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Tokyo, 2010.03.30

My brother and his wife sent me this awesome toy from Think Geek.

It's a collection of powerful little magnets. 216 of them. One of the challenges that the manufacturer puts before you is to re-make the cube form in which they ship the thing. Well in your face, magnet people:

magnets in a cube

I also made this double-tube affair:

magnets in a double-tube-like configuration

And this twenty-sided shape, the likes I've which I've not seen since University days playing Dungeons and Dragons.

rand()m quote

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—Siddhārtha Gautama (The Buddha)