Showing posts with label Wild Speculation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Speculation. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Postblogging Technology, May 1955: The One I Forgot To Post On Saturday!

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R_.C_., The Lodge, Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada Dear Father: The election is well on over here and how I wish I was off the Spit...
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...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

The Fall of Rome, VI: Flying Canoes and Revolutionary Santas

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  There's nothing to discourage a guy from amateur FallofRomeism than the "Men think about Rome a lot" thing of a few years ba...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXIX: Sons and Daughters

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  A little something for a lazy Saturday afternoon, before we get back to exploring the dark and stagnant depths of the Eisenhower Administr...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXVII: The Chainbearers

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  The Chainbearer (1845) is somehow the tenth from the last of James Fenimore Cooper's (1789--1851) books. Admittedly, people died youn...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: More From the Shimmering Sky

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  Nine years ago, so in 2014, some vaguely professional media people up in Nebraska decided that these six young people had something going ...
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, December 11, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: Newfoundland to Tolerance: The Fall Line

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  The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line is one of those things that everyone talks about and nobody explains. The Wikipedia article has it as a ...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Postblogging Technology, January 1952, II: Niobium and Zirconium and the Flying Enterprise

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: For those in peril on the seas and skies. Captain Carlsen is back in America receiving...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

The Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIV: Revelations of St. John of the Cross

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My employer is serving fresh, hot turnover again, so if you tuned in this week to hear about the prehistory of the cubicle, I'm sorry. T...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIII: For the Bible Told Me So

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  (Richard Gere is only fifteen years older than I am, and was in a BBC show as recently as 2019. I find that I am extremely jealous so I...
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Saturday, August 7, 2021

The Bishops' Sea: Admirals of the Ocean Seas

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  Our Vice-President for Retail Operations visited the store on Thursday. The white glove inspection went very well, and I'm pleased wit...
Friday, March 5, 2021

A Technological and Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1950: Little Neutrons

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  Between 1959 and 1969, old time science fiction writers Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson collaborated on three loosely-connected novels ...
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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Sacred Spring: A Recap to February, 2021

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(Aeneas dumps Queen Dido, founder of Carthage, and goes off to found Rome instead, two separate ' Ver sacrum " episodes.) So she ki...
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Sunday, January 5, 2020

The Bishops' Sea: St. Sunniva, Pray for Us

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Sunniva was the sister of St. Alban , the British protomarty, executed sometime between 209AD and 305AD for being a Christian pain in the...
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Friday, October 4, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 18: Apocalypse As Driving Force (Speculation)

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This picture is Art, and therefore the performers do not need to be named. I thought slavery was illegal now, but what do I know? Shame, G...
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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Gathering the Bones, 21: A Whole New World of Salt and Iron

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Discourses on Salt and Iron.  On the one hand, I found it hard to organise myself to postblog about technology last week. On the other,...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Postblogging Technology, June 1947, II: See? No Bathing Suit!

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R_.C_. The Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada. Dear Dad: In spite of best intentions, I'm dashing this one off before ha...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Lotus Eaters: Flights and Fragments of the Year 251

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Rubens, Consacration of Decius Mus As the story goes, Publius Decius Mus , consul for 340 BC, was so eager for victory over the Sabines...
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