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You know when you're unscrewing the dead power supply of the second EPIA computer you've managed to blow up in one weekend, and you drop a screw onto the concrete paving of your back garden, just by the edge where the soil begins, and the screw adhering to the universal rule of falling important components
simply disappears in mid fall, having deviated to land somewhere impossible to find in true irritating fashion?
Simply wait until the future, and then reach for your mobile and run the Dropped Thing Finder app. Take a picture of the ground where you think it may have dropped, and a few nearby shots too, then take a series of pictures of an example of the thing that was dropped, from various different angles, and the application will magically locate the dropped thing. Hah! Vengeance against bastard gravity.
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[hippo, Sep 18 2007]
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I didn't know you were soco on csi! |
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I know soft wear is intentional. |
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hmmmm, bastard gravity... |
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I think we've found the source of your grouchiness. |
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Turn-ups are often a bountiful source of lost screws and other componentry. |
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Yes, but the poor man has lost a vital
component, and it's unlikely that there are
any trouser shops open at this time of
night. |
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It'll be still out there in the garden. Not really important as I was dismantling a PSU that had blown, and I have no intention of fixing (they're not designed to be, from my cursory initial dismantling) so I'll probably be chucking the two Mini-iTX cases and PSUs in the bin. It's just a sense of neatness that makes me want to throw them away with all the right screws in place. Daft, when you think about it. |
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Thought this would be a device that had a thorough retracing of steps feature, composed of a compass and a pedometer. |
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Don't worry, Ian; you'll find it in the last place in which you look. If you haven't found it, then you simply haven't looked in the last place, yet. |
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(The chance of dropping something is in proportion to the irretrievability of it). |
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After I've found something I then go and look for it in a few more places, just so I can not be accused of finding it in the last place I looked. |
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A friend of mine believes that the best way to find something is to lose another just like it. So when that tennis ball leaves your raquet sideways and disappears into the hedge, you simply hit another ball the same way from right where you were standing, and watch closely, because this ball will surely end up near to the first. |
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He is, of course, a fool. |
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I recently bought a metal detector. Would you like me to drop by? |
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Just get in the habit of wearing a small,
discrete, nose-stud mounted wide-
angle camera with a loop recording
<edit> as excellently proposed by
Hippo<edit>.
You'll then be able to rewind and follow
the exact course of the dropped item.
You'll also be able to check if you
turned off the heater before you left the
house in the morning; check if you
already added the baking soda to your
recipe; check if your snoring really does
cause resonance sufficient to vibrate the
alarm clock...the possibilities are
unlimitless. |
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[Hippo] aha - point taken. Thanks. |
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I love the possibilities of any sentence that starts with |
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//Simply wait until the future, and then // |
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