Simanaitis SaysOn cars, old, new and future; science & technology; vintage airplanes, computer flight simulation of them; Sherlockiana; our English language; travel; and other stuffAbout the Author REGIONAL YUMS THE DISCOVERY BLOG OFFERS “10 Regional U.S. Dishes You Have to Try Once,” ...
Indeed,“On Politicians and Hypocrisy”was a topic here atSimanaitisSaysaccompanied by the likes of Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, and the rest back in 2017. Getting the Lead Out. Another environmental success story dating from the 1970s was removing TEL, tetraethyl lead, from gasoline. Effective...
“Just like its brothers,”Old-Computerssays, “the M10 was used a lot by reporters all around the world. This success was mainly due to its excellent keyboard and large battery autonomy.” The M10’s built-in software includes a interpreter for Microsoft Basic 1.0 (the last code developed ...
Yet Another OED Add.The word “bibliophilia,” the love of books, is one of the non-Japanese words making the new-add list. I am a bibliophiliac, seemingly in any language. ds © Dennis Simanaitis,SimanaitisSays.com, 2024
Bonito,katsuo,may be served sushi-style with grated ginger. I must give this one a try.Katsuo, onegaitashimasu;Bonito, please. ds © Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2015
A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER inaugurating SimanaitisSays, I wrote about La Pyramide, the restaurant established by Fernand Point, who mentored many chefs renowned for Nouvelle Cuisine. About 20 miles south of Lyon in Vienne, France, La Pyramide was a perfect st
SimanaitisSays has documented Holmes and his associates in several items, including“Matryoshka.”My set of five nested dolls consists of, in decreasing size, Holmes, Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Holmes’ portly brother Mycroft and, last, the Baskerville Hound. ...
Last, imagine the legal implications. Based on reading these articles, I’d opt for keeping humans, error-prone though they may be, completely in the loop. What about you? ds © Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2015
Pascal’s Triangle, in which the next row is derived from the row above it. See also“Holmes and Maths”here atSimanaitisSays. Gambling on God.Pascal expanded his idea of a wager’s expected value into a bet involving the existence of a deity. (Actually, reflecting his upbringing, the de...
The Bugatti railcar remains a wonderfully appropriate way to celebrate a surfeit of 12.76-liter 8-cylinder Royale engines. ds © Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2015