Post favorite DrBill
recently shared some personal information about the medical challenges he faces. Post staff is pleased to read he is facing these challenges with the courage and humility necessary to come out on top. "Okay, I am a creature of habit and routine does work for me and it is a good thing because that is what it takes to line up with the schedule here. Rigorous, almost grueling, but doable. I look at this with passion as my full-time job with a potential huge payoff of a full life again." We at Post Time Media speak for all of us when we say, "Godspeed, Dr. Bill."
"I knew that after being unplugged for close to 4 months," writes Post blogger Jim Vail, "there would be snafus getting back, but I was still surprised by the outcome."
Post blogger Michael Conniff, AKA the Con Man, loved the movie "Iron Man" but left looking for the irony in same. "So there you have it," he blogs. "The ironic super-hero who swears he will stop the arms race, only to guarantee by the end of the movie that it will escalate further. What’s wrong with that? Consider that nowhere in the movie’s denouement does Tony Stark betray any sense of foreboding or regret. When the time comes for the final, triumphant press conference, the only thing on his relentlessly narcissistic scumbag mind is whether his assistant, Pepper Pots, played by the beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow, actually loves him; and whether the time has come to tell the world that the great Tony Stark is in fact Iron Man."
Posts filed under 'Technology'
I remain fascinated by the debate about rampant piracy in the music and video industries. The profits of the big companies in this sphere seem to be dropping quicker than a Bill Clinton intern on a pizza run! Their content is being downloaded at the speed of light and most of the recipients don’t seem to want to pay for it. After all, digitization has made it easier to steal intellectual property than to convince Mick to nix a monster home in favor of affordable housing.
Continue Reading December 9th, 2007
So here’s the betrayal: you might not be old enough to know this, but when CDs replaced LPs, we were told by the electronics industry that they were virtually indestructible—that they would last forever.
So what did we do? We bought all of our old favorite records in CD, and most of the time that worked out. (Though where, oh where, did John McLaughlin’s guitar solo go in “Inner Mounting Flame” by the Mahavishnu Orchestra? That one’s a crime against humanity.) Some audiophiles grumbled the loss of this or that in the re-telling, but most of us could not have told the difference if a stun gun was to our head. Most people eventually dumped their record collections.
Continue Reading November 25th, 2007
November 25, 2007
Good morning! Two eggs sunnyside up in a crepe pan, divvied up and layered over two pieces of wheat toast at 45 calories apiece, all of it washed down with no-pulp OJ and stale coffee from Sumatra…
Why bother with the novel? I look at it this way: rather than thinking it’s dead, I’m convinced it’s about to come to life through audio, video, photography, text—you name it. In fact, over the last fifteen years, I’ve become more convinced than ever.
To give you a clue as to my confidence, consider this bit about the writer John Dos Passos from a piece published October 31, 2005, by George Packer in The New Yorker.
Continue Reading November 25th, 2007
One year after I graduated I was in a serious car accident that left me paralyzed. On January 04, 2002 my whole life changed. I was driving to work one morning, when I hit some ice and rolled the truck that I was driving. I was not wearing my seatbelt, and was ejected out of the back passenger window. I was left with a spinal cord injury, fracturing my T8, 9, and 10 vertebrates, along with my jaw, all of my ribs on my right side, and some of the bones surrounding my right eye. I was flown to St. Mary’s Hospital where I spent 11 days then flown to Denver to Craig Hospital where I then spent another three months learning to live in a wheel chair. Since then I have experimented with many different ways of therapy, including acupuncture, the hyperbaric chamber, and other physical therapy. I have traveled many places (New Mexico, St. Louis, Texas, and Oklahoma) for therapy, in hopes to a full recovery, in my mind that means walking again.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2007
By Amanda Boxtel
As I venture forth as one of the pioneer patients receiving human embryonic stem cell therapy I realize more and more that Dr. Geeta Shroff is at the eye of a global controversial storm and I am at the dawn of an age of discovery that will forever change the world.
