>Well, since you ask - the frogs were not dead, just heavily drogged,
>anesthetized. I was in a biomedical engineering program, and we
>were doing physiological measurements, so this was done before we
>whacked the frogs heads off, and they had to be alive - [just like
>with a real doctor - they usually don't work on dead bodies, either].

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        So bad of you!!! Imagine what the relatives of the frogs felt when they=
 knew their relative was subjected to a torture session only to satisfy the=
 desires of the damm human beings!!!
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        Nice! One less damm frog in the world, hehehe :oD

>At any rate, having a stable platform and placing the palms [not
>the wrists] down on the work surface really steadies things. That
>leaves only about 4 degrees of freedom [or maybe 20] left to jitter
>- [5*4] finger joints. Of course, grabbing the tool between
>fingers and thumbs helps stabilize that, like a bridge truss.
>Need I say more?

        Ah, interesting! That's what I do too when I need to stabilize my hands

>[I could also tell you about when I was in diamond-cutting school
>in Amsterdam - but that's another story].

        Tell the history about the rock-breaking in Sing Sing hehehe


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        All the best!!!
        Alexandre Souza
        xandinho@interlink.com.br

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