PeekabuPi:
Even if you are a seasoned veteran in resistor stripe reading, its still a pain. And you are likely to forget the coding convention if you dont read resistors on a daily basis also.
Seasoned veterans read 'em like a second language, at least the more common values. The less common only take a couple seconds longer. Brown-Black-Red is seen as a single word or piece of information that means 1000?, not as three different digits to decode. Yeah it probably comes from reading them on a daily basis for years on end. Good rant tho! 
Oh, there are dirty mnemonics that may help in remembering the code 