AUTOMOTIVE NEWS—A PERSONAL UPDATE
I CONTINUE TO MONITOR Automotive News, though with somewhat different focus in retirement than the weekly in-depth scrutiny of my professional years. These days, I let the issues pile up … Continue reading
NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOMS
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION CAME TO MIND when I read David Dayen in The New York Times, October 22, 2024: “Back in June, Oklahoma’s superintendent for public instruction, Ryan Walters, ordered every … Continue reading
ANGLOPHILIC COMMENTARIES PART 1
ENGLISH, AFTER ALL, IS LANGUAGE OF THE BRITS; we only inherited it fair and square at Yorktown in ’81. So it’s not surprising that from time to time my favorite … Continue reading
BENTLEY YW 5758—THE RIGHT STUFF PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN DISCUSSING Classic & Sports Car’s article by Simon Hucknall about Bentley YW 5758, one of the legendary cars participating in the marque’s 1-4 dominance of the 1929 … Continue reading
BENTLEY YW 5758—THE RIGHT STUFF PART 1
THE ONLINE CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR HAS A FASCINATING (and extensive) piece about a particular 1927 Bentley 4 1.2-Litre. “History Repeating” describes Bentley plated YW 5758 having a rich competition … Continue reading
CHATBOTS—A PANDORA’S BOX OF CONVERSATIONS
INTERACTING WITH A.I. HAS SOCIETAL BENEFITS as well as a dark side. In London Review of Books, October 10, 2024, James Vincent writes about chatbots in a scarily titled “Horny … Continue reading
MONDIAL DE L’AUTO PART 2
HERE IN PART 2, WE CONTINUE OUR TOUR of the Mondial de l’Auto in Paris’s Porte de Versailles. We move from the practicality of a sub-€30K BEV to a contrasting … Continue reading
MONDIAL DE L’AUTO PART 1
APART FROM TOYKO, PARIS WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE international motor show. They both had plenty of glitz, though the latter also had the cutest young ladies accompanying the displays. (I’d … Continue reading
NEW 3D-PRINTED TECHNOLOGY
ADAM ZEWE WRITES IN MIT NEWS, October 10, 2024, “New 3D Printing Technique Creates Unique Objects Quickly and With Less Waste.” Ups and Downs. I’ve been following evolution of 3D printing … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
ANGLOPHILIC COMMENTARIES PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SHARED ENGLISH QUOTES from the likes of Noel Coward, Dorothy Sayers, W. Somerset Maugham, and even Irishman George Bernard Shaw. Today in Part 2, two extended commentaries follow, … Continue reading →