On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 08:22 -0400, Joe Wronski wrote:
> I'll never forget when, as a young tech, I wondered why I could smell=20
> smoke, but that quickly turned to feeling pain, and that was because the=
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> soldering iron I let hang over the benchtop was burning my pants, then=20
> my leg.

Yikes, once had something similar happen to me with a camp fire...

It's taken years, but I've pretty much nailed my automated response to
something falling to: let it fall, watch it fall, watch where it goes.
It's saved my bacon MANY times, with the added bonus that I can usually
find the tiny nut or whatever it is because I concentrate not on
stopping it falling, but on watching where it ends up.

Not always the right decision, but often the better one.

TTYL

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