Holy, time to clean up Dave - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Fennec
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:04:36 am
content: My Mom would kill me.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:06:32 am
content: 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!

author: Fennec
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:20:04 am
content: 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 JungMaybe Dave can't find this secret :o)

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:22:37 am
content: Wow!It looks like he let Sagan loose in there!

author: Fennec
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:30:20 am
content: 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.

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:36:01 am
content: That bench is fine I can still see blue.

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:44:21 am
content: 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.

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:53:58 am
content: It's like a comfortable mess, isn't it?

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 06:48:59 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 22, 2014, 04:13:30 amYou 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

author: Mysion
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 06:50:00 am
content: 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.....QuoteWilfred that is scary accurate......

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 08:20:59 am
content: it's a lab not a showroom , it's supposed to be messy ... hope my lab is that messy

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 09:13:16 am
content: I was waiting for Dave to ask Shahriarhttp://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

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 11:03:08 am
content: Quote from: hammy on December 22, 2014, 09:27:10 amIts probably going to get worse.. Two people working at lab = twice the organized chaos...

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 11:35:05 am
content: 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.

author: Yago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 11:53:07 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 22, 2014, 04:13:30 amPoetic wit Wilfred, love itI 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:)

author: babysitter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 12:49:52 pm
content: Or rather time to turn off the DropCam?

author: JoeO
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 03:29:17 pm
content: Every Engineer I know whose abilities I respect, has a lab just like Dave's.It is in their DNA.

author: Syntax_Error
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2014, 02:13:43 am
content: 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.

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2014, 05:25:14 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 23, 2014, 04:10:43 amfirst you got poetic now a parable? hehehe

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2014, 07:07:09 pm
content: Its organized chaos. I would be willing to bet he knows where almost everything in there is located without having to look very hard.

author: Zad
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2014, 11:52:35 pm
content: I guess that now Dave has the new store room, there has been little or no motivation to clean up.