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/
Friday, February 27, 2009
wspc_P34kO1l_0012
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 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 together 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-x sloping down to low-x and the other one low-x climbing up to high-x.
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 demand 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" http://cdbaby.com/cd/gregfederico2
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 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 together 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-x sloping down to low-x and the other one low-x climbing up to high-x.
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 demand 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" http://cdbaby.com/cd/gregfederico2
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, February 25, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0033
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0033
Direct link to the episode:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0033.m4a
Video Links
YouTube ->
This is episode 33
I'm adopting this first song as my own marching song for better mental health.
Sometimes I feel that "A Change Would Do You Good" (by "Sheryl Crow",) http://www.sherylcrow.com/
----
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
----
I just love the line "Hello its me, I'm not at home. If you'd like to reach me, just leave me alone."
Goes well with this evening's theme: "Tender Moments".
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"A Change Would Do You Good" by: "Sheryl Crow" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden" by: "Frederick Delius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"The Gadfly, Opus 97: Romance" by: "Dmitri Shostakovich" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Romance for Flute in D-flat Major, Opus 37" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Romeo and Juliet,Suite No.1, Opus 64 A: Balcony Scene" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Sospiri, Opus 70 by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Fourteen Songs, Opus 34, No.14: Vocalise" by: "Sergei Rachmaninov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Fantaisie-impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Opus 66" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Don Quixote, Opus 35: Dialogue Between the Knight and Servant" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Don Giovanni K527: Là ci darem la mano" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPv C'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_0033.m4a
Video Links
YouTube ->
This is episode 33
I'm adopting this first song as my own marching song for better mental health.
Sometimes I feel that "A Change Would Do You Good" (by "Sheryl Crow",) http://www.sherylcrow.com/
----
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
----
I just love the line "Hello its me, I'm not at home. If you'd like to reach me, just leave me alone."
Goes well with this evening's theme: "Tender Moments".
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"A Change Would Do You Good" by: "Sheryl Crow" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden" by: "Frederick Delius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"The Gadfly, Opus 97: Romance" by: "Dmitri Shostakovich" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Romance for Flute in D-flat Major, Opus 37" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Romeo and Juliet,Suite No.1, Opus 64 A: Balcony Scene" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Sospiri, Opus 70 by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Fourteen Songs, Opus 34, No.14: Vocalise" by: "Sergei Rachmaninov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Fantaisie-impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Opus 66" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Don Quixote, Opus 35: Dialogue Between the Knight and Servant" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Don Giovanni K527: Là ci darem la mano" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPv C'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, February 23, 2009
msb-0351 Damn I'm out of control ANGRY!
msb-0351 Damn I'm out of control ANGRY!
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
There is not much.
I'm afraid I have been neglecting to post on your blogs, but my wife came upon an entry on "BlindBeard's MS blog" [ http://blindbeardsmsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20%25%5E%23%24*%20SSA ] that moved me to write a response to her old post.
I really feel her pain.
I am becoming possessed by a generalized feeling of anger. (When it gets to rage, get the fuck away for me as far and fast as your legs will carry you or your wheel chair can roll you.)
Part of me knows that it does no good to rail against the situation, but another part of me wants to shake the fucking life out of the idiot lawyers and judges who sit on the SSI's bench, sticking their legs out to trip up the unwary cripple.
What the fuck kind of people are these?
No wonder Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI "The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."
I have never met a bunch of people, and I use the term people very loosely, more deserving of death by strangulation, after I have had the very great pleasure of flailing the skin from their bones.
"
You blocks!
You stones!
You worse than senseless things!"
The worst part is that I "know" that its not the hiring managers' fault.
I never get past HR because I "might", not "do" mind, just "might", need medical care and that would send everybody's premiums up.
So they go the next candidate on the list after making some non-discrimitory noises...
This country needs a good dose of smelling salts and to get their heads out of Richard M. Nixon's dead ass.
This country needs single payer universal health care "not" on any employers tab.
Oh my "gods!"
I need some "Hariprasad Chaurasia" [ http://www.hariprasadchaurasia.com/ ] to calm down.
I'll be back in half an hour after some meditation and some breathing exercises.
I am boiling in a maelstrom of anger and I'm the heat that's causing it to boil.
---- "My Baby Done Hurt Me" by: "Aux and Big Mike" http://tonewheelorchestra.tripod.com/hub/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "I Know You Are Hurting" byL: "Panda Kopanda" http://www.pandakopanda.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am not even bothering anymore.
These shows are my gift to you.
Enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "Love Hurts from the Musical Saint Peters Umbrella" by:"Wright and Hudson" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=5195
"Thesis:"
I'll be going to the IBS (Intercollegiate Broadcasting System) conference on March 6th, 7th and 8th.
It should be interesting.
Apart from the fact that every other conference conference I have ever attended posted their schedule on a grid with the rooms on one axis and time on the other axis, which made much easier to see what was going to be where when.
Whine whine, bitch, bitch, complain, complain.
---- "It Still Hurts" by: "Jeff McMullen" http://www.myspace.com/jeffmcmullen
"Synthesis:"
Attending conferences used to be one of my favoritest ways of passing some time away from home and office, pretending that I was working while pressing the flesh, schmoozing and boozing.
I have attended many conferences related to my old obsession of programming, object-oriented programming and other techie things.
