[time-nuts] messy workbenches

[Don Latham]

Proof of an axiom: "Great minds run on the same track."
:-) (although strictly speaking, an axiom requires no proof...)
Don

Max Robinson
> Don wrote.
>
> Latham's law of horizontal surfaces states "Any bare horizontal surface
> immediately becomes covered with junk."
>
> I thought I held the copyrights on that one.  Oh well, never mind.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Latham" <djl at montana.com>
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] messy workbenches
>
>
>> yep, and you always wind up working on the inch of bench just in front
>> of your belly...
>>
>> Don
>>
>> Latham's law of horizontal surfaces states "Any bare horizontal
>> surface
>> immediately becomes covered with junk."
>>
>> Rex
>>> Another serious contender in the messy but productive realm was Bob
>>> Pease.
>>> http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/social-mania-blog/4217103/How-messy-is-your-desk-
>>>
>>> Quite ironic that Bob died while leaving the memorial for Jim
>>> Williams.
>>> http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/readerschoice/4368147/Analog-engineering-legend-Bob-Pease-killed-in-car-crash
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/28/2012 6:48 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
>>>> George's is a far distant competitor to the bench of the late Jim
>>>> Williams, see
>>>> http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/an-analog-life-remembering-jim-williams/
>>>>
>>>> Which was on display at the Computer History Museum and just was
>>>> returned to Linear Tech.
>>>>
>>>> Grant Saviers
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> "Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument
>> are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind."
>> De Erroribus Medicorum, R. Bacon, 13th century.
>> "If you don't know what it is, don't poke it."
>> Ghost in the Shell
>>
>>
>> Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL
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-- 
"Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument
are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind."
De Erroribus Medicorum, R. Bacon, 13th century.
"If you don't know what it is, don't poke it."
Ghost in the Shell


Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL
Six Mile Systems LLP
17850 Six Mile Road
POB 134
Huson, MT, 59846
VOX 406-626-4304
www.lightningforensics.com
www.sixmilesystems.com