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June 28, 2005

Lumberjerk Rule of (Swollen) Thumb #423

My brother and I are known to our family as "The Lumberjerks" not so much because we can't drive a nail straight but because of the throroughness of our lack of familiarity with the basic properties of three dimensional space.

As I was constructing a simple set of bookshelves today, I discovered the following Lumberjerk principle: When fastening an object, every additional screw you put in increases the probability that you have positioned the object in the wrong place. [Technorati tag: diy]

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 28, 2005 09:16 AM

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I have found that each additional nail I drive increases the probability that I am driving it into the wrong side of the slat.

Posted by: Troy Worman | June 29, 2005 12:02 AM

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