CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES
LITERATURE—AND LIFE—are replete with mistaken identities. Confusion, chaos, and often hilarity follow, as exemplified in the following three tidbits. Gogol’s Government Inspector.. One of these mistaken identities made an earlier … Continue reading
EGYPTOLOGY, THIS TIME WITH HIGH TECH
WHEN I MENTIONED EGYPTOLOGY as the topic of yesterday’s SimanaitisSays, Daughter Suz said, “Oh, you mean that thing about King Tut’s meteorite?” Then the postman delivered Wife Dottie’s latest BBC … Continue reading
ON MATTERS EGYPTIAN
I SEEM TO be accumulating a lot of ancient Egypt tidbits, of which several follow here. Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. A week prior to its December 7, 2019, final performance at … Continue reading
IS IT TIME FOR AIRCRAFT TO PLUG IN? PART 2
ELECTRIFICATION OF MOBILITY is all the rage. So what about air travel? Tidbits yesterday focused on clearing up a misunderstanding (English Electric aircraft weren’t electric) and celebrating a circumnavigation. Today … Continue reading
IS IT TIME FOR AIRCRAFT TO PLUG IN? PART 1
ELECTRIFICATION OF the automobile is a done deal, albeit not without challenges in its becoming dominant. But what about aircraft? Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are … Continue reading
ACTION! CUT?? PART 2
YESTERDAY’S TOPIC of extended takes in cinematography focused on Orson Welles’ film noir Touch of Evil. Today, in Part 2, we confirm French director Jean-Luc Godard’s truism that cinematographic truth … Continue reading
ACTION! CUT?? PART 1
“FILM IS TRUTH 24 times a second,” French film director Jean-Luc Godard said, “and every cut is a lie.” Given this, almost all films are filled with falsity: They’re formed … Continue reading
WELCOME TO 2020!
LET’S BEGIN 2020 with laughs and hope they continue throughout the year. These particular tidbits come from Robert Benchley, a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table. During the 1920s, … Continue reading
2019 IN REVIEW
BACK WHEN I started my R&T “Tech Tidbits” column in 1992, I was worried that one day I would run out of things to write about. A similar worry surfaced … Continue reading
SHARING DATA GRAPHICALLY
WE’RE SEEING a Golden Age in the sharing of data through pictures. Here are tidbits of this, gleaned from here and there with my usual Internet sleuthing. Thank René. In … Continue reading
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