Yes, I was there. And I had a decoder ring.
Author Archives: Steve Mays
Wood chipper on the move
If the trails project is going to proceed, I’ll have to move the wood chipper down the hill. It has wheels so downhill is no problem…but getting it back up the hill would be a problem. It’s a heavy mother. Hopefully I’ve solved the problem with a battery-powered winch.
Jitterbug
I found this in the back of a kitchen drawer. I don’t recall owning this so it must have been Barb’s. “The Jitterbug Flip2 is designed to be easy to use, with big buttons and a large screen. It’s the only flip phone with Amazon Alexa, so you can make calls and send texts using just your voice. And for help in emergencies, the Urgent Response button is right on the keypad.” I especially like the YES and NO buttons. Early version of the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” icons.
The phone was (and still is?) aimed at the older market, but who doesn’t need an Urgent Response button from time to time? The red button on the new version of the phone?
Some might recall that I dabbled with the idea of a simpler phone a few years ago.
“Let’s make him look like Drexl Spivey”
You’ve heard to saying, “There’s no small parts, only small actors?” Certainly true of Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Drexl Spivey, the drug dealer in True Romance (1993).
The following year Oldman played a corrupt narcotics officer in The Professional. Another superb performance. In one of the opening scenes Oldman lead a team of narcs into an apartment searching for some missing heroin. Photo below is one of the half dozen cops on the raid.
Don’t know who the actor is but that’s not important. The similarity to Drexl Spivey seems too strong to be coincidental. Was this an inside joke on Oldman?
How trail designers build good hikes
This 5 minute video looks at how trail designers (it never occurred to me there was such a thing) and engineers do what they do.