I spent 10 years looking for a good 2d geometry flooping paradigm.
Oh! I was trying to find the Mozart piece o learned to pay as a kid. It was one of hundreds of minutes that he wrote. Finally found it a few months ago on Spotify! So, a few decades on that.
Also I’m looking for a recording of the episode of The daily show that featured the theft of Crimewatch signs in Northwest PA.
Walk by Pantera. I used to play it on my Xbox 360 while I played Lost Planet back in high school and even back then I never did know the name of the song. All I knew was the distinctive riff in the song. Then, by pure chance, I heard that riff in a YouTube video nearly 8 or something years later
It won’t be the longest time compared to others that commented here, nor will it be the funniest one, but it ought to be the stupidest thing one has searched for.
I spend the last couple months searching for a 1$ notebook (without any important or precious notes in it) plus the 0.50$ crystal Bic pen that accompanied it.
I don’t care about these two but I also cannot understand how/where/when I lost them. It just makes no sense. So, for the last two months I’ve been searching everywhere, which also means searching every single one of the many streets I could have walked by (I try to go everywhere I can walking).
And, yep, I am still searching today. Maybe not as actively but I still am. And that still drives me crazy to not know what happened to them :p
On the other hand, around the same time I also lost a portable Samsung SSD drive that was worth a couple hundred. But this one I barely searched for it as I was almost certain I had mistakenly put it in bag of stuff I gave away to a charity (yep, the drive was encrypted, like all my other drives) ;)
I’ve been looking for a flash animation of some guy fucking a horse or cow while some kind of (Irish?) (folk?) song plays in the background. Probably only saw it once around ~2000 or so on either newground or stileproject, have been looking for it because I want to identify the song used but it’s probably gone off the web forever.
It wasn’t that long ago here that I spend a week looking for my favorite shirt. It wasn’t in my drawer. It wasn’t hanging in my closet. It wasn’t under my bed or between anything in my room where it might have possibly gotten wedged. I thought I might have accidentally left it in the laundry or had it fall out of my basket walking back to my apartment. Ended up finding it buried in the back of my closet while grabbing my toolbox for some unrelated reason after giving up ever seeing again and was gonna buy a new one.
15 years, tried to find purpose of life
You mean you didn’t find it?
came to the conclusion, it doesn’t exist
I once had a Super Nintendo game involving a phoenix that I actually spent money in a pay phone calling Nintendo power over.
Still don’t know the name of that game and I’ve been trying to figure it out for 20 years.
At one point I thought it was guiding light
Dumb question, but have you looked at a “complete” list of all SNES games (like this)? If yes, have you watched gameplay of all these games? Should only take a few hours.
It’s a 20 year old mystery, I kind of don’t want to solve it just for the mystique
Mine may not be as long as some, but it was super frustrating… I lost my only car key for just shy of 1 year. This was a few years ago and was around the “end” of COVID. I have been working from home for the past 2 years, and since my car was the older one and wasn’t very safe to drive I used my wife’s car whenever I needed to go to the store or pick something up.
So my car sat in the front of our driveway and was ok as is. It wasn’t a big deal, and at first thought ok well it will turn up soon after doing a quick search. Months later, it started to sink in that this wasn’t turning up. Still no biggie, it wasn’t needed and not a huge priority. Fast forward almost a year, and bam, our job is telling us we need to come back 3 days a week in 1 month… I quickly started to panick, and we both went nuts for the next few weeks, ripping the house apart, trying to find it.
I also found a cheap key fob online and decided to get it and have someone come on-site to cut the key to match the car. I felt like an idiot after that worked but realized it won’t start the car because of the security in the fob that needs to sync for it to turn over the car using just the key. So, $150 later and no progress. I decided to call a locksmith, and they told me to call the car dealership because they need the codes to program one if none exist. Oh, this is also going to cost me another $200 or more… car dealership says absolutely not, I have to go there to get the codes because I need to prove it’s me with paperwork since it could be someone trying to steal a car. Didn’t have time for this…
So, about 2 weekends before I needed to return, I’m doing a deep clean on my wife’s car since her and the kids were going to go somewhere for vacation soon. As I am doing this on the passenger side I stick my hand down the left side of the seat and boom, I hit the key fob I lost where it was stuck halfway down. We looked in her car multiple times, but due to it being stuck midway, we never really checked that and only the floor underneath…
Great! Now I know it’s going to be bad trying to start the car after sitting for almost a year. Sure enough, the battery is dead and fully expected. Since it was a costco battery and got it only a few years ago, I was able to do a full return and grab another without having to pay since it needs to reach like 2 years minimum before it starts depreciation and I was a few months before that. Get the new battery in and boom! Starts right up. I get excited for a second… then I step on the brake and boom straight to the floor. At this point I’m now nervous. Luckily my father is a mechanic and he is able to spot the problem which was a pinhole opened up in the back line near the left tire. We order a new metal wire and he makes a brand new line by shaping it to match the existing one that connects across the back of the car. After a few hours success. Looks promising! Then I put it in reverse, and it goes nowhere… my father then finds the trans fluid is really low. We take a gamble and buy like 5 quarts to fill it. Seemed promising and holy crap it worked. The next day I try to go for a drive just to use it and same issue. Father comes back and realizes the fluid is basically gone again. While under the car he now realizes the entire tank it sits in was rotted out. He says this was probably the best problem to have since it was like $20 bucks to order an entire new one to replace it. Get that in the next day and fill it back up.
