Wednesday, July 04, 2007

teafinder

Y'know how, when your cordless phone is misplaced, you can hit the page button and it'll beep & reveal its whereabouts? Or if your cell is missing, you can call it and follow the ring (assuming you haven't turned off the ringer)?

I regularly find myself thinking - for split-second, irrational moments - that I'll page my missing tea, which I've put down somewhere then wandered off. Then I realise that I can't page my tea.

And then I think - for longer, slightly-more-rational, petulant moments - that, dang it, I should be able to page my tea...and my glasses...and my wallet...and my rings...and my knitting needles...&c.

Heyyyyy - maybe if I fasten my cell phone to my tea mug...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

While you're at it, can you page the 4 single knitted socks I've misplaced?

Anonymous said...

You could buy lots of those keyrings that beep when you clap for them and attach one to everything you often lose, although when you clapped you would have to work out which beep was the one you were looking for.....

ArcticFox said...

ahhhh i might just have spotted the flaw in the product.....

I think William Burroughs said something about penknives.... They're great but you need one to get the blades open on another one and so ad infinitum.

What the hell happens if you lose the loc8tor device??

oh it's an infinite frigging loop!!!

Lorena said...

The best I can offer up is this:
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/04/beer_pager_lets.html

ArcticFox said...

Oh yes...... I just remembered..... in Viz's "top tips" they had something that would solve all your problems.

Tired of losing your car keys, or your wallet?

Simply buy a ball of string. Tie one end of the ball of string to an item in your house and continue to make your way around the house wrapping one loop of the string around each item you pass.

When you have looped every item in your house and come back to the first item, tie the other end of the string to it.

Now, when you lose something, you just have to follow the string until you come to it.....

genius and very cheap too.

FoX

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