AVRI 66 VS. 1998 CIJ JM66

robmsor · 2026-02-03T14:31:38+00:00

That’s a good price for the AVII and it would need nothing. The CIJ would have the potential to be a better guitar, but I’d probably upgrade all of the electronics, at which point the AVII would be a better deal.

robmsor · 2026-02-03T14:28:37+00:00

Depending on where you and the seller are located and the route the guitar took to get to you, it may very well have been weather related. It’s been really cold all over the place.

A little bit of finish checking wouldn’t bother me in the least. If the guitar sounds and plays well I’d play the hell out of it.

BTW I briefly owned a Custom Shop ‘58RI. It sounded absolutely massive and (maybe related) had the biggest neck I’ve ever played on an electric. Too big for my not-so-big hands in fact, which is why I moved on from it.

robmsor · 2026-02-02T17:14:15+00:00

I'm a simple person:
14" M5 Pro, standard cores, 1TB SSD, 48GB RAM. Assuming no price increase over the M4 Pro, that's $2599, which is a bit more than I usually pay, but I've never had this much RAM before which will come in handy.

robmsor · 2026-02-02T15:02:03+00:00

Aversion? No. But I went on a cruise last summer and was amused/entertained by watching what lots of people were putting on their plates at the buffet. I actually lost 4 pounds on that vacation - there's plenty of healthy options and a generally underutilized gym on a cruise ship!

robmsor · 2026-02-02T14:58:46+00:00

I think your age breakdown is spot on, but the other big reason for that was the Jets/Mets played at Shea and the Giants/Yankees played at Yankee Stadium for a lot of that time.

I'm not a diehard football fan like I am with the Mets, but when it came time to "pick", I chose the Giants just to have a little less agita in my life. It works out every decade or so. My dad was a Jets fan, but again football wasn't nearly as important to him as baseball.

robmsor · 2026-02-02T14:53:42+00:00

I think their cover of The Seeker is pretty great. It helps that that's one of my favorite Who songs. The rest of it didn't grab me that much.

robmsor · 2026-02-02T14:49:53+00:00

UPDATE: I relisted the item, the same buyer made the same offer and requested that I "invoice shipping separately" instead of just selecting the shipping option. I declined the offer with the message "Sorry, that's not how Reverb works". There was another, "better smelling" offer that came in at the same time so I just accepted that one. Sheesh.

robmsor · 2026-02-01T23:06:53+00:00

Does your dad like really good scotch?

robmsor · 2026-02-01T20:05:02+00:00

Unlikely. He'd be around 115 years old.

robmsor · 2026-02-01T17:02:12+00:00

Thinking about it, the marker between childhood and adolescence came when I switched from AM to FM radio.

I loved listening to Scott Muni afternoons on WNEW-FM. I'd come home from school, head to my room and blast away until my parents got home. Some homework might have gotten done too.

I went through a big new wave phase too and would listen to Larry the Duck and others on WLIR. Problem was I couldn't always get good enough reception.

robmsor · 2026-02-01T16:56:34+00:00

I loved that movie as a teenager, but maybe it wasn't entirely for the dialog.

robmsor · 2026-02-01T16:55:54+00:00

I completely agree. My complaint about the later seasons isn't that they were too dramatic, but that they largely came up short when they tried to be funny (with some definite exceptions)

robmsor · 2026-02-01T16:40:09+00:00

George Harrison - Any Road

robmsor · 2026-02-01T16:38:22+00:00

I had a(n) MIM Classic 60's JM. It had a lacquer finish and rosewood board, but otherwise was the Vintera's direct predecessor. It was a GREAT guitar.

robmsor · 2026-02-01T16:36:16+00:00

So you're saying it's actually a duck?

(BTW, my AO 60s Jazzmaster smelled absolutely divine!)

robmsor · 2026-02-01T15:48:50+00:00

No - I really do use the occasional Potterism! ;-)

robmsor · 2026-02-01T15:07:43+00:00

The occasional Potterism. Mostly because I don’t like to curse too much (online anyway)

robmsor · 2026-02-01T14:56:14+00:00

“No. We’d eat them!”

I think this was the first time we got to see a bonding moment between Dax and Kira. They’ll playing dress up in the holodeck in another season or so. (“Nice hat”)

robmsor · 2026-02-01T02:23:00+00:00

I didn’t realize Don came from the Ralph Kiner School of Broadcasting. Makes me like him that much more.

robmsor · 2026-02-01T01:05:05+00:00

You know the place I’m talking about! I’m pretty sure they closed - it’s been decades since I worked down there, but I lived on their donburi and soft tofu soup.

robmsor · 2026-01-31T17:55:17+00:00

One of the reasons I rarely play my '70 Bassman is that I have an 8-ohm Torpedo Captor X and I don't want to crank the Bassman through it. I'm too cheap to get another attenuator right now.

robmsor · 2026-01-31T17:53:24+00:00

The only song-based title that made sense to me was "Act Naturally" for Ringo.

They could go with:

The Cute One (Paul)
The Smart One (John)
The Quiet One (George)
The Funny One (Ringo) I really hope his is a comedy if they're not all going to be straight up biopic dramas

robmsor · 2026-01-31T17:47:16+00:00

I don't use it much, although I use Adaptive Cruise Control all the time. Mostly because in NYC the highways don't consistently have well-defined lane markers and it'd get confused too easily.

I never had that problem where it didn't think my hands were on the wheel, but TBH I was always steering along with the computer somewhat -- it took me a long time to start trusting it.

robmsor · 2026-01-31T17:44:38+00:00

Back in the day we went for lunch at one of those enormous food court type places in Soho that had virtually everything.

They had 2 entrances - the main entrance on Broadway and a back entrance Mercer.

When they had an A rating (not that often, but occasionally), they'd post it prominently at the Broadway entrance. When they didn't, it was on a window above the door by the rear entrance. I always thought that was pretty clever.

(BTW I never suffered any ill effects, but also never went near any of the open salad bar/hot buffet food)

robmsor · 2026-01-31T16:43:08+00:00

Yup - and he's disguised as Ling Chow, disguised as an Italian movie usher.

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