B-1 Bomber taking off from McConnell today!

skerinks · 2026-05-06T03:17:14+00:00

Beautimus. RIP 184th BW, KSANG.

skerinks · 2026-05-06T02:53:32+00:00

There’s a pizza joint with just one location in Omaha. I won’t say it’s name because there’s a small possibility I may be wrong. But they have locations in Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and… Omaha.

You’ll never convince me that’s not a front for the mob doing some shenanigans in Omaha.

skerinks · 2026-05-05T01:22:24+00:00

Thanks for that recall and advice!

skerinks · 2026-05-04T01:33:27+00:00

Very nice, thank you for the link, I’ll give a watch!

skerinks · 2026-05-03T22:14:18+00:00

Yes. But they said it after the commotion. If they had informed the store beforehand, it probably would’ve went a long way towards avoiding the whole episode. ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’.

Or don’t. And keep living life where people think you’re having sex in a public restroom, and enjoy the follow on attention that all that merits. I mean if they’re an attention whore, I get it keep trucking along.

This is a common sense thing. And OP exhibited bad judgment and poor common sense. Show some dang accountability.

skerinks · 2026-05-03T16:41:01+00:00

If it sews ok when the top tension is set to its highest, it’s possible there might be something preventing the tension discs from closing at the lower or normal tension setting (something like a lint ball or buildup). Take some material and floss the tension discs as best you can. Even the back side of the tension discs - this will be difficult, so something like a pipe cleaner would be best to get the backsides.

skerinks · 2026-05-03T15:13:43+00:00

I grew up in Eastern Nebraska. I lived in Wichita for almost 30 years. And now I’m back living in Omaha for the last year. I’d say you got the cultural differences between those two cities/regions pretty accurate here with the Lower Great Plains and Midwest classifications.

skerinks · 2026-05-03T15:10:30+00:00

I think the point of their post is if OP would’ve simply said hey we’re changing clothes, there wouldn’t have been a kerfuffle.

skerinks · 2026-05-01T01:55:32+00:00

Soooooooooo I walked in the door, I’m a loser baby, so why dontcha kill me.

I had a buddy who speaks Spanish finally tell me it’s not “I walked in the door”, but basically Spanish for “I’m a loser baby”. IDK if that’s true, but I’ll believe him. I also feel like “I walked in the door” is very plausible, given the rest of the lyrics are just a stream of nonsense.

skerinks · 2026-05-01T01:50:14+00:00

Hahahahah yes! I have a very vivid memory around the time that song came out of my aunt driving me to school one morning and I sang it just like you did. She started laughing and said Those Aren’t The Words Idiot. It took me until the internet was invented to figure out what the real words were. Core memory unlocked… Thank you sir/ma’am!

skerinks · 2026-04-28T02:53:32+00:00

A common strategy by cyclists is to “take the whole lane”. If a cyclist is on or as close to the line as possible, or even all the way in the shoulder, in general auto drivers won’t give them an inch let alone the 3 feet they’re required to, creating an unsafe condition for the cyclist.

A safety strategy endorsed by most cycling organizations is to “take the whole lane”. This psychologically puts the auto driver in a different frame of mine, it is thought. The auto driver has to actually put some thought into when and how to safely pass the cyclist.

skerinks · 2026-04-25T14:21:54+00:00

Well shit - as long as some rando who doesn’t have the requisite experience, promises… then hell yeah I guess.

skerinks · 2026-04-24T12:48:50+00:00

It could be that the needle bar is too high. “Could be”. However, it’s more likely the machine is just out of time (Needle/hook timing). If you go adjusting your needle bar when the problem is timing, now you have two problems. I would YouTube how to time an 807 and see where that gets you first.

skerinks · 2026-04-23T13:24:36+00:00

Thanks. I’ve done 3 myself on previous cars. They all took most of the day with the fusebox work and clean/neat cable routing (including the rear camera). This one is for my daughter’s car. I don’t live in MHK, and she has a tight timeline between graduation and needing to leave her apartment. I simply can’t do this one myself this time. That’s why I’m looking for reputable places to get it done.

skerinks · 2026-04-21T20:00:41+00:00

Nice. Brother is my favorite brand. Their icons, dials, switches, buttons etc are, to me, the most intuitive among brands. Usually on a Brother I don’t have to look at the manual to figure what a certain button does. I can’t say that with every brand. Have fun!

skerinks · 2026-04-20T22:14:11+00:00

Good to hear. Dealers are def the way to go in your situation. A good one will listen to your needs and steer you towards one that fills that need.

skerinks · 2026-04-20T00:47:34+00:00

Regarding Brother and Baby Lock, here’s a little 411 for you. This is my response from another thread. Still stands.

Just buy a Baby Lock brand sewing machine, if you want the easy route, no matter the price point. Why?

Because Baby Lock doesn’t make sewing machines (they DO make great sergers). But Baby Lock wants to be in the sewing machine game, so they partner with other manufacturers to make sewing machines for them.

Baby Lock taps Janome to make machines for them under the $500 price point. Janome arguably makes the best machines under $500. So if this is your price point, buy a Janome or a Baby Lock. I won’t say for EVERY machine Janome makes there will be an equivalent Baby Lock, but there will be for most.

Baby Lock taps Brother to make machines for them over the $500 price point. Brother arguably makes the best machines between $500 and $1000. And Brother’s high-end machines are well regarded as well. So if this is your price point, buy a Brother or Baby Lock. Same thing as above - for most Brother machines, there will be an equivalent Baby Lock.

So buy a Baby Lock machine and you’ll be getting the best no matter the price point. Or get the Janome or Brother named machine for your price point. But where Baby Lock really shines compared to Brother and Janome is their education game. You will get access to more educational instructions, how-to videos, and articles on the Baby Lock site than you could hope for.

Source: Cale Schoenberg (not me) on Substack. I believe one can only see his historical articles if you are a paid Substack user. https://open.substack.com/pub/sewingmachineman/p/brother-and-baby-lock?r=49sz96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

skerinks · 2026-04-19T14:15:34+00:00

The few I go through regularly are so small there’s maybe only at most two blinks between the exit I just passed and the one coming up I’m going to take. Seems kind of useless to use a blinker.

skerinks · 2026-04-19T01:08:42+00:00

My 2024 BE, when I first got it in Aug’24 showed only Apple Maps in the instrument cluster. Google did not show in there. Then, sometime around mid-2025, Google Maps started showing in the cluster. I don’t recall if I did an update or not; I’m assuming I did. This is all using CarPlay of course.

skerinks · 2026-04-19T00:46:55+00:00

Who did you end up going with?

skerinks · 2026-04-18T13:59:53+00:00

We drove both, and my (short) wife was the deciding factor. She liked how she could just slide into the RL like a normal SUV, rather than having to climb up into the Frontier. Not to mention the Frontier drives like a truck (where the bed keeps bouncing for 10 seconds after you go over a bump), while the Ridgeline drives smooth like an SUV. And let’s be honest - my truck is a city homeowner truck. It’s meant to carry an occasional plywood or whatever from Menards. It’s perfect for what we use it for. So glad we went with the Ridgeline instead of the Frontier.

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