Jay McGavren's Journal

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#

Because I’m lazy, here’s a copy-paste from my post to Morning Cafe:

My wife is so cool - she hit thinkgeek.com for my presents. I got a shirt with Pi to 4493 digits, a set of neodymium magnets (finally, something that will actually hold papers on the fridge), and a cold soldering iron. The clippy iPod Shuffle didn’t come from ThinkGeek, but is still damn cool (and won’t fall out of my pocket like the last one did).

My son (age 4) asked for a “Batman kitchen”. He evidently doesn’t know that they make Dora and Barbie play kitchens, but not Batman kitchens. Well, Santa came though - he got a Batman AND Spiderman AND Superman kitchen. (We found a generic one and some decals to put on it.)

Been playing Secret of Mana with Lenny - he asks to every night. (Except last night, when he asked to play Return Fire. The kid’s got good taste.)

It’s a shame we have to go that far back in the gaming museum to find a good multiplayer adventure. When I am king, every game will feature a multiplayer component. (And while I’m not into censorship, options to turn off blood and gore would be nice.)