3 Jun
2010
3 Jun
'10
6:33 p.m.
On 06/02/2010 11:10 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
Fortunately I am not 'everyone'. And I am proud to be 'crazy':-)
More seriously, I much prefer to make
mesaurements and do tests before
changing anything.
That's crazy talk! Everyone knows that the way to repair
equipment is
to swap all the parts first!
Reminds me of Feynman's story about repairing someone's radio when he
was young. The guy was getting impatient because Feynman was just
sitting around doing nothing. Then Feynman swapped two tubes, and the
radio worked. They guy was amazed. "He fixes radios by *thinking*!"
I have been compared to Feynman in that story several times before. I
take it a a great honour to be compared to such a man (even though I know
I am nowhere near up to his standard in physics).
And yes, that is how I fix things. Do a few tests and _think_ about it.
-tony