I found my tv remote.

[Bioplasmoid]

Its amazing how one thing leads to another. Longish story cut short. A friend stayed with me recently, one of my two tv remotes (a universal replacement one) vanished and is still missing. The original remote was somewhere around the house. The friend left, and I searched everywhere possible (under the couch, inside the couch, behind the chair next to the couch, and the space inbetween them) for both of them, and came to the conclusion he had broken one and thrown it in the trash,without having the guts to tell me. The other remote evaded capture also. My little flat is just that, a LITTLE flat, and although im pretty chaotic in how I store things, its organised chaos, and everything has its place all the same. So anyway a week later I travel to another town, stay at a backpackers for a couple of nights, meet a couple of guys, and make friends with one. We really click and stand on the balconey raving into the small hours about our interests. He starts talking about Myers Briggs theories and other psychology tests. For some reason it sticks in my mind, all the way back home. So I google personality tests. Go to similarminds, take test, read more sites, and eventually end up here...When I was younger I used to enjoy noodling around on synthesisers, just making patches, and playing to myself with headphones on, nothing serious. I have one with me where I currently stay (the others are at my parents and full of presently dead analogue circuitry that I cannot fix, or afford to). Sadly I dont get the urge to play much anymore. But its been changing lately as I buzz out on ideas here, and I need some kind of creative outlet to ease the pressure off the thoughts valve in my head...Anyway tonight I read more posts, watched some crazy video links from the "how far can you think outside the box" thread on here, and felt happy and so forth. I get the sudden inspiration after a little bit of Dejavu feeling and the sense of falling down a rabbit hole lately, to grab the synth from under the bed, and fire her up. So I get it out and take it to my little lounge area. Theres nowhere to put it on top of so I see the couch and chair arms, and how level and padded they are. I place the synth on them, but no space. A speaker being used as an ashtray stand, is in the way. I pull it out, and remove two other small items from behind it. Neither are the remote, but as i fumble around in this dark corner of the room, guess what I find. The original remote for the tv. Ok so youre saying "well obviously you didnt look hard enough the first time" to yourselves. Fair enough, I would say the same. BUT I swear I originally looked over the entire space where it was found, in the daylight weeks ago. In fact I know I did because I have a memory of it in my head. (No photographic memory for me sadly, but one that is photographic on a seemingly random basis.).... So Im tempted to conclude that the tv remote took a trip into the 4th or higher dimension, so that I would end up on this site, with its expanding pathways of future possibilities for me in thought and form. Or else the tv remote has a crush on my synth, but needed me as a man in the middle. ;D

Apologies for such a disjointed spiel, but I really needed to get that off my chest. The elation at not having to get up off the couch to jump from one infomercial to another, forced me to rant!

(guess I should have put this whole thread into THE lounge)

[Elfrun]

TV helps so many people ;D

[Bioplasmoid]

*sigh* I was hoping for something like "sounds just like me" from someone. :huh:

I use tv mostly as background noise, when it seems TOO quiet, which is often as I live alone. Sometimes its even enjoyable. ;)

[Elfrun]

Um, sorry, doesn't sound like me but I enjoyed your writing :thumbsup:

Let me put my INTJ hat on and disect...
1. I don't have a universal remote
2. If I lose my remote I don't search terribly hard, I think, I never lost one
3. I woulda asked my friend if they'd 'seen' it
4. My flat is a house and it's not little!
5. Backpackers are cool, ok this has nothing to do with anything I just think they're cool
6. Never enjoyed 'noodling', I think, how does one noodle :undecided:
7. Wait, I relate to the synth part, I've lost motivation in playing bass lately but use it as a creative outlet

"So Im tempted to conclude that the tv remote took a trip into the 4th or higher dimension so that I would end up on this site, with its expanding pathways of future possibilities for me in thought and form" - Agree

"Or else the tv remote has a crush on my synth, but needed me as a man in the middle" - I'd go with the first option.


Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm no help :rolleyes:

I did like your writing though.

[azelismia]

*sigh* I was hoping for something like "sounds just like me" from someone. :huh:

I use tv mostly as background noise, when it seems TOO quiet, which is often as I live alone. Sometimes its even enjoyable. ;)

my tv is off most of the time. Even when i was at home for a month and a half the tv was rarely on. the computer is a different story.

[Bioplasmoid]

Trinity - 1. Well your not missing out on much there. 2. My tv's front panel buttons are suffering from oxidisation of the electrical pads, and dont work properly, hence the frantic search, lol. 3. Just to clarify, I did ask him if he'd seen it twice, as he was the last one to use it. 4. You are most fortunate :thumbsup: 5. Some of them are cool, some are not, depends if you like noise or signal. 6. Perhaps parameter tweaking would be a more suitable expression. 7. Cool, my first instrument was a cheap and nasty electric bass, I soon gave up trying to get my long fingers, and soft fingertips to hold the strings without buzzing.

Yes the first option seems more likely. I like your writing too, its always "good" :)

azelismia - My PC is on the most also. In fact I listen to more radio than tv.

[volk]

A few days ago my remote decided to randomize it's button layout.

[azelismia]

Trinity - 1. Well your not missing out on much there. 2. My tv's front panel buttons are suffering from oxidisation of the electrical pads, and dont work properly, hence the frantic search, lol. 3. Just to clarify, I did ask him if he'd seen it twice, as he was the last one to use it. 4. You are most fortunate :thumbsup: 5. Some of them are cool, some are not, depends if you like noise or signal. 6. Perhaps parameter tweaking would be a more suitable expression. 7. Cool, my first instrument was a cheap and nasty electric bass, I soon gave up trying to get my long fingers, and soft fingertips to hold the strings without buzzing.

Yes the first option seems more likely. I like your writing too, its always "good" :)

azelismia - My PC is on the most also. In fact I listen to more radio than tv.

I don't listen to anything the majority of the time. I like silence.

[Motor Jax]

what did you think of similarminds?

i love the randomness though. makes sense

i also live alone in a 1 bedrm apartment


i never officially said welcome, did i? well, welcome all the same

[rwyatt365]

PurpleFnords, you have obviously expereinced an incursion from the "small items" fairy (or faerie, as some are wont to call him/her/it). The devious being seizes small household items (keys, wallets, screwdrivers, 15mm box-end wrenches, and - of course - TV remotes) and secrets them away into fluidic space (which, some mistakenly term the 4th dimension but which we all know is ridiculous). The items only return (to their original resting place by the way) when the fairy finds an equivalent mass to replace it with (to conserve the energy balance of the universe). This can take between 0.3759 seconds, and 14.263 years, depending on the particle density of the near-field gravitational flux radius.

So, consider yourself lucky!

[azelismia]

PurpleFnords, you have obviously expereinced an incursion from the "small items" fairy (or faerie, as some are wont to call him/her/it). The devious being seizes small household items (keys, wallets, screwdrivers, 15mm box-end wrenches, and - of course - TV remotes) and secrets them away into fluidic space (which, some mistakenly term the 4th dimension but which we all know is ridiculous). The items only return (to their original resting place by the way) when the fairy finds an equivalent mass to replace it with (to conserve the energy balance of the universe). This can take between 0.3759 seconds, and 14.263 years, depending on the particle density of the near-field gravitational flux radius.

So, consider yourself lucky!


my house blackhole has always just devoured socks. I guess it's either a blackhole or a sock demon. not sure which.