October 05, 2006

Magnets Don't Float or Why ITS doesn't Work.


Here we have Mr. Link's legendary moment captured forever. It happened so quickly no camera could capture it!
It was a cold January morning. Hoji and I gathered at the coffee area, waiting for Mr. Link to fix our Melitta One:One. Seems the float had gotten stuck in the tank. Mr. Link (a EE by the way) wondered aloud how the float worked. I informed him that the float contained a magnet. He was outraged!! "MAGNETS DON'T FLOAT!!", he cried. Hoji and I tried to convince him with logic and reason, but to no avail.
The next thing we knew, Mr. Link, in a fit of pure rage, smashed the offensive water tank on a desk in a futile attempt to dislodge the "floating magnet". Hoji and I were aghast as pieces of plastic flew like grenade shrapnel. After the a brief pause I uttered the sarcastic retort, "That's why ITS doesn't work!"
ITS was a project that Mr. Link had spent some frustrating months on with no resolution in his immediate future.
With my offhand utterance, Mr. Link boiled into another volcanic rage and uttered, "f*#@ both of you!!". With that he was off in a flurry of malcontent and a legend was born...