[TheForge] Werk smart, not hard

[A. Vida]

"Terry L. Ridder" wrote:

> my son, 20 yr old, thinking he is immortal, grabbed
> on to something he should not have. he blew out a
> couple disks in his back and his right knee. he was
> trying to show how "macho" he is.

	Crap... kids are SO bloody stupid.  I am amazed that I 
	actually lived to see 30.  Of course I did manage to
	grind the ends off a couple of fingers, as well as 
	several other selectly intelligent things over the years.

	I have found it difficult, when considering my history
	of blindingly intelligent acts, to shake the notion that
	someone has been watching over me all these years, saving
	me from myself more than once.

	Luckily, some of us seem to become marginally smarter as
	the years accumulate.  Now I try not to stick my parts into
	the whirling members of large, powerful machine tools.  It's
	worked wonders for my health.

	-Andy