If science has a Thomas Pynchon, it's Russel Seitz, who usually blogs at Adamant. Once a week he shows up here to drop some knowledge.
...Ye Pilgrim Bloggers First Thanksgiving
"a recently unearthed Compaq desktop PC offers a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a primitive Internet society, said archaeologists --The Onion "
...HEREIN , PILGRIM, ADAMANT REVEALETH HOW THIS INFERNAL ENGINE OR MACHINE BROUGHT BLOGGING HITHER IV CENTURIES AGO Since the year of our Lord 1620 we in New England hath looked for our Hiftory of Technology lessons to The Puritan Broadcafting System. Yet the Godless minions of Antiques Road Show recently defcribed a Gadget delivered to The Bay Colony in 1638 as ye nations "firft printing press."
This is arrant knavery --any mechanical Philosopher knoweth this infernal Machine to be forsooth a PC peripheral, for Blogging , like bundling, is among the First Fruits Of New England. Did not Nathaniel Hawthorne of Salem complain that Mifstress Hester Prynne's lap-top was busy even before the Pilgrim Fathers landed? So heere be set forth
....... .YE MAYFLOWER COMPAQ: a Ufers Manual.
