What I take from this story is that the author is somewhat cool on cities

And judging from this:

If global population soars through 10 billion and continues toward 20 billion, we will all be living in gigantic, polluted, diseased slums in the 22nd century - the vision of a Lagos with a population of 150 million will be repeated worldwide.

Not superkeen on people, either.

The US 4th of July stuff is OK

But why all the Regency Steampunk stuff? I don't think it's asking too much for the ARW homages to have the odd spaceship or giant robot. Or at least a jetpack.

CBS Radio Workshop: I Have Three Heads

I Have Three Heads

A tour of the heady world of reel-to-reel tape machines as used in the world of radio, given from the point of view of a veteran reel-to-reel tape machine.

The technology is now largely outdated but some of the points, including what a malicious editor can do with editing, still stand.

CBS Radio Workshop: Epitaphs (Spoon River Anthology)

Epitaphs (Spoon River Anthology)

This is a dramatization of Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology.

Today's intriguing discovery

My two-way cat door does not function as expected when hit simultaneously by two cats headed in opposite directions.

Nigel Versus the Sock of Doom

What began as a simple hop onto the couch took a terrible turn when ( Read more... )

CBS Radio Workshop: The Seven Hills

The Seven Hills

This is about Rome but the sound on the file I was listening too was iffy and I couldn't sort it out from the ambient noise on the bus.

CBS Radio Workshop: Housing Problems (Based on a story by Henry Kuttner)

Housing Problems

A couple reacts to their border's request not to look under the cover of his "birdcage" by looking under the cover of his "birdcage". What they find is a reclusive community of pixies, which they proceed to annoy until that lot of pixies moves out. It gets worse from there.

Yeah, the humans deserve pretty much everything that happens to them. They show a special talent for quick justifications for doing whatever occurs to them at the moment coupled to an inability to learn from experience.

CBS Radio Workshop: Meditations on Ecclesiastes

Meditations on Ecclesiastes

What it says on the tin. Mostly musical, although there is an odd musing on fallout at the beginning and a reading at the end.