Well, how often do you loose your daughters socks? - Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc. 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ, 07731 732-886-5960 office 908-901-9193 cell
-----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of d.sei...@comcast.net Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:10 PM To: j...@quik.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT loosing things Not ususally, anyway; my daughter has some with toes that are. Maybe high-end socks? -Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Forster" <j...@quik.com> To: "Steve Rooke" <sar10...@gmail.com> Cc: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 3:52:06 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT loosing things Socks, not gloves. AFAIK, socks are not handed. -John ============= > On 13/11/2010, J. Forster <j...@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" <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. >> > > > -- > 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.