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Mystery losses

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,180
edited September 2015 in The Commons

Have you ever had a mysterious loss of something that you know should still exist somewhere close but for the life of you has completely disappeared often from one moment to another? surprise

I had a CD that was made for me by a relative in Florida.  It was packed in my laptop case.  It made it all the way back here to NY.  I unpacked it and remember seeing it, then poof, it's gone.  I've looked in all the obvious places, all the usual places, all the unlikely places, and have decided that it has fallen into a black hole. sad

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,707

    1) Have you looked inyour music CD cases?

    2) Do you have a dog?

    3) Have you noticed any time dilation or other relativistic effects?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,180
    Fixmypcmike said:

    1) Have you looked inyour music CD cases?

    2) Do you have a dog?

    3) Have you noticed any time dilation or other relativistic effects?

    1) It's data files on a computer CD in a pink soft plastic sleeve.

    2) No dog, just a bowl of pet rocks that are very well behaved.

    3) I have noticed that when I look into a mirror I see an old wrinkled face that didn't used to be there.

     

  • DarkSpartanDarkSpartan Posts: 1,096

    If you have children with children that are under the age of three, turn them loose in some of the places it might have got off to, and just watch.

    My youngest son will ditch his pacifiers, and when he doesn't have one later on he'll dig them up out of nowhere. He also found a USB stick that went missing on me several months ago.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,707
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Fixmypcmike said:

    1) Have you looked inyour music CD cases?

    2) Do you have a dog?

    3) Have you noticed any time dilation or other relativistic effects?

    1) It's data files on a computer CD in a pink soft plastic sleeve.

    But is it now data files on a computer CD in a case that says "Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto #1 featuring Jascha Heifetz"?

    LeatherGryphon said:

    2) No dog, just a bowl of pet rocks that are very well behaved.

    Do you ever play frisbee with them?

    LeatherGryphon said:

    3) I have noticed that when I look into a mirror I see an old wrinkled face that didn't used to be there.

    In my mirror I'm seeing more and more hairs rendering white.  I think it's a corrupt shader file.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i'm seeing hair wisps on my chin never been there before

  • ZilvergrafixZilvergrafix Posts: 1,385

    Yep, I'm still looking for my Atari 5200 on all the house, I know where it is but is not there...

  • DarkSpartanDarkSpartan Posts: 1,096

    My skin textures went berserk a few years back...

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,180
    edited September 2015

    I've considered separating a pair of socks, leaving one in the drawer and watching the other carefully to see where it crawls off to.  Unfortunately, they're like Dr. Who's angels.  They only move when you're not looking and they move quickly!

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  • GlennFGlennF Posts: 143
    edited September 2015
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Have you ever had a mysterious loss of something that you know should still exist somewhere close but for the life of you has completely disappeared often from one moment to another? surprise

    I had a CD that was made for me by a relative in Florida.  It was packed in my laptop case.  It made it all the way back here to NY.  I unpacked it and remember seeing it, then poof, it's gone.  I've looked in all the obvious places, all the usual places, all the unlikely places, and have decided that it has fallen into a black hole. sad

    Yep it's Aliens.With this blood moon tonight expect anything.I just had two cans of beer evaporate while watching a footfall game.

     

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,707
    GlennF said:

    Yep it's Aliens.With this blood moon tonight expect anything.I just had two cans of beer evaporate while watching a footfall game.

    If you allow your beer cans to watch television, don't let them do it in pairs, that's just asking for trouble.

  • GlennFGlennF Posts: 143
    edited September 2015
    Fixmypcmike said:
    GlennF said:

    Yep it's Aliens.With this blood moon tonight expect anything.I just had two cans of beer evaporate while watching a footfall game.

    If you allow your beer cans to watch television, don't let them do it in pairs, that's just asking for trouble.

    aah so that 's what happened..I will keep an eye on the next one.smiley

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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,243

    Yes.  Drives me nuts. I've had a stack of paper lunchbags on top of my desk for years, I bought a pack of a hundred or 500 or something because they were cheap in bulk.  I swear just last week I pulled one off the stack to use when the previous one wore out.  I went to get another, and the entire stack is gone.  hundreds, vanished into thin air.  ?  They didn't just get moved aside, nor fall beind the table, nor anything else I can think of.  I have no freekin' clue where they went.  Now I'm questioning where I got the one from last week, maybe I DIDN'T pull it off the stack, and moved the stack a long time ago...

    My tent poles have also been missing for a long time.  Every few years I spend an hour going through the house looking for them, no luck.  (I have the tent though.)

