Look, some nerd posted his electronics lab!

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iamjackslackof

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...and it is glorious! I know it's not one of us here, because it's far too clean ;) Jokes aside, there are some great ideas here, some really good gear recommendations, and this has now become the standard to which I will aspire to get my setup looking like. They also seem to have an amazing inventory management system, but the details are few, and so far there doesn't seem to be the promised blog post covering that aspect yet. 🤞

If anyone knows of any other writeups like this, I'd love to see them!
 
You just reminded me of this:

Never Trust a Guy with a Clean Desk

"It is my considered opinion that a clean desk is the mark of a closed mind for which everything is black and white, which harbors no sense of dilemma, paradox or subtlety. Show me a person with a clean desk, and I'll show you a person who cannot admit that maybe you've got a point there, a person who never says, "But on the other hand . . ."

Messy desks are the natural concomitants of open-minded and cheerful lovers of humanity. I've never visited their offices, but I'll bet you that Mike Royko has a messy desk and that George Will has a neat one. Jesse Helms and Jimmy Carter, being quite sure of everything, would have pristine desks. Hubert Humphrey and Charles McC. Mathias, ever willing to entertain the other person's point of view, would have messy ones.""
 
peccary said:
You just reminded me of this:

Never Trust a Guy with a Clean Desk

"It is my considered opinion that a clean desk is the mark of a closed mind for which everything is black and white, which harbors no sense of dilemma, paradox or subtlety. Show me a person with a clean desk, and I'll show you a person who cannot admit that maybe you've got a point there, a person who never says, "But on the other hand . . ."

Messy desks are the natural concomitants of open-minded and cheerful lovers of humanity. I've never visited their offices, but I'll bet you that Mike Royko has a messy desk and that George Will has a neat one. Jesse Helms and Jimmy Carter, being quite sure of everything, would have pristine desks. Hubert Humphrey and Charles McC. Mathias, ever willing to entertain the other person's point of view, would have messy ones.""
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My wife just thinks I’m lazy
 
JTEX said:
A fume extractor? That's for sissies. Back in Eastern Europe where I'm from, we die like men!
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When I was living in England I used to work with a guy from Russia who joined our company in the middle of Winter. On his first day when some of the ladies in the office were complaining about the cold he asked where we were all from. The ladies said they were from the south of England, Portugal, Spain and California and in a really heavy Russian accent he said " if you think this is cold you would all die in my country during the winter". Then he turned to me and completely deadpan said "Your Irish?", "Hmm. you might be ok, the Irish are surprisingly hard to kill" Then he just turned and walked away. I miss that crazy Russian tbh, he always made me laugh :ROFLMAO:
 
RetiredUnit1 said:
Back in the 90's they did a study of IQ and cleanliness in the workplace. Turns out the most brilliant can remember where all their junk is without any formal organization.

I scored about 10 billion IQ on that one..... :sneaky::ROFLMAO:
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The worst thing someone can do is go and touch one of my piles of shit. That pile has a very sophisticated level of layers to it that are somehow aligned through spacetime with my hippocampus that allow me to know where everything is pretty quickly. It might look like chaos, but it makes sense to my deranged mind.
 
peccary said:
The worst thing someone can do is go and touch one of my piles of shit. That pile has a very sophisticated level of layers to it that are somehow aligned through spacetime with my hippocampus that allow me to know where everything is pretty quickly. It might look like chaos, but it makes sense to my deranged mind.
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I’ve tried to explain to those with whom I reside that my mise en place for pedal shit is idiosyncratic. My wife calls bullshit.

She is correct.
 
JTEX said:
Speaking of piles of shit. I have this theory that if you have a big enough pile, whatever random part that you're looking for has got to be in there somewhere. If it's not, then your pile wasn't big enough.

It's un-disprovable!
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You are a genius
 
iamjackslackof said:
...and it is glorious! I know it's not one of us here, because it's far too clean ;) Jokes aside, there are some great ideas here, some really good gear recommendations, and this has now become the standard to which I will aspire to get my setup looking like. They also seem to have an amazing inventory management system, but the details are few, and so far there doesn't seem to be the promised blog post covering that aspect yet. 🤞

If anyone knows of any other writeups like this, I'd love to see them!
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I'm sorry if this offends but it's just the way I do things, NOT!!!
Half the fun when Building a pedal is trying to remember where the all the goodies are in all my different bags!
I found out by searching Hotmail that I haven't ordered a A250K pot for 2 Years!
 
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When I see a bench like that, I assume one of two things.
  1. they just finished cleaning and took a picture to celebrate the occasion, this isn't the typical state
  2. they don't actually use the bench for regular projects
I may be wrong as this is just an assumption, but I also don't trust anyone with a clean desk. I've worked with some brilliant people, including some nationally-renowned experts in their field, and every single one of them has a messy workspace. At my work the only people with clean desks are interns and new hires that haven't had time to messy it up yet.
 
I'd say no comment... except whenever I take a pic for a debug quandry from the know it better than I do of the forum... I really crop the living shiites out of the photo. I know there's a titanium carbide scribe and digital calipers SOMEWHERE in there......


That 1st setup, that's just after they cleaned, look in the tubs, just gnarled piles :ROFLMAO:
 
I have an office at home because I work from home. My office currently is a mess, even though I am a neat freak in everything else. I just don't have enough places to store stuff. Our dining room and lounge are immaculate though.
 
iamjackslackof said:
...and it is glorious! I know it's not one of us here, because it's far too clean ;) Jokes aside, there are some great ideas here, some really good gear recommendations, and this has now become the standard to which I will aspire to get my setup looking like. They also seem to have an amazing inventory management system, but the details are few, and so far there doesn't seem to be the promised blog post covering that aspect yet. 🤞

If anyone knows of any other writeups like this, I'd love to see them!
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I like how he put the "actual use" photo at the bottom of the post. And yes, I never trust a skinny chef!
 
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