[time-nuts] OT loosing things

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Nov 12 23:52:06 UTC 2010


Socks, not gloves. AFAIK, socks are not handed.

-John

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> On 13/11/2010, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> 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.
>
> But what if you loose all the left or right foot socks (Murphy's Law
> applies here), you'll end up buying more when just half of them are
> lost.
>
> Steve
>
>> 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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>
> --
> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
> - Einstein
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