Showing posts with label Ultimate Secret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ultimate Secret. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Gathering the Bones, XXXII: Get Your Kicks on Route . . . Er, 40, It Turns Out

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At least if your musical tastes are as lowbrow as mine (it's a brain chemistry thing, I swear!), the "suggested next video" th...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Postblogging Technology, January 1951, I: A Whole New Year

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you again for your hospitality, which I am sorry I am so late, but things in Londo...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Postblogging Technology, June 1953, I: Boom, Baby, Boom!

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Speaking of The Organisation Man,  I'd do "Little Boxes," but I've already done it, and I kind of agree with Tom Lehrer th...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Postblogging Technology, February 1953, I: The Dyke Breaks

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 R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As February winds its way to the end, a long overdue installment in these letters. If ...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXV: Albany Regency

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 This one's getting a "Zombie Day" tag and rightfully so after my first week as a departmental assistant manager. On the brigh...
Friday, January 7, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: Islands in the Helix

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  (The Canaries have a great deal of volcanic tuft that makes it relatively easy to dig out a cave sanctuary or necropolis, something that o...
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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Postblogging Technology, January 1951, 2: Titanium Days

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(Dean Martin imitating Bing Crosby ) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As predicted, the Communist advances in Annam and ...
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...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Postblogging Technology, April 1949, I: A Generation of Pearls

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R_.C_., Hyde Park Hotel, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. Dear Father: This comes to you by the hand of Willie Yeoh, because he doe...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1948, I and II: Prestressed Concrete

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You know the story: The world is without form, water fills the void; Pregnant girl falls from the sky; Turtle saves her by bearing her o...
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Saturday, May 26, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XII: The Queen of May

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Most publicity shots from Duel in the Sun feature Jane Russell's boobs against a backdrop of hay. Jennifer Jones is this blog ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

The Fall of Rome, IX: Transhumance and Local Elites

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Transhumant pastoral agriculture is the movement of herds of livestock from one pasture, for fairly obvious reasons.  That being said, ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Recapping the Fall of Rome: Game of Thrones

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Lots of caption here, because credit where credit is due. This is Abdelratif Reda's fresh goat cheese, served with apricot jam on a ba...
Friday, January 27, 2017

The Fall of Rome, VII: Bread, Circusses

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Those are some happy elephants, because Tirupati deluxe bran is the best bran.  iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus,...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

An Agro-Technical Appendix, V: Evil as Strategy

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Someone had to go and make Rimmer an admiral, didn't they? Unlike apparently every other person on Earth, I've really got no ...
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Monday, January 2, 2017

An Agro-Technical Appendix, IV: It's Always And Will Forever Be 1846

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Have you, dear reader, ever read a history of the Thirty Years War? Remember the breathless excitement as  Thomas, Chevalier of Savoy , j...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Postblogging Technology, October, 1946, II: Spring is Coming

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Time needs to be more careful with its copy. You might almost read this as implying that these two pinkos are having an affair.  On th...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Recapping The Bishops' Sea

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I have a point when I talk about how the early settlement of the Atlantic took place in a "bishop's sea." It is, in the fir...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Report On A Found Note To Whomever: First Day of Vacation Miscellanenous Bonus Post

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Found taped to the battery cover of when it was returned to us from the shop In conclusion, robots are going to do all our work re...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Recapping the Fall of the Roman Empire: The Cavalry Problem

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It's summer! God speed the plough! Unfortunately, with the hand of every good man and woman turned out to bring in the mangelwurzels an...
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