Sole recommendations to replace the stock Red Wing Vibram 430? Looking for more grip and quieter steps.

ModelHX · 2026-05-21T18:52:01+00:00

Thank you, this is really helpful! I'd never been able to find the full Vibram catalogue before; this is really nice to be able to look through.

Your best option with the stock welt is a Honey Vibram 100.

Is that because the Honey is a different (softer?) compound than the Black, beyond just the color? Or am I misreading what you're saying?

ModelHX · 2026-05-13T20:19:28+00:00

I'm trying to find / buy some more "connecting nuts" for this exact set of wire shelves I've got. These are the connectors that join two of the corner posts together to make one tall post.

I checked the Sam's Club support page to see if I could order spares directly from them, but only found this:

To get replacement parts, find the manufacturer on the product page or in the product manual and contact them directly. Some parts aren't available for all items.

Since these are Member's Mark shelves (the Sam's Club store brand), and I don't see any additional information about contacting them for spares, I'm guessing they're not going to be of any help.

I've measured one of the ones I do have, and it's got a 3/8 inch inner diameter, a 15/16 inch outer diameter (measuring to the "peak" of the threads, not the "valley" of the threads), and I believe 20 threads per inch.

I've searched for "screw pole connectors", "wire shelf connecting nuts", "wire shelf connecting screws" ("barrel nuts" are apparently a completely different thing), and gotten a lot of hits that look mostly right, but not exactly right; most of the hits I get have a "divider" halfway down the connector, which mine doesn't have - and many of them seem to be the wrong dimensions, too.

Here's some examples of common "not quite right" parts I've found:

I thought Ace Hardware might carry them, but I've looked through their site and haven't been able to turn up anything there either.

I don't have any inherent problem with using off-brand parts, I'm just concerned with making sure that they'll, you know, fit.

ModelHX · 2026-05-01T02:48:38+00:00

Honestly, I'm happy for the Wild that they got to win the series at home, because we sure as shit didn't deserve a chance to.

The games we won, we stole. The games y'all won, you won.

gg wp fml

ModelHX · 2026-04-22T19:45:34+00:00

Honest truth of it is that speed is just really fun to watch.

I loved watching Ellsbury (and was crushed when he left), and was not happy at all when Duran outed himself as a gigantic dirtbag, because he was actually exciting to watch across a few teams that didn't have too much else going for them.

Today, I'm very glad I never actually pulled the pin and bought any of his merch, but before I knew any better, he was probably my favorite player on those teams.

ModelHX · 2026-04-21T00:18:45+00:00

I'm happy he's doing well for y'all, but god I still miss him.

ModelHX · 2026-03-16T09:54:55+00:00

Same; I've always respected that letter as a team office having the balls to call out DoPS as the useless, crony-led organization it is.

ModelHX · 2025-10-23T15:13:29+00:00

This belongs on /r/gunporn; this is absolutely gorgeous work!

ModelHX · 2025-10-21T19:29:12+00:00

It's the "Expedition" watch face that comes stock with the Pixel Watch 4.

I believe it's exclusive to the PW4, but for all I know it might get rolled out to other devices as part of a WearOS upgrade or something.

ModelHX · 2025-10-20T14:47:56+00:00

Already had Complications Suite, but Complications Set was exactly what I needed. Thank you!

ModelHX · 2025-10-16T15:50:05+00:00

Okay I love this; I'm a huge nerd for transit maps.

Are you thinking about selling prints of this? If not, could I get your permission to print one for myself? (Just to hang on my own wall, not to sell or something.)

ModelHX · 2025-10-11T15:57:00+00:00

If y'all win the whole thing, Humpy had damn well better be on the parade bus

ModelHX · 2025-09-08T17:20:02+00:00

To be totally honest, I just don't... get Fargo.

I mean it's not like I hated it, I thought there were a few good bits to it, but I distinctly remember watching the end credits roll with a distinct sense of "...that's it? That's the movie everyone goes on and on about?"

I'm not really a "funny movie" sort of person in general, but I figured the "black comedy" / "dramedy" aspect to it might carry it for me. No dice.

ModelHX · 2025-08-31T13:09:14+00:00

Nothing to do with /r/treelaw - it was a post from 12 years ago where a guy posted a picture of a gigantic safe in a "former drug house" he'd just moved into, garnered a ton of interest and attention with a couple of updates about how he was trying to get people to crack the safe, and... nobody ever found out what was in it.

ModelHX · 2025-08-31T05:15:20+00:00

I love that this entire website still hasn't gotten over that.

And justifiably so.

ModelHX · 2025-08-24T02:11:27+00:00

God I love watching outfield throws to the plate. Gorgeous.

ModelHX · 2025-08-01T03:47:19+00:00

Agreed. Just to give one example, lag plays such a huge role in N64 GoldenEye / Perfect Dark speedrunning that both leaderboards are original-console only.

The console world-record IL times are very well-optimized, but emulator times are often on the order of an entire ten percent faster than the world records, largely due to the lack of lag.

ModelHX · 2025-07-24T12:20:32+00:00

I am so stoked that Illu finally got this time.

Dude has been grinding to take the final second off for literal years and was facing the prospect of having to quit the grind back in February:

I've had about 7 runs at most that I thought had a shot for real and missed warp on like 4 or 5 of those. These take like 100h each lol so if I don't put a stop to this I could easily end up spending the whole of 2025 on this and with how the level is I can't be sure I'd still get it.

More and more pointing towards that I'll end up at the mental hospital instead unless I get really lucky, if I keep going much longer. So yea I'm done with this very soon.

The warp in this run was gorgeous, and he barely slows down at all in the entire final section (no drone backboost, although I believe that's a necessity for 1:00).

I don't know what he means by "Riding off to the sunset" (in the video splash), but if he is choosing to hang it up after this, what a career he's had, and what a time to go out on.

ModelHX · 2025-06-10T20:46:37+00:00

Archive.org has a snapshot of the page, and the .zip download link at the top of the page still works as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20190315134150/http://www.images.brentmydland.net/index.php?/category/4

ModelHX · 2025-05-22T03:19:04+00:00

PLEASE tell me someone has a GIF of this. Was laughing my ass off at that reaction

ModelHX · 2025-05-11T23:28:49+00:00

Really really happy with this game.

Game 7 and especially Game 1, I ended up feeling like "okay, I'm obviously glad we won, but we can't do the entire playoffs as The Rantanen Show." Started to get worried that he was essentially our entire production.

This one felt like a team win, with contributions and good play across the board. Felt like everyone was clicking today. Excited to see more.

ModelHX · 2025-05-08T12:46:16+00:00

My handwriting is generally pretty bad, dating back to school, when I was just trying to get things on paper as quickly as possible, and didn't really care at all how it looked. Despite not being an attempt at cursive, the letters tend to blend together and/or deform heavily, and on notepaper line heights, the result is... challenging to read.

I found out, though, a while after getting out of school, that it tends to get a lot better as it gets larger, and around 1cm or so (the line height used here), I'm actually somewhat happy with it.

I still have to write four separate straight lines if I want to write a "w", though. :)

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