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-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" <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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.