kroger made the most boring food actually fun
One of the most boring foods on planet Earth is the saltine. Flour, salt and not much else. A saltine is never anything somebody raves about.
Kroger, a large supermarket chain, does have a house brand for their saltines. Other companies could learn from what they did because the execution is brilliant.
Retro where computer stuff is concerned is usually not something I'm into. If the whatever-it-is can't serve any useful purpose, be it software or hardware, I just don't see the point.
Every so often, I find something that has all the cool retro nostalgia and can actually be used for real computery things. This is one of them.
Well, that didn't last long. I returned the Squier Precision Bass PJ because it had an unfixable problem. However, I should be very clear that it was only unfixable to that very specific bass and certainly not for all of them.
What I'm about to describe is actually something that can happen to any new bass. There are a few fixes you can try, and I'll talk about that, but if the fixes don't work, you have to get another bass.
This was an adventure.
I've been using Linux for over a year now. An OS notification came through that said hey, you can update to the new LTS. I thought about maybe waiting to do it since it is a rather large update.
Then I said screw it. I'm committed to Linux now as my daily driver OS, so let's do this and see what breaks.
Yes, some stuff broke.
I needed a bass guitar, and this one fit the bill, so I bought it.
Does this mean I got rid of a guitar to get it?
Yes.
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.