I used to enjoy the feeling of being a room full of other tech gurus (well the first day, the following morning it was always a bit rougher getting up any enthusiasm until after a "Bloody" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail) ] and the third cup of coffee...)
Still it was a lot of fun going away to conferences and trying to come home with as much swag as we could carry.
Linux conferences were always good for a year's supply of T-Shirts.
Smalltalk conferences weren't as good for the wardrobe but I used to make all sorts of contacts and meet old friends from prior conferences.
Sometimes the conferences were paid for by my publishers. That was sweet.
If I could get my ass there, they'd pay for my attendance.
That was specially true if I was on any panels. (But I rarely was. [I'd never been one for the politicking and maintaining the relationships required to appear as a regular on the conference circuit. {Its too much work and I would rather have been doing something else. (I always got along better with the equipment than with the people using the equipment. [What do you think? Clinical Aspergers' { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_syndrome } or what?])}])
---- "Truth Hurts" by: "Lisa Redford" http://www.lisaredford.com/
"Conclusion:"
Its never easy to shake an obsession.
I know because I am an obsessive S.O.B.
At least I have learned how to let go and ... move on.
---- "Hurting is to Blame demo" by: "boy novice" http://bnss.podshow.com/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.
You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.
I really need this.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
There is not much.
I'm afraid I have been neglecting to post on your blogs, but my wife came upon an entry on "BlindBeard's MS blog" [ http://blindbeardsmsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20%25%5E%23%24*%20SSA ] that moved me to write a response to her old post.
I really feel her pain.
I am becoming possessed by a generalized feeling of anger. (When it gets to rage, get the fuck away for me as far and fast as your legs will carry you or your wheel chair can roll you.)
Part of me knows that it does no good to rail against the situation, but another part of me wants to shake the fucking life out of the idiot lawyers and judges who sit on the SSI's bench, sticking their legs out to trip up the unwary cripple.
What the fuck kind of people are these?
No wonder Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI "The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."
I have never met a bunch of people, and I use the term people very loosely, more deserving of death by strangulation, after I have had the very great pleasure of flailing the skin from their bones.
"
You blocks!
You stones!
You worse than senseless things!"
The worst part is that I "know" that its not the hiring managers' fault.
I never get past HR because I "might", not "do" mind, just "might", need medical care and that would send everybody's premiums up.
So they go the next candidate on the list after making some non-discrimitory noises...
This country needs a good dose of smelling salts and to get their heads out of Richard M. Nixon's dead ass.
This country needs single payer universal health care "not" on any employers tab.
Oh my "gods!"
I need some "Hariprasad Chaurasia" [ http://www.hariprasadchaurasia.com/ ] to calm down.
I'll be back in half an hour after some meditation and some breathing exercises.
I am boiling in a maelstrom of anger and I'm the heat that's causing it to boil.
---- "My Baby Done Hurt Me" by: "Aux and Big Mike" http://tonewheelorchestra.tripod.com/hub/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "I Know You Are Hurting" byL: "Panda Kopanda" http://www.pandakopanda.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
I am not even bothering anymore.
These shows are my gift to you.
Enjoy my demented rantings.
---- "Love Hurts from the Musical Saint Peters Umbrella" by:"Wright and Hudson" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=5195
"Thesis:"
I'll be going to the IBS (Intercollegiate Broadcasting System) conference on March 6th, 7th and 8th.
It should be interesting.
Apart from the fact that every other conference conference I have ever attended posted their schedule on a grid with the rooms on one axis and time on the other axis, which made much easier to see what was going to be where when.
Whine whine, bitch, bitch, complain, complain.
---- "It Still Hurts" by: "Jeff McMullen" http://www.myspace.com/jeffmcmullen
"Synthesis:"
Attending conferences used to be one of my favoritest ways of passing some time away from home and office, pretending that I was working while pressing the flesh, schmoozing and boozing.
I have attended many conferences related to my old obsession of programming, object-oriented programming and other techie things.
I used to enjoy the feeling of being a room full of other tech gurus (well the first day, the following morning it was always a bit rougher getting up any enthusiasm until after a "Bloody" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail) ] and the third cup of coffee...)
Still it was a lot of fun going away to conferences and trying to come home with as much swag as we could carry.
Linux conferences were always good for a year's supply of T-Shirts.
Smalltalk conferences weren't as good for the wardrobe but I used to make all sorts of contacts and meet old friends from prior conferences.
Sometimes the conferences were paid for by my publishers. That was sweet.
If I could get my ass there, they'd pay for my attendance.
That was specially true if I was on any panels. (But I rarely was. [I'd never been one for the politicking and maintaining the relationships required to appear as a regular on the conference circuit. {Its too much work and I would rather have been doing something else. (I always got along better with the equipment than with the people using the equipment. [What do you think? Clinical Aspergers' { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_syndrome } or what?])}])
---- "Truth Hurts" by: "Lisa Redford" http://www.lisaredford.com/
"Conclusion:"
Its never easy to shake an obsession.
I know because I am an obsessive S.O.B.
At least I have learned how to let go and ... move on.
---- "Hurting is to Blame demo" by: "boy novice" http://bnss.podshow.com/
Outro
spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0004
spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0004
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0004.m4a
CSN&Y - Ohio
YouTube -> ..
----
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.
It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.
