Re: workbench
The one with the most toys isn't necessarily the one who wins. Richard Feynman told the tale of the labs at MIT and Princeton. In those early days of nuclear physics MIT was comparatively better funded, extremely well equipped yet the research work was uninspired and non-creative. The lab at Princeton had a sparceness of toys, there were power cords runnig everywhere, bare bulbs illuminating the labs, etc. Challenged by their environment the Princeton guys excelled.
cnctooltek said:
The one with the most toys isn't necessarily the one who wins. Richard Feynman told the tale of the labs at MIT and Princeton. In those early days of nuclear physics MIT was comparatively better funded, extremely well equipped yet the research work was uninspired and non-creative. The lab at Princeton had a sparceness of toys, there were power cords runnig everywhere, bare bulbs illuminating the labs, etc. Challenged by their environment the Princeton guys excelled.
i have a small path running through the garage to the garbage pails -- i also have two cars and a 17' O'Day sitting on the rear lawn -- we are truly the white-trash of our neighborhood. you can't see the two standby generators, wood chipper, snow-blower or lawnmower -- our electricity is the worst in the civilized world:
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What's on your Workbench?
Hi
Just milling cutters, funny little homemade jigs and so on. See
http://www.blueangelaudio.com
Yesterday, a bit of domestic duties in the form of 4 new security lights being prepared on the bench for fitting around the house, to replace 4 others burnt to hell in the sun.
Rain and inclement weather set in as the last new one went up and they had to be adjusted from inside, cricking my scrawny neck and screwing up shoulder muscles (didn't know I had any left)!
WAF factor? 100%.
Cheers
bulgin
Hi
Just milling cutters, funny little homemade jigs and so on. See
http://www.blueangelaudio.com
Yesterday, a bit of domestic duties in the form of 4 new security lights being prepared on the bench for fitting around the house, to replace 4 others burnt to hell in the sun.
Rain and inclement weather set in as the last new one went up and they had to be adjusted from inside, cricking my scrawny neck and screwing up shoulder muscles (didn't know I had any left)!
WAF factor? 100%.
Cheers
bulgin
Re: As promissed in Post 16
and here I fear that the effort to clean up the Edison National Museum in West Orange NJ will be a disaster. The Museum has been undergoing renovation for over 10 years (typical government project) -- in its prior condition there were still instruments and tools as if the father of invention had just set them down. One fears that the U.S. Park Service will turn it into a Disney-fied antiseptic environment.
Thomas Edison despised neat workplaces.ACD said:Maybe I need to do some cleaning up
and here I fear that the effort to clean up the Edison National Museum in West Orange NJ will be a disaster. The Museum has been undergoing renovation for over 10 years (typical government project) -- in its prior condition there were still instruments and tools as if the father of invention had just set them down. One fears that the U.S. Park Service will turn it into a Disney-fied antiseptic environment.
Ok this was a fun thread to read. Here is my desk. I guess it is time to clean it up a little.
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