The X-Project

To: {Imax Lass}
CC: {Chewbacca}, {Gorgeous One}
Subject: What stock market experiment?

Did I miss a memo?

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To: (La petite chat)
CC: (Knight of Cups), (Jamiejamiejamie)
From: (High Priestess)
Subject: Oops.

Here I thought -my- email nicknames were silly.

In a basic summary, we are seeing if I can predict something practical involving the stock market. I think Kitty said we would try to see if I could predict twenty stocks, and get some of the rest of you to try the same thing to see how I do in comparison to everyone else.

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That sounds fun. Count me in. I even swear not to intentionally pick funny stocks.

And all e-mail nicknames are silly, it's a rule.

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There are funny stocks? I had no idea.

There is silly, and then there is Silly. It is an important difference.

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I've always thought pork belly futures were pretty amusing. And you never know what'll happen with those three-letter abbreviations.

It is indeed an important difference. Both are fun though.

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What on earth is a pork belly future? Those words make no sense in the same sentence.

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I don't know exactly. I think it has to do with trying to predict how well pork bellies will do next year and investing based on that. Mostly it just sounds funny.

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Nope. I'm picking the stocks, and I'm doing it randomly. Everybody gets the same set of twenty.

-K

(Sorry, forgot to mention to you, Jamie. Or rather, I meant to and then you were all distracting at me and I forgot.)

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So the difference is we decide individually how much to buy and when to sell and stuff?

(No harm done, I know now, and I got to be all distracting at you earlier. Well enough to make you forget stuff, even. :))

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We are definitly going to have to try this before and after I know anything about the stock market.

Right now.. I know that ... Shinobi reads the stock pages. That is about all I know.

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Well, I think we were thinking of starting more simply. Just predicting whether or not they will go up or down, and by how much.

Hmm...

Yeah, I guess we never said anything more than that in our original outline. Not sure how I'd set it up if we were doing 'buying and selling'.

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Oh, that makes more sense. This is why you design the science experiments and I provide the snacks, love. :) So when do we start?

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*laugh*

We start sometime after we get a few more controls. M-A, you want to ask people, since it's your power we're testing? We probably ought to get at least five controls total, (so at least three more), but I could handle up to ten, I'm sure, especially if you're still worried about how Doug's power will affect things.

-K

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I can ask people. At least one teacher, yes?

I am a little worried about Doug's power affecting things when he goes and decides to read about the stock market. He is predictable like that.

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*nod* yeah, and try and get one who doesn't know about stocks.

Hmm. You have a point, but if his data is too abarrant I'll just throw it out. Maybe ask one other person just in case.

-K

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That leaves me with which staff members? Mr. Marko? Nathan? Mr. Logan?

I know Doug too well. Did you -see- his email? He read on it already. He can't not do that. I think it is a side-effect of his power. He's read half my books on tarot cards and I suspect the other half has gone unread because he has not gotten to them.

Yes, I know you can see this, Doug. I love you anyway, even if you are predictable and read everything about everything.

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Trials of dating geeks, right, Angie? :)

'Course, I'm the one who started taking physics for the cute girl in the class and ended up learning how to play with so-advanced-it-can't-see-the-edge holographic technology for fun, so maybe I'm not one to talk.

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The benefits outweigh the drawback of having half my reference material living under my boyfriend's bed.

Which reminds me - if Doug has a book anywhere in his side of the room about the Arthurian Tarot, can you tell him to give it back? I cannot find it.

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Will do. But he's going under there all by himself. I'm not risking any extremely-well-read dust bunnies with laser guns.

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