76:52 | 86:16 | 78:17 | 8 hours of podsumery. I am going to have to do a purge again. I cannot keep up. I don’t like having to choose who to keep and who to cut.

75:21 | 79:47 | 74:44 | 5:03 hrs.

1. Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1181: ACTA: it’s bad for the brand
2. Psychology 3256 (Winter 2010) – Factorial ANOVA 01
3. Psychology 4007 (Winter 2010) – The Gender Similarity Hypothesis
4. Psychology 1107 (Winter 2010) – Stress and Health 02
5. Biology and Psychology 3506 (Winter 2010) – Antipsychotics

74:44 | 79:06 | 74:10 | 4:54 hrs.

1. Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1182: Where we’re going, we don’t need rails
2. The Empress Sword 05
3. Out of the Coffin Episode #56 – Interview with Gail Carriger author of SOULLESS
4. The History of Rome 015a- The Second Samnite War
5. HP Podcraft Episode 32 – The Rats in the Walls: Part 2
6. Psychology 3256 (Winter 2010) – Factorial ANOVA 02 – That noise? That is the sound of my head spinning.
7. Agony 837: A 2010 Interview with Dan Simmons
8. DarkCompass 405 The Banana Method
9. ChinesePod Newbie – Please let me through!
10. storm – podictionary 141

I messed up my numbers for today – oops.

1. Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1183: War and peace on the Internet
2. SciAm Ice, Ice, Baby: The Physics of Curling – Yeah… I listened several times and I still don’t understand the physics of curling. Maybe with GoToMyPC I would have been able to see it better.
3. FourCast More power for the AI! – Ep. 20
4. 1UP.com – 4 Guys 1UP – 02/26/2010
5. Into the Dark Episode 053 – Lock, Stock, & Two Smokin’ Aces – I haven’t seen Lock Stock or Aces 2, but I enjoyed Aces 1. I have no idea what the story was, which didn’t really matter to me because this was a purely visual joy ride. I really want to see Lock Stock now.
6. ISBW ISBW #142 – Feedback!
7. Slice of Sci Fi #254: An Interview With Ted Raimi of “Legend of the Seeker”
8. Slice of SciFi #253: VoiceMail Show
9. Cover to Cover #397B: Books and . . .
10. Quirks & Quarks 2010-02-27 – I was putting the groceries away and had to keep rewinding the Spiderman section. Very cool, if I did in fact understand what was said.
11. Cybrosis – Episode 09
12. The Good Parts, Episode 15: Entitlement
13. Beware the Hairy Mango Episode 27 – Jim Comes Out
14. Dead Mech Episode 12
15. The Empress Sword Episode 06 – Magic Sword – I had a feeling…
16. Tor.com Story Podcast #11: “Down on the Farm” by Charles Stross – I’ve heard this one before… somewhere. It was a somewhat better recording, though nothing against the read itself. Either way, it was and is a good tale.
17. leech – podictionary 1109

72:33 | 87:39 | 76:52 | 10:47

• Begin it with a letter or a number
• Include at least one letter and one number
• If you use your e-mail address, you don’t need to include a number
• 5 to 50 characters and no spaces

Really? My username HAS to have a number?

Tomorrow, when I come back to USE this account I won’t remember my username.

Oh! I know, I’ll just write it down on this piece of paper with all of my passwords that are also too convoluted to remember. Because, like a secret, it isn’t secure until NO ONE knows.

Frogs.

Promo: Anomaly

Clip: Zoe Winters from The Road to Magical Happy Greatness

Clip: Dave Brodbeck from Dave’s Psych Classes

Clip: NPH from Dr. Horrible

Music: Darling Parade [edit: The song is titled "Bells Are Ringing"]

Shout Out to Touching The Monolith

Feedback from:

• Lord Wardious
• WanderWolf of WanderRadio

[Tao]

11. Tools
Thirty spokes meet at a nave;
Because of the hole we may use the wheel.
Clay is moulded into a vessel;
Because of the hollow we may use the cup.
Walls are built around a hearth;
Because of the doors we may use the house.
Thus tools come from what exists,
But use from what does not.

