CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF ART DECO PART 1
READERS OF SIMANAITISSAYS MIGHT HAVE CAUGHT ON that I love Art Deco: See, for example, “Deco Dreaming,” “Soaring Art Deco—In The City of Angels,” and even, lamentably enough, “Art Deco, … Continue reading
MERCEDES-BENZ 300-SL ROADSTERS—1958 AND 50 YEARS HENCE
“TURN RIGHT AT THE VALKYRIE, AND Drive Straight to Valhalla,” read R&T’s subhead for its January 1958 Road Test of the 300-SL Roadster. Image from “Brooklands Double Twelve,” SimanaitisSays, … Continue reading
CROSS-REFERENCES FOR FUN AND ILLUMINATION PART 2
YESTERDAY, CROSS-REFERENCES OFFERED an innovative means of indexing material. Today in Part 2, we continue this investigation from Brewer’s Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics: An A–Z of Roguish Britons Through the … Continue reading
CROSS-REFERENCING FOR FUN AND ILLUMINATION PART 1
THOUGH OTHER BREWER’S PUBLICATIONS HAVE APPEARED here at SimanaitisSays, I don’t believe I’ve ever told you about Brewer’s Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics: An A–Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages. … Continue reading
LEST TRUMP FORGETS (AS IF HE EVER KNEW) PART 2
YESTERDAY’S MENTION OF ROAD TRIPS brought to mind The Negro Motorist Green Book published annually between 1936 and 1966. Perhaps it’s too much reading for the likes of Trump, what … Continue reading
LEST TRUMP FORGETS (AS IF HE EVER KNEW….) PART 1
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL WRITES IN THE GUARDIAN, September 4, 2025, “Trump Wants to Rewrite American History. Maybe He Should Learn It First.” Blumenthal observes, “Of all the presidents, Donald Trump—the man … Continue reading
PHOTOPHORETIC FLIGHT IN THE IGNOSPHERE, THANKS TO CROOKE’S RADIOMETER, SORTA
THERE ARE SEVERAL NEAT WORDS ABOVE gleaned from Annika Inampudi’s article “Featherweight Flyers Could ‘Levitate’ Above Earth Indefinitely,” AAAS Science, August 13, 2025. Let’s consider each of these words, then … Continue reading
RETHINKING A.I. PART 2
YESTERDAY, Gary Marcus’ “The Fever Dream of Imminent ‘Superintelligence’ Is Finally Breaking,” a Guest Essay in The New York Times, described that today’s A.I. is failing to achieve Artificial General … Continue reading
RETHINKING A.I. PART 1
A.I. SPECIALIST GARY MARCUS WRITES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025, “The Fever Dream of Imminent ‘Superintelligence’ Is Finally Breaking.” Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
R&T/B&B TESTS THE POGUAR
“ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE ARGUED,” Bounce & Bound wrote in January 1955, “that the scrutiny of a road test crew should be confined to the technical and performance aspects of … Continue reading →