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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: Fennec on December 22, 2014, 03:04:36 am
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My Mom would kill me.
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My computer room looks about the same at the moment (my excuse is that I'm moving next year).
In any case, it's an organised mess. I know precisely where everything is and I never have to go looking for things. Such a thing does actually exist!
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Lol, ya, but few weeks ago I saw Dave half an hour try to find a new printer cardrige. Then he found it close the printer.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung
Maybe Dave can't find this secret :o)
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Wow!
It looks like he let Sagan loose in there! :palm:
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No no, Its Dave only. Look the last EEVBlog2 Video. Sagan opens and close the cases and put all back into it. He seems to be properly fine.
But maybe a lab ghost is working here.
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That bench is fine I can still see blue.
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AND....there's still a place to walk on the floor. :)
Oh, and I'm surprised. I thought He'd have a picture of the DeLorean up on the wall to match the license plate he has on the shelf.
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It's like a comfortable mess, isn't it? ;)
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It's like a comfortable mess, isn't it? ;)
Some years ago (probably during Daves previous clearout) I said that the stuff we accumulate represents the materials to express our hopes, dreams and aspirations of things to do. But after a while they just become a burden we bury ourselves under.
If you're doing a clearout too. Good luck to you.
You are completely right about that, but compared to your standarts and probably most of the others, my stuff is just junk, but that's what I have and try to make the best of it
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LOL Glad too see I'm not the only one with an embarrassing mess.... I made and effort to clean up earlier today and made progress but there's still so much more crap to sort.....
the stuff we accumulate represents the materials to express our hopes, dreams and aspirations of things to do. But after a while they just become a burden we bury ourselves under.
Wilfred that is scary accurate......
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it's a lab not a showroom , it's supposed to be messy ... hope my lab is that messy :-DD
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I was waiting for Dave to ask Shahriar http://www.theamphour.com/228-an-interview-with-shahriar-from-the-signal-path-quisquous-quivering-quadripole/#comments, (http://www.theamphour.com/228-an-interview-with-shahriar-from-the-signal-path-quisquous-quivering-quadripole/#comments,) for any tips on being a 'test equipment whore' and still having a neat lab (or sitting room) :-+. I was left waiting ::)
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To clean up this stuff is the work waiting for the new "Lab Assistant". :-DD
I suppose this mess is for some of the applicants a no go flag ... :o
Its probably going to get worse.. Two people working at lab = twice the organized chaos...
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You know it is bad when you have a clean up, and have a box of scrap metal of around 40kg, most of which is old screws. The drum is nearly full, will have to get a new one when it goes to the scrap yard.
Luckily we get a few cardboard drums at work, just have to claim some for this purpose. I also use the used 25l buckets as well, they are perfect for scrap metal as they stack well.
Took 35kg of brass to the yard last week, next week it is the turn for the cardboard. Then off to the dumpsite.
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It's like a comfortable mess, isn't it? ;)
It looks dangerous to me. Worse than my mess, but not by much. But I am using my enemies strength against them and casting my stuff back onto Ebay. Whence it came.
Some years ago (probably during Daves previous clearout) I said that the stuff we accumulate represents the materials to express our hopes, dreams and aspirations of things to do. But after a while they just become a burden we bury ourselves under. That's where I am at. Hopefully not for much longer.
If you're doing a clearout too. Good luck to you.
Poetic wit Wilfred, love it :)
I am in a huge clear out, got rid of about two skips worth of crap.
Still more to go, feels a whole lot better, but of course am meeting the "I need that widget/value now, why oh why did I throw it!"
Worth it all though:)
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Or rather time to turn off the DropCam? >:D
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Every Engineer I know whose abilities I respect, has a lab just like Dave's.
It is in their DNA.
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Don't know what this says about my habits, but my first thought when seeing the photo was, "That's not so bad."
Hell, you waste so much time constantly putting everything away just to take it all out again the next time you're there, it's more efficient to just leave it all out. That way you can work on whatever you want at a moments notice.
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Don't know what this says about my habits, but my first thought when seeing the photo was, "That's not so bad."
Hell, you waste so much time constantly putting everything away just to take it all out again the next time you're there, it's more efficient to just leave it all out. That way you can work on whatever you want at a moments notice.
Hmmm. There is probably a middle ground between clean and post apocalyptic that will work for most people. It reminds me of the story of the two woodcutters who go into the forrest each hoping to cut the most trees. One hacks away furiously all day thinking he is well ahead because he can hear his colleague pausing periodically. At the end of the day he is surprised his colleague has cut more. But I heard you stopping to rest all day. How can you have cut more than me? The other fellow replies I wasn't resting I was sharpening my axe.
first you got poetic now a parable? hehehe
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Its organized chaos. I would be willing to bet he knows where almost everything in there is located without having to look very hard.
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I guess that now Dave has the new store room, there has been little or no motivation to clean up.