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, February 22, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1948, I: An Embarrassment of Riches

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I was going to move directly on to the next postblogging installment when my long weekend finally begins on Wednesday (Thursday? I'...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Postblogging Technology, December 1948, I: Bonnie Prince Charlie

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R_. C_., The Savoy, London, England. Dear Father: The Savoy! I'm so jealous! Serves the Oriental Club right for not wantin...
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, February 3, 2019

Gathering the Bones, XX: Salt of the Earth

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I hope everyone enjoyed my vacation week as much as I did! I went away with the notion of writing a "Gathering the Bones" in...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Postblogging Technology, November 1948, II: A Prince is Born

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I am dashing off a note, before heading straight from a radio party for the...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Recapping 2018 In Technical Appendices (With Some Cheating)

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Tell me what you see. In Gordon Dickson's  knights in shining armour are the standard solution to bad dragons, because a charging...
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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Postblogging Technology, November 1948, I: "The Republican Party Versus the American People"

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R_. C_, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I. Cannot. Believe. I. Wrote. This!!!!! I want to be dancing in the stree...
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