This coin is 100% aluminum, so I have a little factoid for you.  Aluminum use to be considered a precious metal, more valuable than gold, silver, or platinum.  It's said that Napoleon III (once upon a time) threw a banquet where his most reputable guests were given aluminum utensils with which to dine, while his less important guests were expected to use gold tableware.

Who knew?  According to Wikipedia, commercial quantities of aluminum have only really been manufacturered within the last 100 years.

At any rate, now I know what this coin is, and even though its unlikely I will find a monetary use for this sen piece, I've considered finding a way to incorporate it into the necklace I'm repairing, as a good luck charm to bring good fortune.

Have a look!
 

Simmer this all together with the shrimp after its been sauteed.  Serve on Jasmine rice.

I can not describe how good this was.  I think the Maeri curry paste is owed in no small part to that, since its one of the better non red/green currys I can find, and really made this dish PERFECT.

Bon Appetite.

Now, maybe someone has beat me to the punch, but I also know that any object in the universe, when in motion, requires some measure of force to act upon it in order to slow, stop, or reverse its trajectory - be it gravity, or the disruptive mass of air particles, a physical objects like a hand stopping a ball, what have you.

The pulling gravitational force of the average black hole is so strong, that it will not allow light to escape.  Now, operating on the assumpting that light moves at 299,792,458 meters per second, some force will have to counter-act this amount of energy and speed with an equal force at minimum to 'stop' the light.   However, its also been put out there that light doesn't simply 'stop' when it comes into contact with a black holes gravitational force, it is actually bent into the black hole, and stopped from exiting again completely, meaning the light cannot achieve an escape velocity - it simply does not have enough speed, and potential energy, to overcome the force of gravity itself in the black hole, leading me to believe that some object or force entering the black hole does in fact have a speed and direction, and that it does supercede the speed of light, even if it only effects a fundamental particle rather than an object specifically.

Another way this fallacy could work, is that the light particles and all of its energy is simply destroyed by the counteractive force, but this would discredit another important rule of physics: That energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

So which is it?  Einsteins Theory of Relativity, or the law of Conversation of Energy?

By some force acting upon, and then reversing the trajectory of light, it has to be some particle, material, or force, capable of moving faster than the speed of light, purely, and completely.

Or the force is so strong, that if violates the rule of energy conservation, and completely destroys the light at a particle level.

Either concept is particularly difficult to wrap ones mind around, but I find it interesting.  I'm sure some scientist out there could crunch the numbers, I only think based on operative rules, and counteroperative rules, so maybe I'm wrong, or have simply missed a fact of physics I don't personally understand.

Either way, I'm intrigued by my own idea.  Either light is destroyed, or like clockwork, to move something faster than light, we simply have to take a closer look at a looming insatiable black-hole without dying.

Thats the tough part though, its an unobservable-intrigue, much like trying to use light to see whats happening on a quantum scale - since it directly effects the sample, except in this case - how do you observe something that is designed to be a matter trash-compactor in the vacuum of space when even getting 'a little' close to it will effectually destroy you and anything you would use to observe it.

Some things, I think, will never be known, as life, and death, and life again, will come much sooner.  And that is one reason, we as men, are not gods.

 

Hopefully square delivers.

Ugh. I can't take shit lately.  Non-stop migraines, my grandma has a stroke, my arts suffering due to essential tremors, work sucks dick because of a couple of angry drunk ingrates, and I'm short on cash, and haven't heard back on approval for the condo yet.

My brain might just explode.

I think the label hikikomori probably applies to me, whether I want it to or not, presently I'm a shut in, I go out maybe once every couple of weeks, with the exception of work, and usually to visit a buddy and his family to hang out, watch movies or eat, then I return to the solitude of my home, and don't go out again except for food or drink.

All the while, most of my socializing is on the internet now, smattered with working on art, watching anime, reading manga, or playing games.

I don't seem to care much about what humanity around me is doing, and it doesn't seem to care about me. 

Perfectly fine by me at this point, neither of us were getting much from the other anyhow.

I am working on finalizing the paperwork for that studio Condo down at the base of Mt. Werner.  It's 'quaint', if I had to use an objective word, but still around 500 sq. ft., the footprint and design reminds me a lot of japanese efficiency studios, which - being the horrible japanfan I am, I have really no problem with.  I don't like large open spaces, I have the opposite of claustrophobia it seems *googles* Agoraphobia, really?  Sounds familiar, at least I'm not a total mental case about it - but I hate living in large drafty buildings.  Being confined in small spaces reminds me that its okay to go outside once in a while.

