The radio edit of the theme song he recorded for "2 Fast, 2 Furious" -- which I'm pretty sure is called "Act a Fool" -- did some great work with sound effects as well.
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The radio edit of the theme song he recorded for "2 Fast, 2 Furious" -- which I'm pretty sure is called "Act a Fool" -- did some great work with sound effects as well.
I've never had one of those, but I'm not surprised Midwest Express had them. I miss all the direct flights from Omaha. I remember going to PHL and DCA in my teens with no layover. It was an amazing thing.
I think I was 18 or 19 the last time I flew Midwest, so I clearly never got the full experience.
Yeah, my kids are excited when United gives them a prepackaged stroopwafel cookie. Don't get me wrong -- those are really good. But nothing will ever compare to the 30 minutes where you could smell of those cookies baking in the back of the plane.
Pour out a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie for Midwest Express.
Sounds like you've never used APT Falcon integrated with Blox.
During COVID, I took classes in an accelerated online degree program from a local university. It took a few months on the hunt, but I left my job as a newspaper editor when I found a job in data and automation.
I still remember how excited I was in second grade when I got randomly assigned No. 23 for baseball because I watched Sandberg on WGN with my grandparents in the summer, and he was their favorite player. He's associated with so many great memories from my childhood.
My wife is appalled that I do this to the pull and peel Twizzlers.
You know your area is doing the Fourth of July big when the National Weather Service has to issue an air quality alert.
The last newspaper I worked at would get two giant bags of popcorn a week for the break room. I was probably responsible for eating about a quarter of that each week. We didn't have bowls, so most of us transported popcorn in coffee filters back to our desks.
Death, taxes, and CONCACAF going full sicko at every opportunity. (Also, downloading this for inevitable future use.)
Last year, a very excited guy wanted to talk to me about the University of Montana when he saw I was wearing Grizzlies shorts. He was incredibly disappointed to learn I bought them out of the clearance bin at Scheels in Nebraska and had never even been to Montana.
This. It was my first thought last night. It was my first thought last night. I'm a Raptors fan, and I can still see his Achilles rolling up the back of his leg like something out of Looney Tunes.
An opossum was trying to get after break into our chicken coop at 5 a.m., so I used a garden hose and beagle to catch it in a dog kennel. But then I drove it across two freeways and released it near a river about 5 miles away so it wouldn't come back.
Barack Obama offered to buy me a Sno-cone when I was in the press pool for a campaign event in 2012. And by me, I mean all the photographers, but I happened to be in the front of the group at that moment.
While I was in line for Runza, my 10-year-old got a ball from one of the players. He couldn't see the number very well, but he thinks it might have been Rich Hill himself.
I wasn't planning to drop money in the jersey auction tonight, Minda. Why did you have to convince me otherwise?
This is the screenshot I saw, with a couple extra replies at the bottom.
We desperately needed a reference here to "Omaha Stylee," but I'm now going to try to get tickets ASAP.
I mean, he already has a history transporting random dead animals, including a bear cub. And this is before even mentioning his offhand comment about discovering dead worms in his brain.
I'll take "Things I never expected Adam to say for $1,000."
Has anyone called Lin-Manuel Miranda, encouraged him to read the Ulysses S. Grant biography from Ron Chernow and asked for something similar to the first act of "Hamilton" about the Civil War?
No. 13 on the list also transferred to Nebraska.
I actually didn't know it ever left the Runza menu. But it's my duty as a Nebraskan to partake.
That's what it's called in wrestling. Which I only learned when my son started wrestling last year.
Well, guess I know what I need to do tomorrow.
One of the rare instances where I've been to the town. The pictures don't really do the scenery there justice. It's a pretty area.
I don't live or work near a Taco Bell anymore, so this post is how I discovered they got rid of another of my favorites.
Though props to the tastefully named Spencer John Schreier for publishing research on mRNA. You certainly won't see me doing that.
I'm not sure if I should be more honored that my book was once above "50 Shades of Grey" on the rack at the store or that people thought it was good enough to steal to use for training AI. But I sure haven't received any royalty payments for this, despite how hard I worked to write my book.
Tonight was the first circuit I ever lost to my 10-year-old. It was only by one point, largely because my wife and I kept splitting races. But then I beat him 15 in the next circuit, so it's not all bad.
As a Husker alum, I applaud the beer in the mouth. Very realistic for what the program does to us, yet we keep coming back for more.
I miss the stacked 59-county plates. They got rid of them right as I started driving. It was hilariously small on those 1990s plates.
Yes -- and Iowa used to do this into the 1990s as well before going three letters and three numbers ... which Nebraska's three largest counties also use.
North Sioux City is kind of the odd one out. It's on the wrong side of Dakota Dunes, plus it's way smaller than the others. I'm sure opinions on whether South Sioux or Sioux City is good or evil depends on which state you live in -- haha.
This map is such a train wreck that I can't look away. Can we at least flip the Midwest and Great Lakes names, then figure out whatever Kansas is? Pretty sure the Jayhawks beat the Longhorns in football to not be claimed as part of Texas.
I've been to the Iowa Great Lakes. Clearly, I was wrong for never considering them their own multistate region.
