Showing posts with label Technical Appendix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technical Appendix. Show all posts
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Catseye: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1955

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  This cover is credited to Richard M. Powers , and is so beautiful that I decided that I couldn't just stick the credit in a subtitle. ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2026

Minesweeping: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1955

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 In a perfect world where everyone spent their time following the paparazzi who follow me around, you all would have learned not to take my ...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Line Scanning: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1955

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 My familiarity with all of this begins with vignettes in Charles Stross novels in which Concordes and the like demonstrate that there's...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Jordan River Is Deep and Wide: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1956

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  So we are sorted at work about how this humble blogger is going to be plugged into our current workplace "the retail emergency is for...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Another Thing About Balloons: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1955

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 So if the Soviets said, in the summer of 1955 , that they were going to launch an Earth satellite in September of 1957 as part of their c...
Friday, December 12, 2025

"Power To Cheap To Meter:" A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1955

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  The now-closed Dounreay fast breeder reactor in Caithness, Scotland I had to watch one of those "You should totally buy AI because it...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Satellites, Satelloons, and Golf: A Technological Prologue to Postblogging Technology, August 1955

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  "Dirk Boh-Garde" So I discovered, while trying to re-order some of my requests from the library, that the ASRS definitely doesn...
Friday, November 14, 2025

War Balloons and Satelloons! A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1955

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  That's " Fu-Go ," not "Fugu." Those wacky Japanese! So I hope that the readers have been as struck as I have been ...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Salk Vaccine and the Fuck-Up: A Medico-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1955

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(Author's Note: I'm trying out the Google auto-link insertion Blogger "beta feature" to make for a "more engaging rea...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Disney Cartoons and Some Thoughts About Computing in 1955: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1955

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  Lady and the Tramp is that movie with the spaghetti. Per the proffered selection of Youtube shorts, people also remember the Siamese cats...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Le Mans Disaster: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1955

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This is a snip: Source is https://www.mike-hawthorn.org.uk/lemans2.html Discussion below. There is something to be said, once again, for the...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Draining Lake Copais: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1955, I With Bonus LBA Collapse

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 Edit: A bit quick with this one.  Responding to a 29 November, 1952 article in The Economist putting forward    "rather pessimistic pr...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Philco, Roger: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955

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  Not to be indelicate, but what the fuck happened?  As Philco ("Philadelphia Electric Company") launches the marketing campaign f...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pentomic: A Technical But Actually Sociological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955, I

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  Detail of 1779 chorographical map of New York (including chorographical details of adjacent parts of New Jersey but evidently not those of...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

U-Bomb: A Technical Prologue to Postblogging Technology, March 1955, II

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 Yeah, well, I was tired yesterday and I needed to do some bike training (mainly wearing calluses into my tender tootsie) ahead of my summer...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

UB.109T: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1955

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  So my boss is on his annual pilgrimage to the Old Continent to show everybody that he's a big shot in Canada, and we're training y...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Fireflash and Sparrow: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1955

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  This post is about the contemporary British Fireflash and American Sparrow beam-riding air-to-air missiles, so of course there is a perfec...
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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Under the Ice: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1954

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  The British Greenland Expedition has been over since the summer, and since I'm not going to bother going through the archives, I'm...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

What Light? A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1954

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  Brazilla Carroll Reece was  born in 1889 in Butler, a town in the far  northeast of Tennessee that was inundated by the Tennessee Valley A...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

International Geophysical Year: A Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1954

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  Last seen around here playing Calamity James as an adorable autist, Doris Day sings "Que Sera, Sera," an incomprehensibly popula...
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