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February 2012 Muse Roll Call and Discussion

Tell us when your magazine arrives and/or what you think about it.

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

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Welcome Back!

For those of you who didn’t read the meager updates on our Muse Academy emergency blog, MuseBlog was offline almost all day yesterday because our host company was having server problems. We reappeared about 10 p.m. blog time, a bit dazed and lonely but apparently none the worse for wear.

So in case anybody was wondering: no, it wasn’t you, and it wasn’t SOPA. Just a technical glitch that we probably wouldn’t understand even if somebody explained it to us v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.

Anyway, it’s good to be back.


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Music, v. 2012

Listening, playing, performing, composing.

Continued from v. 2011.


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Geeky TV Shows, v. 2012

Yes, those TV shows.

Continued from v. 2010.2. We don’t know what happened to 2011.


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What I Learned Today, 2012

Piggy’s description:

We could share factoids we’ve read, advice from personal experience, observations about the world, what-have-you. Everyone learns something new every day, and I’d like a place to share.

Continued from v. 2011.2.


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Revamping the HG2MB

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog hasn’t been revised in ages and could use an overhaul. Any help will be much appreciated.


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January Random Thread, Part 2: Uranuary

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Quotations, v. 2012

Your wish is our command.

Continued from version 2011.


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Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

It is well known that Friday the 13th is an unusually lucky day for MuseBloggers. (More fortunate still, 2012 has three of them.) Below, please note any instances of particularly good fortune that befall you today.


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Coy Woodnesse, v. 2012

For communicating in other languages and in variants of this one.

Continued from version 2009.1.

If you need accent marks, here are some to copy and paste:

à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ù ú û ü ¿ ¡

And

ß


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Writing, v. 2012

A place to post things you’ve written and to talk about writing in general.

Continued from v. 2008 (wow!).


Style, Fashion, and Costume, v. 2012

Continued from a diverting but ancient thread launched in 2009.


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January 2012 Muse Roll Call and Discussion

Tell us when your magazine arrives and/or what you think about it.

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” columns, please paste the following message in at the beginning of any posts discussing things in the magazine:

SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER.


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Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!

The author of The Lord of the Rings was born on January 3, 1892, and thus would have been 120 (twelvety?) years old today.


January 2012 Random Thread: Happy New Year!

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Welcome, Neophytes! (January 2012 edition)

If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi.

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January 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-03 SilverLeopard’s birthday (1998)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-15 Kiwimuncher turns 7,000 days old
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday (1993)
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995 – rainbow)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 2 and December 2, 1992.

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


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Attention, MBers Attending the Muse Academy Holiday Party!

As it is New Year’s Eve, you may now begin claiming your presents on the Holiday Party Gift Tree thread.


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Bunny Apocalypse: The Novel?!

A thread for planning.


Chess: Tesseract vs. Choklit Orange


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Chess Eterna-ment Rankings, 2012

Here are the chess ratings as we enter 2012 (numbers in parentheses indicate number of games on which the rating is based). Ratings will be updated every time a game ends. You can also this thread to arrange online chess games with other MBers.

Latest update: 27 June 2012

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Chess: Bibliophile vs. Trojan Tiger


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Chess: Pseudonym vs. Bibliophile


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December Random Thread, Part 2: Happy New Year!

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Muse Academy Holiday Party 2011 — Gift Tree

An ancient and revered MA/MB tradition. (You can see how it worked last year.)


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