January 2006 Muse Roll Call
Write down when it arrives, please. We haven’t thought of any nefarious uses for the information (yet)–just curious (so far).
Archives from author » robert-coontz-administrator
School
Happy to oblige. Though why you’d want to think about school when you don’t have to is beyond us.
Robert’s Secret Identity
Though they’d much rather spend all their time approving posts and chilling with MuseBloggers, Robert and Rosanne do have “day jobs.” As a news editor at Science, Robert has just spent the past month or so masterminding the magazine’s annual Breakthrough of the Year section. Anyone curious about Herr Administrator’s alter ego can read the section online, see a video, or listen to a podcast featuring an interview with the man himself. Bill Nye, watch out!
Happy Solstice!
Winter officially arrives at 1:35 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time. Mark the occasion appropriately!
Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and Other Chilly Holidays
Time to close down the Thanksgiving thread and move forward.
Triangular Sentences and Other Typographical Tricks
Quarantine them here, please, before the whole blog grinds to a halt.
Band/Orchestra/Music/Musicians
Here you go, lilbro777: a hangout for band geeks. (Only please stop saying “pwease.”)
Time Change!
Robert has figured out how to fix the mistaken time stamp that’s been making it look as if Musers stay up even later than they do. Because so many of you live in the American Midwest, he’s set it to Central Standard Time (at least until Daylight Saving Time rolls around again, whereupon it will get all messed up again). Just thought you’d like to know.
Words
Ebeth’s idea. Her description: “not just like word origins but accents and slang and all that good stuff…”
MuseBlog Announcement
About links to other sites--please read.
All,
Rosanne and I try to discourage links to other Web sites–partly to avoid attracting the dreaded spam bots, partly because we don’t have time to check them all for “inappropriate” content. We’ll sometimes relax the rule if a site looks Muselike and/or useful and Mostly Harmless, but please remember that the rule is there.
There is plenty of shocking material on the Web. People post it for various reasons, good and bad. Because Rosanne and I can’t evaluate it all, we’d just as soon not become a portal to it. So go easy on the links, please, even when they relate to something you care passionately about–maybe especially then. After all, we’ve all got Google.
Thanks,
Robert
Monty Python
At randomrohanfreak’s almost everyone’s request, because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Hot Topics — Handle with Care!
Politics, religion, and anything else that might require an extra dose of civility.
HG2MB
By popular demand: a place to compose the first edition of the “Hitchhikers’ Guide to MuseBlog.” Go to it, Musers!
Math
Or maths, if you prefer. Including numbers large, small, positive, negative, real, imaginary, rational, irrational, and transcendental; infinities of all sizes; paradoxes, puzzles, and conundrums; and proofs by demonstration, contradiction, brute force, legerdemain, and intimidation. If you’ve got ’em, post ’em.
Things We Like Heart Consider Flamablamablous That Really Get on Our Nerves
We’ve changed our minds. We’re tired of always being so positive. It’s time to let off a little steam.