[Outro]
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72:23 | 80:53 | 75:21 | 5:32 hrs.

66:18 | 81:21 | 72:23 | 8:58 hrs

71:09 | 66:18 | 4:51 hrs.

the long and grinding road

More on the weird billing, and costs of healthcare

Just to be clear: He has insurance. And is probably going to be driven penniless by the cost of his treatment. Got that? Okay… now my opinion.

The entire health care issue, in my overly something opinion, can boil down to this: is every human life worth fighting for, to the bitter end… or do we value some lives over others, value some lives longer than others?

And by we, I mean literally we, we the people, the ones who live and breathe and suffer and die. All of us.

Do we value life so much that we will pay for radical treatments, experimental drugs (and the research that goes before), and optional surgeries? Or do we think that some lives are worth more than others?

This has all sorts of implications from abortion policies to euthanasia. Too many implications for my mind to do more than boggle over right now.

If some lives are worth more, how do we sort it out? Who is worth more? Why? Maybe the ability to pay for insurance IS our sorting mechanism.

If that is the case, the current state of insurance seems to me to indicate that the most valuable lives are the ones that are HEALTHY and insured (i.e. paying into the system.)

That strikes me as a really piss poor way of choosing who is valuable enough to save.

-=-=-=-

On a different angle, the idea that public for-profit companies run health care insurance is foolish. The goals and mottoes of the company and customers are in direct conflict with each other. The company’s goal is to increase profit. Which simply means taking in more money while paying out less. The customer’s goal is to pay a small amount frequently so that in the event of a situation (or emergency) there is not a large amount to pay out.

Okay, that’s probably not quite accurate. The customer really wants to put in a little bit frequently in order to stay healthy. The customer doesn’t really want insurance so much as steady and covered care. If the ends to the means is through insurance, so be it.

I spent years buying into the idea that the government was the scary evil thing. Since the government is people and we are the people, well, it is still a scary thing. Scary and stupid rather than scary and evil. But now I’m buying into the idea that corporations are evil. When the ultimate goal, for which everything else is sacrificial, is to increase profit every quarter, then there is NO ROOM FOR GOOD. In the same way that the absence of light is dark, the absence of good is evil.

So yeah, I trust the tea party idiots more than I trust any insurance company. And those tea party yipyaps probably want to kill me because I LOOK different.

60:36 | 67:05 | 61:50 | 5:15 hrs.

60:52 | 65:36 | 60:36 | 5:00 hrs. How neat is that?

53:34 | 66:32 | 60:52 | 5:40 hrs

64:08 | 53:34 | 10:34 hrs podsumed.

1. Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1172: All tanker captains need a sextant
2. Cybrosis – Feedback Episode 01 Part 2
3. Cover to Cover #395B: Weighing in on the iPad
4. Cover to Cover #396A: Nina Munteanu
5. Episode 3 – Spherical Tomi: A Novel of Despair
6. ConJour ‘10 – Plot Development Panel
7. 37. Today’s Letters are F and G – Lessons From A Geek Fu Master
8. Writing Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner

47:15 | 54:24 | 49:45 | 4:39 hrs

50:11 | 56:02 | 49:15 | 6:47

1. Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1170: ACTA must be stopped
2. East Meets West 194: Aim for the Modesto
3. Into the DARK Episode 051 – The Power of Words
4. Common Sense with Dan Carlin Show 170 – To Dum Two Vowt
5. No BS Podcast #129: Gordon Called It
6. The 4th Age Podcast – Episode 65 – The Lost Episode

47:54 | 54:25 | 50:11 | 4:14 hrs of podsummmmmery

43:28 | 52:52 | 47:54 | 4:58

Some people have too much time on their hands. While urinating.

I do not understand.

56:52 | 43:28 | 13:24 hrs podsumed

52:17 | 44:31 | 7:46 hrs of podsuming. Wow.

