re: Tools explained for the beginner

[farna@xxxxxxx]

I know this was meant as a joke, but did you know there's a logical explanation for the hammer problem? Your aim tends to wander toward whatever you're looking at, even if you just glance that way in the middle of a swing! So concentrate only on what you're swinging at. This works with EVERYTHING -- even driving!! If you ever take a motorcycle course, that's one of the things you'l learn. When you get a bit close to something, like the loose gravel or slick grass on the edge of the curve in the road you're going to fast around, you WILL drift in that direction! So look WHERE YOU WANT TO GO, not where you'll end up if you don't get around the curve! Otherwise that's just where you'll be. I've been in that predicament when a blind curve started out as a nice sweeping turn but got sharper around the blind spot. It's HARD not to look into the trees and consider the consequences instead of at the road where you want to go, but it works -- I managed to stay looking at and on the r!
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Just thought this might actually help someone avoid damaging that close by part! 


HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a 
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts not far from the object 
we are trying to hit.

--
Frank Swygert
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