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.

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...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

The British Army and the Fall of France: A Recap

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The winter of 1946 was like this But the spring of 1955 was like this I'd doff my hat to an old Simpsons reference, but I can...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Postblogging Technology, June 1946, I: Brick By Brick We Shall Build This Place

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R_.C_., General Delivery, Nakusp, Canada. Dear Father: I am so very glad to hear that you are on the mend, and that y...
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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Friday, July 8, 2016

Postblogging Technology, May 1946, II: Lost Continents

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New Denver Museum R_.C_., General Delivery, Nakusp, B.C. Canada Dear Father: I address this note, although I hope that it wil...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Fall of Rome, A Recap, One: Honorius tells England That He's Invoking Article 50: Some Underappreciated but Scarcely Unknown Economic Aspects of the Problem. You'd Think.

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So you might have expected the second part of June techblogging about now. Up until 12:16, Tuesday afternoon, so did I. That...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Postblogging Technology, May 1946, I: Baby Boom!

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My Dear Doctor B: Please again accept my thanks for your hospitality during my recent, all too brief stay. I have included a sma...
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