It has been working ever since, and I was able to make it back to work in time. That was a year and a half ago. Just for reference, the car was brand new when I brought it in Jan 2007 and has 247k on it. I am actually in the process of obtaining a replacement car finally in the next few weeks. For having the car for so long I will admit it was incredibly reliable and I put almost no money into it outside a few parts every few years like the starter or alternator which isn’t bad for 18 years.
As a child, the house we grew up in had a very large tree in our back yard. I had a memory of burying some skeleton keys near it but couldn’t remember where. The house was old enough that we’d find skeleton keys occasionally and also as a kid they are special.
I searched for days, weeks, months… Digging holes all over the yard and under the tree. I recruited neighborhood kids and friends.
For two summers we searched for buried treasure. Never found them. Might have been a dream I had of burying the keys. I still think about it occasionally and wonder. The tree is long gone and the truth is I’ll never know for sure.
It took me around 18 years to find the song, It’s a Rainy Day by Ice MC (YouTube link), which I rediscovered last year.
My older sister used to buy a lot of different compilation albums, think stuff like “Now That’s What I Call Music! (Wikipedia link)”. I started listening to a lot of them, when I was around 6-7 years old, and while Eurodance songs like Rhythm Is a Dancer by Snap!, Be My Lover by La Bouche, Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic (YouTube links), and so on, were easy to track down throughout the years, there was always one song I couldn’t find.
I couldn’t even remember any lyrics, only that there was some rapping, where the dialect made it impossible for my child brain to absorb and retain any words. The only thing that I remembered was that there would be sentences ending with an “eh eh”, and that’s really not a lot to go on!Until one day, when I was walking around a store and they started playing it over the sound system. I didn’t even realize at first, but when that organ hit at 0:21, I literally snapped my head up towards the speakers, hahaha. Finding out that he was rapping in Jamaican Patois, it suddenly made a lot more sense why I hadn’t retained any of the words.
Apparently they also used the song during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony (Wikipedia link), which is wild to find out.
I borrowed a textbook from school’s library, and one day, poof, just gone. I tried searching it multiple times in my house, but I can’t find it. To this day, I still can’t find that book, and now, it’s pretty much impossible because I moved from the house
The more recent one: I tried looking for a Japanese TV show I used to watch weekly a decade ago. It should be easy, as it’s a popular show, yet I can’t seem to find it! The only clue I have is that I remember the show actually collaborated with Detective Conan (the anime). Yet, I tried looking at each episode of Detective Conan anime and I can’t find it…
if we’re talking about consecutive time spent, ie one single uninterrupted block of time, then I’d say about 7~8 hours.
one time my ex-girlfriend’s cat managed to get way. we think it was one of the roommates opened the door to the back and wasn’t paying much attention. the cat was sneaky, he would try to dart out all the time
i spent the entire day, basically, walking around the fairly large apartment complex yelling out his name and shaking a bag of treats
a few hours in, my ex had a mental breakdown and gave up thinking any continued searching was hopeless. she really liked the cat and wasn’t taking it well
but i just kept at it. towards the end of the day, around dusk when it was starting to get dark, i heard an exasperated meow behind me and the cat came up running to me. it looked very scared and confused.
we had just moved from one place to another a few hours away. so it was used to be an outside cat but it didn’t know the area whatsoever.
anyhow it actually stopped trying to run out of the house after that, so that was nice
Man my cat was missing for 2 weeks and I went out every single night. He was not an outdoor cat at that point. It was so frustrating cause we could see claw marks where he had scratched at neighbours doors thinking it was ours, and from asking around the neighbourhood, people had seen him. Eventually found him chilling in someone’s yard with their cat, but yeah he never ran for it again. He also never gained the weight back that he lost during that time :( such an awful feeling.
Wife and I spent 6 months trying to find her set of keys to our old flat and it turned out they were behind the sofa
The title of the song Why Don’t You by Gramophonedzie. I heard the song playing on radio a long time ago, probably probably around the time it came out in 2010. I didn’t know the lyrics nor the artist and eventually forgot about the song. Then, many years later, I heard people saying good things about a certain Fallout: New Vegas and decided to play it to see what the big deal was. Well, the game has radio stations you can tune in and to my surprise the original song by Peggy Lee which Gramophonedzie remixed is in there. I heard it and instantly thought “…wait, could it be that song?” Well, it was, and I have to thank F:NV for that cause I don’t think I’d ever have found that song otherwise.
