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" <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. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.