Because It's Friday the Thirteenth ...

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Because it is Friday the Thirteenth, a day that the superstitious among you view with abject terror, I thought I'd have a little talk with you about luck. Yes, luck. There are five types of luck, apparently, as documented in this video [0:57].

Oddly, all these types of luck involve vehicles. It makes me wonder if they also invoved alcohol?

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It also seems that to be lucky you need to do something stupid first, with the luck being proportional to the stupidity.