Simanaitis Says

On cars, old, new and future; science & technology; vintage airplanes, computer flight simulation of them; Sherlockiana; our English language; travel; and other stuff

Author Archives: simanaitissays

FROM B (Britannica) TO W (Wikipedia); A, X, Y, AND Z TOO. 

RESEARCHING ONLINE SCIENCE, I USED TO seek out entries with .edu handles, all the more confident of their veracity. Over the years, especially here at SimanaitisSays with its more varied … Continue reading →

March 18, 2023 · Leave a comment

“ON A JAG IN A HEALEY”

A STRANGE SUBHEAD for an R&T road test? Even more so: One of the road test’s stars was a 28-year-old David E. Davis, Jr., three years before his association with … Continue reading →

March 16, 2023 · 1 Comment

“THE WEASEL” WENSLEY—A LESTRADE COLLEAGUE?

ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS of Stephen Browning’s On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes is its encouraging me to perform added sleuthing. For example, Browning’s “Walk 7: East End” introduced me … Continue reading →

March 15, 2023 · Leave a comment

NORWAY—A BEV PARADISE PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we learned what Ward, Lock & Co., c. 1930, had to say about Norway. Today, we discuss this Scandinavian country’s love affair with Battery Electric Vehicles.  … Continue reading →

March 14, 2023 · 5 Comments

NORWAY—BEV PARADISE PART 1

I’VE NEVER BEEN TO NORWAY, but recognize this Scandinavian country’s accelerated transition to battery electric cars (despite nay sayers such as, you guessed it, Luddite me). Isn’t it about time … Continue reading →

March 13, 2023 · 4 Comments

ARE THERE ENOUGH OF US OUT THERE ALREADY?

IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT, beginning around 1950, we’re no longer living in the Holocene Epoch but the Anthropocene. It turns out that by many measures, including biomass, human beings have … Continue reading →

March 12, 2023 · 4 Comments

BOOKMARKS FOR COOKS

I LOVE TO COOK and enjoy accumulating books. (The scholarly term “collecting” is something of a boast.) I have more than four packed shelves devoted to favorite cookbooks, including Woman’s … Continue reading →

March 11, 2023 · 2 Comments

VIV’S LINES

DAUGHTER SUZ AND I RECENTLY caught the last part of Gone With the Wind. Each of us had seen this near-4-hour epic before, but this didn’t lessen the entertainment of … Continue reading →

March 10, 2023 · Leave a comment

ALEXANDRIA TIDBITS PART 2

YESTERDAY, WE LEFT THE Pharos of Alexandria in ruins, thanks largely to earthquakes abetted by the cost of a crumbling building’s upkeep, even if regarded as one of the Seven … Continue reading →

March 9, 2023 · 1 Comment