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, 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...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Postblogging Technology, May 1949, II: Wedding Bells for Lili Marlene

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: The makeup dinner with Ronnie went well. Thanks again for your advice. I ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Simulating the World: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1949, I

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I'm on vacation in the third week of August, because that's what vacation is for. The schedule of my life therefore calls for the s...
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Sunday, August 4, 2019

Postblogging Technology, May 1949, I: Scuttled

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here I am, back at the epitomiser's desk, substituting for Ronni...
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Friday, July 26, 2019

Tinplate: An Inquiry for a Vacation Week

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I should have taken a landscape portrait, but it was before breakfast.  Five weeks ago I went to visit my sister's family in Kamlo...
Friday, July 19, 2019

The Eyes Have It: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, April 1949

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Two things from last month that are obviously much more interesting than Standard Telephone and Cable' s version of that new American...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Postblogging Technology, April 1949, II: Prelaxed

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I can't express how grateful I am to  you, and how happy we all were...
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