The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
---- "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit) (Single)" by: "The Knife" http://www.last.fm/music/The+Knife
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
----
Intro
Well, I guess my prospective guest didn't want to be interviewed.
That's okay. Some people want to stay quiet. Some people are intimidated by the the thought of speaking into a microphone.
That's another kind of handicap, one as visible as high blood pressure and just as debilitating.
Its a form of self censorship when its not warranted.
We'll just go on, as we always do, leaning on our crutches, our canes or wheeling on by.
---- "I am Canadian" by "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" http://www.deadtroll.com/
Thesis:
Coming from Canada as I do gives me a different perspective on the issue of health care.
Why on earth is the United States asking employers to shoulder the burden of health care?
This is a specially glaring hypocrisy in the face of how the United States is treating its military personel.
Apart from particularly glaring aberrations at Walter Reed medical center, during the reign of "Bush the Younger", when out of sight was out of mind and not out of pocket, the people of the United States treat their military very well.
---- "Zhong Guo Ren Min Jie Fang Jun Jin Xing Qu (Marching Song Of China Military)" by: "China Military Philharmonic Society"
Synthesis:
Health care is particularly poorly served the moment you really need it.
When you really need it, you are likely to be at least temporarily unemployable (and, quite likely, unemployed.)
Most likely, through some accident or infection, you are taken out of the work force and are put at the mercy of people without any mercy.
I refer to the accountants who can look at their balance sheets, look at you, and not see any difference.
While I acknowledge the need for accountancy, I don't believe that they should ever be put in charge of anything.
The current multi-trillion dollar banking debacle and fiscal melt down was the result of people who knew the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
And "we're" left holding the nothing.
---- "Holding Nothing" by: "noel" http://bitmunk.com/media/6425677
Imagine you're working for somebody and you come up with a way to stop having to pay for a growing problem.
You can rightly figure that getting that off the books will get you a bonus.
Health care is a growing problem and by getting rid of the source of the problem, all these sick people, you can save your company huge sums every year.
I mean, you're a company, not a charitable institution, so why should you as a company be expected to pay for all these sick people.
So you look for loop-holes, hire them under different rules, anything so you're not stuck with their health care tab.
Never mind that the current health policy system was started as a kind of Ponzi scheme [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme ] started by Nixon to save his political butt, (I mean, people were dying in the street after having had to burn through their life savings, [The more life savings, the longer people were able to delay the inevitable impoverishment, until it became terminal, {"viz:" you died in the street because you were broke. (The seventies were an ugly and hazardous time in America, I would refer you to Kent State for an example of how dangerous it, and Nixon, really was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings].)}])
New policy adherents would subsidize the costs of taking care of the the current policy holders while the insurance salesmen pocketed the money. (Sort of like Bernard Madhoff paid his dividends. [Hey! It worked fine, until people needed the money and he didn't have it. Given the quality SEC's oversight, "quid custodiet ipso custodes", its the only reason he got caught, {but, in retrospect, it was inevitable, wasn't it?}])
---- "Four Dead In Ohio" by: Four Dead In Ohio" http://www.csny.com/
Conclusion:
The current health-don't-care system has features reminiscent of, and is administered like, a huge Ponzi scheme.
Money goes in, profits are pocketed and as little money as the insurer can get away with paying without causing an insurrection goes to actually pay for health care.
The money is being paid by employers, people who aren't really liable and aren't likely to suffer if they shirk their responsibility (In fact, they're likely to profit from doing so.)
So it goes back to the same area of social responsibility.
Is the United States grown up enough to take care of its sick?
Or is it going to become the only developed nation on the planet which trips over the dead and dying naked bodies of its citizens in the street?
The jury is still out.
---- "Jury's Out" by: '' Dave Nevling" http://www.davenevling.com/
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0004.m4a
CSN&Y - Ohio
YouTube -> ..
----
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.
It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.
The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
---- "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit) (Single)" by: "The Knife" http://www.last.fm/music/The+Knife
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
----
Intro
Well, I guess my prospective guest didn't want to be interviewed.
That's okay. Some people want to stay quiet. Some people are intimidated by the the thought of speaking into a microphone.
That's another kind of handicap, one as visible as high blood pressure and just as debilitating.
Its a form of self censorship when its not warranted.
We'll just go on, as we always do, leaning on our crutches, our canes or wheeling on by.
---- "I am Canadian" by "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" http://www.deadtroll.com/
Thesis:
Coming from Canada as I do gives me a different perspective on the issue of health care.
Why on earth is the United States asking employers to shoulder the burden of health care?
This is a specially glaring hypocrisy in the face of how the United States is treating its military personel.
Apart from particularly glaring aberrations at Walter Reed medical center, during the reign of "Bush the Younger", when out of sight was out of mind and not out of pocket, the people of the United States treat their military very well.
---- "Zhong Guo Ren Min Jie Fang Jun Jin Xing Qu (Marching Song Of China Military)" by: "China Military Philharmonic Society"
Synthesis:
Health care is particularly poorly served the moment you really need it.
When you really need it, you are likely to be at least temporarily unemployable (and, quite likely, unemployed.)
Most likely, through some accident or infection, you are taken out of the work force and are put at the mercy of people without any mercy.
I refer to the accountants who can look at their balance sheets, look at you, and not see any difference.