You remember a couple summers ago how it went from 100 to 45 in two days?
Cool, we're getting literally every season this week.
This place and its weather ...
I still remember after watching "Unforgiven" in my film studies class, my professor made a comment about how Gene Hackman took a long break from acting because playing all these villains was so taxing emotionally for such a nice guy. RIP to one of the best to ever do it.
I always thought the old Scottish man in "Skyfall" should have been Sean Connery for that same reason.
Not only that, but Pottwattamie County actually has two courthouses and county fairs for the eastern and western halves.
You know you're getting old when your microphone dies during a work Zoom meeting, so you steal the headset your kids use to play Xbox to finish the call.
I fell asleep studying -- I mean, passed out face down in my book -- in college and woke up to this, one of the greatest penalties of all time. I had to confirm I wasn't dreaming. youtu.be/-7uUjeI1JPY?...
In my newspaper days, we once got a FOIA response from a federal agency saying they couldn't fulfill our request. The problem was that it took seven years to get that answer, and neither the reporter who filed it nor editor on the story was around anymore, so we didn't know what it referenced.
And today I learned Terry Rozier was still in the NBA almost 14 years after this tweet.
We need to see popcorn in one of those foam corn heads people wear at Husker games.
This never gets old, @amiejust.bsky.social and @ikalebhenry.bsky.social.
Former newspaper editor here: Yes, because they serve two different purposes. One is a contraction; the other is possessive.
We took our kids and dogs for a walk downtown this afternoon when the fog rolled in. It dropped a good five to 10 degrees when we got up into the fog on the pedestrian bridge.
As much as I hate carrying this flocked tree up the stairs and cleaning up the mess it causes, it looks great once it has all the lights and presents.
What's even funnier is that this photo was taken in Big Ten country in Omaha, so yes.
Turned on the Ohio vs. Jacksonville State bowl game when I got home, and the third quarter has been a @sickoscommittee.org dream. In a few minutes, we had a shanked punt, a lost accidental direct snap fumble, another lost fumble on the next play, and now a pick.
Same here. What a time to be alive!
The only other flavor besides cherry allowed in this conversation is brown sugar cinnamon. If we could get a big box with just those two flavors ...
Strawberry dominates the name-brand box at Sam's Club, too. Why are we disrespecting cherry, the GOAT of toaster pastries?
Spending all day at my kids' sports has prepared my heart rate (elevated) and voice (slightly raspy) for the Husker volleyball match.
Given everything I've seen watching Nebrasketball over the years ...
The holding jokes really write themselves here, don't they?
No problem -- happy to help!
The standards for that differ in each newsroom, but, from my experience, a "staff report" byline typically means it came from a press release and required very little original reporting.
I think the future involves more independent, nonprofit news organizations. But it's also going to require search engines and social media companies punishing bad actors -- and not just doing AI for the sake of AI like it feels like they're trying now.
When we continue to devalue quality local journalism for free slop, this is what can happen. Even outside of Oregon, this is a critically important read.
I was hoping more for vintage beer ads from the '90s, but that would be more probable.
Now I'm curious what kind of ads you get if you start every morning with Acts 2:15.
That ... was not at all where I expected this conversation to go. But, man, I definitely learned something unexpected tonight. I'm kind of disappointed Nebraska will play Cincinnati at a neutral site next year now.
Excuse me, what?
Welcome back, old friends. This is the reason for the season indeed.
I'm so here for a repeat of BYU at Arizona State.
I present you this GIF. (Because I use it all the time but had somehow never watched "Rudy" until last week.)
Me: Plays my first move in a new game of chess after winning my last match. Thinks nothing of it. The app: Wow, you suck.
This violated your Eighth Amendment rights.
Now that I'm old enough to run for president, my platform consists of banning sequences of commercial, kickoff, commercial on all football broadcasts.
Props to Fox for playing 311 on the bump to the commercial break after the Huskers TD there.
You can even go a bit farther east of Pensacola and still stay in Central Time.
No, I completely get it. There used to be a great sense of community, even when I dealt with total strangers on it, and it was incredibly useful for surveying lots of news at a glance. To have all that disappear and devolve into what it's become is discouraging.
Good morning from the Casey's near my work, where the staff was blaring "Best Day Ever" by SpongeBob as the guy in front of me bought six hard Monsters shortly after 8 a.m.
I accidentally got dragged into Gamer Gate one night ... because there were apparently two journalists named Schreier, and the other one wrote for Kotaku.
If anyone on this site is looking for a freelance journalist in the Midwest for any project, please reach out. I spent 11 years working for Nebraska and Iowa newspapers doing a little bit of everything before switching careers a couple years ago.
Well, you had a front-row seat to a couple of these. And you're still here to criticize me for it, so we'll call that a victory.
Might as well make this my first post on here: - sold concessions at the zoo - college resident assistant - tutored ACT and SAT prep, plus chemistry - adjunct professor - newspaper opinion page editor
My family is from the small town in Nebraska that's the self-proclaimed kolache capital of the world, and I had never seen something called a kolache with meat in it until I was 20 and visiting Texas. I'm glad there's a word to differentiate them.