Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.
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Sunday, August 28, 2022
Summer Trip and a Book: Reza Aslan's Zealot In Ranch Country
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1952, I: No Fatigue Yet
I am leaving for my annual bike ride across the mountains to Grand Forks, the improbably remote location of my hermit Dad's old folks home, on Saturday, 20 August. I will be returning to Vancouver on Sunday, 28 August. Because of flooding damage, I will be riding the historic but for the most part determinedly unscenic but historic Highway 3 (Crowsnest) again. Check out the defensiveness of the Wikipedia article about the Falls of the Similkameen at Wikipedia. No, really, you can see most of the Falls from one specific point on the highway if you keep your eyes peeled.
I mean, I guess. If I remember, I will post some pictures of the Osoyoos-Bridesville leg as I go. "Anarchist Summit" isn't nearly as historic a name as you might think (no Doukhobor cult leaders murdered by bombs on this route), but it's a fun name and a great biking challenge.
And by that time, I will, like a heavily-worked thin section of 75ST aluminum, I will be fatigued. Hopefully, I will not have a crack propagation problem.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Postblogging Technology, May 1952, II: Turbo House
Shaughnessy,
Vancouver,
Canada
Dear Father:
Your Loving Daughter,
Ronnie