[TheForge] Re: Working alone in shop

[Demon Buddha]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:08:01 -0500, Bruce Freeman <FREEMAB@pt.fdah.com> 
wrote:

> Then there's the case of the fellow who whacked a 12" high-speed
> grinding wheel with an iron bar, and walked away.  The next guy to try
> to use the grinder DIED when the wheel exploded when it came up to
> speed.

	I bore witness to one of those in HS.  Kid went on the surface
	grinder without instructor's permission and slams the wheel into
	work.  My back was turned when I heard a really creepy sounding
	glassy-metallic BANG.  Nobody was injured... well, nobody but
	the surface grinder.  Sadly, the dimwit that caused the accident
	survived and has by now probably passed his genes on to another
	generation of lowatts.  Lowatt == low wattage intellect, in case
	anyone's wondering. :)

> I also believe you have to be perceptive of your own mental state. Ever 
> notice how sometimes you can't do math, or spell, or write with a
> legible hand?  Or how sometimes you can puzzle over a problem while
> other times you can think of a solution quickly?  I think our brains
> don't always function on an even keel.  Different abilities turn on and
> off from time to time.

	That can be so annoying.  You KNOW how to do this or that, yet
	you just can't dredge up the function at a given moment.

> Being tired turns a lot of your brain off,

	I must be tired a lot.

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