and where there were not parts or tools there were stacks and stacks of popular electronics magazines from every era and on the walls were calendars from electronic parts warehouses with pictures of pretty girls for every month just like the ones that companies that sold parts for muscle cars issued , and blaise was shocked because he had never thought about old fart electronics hobbyists in that way before but there they were , chicks in bikinis hustling oscilloscopes and rheostats and potentiometers .