View From the Bushes

There's a new amateur video out there which is pretty cool, called Art of the Saber. As you might guess from the title, lightsabers are involved; it's also 29 megs so a long wait could be involved as well. I think that watching the brilliantly choreographed fight scene in the movie led me to believe that knives were temporarily less dangerous. Or it could be that I was just a complete idiot, as you'll soon see. I was so impressed by the clip that I brought a co-worker over to see it. While he was watching it I had nothing to do, so I cast about for something to occupy myself with. What I found was a busted ethernet splitter and I thought it might be cool to see inside that, but the only thing I had to pry it open was this knife...

So yes, you guessed it, for some reason I thought nothing of pulling out my Gerber knife with the four-inch blade and I started prying at the ethernet splitter. While I'm doing it I'm thinking "This is really dangerous. This could slip pretty easily and it would be really bad," all while continuing to work away at it. It's always one of those things where you know the danger but figure it doesn't apply in this case. Well, predictably, the blade slipped and I ended up stabbing myself in the end of my left index finger. There was a lot of blood and it hurt quite a bit, but fortunately the cut wasn't so long that it couldn't be taken care of with a band-aid, though I'm on my third one because the first two soaked through.

It's also somewhat painful to type, so I'm going to wrap it up here. One last link for the amusement of those still thinking about the Cubs. It's an image modeled on the Despair.com posters, called Blasphemy.

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