Tag: a step farther out

ASFO 2025–10–18

The future should look like the future — all right, but what kind of future? Billions for defense, billions more for infrastructure, but to what avail? Also, novel forms of morality with nothing to recommend them, served piping fresh.

Supplementary Show

2025–10–24 Starting late and frequently interrupted, a ramble around London Saint Pancras and King’s Cross railway stations in search of a Folkestone bus pass. I swear it makes some kind of sense in context!

ASFO 2025–10–11

Greetings from the “Dengie Hundred” in the marshy east of England, where bus service is minimal, Lamborghinis compete with farm equipment for room on the roads, and there seems to be more public concern about power pylons than about the much larger and more obtrusive wind turbines. Unfortunately, my best attempts to put out a show ran into technical troubles, which did not get fixed until about 22 minutes in.

ASFO 2025–10–04

Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Locomotion Museum in Shildon, a consideration of the potential role of a “very light rail vehicle” and the true nature of the harm done by the Beeching Axe, a video showcasing the famous Flying Scotsman steam locomotive and the horrifying dietary habits of British railwaymen (with some blink–and–you–miss–it nuclear–energy content), and a brief appearance by Drax the Destroyer… also an invitation to SDFers in Britain who might like to meet up.

ASFO 2025–09–27

Are the working poor of today better off than the kings of old? I provide one reason to think they are, and describe some of my adventures in international travel, and a really nifty pair of cuff links I bought in a charity shop for the princely sum of £2. Also a discussion of the finer details of nuclear waste disposal, in the context of asininity at Asse. Unfortunately this show was interrupted in the middle by some kind of network failure.

ASFO 2025–09–20

Much of this episode is about travel, starting with my plans for the coming few weeks, and digressing to the Brenner Base Tunnel, and to Bucky Fuller’s fascinating idea that Man has long misidentified himself as a member of the vegetable kingdom.

ASFO 2025–09–13

Back in Munich, I find myself musing upon news from the USA which strikes me as less than newsworthy, news from Hungary which is not entirely surprising but could hardly have come at a worse time, and news from Mexico City which will probably be forgotten very soon.

ASFO 2025–08–30

Good news from Boca Chica, with a logistical note to say that nobody is going to Mars in 2026 ; hopeful news from outstate Michigan ; downright stupid news from Fairbanks, and some kind of answer to the question “what goes into a $200 million airplane, anyway?” ; bad news from Taiwan ; “is Europe failing?” ; and a meditation on what is and is not “political” which reflects on a great deal of other news.