Author Archives: Steve Mays
How life happens
“Life is nothing but moments, and every moment is nothing but another culmination of the universe’s incalculable ripples. Out where we can’t see, they’re crossing and merging, bringing toward us new forms and experiences that are almost perfectly unpredictable. Yet the way we think about life seldom reflects that reality. We plan and worry and forecast and dread, all with an absurd sense of certainty, like we’re setting up snooker shots and we can see all the balls.”
— David Cain
Land Rover for hauling your motorcycles
This long-wheelbase 1966 Land Rover Series II-A was restored to accommodate motorcycle transport. It has a Land Rover 2.25-liter gas engine and a Series III four-speed manual. The original truck, a fire engine that had been out of commission for decades, received a meticulous, 1,000-hour, ground-up reconstruction.
Squirrels and seagulls stealing GoPro cameras
The Internet will achieve no higher purpose than videos of squirrels and seagulls stealing GoPro cameras. I’m unclear on how the cameras were recovered. I eagerly await the day I can stream these live to high-end goggles.
In praise of AirPods
Everyone’s familiar with stories of someone regaining their sight after years of blindness… or getting their hearing back after a lifetime of silence. That’s what came to mind as I started watching movies and series on my iPhone with AirPods (ver 2).
It’s like I’ve been listening with cotton stuffed in my ears. Hard to overstate how getting all of the sound changes the viewing experience.
Halfway through season one of Deadwood and I’m right there in the muddy street, engulfed in the sounds of the camp. Horses breathing, a distant hammering, the full range of Ian McShane’s mellifluous voice.
I’m ruined. I can’t go back to listening to what passes for sound coming from the TV across the room.