Just amazing

Memory is a strange thing ... I can generate codes on a server device to pair client communication nodes and forget
the stupid codes by the time I'm finishing up the settings on the third client.
However I can vividly recall scenes from a movie (my first) I watched with my Mom at a theater when I was only three years old.

Something I've found really helps is using the "associative" trick, which is to say rather than trying to remember the specific thing
"per se" you can often relate that thing to something else which is more easily remembered.

Quips and/or mnemonics like "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls but Violet Gives Willingly" (Blk, Brn, Red, Org, Yel, Grn, Blu, Vio, Gry, Whi)
to remember the resistor color codes is a good example.
 
Yep, another good example ..... though I've not needed the colors of a rainbow since Hmmm ....I can't remember when ... lol ... :p
 
I keep finding more things I thought I knew or understood and then find out it was incorrect that ends up being painful to my wallet. This is where a LHS would be good but the guy at mine isn't overly helpful bunless your buying a big purchase.
 
Torc the Sinister said:
I keep finding more things I thought I knew or understood and then find out it was incorrect that ends up being painful to my wallet. This is where a LHS would be good but the guy at mine isn't overly helpful bunless your buying a big purchase.
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Sounds like the fast track to going out of business. A local store can't compete on price or selection, so they have to compete on customer service, knowledge, and guidance.
 
Rick M said:
Sounds like the fast track to going out of business. A local store can't compete on price or selection, so they have to compete on customer service, knowledge, and guidance.
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There are enough people with money to spend there that will counter the loss of a few bucks they might gain from a newbie like me.
 
Rick M said:
Sounds like the fast track to going out of business. A local store can't compete on price or selection, so they have to compete on customer service, knowledge, and guidance.
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I don't agree. I had a fireplace shop for a few years, then eventually the big box stores got into it. We'd get a lot of folks just coming to pump you for your 'knowledge, and guidance' then go buy elsewhere. Knew a lot of Best Buy employees that sang the same tune, educate a 'customer' so he could run over to WalMart to buy.
 
Jackson said:
I don't agree. I had a fireplace shop for a few years, then eventually the big box stores got into it. We'd get a lot of folks just coming to pump you for your 'knowledge, and guidance' then go buy elsewhere. Knew a lot of Best Buy employees that sang the same tune, educate a 'customer' so he could run over to WalMart to buy.
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I've seen that happen, too. It's hard to make a personal connection with customers to become more than a resource to them and earn their continued business. I don't pretend to have the answer to that one, and I sympathize with anyone who tries to solve it. Best Buy is the case study for this. Any insights from your own experience?
 
I think the personal relationship with non-big box outfits is more aligned with service-oriented business - for me anyway. Unless I'm planning to buy in the store (almost never), I'm not one to go to the local shops to play touchy-feely with products and pepper the sales guy with questions before I buy. I just buy it online after reading reviews. It's been quite a while since I bought something in an actual store (aside from groceries). Although for a while there, I think the UPS guys were plotting against me as I built out my kettlebell collection.

Now my auto mechanic? The guy started out with shooting straight and fair prices. The way he improved the relationship? He consistently shoots straight and charges fair prices.
The local bike shop guy? Same story. I could have bought my bike online/elsewhere for cheaper - but dude spent two hours with me on a busy Saturday with the attitude that he did not give a crap whether I bought a bike from him - I learned more in two hours with him than I did over days/weeks of internet reading. He has made way more money off me over the years on parts/service than he did on the profit from the bike.

Not looking forward to the day I move away and have to replace people like them.
 
Tentoes said:
Wow. I haven't looked at a resistor color code since I went SMD.
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When your really into SMD you don't even use a solder iron any longer ;)
I used to have an air pencil that was "Da Bomb" !! :cool:
I gave a newb employee a BGA chip and soldering iron then told him to replace the one on a PCB ... The look on his face as he puzzled about it was priceless :p
 
I usually use an electric skillet to solder smd parts. Haven't tried a BGA yet, nor have I succeeded in using one of those LCC things.

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