Bench Grass

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.

Friday, October 9, 2026

I Cast Fireball! A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1956

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[Insert some kind of PSA about pyromania not being as much fun in real life.] This here is a hobby of mine, and I do have other hobbies, mos...
Sunday, October 4, 2026

Postblogging Technology, June 1956, II: Communism Invests, President Pukes

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Seems like the guy I'd rely on to distract me from my plane crashing into the sea .  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

Postblogging Technology, June 1956: The Querulous Old Man And the Central Bank

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That is quite the artist's impression of the King of Rock and Roll .  R_.,C_. Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: In anticipatio...
Friday, September 18, 2026

The Chairman's Little Helper: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging, May 1956

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  (If you're wondering over The Engineer, my tentative theory is that it briefly appeared on the Hold shelves during my August trip and ...
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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Postblogging Technology, May 1956, II: "A Shabby Little Man"

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Too old to rock and roll.   R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Just a month to the end of school! It's like I'm eig...
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Postblogging Technology, May 1956, I: A New Age

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Interesting to see this in 1956! I am glad to hear that you will take on the children at...
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Sunday, August 30, 2026

The Iron Age Revival of the State XXVIII: some Road Trip Thoughts

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  Two things seem safe to say here: i) The Siege of Troy is the most significant historical event of the Mediterranean Iron Age, whenever it...
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