1957 JAGUAR XK-SS
WHAT FUN IT IS TO DRIVE an out-and-out competition car on the street! I’ve had that pleasure a few times, most memorably a week or so with the Fiat Abarth … Continue reading
PRODUCTIVITY—THE DYNAMO, THE COMPUTER, AND A.I.
PAUL KRUGMAN’S “A.I. MAY CHANGE EVERYTHING, But Probably Not Too Quickly,” The New York Times, March 31, 2023, is a fascinating parable on technology and its effects on productivity. It … Continue reading
LORE FROM LRB LETTERS
THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS devotes a full page each issue to “Letters,” and a goodly number of these are as entertaining and informative as LRB articles. Here are tidbits … Continue reading
THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH
“CURIOUSLY,” LYDIA ZELDENRUST WRITES in BBC History, March 2023, the first book printed in English “was not the Bible, nor was it a text by a famous English author like … Continue reading
A HOBBY DIVERSION
FOR A LONG TIME, MY GMAX/FLTSIM HOBBY focused on pre-WWI civilian aircraft. Examples appearing here at SimanaitisSays include Cody’s 1909 BAA-1, first to fly in Great Britain; 1910’s Coandă “Jet” … Continue reading
WEANING OFF COAL
COAL REPLACED WOOD AS THE WORLD’S primary energy source in 1885. It wasn’t until 1950 that petroleum and natural gas took its place. And, these days, much to the benefit … Continue reading
THE FORD MODEL A—FOLLOWING A TOUGH ACT PART 2
FOUR YEARS OF THE MODEL A FORD couldn’t match the Model T’s 19 years. But tidbits still abound. Here in Part 2, we continue with R&T’s February 1957 discussions, together … Continue reading
THE FORD MODEL A—FOLLOWING A TOUGH ACT PART 1
THE Model T Ford was certainly a tough act to follow. Indeed, the Model A that succeeded it in 1927 wasn’t even the first Ford Model A. Ford’s 1903 car … Continue reading
THE WIFE OF BATH—YOU GO, GRRL
WE TEND TO THINK OF FEMINISM having mid-20th-century origins with accelerated growth during MeToo emerging in 2006. However, Marion Turner writes of 600 years before in “The Voice of a … Continue reading
HOW ‘BOUT THEM MILLENNIALS? PART 2
I’M A FAIR PIECE from Millennials age-wise, but it’s fun to see how they’re doing. Here in Part 2, we learn they prefer to go on cheap dates, not to … Continue reading
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