I've misplaced my things within my apartment. Leaving it up to chance isn't working, so maybe you guys could give me some suggestions. Just imagine an apartment that looks like the Russian spies broke in while I was away and turned the whole place upside down and that's not a far off picture of my apartment... But weirder (think sewing machine next to car radio next to bass amp next to pvc pipe next to daruma next to 50lb bag of rice weird).
Missing Items:
Photoshop CD
Cool Edit Pro CD
Vast: Nude CD (although I've managed to find the empty case for this one)
*FSOL: ISDN CD
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Chance Abattoir
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12-29-2005 23:07
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MJ Hathor
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12-29-2005 23:13
I've always found that actually lifting up stuff to look under it helps. Could these items have been loaned out and maybe you forgot you did? (Just asking, cause I've done that before)
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Chance Abattoir
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12-29-2005 23:14
I've always found that actually lifting up stuff to look under it helps. Could these items have been loaned out and maybe you forgot you did? (Just asking, cause I've done that before) MJ No. I tend not to loan out things unless it is in exchange for something else so I don't forget. They're definitely here. _____________________
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MJ Hathor
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12-29-2005 23:17
GL, I hate losing my CD's. Especially the ones you only use once to install and then you put them somewhere and forget where they are.
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Damien Took
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12-29-2005 23:23
The Vast CD is in your car, the 2 software CDs are in a stack of CDs near the PC case.
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Chance Abattoir
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12-29-2005 23:23
Maybe it helps to know that I used the first two about 2 weeks ago on my girlfriend's pc in the living room. Somehow they didn't make it back to their normal cd stack next to the daruma. As for the Vast CD, I haven't seen it in a year. To give you an idea of how that's possible, I lost Pop Will Eat Iself: Dos Dedos Mis Amigos for about two years until Tuesday night when my girlfriend found it in the wrong cd case in the hallway.
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Chance Abattoir
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12-29-2005 23:24
The Vast CD is in your car, the 2 software CDs are in a stack of CDs near the PC case. Hm... which car? The one that I just put in the junkyard, the one in the carport, or the one on the street?  _____________________
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Damien Took
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12-29-2005 23:25
I'm gonna go with the one you drive the least...hopefully not the one in the junkyard.
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12-29-2005 23:35
I'm gonna go with the one you drive the least...hopefully not the one in the junkyard. Hm. I haven't driven the one in the carport since January 2004, so I'm going to go with that one. Nah, I only brought my new cd's in the one I junked and I have 'em all. Oh, and I didn't find the first two in any of the piles near either of the computers. Could you be more specific? _____________________
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Damien Took
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12-29-2005 23:44
Okay, so the car in the carport might be the one.
If I could be more specific I would be loaded and probably not on here right now  But you did mention that you have a girlfriend and I did not add that to my deductive logic before....so they won't be in piles. They will be tucked away somewhere logical to her maybe. If you have some kind of software or CD container near your PC, that's the best place to check. Women put things where men wouldn't think to look, so start with that. (If she moved them) |
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Ben Bacon
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12-30-2005 01:51
Leaving it up to Chance isn't working oh - and if your apartment is linked, just drag it off so a neighbors parcel for a short while, stand in the middle of whatever's left, and fly the camera around until you find your missing stuff. . . . what? RL? what is this RL of which you speak? |
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12-30-2005 05:56
Originally Posted by Chance Abattoir I've misplaced my things within my apartment. Leaving it up to chance isn't working, so maybe you guys could give me some suggestions. Just imagine an apartment that looks like the Russian spies broke in while I was away and turned the whole place upside down and that's not a far off picture of my apartment... But weirder (think sewing machine next to car radio next to bass amp next to pvc pipe next to daruma next to 50lb bag of rice weird). PVC Pipe and rice?!? That's it....I'm callin' Homeland Security!!! |
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Euterpe Roo
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12-30-2005 07:24
Chance, have you looked under your keyboard/mousepad/behind your monitor for the uncased CDs? They slide nicely into smallish places, and you would never know that they were living there. It is the "hiding in plain sight" school of finding stuff.
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12-30-2005 08:16
sewing machine ... pvc pipe Waaaaaaait a sec. Do you do Boffer-Larps? Anyway -- I always find things under the bed, or inthe file cabinet, in totally random folders. |
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12-30-2005 08:23
Its simple chance, they've slipped into that alternate dimension where odd socks, favorite plektra, and vital phone numbers scribbled on scraps of paper go.
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12-30-2005 08:32
PVC Pipe and rice?!? That's it....I'm callin' Homeland Security!!! That's what I'm thinking! Try the freezer. That works for me all the time. _____________________
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12-30-2005 09:29
- Tidy up your apartment...
 - Throw/sell/give away half your stuff. - If you haven't needed it in years, odds are you never will. - The fact that something CAN be useful, doesn't mean it WILL be useful. - Life goes on. "Memento" is a movie, not a reason for you to keep around junk. - Buy less crap to begin with _____________________
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12-30-2005 09:37
You use CDs? How ghetto.
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12-30-2005 10:22
It's always in the last place you look.
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Chance Abattoir
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12-30-2005 10:41
Waaaaaaait a sec. Do you do Boffer-Larps? ....? I don't even know what language that is. _____________________
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Chance Abattoir
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12-30-2005 10:52
- Tidy up your apartment... - Throw/sell/give away half your stuff. - If you haven't needed it in years, odds are you never will. - The fact that something CAN be useful, doesn't mean it WILL be useful. - Life goes on. "Memento" is a movie, not a reason for you to keep around junk. - Buy less crap to begin with The only thing I buy a lot of are cd's and books. A lot of the reason there is so much weird stuff everywhere is because there are two people living in a one bedroom apartment and both of us are the creative moody type. I can't really argue for "needing" music in a utilitarian sense, but I do need it for emotional and creative reasons. The CEP and AP discs haven't been missing very long and I do need them. I don't keep mementos- I don't even keep pictures of people in frames on desks, walls, etc. That's not my personality type. Anywho. Thanks for your unsolicited advice. I wanted to know where I should look because it would be fun, not have a smartass tell me how to live my life. _____________________
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Chance Abattoir
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12-30-2005 10:54
Correction, I do collect one useless thing: Carebears. I have about ten.
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12-30-2005 11:01
Chance, have you looked under your keyboard/mousepad/behind your monitor for the uncased CDs? They slide nicely into smallish places, and you would never know that they were living there. It is the "hiding in plain sight" school of finding stuff. Mousepad? What's that? I don't even use a desk anymore since I got a laser mouse. Both application CDs were in the same cd case, the last I saw. I can't even find the case. So frustrating._____________________
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12-30-2005 11:27
well apparently,
www.mystuff.com and www.stuff.com are domains that aren't being used so maybe u can stick all that stuff there? _____________________
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