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January 19, 2005
Science for the sleep (and furniture) deprived
I couldn't figure out why my wristwatch was about 7 hours behind this morning. It is an extremely well made Swiss Army watch, a gift from d*'s mother, and has always kept perfect time (I have smashed the glass face twice now though, but that never effected the watch). In my regular morning stupor, I assumed that I must have been caught in some sort of time vortex, and was actually coming home from work, not on my way there. Luckily, the direction of the Muni car, going towards downtown, quickly squashed that hypothesis. As I was pulling in to the Montgomery station stop, I remembered a small detail that most likely caused the disruption of my normally dependable timepiece's operation. I left my watch on top of my LaCie external 250GB firewire hard drive before I went to bed last night. The magnetic field from the internal mechanism effectively stopped my clock for the time I was asleep, approximately 7 hours. Moral... we really need to get some night-stands, in addition to the rest of the furniture we are missing, so I don't have to leave my daily items scattered anyplace I can find an open horizontal surface (we did finally place our order for a bed-frame, so progress is being made!)Posted by nothingistrue at January 19, 2005 10:00 AM
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That is awesome! I'm going to try and replicate your results tonight with my 120 gig. Yes...I am that bored at college.
Posted by: Jason Pugh at January 20, 2005 07:16 PM
Ha ha, that is pretty cool actually.
Posted by: case at January 30, 2005 08:47 AM
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