"Resistor, tell me a story."

http://i.imgur.com/JNJcnR5.jpg?1 "There was once a jet-black chip with four op-amps that was very lonely."

http://i.imgur.com/5wzp0NN.jpg?2 "Why was it lonely?"

http://i.imgur.com/JNJcnR5.jpg?2 "All Electronics students must meet this chip so they shunned it."

http://i.imgur.com/5wzp0NN.jpg?2 "Did it not work for them all?"

http://i.imgur.com/JNJcnR5.jpg?2 "It took a short-circuiting wire and split itself in two, right down the middle."

http://i.imgur.com/5wzp0NN.jpg?2 "So it would always have a friend?"

http://i.imgur.com/JNJcnR5.jpg?2 "So it would always have a friend."

Morale of story - If your chip starts smoking after you connect power, you did something wrong.