When I need it I can't find it!
-
Was thinking of an 'innovative idea'. Now that everything is smart, why don't they introduce a 'Beep Remote' button on the TV set, which when pressed, causes the remote to beep from wherever it is, within a certain radius. Or, is such a thing already present?
-
About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy. Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful." Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not. Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked. I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too? Andy
I pretty much solved that problem years ago. I wrote an inventory program to keep track of almost everything. I have almost 10,000 items cataloged that are stored in about 700 locations. Locations can be rooms, drawers, table tops or boxes to name a few. If something is stored in a box, I also print Location Content Reports that are attached to the box. So, If I want to find my step drill, I simply enter "Step Drill" in the search box and it reports how many items were found. In this case I find 1 item: "Drill Bit, Step, 3 piece set" located in "Tool Box, Top Section, Bottom Drawer", which is located in the "Workshop." The biggest problem is that I don't necessarily catalog everything, so sometimes I have to rummage through boxes of similar items to find what I want. I use Quicken to keep track of all my purchases and itemize each item in Quicken and periodically export the Quicken data and import it into the inventory program noting where the item is going to be stored. Problem solved! More information on this program can be located at: Lucid Inventory System[^]
-
Strangely, I have now completed both of the jobs that I wanted to do with the drills but, more than 24 hours later the drills still haven't surfaced. Sod's law is broken, or more likely just lurking. Andy
That's because you expected them to turn up after you'd finished, so by Sod's law,... :)
-
About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy. Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful." Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not. Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked. I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too? Andy
-
About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy. Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful." Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not. Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked. I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too? Andy
Sure, but it usually goes like this: Spend 15 minutes searching for it. If it's not expensive, spend another 45 minutes when I head to Lowe's or HD and buy another one, along with something else that catches my eye. Head home, get the project done. Next week, I move something and wow, there's the original one. The good thing is that with two of them, the next time I have an increased chance of finding one of them, well, sometimes :laugh:
-
At least you can use FileLocator or similar to find it. It's more complicated in the shed! Andy
I looked at this problem when I wrote SnipAssist (PineTreeJoe.com). The problem with most code reuse is having it but not finding it. To solve this problem, I used three parts for a snippet. An administrative part, a description and the actual text to reuse. All three parts can be searched together or separately. The search returns a list of snippets. As libraries get larger, the descriptive part gets more important.
-
There is even a T-shirt about it: https://ceeshop.com.au/products/cee23-premium-t-shirt-socket-grew-legs[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Well what is there that's not a T-shirt for?
-
About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy. Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful." Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not. Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked. I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too? Andy
Currently I am searching for a magnifying glass my grandpa once had and that must be somewhere, but, ehm, in which of the 20-200 boxes is it... Hard to tell...
-
About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy. Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful." Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not. Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked. I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too? Andy
Hey, look on Blueberry Hill, you'll find your drill ! (From the Far Side Cartoon) Luc
-
Hey, look on Blueberry Hill, you'll find your drill ! (From the Far Side Cartoon) Luc
I've never been to Blueberry Hill! Someone else must have stolen it and dumped it there! Thanks for finding it. Andy
