MESOPOTAMIAN STEW, SORTA PART 2
YESTERDAY A BBC Item on 4000-Year-Old Recipes caught my eye—and taste buds. What about making a Mesopotamian stew? The recipe, translated from cuneiform courtesy of Klaus Wagensonner, was rudimentary: “Leg … Continue reading
MESOPOTAMIAN STEW, SORTA PART 1
THERE’S INTELLECTUAL SATISFACTION in communing with past civilizations. Maybe it’s the grandeur of Rome’s Pantheon or the serenity of Kamakura’s Daibutsu. Or the culinary comfort of “What the Mesopotamians Had … Continue reading
THE LA4’S VIRTUAL GRANDNEPHEW FROM RFPRO PART 2
YESTERDAY, SAE’S SEBASTIAN BLANCO described rFpro’s massively detailed 22-mile digital loop of southwest Los Angeles. I sensed a kinship to the LA4, this city’s downtown route that evolved into EPA’s … Continue reading
THE LA4’S VIRTUAL GRANDNEPHEW FROM RFPRO PART 1
SEBASTIAN BLANCO REPORTS IN SAE INTERNATIONAL’S AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING magazine, August 2024, “Simulation company rFpro has already mapped over 180 digital locations around the world, including public roads, proving grounds and … Continue reading
RUPERT MURDOCH COWERS FROM NEW COMPETITOR
IT’S A SUBTEXT OF BENJAMIN MULLIN’S New York Times article, August 16, 2024, “No Joke: The Onion Thinks Print is the Future of Media” that has Murdoch’s Fox Corp fearing … Continue reading
CANALS TO BE SAVORED
THE DISCOVERER BLOG offers “9 Canal Rides You Have to Take,” three of which I’ve already enjoyed—and one that Discoverer missed but could well have included. Here are tidbits about … Continue reading
UNEXPECTED RECOLLECTIONS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LAMENTED WITH NEW YORKERS the news that “WCBS Radio, the Soundtrack of Countless Cab Rides, Goes Quiet.” Today in Part 2, one of the station’s early DJs Bill … Continue reading
UNEXPECTED RECOLLECTIONS PART 1
MEMORIES ARE OFT REKINDLED quite routinely. Such as reading Corey Kilgannon’s “WCBS Radio, the Soundtrack of Countless Cab Rides, Goes Quiet,” in The New York Times, August 13, 2024. Hmm… … Continue reading
WORDS GONE POLITICALLY AWRY
WE USED TO HAVE SPECIAL WORDS: “MUGWUMPS,” for example, were politicos who needlessly wavered, a marvelously illustrative word. These days, the MAGAs have been less imaginative lexicographically: They’ve taken words … Continue reading
1960 FERRARI 250 GT COUPE—A (SUBTLE) EXOTIC
LAMBORGHINIS, FERRARIS, MID-ENGINE VETTES—and even the occasional neo Bugatti—are seen today here in Orange County, California. There’s no mistaking their exotic nature. Add a classic 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Coupe … Continue reading
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