Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-12 Thread Don Latham
Actually, another expression of McManus' sequential vortex, best expressed by the folksong the bucket's got a hole in it. All these are corollaries to Murphy's Law of Universal Bustedness. Don Magnus Danielson On 09/09/2013 11:31 PM, Ed Palmer wrote: It looks like The Conservation of Bustedness

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 09/09/2013 11:31 PM, Ed Palmer wrote: It looks like The Conservation of Bustedness came from Usenet. http://rec.crafts.metalworking.narkive.com/66UwVxf4/conservation-of-bustedness But doesn't entropy mean that the amount of Bustedness in the universe keeps increasing? Hell, I might as

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-12 Thread Mark C. Stephens
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry... Actually, another expression of McManus' sequential vortex, best expressed by the folksong the bucket's got a hole in it. All these are corollaries to Murphy's Law of Universal Bustedness. Don Magnus

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-09 Thread Ed Palmer
At least I didn't drop it on my foot! :) Ed On 9/9/2013 10:10 AM, Burt I. Weiner wrote: Wow! Sorry to hear that you tripped over your 2077. Burt, K6OQK At 09:00 AM 9/9/2013, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote By the way, it turns out that I paid dearly for my good luck with the repair of my

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-09 Thread paul swed
OK I don't get it. When I search for a 2077 I get some online game. Now it makes sense that thats a time sink but generally nothing that will break a tooth. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Ed Palmer ed_pal...@sasktel.net wrote: At least I didn't drop it on my foot! :) Ed

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-09 Thread George Dubovsky
Ed, I can't remember where I ran across it, but a fellow preached a principle he called The Conservation of Bustedness. He posited that you can't have everything working all at once: if you fix the counter, the generator breaks; if you fix the generator, the dishwasher goes on the fritz; fix the

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-09 Thread Ed Palmer
It could have been from grinding my teeth in frustration at buying a dead unit! :) My money's on the 'bad luck comes in threes' legend. I had good luck fixing the DTS-2077 so I had to pay for it with 3 bad things. How's that for unscientific thinking? :) Ed On 9/9/2013 11:27 AM, paul

Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...

2013-09-09 Thread Ed Palmer
It looks like The Conservation of Bustedness came from Usenet. http://rec.crafts.metalworking.narkive.com/66UwVxf4/conservation-of-bustedness But doesn't entropy mean that the amount of Bustedness in the universe keeps increasing? Hell, I might as well quit. I can't win! Ed On 9/9/2013