I hate those CSI guys.

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Ulises Victoria

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My shop is always a mess. That's how I am. I clean up about once a week and the next day is a mess again.
Have you noticed those CSI guys in their shiny labs? No matter what's the job at hand, they always have the precise tool over the table at arms reach, and nothing else.:mad: You don't even see the drawers where they keep their stuff. How do they do that??? :frown:
 
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Not to mention props, they look great. But after all some of them are just the shells of the equipment, the manufactures of the equipment supply as way of an advertisement. Having made and supplied props for years, whether clown, magic, stage or TV. Some place in the proposal of what they what, will be must be impressive and appear to work.
As when they had the real Miami CSI reality show on while the Faux show was on. One of the real CSI's ladies pointed out "we are neither that slender nor good looking. And sure wouldn't wear $300.00 heels or $100.00 blouses to work a crime scene. As the smells sometimes doesn't come out of the clothes".

As she was in her old sneakers and disposable suit wading thu a very nasty alley! :eek:

Not to mention they have Set/scene designers
prop masters gets the props
assistants that make sure it is on set for the scene
set dressers that place them
also assistants and grips that place and remove.

Got luv unreality TV.
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I work with someone whose classroom is always neat. She can put her hand on exactly what she needs no matter where she is in the room. She is also the most type A linear person I have ever met. I am the polar opposite so it is weird that we get along. She will NOT come into my classroom.

So, while those might be TV scenarios people and work areas like theirs do exist. Mine is not one of them, but I can tell you the general vicinity a tool is in.
 
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I work with someone whose classroom is always neat. She can put her hand on exactly what she needs no matter where she is in the room. She is also the most type A linear person I have ever met. I am the polar opposite so it is weird that we get along. She will NOT come into my classroom.
So, while those might be TV scenarios people and work areas like theirs do exist. Mine is not one of them, but I can tell you the general vicinity a tool is in.
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That was my modus opperanti when I worked too.... organized chaos...

Also you realize that reality TV is an oxymoron... TV isn't real, so if it's reality TV, it's real unreal TV.
 
Most labs look that way so that things are not contaminated. We have shops that don't have those type of limitations. A messy shop only makes it hard to find things and makes it more unsafe.
I used to work in a biomedical engineering shop and nothing was out of place, everything was clean and tidy.
 
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Another thing about those CSI guys on TV!

The can examine the worst human carnage known to man, and find that key piece evidence that was only manufactured during a brief period of time, at one specific location, that will absolutely prove one and only one person guilty beyond ANY doubt. AND they can do these wondrous things while keeping their hair, clothing and even thier fingernails perfectly groomed.

Heck, I can turn one small piece of black and gold Tru Stone and I get so messed up I'm not even allowed to go to the inside shower until I've cleaned up outside.

How do those TV guys do it? :)
 
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Another thing about those CSI guys on TV!

The can examine the worst human carnage known to man, and find that key piece evidence that was only manufactured during a brief period of time, at one specific location, that will absolutely prove one and only one person guilty beyond ANY doubt. AND they can do these wondrous things while keeping their hair, clothing and even thier fingernails perfectly groomed.

Heck, I can turn one small piece of black and gold Tru Stone and I get so messed up I'm not even allowed to go to the inside shower until I've cleaned up outside.

How do those TV guys do it? :)
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LOL One extreme case was when they could prove that someone had been in a room, by examining the blood in a mosquito's stomach they caught in that room, which had sucked that person's blood.

Oh Yeah... and they can inspect a human body that has been dead for days or weeks, 3 inches away, not even a face mask and they don't even wrinkle their noses. LOL.

On a side note, I'm under the impression someone thought I asked the question that started this thread seriously.... Naaaaah!
 
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Seriously though, I manage a fleet body shop. If you were to walk into it, you'd ask where the body shop was. For the most part, the floor is just about as shiney as the day it was finished (1995), except in the paint booth itself. You will not find deep layers of dust anywhere. You will not find damaged parts laying around. The biggest mess in the whole body shop is the desk top in my office! But being a muncipal property and federally funded, we see a lot of "visitors" so we have to look good. This also goes for all the service bays in the rest of the maintenance department. Shop cleanliness is only a thought away and a few short minutes of time.
 
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Ease

Many years ago, I worked on an assembly line repairing electronic subassemblies. We had a station for each type of assembly we worked on. There was a tester, a soldering iron, a pair of diagonal pliers, a pair of long nose pliers and a bunch of jumper wires for "programming" the tester (I told you it was many years ago). There was a desk with a 2 inch thick hardwood top used as a workbench. The tools were kept in one side drawer and the jumper wires in another, our soldering Iron was kept in a holder on the desk and the tester was sitting on top the desk.

There was no need for anything else as we could not eat lunch (they did let us bring coffee to drink though) in the work area - wouldn't have wanted to anyway.

My desk now is littered as is my work shop --- I put everything away when I change projects and run the shop vac quite often. Still tools that are used infrequently will collect a lot of dust and every now and then I have to wipe everything down. My office desks are always littered.
 
My wife worked as Lab Coordinator for a college Chemistry Department, and there were horror stories she would tell of the massive clutter throughout the professors' research labs and what-not. There was one lab that looked like a computer graveyard. Computer shells, circuit boards, wires upon wires, old school computers littering the floor as far as the eye could see.
And she worked at a state college, so she had to conduct an annual inventory of all items their department owned that was more than $500. That would've been a nightmare and a half.

It's a good thing she got used to the mess there though, because my garage (aka my wood shop) is about as chaotic as the "computer graveyard". She knows that nagging is futile. LOL!
 
Everytime I watch that with my wife (she loves it) I am run out of the room because I cant help calling "BS" on their tools. I work in a semiconductor lab and it is quite neat and tidy, its actually cleaner than anything else I know of, the dirtiest thing in ther is us. Its lab protocol to eliminate cross contamination. and some of the chemicals used are very caustic and dangerous.

I mean C'mon they're standing at a optical microscope with a Electron image on the screen. And its in color. Their elemental analysis machine spits out "Lipstick from Macy's sold in a limited quantity at this specific location".........YEAH RIGHT.
Or they know the elemental make up of every single object in the world.......:eek:
 
Hey Guys, keep in mind that can do all this because they read the script... it's TV.... all crimes can be solved in 1 hour... on Cold Case they can re-open a 25 year old crime case and find the person who witnessed the crime and who remembers every detail of how the victim was murdered and who hid the body... but again they READ THE SCRIPT.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
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