“NOSTALGIA STRAIGHT-UP”—THE MORGAN +8 TURBO
IN R&T’S 1978 “10 BEST CARS FOR A CHANGING WORLD,” the Morgan +8 Turbo garnered the coveted Henry N. Manney III Intransigence Can Be a Virtue Award. The magazine noted, … Continue reading
LLM HALLUCINATING: AN A.I. PARLOR GAME
ROBERT CRAWFORD’S ARTICLE “After the British Library Cyberattack,” London Review of Books, April 4, 2024, is an excellent—and humorous—imagining of A.I. It follows up on the lamentable October 2023 British … Continue reading
FIAT X1/9: EXPERIENCING AN R&T TIME MACHINE PART 2
THIS ALL STARTED IN PART 1 celebrating a bargain mid-engine sports car, the Fiat X1/9. Here in Part 2, we pick up with 1980. Fuel Injection, 1980. Replacement of Weber carburetion … Continue reading
FIAT X1/9—EXPERIENCING AN R&T TIME MACHINE PART 1
FIFTY YEARS AGO, R&T SAID THE FIAT’S X1/9 “is the first good-looking open mid-engine roadster available to buyers of modest means. In nearly every way imaginable—handling, ride, looks, comfort, luggage … Continue reading
CARFREE (CAREFREE?) LOCALES PART 2
BARCELONA’S SUPERBLOCK CONCEPT was Part 1’s topic yesterday. We continue today with more locales developing the idea of carfree (and maybe more carefree?) urban areas. Ginza Strolling. As noted by … Continue reading
CARFREE (CAREFREE?) LOCALES PART 1
IT MAY SOUND HERETICAL FROM A CAR GUY, but I see nothing wrong with selected portions of cities and towns being carfree. And, indeed, they may well be carefree as … Continue reading
RPI BEATS WPI—QUANTUM-WISE!
BACK IN MY DAY, WORCESTER POLY always scheduled its homecoming weekend for when it played Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—because a victory was all but assured. However, I must report that RPI … Continue reading
GEE, I THOUGHT I HAD STUFF
THE HISTORIC ENGLAND WEBSITE recently posted “Birkenhead’s Hidden Gem of Outsider Art ‘Ron’s Place’ Newly Listed.” An Unassuming Victorian Villa—Not. Historic England writes, “Concealed for over 30 years within an … Continue reading
CELEBRATING LATE-19TH-CENTURY LITERARY ART
“THE VOGUE FOR LITERARY POSTERS,” Leah Greenblatt writes in The New York Times, April 5, 2024, “burned briefly, beginning in 1893 and lasting not much more than a decade.” And … Continue reading
SHAKESPEARE’S WORDS
THE Words Trivia website offers “5 Ways Shakespeare Changed English That You Never Knew.” I add these Shakespearean tidbits to “Bereft of Insults?,” “Shakespeare’s Vocabulary,” and “OP Shakespeare,” this last … Continue reading
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