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Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

In celebration of this fateful birth,
Herein the GAPAs will communicate
In lines ten syllables in length apiece
(Or thereabouts). You’ve heard of it before:
Iambic (yes) pentameter–i.e.,
Five two-beat feet, one stressed, one unstressed. All
MuseBloggers may, of course, write that way too.
It’s easy once you get the hang of it
(Well, not exactly easy, but still fun.)

The comments sections now available on some pages are NOT normal MB threads. They are for posting information only. (“Pages” in WordPress nomenclature are the information posts accessed through the menu below the MuseBlog title banner: Who’s Here, What’s Here, etcetera.)

On the HTML page, for example, please don’t post questions asking “How to do I do such-and-such?” or experiments along the lines of “Will such-and-such work? Whee, it did!” That’s what the HTML Practice and Typographic Tricks thread is for. If you feel like telling others how to do something, however, go right ahead. We’ll transfer the information to the page and delete your comment to keep that section clear.

Thanks,

The Management

For topics that need to be handled with extra care. NO FLAMING.

Continued from version 2009.1.

This just in: The people who publish Muse and loads of other magazines are now selling T-shirts and such on CafePress.com. The address: www.cafepress.com/Cricketmag.

Spare the other threads; post your experiments here.

Continued from 2008.3.

Things are different around here. Here’s a place to post your questions, suggestions, observations, discoveries, and tips for navigating this somewhat-strange, somewhat-familiar environment.

Here is the story, as far as we’ve been able to determine:

Apparently on February 25, some evil non-MBer hacked MuseBlog’s WordPress code to show advertisements at the top of the lefthand sidebar. Now the inserted code is malfunctioning and causing slowdowns and other problems. Robert has been trying to track down the problem, but the commands are well disguised and seem to be spread out among the files in a way that will break other parts of the blog if he simply starts deleting them. He’s going to reinstall our software tonight. (He tried to do it last night but had to go to bed before he could finish the job.)

That’s our tale of woe, so far. With luck, it will have a happy ending soon.

As request on the main Alternate-History thread.

Role-playing writing or round-robin writing — you work out the details.

Role-playing, with stricter-than-usual rules.

Continued from Part One.

Progress reports, anybody?

For those who missed this year’s April Fools’ Day Blog or who may be feeling (*shudders*) nostalgic, Filboid Studge is on display at filboid-studge.com.

It’s read-only; you can look but not post.

04-02 Taiwan Hippo Fan’s birthday (1995 – black, purple, blue)
04-08 Beavo the Great (1995 – neon green or jet black)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994 – “grurple” [=green+purple])
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990 – blue)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995 – indigo)
04-18 trust kokopelli’s birthday (1998 – olive)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994 – red or orange)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-27 Em’s birthday (1992 – octarine or black)
04-27 Zoe’s birthday (1994 – pink and plaid)
04-28 AthenianPsycho’s birthday
04-29 Cliff Eagle’s birthday (1994 – gold and blue)
04-30 oxlin’s birthday (1990 – chartreuse)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and August 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 28 and November 26, 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.

No time to make this pretty right now — suffice it to say that MuseBlog is back in business! Welcome, Studgers, um, we mean Musers!

Luminiferous Luna turns a staggering 21 years old today (Tuesday, March 29). We’d say she deserves at least a 21-pie salute and a shower of flowers on the March “Happy Birthday!” Thread.

Just a quick reminder, for those who haven’t discovered it yet, that there’s much more Muserly miscellanea at musemagkids.com.

Errata proposed this thread, to popular acclaim. We GAPAs don’t really understand it don’t understand it at all, but that has never kept threads from working in the past. Here’s the description:

You think of creative reasons that wasting time is actually constructive, and type them all out! If we wanted to, we could also expand it into actually getting the jobs, as in people create mock jobs, others apply for them, and then the creator gets to chose one, based on their application. Then… Oh! Maybe we could have ‘Job Points’ or something similar, that you get when you get a job! Okay, that’s my idea. *beams*

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

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

SPOILER MUSE SPOILER SPOILER.

(Remember the period at the end. Otherwise the warning won’t conceal the comment.)

*The hyphens are an experiment to try to fool spambots into ignoring this thread.

Let us know when your issue arrives. NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the Vernal Equinox occurs today (Friday, March 20) at 6:44 a.m. blog time. We’re ready for spring. How about you?

(Of course, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are having an entirely different experience.)

A thread for discussing boxes, metaphorical ones: not fitting into the box you’re supposed to, being in a mislabeled box, changing boxes, or even challenging them. What sorts of boxing matches (or mismatches) have affected you?

Second verse, same as the first: The March Random Thread celebrates our own invention, the International Month of Anachronism Detection and Scrupulous Attention to Detail. As always, of course, you’re free to talk about anything you like.

Continued from Part One.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

He was born on Pi Day, and he said:

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”