Since landing on American soil two months ago, I have found myself spiraling into a whirlpool of emotion. While sometimes spinning out of control, those intense emotions collided with an influx of stem cell information causing deep anxiety on all levels. As scientists and researchers speak of worldwide collaboration in stem cell research, I have witnessed outright ridicule for those blasted as radicals experimenting with new therapies in other countries. Egos abound and I am more perplexed. I am left feeling disheartened and surprised by negative responses to what scientists deem people like me to be desperate patients in search of stem cell tourism and miraculous unsafe trea tments abroad. This world is cutthroat. I have come to understand that objective or factual science is inherently influenced by varying degrees of subjectivity or individualized opinions. Respected authorities seem to have adopted a dogmatic system of beliefs and will accept nothing but hard core scientific evidence, frowning upon those who have the courage and audacity to step out of the box and make quantum breakthroughs with clinical trials.
Continue Reading October 25th, 2007
On that fateful day in February, Leah, who had been an incredibly active woman - who had relocated to pursue her dreams in the mountains of Colorado - found herself in a state where she could not cough nor sneeze, nor could she move from her chest down. Every day for three months she relearned how to sit up, stand, feed herself, and perform simple tasks. She continues today to push the limits of her abilities by remaining an incredibly active woman – participating in regular spin classes and yoga. Leah had to reach very deep down inside her soul to find the determination and courage from within to continue her journey, called life.
Continue Reading October 4th, 2007
From the street, the building with the large "Cyber Cafe" sign looked promising. Then we entered the 10x10 foot first floor open-air office and saw the steepest, smallest circular staircase we've ever seen as the only way up to the second floor. We ascended to find a 10x10 foot room with no glass in the windows that held six computers, two of which were working. The sign said broadband, but it's clearly dial-up. When we sat down there was one other customer - an Indian who was on a nasty porn site- I told Allen in a loud voice to "watch out for that guy - he's looking at PORN." The man quickly switched to other sites, then left.
Continue Reading September 5th, 2007
Life in the blogosphere is not without its milestones. Here at Aspen Post, after little more than a year alive and online we passed a miraculous milestone in August 2007 when we crossed the threshold of 1,000 posts up and available, along with over 2,300 comments therein.
You could look it up, but in the annals of local blogging attention must be paid to this kind of output--with frequent passion, precision, and playfulness as the by-products. Keep in mind that when we threw the switch at Post Time Media Inc. we had no idea whether anyone would blog, or whether anyone would care. With 50 bloggers in the books, now we know they will and they do, and thereby hangs a tail.
Continue Reading August 28th, 2007
The problem is that anyone can add content to Wikipedia, and damn near every wing-nut with an internet connection has. Hence, Wikipedia has small army of volunteers who search for and undo unhelpful contributions. This problem is compounded by the fact that Wikipedia permits anonymous contributions. Consequently, content that arises out of less than altruistic motives can appear anywhere, at anytime. The problem is so prevalent that some pages are a joke.
When Virgil Griffith, a Cal Tech computer and neural-systems grad student, read about Congressmen “cleaning up” their Wikipedia pages, he wrote WikiScanner, a utility that scans the millions of Wikipedia contributions and ties them, obliquely, to the contributor.
Continue Reading August 16th, 2007
Disguised as a mild-mannered physicist, Prof Jim Kakalios (U Minn) will explore the physics secrets behind Superheroes. Just how DOES Superman leap a tall building in a single bound? Can the Flash really do quantum tunneling? The Physics of Superheroes explores everything from energy, to thermodynamics, to quantum mechanics, to solid-state physics, and relates the physics in comic books to such real-world applications as automobile airbags, microwave ovens, and transistors.
Fun, provocative, and packed with more superheroes than an Avengers-Justice League crossover!
Continue Reading August 1st, 2007
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