LET’S CELEBRATE SPAM!
I’M NOT ENCOURAGING use of the Internet sewer. Rather, I’m thinking of real Spam, the canned luncheon meat sold around the world and celebrated in a recent Voice of America … Continue reading
MERCATOR MISUNDERSTANDINGS
IF FLAT-EARTHERS were correct (they aren’t, by the way), life would be a lot easier for cartographers. As noted here at SimanaitisSays, the two-dimensional plane and three-dimensional sphere are not … Continue reading
BAMBERG TO ROME, 1926—AND VIRTUALLY 2021
WHEN I COMPLETE modeling an airplane for my Microsoft Flight Simulator, I typically fool with it a couple times on the sim, then go on to a new GMax project. … Continue reading
FLYING THE ALPS IN A SMALL PLANE—AND I MEAN SMALL PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE MARVELED at aviation pioneers challenging the mighty Alps. Today in Part 2, a young Willy Messerschmitt challenges the Versailles Treaty with the M-17, a powered aircraft of his … Continue reading
FLYING THE ALPS IN A SMALL PLANE—AND I MEAN SMALL PART 1
EVEN TODAY, FLYING the Alps can be an exhilarating experience. Imagine what it must have been like in the early days of aviation. Here today and tomorrow in Parts 1 … Continue reading
JOAN OF ARC, 15TH-CENTURY GRRL PART 2
JOAN OF ARC is credited in yesterday’s Part 1 here at SimanaitisSays with listening to heavenly voices and uniting France against the English. For this, she was burned at the … Continue reading
JOAN OF ARC, 15TH-CENTURY GRRL PART 1
WHY MY INTEREST in Jeanne d’Arc, the Maid of Orléans, the heroine of all France? Actually there are multiple reasons: one, a recent retrospective in London Review of Books, others, … Continue reading
FRANCO CORTESE’S BRIT RIDE
ITALIAN RACE DRIVER Franco Cortese competed in 156 races between 1927 and his 1958 retirement. These included one Formula One Grand Prix, three Formula Two Grands Prix, and 14 Mille … Continue reading
REPUBLICAN THEATER OF THE ABSURD PART 2
YESTERDAY IN “Republican Theater of the Absurd, Act I,” we commented on this theater genre’s dramatic circularity, starting with initial logic, then deteriorating into irrationality, and culminating where it all … Continue reading
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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS
WHAT WITH ONE thing and another, I’ve let almost two months of my Automotive News with little more than scanning the front pages of this industry weekly. EVs coming; check. … Continue reading →