DRESS CODE BROKEN (YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST)
SORTA. SIMANAITISSAYS WAS LESS THAN three months old when it posted “Travelers’ Code,” November 5, 2012. And now Popular Mechanics, January 2, 2024, posts “A Woman Hid This Secret Code … Continue reading
STATE SONGS, SORTA
“TEN ICONIC SONGS THAT CELEBRATE the U.S. States That Inspired Them” at the dictionary;scoop website got me thinking of two of those cited, along with others not mentioned. Here are … Continue reading
YOOPER BANISHMENT, WORDWISE
BEING AS I AM SENTIMENTALLY CONNECTED with Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I read with interest Lake Superior State University’s “2024 Banished Words List.“ Background. The university has been coming up with … Continue reading
TWO BOOKS AND A NAPIER-RAILTON
I HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY WELL-GIFTED this past Christmas. Here are brief details. Snails & Monkey Tails: A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols, by Michael Arndt, Harper Design, 2022. Snails … Continue reading
ON ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE maintains a lively Member Community, one of its active members being Ronnie Hawkins, whose PhD in Philosophy and MD combine in her … Continue reading
TRUMP, PAUL HARVEY, AND PLAGIARISM BORDERING ON BLASPHEMY
RECENT TRUMP BEHAVIOR OFFERS CHILLING INSIGHT into the man. He or likely his sycophant suppliers of Truth Social drivel have perverted, many times word for word, an essay of the … Continue reading
GEOFF’S MILLE MIGLIA PART 2
YESTERDAY IN OUR (AND HIS) TALE, Geoff Healey started the 1949 Mille Miglia in a year-old Healey 2400 Westland (that had placed first in class there the year before). Today, … Continue reading
GEOFF’S MILLE MIGLIA PART 1
TALK ABOUT FIRST-HAND COVERAGE! The R&T author wrote in January 1950, “Six weeks before the race my father, Donald Healey, decided that two Healey cars should run in the Mille … Continue reading
AHOY YE MATIES!
TRUTH IS, I’VE HAD ONLY A FEW sea-faring adventures, but its lore seems to attract itself to me. Here are a couple more tidbits together with some St. Thomas recollections. … Continue reading
A.I. GETS CHALLENGED LEGALLY
IT WAS INEVITABLE: A MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATION suing a purveyor of Artificial Intelligence. Indeed, there are multiple layers in this, given that SimanaitisSays gleans information about this matter from one of … Continue reading
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