Re: [Vo]:The irony if Pd turns out to be suboptimal

[Alan J Fletcher]

At 05:35 PM 6/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:

I wrote:

I'll bet there are people who find it handy to use stone cutting tools.

Come to think of it, I do! My daughter got me a Kyocera ceramic knife. Very handy. It is an updated stone-age tool.

I recently collected some obsidian .. and cut my hand while doing so. It's reportedly still used for ultra-sharp scalpels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian