Acquired skills?

[Tony Duell]

> This amounts to using your extra senses to troubleshoot.  I can't say I've
> ever tasted anything to see if it was working (if you don't count pressing

I've inadvertently tasted propan-2-ol when cleaning contacts, etc :-)...


> a 9V battery up to your tongue to see if it still has juice) but now I'll
> have to find an application for this so I can claim I use all five senses
> to debug.

DOn;t forget the 'sixth sense' which is the one that you hope will 
magically lead your test probes onto the one signal that will imediately 
show up the fault or whatever...

-tony