Jay McGavren's Journal

The car’s in the shop (probably a bad CV joint from running around with an off-kilter rotor for so long), so I’m telecommuting today…

Anyway, I’m working from the Lappy on the couch while D sleeps in the bedroom. The dog’s sleeping next to me on the couch, and he’s “running” in his sleep again.

I’ve never watched a sleeping dog before, probably because I’ve never owned a dog that was allowed in the house before, so this is amusing to me. His four legs twitch independently in an odd rhythm that might or might not actually get him somewhere if he were awake. He’s probably chasing a cat in his dream or something.

The call: > CodeConvDAO(transaction).get(code, system.toString(), context.toString())

The declaration: > public CodeConvRecord get(String sysCode, String context, String code) throws DAOException {…}

…Even without knowing Java, you can probably figure out what’s wrong with the call. (Hint: the order of the parameters.)

So of course I don’t see it until the moment my co-worker arrives at my desk to help me troubleshoot…

Finally found a real reason to keep those neodymium magnets at work (other than keeping them far away from disks and video tapes at home)… My pen, binder clips, Penguin Mints, nail trimmer, and even a stapler are happily out of the way and yet easily accessible, stuck to the underside of the metal bookshelf in my cube.

These magnets may have just gone from useless curiosity to Life Tool in my book.

I feel betrayed in more ways than one. Zelda is NOT supposed to have this dark shit going on. (No, I won’t offer any more spoiler than that.)

At least now I no longer feel a need for someone to remake Ocarina of Time with better graphics - Twilight Princess pretty much fills that void. (It’s pretty much charted territory, but at least it’s a very solid game.)

Diana has to follow certain procedures when taking patients down to MRI, because the magnets in the machine can disable watches and make other stuff fly across the room. Well, I stumbled across a site that depicts what happens when you’re not careful:

> Flying Objects! > “Once you’ve been in the MRI field for any length of time, > you start hearing all of the various horror stories about > things that have flown into a scanner. Often, newcomers > don’t take the real danger of flying objects seriously > until they witness an oxygen tank or gurney flying into a > magnet themselves. This page will contain a collection of > pictures and stories of metalic projectiles.”

http://www.simplyphysics.com/flying_objects.html#