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Let us know when your issue arrives.

NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

Spun off from the “do you remember?” discussions on the August random threads.

Here’s how the instigator, Cat’s Eye, describes it:

Relating our own experiences of “I remember I was” for 9/11, Michael Jackson’s death, Katrina? How it was for us when the Internet and iPods first started happening? Sort of pooling our remembered history?

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This group project started on the “Partial Scripts” thread and quickly became popular enough to warrant a thread of its own.

It’s that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere. Another milestone for Musers of the Septentrion!

Our time-traveling Random Thread visits France in the late 19th century, a period of peace and relative prosperity later known as the “Beautiful Era,” or Belle Epoque.
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Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada (1996)
2 August – mas0n (1996 – blue, red)
7 August – Koppar
8 August – small but fierce (1998)
10 August – gingerkid (1996)
13 August – pie girl
21 August – Alice (1993), Adeia (1996)
22 August – Mikazuki (1998)
27 August – Nthanda the Laugher (1991), Errata (1996), Kiga (1997), Rainbow*Storm (1997)
28 August – Sunrunner Bramblewood (1993)
30 August – Witchneko (1998)
31 August – Quintessentia (1992)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 23 and December 23, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 3 and July 3, 1991.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in February.

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

For times when you need HELP!!!

(You can read the 2009 edition here.)

For times when someone else’s words are better than yours.

Continued from Quotations, 2010.2.

This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.

MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.

Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.

Continued from version 2010.2.

On this day (July 20) in 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the moon in the region called Mare Tranquillitatis, the Sea of Tranquility. Read more »

Already as long as The Divine Comedy, The Lord of the Rings, and all the Harry Potter books put together, and still growing.

Continued from Part 7.

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Continued from Dreams, v. 2009.1.

There never was a 2009.2. Apparently one “Dreams” thread a year is all we need.

Expect moderation to be patchy for what remains of the night as GAPAs are either out and about or down for the count, depending upon local conditions.

Description: A general store serving the Academy, MuseBlog, and the greater Musipolitan area.

Location: The village of New Reykjavik, Hyperborea, off the coast of Iceland; with interdimensional connections to the Oasis.

Inventory: Transfinite. Inconceivable. “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it. Trust us. You really don’t.”

The cuddly Beatle and veteran of “Shining Time Station” notches up three score years and ten today (Wednesday, July 7).

The latest version of our chess software has an option for bigger boards (with squares 48 pixels wide instead of the usual 32). We’re giving it a try. Let us know how you like it. If the boards are too big now, we can go back to the smaller ones.

(There’s a sample below the fold.)
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If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi.

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Polly Shulman (blogname: Pollyhymnia), young-adult author, friend of MuseBlog, and all-around good egg, has a new book coming out on July 8. It’s called The Grimm Legacy. You can find out more about it through Google or on Polly’s website.

Known MBer birthdays this month:*

July 03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996 – light blue/lime green)
July 05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
July 07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
July 09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
July 13 Rosebud2’s birthday (1998)
July 15 Birthday of EAP (a.k.a. The Mole)
July 19 Birthday of Fio (a.k.a. La Mort) (1992 – black, silver, and red)
July 20 Silver Lining’s birthday (1997 – lime green and silver)
July 22 IBCF’s birthday (1993)
July 26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – sky blue, navy, and bubblegum pink)
July 27 Enceladus’s 5K Day
July 28 Amelia Peabody’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 23 and November 22, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between May 3 and June 2, 1991.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in January.

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

On June 21, an unfamiliar MBer called Sans Orchestre left a comment on the random thread saying that she* had posted before under different aliases but now wanted to return for a fresh start.

Searching the blog and other sources, we discovered that her history went beyond simple changes in alias. We replied that first she should tell other MBers who she had been. Since then we haven’t heard from her or seen her on the blog, so we’ve decided to post that information here.

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The game cromwell vs. Jakob Wonkychair has ended in a victory for cromwell, who now moves up to second place on the MuseBlog Chess Ladder.