Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
We’ve given up trying to understand this thread. Referring to Ships’ Logs: Part Three is no help at all. People do seem to be having fun here, though; there’s no denying that. So… welcome aboard.
Note: Prarilius Canix has posted an excellent synopsis in Comment 5.
Robert writes:
Over the past few months I’ve mentioned a couple of mysterious Muse-related projects that I’ve been working on. One of them, a collaboration between me and my fellow moderator Rebecca Lasley (a.k.a. Lady Bunniful), has now reached the sneak-preview stage. It’s not up and running yet, so please don’t try to do anything with it. But if you’d care to visit www.cafepress.com/musery , we’d love to hear what you think.
Project number two will be unveiled in a few weeks.
Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.
The rules? Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. And, as always, have fun.
Step right up to receive your welcome pie and ask the old hands what’s going on around here. First, though, please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).
Known MuseBlogger birthdays (are all of you still here?):
12-06 KitKat’s birthday (1994)
12-09 Zwendelina’s birthday (1991)
12-09 Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)’s birthday (1993 – red, no grAARGH!)
12-20 Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1’s birthday (1993)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1990.
“Out of sight, out of mind” seems to be MBers’ natural reaction when threads scroll off the first page. But you can fight that tendency here by posting links to your favorites.
That’s right, the whole thing. Open at your own risk. Read more »
Careers, hopes, dreams, nightmares. Continued by popular request from a thread that started in April.
It was scheduled to take place in Evanston at 10:30 a.m. Central time. Jadestone and Violetfire couldn’t make it. We’re eagerly awaiting word from those who did. Should be coming any hour now…
TSN writes:
This year, my marching band gets to be one of only 7 high school bands to march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. I’m really uber-excited, even though it means having to get up at midnight and go in to the freezing streets of NY to practice. If you guys want to see my band, watch the parade on TV. We’re the gimungus high school AZ band (270 students strong!). We’re the third band in the parade, I think (and I’m in the second row, eek). We’ll have a minute of air-time on NBC to do our show, which is Hoe Down from the ballet Rodeo. (unfortunately, we’re not doing our normal show, which is The Who)
Also, we get to be in the audience for the Today Show on Nov. 24. Brilliant Mostly Harmless Idea I’m going to make a PWT PWNS sign to hold up in the audience. Then our awesomeness will be broadcasted over national TV !!!! (if my sign gets caught on camera, which isn’t that likely, but hey, we’ll try)
* * *
o I’m really pysched. I tried to sleep last night but didn’t so well. I will have to sleep on the flight to NY (it’s a red eye), because as soon as we get off, we go straight into a bus tour. Then we get 4 hrs of sleep (8-midnight) get up, go out to start rehearsal at 1 in the morining, start the parade at 9:30, march for 2 miles, and THEN get to Harold Square and do out show. It’s gonna be fun.
So everyone watch for the 3rd band in the Macy’s day parade. That’s us. And watch the Today Show on the 24th for the PWT PWNS sign that I’ll be holding up in the audience.
Words you ♥, words you made up, names you’re curious about–step right up and verbalize. Just don’t reveal too much about your own names.
Continued from the original thread by special request of Elassë~Adael, who says:
“we should have another words thread. And what do people think of the name Autumn?”
Suggested by Kiki, who describes it thus: “Someone posts a word and another person says what it made them immediately think of. Fun!”
The man who draws the Muses has been working hard on another project: The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Volume 1. It’s coming out at the end of December. You can get a sneak preview on Larry’s website.
As in “Oh, woe is me, I have too much ________” and “Argh! Who can help me figure out this stupid ________?”
MuseBloggers’ adventures in extraterrestrial colonization. Continued from Part Two.
*National Novel Writing Month, i.e., November. The thread got off to a good start in Part One, but as usual everyone immediately forgot about it as soon as it scrolled off the first page. Here’ s more.
MuseBlog’s monthly random thread, continued from Part 1.
Less random than the random thread. More continuity, less noise and pointlessness. Capital letters. Party manners. (O.K., maybe not party manners, but you get the idea.)
Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. And, as always, have fun.
Dear GAPA person,
We are writing to you after a period of frustration with our fellow, usually lovely, MBers. We feel that it may be a time to instate a new rule. We have been also feeling rather nostalgic for the old days. We feel that the old days of conversation and getting to know each other have been lost amidst people posting eight times in a row with nothing to say. People seem to view the MB as a place to burn some time, not a place to converse with other Musers. We feel that it is important that the MB continue to be a place to spend time with other smart, intelligent, thinking individuals and not a place to go for time wasting inane conversation. We think that if MBers would realize they need to have something to say when they post, the MB would make a marked improvement. We would be conversing, discussing and enjoying ourselves. If you look back on the old threads, you see MBers enjoying themselves in true conversation just as if they were talking in real life.
Randomness is good, but it must be balanced with conversations with a purpose. You can have randomness, and still have order; it is the pointless comments we have a problem with. There is a difference between a random comment and a pointless comment. Too many of us have forgotten this difference, forgotten how to converse “Does anyone else hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers?” is a random comment. “OHMYGAH FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEEEEE!!!!!” is a pointless comment. We feel that too many Muse bloggers have forgotten what the difference is. Pointless comments shouldn’t be posted.
We feel that a rule or suggestion banning pointless posting would make the MB much more enjoyable, for newbies and veterans alike. We would appreciate it if you posted this on it’s own thread in the Museblog so that other Musers can add their thoughts.
Sincerely,
MontgomeryGurl and elassë~adael
MuseBlog’s ever-popular continuing forum for topics that need careful handling and/or an extra dose of civility. New version by popular demand, because everybody wants to vent but nobody wants to scroll.
On Wednesday, November 8, observers in the Western Hemisphere and Pacific will be able to see the planet Mercury cross the face of the sun. Such “transits of Mercury” are fairly rare, so if you’ve got access to welding glasses or a telescope with a sun filter, it’s worth a look. (I’ll be using my NASA glasses left over from the transit of Venus in June 2004.) Your science teachers may be able to help.
You can find more details here.
More (added November 8–better late than never):
There are lots of links (including Webcasts) and information at NASA’s Sun-Earth Day site:
http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/events/mercurytransit.php
The Exploratorium in San Francisco offers a Webcast and information about how to build a viewer for the transit.
–Robert