    In the past things have vanished for years at a time, but then some year I'll find them in a completely unexpected place and then remember oh yeah, I put them here... DOH!

    Pens are the most mysterous.  You set it down, you turn around, you turn back and BAM it's gone.  It's like magic.  Then it will turn up on the other side of the apartment.  I finally gave up and just bought a dozen pens and scattered them about the apartment so there was always one somewhere, that worked pretty well.  They gradually migrate from one side of the apartment to the other, then back, some sort of bic pen herd mentality or something.

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I had a CD that was made for me by a relative in Florida.  It was packed in my laptop case.  It made it all the way back here to NY.  I unpacked it and remember seeing it, then poof, it's gone. 

    The answer is obvious.

    Schroedinger's CD.

    Okay, that wasn't as clever as I thought it would be.... frown

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    Money. I habitually empty my pockets of loose change and stick it in a pot by the front door. Yet every time I go out and want some cash to take with me, the pot is always empty!

     

    Completely baffled . . .

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,975

    I know I bought an LP of the Bach Masses. I can see the cover. But I can't find it, and my list of casettes and LPs from then doesn't mention it - I can only conclude that I've side-slipped into a parallel universe in which I didn't buy it. That, however, is a minor side-slip compared to the complete disappearance of a version of Pictures at an Exhibition for (electric, as I recall) guitar - again i can see the cover, a guitar with the body carrying blobs of paint like a painter's palette, but I can't find any information on it so apparently I've side-slipped all the way to a universe in which the recording wasn't ever made.

    sriesch said:
    Pens are the most mysterous.  You set it down, you turn around, you turn back and BAM it's gone.  It's like magic.  Then it will turn up on the other side of the apartment.  I finally gave up and just bought a dozen pens and scattered them about the apartment so there was always one somewhere, that worked pretty well.  They gradually migrate from one side of the apartment to the other, then back, some sort of bic pen herd mentality or something.

    Pens breed around here - they are almost as bad as tribbles

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited September 2015

    Okay, you think you have problems... Several months ago I was using a pair of Vise-grips to hold something I was grinding... I put them down and bam they were gone. Okay, that's annoying... But that is normal... I own fifty thousand each of pencils, xacto knives, screwdrivers, sharpies, respirators, protective lens and certain small loseable items for that very reason... I have a bad habit of walking around with those things in my hand and putting them down in some weird area and not finding them till the next blood moon (found a lot of stuff last night, by the way)... But here's where it starts to bug me...

    1- I was completely alone in the corporeal sense, as there was only me and maybe a few crickets around.

    2- They were small crickets.

    3- I really didn't move far from where I was... No bathroom, no phone calls, no fridge raiding and I didn't even run up a tree after any squirrels...

    I should buy more vise grips, but at the moment I could only find that one and aparently it walked off... So I go nutsy looking for it, because it was a bad day I was gonna find it... And I'm pissed at me for losing it.   I have this small tool cart I keep next to me where it makes the most sense for it to be placed on... But there is a pile of junk on it... I start picking through it but it quickly is obvious it's not there as none of that stuff was recently piled... So I get pissed and sweep it all into a box and with the sharpie in my pocket I write on the surface "keep this surface clear stupid"... I leave notes like that to myself a lot... Sometimes in marker, sometimes with official warning stickers like "CAUTION: This device is a piece of crap and may stop working without notice." Or "WARNING: Made in China by blind goats with prosthetic hooves"...   But anyway the cart top was empty now. 

    So I spend a half hour looking high and low and nothing... I finally go out of my shop to look out side... Maybe I forgot and I chased a squirrel and it fell in the grass?... Nothing... I turn around and go back inside and...

    Yeah... It's sitting right on top of what I wrote.

    F_ _ _ you, you stupid lousy brain or that stupid poltergeist who thinks that's funny... It's not and I hate you... 

    Parallel universes intersecting, poltergeists, crickets with a bad sense of humor, alien abduction or just a really, really bad memory... Who cares I didn't find it funny and when I find out what it was I'm getting even... Even if it was me all along.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've considered separating a pair of socks, leaving one in the drawer and watching the other carefully to see where it crawls off to.  Unfortunately, they're like Dr. Who's angels.  They only move when you're not looking and they move quickly!