While I acknowledge the need for accountancy, I don't believe that they should ever be put in charge of anything.
The current multi-trillion dollar banking debacle and fiscal melt down was the result of people who knew the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
And "we're" left holding the nothing.
---- "Holding Nothing" by: "noel" http://bitmunk.com/media/6425677
Imagine you're working for somebody and you come up with a way to stop having to pay for a growing problem.
You can rightly figure that getting that off the books will get you a bonus.
Health care is a growing problem and by getting rid of the source of the problem, all these sick people, you can save your company huge sums every year.
I mean, you're a company, not a charitable institution, so why should you as a company be expected to pay for all these sick people.
So you look for loop-holes, hire them under different rules, anything so you're not stuck with their health care tab.
Never mind that the current health policy system was started as a kind of Ponzi scheme [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme ] started by Nixon to save his political butt, (I mean, people were dying in the street after having had to burn through their life savings, [The more life savings, the longer people were able to delay the inevitable impoverishment, until it became terminal, {"viz:" you died in the street because you were broke. (The seventies were an ugly and hazardous time in America, I would refer you to Kent State for an example of how dangerous it, and Nixon, really was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings].)}])
New policy adherents would subsidize the costs of taking care of the the current policy holders while the insurance salesmen pocketed the money. (Sort of like Bernard Madhoff paid his dividends. [Hey! It worked fine, until people needed the money and he didn't have it. Given the quality SEC's oversight, "quid custodiet ipso custodes", its the only reason he got caught, {but, in retrospect, it was inevitable, wasn't it?}])
---- "Four Dead In Ohio" by: Four Dead In Ohio" http://www.csny.com/
Conclusion:
The current health-don't-care system has features reminiscent of, and is administered like, a huge Ponzi scheme.
Money goes in, profits are pocketed and as little money as the insurer can get away with paying without causing an insurrection goes to actually pay for health care.
The money is being paid by employers, people who aren't really liable and aren't likely to suffer if they shirk their responsibility (In fact, they're likely to profit from doing so.)
So it goes back to the same area of social responsibility.
Is the United States grown up enough to take care of its sick?
Or is it going to become the only developed nation on the planet which trips over the dead and dying naked bodies of its citizens in the street?
The jury is still out.
---- "Jury's Out" by: '' Dave Nevling" http://www.davenevling.com/
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com
Friday, February 20, 2009
wspc_P34kO1l_0011
wspc_P34kO1l_0011
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0011.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..
The Smashing Pumkins "Zero"
..
Never let on that you know what's coming.
---- "Saved by Zero" by: "Fixx" http://www.thefixx.com/
Thesis:
While I intend to concentrate this audio column on "dealing" with society as it finds a new equilibrium in an energy impoverished landscape, I should point you to some resources for information about peak oil.
There are books, blogs, mailing lists, podcasts, movies which can serve to persuade you that the world as we know it "is" coming to an end. All of these information resources will do that and more.
Mind you, I took a longer perspective and since we'll take about 250 years to go through all the oil (and after 150 years we're about halfway through all the oil there is, [but there's going to be a whole lot more people after the shrinking puddle of oil that's left,]) I figured that we weren't going to disappear gently into that long goodnight quite so easily as that.
Some distopians would have you believe in a "Mad Max" scenario, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max ] others would point to "Mullah Omar and his merry bunch of murderers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah_Omar ] as the way that things were going to go down, but that's just such a stupid waste that I can just dispense with it.
We aren't going to suddenly forget how to read or write and we aren't going to all become microcephalic imbeciles overnight.
---- "Return To Zero" by: "TAPKAE" http://tapkae.com/blog/
Synthesis:
This must perforce be a recapitulation of my own journey to awareness.
It all started with some rumblings I'd heard about from an accountant regarding long term investing and why 30 years was the longest term they gave for depreciating assets.
From that thoroughly dull and bo-o-ring introduction to the subject came the realization that John D. Rockerfeller had made all of his fortune exploiting the oil in Pennsylvania and then Texas/Oklahoma. (Standard Oil lasted until 1920 before it got broken up because ol' John D. was a ruthess bastard and ran his business like it too...)
Unlike the causes of the First World War, which had to do European marketing rights for Silesian pigs, "I kid you not," the second world war happened mostly over oil.
And the United States had a lot of it and nobody else did. But that didn't last long. War burns through a few billion barrels of the stuff.
The British had always enjoyed screwing with the boundaries of countries within their possessions. If things were running left to right, they set the national borders up and down.
Like they did to the Turks remnants of the Ottaman Empire, the Kurds, the Sunni, the Shiaa in Mesopotmia (which covered Turkey, Iraq and Iran,), the factions in India (which took an extremely nasty, bloody civil war to partition themselves into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh,) Afghanistan, which is at best a loose amalgam or warring tribal areas, and the pattern is repeated all over Africa and in the Pacific.).
After the second world war, the United States and Great Britain had deposed the rightfully elected but intelligent, left-leaning "Mohammad Mosaddeq" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddeq ] in 1953, the year I was born, in order to put up the puppet potentate known as "Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi ] so Aramco could get at the oil reserves in the middle, I hadn't heard bugger all about anybody extracting any oil out of Pennsylvania ground.
That was because it was cheaper to suck it out of the sand in Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and ship it all those thousands of miles in the largest ships ever built that to try to suck any more oil out of Pensylvania.
