The Adult Space Child Free Podcast

The Skepchicks talk pregnancy

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:48:11 +0000

Skepticism extends beyond used cars, religion, and diet fads. It is, essentially, having an active BS meter armed with accurate-as-we-can-manage knowledge about the world we live in, and giving a second look at everything, including our own cultural assumptions.

The Skepchicks just posted an article about several of the things that make me not want to ever be pregnant. I think they only left out the likelihood of episiotomy and other post-pregnancy sexual changes, the risk of permanent but generally low-level incontinence (urinary or fecal), and that one also pisses oneself during delivery.

http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/02/what-pregnant-women-wont-tell-you-ever/

Please, forward their link around. It may educate someone who “never saw that bit on TV.” Arm your BS meters, people. Then make your choices.

Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out.

Podfading

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:53:09 +0000

New rounds of medicine have not helped the chronic fatigue, and I’m out of energy for so many things after 3 years fighting this. While it’s no surprise, really, at this point, I am podfading. 75 episodes, not a bad run. Thanks to all of you for listening, especially those who have become my friends and whom I would never have met if not for podcasting.

I do owe apologies to Laura Scott for her great interview. My recorder’s SD card died right as I was uploading the file to my PC. Her new book, Two is Enough, has a Facebook page and website, and the rather fascinating research-based book can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Enough-Couples-Living-Childless/dp/1580052630

The recorder has since had its card replaced and gone to another podcaster that will give it more use. I have other, less robust-sounding mikes for recording clips for other folks, but I don’t anticipate resurrecting this project any time soon. If you would like to take over the show or this feed for a similar show, etc. please email me at podcast at gettingby.net and we can figure out something.

I have updated my hub page http://gettingby.net/ with contact info, Twitterage and other projects, and costume gallery. Check there to see what I do with my waking hours these days.

Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out.

TASCF-075 news and Reboot 46 NK Spokespeople

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:22:21 +0000

The 2010 No Kidding Convention info can be found at http://www.austenchildfree.org and is slated for April.

A long, kinda rambling Happy Things segment. Jasper Fforde wrote The Big Over Easy. Lassen Volcanic and Humboldt parks rocked. So did the G.I. Joe movie, as far as my expectations went.

Original show notes for ep 46:

My heartfelt thanks to LT and Vinny (No Kidding spokespeople for http://www.nokidding.net/ ) for the news and issues this week.
You can find more info from them at:
http://childfreenews.blogspot.com/ and http://www.child-free.com/info.htm

Happy Things: Help from friends like Laura and Vinny. A miscellany of nice things I’ve noticed around here recently.

Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out with many thanks for the help.

Not Dead, not podfaded

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:35:25 +0000

Rumors of my podfading are greatly exaggerated. The loss of Perry hit me pretty hard, and then the new kitten wore me out, and me worn out (as usual) shortly led to my getting sick for a few days. I was too aware of missing DragonCon this year, Mr. Fixed Kitty and I are getting a new D&D campaign and world rolling that takes up way more time than I thought it would, and I just didn’t have any Happy Things in me for a bit there. The Happy is coming back slowly.

I am picking myself back up, I have a file mostly ready to go, and I’m about to go for some vacation time with Mr. Fixed Kitty. The podcast will go up afterwards, as I’m now frantically getting ready and trying to pre-emptively rest at the same time. I really need the Bust Outta Dodge time.

Catch you on the flipside,
CF

TASCF-074_CatchupNews

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Been tired, sick, etc. All explained in Ye Olde mp3 file.

I am in sinus and commute hell.

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:23:37 +0000

Well, not simultaneously. I am currently in sinus hell at home, because I couldn’t handle them both at the same time. However, the part-time job is 6 hours daily with a 4 hour round-trip commute. I am not handling this very well at all. Kickin’ mah tuchis, it is. There is talk of extending the job with work-from-home options. We’ll see if anything materializes from that.

Podcast should be back in action next week. Sorry, folks. You don’t want to hear my current voice.
Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out.

TASCF-073_Reboot39_IanAndSnippage

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:33:58 +0000

Yes, the final Year One entry on the Best of List. Ian Horner of the tiltyhouse.com website and podcasting glory talks snippage with me. We compare our experiences, and there is lots of swearing.

