[sdiy] Pictures, mug shots, rougue's galary

[CHoaglin at aol.com]

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In a message dated 4/25/02 12:55:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
batzman at all-electric.com writes:


> here     http://all-electric.com/workshop    you'll find 5 really blurry 
> pictures I took last night. However if you look in a sub-directory called 
> "tripodshots" <http://all-electric.com/workshop/tripodshots> you'll find 20 
> or so pix I took this afternoon using a crappy tripod which are far less 
> blurry. And they show in somewhat more brutal detail, the lengths I'll go 
> to to make a mess.
> 
> If any of you were thinking I was joking about using the blower/vac in here 
> I can assure you it's true. And even then it wouldn't pick up the peanuts 
> and dropped screws on the floor.
> 

I have to use the shop-vac regularly in my workshop just to keep up with the 
mess of screws and debris. I'm actually somewhat suprised, but so far in the 
contest for the messiest workshop, I still seem to be ahead of you, even 
after throwing out a good 75% of my stuff and organizing like crazy. 
Downright disturbing....and I accumulated all my crap in about 3 years flat 
to the point where it spilled over into self-storage. I guess that's one of 
the perils of having so many sources of free stuff in quantity and a desire 
to know how it all works.

> Like my soul brother, Terry Bowman, I suffer ADD. Attention Deficit 
> Disorder. We ADD people are usually surrounded by what they call "Stacks." 
> That is piles of "THINGS" stacked one on top of the other. Unfinished 
> project on top of unfinished project. On the other hand, I find being 
> surrounded by all my shit is somehow inspirational. Suddenly I can be 
> looking at something for no reason and have that eureka experience. 
> Sometimes I just look at it and think. "Fuck. I really should clean this 
> shit up."
> 

That's so true it isn't even funny. It's often very inspirational, for 
everything I see gives me ideas, and I usually have enough junk lying around 
to get a pretty good start building whatever I want without having to go buy 
anything. A note on unfinished projects: The 20" monitor I sit in front of 
typing on right now was a free gift from a company that was getting rid of it 
a couple years back because it was non-working. It ended up being taken 
apart, strewn around 4 different parts of the house in 15 or so different 
pieces, stayed that way for a year or so, with most of the bits buried under 
different stuff, after which I managed to find every last part, salvage the 
proper transistor from something else, and put it back together as good as 
new from memory alone. A YEAR later. The sort of thought patterns that let me 
do amazing stuff while driving everybody else around me completely nuts. 
(compounded by the fact that it's not my basement, it's my parents' basement, 
since I still live with them while trying to get a business off the ground 
and find a place to live where I actually can keep all this stuff.) It runs 
in the family I guess, my father's an ex-Harvard math professor who stacks 
papers everywhere just like I do with electronics.

I'm also, in case anybody needed it spelled out (which I highly doubt after 
the last example and the general way I write) a card-carrying member of the 
ADD poster-boy club. ADHD, in fact. Been fed ritalin/similar stuff for the 
last 15 years straight.

"Fuck, you should clean all this stuff up" is what my mother says.....nearly 
every day.

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"..I make music from the scum that surrounds my life."
-Masami Akita, Merzbow
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