Then "M. K. Hubbert" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] working for Shell Oil in Texas made some predictions aqbout when he'd be able to retire. He did some "back of the envelope" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope_calculation ] and came up with a peak oil for Texas in 1972.
So if you're wondering why we're supporting Israel and Saudi Arabia, fighting in Iraq, and paying pennies on the dollar to keep the Nigerians government as corrupt as it is, its because of access to oil.
That lack of oil is the reason we don't give a crap about Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Tsvangirai, a starving populace or an economy in absolute free fall with the Zimbabwean dollar being backed by Mugabe's fillings.
US citizens might make some righteous noises but, on the face of the actions the American government takes throughout the world, we aren't very nice, and therefore, we aren't very popular.
---- "Glass" by: "???" http://???.html
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
---- "A Moment In The Glass" by: "Lo-Fez Beagle Chowder" http://eukt.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1454
Synthesis Part Deux
So now that you understand who's what, what's what, where's what, when's what and why's what, how about some other sources so you can compare with the other nuts out there who are still at the "Chicken Little" stage of discovery.
Most of the sources are easily found online. (When you have something this spectacularly, sensationally scary you want to be heard.)
The problem is that peak oil is an economic fact. Its basically just a story of commodity depletion and the turn over of the economy as it adjusts to the new reality.
The economy has done this for thousands of years, through every supposed revolution in energy source, from canine, to bovine, to equine, to avian, to cetacian, to petroleum, to hydrolic, to hydro-electric, to electric, to nuclear, to termo-nuclear from afar a.k.a. solar.
We have gone through all sorts of "revolutions" and at a meta-level they have all led to that most dreaded thing in the human condition: change.
Google knows all so go and google "peak oil".
Don't worry about the debunkers.
They're just arguing about the actual timing,
Or worse, they're saying that the world is never going to run out of oil and denying the evidence and the lessons that came from Pennsylvania, Texas, Prudoe Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea oil fields, the Western US continental shelf, Venezuala, Nigeria, Iran and Iraq.
---- "Koyaanisqatsi" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi
Conclusion:
So you've just been exposed to some more information about peak oil from the soothsayers of suffering, the diviners of doom, the predictors of pain, the dismal augurers.
No wonder I don't want to go there.
Besides we have about a hundred years to affetuate the changes we need to enact to make the world a livable place without using any oil.
In order to do it right, we need to start now, but we can take baby stept, dudes and dudettes, baby steps.
We can make mistakes and correct them as we go, rather than hurtling full speed towards either a brick wall or a precipice.
---- "Organic" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0011.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..
The Smashing Pumkins "Zero"
..
Never let on that you know what's coming.
---- "Saved by Zero" by: "Fixx" http://www.thefixx.com/
Thesis:
While I intend to concentrate this audio column on "dealing" with society as it finds a new equilibrium in an energy impoverished landscape, I should point you to some resources for information about peak oil.
There are books, blogs, mailing lists, podcasts, movies which can serve to persuade you that the world as we know it "is" coming to an end. All of these information resources will do that and more.
Mind you, I took a longer perspective and since we'll take about 250 years to go through all the oil (and after 150 years we're about halfway through all the oil there is, [but there's going to be a whole lot more people after the shrinking puddle of oil that's left,]) I figured that we weren't going to disappear gently into that long goodnight quite so easily as that.
Some distopians would have you believe in a "Mad Max" scenario, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max ] others would point to "Mullah Omar and his merry bunch of murderers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah_Omar ] as the way that things were going to go down, but that's just such a stupid waste that I can just dispense with it.
We aren't going to suddenly forget how to read or write and we aren't going to all become microcephalic imbeciles overnight.
---- "Return To Zero" by: "TAPKAE" http://tapkae.com/blog/
Synthesis:
This must perforce be a recapitulation of my own journey to awareness.
It all started with some rumblings I'd heard about from an accountant regarding long term investing and why 30 years was the longest term they gave for depreciating assets.
From that thoroughly dull and bo-o-ring introduction to the subject came the realization that John D. Rockerfeller had made all of his fortune exploiting the oil in Pennsylvania and then Texas/Oklahoma. (Standard Oil lasted until 1920 before it got broken up because ol' John D. was a ruthess bastard and ran his business like it too...)
Unlike the causes of the First World War, which had to do European marketing rights for Silesian pigs, "I kid you not," the second world war happened mostly over oil.
And the United States had a lot of it and nobody else did. But that didn't last long. War burns through a few billion barrels of the stuff.
The British had always enjoyed screwing with the boundaries of countries within their possessions. If things were running left to right, they set the national borders up and down.
Like they did to the Turks remnants of the Ottaman Empire, the Kurds, the Sunni, the Shiaa in Mesopotmia (which covered Turkey, Iraq and Iran,), the factions in India (which took an extremely nasty, bloody civil war to partition themselves into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh,) Afghanistan, which is at best a loose amalgam or warring tribal areas, and the pattern is repeated all over Africa and in the Pacific.).
After the second world war, the United States and Great Britain had deposed the rightfully elected but intelligent, left-leaning "Mohammad Mosaddeq" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddeq ] in 1953, the year I was born, in order to put up the puppet potentate known as "Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi ] so Aramco could get at the oil reserves in the middle, I hadn't heard bugger all about anybody extracting any oil out of Pennsylvania ground.