Big happy: JOB!!! ok, for three weeks. Still, I’m excited. Hope to keep up with the weekly cast, but I may miss next week. All encouraging or nagging messages can be sent by any of the contact means in the show notes. Email or Twitter are preferred, as I can reply to those on my phone on the train.

Segment of original show notes, showing how much things stay the same over the years:
NOW REPOSTED DUE TO CRAPPY FEED PROBLEMS. Thanks go to Stephen Eley for helping me diagnose my initial blunder. He does a sci fi and fantasy short fiction podcast called The Escape Pod over at http://www.EscapePod.org and is just generally a really nice guy.

As always, this is copyright 2007, Chris Fisher, all rights reserved. In this episode, Ian and I get very personal and talk about our experiences getting fixed. So, as always, if you want to use any clips from this podcast, you have to get permission first. You can ask at podcast at gettingby.net…

I would call this “the cursed episode” if I were superstitious. This interview was initially recorded and abandoned due to special editing difficulties with that recording, re-recorded (thank you, Ian for your patience), edited, about to have the intro tacked on, and then a power outage and router reconfiguration took over 3 evenings of my computer time last week. If I haven’t responded to an email from you, I’m still catching up. Then I spent another evening backing up machines and installing new sound software. Today I check over the file, and there are sound gaps in it where I see waveforms on the screen but no sound comes out. So what you are hearing is the 2nd complete re-edit of the 2nd recording. The irony that this is episode 39, 13 times 3, does not escape me. Now, onto the show, whose 2nd re-edit was originally going to go out on Wednesday Feb 21st. *sigh*

Show notes:
Ian Horner of the Dai-cast can be found at http://www.tiltyhouse.com .

TASCF-072_reboot37-LauraC-REPOST

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:29:58 +0000

Reposting so iTunes will pick up the fullsize file.

Sorry about the repeat of intro segment last time and missing last week. The holiday snuck up on me. Here is the link to the YouTube video of Cheyenne Wright’s performance at Origens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNLL0qENDE

Here are the relevant links to the original show notes: This episode includes a great interview with Laura Ciaccio, one of the national spokesmen of No Kidding! Reach her at Laura atsymbol childfreenews.com about any of the things we discussed.
http://www.nokidding.net/
http://childfreenews.blogspot.com/index.html
http://childfreeissues.blogspot.com/
http://www.childfreeissues.com/main.htm
and even
http://www.nokiddingstl.com/conventions/vegas2.htm

CF out.
NOTE: Not sure why only first 15 seconds play on the site player. I’ll fix that later this afternoon/evening if I can, but any advice most welcome!!

TASCF-072_reboot37-LauraC

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:44:50 +0000

CF out.
NOTE: Not sure why only first 15 seconds play on the site player. I’ll fix that later this afternoon/evening if I can, but any advice most welcome!!

TASCF-Ep071-Reboot33-Dr.Casper

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:23:03 +0000

#3 from year 1- here are the original show notes:
In this interruption of the News Landslide, I interviewed Dr. Wendy Casper about her article “Beyond Family-Friendly: Singles-friendly work cultures and employee attachment” and talk about Sex in the City, non-genetic social supports, and non-family-related benefits that are on the rise.

I’ll talk to you guys again after Christmas with more of the news landslide.
Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out for a long winter’s nap.

TASCF-Ep070_Reboot13-JerryPt2

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:37:16 +0000

New Happy stuff, followed by the reboot of Episode 13, originally aired on June 22, 2006. The last 2/3 of the interview with Jerry Steinberg, Founding Non-Father of NO KIDDING! includes huge amounts of Happy Stuff at the end from both Jerry and me.

Until next week, when I hope to have the episode out earlier in the week, Chris F, signing out.

TASCF Ep069- Reboot of Ep12 Jerry Steinberg

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:13:05 +0000

Ah, the Best of List. Jerry Steinberg, Founding Non-Father of NO KIDDING! joins us, with a few sound issues. We discuss the international child-free social club that he founded, the #1 child-free guy issue, and his answers to some of the questions I’ve discussed in previous shows. The interview was fun and too long for one show, so it will continue next week.

