[time-nuts] OT loosing things

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Nov 12 23:01:39 UTC 2010


Maybe...  if you put them on the floor under the desk and put your feet on
them.

-John

==============


> 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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