Monday, 21 April 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Your hard-partying Administrators will be offline for most of the evening, so the December Random Thread and “Welcome, Newcomers!” thread will be disappearing around 6:45 p.m., Museblog time. Replacements will appear a couple of minutes after midnight. Until then, we suppose you can use this announcement as a temporary random thread, in a pinch.
See you next year (and decade)!
The Muse Academy Holiday Party is nearing its grand finale: the exchange of gifts. All involved, please scurry on over to the Gift Tree thread to claim your presents and watch others open theirs.
You’ve waited with commendable patience. Now here it is at last for your delectation:
*Role-playing game, or possibly rocket-propelled grenade.
Not necessarily continued from Part 8.
The winter solstice occurs on December 21 at 2338 Universal Time. That’s 5:38 p.m. MuseBlog time (U.S. Central Standard Time), or 11:38 p.m. Icelandic time.
*Or summer, for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.
Let us know when your issue arrives.
NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.
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By popular request (well, one request, anyway).
You can read all about the Breakthrough of the Year (and accompanying “Insights of the Decade” section) at Science‘s home page.
NOTE: Robert was neck-deep in all of this. Yes, like the other Administrators, he does have a job other than moderating MuseBlog.
Place your presents under or on the gift tree for the Gift Exchange.
Note: this thread is only for posting gifts. All other comments or discussion should be on the Holiday Party thread. When it’s time to reveal the contents, they will be posted here as well.
Describe the outside appearance of your gift. (Wrapping paper, size, general shape, what it sounds like when shaken…however you’d like to describe it.)
Suggestion: make sure you keep track of your gift and its description, so you don’t risk forgetting what you gave.
Maybe we should have a Muse TV thread, where we write a “TV Guide” listing for an imaginary Muse TV channel. There would be news reports covering Kokons and goings-on in Kokonino County, documentaries about things Muse has done articles about, serialized episodes based on events in the various RPGs, and in the commercial breaks, campaign ads for Koko, advertising for MA, the H&H, and the Emporium, and Army-style recruiting ads for fighting against the HPBs.
Robert writes:
Our friend Pollyhymnia sent me a link to this YouTube video, which made my day. I’ve often doodled in math class, but never this productively:
Muse‘s editor, Elizabeth Preston, sends this announcement:
I wonder if this might be a good event to post on MuseBlog, for any Chicago-area readers. We’re having a Holiday Magazine Fair next Saturday (December 11) from 2-4 at the Chicago Cultural Center. All the Cricket Magazine Group magazines will be represented. There will be science and writing activities and artist demos, plus free hot chocolate, brownies, and magazines to take home. Our editors, art directors, and designers will be hosting the event—we’ll be easily recognizable by our festive bug antennae!
You can find out more about it here.
The weather is bleak this time of year off the coast of Iceland, but as end of term approaches, Muse Academy students and faculty alike have one thing to look forward to: the annual Holiday Party and accompanying Gift Tree. Although less spectacular than the balls the Academy holds on May Day and Halloween, it’s delightful in its own spicy, coniferous way.
(For reference, here’s how the party and the tree unfolded last year.)
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi.
Known Muser birthdays this month*:
[LIST NOT YET UPDATED FOR 2010]
12-01 I-Man’s birthday (1995)
12-9 Pax the Hamster’s birthday (1994)
12-10 Ebeth turns 7,000 days old
12-26 SudoRandom’s birthday (1996 – bright orange)
12-28 Agrrfishi turns 6,000 days old
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between October 3 and November 2, 1991.
You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in June.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
If past Potter threads are any guide, this one will quickly grow as long as the book itself. Mind your spoiler warnings, please.
We wish you were here to enjoy it, and we’re sure you would have had interesting things to say about it.
And they’re off! See you in December, mad scribblers — and perhaps occasionally before then if you find time to report in here.
*National Novel Writing Month.
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi.
Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:
11-02 Tesseract’s 6K Day
11-14 Mango’s birthday (1998 – green and blue and goldish-yellow)
11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (1992 – green)
11-18 Cello-Playing Mathematician’s birthday (1993 – violet)
11-18 Enceladus’s birthday (1996 – purple, blue, and black)
11-24 peary moppins’s birthday (1997 – blue)
11-26 starr’s birthday (1996 – purple, pink, and silver)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991 – purple)
11-27 Dodecahedron’s birthday (1993 – green)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 23 and March 24, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between September 3 and October 2, 1991.
You have been on the blog for six months of you started posting in May.
*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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