That was because it was cheaper to suck it out of the sand in Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and ship it all those thousands of miles in the largest ships ever built that to try to suck any more oil out of Pensylvania.
Then "M. K. Hubbert" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] working for Shell Oil in Texas made some predictions aqbout when he'd be able to retire. He did some "back of the envelope" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope_calculation ] and came up with a peak oil for Texas in 1972.
So if you're wondering why we're supporting Israel and Saudi Arabia, fighting in Iraq, and paying pennies on the dollar to keep the Nigerians government as corrupt as it is, its because of access to oil.
That lack of oil is the reason we don't give a crap about Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Tsvangirai, a starving populace or an economy in absolute free fall with the Zimbabwean dollar being backed by Mugabe's fillings.
US citizens might make some righteous noises but, on the face of the actions the American government takes throughout the world, we aren't very nice, and therefore, we aren't very popular.
---- "Glass" by: "???" http://???.html
We got PSAs:
----
Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts
This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.
This was useful last year in the bomb scare.
To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)
----
Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)
Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05
----
We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".
The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.
As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."
But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.
The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.
From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.
So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.
---- "A Moment In The Glass" by: "Lo-Fez Beagle Chowder" http://eukt.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1454
Synthesis Part Deux
So now that you understand who's what, what's what, where's what, when's what and why's what, how about some other sources so you can compare with the other nuts out there who are still at the "Chicken Little" stage of discovery.
Most of the sources are easily found online. (When you have something this spectacularly, sensationally scary you want to be heard.)
The problem is that peak oil is an economic fact. Its basically just a story of commodity depletion and the turn over of the economy as it adjusts to the new reality.
The economy has done this for thousands of years, through every supposed revolution in energy source, from canine, to bovine, to equine, to avian, to cetacian, to petroleum, to hydrolic, to hydro-electric, to electric, to nuclear, to termo-nuclear from afar a.k.a. solar.
We have gone through all sorts of "revolutions" and at a meta-level they have all led to that most dreaded thing in the human condition: change.
Google knows all so go and google "peak oil".
Don't worry about the debunkers.
They're just arguing about the actual timing,
Or worse, they're saying that the world is never going to run out of oil and denying the evidence and the lessons that came from Pennsylvania, Texas, Prudoe Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea oil fields, the Western US continental shelf, Venezuala, Nigeria, Iran and Iraq.
---- "Koyaanisqatsi" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi
Conclusion:
So you've just been exposed to some more information about peak oil from the soothsayers of suffering, the diviners of doom, the predictors of pain, the dismal augurers.
No wonder I don't want to go there.
Besides we have about a hundred years to affetuate the changes we need to enact to make the world a livable place without using any oil.
In order to do it right, we need to start now, but we can take baby stept, dudes and dudettes, baby steps.
We can make mistakes and correct them as we go, rather than hurtling full speed towards either a brick wall or a precipice.
---- "Organic" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0032
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0032
Direct link to the episode:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0032.m4a
Video Links
YouTube -> Rush - Tom Sawyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA
This is episode 32
In yet another example of the perversity of the human spirit here is "Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by "Guy Lombardo"
----
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.
----
This evening's theme is "In Praise".
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by: "Guy Lombardo" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Op. 52/6, D 839, "Ave Maria" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Stabat Matar: Cujus animam" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Ave verum corpus K618" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Requiem, Opus 48: Pie Jesu" by: "Gabriel Fauré" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Cantata BWV80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Chorale)" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Gloria V589: Laudamus te" by: "Antonio Vivaldi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Miserere: Psalm 51" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Requiem: Libera me (Excerpt)" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Exsultate, jubilate K165/158A" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Suite 6 E Major, BWV 817" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----
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:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0032.m4a
Video Links
YouTube -> Rush - Tom Sawyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA
This is episode 32
In yet another example of the perversity of the human spirit here is "Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by "Guy Lombardo"
----
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.
----
This evening's theme is "In Praise".
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by: "Guy Lombardo" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Op. 52/6, D 839, "Ave Maria" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Stabat Matar: Cujus animam" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Ave verum corpus K618" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Requiem, Opus 48: Pie Jesu" by: "Gabriel Fauré" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Cantata BWV80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Chorale)" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Gloria V589: Laudamus te" by: "Antonio Vivaldi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Miserere: Psalm 51" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Requiem: Libera me (Excerpt)" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Exsultate, jubilate K165/158A" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
"Suite 6 E Major, BWV 817" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----
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, February 13, 2009
wspc_P34kO1l_0010
wspc_P34kO1l_0010
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0010.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Here it is, February 13th, almost St. Valentine's and I'm supposed to tell you that the way of life you know and cherish is kicking its own ass to the curb?
I don't think so...
Here's some music for your raging hormones...
---- "People are still having sex" by: "La Tour" http://www.discogs.com/LaTour-People-Are-Still-Having-Sex/release/177970
Thesis:
Peak Oil is a stretch, an arc, on a curve when we go from being an oil rich planet to being an oil poor planet. (More curves intersecting curves again, oil discovery, oil production, oil extraction prices going above oil sale falling below)
At the risk of seeming flip about it, "This is not a risk, its an opportunity".
Yes we're going to see a lot of changes and change always has its dogmatic enemies. (Sorry folks but as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, change will happen. Nothing lasts forever. Deal with it.)
