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

Ed Palmer ed_palmer at sasktel.net
Mon Sep 9 17:31:06 EDT 2013


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 2:47 PM, George Dubovsky wrote:
> 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
> dishwasher, and the car won't start - you get the picture... ;-)
>
> 73,
>
> geo - n4ua
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Ed Palmer <ed_palmer at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> 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 swed wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>


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