[time-nuts] OT loosing things

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Your time nuts priorities obviously need to be re-calibrated...

GPS's and Rb's (both plural) are definitely on the list ahead of socks.

Bob

On Nov 12, 2010, at 5:39 PM, J. Forster wrote:

> IMO, a GPS and Rb is less needed than socks, but then I have cold feet. :)
> 
> -John
> 
> =============
> 
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Socks? Obviously an un-needed item ...
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 12, 2010, at 3:52 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> 
>>> The sock problem has a simple, and obvious, solution.
>>> 
>>> When you buy socks, buy a several year supply, all identical. When you
>>> no
>>> longer have more than 1 pair, buy a new batch.
>>> 
>>> QED.
>>> 
>>> -John
>>> 
>>> =============
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The LW would explain missing single socks, pens, etc.  The local
>>>> randomness is probably a quantum effect...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:11:06 AM
>>>> Subject: [time-nuts] OT loosing things
>>>> 
>>>> While repairing my LCD monitor, I took off my glasses so as to be able
>>>> to see better close up as I'm VERY short sighted and even the
>>>> vari-focals my optician prescribes can no longer get me close enough
>>>> to solder properly. Without them on, I can focus VERY close but the
>>>> range is VERY short, being just a few inches. So I completed the work
>>>> involving a few stages without putting the glasses back on just to
>>>> save time but, when I went to grope around and try to find them, I
>>>> could not. So where did I put the blessed things, and after a period
>>>> of serious extended "looking" around, blind panic started to set in.
>>>> What the dickens had I done with them! So I ended up shuffling out of
>>>> the workshop, through the house, stumbling over the dogs, and up to
>>>> the bedroom to, eventually, find my spare pair. On my return to the
>>>> workshop I still could not find the glasses looked everywhere. A cup
>>>> of tea ensued and I took a less panicky search only to find they had
>>>> fallen down the back of some gear, or maybe it was the fairies at the
>>>> bottom of my garden which had done it. I concluded that in my
>>>> "blinded" state of putting them down in the first place, I had
>>>> obviously chosen an poor "safe" place.
>>>> 
>>>> After this I got to thinking and wondered if there is perhaps
>>>> something darker happening here. My current theory is that there is
>>>> something called a Lost Wormhole which moves around randomly and
>>>> removes items from there current place, setting them down in some
>>>> completely different dimension. So the chances of loosing something
>>>> increases in proportion to the time that the item is left somewhere
>>>> due to the increased probability of it being "borrowed" by the LW.
>>>> Now, all is not lost as the LW is a two way pipe and so eventually
>>>> your lost item will be dropped back somewhere in your vicinity but
>>>> probably not where you thought you had left it. To my mind, this seems
>>>> to fit my experience of the way the World seems to work and I'm sure
>>>> there is some law here.
>>>> 
>>>> For the humour challenged, this message is :) rated.
>>>> 
>>>> Please feel free to comment on my theory but perhaps this should be via
>>>> PM.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for your time,
>>>> Steve
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
>>>> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
>>>> - Einstein
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