What's on your mind today?

[xSilverPhinx]

Well I now own a sewing machine! It's fun. So now I have to find a pattern for face masks

[Tank]

Well I now own a sewing machine! It's fun. So now I have to find a pattern for face masks

That's not what I meant but I LOVE IT!!!

[xSilverPhinx]

Well I now own a sewing machine! It's fun. So now I have to find a pattern for face masks

That's not what I meant but I LOVE IT!!!

I dunno, you said 'pattern' and I immediately thought, what better than having a lot of cute coronaviruses stamped all over your face mask?  

[xSilverPhinx]

I'm thinking, is it a good idea to keep a journal/diary during this pandemic? I could call it The Corona Diaries. People are estimating this health crisis will last till 2022, to a greater or lesser degree, so there will be plenty of random and not-so-random stuff going through my mind during till then. Perhaps it is a good idea to write some of it down.

Like some of my dreams. I'm having some really bat shit crazy dreams.

Or the soap operaesque scenarios my family is going through right now. Health experts say we need soap to fight the virus, but I doubt soap operas have any place in all this...

Or maybe the ongoing zombie apocalypse in general.

I don't know. I'm just rambling.

[Asmodean]

Day 1859. The bog roll is all gone. Whatever glint of hope there was before, there's none now. The Zs are a-coming.

[Dark Lightning]

In my head, I'm calling it the "Cabrona" virus. 

[billy rubin]

the price of oil in america has gone negative.

west texas intermediate closed on may futures at US$-37.61 per barrel.

this means that futures holders are paying people to take th eoil off their hands because they don't have storage.

should straighten out at around 20-something in a day or so, but when oil is that low, my job security goes through the floor.

but we have no debts and i paid ff the farm about ten years ago wghen we came into some money, so we'll ride it out.

[Magdalena]

In my head, I'm calling it the "Cabrona" virus. 

Ha! Good one. 
I use that word almost every day.
Cabron. (Masculine)

[Dark Lightning]

In my head, I'm calling it the "Cabrona" virus. 

Ha! Good one. 
I use that word almost every day.
Cabron. (Masculine)

Yeah, I only used the feminine so that it rhymed better. 

At another website, there was a discussion about the chump's (my name for Trump) lies. I've given to calling his mouth a "lie hole". Every time the chump opens his lie hole, Jesus strangles a kitten. #savethekittens

[xSilverPhinx]

Google Translate says 'cabron' means 'dumbass'. Is this true?

[Icarus]

I have an Adler compound feed (walking foot, walking needle) sewing machine.  I was in the heavy fabric manufacturing business many years ago and I still have one of the 50 machines that was in my small factory. 

The Adler is entirely capable of sewing masks and I have made a few of them.  That machine head weighs about 60 pounds and the drive motor is 0.8 (3/4 HP) Kilowatt and weighs another 50 pounds. . The machines main purpose was sewing heavy fabrics, canvasses, thick plastics, etc.   It has a giant sized bobbin. 

I also have a big box of folders that I had made some 40 years ago.  Folders are little sheet metal doo- dads that  Folds fabrics ahead of the needle so that you can make a hemmed seam or sew four plies to make straps and a variety of other things all in one pass to the needle. Your garments are made using folders of several kinds. 

Industrial machines of this sort can sew at 5000 needle strokes per minute when appropriate. In the industry it is common to have air jets, sometimes water jets, blowing on the needle to keep it cooler. The needle can get red hot otherwise and the heat melts synthetic threads or burns cotton thread. Gotta keep that needle cool.

A good home style machine is a joy and a pleasure for those that become hooked on sewing.  Big machines like my Adler creates less joy because they are almost always used in an industrial setting where the operation is a job, not a pleasure.   


P.S. Billy R you probably know that back in the day, Adler also built some very fine motorcycles mostly of the two stroke variety. as a matter of fact, the early Yamaha twin two strokes were almost direct copies of the German Adler engine design.

[Sandra Craft]

I'm thinking, is it a good idea to keep a journal/diary during this pandemic?

I say yes.   

