{"id":324,"date":"2006-01-03T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T06:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2006-01-03T22:27:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T06:27:34","slug":"fun-with-a-supermagnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/fun-with-a-supermagnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with a Supermagnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I ran across a cool product – a supermagnet. I joked on my blog that I wanted one for Christmas<\/a>. Let that be a lesson to me: be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. <\/p>\n

The day before I left for Christmas break, my team approached my desk (led by Glen) and declared that they had bought me a Christmas gift. I was pretty sure they were kidding when they told me they got me a supermagnet. They weren’t kidding. <\/p>\n

It hadn’t arrived yet though so I would have to wait until I got back to play with it. Given the warnings in the description, I was worried about it damaging things, erasing my hard drive and breaking my fingers. I actually dreamt last night that all these things happened.<\/p>\n

When I arrived at work this morning, it was there. Glen placed it on a chair in the row between our cubes. It was in a small box, but you could still feel the power of the magnet inside when you put the box next to something metal. Scary. <\/p>\n

Since it was my first day back, the morning was busy, but I found some time this afternoon to open it up. I opened up a the small box with the magnetic sticker warnings on the outside. It was mostly full of styrofoam. In the middle was a small object wrapped in foam wrap. I took it out and stuck it to a metal pole. It held securely. Inside was a box with another magnetic sticker on it. Inside there was a block of wood. Underneath was the magnet on top of another block of wood. It was hockey-puck sized and shiny. It was time for the fun to begin.<\/p>\n

First I stuck it to some scissors. I held the scissor handles and it stuck to the bottom of the blades. I threw some random metal objects to it and it held. I affixed it to the metal frame of my cube and it connected with a loud clang, pinching my fingers. Ow. I stuck a large steel i-beam to it. It was hard to remove. <\/p>\n

Soon word got out that it the supermagnet was here and a bunch of people showed up to play with it. We looked around for large metal objects to see if it would hold them. We attached a bunch of small things, then a filing cabinet drawer, then an entire chair! Everyone was impressed. <\/p>\n

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I’m going to have to keep this a few feet away from any hard drives, but it seems to be mostly safe. Having two of these would definitely be dangerous though. <\/p>\n

Thanks, guys! This is the coolest useless toy I got this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I ran across a cool product – a supermagnet. I joked on my blog that I wanted one for Christmas. Let that be a lesson to me: be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. The day before I left for Christmas break, my team approached my desk …<\/p>\n

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