[time-nuts] OT loosing things

d.seiter at comcast.net d.seiter at comcast.net
Sat Nov 13 00:10:06 UTC 2010



Not ususally, anyway; my daughter has some with toes that are.  Maybe high-end socks? 



-Dave 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com> 
To: "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com> 
Cc: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at 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 

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> On 13/11/2010, J. Forster <jfor at 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" <sar10538 at gmail.com> 
>>> To: time-nuts at 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 
>>> 
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> -- 
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