Kate Wagner is the creator of the viral blog McMansionHell, which roasts the world’s ugliest houses from top to bottom, all while teaching about architecture and design.
The city in which I live is rife with McMansions. Monstrous houses –all with 3 car garages– squeezed onto tiny lots.
Author Archives: Steve Mays
Autumn 2022
How deep is the ocean?
“Truth exists; only lies are invented”
“Few people can say: I am here. They look for themselves in the past and see themselves in the future.” — Georges Braque (1882–1963)
I knew him well
If a person were to read my ~6,000 blog posts, spanning 20 years, he/she would know me better than anyone who has ever met me. That person does not exist and I suspect never will.
Perhaps one day an AI (“I prefer the term ‘artificial person‘”) will read them and want to discuss what I wrote/shared.
I won’t be around but perhaps this future AP will be able to create a synthetic version of me, using everything I’ve shared (YouTube, etc) and we’ll have a nice chat.
What it means to age
1980 Ford Courier
I really can’t explain my love of old pickup trucks and while I only have room in my life for one, I enjoy seeing what my friend Paul has for sale. (He gets most of his trucks from Colorado where rust is less of a problem.)
Today he was showing off a 1980 Ford Courier. I can’t say I remember these but I wasn’t thinking about pickup trucks back then. The truck has its own Wikipedia page. This beauty can be yours for $3000.
Books and a place to read them
A place to sit
I’ve been spending a good bit of time in the woods and find there’s no good place to sit when I need stop and catch my breath. At least not in our woods. I’m not ready to put a store-bought bench along my hiking trail but spotted some nice logs in my neighbors wood pile.
After unstacking –and restacking– his logs, I would up with several that will do nicely, once I flatten the top with my chainsaw.
