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, November 28, 2020

Postblogging Technology, August 1950, II: The Marines Are Here

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada  Dear Father: I hope I didn't give the wrong impression last week. I am not some daring aviatrix...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Postblogging Technology, August 1950, I: Pirate Business

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you for stepping in with the Junior College. I return my completed application fo...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1950: Tactical Nuclear Weapons

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  The M-29 "Davy Crockett Weapon System" is, understandably, the most famous American recoilless rifle of the Cold War era.  Becau...
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Friday, November 6, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1950: Achtung Panzerski!

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  (I found Gene Autry off-putting before I heard the lyrics.) Happy My Vacation Week, everybody! Two things this week: First, this whole ...
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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