NOW WE’VE GOT A WORD FOR THAT
THE WEBSITE DICTIONARY.COM ANNOUNCES ITS “New Words Drop! Get the First Look at Our Fall 2023 Collection of Dictionary Additions,” September 5, 2023. Wishing to be au courant on matters … Continue reading
PUTTING ART DECO TO WORK
NEW YORK’S POSTER HOUSE ANNOUNCES its exhibition “Art Deco: Commerciailizing the Avant-Garde” with a provocative statement: “The term ‘Art Deco’ did not exist until the 1960s.” This in itself got … Continue reading
FORMULA ONE—A HALF-CENTURY AGO
IT SURE SOUNDS FAMILIAR: Jonathan Thompson wrote about a driver performing “perfectly all year long… staying up front so consistently that his challengers were demoralized.” Jon was reviewing the 1972 … Continue reading
ART FORGERY
ROSEMARY HILL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE writers in London Review of Books. This time around, her September 7, 2023, article ‘Art and Artifice’ reviews what she calls “the Courtauld … Continue reading
A WELL-SUITED EDO SAMURAI
FROM TIME TO TIME, M.S. Rau, Fine Arts, Antiques, Jewels offers enticing advertisements in The New York Times. This time around, it’s “A Warrior’s Armor: Japanese Samurai Suit.” And quite … Continue reading
A FATHER’S DAY GMAX INSPIRATION PART 2
THE FLYING CARPET OF Daughter Suz’s Father’s Day card inspired me to model the Cessna XMC (eXperimental Magic Carpet). Yesterday we looked at the real (single) XMC and (five of … Continue reading
A FATHER’S DAY GMAX INSPIRATION PART 1
I WAS RESEARCHING a next GMax project for Microsoft Flight Simulator to follow my Alexander Eaglerock. Reading “Meet the Often-Forgotten Cessna XMC,” by Jason McDowell in Flying, June 7, 2022, … Continue reading
VIEWED RECENTLY, REVIEWED BACK THEN
BEING AS I AM an aficionado of old movies, I thought it would be interesting to consult reviewers of the era, kinda to see if they got it right. My … Continue reading
CITATIONS RAINING CAT AND DOG
“ARE YOU THE ‘SIMANAITIS, D’ referenced in a recent article?” the email asks. Well, what with a few math papers, scads of R&T articles, and now thousands of SimanaitisSays items, … Continue reading
SNOW WHITE AND THE BARIUM SULFATE DWARFS
“SCIENTISTS AT PURDUE,” reports Cara Buckley in The New York Times, July 12, 2023, “have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof … Continue reading
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