Author: Robert Coontz (Administrator)

April 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

04-02 THF’s birthday (1995)
04-08 Beavo’s birthday (1995)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994)
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-11 FantasyFan?!?!’s birthday (1993)
04-15 small but fierce’s 5K Day
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995)
04-18 Maths Lover’s birthday (1996)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994)
04-23 Ducky’s birthday (1997)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-26 KaiYves’s 7K Day
04-29 Mikazuki’s 5K Day
04-30 Oxlin’s birthday (1990)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and August 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 29 and November 27, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between February 1 and March 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between May 8 and June 6, 1990.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Robert’s Time Capsule: Multivariable Calculus

Page from Robert's multivariable calculus homework

Robert’s annotation:

As late as freshman year in college, I was still doodling in math class — though less productively than Vi Hart. Apparently I was also having trouble finishing my homework on time. This was my first problem set; I tightened up my operations (mostly) later on.

KaiYves’s Spacey Day in New York

KaiYves sent this illustrated report on her spring break:

I wanted to go to a lot of space-related places in the New York area over Spring Break, but the problem is that my parents still had work and my brothers still had school, so my dad told me I could go see them all, as long as I did it all in one day, I woke up at 4 AM to drive into Manhattan with him, and I took cabs in-between all the sites and paid for my own cab fare.

Naturally, I agreed.

Continue reading “KaiYves’s Spacey Day in New York”

March 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995)
03-03 Adelieae’s birthday (1997)
03-04 bubbles’s birthday
03-20 Rosebud2 turns 5,000 days old
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday
03-23 Optimatum’s birthday (1996)
03-23 Bibliophile’s 5K Day
03-23 Kittymine’s 7K Day
03-24 Oxlin’s 8K Day
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991)
03-26 Clare de Lune’s birthday (1996)
03-27 ~Cskia’s birthday (1996)
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990)
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 24 and July 24, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 28 and October 28, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and January 31, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between April 7 and May 7, 1990.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Staving Off February

KaiYves has asked us to repost this piece of classic MuseBlogiana. Great idea, Kai!

Back in April 2008, UberMuser Grant O. sent us some sound files of narration for a proposed slideshow about ways to survive winter. He called it “Staving Off January.”

Before we knew it, Midnight Fiddler had drawn up some storyboards, and a New Zealand MBer named Zoe (who then went by Treble_Cone_Freeskier) turned them into a real multimedia presentation.

Here it is, to help you get through the rest of the winter:

February 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997)
02-02 groundhog22’s birthday (1989)
02-03 Agent Lightning’s 5K Day
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996)
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-17 TMFA’s 6K Day
02-21 marfwarrior’s 6K Day
02-21 Luna the Lovely’s 8K Day
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993-purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 27, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 3 and December 31, 1992.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between March 9 and April 6, 1990.