, "Waldstein": Third Movement" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor K466: Second Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Impromptu in G-flat Major D899, No.3" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Arabesque, Opus 18" by: "Robert Schumann" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Nocturne in B-flat Major: Opus 9, No.1" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
Monday, March 02, 2009
msb-0352 Lets see how this helps
msb-0352 Lets see how this helps.
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Well I am much calmer this week. (Yes, I think the msb podcasts are becoming a weekly features, mixed in with the disability show, the thyme warp and peak oil podcasts.)
I'm too old, too sick, too tired and too wise to put up with the intersine warfare otherwise known office politics sucking the joy out of my life.
I left the kids to it. If they think it important and worth keeping score, I wish them luck.
But I've noticed that they're no different from their 'rents, when all they know how to do is say "you can't" "you shouldn't" and "Don't".
Life belongs to those who seize it.
The nay sayers just hold smoke.
You can make any case you want for not spending the trifling sums, and argue 'till the cows come home, but I'm podcasting to a whole bunch of people and they're not.
One of us is smart, and ... Well, you can finish that sentence yourselves.
---- "Water From The Well" by: "Bill Kahler" http://billkahler.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "another farewell" by: "carmichael" http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am not even bothering anymore.
These shows are my gift to you.
Enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "The Well" by: "Soma Sonic" http://www.somasonic.com/
"Thesis:"
I'm sitting here still feeling the loss of my mother.
We had to open up a safe deposit box that we've since discoveredthat she still owned when she'd gone into a home. (A polite euphemism for "we parked her somewhere safe until the inevitable". [I don't kid myself, I was a horrible son, but I was the son she raised me to be.])
Its depressing and my eyes are almost watering.
Its been months since she died but the strange sense of forever being cut adrift on a wider sea still makes it hard for me to breathe.
I am my mother's son after all...
But that's not what the topic of the next few (2) shows are going to be about.
These shows concern venture capitalism.
---- "Everything Is Swell In Weehawken" by: "Jim Testa http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta
"Synthesis:"
Its very strange the attachments we form and the ties that we bind ourselves up in.
When we techies get in bed with venture capitalists we are basically signaling that "they", meaning the venture capitalists, can make a lot of money in this podcasting racket.
But podcasting is not a place with broad base appeal by definition.
Oh it might be enough for me to make a living, eventually, but I'm hardly going to be selling beer to the masses. (Ok ... "Pacifico Clara" which is a great tasting beer, and I'd say that even if they paid me. [In fact, I've got in touch with them to tell them about podcasting.])
By definition, its a place where a lot of work is going to go into supporting a few podcasters for small, but quite measurable, results.
I'm no Leo Laporte with thousands of fans who tune into the podcasts and swamp the sponsor's sites with click-throughs.
Actually with the .m4a formatted files I use for these shows, I can take you to a specific web page in your browser or even launch your email client to possibly send an email to whoever would like you to send them a email.
Its really connected and it works with iTunes on Macs, on PCs, it works with iPhones, iPod Touches and it can even give you more information on a lowly stand-alone iPod.
If you're a musician, its great that I could bring you to a web site where you could buy the tune your hearing.
If I'm discussing something, I can put links to web pages filled with more information on the topic.
If I'm mentioning a product, I can put links to that too.
---- "Well Run Dry" by: "Juneteenth" http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth
"Conclusion:"
No, venture capitalists won't take any notice of podcasting because they don't see the ROI in it for them.
But podcasts are for a self-selecting audience, tailor made for makers of anything, producers of anything, that serves the audience's constellation of needs, people who want the answer to the old conundrum of not being able to advertise in print because its too expensive when they can even find a magazine that fit their demographic.
The "newspaper death watch" site is just filled with opportunities.
The print version of the "Bataan Death March" happening right now is the inevitable consequence of companies establishing their presence on the web and being able to eschew print advertising.
That tells me that their rates of return on the web are acceptable when compared to print advertising.
Not great ROI, but acceptable at getting the word out, (something where podcasting could/should/would help,) and with answering their customers and potential customers in ways that print media advertising never could.
Say goodbye print.
