You know you’re a PMEL geek if...

[PMEL_DEVIL-DOG]

89. You roasted a 5700A by using it as power supply as a newbie! (oops!)

[flew-da-coup]

90. It takes you 15 minutes to measure for a cut on a 2X4 board and your tape measure has a cal sticker.

[cobychuck]

91. You think online gaming is somehow less geeky than playing D&D on paper.

[Valdic]

92. You can define a regular buffer, a high speed buffer, dry mopping, stripping, nonconductive wax, etc. And know 20 differnt uses for green scrubbie pads.
93. If you have even polished a brass grounding bar.
94. You have ever been the snack bar monitor.

[cobychuck]

95. You've ever had to rearrange a room five times before the flight chief is happy, for optimal calibration ease.
96. You have the time and money to make a chess set out of test adapters.

[docbyers]

89. You roasted a 5700A by using it as power supply as a newbie! (oops!)

I had a guy at Ramstein do that with a 5100B Opt 03 one time...  Took me a week to bring it back to life...

[flew-da-coup]

97. You hord test leads and cables in you locked bench drawer.

[bradley563]

Coup, that sounds like most of the people there.  When I order new ones from Grainger I have to have them sent to my house.

[flew-da-coup]

We are constantly running short of leads and cables here. And yes I lock mine up too. Even when I am working in Phys.D. I keep my connectors and leads locked up. They are mine all mine. I just like to have everything I need when I have to work on electronics. It really sucks spending 30 minutes looking for an adaprter or a 75ohm cable.

[scottbp]

98. You've used every function on your scientific calculator.
99. You've used every function on a HP 3458A (e.g. MATH STAT, RMATH MEAN, etc...)
100. You write MET/CAL procedures at home in your spare time... in your underpants...
101. You blew .002 over the legal limit and questioned the uncertainty of the breathalyzer.
102. You don't know what tutorials to take at the NCSL conference, 'cuz you've been to most of them before....

[flew-da-coup]

103. You argue with the traffic court that a one point calibration on a radar gun is not verifing the linearity of the whole range.

104. You set your wrist watch with the GPS receiver.

105. You argue with the front office of the school because your kid is not late according to your watch which is set to your GPS receiver. He was there 2 minutes before 8:10.

106. You take 15 measurements when hanging a large painting in your living room to make sure it is level.

I'm guilty of all of these.

[docbyers]

I was hanging a picture in the new house the other day, with my mother sitting on the couch watching my progress.  I have carefully made my marks for the two wall hangers using a 4' level (the 8" torpedo levels just aren't good enough for this application), and she suggests that I measure from the ceiling to the marks to make sure they're level.  I explain to her that I have established my level with a LEVEL, and it's fine the way it is.  "Measure from the ceiling anyway, just to satisfy your mother."  OK.  So I measure from the ceiling, and one mark is .5" different than the other one, whereupon I explain to Mom that the house is 50 years old and has plaster ceilings, not drywall, and plaster ceilings are seldom level, especially over time.  She was impressed with my supposed knowledge of structural mechanics, which is really just common sense- big, heavy things like houses settle over time, so you can't trust a wall to be plumb, or a floor or ceiling to be level.  My metal 4' Craftsman level I trust.  I hung the picture, checked for level again (perfect), and moved on...

[flew-da-coup]

I use 2 lasar levels. One to make sure the other is level and one to project the level lasar beam on the wall. My wife thinks I am crazy.

[docbyers]

That's not crazy.  That's THOROUGH.

When I listen to my wife describe me to other people, she says I am "fastidious," or that I have "German quality tendancies."  Dad always said if you're not going to do it right, don't do it at all.  Some people are fine with "good enough."  I sleep better at night knowing a job was done correctly and thoroughly.  The devil is in the details, and sometimes it just works better when you sweat the details and give 101%...

[flew-da-coup]

I agree. You can't be too accurate. However providing uncertianties for hanging a picture may be a bit much.