TRANSPORTATION ART, UTILITY, AND PLAY
EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY transport offered enhanced mobility in a multiplicity of ways. Balloons had been around for more than a century. Internal combustion gave them directionality despite whims of the wind. … Continue reading
BUILDING A UGEARS TRAM
THIS MAY SET a new record for procrastination on my part: Back on August 27, 2016, I ended the SimanaitisSays item “Building the UGears Pneumatic Engine” by saying, “All in … Continue reading
THE ATLANTIC REDUX PART 2
YESTERDAY HERE at SimanaitisSays, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was quoted saying, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” Today in Part 2, … Continue reading
THE ATLANTIC REDUX PART 1
I’M IN A postpositive mood today. My topic and the word “redux” in the title are, according to Merriam-Webster, “placed after or at the end of another word.” In particular, … Continue reading
MACHINE LEARN THE NEW YORKER?
THE HUMAN BRAIN’S neural network has a hundred billion nerve cells with trillions of connections linking them. Human thought is constantly updating these links with the latest input. Artificial Intelligence’s … Continue reading
MOVIE MUSIC PART 2
THIS CONTINUES yesterday’s discussion of music for the big screen. Here in Part 2, a Brooklyn guy and several others earn applause for their music—and Oscars as well. A Guy … Continue reading
MUSIC FOR MOVIES PART 1
IS MOVIE MUSIC merely innocuous background or does it actively further the plot? My answer, briefly, is “it depends.” Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits … Continue reading
GMAX TUPOLEV ANT-25 PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, my GMax mania returned, this time in building a Microsoft Flight Simulator model of the Tupolev ANT-25 long-distance record setter. Or were its Moscow/U.S. West Coast … Continue reading
GMAX TUPOLEV ANT-25 PART 1
MY GMAX MANIA continues. After having incorporated just about every documentable detail into my GMax Westland Lysander, I looked around for another project using this entertaining computer software. Years ago, … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
A TYPEFACE GETTING NO RESPECT
THE POINT OF putting a thought into print is to preserve and share it. The choice of typography (this word from the Greek: loosely “an impression pictured”) is a complex … Continue reading →