---- "TREAT YOU WELL" by: "steph" http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp
Outro
----
Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
Song list
"Water From The Well"
by: "Bill Kahler"
http://billkahler.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"another farewell"
by: "carmichael"
http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"The Well"
by: "Soma Sonic"
http://www.somasonic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Everything Is Swell In Weehawken"
by: "Jim Testa"
http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Well Run Dry"
by: "Juneteenth"
http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"TREAT YOU WELL"
by: "steph"
http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
----
Photo Credits:
All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)
----
Books:
go to by books page at
http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations
----
Links:
Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/
This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/
The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388
----
You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or
email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Well I am much calmer this week. (Yes, I think the msb podcasts are becoming a weekly features, mixed in with the disability show, the thyme warp and peak oil podcasts.)
I'm too old, too sick, too tired and too wise to put up with the intersine warfare otherwise known office politics sucking the joy out of my life.
I left the kids to it. If they think it important and worth keeping score, I wish them luck.
But I've noticed that they're no different from their 'rents, when all they know how to do is say "you can't" "you shouldn't" and "Don't".
Life belongs to those who seize it.
The nay sayers just hold smoke.
You can make any case you want for not spending the trifling sums, and argue 'till the cows come home, but I'm podcasting to a whole bunch of people and they're not.
One of us is smart, and ... Well, you can finish that sentence yourselves.
---- "Water From The Well" by: "Bill Kahler" http://billkahler.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "another farewell" by: "carmichael" http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am not even bothering anymore.
These shows are my gift to you.
Enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "The Well" by: "Soma Sonic" http://www.somasonic.com/
"Thesis:"
I'm sitting here still feeling the loss of my mother.
We had to open up a safe deposit box that we've since discoveredthat she still owned when she'd gone into a home. (A polite euphemism for "we parked her somewhere safe until the inevitable". [I don't kid myself, I was a horrible son, but I was the son she raised me to be.])
Its depressing and my eyes are almost watering.
Its been months since she died but the strange sense of forever being cut adrift on a wider sea still makes it hard for me to breathe.
I am my mother's son after all...
But that's not what the topic of the next few (2) shows are going to be about.
These shows concern venture capitalism.
---- "Everything Is Swell In Weehawken" by: "Jim Testa http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta
"Synthesis:"
Its very strange the attachments we form and the ties that we bind ourselves up in.
When we techies get in bed with venture capitalists we are basically signaling that "they", meaning the venture capitalists, can make a lot of money in this podcasting racket.
But podcasting is not a place with broad base appeal by definition.
Oh it might be enough for me to make a living, eventually, but I'm hardly going to be selling beer to the masses. (Ok ... "Pacifico Clara" which is a great tasting beer, and I'd say that even if they paid me. [In fact, I've got in touch with them to tell them about podcasting.])
By definition, its a place where a lot of work is going to go into supporting a few podcasters for small, but quite measurable, results.
I'm no Leo Laporte with thousands of fans who tune into the podcasts and swamp the sponsor's sites with click-throughs.
Actually with the .m4a formatted files I use for these shows, I can take you to a specific web page in your browser or even launch your email client to possibly send an email to whoever would like you to send them a email.
Its really connected and it works with iTunes on Macs, on PCs, it works with iPhones, iPod Touches and it can even give you more information on a lowly stand-alone iPod.
If you're a musician, its great that I could bring you to a web site where you could buy the tune your hearing.
If I'm discussing something, I can put links to web pages filled with more information on the topic.
If I'm mentioning a product, I can put links to that too.
---- "Well Run Dry" by: "Juneteenth" http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth
"Conclusion:"
No, venture capitalists won't take any notice of podcasting because they don't see the ROI in it for them.
But podcasts are for a self-selecting audience, tailor made for makers of anything, producers of anything, that serves the audience's constellation of needs, people who want the answer to the old conundrum of not being able to advertise in print because its too expensive when they can even find a magazine that fit their demographic.
The "newspaper death watch" site is just filled with opportunities.
The print version of the "Bataan Death March" happening right now is the inevitable consequence of companies establishing their presence on the web and being able to eschew print advertising.
That tells me that their rates of return on the web are acceptable when compared to print advertising.
Not great ROI, but acceptable at getting the word out, (something where podcasting could/should/would help,) and with answering their customers and potential customers in ways that print media advertising never could.
Say goodbye print.
