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« on: May 19, 2013, 10:51:27 AM » |
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Black Holes......
Now I am frustrated. There must be a micro-singularity here in the Mad Scientist Lab. Things that are dropped on the floor stand a good chance of disappearing. It's a wonder I'm not dead from hard x-rays/gamma emitted as the dropped items die on their way into the tiny black hole.
I can't find my Dow Key. I can't find my solder station iron stand/pad. I can't find the pitch antenna for my classic theremin. These are not tiny screws or washers.
Oh, the Inhumanity of it ALL (anguished at high volume)!!!
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I'm outta control, plain and simple. Now I have a broadcast transmitter.
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2013, 12:54:20 PM » |
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The secrecy of my job prevents me from knowing what I am doing.
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2013, 07:59:14 PM » |
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They return via the Twilight Zone.
Or two weeks later, when you don't need it.
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« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2013, 10:20:49 PM » |
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They return via the Twilight Zone.
Or two weeks later, when you don't need it.
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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2013, 10:28:49 PM » |
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Almost sounds like you should install a security camera in your shack just so you have recorded evidence of where you moved things too.  |
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2013, 10:00:36 AM » |
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...and when you lose the camera's video DVD, tape or whatever.?
Yes, the hall of mirrors;
-infinite reflections.
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2013, 04:34:59 PM » |
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2013, 04:39:04 PM » |
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It happens to me all the time when I am working on something.It doesnt matter if it is large or small.It will fall into the black hole and its gone.Sometimes it will reapear in a couple of weeks up to a couple of years and sometimes it never comes back.I think its some kind of interdimentional travel or something.
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« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2013, 05:28:47 PM » |
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yep, buy something for a future project and poof. Buy another one and weeks/months later the other appears in a different spot.
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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2013, 06:16:27 PM » |
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yep, buy something for a future project and poof. Buy another one and weeks/months later the other appears in a different spot.
or is that the original one?... and the new one has been sucked in to the balck hole ? The rule around my shack ... if you can not find it buy another one ... then the first one reapears. If you want to find a use for it sell it.... then you will have a need for it. KB3WFV |
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« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2013, 06:27:04 PM » |
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Even big things like power transformers are not immune from these happenings. My 3KV CT one showed up where I thought it was, but was unable to find it there earlier. I believe that 'singularity' is an appropriate term. And here I thought it was early senility showing up.
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73, Mitch
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« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2013, 07:59:43 PM » |
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My stuff returns about the time the new replacement item has been used for a week and I can't return it.
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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2013, 08:28:55 PM » |
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If we live long enough, the day will come when we walk into the shack and wonder what the heck all this stuff is for. Everything is there but becomes a singularity anyway. That's when we've really joined the OT club.  T |
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2013, 09:03:18 PM » |
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I was going to take a picture of my work bench but couldn't find the camera. It's in there somewhere |
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« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2013, 10:12:15 PM » |
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The typical shack is an event horizon. It seems like things enter but never leave.
For every black hole, a white hole deposits the missing items in unseen places, to be discovered later in photos.
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« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2013, 09:13:08 AM » |
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My old eyes can no longer see below my knees! If I get down on all fours (in order to see the floor) then I can't get back up! I have no idea what's down there!
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« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2013, 04:02:07 AM » |
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And while I'm looking for the item...I find the one I was looking for last week only to forget what I was looking for this time. |
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« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2013, 09:36:37 PM » |
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This thread can't be any closer to the truth. I thought I was the only one with this problem. It's amazing how something will hit the floor never to be seen again. I even have rugs on the floor to help keep things from bouncing and rolling away. Nothing works, and you're right, looking for one thing usually turns up the thing that hit the floor last week.
I don't get it, but that's why I keep at least 1000 of every part I have.
Fred
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« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2013, 10:41:17 PM » |
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And if you ever do find the item, it's well after you need it.
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« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2013, 12:04:39 PM » |
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So this may sound a little strange but I want to see if it may actually work.
Most of you are probably like me. I lose something and assume my not being able to find it is my fault. I tend to put things in rationally logical places. That is to say I do not put tubes with my gardening equipment. So if looking for an 811A I don't look where the mower, rotor-tiller etc. is at. I look around where I put tubes.
Now what is noticed here in this thread is that things somehow disappear. I don't like to think that is true.....But what if it is? Many have noticed that looking and looking for something doesn't work UNTIL you go and buy another.........suddenly it shows up.
What if the rational way of looking for something doesn't always work? Is there maybe another way to do this?
I have been looking for an Alliance HD-73 rotor I know I own for several months, and can't find it. It's in perfect shape and I don't want to buy another rotor and then have it show up. I could tear apart my entire house.....and I'm sure eventually I'd find it ( or maybe not?).
So I want you to tell me where it is. That may sound crazy, but we are all connected, and maybe you can see something I'm blind to.
My house in Colorado has 3 levels, a walk out basement, main floor, and upper level with my office and shack. I also have a shed with basement, main floor and attic, and a small outside storage shed.
Tell me where you think the HD-73 rotor is. It makes no difference where I may have put it I've already looked there. Just tell me what comes into your mind....it's on the main floor........it's outside........whatever you come up with.
This makes no sense.....but then again making sense hasn't found my HD-73.
Thanks!
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« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2013, 12:12:46 PM » |
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Did you look on the roof, maybe you already used it on some antenna you forgot you have.
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« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2013, 12:21:27 PM » |
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« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2013, 02:33:42 PM » |
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My house in Colorado has 3 levels, a walk out basement, main floor, and upper level with my office and shack. I also have a shed with basement, main floor and attic, and a small outside storage shed.
Tell me where you think the HD-73 rotor is.
Did you look under the stairs? That's where our water filtration and softener tanks live, along with other items that have gotten "put away" when company comes to visit. |
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« Reply #23 on: May 26, 2013, 06:59:27 PM » |
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check the dog house
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