PF Random Thoughts

Evo

My Mallard ducks are back to breed. Watching them eat is relaxing. They stick their beaks into the pile of seed and switch on the vacuum.

turbo

The entire rookery of crows is back for breeding season and the are very noisy. Duke keeps barking because of all the strange noises they make.

Jonathan Scott

The weather has been beautiful here the last couple of days. It's been around 74F in the back garden today. My daughter made a "fat and seed cake" to feed the birds some weeks ago when the weather was freezing, but they had hardly touched it. Today, it melted in the sun and ended up in a disgusting-looking heap on the ground underneath.

Jonathan Scott

My first rule for finding things has just proved its worth again this evening:

If you can't find something, look again in the first place you expected it to be, only harder.

I guess that the first time you look in the place you expect something to be, you don't look very hard, and are likely to give up very easily and try alternatives, but although you look harder and harder in other places as you fail to find something, it can be difficult to remember to go back and try again from the beginning. This evening, it was my son's football pump, which was in his football kit cupboard, as it should be, but inside the side pocket of a kit bag, as I found only after the others had searched just about everywhere else.

Lancelot59

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The entire rookery of crows is back for breeding season and the are very noisy. Duke keeps barking because of all the strange noises they make.

... That's not awkward at all.

Evo

Quote by Jonathan Scott

My first rule for finding things has just proved its worth again this evening:

If you can't find something, look again in the first place you expected it to be, only harder.

I guess that the first time you look in the place you expect something to be, you don't look very hard, and are likely to give up very easily and try alternatives, but although you look harder and harder in other places as you fail to find something, it can be difficult to remember to go back and try again from the beginning. This evening, it was my son's football pump, which was in his football kit cupboard, as it should be, but inside the side pocket of a kit bag, as I found only after the others had searched just about everywhere else.

If you have a cat, look under furniture on the opposite side of the room from where you remember placing the object.

Char. Limit

Quote by Jonathan Scott

My first rule for finding things has just proved its worth again this evening:

If you can't find something, look again in the first place you expected it to be, only harder.

I guess that the first time you look in the place you expect something to be, you don't look very hard, and are likely to give up very easily and try alternatives, but although you look harder and harder in other places as you fail to find something, it can be difficult to remember to go back and try again from the beginning. This evening, it was my son's football pump, which was in his football kit cupboard, as it should be, but inside the side pocket of a kit bag, as I found only after the others had searched just about everywhere else.

You have no idea how much you just helped me. After being unable to find my glasses (the source of my power), I looked where I figured they were and couldn't find them. I was going to look everywhere else, but after seeing this I figured I should look more thoroughly in the same spot and behold! There they were.

Thanks, Jonathan!

BobG

Why do astericks cry? And what happens when I push the button with the mushroom cloud?

Oven controls for De Deitrich ovens (sold in Europe).

The middle control set (the one with the flying snowflake) is for a microwave oven (the flying snowflake is obviously the 'snowglobe' setting, which is an incredibly cool concept for a microwave oven).

Char. Limit

I'd be more concerned about the spiked ceiling with the spinny wheel of death. That would HURT.

(Referencing Row 3 Column 2)

BobG

Quote by Char. Limit

I'd be more concerned about the spiked ceiling with the spinny wheel of death. That would HURT.

(Referencing Row 3 Column 2)

It's for a microwave oven. That must be the feline setting.

HeLiXe

Quote by Lancelot59

Well done rootx! You grossed out HeLiXe.

You've come close a couple of times Sir Lancelot

rootX

What's tmi?

Char. Limit

Quote by rootX

What's tmi?

Too Much Information

rootX

Quote by Jonathan Scott

My first rule for finding things has just proved its worth again this evening:

If you can't find something, look again in the first place you expected it to be, only harder.

I guess that the first time you look in the place you expect something to be, you don't look very hard, and are likely to give up very easily and try alternatives, but although you look harder and harder in other places as you fail to find something, it can be difficult to remember to go back and try again from the beginning. This evening, it was my son's football pump, which was in his football kit cupboard, as it should be, but inside the side pocket of a kit bag, as I found only after the others had searched just about everywhere else.

I divide my room/expected places into small blocks. I keep on eliminating the blocks until I find what I am looking for or I have gone through all the blocks. I don't iterate unless I felt I didn't scan some blocks well enough.

Lancelot59

Quote by HeLiXe

You've come close a couple of times Sir Lancelot

Thats what I'm here for!

rootX

Quote by HeLiXe

RT: I love programming. <3

I used to love programming until I started finding it bit non-analytical!

physics girl phd

Quote by BobG

Oven controls for De Deitrich ovens (sold in Europe).

And I thought our oven controls for the regular oven were difficult... thank god we don't have a microwave. (Our landlords are German, and they lived in the house previously and redid the kitchen in German-style). No mushroom cloud or wheel of death for us. Phew (I'm sure Little E would have pushed those by now if they were available).

Leave it to this thread and the food thread to make me hungry, even though I just ate dinner.

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Evo Mentor Blog Entries: 4	PF Random Thoughts My Mallard ducks are back to breed. Watching them eat is relaxing. They stick their beaks into the pile of seed and switch on the vacuum.

turbo Recognitions: Gold Member	The entire rookery of crows is back for breeding season and the are very noisy. Duke keeps barking because of all the strange noises they make.

Jonathan Scott Recognitions: Gold Member	The weather has been beautiful here the last couple of days. It's been around 74F in the back garden today. My daughter made a "fat and seed cake" to feed the birds some weeks ago when the weather was freezing, but they had hardly touched it. Today, it melted in the sun and ended up in a disgusting-looking heap on the ground underneath.

BobG Recognitions: Gold Member Homework Help Science Advisor	Why do astericks cry? And what happens when I push the button with the mushroom cloud? Oven controls for De Deitrich ovens (sold in Europe). The middle control set (the one with the flying snowflake) is for a microwave oven (the flying snowflake is obviously the 'snowglobe' setting, which is an incredibly cool concept for a microwave oven).

Char. Limit Recognitions: Gold Member	I'd be more concerned about the spiked ceiling with the spinny wheel of death. That would HURT. (Referencing Row 3 Column 2)