[Kzyxtalk] A taste of their own medicine.

[Marco McClean]

  The recording of last night's (2015-02-20) KNYO Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show is ready to download and keep or just play with one 
click at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com.

Considering I have another cold –that’s two in two months– and so am not 
firing on all eight cylinders, as they say, this is a bang-up show, full 
of useful and comic and comically useful information, such as a news 
story about a Republican election official said to be "on FIRE for the 
LORD" having shot herself directly in the eye by adjusting her personal 
protection weapon in its bra holster. (Moral: Don’t do that.) I managed 
somehow to confine my coughing fits to during musical breaks, so there’s 
another plus.

When I got up this afternoon I found several emails from people not in 
town, and so out of range of KNYO’s tiny radio transmitter, complaining 
of not being able to listen in real time via http://knyo.org and I’m 
pretty sure the problem was the limited number of streams available. 
When the maximum number is being used, further potential listeners can’t 
connect. I’ll talk with KNYO's Bob Young about that. There might be 
something we can do, like add a small subscription service to pay for 
automatically pushing the number up when that’s needed. I don’t know how 
to do that, but Bob probably does.

Anyway, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find thousands 
and thousands of links to interesting things to see and do and learn 
about, such as:

There may not be, as Kenneth Patchen said, "...butterflies bigger than 
Earth and leopards made of golden wire circling the sun," but there are 
winds that can shut down star formation throughout an entire galaxy.
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/19/how-black-hole-winds-blow.html

Those placebo herbal remedies you swear by are placebos. No, really, 
many of them have zero of the listed ingredients actually in the pills 
and are just random weeds and rice powder. And some of them have 
poisonous poison in them. (A famous herbal supplement pusher was killed 
by his own company's "natural, safe, healthy and just plain smart" 
products.)
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/02/03/sidebar-whats-in-those-supplements/

And this pet bird has become the ghost of the relationship of its 
previous owners. Sad and cute at the same time. I understand there's a 
word in Kwakiutl for that. In English we have /hot mess/ but that's two 
words, not one, and it doesn't describe it at all. Just watch the birdy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFEA0vSwgQ