Current Happy Things:
Gail Carriger interview on Steampod’s feed: http://steampod.org/2009/05/interview-2-gail-carriger/

I’m erstwhily cohosting Brass Needles, a sf/steampunk/knitting podcast. They’re teaching me to make very awesome socks, starting in Episode 7. Hee, socks!

And those Dr. Who toys I mentioned? Scroll down to the Related Images box. Here are some links to places that don’t have them to sell to me! Gah! Gah and grasshoppers! Gah, again! But SOOOO CUUUTE! So if any of you live somewhere where you CAN buy them, please PLEASE contact me and tell me how I can get you the money, ok?

OK, Chris out. Next week, the rest of the interview! More Happy Things! Excelsior!

TASCF-068_5HappyThings-RebootExplained

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:59:35 +0000

As stated in the previous blog post, some things are shifting rapidly in TASCFland. Here are 5 Happy Things and the audio explanation to match the previous blog entry.

Catch you next week with the first full installment of the Reboot!
Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out.

TASCF Reboot with the Best Of List

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:19:12 +0000

Reboot time! And struggling, so it’s time… to go weekly?

Since we have to reboot the blog and I’m having a helluva chronic fatigue slump (antivirals, would you kick in again already, please?) that doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon, here’s what’s happening: I’m going weekly with short new Happy Things intros and replaying the best of list. You’ll get weekly content that takes me less time to produce, the podcast will keep happening while my body decides whether half-dosage is gonna work, and it sure beats taking summer entirely off.

The Best of list was intended particularly for new listeners who want to hopscotch through the archives to get a feel for the show. I selected 5 episodes from each year that seemed of most enduring interest. The links go to the permanent pages of the episodes on the old blog, which have the download and player buttons for the mp3. I will repost the whole list with the new links when they have all been reposted to the feed.

Year 1, March 2006-March 2007: Here are 5 of my favorite interviews from the first year that can quickly catch new listeners up. My audio skills got better over time, thank goodness!
1. Jerry Steinberg, founding non-Father of the No Kidding! social organization, part 1
2. Jerry Steinberg, founding non-Father of the No Kidding! social organization, part 2
3. Dr. Wendy Casper discusses a recent study on singles and family-friendly policies, very applicable to childfree folks in the workplace.
4. Laura Ciaccio, law student, blogger, and one of No Kidding’s national spokespersons discusses her CF life.
5. Ian and Snippage. Ian and I discuss our very different experiences getting fixed.

Year 2, March 2007-March 2008:
1. TASCF-Ep046 News and Issues with LT and Vinny
2. TASCF-Ep047 News and Jerry S returns
3. TASCF-Ep048 Site news and Matthew of Off Topic Talk
4. TASCF-Ep051 PeterRios-ComicGeekSpeak
5. TASCF-Ep053 George Hrab part 1 and TASCF-Ep054 Back George Hrab2

Year 3, March 2008-March 2009:
1. CFS cry for help from the podosphere. This brief PSA is in the list to explain the health context of my CF life. It’s applicable to all episodes starting in January 2007 as far as context goes, but I am no longer seeking help trying to get into clinical trials or specialists’ offices.
2. TASCF Ep057: Childfree Step-parents
3. TASCF-Ep058-MinxPolyamoryWeekly
4. TASCF-60 Ginger Campbell, MD of the Brain Science Podcast
5. TASCF-065:3 years of TASCF, Juanzetta Flowers interview Technically the first show of year 4, but definitely something new listeners should hear.

Thanks for listening! CF out.

Test post

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:57:22 +0000

This is a test to see if the new feed is working.

Welcome to the show’s new website

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:28:19 +0000

The show will now be based off this blog page with its much-easier-to-remember URL. The old stuff is still at http://gettingby.net/blog/nfblog although I expect some of the files to no longer be connected sometime in the near future. I’ll be posting the “best of” list from the 3 preceeding years of TASCF and repodcasting them to get them in this feed over the course of the summer.

Is the feed changing! Yep, that too. More details and links and easy buttons as they begin to exist.

Things will be a little hectic while all of this happens. In the meantime, may I suggest you check out the Brass Needles podcast at http://www.brassneedles.com/ where I have become “the erstwhile co-host.” This is a sci-fi, steampunk, and knitting podcast.

Chris the Fixed Kitty, signing out.