The problem is more likely to be the $165,000 asking price.  $349.57 per sq. ft. - sadly, mortgaged, this is still cheaper than rent anywhere nearby, including all the way out in Hayden where I live presently.  The idea  is to be closer to work, closer to ski-town, closer to my mom, and closer to shit to do (for a change, yeah?)

So let's hope all goes well - and I'll own a little piece of a mountain paradise.

The last thing to do is figure out how to get an awd car so I can go to the hotsprings whenever I want, and I will be a happy camper.  Alternative to the open air hotsprings at Strawberry Park, I can still go to the hotsprings at the fitness center down town (these are more or less like the hot springs up at Banff - not Radium mind you - I can't remember the name of them, I went with Jo/Deez/Dianna/Pete/Chelsea/etc.....hrrrrrg.  Well whatever).

Which reminds me!

I fucking miss you guys ;_;

But - if everything works out, I may have money to travel again by the time Stampede Rolls around...maybe I can come see everyone?

We'll see how finances pan out!  Cheers!
 

The universe would be lonely without us.  It's the only thing that lives infinitely and cannot die.  We humans at least have the benefit of dying, forgetting all we knew, and starting all over again with a blank slate, not only that, but since the universe is ever expanding, maybe the universe made it so we ever expand - every time we create a new human, it brings a new spirit, to be recycled.  Always doing something interesting, always doing something new.  Sometimes its the same old show, since time repeats, they say, but as we grow, and new spirits come to be, the variety of what we can do, will always change, and the universe can always watch.

I just know it would be hard to exist, and never die, if nothing ever knew you did.   Maybe the universe is like that.  One giant, thinking, cloud of existence, that got bored one day, and decided to have some company.

Taking another look, I seem to have a few of them.  Really, I wonder if I will be an early white?  My grandpa apparently was mostly white by the time he was in his mid to late 30s, if I remember correctly.

At least I've still got my good looks.





Haha seriously, stop laughing.

My life is boring as usual so there's nothing to update here.  My house is clean though, for a change, because my roomate moved out.  I'm starting to get an idea of what a worthless piece this guy was.  The house has stayed mostly clean (except a couple of dishes I still haven't gotten too), the energy bill has already gone down by almost 1000 kw/H (what the HELL was he doing at night?), and my shit has stopped disappearing and getting broken.  Huzzah. 

I hadn't thought about the power being lower until now, but hopefully that will free up a little extra money.  I've also decided that the Front Door to my apartment, along with the older window in my bedroom, are huge heat leakers, which annoys me, I'll chat with the landlord when I get a chance.

Hmm, back to my original thoughts about All Hollow's eve, it dawns on me how many demons and ghosts are purely human invention, used to drive people to religion, scare young people, or keep people away from places that others don't want them to go.  Maybe I'm not superstitious enough, even though some of my favorite things are angels and demons (of all varieties, particularly western and japanese).

It's honestly too bad they don't exist.  I think humanity is getting fat and complacent as an organism; having a natural predator like a demon probably wouldn't hurt.  Yet its more likely micro-organisms that will do us all in.  How boring.

Then again, Oyashiro-sama is awesome.  (/end higurashi reference).

まあ、いいか。ハロウィンはハロウィンと僕は楽しいがしたいね。

Who are we 'bailing out' exactly?  The rich, healthy firms?  Why are we bailing out someone that's not in any danger of failing?  Isn't this a bit of a stretch on the implication of 'bail out'.  We just handed America's bloated fat-cat population a cool $700 billion to do whatever they want with, while the individual american suffers, and the ailing housing financiers continue to crash.  Where is all that money going, then?
 

Straight into someones pocket.  Thats the richest fucking scheme I've ever seen in my life.  Fuck this corrupt ass government.  I suppose I should be surpirsed the person in charge of the $700 Billion bailout is someone named "Neel Kashkari".  I can guess middle eastern, which is probably disturbing in its own right, but I'm more humored by the fact his name sounds something like "Cash carry", which is almost ironic, and sounds more like an alias than anything else.

So, fellow americans, bend over and take it - we've been had, again.  Enjoy your new tax hikes.