Thursday, May 11, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January 1953: Vae Victis

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  I am not going to apologise for using this wonderful picture of a B-37 taking off with RATO assist again. Newsweek, "the magazine of ...
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Friday, May 5, 2023

Postblogging Technology, January 1953, II: Outsourcing Leviathan

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I would comment to the effect that I am feeling much better this week except I would be...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Postblogging Technology, January 1953, 1: Cold, Cold Heart

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope this finds you well, as I am not. I could say that it is because of my condition,...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXVII: The Chainbearers

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  The Chainbearer (1845) is somehow the tenth from the last of James Fenimore Cooper's (1789--1851) books. Admittedly, people died youn...
Friday, April 14, 2023

A Technological and Muckraking Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1952: Sverdlov Envy

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  Sverdlov -class cruiser Admiral Ushakov  in 1981 In some measure of apology to old-time Newsweek, the class namesake of the old Red Navy S...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Postblogging Technology, 1952, II: If Daddy Had Only Seen

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R_. C_., Arcadia, Santa Clara, California Dear Father: I hope this reaches you before Christmas Day. We've had a bit of excitement here ...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Postblogging Technology, December 1952, I: What A Laugh It Would Have Been

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R_.C_., Arcadia, Santa Clara, California. Dear Father: I'm told that, some day, I will look back very fondly at long college vacations a...