I woke up this morning with the solution to the Unified Field Theory. I'm quite serious. It was absurdly simple, not any more complicated than the infamous E=MC2. I thought about it during the drive in to work and it was going to be my first post of the day. Like hey guys (and gals) - here is the answer to one of the most challenging problems of the last century. I mean matter (that which has mass) and energy are intimately intertwined - to the point that they are just different perspectives of each other. To say that there are four kinds of energy which aren't at all related is absurd, because that means there would have to be four kinds of mass which likewise are totally unrelated.
Then I arrived at work and found the main staff file+mail server was in a catatonic state. Spent the rest of the day rebuilding the operating system and restoring files from backup. By mid afternoon, my brain was total mush from manually editing hundreds of obscure configuration files which had to be syntactically perfect for everything to work correctly. The whole chain of matter and energy calculations completely dissolved.
Sigh, looks like I won't be getting the Nobel Prize today.
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I wasn't even close to having a real Unified Theory...just have to kill 6 hours waiting for a translation (English to Thai) of my passport for divorce purposes (this ain't going according to plan, any surprise there??) so I tried to use the internet in Phitsanulok, Thailand to get back in touch with the world....went to the local (to the translation office) internet service that opened before 2 pm, but the internet wasn't available on any computer, twice two hours apart, and the poor girl working hadn't a clue about why it wouldn't work or who to call to fix it. She's only paid to keep the doors open, and she's doing a damn good job of that, I might add. Finally got into the local game salon, with 58 flatron screens and (probably) a T1 connection, all for $0.45 US per hour to be able to log in and send this post. So now I'm surrounded by teens playing Ragnarok on a system better than the one I have at home, half a world away from routine and loving it.
If it's any consolation, Mike, the answer to Unified Theory will still be there tomorrow, if it's right. Just beware the 100 monkey theory, if you want to get the prize for disovering it! (ie. don't wait to long to publish!)