six months with a magnet in my fingertip

It's been half a year with my magnet and I'm still alive (obviously) and truly happy that I did it. The best 150,- Euros spent in a long while (@ Trust Mannheim, great guys :)). Very little pain during the procedure (aneasthetics ftw!) and the 2-3 weeks healing period for a shitload of fun afterwards (I took a good-night-ibuprofen the first 2 nights or so, not because I was overly in pain or anything, but the initial throbbing got a bit annoying. Nothing big, went away very quickly.)

fun things I've done

• located 7 magnets in my MacBook Pro
• learned how to put various laptop types to sleep if they have a magnetic switch for that (annoys the hell out of people with password protected screens, hrhr)
• turned my magnet by 360 degrees both with strong magnets and by hand (might be one of the oddest things I've ever felt, even more if it's unexpected... I still squeak when I discover overly strong magnetic fields, partly because it's just fun to squeak around and partly because it really feels weird.)
• picked up a lot of coins, pins, needles, paper clips, bobby pins, bottle caps, screws
• changed my MacBook's hard drive (the screw-attracting properties came in handy)
• messed with a compass 
• startled a lot of people :D
• discovered that my bath tub is actually magnetic, so are my headphones and my cell phone speakers (I always get a slight "I'm still here" feedback from my cell phone when my hand passes the pant pocket with my cell in it. My landline phone also has a mean magnet in the back. Caused another sudden squeaking while I was talking to someone on the phone...)
• learned how nastily strong the magnets in magnetic toys are (like Geomag, Supermag). It's almost impssible for me to build stuff without squeaking or oddly extending my finger to get enough space between me and the magnetic bars.
• Edit: felt the magnetic field created by a transformer (and made others feel it by touching my finger). Pretty awesome. And weird. Literally makes my finger buzz!

me, changing my hard drive (oh how I love thee, nifty magnetic fingertip!)

things that didn't happen

• I've never been able to detect the magntic fields of those anti-theft-gates (I know people who can, though... )
• I don't feel anything when I touch power cords
• I couldn't delete a magnetic card when I had the chance to try it (and I really rubbed it within an inch of its life)
• didn't delete any magnetic storage devices so far (hard drives, floppies, etc)

plans / still have to try

• metal detectors on airports (handheld & walk-through)
• get an xray of my hand 
• maybe get a slightly stronger magnetic implant, titanium-coated if possible?
• find nifty other stuff to implant/mod that's not gross (rules out transdermals, eww).

things that seem impractical

• more than one magnet in a single finger (silicone coating rubbing off / breaking and causing nasty situations)
• magnetic genital implants (it just came up in a conversation, so bear with me! First thing that crossed my mind: metal pant zippers... might feel uncomfortable or weird (or great, who knows...). Also, most genital piercings are made from non-magnetic materials, so one would have to improvise matching "counterparts"... not that much of an obstacle, but ... most horribly... I can live with the idea that a strong magnetic field might rip out my finger magnet at some point but the same happening in the nether regions? No way in hell I'd risk that :P)
• too strong magnets under the skin (might attract too heavy stuff / put too much pressure on the skin, restricting blood flow)

I wouldn't reverse it for the world. Let's hope I don't need an MRI any time soon, because then my nifty "metal implants — do not MRI" tattoo that I plan on getting would become somewhat obsolete. If I ever have to remove my magnet for such a procedure, I'd get a new one immediately afterwards, though.

 byebye!