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james_davis_nicollTomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow (based on a story by Kurt Vonnegut) & The Only Bird in Her Name (based on a story by Terry Dowling)
Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow
Thanks to the invention of an anti-aging drug, the world is overcrowded and at least for the family in this story, ruled by the cruel whims of the deathless elders. With no other way to clear the boards, people's thoughts turn to murder and other underhanded tricks.
Interesting that the population crush is caused not by the more common birth rates GONE MAD! but the elimination of death (or at least, a significant deferment of death for most people). It's less interesting that the population that has the population of Earth living like the inhabitants of a Soviet-era tenement is just twelve billion people: it's one part SF authors have no sense of scale and one part this particular family is determined to stay in their family apartment in New York despite the fact if they all do this, their living conditions become nearly intolerable.
The Only Bird in Her Name
A journalist monitors the final hunt of a "forgetty", a shape-shifter that can steal memories. She and the guy trying to keep the hunters from killing an intelligent being hit it off, only one reason why her neutrality in the matter is open to question.
The story itself was fine but a lot of the background details needed more explanation.
The technical quality of this episode and the acting is very good.
Huh.
Just stumbled over this. Can anyone else download the episodes?
Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow
Thanks to the invention of an anti-aging drug, the world is overcrowded and at least for the family in this story, ruled by the cruel whims of the deathless elders. With no other way to clear the boards, people's thoughts turn to murder and other underhanded tricks.
Interesting that the population crush is caused not by the more common birth rates GONE MAD! but the elimination of death (or at least, a significant deferment of death for most people). It's less interesting that the population that has the population of Earth living like the inhabitants of a Soviet-era tenement is just twelve billion people: it's one part SF authors have no sense of scale and one part this particular family is determined to stay in their family apartment in New York despite the fact if they all do this, their living conditions become nearly intolerable.
The Only Bird in Her Name
A journalist monitors the final hunt of a "forgetty", a shape-shifter that can steal memories. She and the guy trying to keep the hunters from killing an intelligent being hit it off, only one reason why her neutrality in the matter is open to question.
The story itself was fine but a lot of the background details needed more explanation.
The technical quality of this episode and the acting is very good.
Huh.
Just stumbled over this. Can anyone else download the episodes?
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Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-03 02:55 pm (UTC)Fortunately Chrome provides a fairly simple workaround. Go to that page. Hit F12 to bring up Developer Tools; click the Network tab. Now on the original page, start the story. You will see a "read.php" entry show up in the network tab. Right-click this entry and select "copy as curl". Your clipboard now contains the exact curl (http://curl.haxx.se) command needed to send the cookie to the server and return the audio stream. Add a filename to the commandline and you've downloaded a file.
If you wish, I can download individual episodes for you and email them to you.
Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-03 02:57 pm (UTC)Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-03 02:58 pm (UTC)Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-03 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-03 09:48 pm (UTC)You must do this one at a time, and display each popup, because it is the process of displaying the popup that stuffs your choice into a session variable.
I have also made the complete set available in my google drive, but now that I realize how easy it is to defeat this, I feel a little silly.
Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-04 03:59 am (UTC)Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-04 04:00 am (UTC)Re: Not simple, but possible.
Date: 2013-06-04 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-03 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 05:29 am (UTC)"Bob, that's an awfully big net."
"Sure. Gotta get the memory bird."
"Wow! I didn't know you were hunting the memory bird."
"Why did you give me the net?"
"What net? That net? That's not my net."
"Look out, it's close!"
* all characters panic *
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Date: 2013-06-06 06:44 pm (UTC)