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, July 24, 2015

Postblogging Technology, June 1945, I: The Inventors

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dearest Father: What a relief! First, the war...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Fall of France, XI: Nimrods All the Way Down

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This rubs me the wrong way. I'm not sure the subtext is as pro-Nazi as I perceive it to be, but, for me, the perception is there. ...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Postblogging Technology, May 1945, II: There's a War On, For Your Information

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dearest Father: I hope this letter finds you we...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Too Late, No One Cares: Grexiting the Late Bronze Age: The Case for Not Everyone Dying in the Process

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Again, it is worth pointing out a theory. (That theory is not, as you might suppose, that Erik is too lazy to work on "Techblogging ...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Bishops' Sea: My Paddle Flashing Bright

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Research can be expensive, and there are scholars known who use their control of the pursestrings to make sure that the field gets on the...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Postvlogging Technology, May 1945, I: The "V" of the Wild Geese

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dearest Father: Thank you for your urgent...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Placeholder for Postblogging Technology, June I, 1945

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Well, it was a nice vacation, as elder care emergencies go. Plans to do work tended to get sidetracked along the way by one thing or anothe...
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