CELEBRATING VIVA MAGENTA—AND ALSO 1797, 716, 107, 356, 2748, AND 2607
WHAT BEGAN IN THE 1950s as a systemization of color pigments has evolved into Pantone and its PMS (Pantone Matching System). Today the company’s standards are used in a variety … Continue reading
GMAX/FLTSIM IMITATES LIFE
SO THERE I WAS, just like SAAB engineers with their 21A fighter: They wanted to convert it to jet power. For details, see “Saab 21—Where’s My Prop?” here at SimanaitisSays. … Continue reading
TONY’S BUG PART 2
TONY HOGG, IN TIME Editor-in-Chief of R&T, fulfilled a childhood dream through purchase of a Type 37 Bugatti in the late 1940s. Today in Part 2, he enters his Bug … Continue reading
TONY’S BUG PART 1
I WAS IDLY LEAFING through the 1960 volume of R&T when I came upon its February Bugatti Issue. One of the articles was “Bugattis Were Meant to be Raced,” by … Continue reading
A.I. LEARNS THE DIPLOMACY GAME
MACHINE-LEARNING ARTIFICIAL intelligence (A.I.) has already beat humans in playing chess, Go, and poker. But what about a board game that involves negotiation and even deception? The classic board game … Continue reading
FREUDENFREUDE—THE ETYMOLOGY OF HAPPINESS
THE WORD FREUDENFREUDE, “pleasure’s pleasure,” is a feeling of happiness encouraged by another’s success. It evolved from its opposite Schadenfreude, the German word describing the malicious joy resulting from another’s … Continue reading
THE ITALIAN GRAND PRIX—MONZA 1955
THE 1955 ITALIAN GP, held at Monza, was the seventh and last race of that year’s World Championship of Drivers. Indeed, sixth if you discount the Indy 500, which was … Continue reading
THE VARIOUS INTRIGUES OF TOUCH OF EVIL PART 2
HAVING RECENTLY VIEWED Touch of Evil, we celebrated the innovative cinema of Orson Welles and colleagues in Part 1 yesterday. However, the final “Action!” and “Cut!” were far from the … Continue reading
THE VARIOUS INTRIGUES OF TOUCH OF EVIL PART 1
THERE’S PLENTY OF CLASSIC NOIR in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, 1958/1976/1998, both on the screen and in post-production. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits … Continue reading
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