BEETHOVEN’S MOP
I’VE LONG BEEN ENVIOUS of Ludwig van Beethoven’s unruly head of hair. When I visit the nice lady who trims my hair occasionally (no, make that aperiodically), I say, “concert … Continue reading
CATCH US ON WLS
SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. WAS the Amazon of home delivery—and a lot more. The famed Sears catalog, the Internet of its day, offered everything from Havana cigars and Ranger Hammerless … Continue reading
VINTAGE DRIVING—RECREATED IN 1957
“CLASSIC TESTS” WERE AN R&T FEATURE for awhile, wherein editors would assemble data from contemporary sources and write a virtual road test of the classic era. The Bugatti Type 49 … Continue reading
SIMULATING FUEL CELL STEEL
FOLKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE’S Advanced Power and Energy Program kindly keep me posted of their work with fuel cells of one type and another. See UCI’s work … Continue reading
THE AMBERSONS, THE AUTOMOBILE, AND ORSON WELLES’ BRAZIL
THE AUTOMOBILE HERE happens to be driven by a guy named Morgan, but it’s not the English sports car. Instead, Orson Welles’ second film, The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, is a … Continue reading
“BREAK A LEG?” NO, “TOI, TOI, TOI”
HERE ARE SEVERAL OPERATIC SUPERSTITIONS cited by Henry Stewart in his “Operapedia” feature in Opera News, April 2023. As usual, I do added sleuthing as well. Spitting Image. Stewart recalls … Continue reading
A PATH TO AUTO AUTONOMY’S LEVEL 3
I’VE RECENTLY SEEN TV ADS for GM Super Cruise which show the driver playing patty-cake with passengers. A confessed Luddite, I’m late in learning about this enhanced driver assistance (it … Continue reading
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
HOW YA FEELIN’ ABOUT AFEELA?
IMAGINE HONDA AND SONY TEAMING UP to produce a car!?!. No, wait; you don’t have to imagine, because the Sony Honda Mobility Afeela (pronounced a-FEEL-a) was introduced at the 2023 … Continue reading
“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
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