1. Buzz Out Loud 1163: Facebook login
2. Episode 14 – Ravenwood
3. FourCast Cloudy skies for the President – Ep.17
4. The ComputerKing’s Into the Dark Episode 050 – Nifty Fifty! – Welcome back!
5. Cybrosis – Episode 06
6. GalaxyBillies – Episode 3
7. Spider on the Web 78 – Music with a Wooden Leg
8. The Empress Sword Episode 04 – Misty Mountain
9. Podcast: I Speak Fluent Giraffe: Triage of Porks
10. The Phileas Club – 21. Podcastus Interruptus
11. Touching the Monolith Episode 35 – Hot and Six-Sided
12. Down From Ten, ep 18
13. The Dreamer’s Thread blooper reel bonus content
14. Slice of SciFi #251: A Conversation With Brooke Lewis of “Dhamer vs. Gacy”
15. Litopia AfterDark Word Wars for Fun and Profit – PJ was almost on there more than Pip.
16. Agony 822: A 2009 Interview with David Drake (1/2)
17. Beware the Hairy Mango Episode 26 – Double Shot
18. Tangential Convergence Episode 21 – When the Red Red Robin Comes Goo Goo Googling Along
19. The History of Rome 83- May His Bones Be Crushed
20. Psychology 1107 (Winter 2010) – Emotion 01
21. Biology and Psychology 3506 (Winter 2010) – Caffeine

42:59 | 54:19 | 43:18 | many hours

Favorite Movie: The Dark Knight, runner up is Fido.

Favorite TV Show: TSCC 0r SGU or Fringe

Favorite CD: Adrina Thorpe or Breaking Benjamin

Favorite Book: Butcher’s Storm Front

Favorite Podnovel: Fractured Horizons

Favorite Podcast: Category is too broad.

Favorite Womic: Questionable Content with nods to Something*Positive and Goblins

Favorite Comic: X-Factor or Detective Comics featuring Batwoman

Favorite MP3 player: Sansa Clip ties with iRiver Clix (Gen1)

Favorite headphones: NONE. I’m sick of having to buy a new pair every other month.

Favorite Event: Getting Married!

Favorite Game: Wii Bowling / Munchkin Cthulhu

AmazonFail the sequel
Apple iPad
Tobias Buckell
something else?

promo for the BGs

special interupt by Die Antwoord

[Tao]

10. Harmony
Embracing the Way, you become embraced;
Breathing gently, you become newborn;
Clearing your mind, you become clear;
Nurturing your children, you become impartial;
Opening your heart, you become accepted;
Accepting the world, you embrace the Way.

Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
This is harmony.

[Outro]
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39:39 | 46:41 | 42:48 | 3:53 hrs.

The front of the dryer is off and to the side. Vex is helping me try to diagnose why there is no heat in the dryer. He was very helpful with headrubs.

37:39 | 45:55 | 39:39 | 6:16 hrs podsummmmmmed

34:08 | 41:55 | 37:39 | 4:16 hrs consumed

33:39 | 40:42 | 34:08 | 6:34 hrs of podcast comsumption.

31:44 | 40:14 | 33:39 | 6:35

31:14 | 37:15 | 31:44 | 5:31 hrs

Death by Taxes

31:01 | 36:01 | 30:54 | 5:05 hrs

For the Deadpan Ambassador.

31:08 | 37:37 | 31:01 | 6:36 hrs. Again, that doesn’t add up. I’m going to have to investigate my “tracking method” because something is getting missed.

Waiting in line to go into the fancy automated car wash and Jade points out the icicles. So I took a snap of it for her.

22:52 | 39:49 | 31:08 | 8:41 hrs podsumed. Got Podcasts(tm)?

31:06 | 38:39 | 22:52 | 15:47 hrs.

32:40 | 39:37 | 31:06 | 8:31 hours of podsuming… that’s not right. Humph. I am pretty sure I didn’t listen to more than 6 hours of podcasts today, so I must have done something different/wrong when I collected my stats.

29:20 | 59:38 | 32:40 | 26:58 hours of podcasts consumed. Almost a week without updating my MP3 player and I only ran out of ‘casts late before bed today. Rock on.

33:45 | 40:33 | 29:20 | 11:13 hrs of podcasts since the last update.