Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Rural Crime Watch Area; Or, A Vacation Post for 2025

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  In a perfect world this would be a substantive post, as I left on my summer bike  trip last Wednesday and arrived home yesterday. On the o...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Postblogging Technology, December 1954: Home for the Holidays

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  R_.C_., Nakusp, Canada Dear Father: I have no idea whether we'll actually be able to make a family tradition of Christmas in Nakusp, b...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Postblogging Technology, December 1953, II: Girls Who Won't Say No

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Norah Docker for woman of the year, 1953! I guess the day had to come when I wasn't ...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Postblogging Technology, December 1953, I: The Louche Years Begin

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  R_., C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you for the tickets, which we received on Monday. I have no idea how you found...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXIX: Nose to Tail

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  So while I ordinarily don't work very much Christmas week because my contract guarantees me two stat days and my work place is closed ...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVI: A Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition in the Maghreb?

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  So, three things: i) There is no way that I am not posting this ad, especially the week I read Edith Outland on " the Effingham libel...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: St. Nicholas

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  St. Nicholas, Washington Irving tells us, was first seen by a Dutch scouting party checking out Manhattan. Shipwrecked on its shores, the...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Postblogging Technology, December 1951, I: Christmas Truce

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  R_. C_., Arcadia, Santa Clara, California Dear Father: In the end, Reggie did decide to go to the memorial, so your phone call did some go...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Travel Notes, II: Tashme

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 Here I am, back at my comfortable computer station in Vancouver, as from 9:40 last night. With the ergonomic issues --and the fatigue that ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Travel Notes: Thoughts on Sugarloaf Summit

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 The Crow's Nest Highway, Number 3, along which I stumbled and bumbled on my vacation last summer presents the Hope-Princeton as the fi...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Postblogging Technology,December 1949, II: Blue Christmas

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(Swapped for "Blue Christmas" below, because I have a legit excuse to lead off with Lead Belly.) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1949, II: Ferrite Age

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That's the spirit. Now for something whitebread. CBC Radio's old time stable of local Can-Con did a Christmas album ...
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Postblogging Technology, September, 1949, II: The End of the Great Siege

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(When Suzy was due to come back from pregnancy leave in '53, her boss told her that "they'd decided to go in a different...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Wehem Meset: Letters From the Apocalypse

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* (America is to the left. This is quite a pedal.) Edgar Dewdney's bid for an 1861 contract to link (Fort) Hope with Fort Stee...
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Pyramids and Migrating Genes: A Holiday Diversion

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In a spirit of pure academic inquiry, I am going to note here that I rode up Anarchist Summit Thursday morning with my bike badly out of wh...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Simulating the World: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1949, I

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I'm on vacation in the third week of August, because that's what vacation is for. The schedule of my life therefore calls for the s...
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Saturday, November 10, 2018

Postblogging Technology, September 1948, I: First Farnborough

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(A little early, but Fortune follows up on the home heating industry this month.) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear ...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

Postblogging Technology, January 1948, I: Third Party Challenge

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R_.C_., Vancouver, Canada Dear Sir: I promised you a full report on my travels, and I wish I could supply it, but,somehow, in...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Postblogging Technology, December 1947, I: An Imports-Export Crisis

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The Caribbean theme is developed, a bit, below.  R._C._, Vancouver,  Canada Dear Sir: It seems to be a habit...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Postblogging Technology, November, 1946, I: Thirty Miles of Coal Smoke

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R_.C_., Westmount, Montreal, Canada. Dear Father: Again, thank you for all that you have done. In your reply to my telegraph, yo...