Epistemographer

(First off, let me say thanks to the powers that be at McCarran airport for offering that electronic manna from above, free wifi access. Seriously, it’s a classy gesture – “Sorry we took all your money and left every permeable substance you own smelling of stale smoke, but here, check your e-mail before you get on the plane home. Just ‘cause we care…”)

Anyhow, I’m heading home from the Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, this year held at the lovely (*cough*), luxurious (*cough* cough) Imperial Palace, which will likely be rubble within a year or two, at which point I will celebrate its demise by raising a glass in memory of its inscrutably tangled corridors, impossibly unrecognizable celebrity impersonators, and best of all, torrential post-rain river running through the parking lot. (Seriously. I couldn’t make this up.) (more…)