    I was going to suggest that it went where the lost socks go, but you've already considered that. laugh

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited September 2015

    Books, it's books that disappear for me. Especially books that are in the middle of a series.  OK, so you buy the books as they come out. Then suddenly you decide to re-read the series one after the other.  Take Raymond E Feist for example.  It's a long series, takes up over a shelf in the largest book case. So you read the 6 Riftwar ones, and the 3 Empire ones, then the 4 Serpentwar and the 4 Legacy, Are you getting the picture. You start on Conclave of Shadows, and oh no, where is "King of Foxes"?  As Richard says you can see it in your mind, describe the cover, but find the book, no chance. Not even checking all the other shelves where the Paper backs are stored.  So you then accuse the cats of hiding it somewhere. They, of course, are saying nothing.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,180
    Chohole said:

    Books, it's books that disappear for me. Especially books that are in the middle of a series.  OK, so you buy the books as they come out. Then suddenly you decide to re-read the series one after the other.  Take Raymond E Feist for example.  It's a long series, takes up over a shelf in the largest book case. So you read the 6 Riftwar ones, and the 3 Empire ones, then the 4 Serpentwar and the 4 Legacy, Are you getting the picture. You start on Conclave of Shadows, and oh no, where is "King of Foxes"?  As Richard says you can see it in your mind, describe the cover, but find the book, no chance. Not even checking all the other shelves where the Paper backs are stored.  So you then accuse the cats of hiding it somewhere. They, of course, are saying nothing.

    Well, there's your problem.  You suggested it yourself.  "Take Raymond E Feist for example" Somebody apparently did take it!

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited September 2015

    It's the cats... Cats are great but they lie a lot and have a hidden agenda. Did you ever check eBay? The moment your stuff goes missing look on eBay and I bet if you are diligent, you'll see it go up for sale... That's how my friend caught his dog. It was different with the dog, he was trying to get money to cover his gambling debts... But it was to the feline mafia. 

     

    Incidently... A few days ago I was watching some old Star Trek episodes and there was that one with the silicon rock creature, the Horta... LG... You should check your pet rocks and see if they might be Hortalings... Hortalets...? 

     

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    My pet rocks are still in a container, somewher in one of the boxes that didn't get unpacked after we moved.   Hmm   But they are very small rocks, and mmostly crystalline, not silicon.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited September 2015

    Okay then... That's two people with stuff disappearing and rocks at hand... Three if you count me and the rocks in my head... Hmmm..

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    I have some bonsai mountains on the window sill, so maybe there is sonething in that...

  • BarubaryBarubary Posts: 1,232

    Around 4 years ago I handed my favorite pen to my sister to sign a birthday card. She signed and left it there. An hour later it's gone. A few days ago it was found in my father's desk. Where I had actually looked for it roughly 5 times. I'm suspecting aliens.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,180
    Chohole said:

    My pet rocks are still in a container, somewher in one of the boxes that didn't get unpacked after we moved.   Hmm   But they are very small rocks, and mmostly crystalline, not silicon.

    Hmmm... actually, one of my rocks is a chunk of pure IC grade silicon of signifiant size,  hmmm... I wonder... surprise

  • MADMANMIKEMADMANMIKE Posts: 407

    I've had that happen with DVDs.. I know I bought that movie, but for the life of me I can't figure out where it went to..

  • cdemeritcdemerit Posts: 505
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Have you ever had a mysterious loss of something that you know should still exist somewhere close but for the life of you has completely disappeared often from one moment to another? surprise

    I had a CD that was made for me by a relative in Florida.  It was packed in my laptop case.  It made it all the way back here to NY.  I unpacked it and remember seeing it, then poof, it's gone.  I've looked in all the obvious places, all the usual places, all the unlikely places, and have decided that it has fallen into a black hole. sad

    Sort of yes... Years ago I worked for myself, at home... At the time I lived alone and had no pets... yet I'd be sitting at my workbench, and tools I was using that day would disappear from my bench, to be found in cabinets/refigerator/freezer in the other room... this happened more than once, and for the life of me, I don't even remember leaving my workbench during the time these tools would vanish...

     

     

  • cdemeritcdemerit Posts: 505
    Chohole said:

    My pet rocks are still in a container, somewher in one of the boxes that didn't get unpacked after we moved.   Hmm   But they are very small rocks, and mmostly crystalline, not silicon.

    Well, when you say Crystalline, do you mean of the Quartz family (Quartz, Amethyst, Citrine, Agate and others) or others... Quartz family of minerals are largly silicon dioxide (SO2)  based. 

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    cdemerit said:
    Chohole said:

    My pet rocks are still in a container, somewher in one of the boxes that didn't get unpacked after we moved.   Hmm   But they are very small rocks, and mmostly crystalline, not silicon.

    Well, when you say Crystalline, do you mean of the Quartz family (Quartz, Amethyst, Citrine, Agate and others) or others... Quartz family of minerals are largly silicon dioxide (SO2)  based. 

    Aha          

  • HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,665
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