---- "TREAT YOU WELL" by: "steph" http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp
Outro
----
Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
Song list
"Water From The Well"
by: "Bill Kahler"
http://billkahler.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"another farewell"
by: "carmichael"
http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"The Well"
by: "Soma Sonic"
http://www.somasonic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Everything Is Swell In Weehawken"
by: "Jim Testa"
http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Well Run Dry"
by: "Juneteenth"
http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"TREAT YOU WELL"
by: "steph"
http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
----
Photo Credits:
All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)
----
Books:
go to by books page at
http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations
----
Links:
Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170
Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/
This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/
The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388
----
You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or
email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0005
spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0005
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0005.m4a
YouTube -> .Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
..
----
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.
It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.
The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com
----
Intro
Its midterms which means don't expect too much.
I got to prepare for a public speaking class and cram stuff into my head and its not as easy as it once was.
---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731
Thesis:
As we get older, our memory changes.
Both the storage and the retrieval of memories.
It probably has something to do with the hippocampus as it lapses into senescence.
---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction
Synthesis:
Storage of memories is something that happens when the hippocampus detects the need to shift impulses from short term process memory to long term structural memory.
Don't ask me what, when, where, how or or why.
There's easily a couple of dozen doctoral dissertations and a few Nobel prizes awaiting whoever solves those puzzles.
The indexing mechanism seems to to be as close to holographic as we can get but the actual quality of the memory seems to degrade over time.
Oh, the problems with trying to do the same things, the same feats of monastic memorization that used to come so easily when I was young,
I still have crud in my head from when I was a kid.
The buildings I used to play in, the building I used to read comic books in, the buildings I used to have sodas in are no longer standing but I still recall the pattern of the tile floor on the way from the front door to the left side of the store where they kept the comic books.
I sill have stored memories of going from our balcony to the next one where my friend lived without touching the ground, two stories below. And the guy died years ago.
---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/
Retrieval is yet another area which on an old fashioned map would be labeled "terror incognita".
The indexing mechanisms which enable the incredible feats of remembering the dusty, bleached wood look of the board I used to stretch across the space between balconies al those years ago, must be interfering with my adding new memories at some point.
And that's why you're getting an abridged version of the show.
The crap I have to get into my head in fact runs counter to the ways I learned to cope with being a software developer, and a testing manager.
I have in fact learned to scan and I read by exception.
Things don't stick to my conscious unless they're "NOT" what I'm expecting to see and read.
---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/
Conclusion:
Oh my achin' head.
----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
I might acknowledge receipt of your emails but don't expect intelligent responses for a while.
This episode featured the following music:
---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/
---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731
---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction
---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/
---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/
----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0005.m4a
YouTube -> .Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
..
----
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.
It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.
The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com
----
Intro
Its midterms which means don't expect too much.
I got to prepare for a public speaking class and cram stuff into my head and its not as easy as it once was.
---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731
Thesis:
As we get older, our memory changes.
Both the storage and the retrieval of memories.
It probably has something to do with the hippocampus as it lapses into senescence.
---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction
Synthesis:
Storage of memories is something that happens when the hippocampus detects the need to shift impulses from short term process memory to long term structural memory.
Don't ask me what, when, where, how or or why.
There's easily a couple of dozen doctoral dissertations and a few Nobel prizes awaiting whoever solves those puzzles.
The indexing mechanism seems to to be as close to holographic as we can get but the actual quality of the memory seems to degrade over time.
Oh, the problems with trying to do the same things, the same feats of monastic memorization that used to come so easily when I was young,
I still have crud in my head from when I was a kid.
The buildings I used to play in, the building I used to read comic books in, the buildings I used to have sodas in are no longer standing but I still recall the pattern of the tile floor on the way from the front door to the left side of the store where they kept the comic books.
I sill have stored memories of going from our balcony to the next one where my friend lived without touching the ground, two stories below. And the guy died years ago.
---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/
Retrieval is yet another area which on an old fashioned map would be labeled "terror incognita".
The indexing mechanisms which enable the incredible feats of remembering the dusty, bleached wood look of the board I used to stretch across the space between balconies al those years ago, must be interfering with my adding new memories at some point.
And that's why you're getting an abridged version of the show.
The crap I have to get into my head in fact runs counter to the ways I learned to cope with being a software developer, and a testing manager.
I have in fact learned to scan and I read by exception.
Things don't stick to my conscious unless they're "NOT" what I'm expecting to see and read.
---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/
Conclusion:
Oh my achin' head.
----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
I might acknowledge receipt of your emails but don't expect intelligent responses for a while.
This episode featured the following music:
---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/
---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731
---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction
---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/
---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/
----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/
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