good to know: car air filter sets exist
Recently, I had an oil change done for my car. Of course, the shop I went to tried to get me to waste money on air filters. Yes, plural. One for the air box in the engine bay and the other for the cabin. The shop said they were dirty. I didn't believe them.
A few days later, I inspected the filters myself. Turns out the shop was right and they were dirty. Since filters are easy to change, I did it myself...
This is another reminder to people who grew up in the 1990s that some things about it were just plain stupid.
I remember the '90s. From my mid-teens to mid-20s, I experienced that whole decade and all the dumb stuff that came along with it.
Something that happened with toys, video games and cartoons was a huge uptick in toilet humor.
I totally admit that I have a thing for '70s Fender guitars. It's the reason I own a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. While technically a late-'60s headstock design, people associate the big CBS headstock with the '70s, as do I.
The '70s style does extend to the electric bass, and oh, does Squier absolutely nail one just right:
Something I've learned over the years with computer crap is that any time you find something that's good and cheap, buy backups. If you don't, your favorite computer-whatever thing will wear out and you won't be able to find a cheap replacement.
This literally applies to anything computer. Drives, USB sticks, keyboards, and in this instance...
When finding out why the PRS McCarty 594 guitars have 594 in the model name, that started me down a rabbit hole.
According to Paul Reed Smith himself, the 594 comes from a 1959 four-knob guitar where the scale length was measured at 24 and 19/32". If you divide 19 by 32, that's 0.59375. When you round that number up, it's 0.594, hence the scale length of a McCarty 594 model is 24.594".
Okay, great. Good to know. But as I kept reading on from place to place across the internet about scale lengths and such, those vintage electrics are just... ugh.
