Comments on: SLIW http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/2010/07/sliw/ Dulce et decorum Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:41:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: cajo http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/2010/07/sliw/#comment-350 cajo Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:22:04 +0000 http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/?p=829#comment-350 Um, I think I'll pass. I'm not really in such dire need for socks and my loose morals and weak sense of colour permits me to easily wear unmatched pairs. It is the mystery here that intrigues me. But you do remind me that I need to write about our edible clothing idea soon. Um, I think I’ll pass. I’m not really in such dire need for socks and my loose morals and weak sense of colour permits me to easily wear unmatched pairs. It is the mystery here that intrigues me. But you do remind me that I need to write about our edible clothing idea soon.

]]> By: Binkley http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/2010/07/sliw/#comment-349 Binkley Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:37:19 +0000 http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/?p=829#comment-349 Boring, practical solution to the problem: www.blacksox.ch Boring, practical solution to the problem: http://www.blacksox.ch

]]> By: Tiedemies http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/2010/07/sliw/#comment-347 Tiedemies Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:18:50 +0000 http://www.jacogeldenhuys.com/blog/?p=829#comment-347 I am also puzzled by the same phenomenon. I have a big plastic box for those socks. At one time I counted all the pairless socks in our household and there were 76 individual socks, quite a pile. Now, this means that there are 76 more socks somewhere else. I gathered all the socks I could find just lying around in the laundry room, at the bottom of different bags used for carrying clothes around etc. I then did a very careful comparison (it's quadratic time, mind you, so it took quite some time) and was able to find about 20 pairs. The rest, however, remained a mystery. Our winters are not very good for drying socks outside, so we rarely do that even in the summer. I can find no plausible reason for this. But if I did, I tell you, one could win the Nobel-prize in physics with it; I am pretty sure that exactly the same phenomenon is responsible for the fact that our universe has more matter than antimatter. I am also puzzled by the same phenomenon. I have a big plastic box for those socks. At one time I counted all the pairless socks in our household and there were 76 individual socks, quite a pile. Now, this means that there are 76 more socks somewhere else. I gathered all the socks I could find just lying around in the laundry room, at the bottom of different bags used for carrying clothes around etc. I then did a very careful comparison (it’s quadratic time, mind you, so it took quite some time) and was able to find about 20 pairs. The rest, however, remained a mystery.

Our winters are not very good for drying socks outside, so we rarely do that even in the summer. I can find no plausible reason for this. But if I did, I tell you, one could win the Nobel-prize in physics with it; I am pretty sure that exactly the same phenomenon is responsible for the fact that our universe has more matter than antimatter.

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