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Marmaduke Bannerworth  I've dreamt up a model that includes a fifth force and so far I see no contradictions. I propose a fifth force which affects all matter equally (or very very close to equally) regardless of distance and exists with equal magnitude and direction (or very very close to equal magnitude and direction). Then I suggest looking for a means of detecting it. If it truely was ubiquitous in magnitude, direction, and proportionality (at any given moment for a small enough epsilon) then there would be no physical way to detect it, since you couldn't make an instrument to measure it. Even light would be "pushed" as a photon has momentum despite its lack of mass. If, however, there are small variations in the way it acts on the Earth then there could be devised a method to detect it. I'm thinking that this force could give us a basis for the expansion of the universe and possibly have a play in this dark matter we still can't explain. You could think of it as a force current that pushes matter away from its point of origin. I imagine that we're far enough away from the middle of everywhere that it would be physically impossible to measure a difference in the angle of the force across a measuring device that could travel the distance of the Earth's orbit, but the edge of our observable universe is only 14 billion parsecs away. Outside that radius, any guesses about the size of the universe are simply that. Current mood:  okay.
Up over 5% on MSFT in less than 4 trading days. *\o/*\o/*\o/* Of course if I had kept the DELL, that would be up almost 8% :/ Current mood: okay.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/st Current mood: okay.
From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/us/05 Evan Wolfson, executive director of the national gay-rights group Freedom to Marry, said the loss in Maine underscores "the fact that we need to continue those conversations and make ourselves visible as families in communities." He added, "It shows we have just not done it long enough and deep enough, even in a place like Maine.” Current mood:  amused.
Sold DELL, bought MSFT. Current mood: coffee. Saturday was an interesting day - more interesting than most in my life in fact. The morning started abruptly with a 4:00am phone call from Russia crying about a server going down. I made the necessary arrangements with IT and decided not to waste the moment by rousing my bedmate for sex round 2. A little more sleep and I got up with my alarm, but instead of heading to the drop zone right away, I decided that it would be wise to be fashionably late and got some more sex and breakfast. Made four 4-way jumps that didn't go all that well, but the team has been losing and adding people a lot lately and we've had to move down in experience quite a bit to keep it alive. I think there'll be a massive re-factor at the start of next season and hopefully we'll be back to the core of Mark, Rigo, me and a fourth person with the dedication to get a lot better over the coming season. In the middle of the day my packer vanished, leaving me in the lurch. I was pissed until I found out the my packer had been arrested for smoking weed in the parking lot - in skydiving parlance you call that a "safety meeting." Oh, and did I mention that there were porn stars there? There's a contingent of skydiving porn stars who jump out of taft - the only name I got was Nicole Sheridan (though her real name is Melle) - they certainly added spice to the party that evening. The party was 60's themed. One of the freefly load organizers came dressed as a big bag of coke. Tickets were $5 for all you could drink. We did. Some British girl got a kick out of sneaking a condom onto guys shoulders in pictures - fortunately I didn't get tricked on camera, but there were some great shots. ( pictures behind the cut ) Unfortunately, I think my cup changed colours a few times over the course of the evening and that may be the reason behind my sniffles today :( Current mood:  sick.
 It looks great, but it needs more postfixins. Current mood: amused.
Current mood: amused.
I wonder if you could base a business model on buying houses under foreclosure whose occupants are willing to pay rent to live there, converting homes into rental properties. You could create all kinds of creative rent-to-own schemes to convince people to keep up to date with the rent in hopes of regaining their equity stakes. You could effectively match rent to be marginally higher than the interest on the mortgage for the home at its current price, hence making their home rental monthly out of pocket cheaper than the mortgage they couldn't afford. If you were actuarially clever enough, I imagine you could sniff out a segment of underwater home owners who can't afford their mortgages, but can afford more than the interest on the loan you would need to buy the house. Of course this is all theoretical at best right now because I think the major drop in the US housing market is yet to come. There are some 7 million foreclosures yet to trickle through this round of assfucking and I think home prices could yet well drop in half or worse. Current mood:  tired.
 This is me at the Nisei festival gyoza eating competition. Look at the dude in the hat behind me. I think the subtitle of this picture should be, "impending doom." Current mood:  relaxed.
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