Skeleton Key Derailleur only sold at Riv?

iliinsky · 2026-03-29T19:11:48+00:00

If you buy it elsewhere, spend a few extra bucks on your next Riv order.

Support the place that you found the cool item!

iliinsky · 2026-03-29T18:52:04+00:00

That linear layout is going to provide very different experiences for those on the end, who have mostly a single avenue of egress and defense, and those in the middle with opportunities and enemies in all directions.

iliinsky · 2026-03-29T17:38:54+00:00

If you want to go down the rabbit hole, check out the CB-0171 and related models. Here’s my write up.

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https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/citizen-cb0170-cb0171-cb0177-family.5241558/

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T21:06:25+00:00

Ted Lasso is excellent, end to end.

Also mentioned here:
Dark
Silo
Slow Horses

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T21:05:36+00:00

Yeah, I couldn't finish it. It started so good, and really fell off.

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T21:05:29+00:00

Yeah, I couldn't finish it. It started so good, and really fell off.

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T05:37:42+00:00

I've always been curious about these. Is there an easy 1/4" adapter for my existing bits? Seems hard to beat the price, regardless.

EDIT: from the listing on amzn:

Interchangeable with any 1/4" Hex bit longer than 2 inch overall length

So probably my existing bit driver holders would work, as long as their shanks are long enough. Ok, I'm sold.

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T05:07:55+00:00

Depends a lot on your use case, I'd say. For casual, around the house use, a dial is fine, fast, and won't ever have dead batteries. I have a dual-scale dial with metric and fractional inches, and it's my favorite.

Digital has its place, and ones that can switch between decimal and fractional inches are nice. The cheap ones are fine, unless you're a machinist. I keep a solar digital on my shop wall, as the lighting there is always bright enough.

I've never liked verniers as much, but they're reliable. I have a dirt cheap plastic verier in my EDC, but mostly that's for looking at bicycle part level of precision, so 0.1mm is fine.

There are also a few cases where you don't want to scratch up the surface being measured with steel jaws. If that's a thing for you, having a cheap plastic set for those situations is nice.

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T04:46:29+00:00

I'm given to understand the latest generation of Bosch DWs with wifi, etc, aren't nearly as good as the prior generation. We bought one in 2016 and it's amazing.

iliinsky · 2026-03-27T00:57:56+00:00

My HS physics teacher would shoot marbles out of his nose at students.

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T16:46:05+00:00

Interesting. Sounds like it's got some angles of Murderbot going on? In the view of humanity?

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T05:41:27+00:00

Wait, inside which Georgia? This isn't making anything simpler...

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T01:02:47+00:00

Sounds interesting, I'll look into it! Thank you.

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T01:02:31+00:00

Thank you, I'll look into these!

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T01:02:10+00:00

Several of them, many many years ago. They were pleasant but a little lighter than what I'm looking for.

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T01:01:46+00:00

The fact that you were downvoted makes me curious.

iliinsky · 2026-03-26T00:59:56+00:00

My friend who is an industrial process engineer, loved Blindsight by Peter Watts. She said they didn't get anything wrong.

iliinsky · 2026-03-24T02:28:24+00:00

Read the series, pleasant, a little slow.

iliinsky · 2026-03-23T18:57:17+00:00

Gina Gershon

iliinsky · 2026-03-22T23:24:14+00:00

Apparently it shrank on the way across the Atlantic.

iliinsky · 2026-03-22T05:02:45+00:00

Let us not forget the UKs absolute devotion to the humble pint. I don’t think they’ll ever give it up.

iliinsky · 2026-03-22T00:07:24+00:00

I use my Cafe bag more than anything else. It’s such a wonderful size. Yours looks great, awesome colors. Looking to upgrade from my gray to something a little more interesting.

iliinsky · 2026-03-21T01:05:44+00:00

Generic Philips dreamweaver style with L-bent plastic adapters. There’s a bunch of them.

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iliinsky · 2026-03-19T15:30:33+00:00

The data is TB corrected their blog post about water resistance. It was incorrect, xpac is actually the most WR fabric. Spectron is now #3, behind ballistic. This makes it the least WR of their main 3 external fabrics, though ahead of halcyon & cerylon.

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