FAMILIAR WORDS, OLD FASHIONED USES
OUR LANGUAGE, OF COURSE, IS AN EVOLVING ONE. Not only do new words arrive (recently AI has become commonplace), but familiar words also lose context. Here are examples, with descriptions … Continue reading
HAVE YOU GOT THE TIME?
TOM JOHNSON TAKES ON the subject of time—and even the ending thereof—in “Take That, Astrolabe,” London Review of Books, October 19, 2023. It’s his review of Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: … Continue reading
INFANCY TIDBITS
ONE INTERESTING FACT LEADS to another. As an example, the Interesting Facts website recently noted that “Babies Blink Less Than Adults.” Here are tidbits gleaned from this report and from … Continue reading
STAYING DRY, MINISCULE-FASHION
THIS IS A SMALL SIMANAITISSAYS ITEM DESCRIBING really small stuff, nanoparticles that help to keep things dry. The report from A? Aalto University, October 23, 2023, announces, “Revised method to … Continue reading
TESTING THE GULLWING TWICE PART 2
YESTERDAY, R&T GOT ITS FIRST LOOK, in 1955, of the fabulous Mercedes-Benz 300SL. Today in Part 2, the magazine borrows another original Gullwing in 1968 for a second evaluation. Lucky … Continue reading
TESTING THE GULLWING TWICE PART 1
IF YOU’RE GONNA TEST THE SAME CAR TWICE, why not one of the most memorable: the Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits … Continue reading
VINTAGE DIGITAL
WE LOVE VINTAGE CARS, VINTAGE WATCHES, vintage wines. Why not vintage digital? Moore’s Law predicted quite accurately a two-year obsolescence of almost anything digital, but what of the discarded stuff? … Continue reading
HURRAH FOR THE WORD NERDS
ONE OF THE SPIFFS of The New York Times Book Review is learning just enough about a book so you won’t feel culturally deprived in not reading it. On the … Continue reading
BRESCIA TALES
THE BUGATTI BRESCIA WAS NAMED FOR HAVING RUN 1–4 in the 1921 Italian Grand Prix des Voiturettes near that city. These Type 13 chassis were fitted with 1453-cc, 16-valve, four-cylinder … Continue reading
“THAT BUILDING IS BRUTAL!”
I TEND TOWARD RECTILINEARITY in my aesthetic appreciation, and I believe I’ve come upon an extreme of this: Brutalist Architecture. Here are tidbits on this sharply worded genre. Origin. Julia … Continue reading
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