[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 12, Issue 80

[Thomas A. Troszak]

On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:34 PM, theforge-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> Sure, a press is just a big, slow hammer, and a screwdirver is just a
> really small, quick one. If you understand tools at the level of
> metaphor, certain unnecessary distinctions fall away...sometime to the
> detriment of your screwdriver handles.
> JRF

Dear Justin,

I my shop, EVERYTHING is or can be a tool, at any given moment... my 
tools are all metaphors for... well, tools.  I only have a very few 
"precious" tools, for example I don't use my Brown and Sharpe calipers 
for opening cans, but just about everything else in my shop has been 
used as a hammer at some point or another... especially screwdrivers, 
large chinks of wood or metal, or whatever can be reached at the 
moment... but concrete blocks are only good for one whack.

Tom Troszak