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" <sar10...@gmail.com> >> To: time-nuts@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.