The YouTube video which accompanies these posts is alarming and a bit of a bummer because it has to be. The word is not universally out there.
But you shouldn't be "that" alarmed about it.
We have plenty of time to start ducking the shovel that's swinging at our collective face.
---- "Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll" by: "Ugly" http://www.myspace.com/uglyamerica
Synthesis:
The best way to dodge a bullet is not to be in its path in the first place. That's simple physics.
However, this isn't about dodging bullets, avoiding shovels to the face, or even trying to juggle chain saws.
Its about seeing things and reacting intelligently.
My intended audience is all made up of college students. And at a Catholic private college, no less. You were all smart enough to get here.
You are probably going to be smart enough to see the writing on the wall (a scrawled oily smear saying "I'm dead and I was killed by... uh... uh.. [drops like a sack of potatoes.])
Coming from the eastern side of Canada and the United States, as I do I'm big on public transit. In Weisbaden, Germany I didn't need a car at all. I took their buses everywhere,
I'm even bigger on no transit at all.
----
Here's a question for you.
What form of transportation carries more passengers that all of the other form combined, planes, trains, buses and automobiles, in near perfect safety and with zero CO2 emissions?
The answer?
The elevator.
----
The biggest problem with trying to use an elevator comes from the fact that the holes are all in a straight line up and down.
Imagine if you could go sideways?
You not only punch in your floor (vertical destination) but your site (x & y horizontal destination.)
For most things, you'd never need to sit down so we just provided hand holds for lateral shifts.
Imagine being in a big building. A really big building. A friggin' humongous building.
Imagine you're on the "street level" of the Petronas Towers but instead of two huge cylinders for living spaces, there's like fifty of them, and instead of one sky bridge about half-way up, there's like twenty all shuttling elevator cages around up and down and across on mag-lev tracks with "film cog" carriers.
We already know how to build Petronas towers.
We already know how to build cog railway cars.
We already know how to program systems to handle elevator cars.
We already know how to build all of this zero emission stuff.
We've just never attempted it at the proper scale ... yet.
Okay, just so you know. I come from Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Its frigin' COLD in the winter time in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Like for a week in February it hovers around forty degrees below zero. That's friggin' cold.
Did you know that you could live on the south shore of the St. Lawrence river, get to work down town, across the river, go see a friend for supper in the north end of the city and get back home in the worst weather, (when its a blizzard outside or when its too cold to snow,) without even needing a woolen sweater?
The streets are deserted because of "Le Metro" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro ] which whisks almost a million people between work and home underground.
If you live somewhere with direct access to the Metro, you look at ol' man winter through the windows of a "brasserie" and never get cold and never get your shoes wet with slush.
And it the same with the hottest days of summer. We could ignore the weather...
Montréal is a nascent archology.
So I'm just saying that the system has already been proven to work.
---- "Jungle Juice" by: "All Crazy" http://www.myspace.com/allcrazyphilly
We got PSAs:
----
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.
---- "Turn Me On" by: "Valentino Casanova" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=3cP&q=%22Turn+Me+On%22+by%3A+%22Valentino+Casanova%22&btnG=Search
Synthesis
I'm not one for whining and bitching.
I'm not one for moaning and groaning.
I'm already too old for peak oil to do more to me that screw up my retirement, if I had any left after the financial melt down killed off my potential clients , took care of my retirement money and screwed over me but good. [Like the old Chinese curse says, I'm living in interesting times.])
So what can I do right now? And what can I see in the future as a way of possibly helping myself? And you too?
Right now, I'm getting rid of my car. Hey I can actually do it. I live within hobblng distance of public transit. In New York City and environs, owning a car actually detracts from your mobility.
If you don't live the same way, you'll have to move wont you.
I'm not going to sugar-coat it.
Forget about owning your own cars unless they're electric. Forget about needing cars too when you can take an elevator/people mover anywhere you'll need to go.
Forget living in the suburbs unless you are independently wealthy.
But there are plenty of ways we can live together, but apart, in archologies.
The farming too can be done in climate controlled conditions. No more worrying about the rains being late or coming too often. No more worrying about how to get the produce picked, or to get it to to market.
---- "Sexy Noises Turn Me On" by: "Salt-N-Pepa" http://www.saltunrapped.com/
Conclusion:
Montréal is an example, a starting point, showing us what is possible already.
Its got lots of problems that it inherits from its older infrastructure, but its a mile post.
Now lets think big, really big, and really modern.
(That should get the architects really interested. Build an archology and name it after yourself.)
---- "I'm Too Sexy" by: "Right Said Fred" http://www.rightsaidfred.com/
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com
----
And we're ending off with something originally composed by "Fats Waller" ( http://www.muziekweb.nl/shared/cat/ti/index.php?tnr=JDX1086 ) but I have no idea of where picked up this recording.
---- "Sextette from Lucia" by: "Royal Italian Marine Band (Musical group)"
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0010.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
Here it is, February 13th, almost St. Valentine's and I'm supposed to tell you that the way of life you know and cherish is kicking its own ass to the curb?
I don't think so...
Here's some music for your raging hormones...
