Saturday, October 31, 2020

Postblogging Technology, July 1950, II: Bug Out Boys of Company B

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R_. C_. Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: This is the second installment of "Things I wrote on my Honeymoon When I Should Ha...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Postblogging Technology, July 1950, I: A Constructively Unexpected War

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R_.C_., 79 Av de Harmonia, Macao Dear Father: I take the liberty of including your thank you note. It's one of these little pains that s...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: Fishing and "The Feudal Anarchy of the Year 1000:" Or 2020, Even

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  From January through October of this year, and most especially through the Canadian lockdown, I helped operate a "corner store" ...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1950: Pointing the Way

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Pretty cool and historical that the USAF specified that its 1956 fighters should be capable of remote control via the Sperry Zero Reader dir...
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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Postblogging Technology, June 1950, II: Fall of the Air Horse

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I could get to love Hong Kong eventually! If it ever cools down. Best of all, my father...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Postblogging Technology, June 1950, I: No Coke

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( Walter Paepcke   ) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You will have heard from Uncle George, but I'm still going to ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1950: "No Way Out"

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 Well, the UBC Library system has taken the perfectly reasonable and in no way money-saving step of extending its whole library-free univers...