[Tank]

I have an Adler compound feed (walking foot, walking needle) sewing machine.  I was in the heavy fabric manufacturing business many years ago and I still have one of the 50 machines that was in my small factory. 

The Adler is entirely capable of sewing masks and I have made a few of them.  That machine head weighs about 60 pounds and the drive motor is 0.8 (3/4 HP) Kilowatt and weighs another 50 pounds. . The machines main purpose was sewing heavy fabrics, canvasses, thick plastics, etc.   It has a giant sized bobbin. 

I also have a big box of folders that I had made some 40 years ago.  Folders are little sheet metal doo- dads that  Folds fabrics ahead of the needle so that you can make a hemmed seam or sew four plies to make straps and a variety of other things all in one pass to the needle. Your garments are made using folders of several kinds. 

Industrial machines of this sort can sew at 5000 needle strokes per minute when appropriate. In the industry it is common to have air jets, sometimes water jets, blowing on the needle to keep it cooler. The needle can get red hot otherwise and the heat melts synthetic threads or burns cotton thread. Gotta keep that needle cool.

A good home style machine is a joy and a pleasure for those that become hooked on sewing.  Big machines like my Adler creates less joy because they are almost always used in an industrial setting where the operation is a job, not a pleasure.   


P.S. Billy R you probably know that back in the day, Adler also built some very fine motorcycles mostly of the two stroke variety. as a matter of fact, the early Yamaha twin two strokes were almost direct copies of the German Adler engine design.

You're a true font of knowledge.

[Magdalena]

Google Translate says 'cabron' means 'dumbass'. Is this true?

Yes, well, dumbass is good. 

It has many meanings depending on how one uses it.

Cabrón
Comes from cabra which means male goat, or big male goat. It's also slang for a man whose wife or girlfriend has been unfaithful without him knowing about it, of course. So, calling another man cabron can be extremely insulting or offensive. It can also be translated as a bastard, motherfucker, asshole, and a son of a bitch.
It's one of those multipurpose words. 

Other ways to use the word:
Encabronado
An angry man.

Encabronar
To get very angry or annoyed.

Está cabron.
It's fucked up.
Or
It's difficult.

Estás cabron.
You're a sly or cunning man.

And a new word by Dark Lightning: Cabrona Virus.




It's 1:54 AM.
I can't sleep.

Tomorrow, well, today is my man's birthday. We've been celebrating since the 18th. What else can we do? 

I'm making camarones a la diabla tomorrow...today...


Goodnight

[billy rubin]

I have an Adler compound feed (walking foot, walking needle) sewing machine.  I was in the heavy fabric manufacturing business many years ago and I still have one of the 50 machines that was in my small factory. 

The Adler is entirely capable of sewing masks and I have made a few of them.  That machine head weighs about 60 pounds and the drive motor is 0.8 (3/4 HP) Kilowatt and weighs another 50 pounds. . The machines main purpose was sewing heavy fabrics, canvasses, thick plastics, etc.   It has a giant sized bobbin. 

I also have a big box of folders that I had made some 40 years ago.  Folders are little sheet metal doo- dads that  Folds fabrics ahead of the needle so that you can make a hemmed seam or sew four plies to make straps and a variety of other things all in one pass to the needle. Your garments are made using folders of several kinds. 

Industrial machines of this sort can sew at 5000 needle strokes per minute when appropriate. In the industry it is common to have air jets, sometimes water jets, blowing on the needle to keep it cooler. The needle can get red hot otherwise and the heat melts synthetic threads or burns cotton thread. Gotta keep that needle cool.

A good home style machine is a joy and a pleasure for those that become hooked on sewing.  Big machines like my Adler creates less joy because they are almost always used in an industrial setting where the operation is a job, not a pleasure.   


P.S. Billy R you probably know that back in the day, Adler also built some very fine motorcycles mostly of the two stroke variety. as a matter of fact, the early Yamaha twin two strokes were almost direct copies of the German Adler engine design.

is there anything that you haven't been at some time or another?

im wondering how many of you there really are

and i didn't know abou tthese



shades of sunbeam