---- "People are still having sex" by: "La Tour" http://www.discogs.com/LaTour-People-Are-Still-Having-Sex/release/177970
Thesis:
Peak Oil is a stretch, an arc, on a curve when we go from being an oil rich planet to being an oil poor planet. (More curves intersecting curves again, oil discovery, oil production, oil extraction prices going above oil sale falling below)
At the risk of seeming flip about it, "This is not a risk, its an opportunity".
Yes we're going to see a lot of changes and change always has its dogmatic enemies. (Sorry folks but as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, change will happen. Nothing lasts forever. Deal with it.)
The YouTube video which accompanies these posts is alarming and a bit of a bummer because it has to be. The word is not universally out there.
But you shouldn't be "that" alarmed about it.
We have plenty of time to start ducking the shovel that's swinging at our collective face.
---- "Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll" by: "Ugly" http://www.myspace.com/uglyamerica
Synthesis:
The best way to dodge a bullet is not to be in its path in the first place. That's simple physics.
However, this isn't about dodging bullets, avoiding shovels to the face, or even trying to juggle chain saws.
Its about seeing things and reacting intelligently.
My intended audience is all made up of college students. And at a Catholic private college, no less. You were all smart enough to get here.
You are probably going to be smart enough to see the writing on the wall (a scrawled oily smear saying "I'm dead and I was killed by... uh... uh.. [drops like a sack of potatoes.])
Coming from the eastern side of Canada and the United States, as I do I'm big on public transit. In Weisbaden, Germany I didn't need a car at all. I took their buses everywhere,
I'm even bigger on no transit at all.
----
Here's a question for you.
What form of transportation carries more passengers that all of the other form combined, planes, trains, buses and automobiles, in near perfect safety and with zero CO2 emissions?
The answer?
The elevator.
----
The biggest problem with trying to use an elevator comes from the fact that the holes are all in a straight line up and down.
Imagine if you could go sideways?
You not only punch in your floor (vertical destination) but your site (x & y horizontal destination.)
For most things, you'd never need to sit down so we just provided hand holds for lateral shifts.
Imagine being in a big building. A really big building. A friggin' humongous building.
Imagine you're on the "street level" of the Petronas Towers but instead of two huge cylinders for living spaces, there's like fifty of them, and instead of one sky bridge about half-way up, there's like twenty all shuttling elevator cages around up and down and across on mag-lev tracks with "film cog" carriers.
We already know how to build Petronas towers.
We already know how to build cog railway cars.
We already know how to program systems to handle elevator cars.
We already know how to build all of this zero emission stuff.
We've just never attempted it at the proper scale ... yet.
Okay, just so you know. I come from Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Its frigin' COLD in the winter time in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Like for a week in February it hovers around forty degrees below zero. That's friggin' cold.
Did you know that you could live on the south shore of the St. Lawrence river, get to work down town, across the river, go see a friend for supper in the north end of the city and get back home in the worst weather, (when its a blizzard outside or when its too cold to snow,) without even needing a woolen sweater?
The streets are deserted because of "Le Metro" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro ] which whisks almost a million people between work and home underground.
If you live somewhere with direct access to the Metro, you look at ol' man winter through the windows of a "brasserie" and never get cold and never get your shoes wet with slush.
And it the same with the hottest days of summer. We could ignore the weather...
Montréal is a nascent archology.
So I'm just saying that the system has already been proven to work.
---- "Jungle Juice" by: "All Crazy" http://www.myspace.com/allcrazyphilly
We got PSAs:
----
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.
---- "Turn Me On" by: "Valentino Casanova" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=3cP&q=%22Turn+Me+On%22+by%3A+%22Valentino+Casanova%22&btnG=Search
Synthesis
I'm not one for whining and bitching.
I'm not one for moaning and groaning.
I'm already too old for peak oil to do more to me that screw up my retirement, if I had any left after the financial melt down killed off my potential clients , took care of my retirement money and screwed over me but good. [Like the old Chinese curse says, I'm living in interesting times.])
So what can I do right now? And what can I see in the future as a way of possibly helping myself? And you too?
Right now, I'm getting rid of my car. Hey I can actually do it. I live within hobblng distance of public transit. In New York City and environs, owning a car actually detracts from your mobility.
If you don't live the same way, you'll have to move wont you.
I'm not going to sugar-coat it.
Forget about owning your own cars unless they're electric. Forget about needing cars too when you can take an elevator/people mover anywhere you'll need to go.
Forget living in the suburbs unless you are independently wealthy.
But there are plenty of ways we can live together, but apart, in archologies.
The farming too can be done in climate controlled conditions. No more worrying about the rains being late or coming too often. No more worrying about how to get the produce picked, or to get it to to market.
---- "Sexy Noises Turn Me On" by: "Salt-N-Pepa" http://www.saltunrapped.com/
Conclusion:
Montréal is an example, a starting point, showing us what is possible already.
Its got lots of problems that it inherits from its older infrastructure, but its a mile post.
Now lets think big, really big, and really modern.
(That should get the architects really interested. Build an archology and name it after yourself.)
---- "I'm Too Sexy" by: "Right Said Fred" http://www.rightsaidfred.com/
Outro
The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.
And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.
You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.
Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com
----
And we're ending off with something originally composed by "Fats Waller" ( http://www.muziekweb.nl/shared/cat/ti/index.php?tnr=JDX1086 ) but I have no idea of where picked up this recording.
---- "Sextette from Lucia" by: "Royal Italian Marine Band (Musical group)"
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