tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post3337885622076343972..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Bits and PiecesSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-26753741563571181442016-10-15T17:45:09.160-04:002016-10-15T17:45:09.160-04:00True story. So there I was ...
I first noticed t...True story. So there I was ...<br /><br />I first noticed this strange phenomenon in my early teens. Being of a curious mind, I tested the theory that the objects in question were really disappearing.<br /><br />One fine summer's day, I was alone at home. I put the dog and cat out, then placed my ever-present ball cap on the center of the dining table. I then went back outside to do more chores.<br /><br />20 minutes or so later, I went back inside and looked at the table. No hat.<br /><br />That hat showed up again two years later. I found it one morning while I was making my bed. It was under my pillow. There hadn't been anything there ten minutes before, when I first awoke, and my parents weren't awake yet that morning. <br /><br />Lesson learned - when you drop or misplace something, no, it doesn't have to be somewhere.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192934741632433007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45589354129279731512016-10-13T08:31:10.506-04:002016-10-13T08:31:10.506-04:00I thought I was the only one experiencing this.
I...I thought I was the only one experiencing this.<br /><br />I have some 'varied' friends, so it's come up in conversations with physicists, engineers, psychologists, neurologists and even an opthamologist.<br /><br />Various theories, mechanisms and explanations have been touted (state, dimensional, situational, cognitive and perceptual, etc.) but after years of debate, the consensus opinion is ...<br /><br />... that it's because I'm old.<br /><br />... or it's the pictsies (I'm in Reiver country so all the mischievous 'little people' are vaguely Scotts in appearance, blue-skinned, red-haired and wearing kilts a la Pratchetts wee free men). So? Whenever I 'lose' some item, I sigh, apologise, then sample a single malt (sufficient so that I eventually 'accidentally' spill some 'as an offering' .. no really, honest), get up and ... usually trip and fall (or at the least stubb a toe/bang my head/nearly poke my eye out with) over the very thing I couldn't find.<br /><br />It never fails, try it.Ablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18109723804885979128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62676333517940358792016-10-12T21:48:24.135-04:002016-10-12T21:48:24.135-04:00Thanks. I got one of those Gator sockets only to ...Thanks. I got one of those <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/p/Gator-Grip-3-8-in-Universal-Socket-with-Power-Drill-Adapter-ETC120A/100351756" rel="nofollow">Gator sockets</a> only to find it too small to grab across the wings.<br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-5610652834065494852016-10-12T20:39:19.204-04:002016-10-12T20:39:19.204-04:00Of course your blister has healed.
http://www.win...Of course your blister has healed. <br />http://www.windstormproducts.com/wingnut-tools/<br />At Home Depot <br />http://www.homedepot.com/s/wingnut%2520driver?NCNI-5 <br />If you are not on the nut straight you might break off one of the wings. Thank goodness I had spare wingnuts.<br />I will find the one I dropped as soon as I buy another spare. Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693579680266086557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-9836536773072664042016-10-12T17:56:11.581-04:002016-10-12T17:56:11.581-04:00Now that my wingnut blister has healed, I'd li...Now that my wingnut blister has healed, I'd like find a socket or attachment for my electric driver. Would you have a product name or link or something?<br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-23818014553898075722016-10-12T17:54:59.852-04:002016-10-12T17:54:59.852-04:00I'd donate to a Kickstarter to check satellite...I'd donate to a Kickstarter to check satellites for that damage. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-12776742691626444742016-10-12T17:34:34.389-04:002016-10-12T17:34:34.389-04:00Dropping things.
That theory does explain quite a...Dropping things.<br /><br />That theory does explain quite a bit. Although the theory does not quite explain why a launched AR-15 detent pin will never, ever, be found.<br /><br />Maybe the AR-15 detent pin enters a superposed quantum state, but does not return until the earth has moved away from the exact location where the pin was. If sometime in the future we find satellites with damage caused by detent pins, the theory may gain credence. <br /><br /><br /><br />John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-14214097926188737322016-10-12T17:20:57.757-04:002016-10-12T17:20:57.757-04:00Next time you are out by the antenna would you che...Next time you are out by the antenna would you check for a wing nut driver attachment for a power driver? Dropped one while putting up hurricane shutters. Looked then got the big magnet. No joy. Teleportation? <br />I had a spare. BTDT Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693579680266086557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-23039342558816724892016-10-12T17:08:30.578-04:002016-10-12T17:08:30.578-04:00In the case of the antenna, the area underneath it...In the case of the antenna, the area underneath it is kept grass and weed free. To the best of my ability. It was 80% bare sand the other day, and also the day I dropped the wingnut. (Mountain bikers refer to Florida as the sand state, rather than the sunshine state which is the chamber of commerce line). <br /><br />You guys are being too rational though. Where's the fun in saying "it was there but I didn't see it"? Or I'm having a "senior moment"? It's more fun to invoke the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics. Plus you get to mess with people who take it seriously. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-32495097326611739232016-10-12T15:49:41.721-04:002016-10-12T15:49:41.721-04:00And I wanted to add: if the nut was 400-series sta...And I wanted to add: if the nut was 400-series stainless, you could have used a magnet. I find that generally works very well. (Of course, you get all the iron filings out of the ground, also.)Malatropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-55586047779364708932016-10-12T15:47:31.398-04:002016-10-12T15:47:31.398-04:00LCB's comment is right on the money. Very ofte...LCB's comment is right on the money. <i>Very</i> often the reason you can't find something is just because a different color that what you were searching for. There is another effect also: after looking at a thing on your bench often enough, it becomes an invisible part of the background. I have experienced searching for something desperately, giving up, only to have it literally come into focus in the center of the random direction I was looking. <br /><br />As for the stainless wingnut, SG, I think what happens is they roll under blades of grass, and unless you literally rake the area with your fingers they are invisible. Years later, the grass has changed, and the thing is no longer hidden.<br /><br />And yes, I think we all have these experiences, and no, I don't think it has to do with age because I've been doing it all my life. It has to do with fundamental brain damage :-)Malatropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-85495241946242612832016-10-12T14:00:08.887-04:002016-10-12T14:00:08.887-04:00The other day I was doing some airbrushing. When I...The other day I was doing some airbrushing. When I started to clean up I couldn't find the lid to one paint bottle. I looked and looked...on the workbench, under the workbench, in drawers that I knew I hadn't opened, in boxes a good 5 or 6 feet away from the work bench, on the floor 10 feet from the workbench. I spent a good 20-30 minutes looking for that danged black plastic cap.<br /><br />Two days later I went down to my workbench to do more airbrushing and wondered what the white plastic cap on my workbench went to??? I was looking for 'black' and somehow managed to blot out the white plastic cap that was RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME THE WHOLE TIME!!!!<br /><br />I blame old age... :-)LCBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03146393047895889252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-52029909233984375842016-10-12T02:01:22.138-04:002016-10-12T02:01:22.138-04:00When I "lose" things, only to find them ...When I "lose" things, only to find them after I've bought a replacement, I refer to it as "Quantum Weirdness".....drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com