ESD protection

[JWBarlow at aol.com]

Although Rob, John Blacet, and Harry have sufficiently scared me, I will not 
let that deter me from making a fool of myself by asking: is it enough to be 
barefoot while dealing with static sensitive parts? This is what I've always 
done (I'm in California, so that might explain it), but I'd always imagined 
that static damage would result in catastrophic failure of the affected 
parts, not damage or degradation -- until reading this thread.

John Barlow