Sunday, 20 April 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Muse Academy (as everyone knows) loves parties, and the Halloween Ball always provides a much-needed mid-semester break. So, what’s in the lineup for this year?
(To jog your memory, here’s what happened at the 2011 ball and on its planning thread.)
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Robert writes:
While reading old newspapers online for a personal project I’m working on, I ran across this ad in the San Francisco Daily Alta (April 20, 1871). I’m posting it just because I love it:
Twenty performing birds and mice! Many incomprehensible things! And the world’s only Stylocarfe! You can’t see shows like that anymore. It would definitely be worth a dollar (and some of you would be eligible to get in for 50 cents).
Requested by Midnight Fiddler, and so obviously a good idea that we’re amazed nobody suggested it years ago.
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*:
09-01 Ambystoma Maculatum’s birthday (1996)
09-02 Trojan Tiger’s birthday
09-04 Choklit Orange’s birthday (1997)
09-13 Catwings’ birthday (2001)
09-15 The Man For Aeiou’s birthday (1995)
09-17 Castle’s birthday (1997)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990)
09-19 marfwarrior’s birthday (1995)
09-19 IBCF’s 7K Day
09-19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day
09-20 Maths Lover’s 6K Day
09-22 Catkopelli’s birthday (1999)
09-22 Prussia=awesome’s birthday (1999)
09-22 Spudman’s birthday
09-24 Zinc the Sorceress’s birthday (1997)
09-25 Optimatum’s 6K Day
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 25, 1998, and January 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between July 4 and August 2, 1993.
You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in March.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
Recently arrived pictures of interest:
KaiYves at NASA Headquarters for the landing of Curiosity on Mars:
Jadestone’s cuttlefish:
Jadestone hugging her cuttlefish:
Date: August 23, 2012
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, The Universe, Things We like
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It’s that time again (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), and you must want to talk about. So here’s a place to do it, courtesy of your ever-obliging GAPAs.
Actually, Jadestone reminded us with this helpful offer:
Think it’s time for another back to school thread? Since many musers are heading off to college for the first time I’ve been thinking about making a list of less-thought of items I found really useful to have freshman year.
Unfortunately for its many aficionados, the Muse Academy card game Paker doesn’t work very well outside the Oasis. But we’ve found something almost as good: a Basque card game called Mus. Check it out on Wikipedia (http: // en.wikipedia . org/wiki/Mus_%28card_game%29). We’re sure you’ll want to learn to play it and teach your families and friends, too.
We haven’t had a new one of these threads since v. 2011.2. With elections coming up in three months, we’ll probably need one for 2012.
Description:
A place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. No flame wars, please. This isn’t the rest of the Internet (as you may have noticed).
We can’t stop talking about it, so here’s a special place to continue the conversation that started on the Random thread.
It’s that time of year again: the very date on which our beloved blog erupted onto an unsuspecting Internet, to the discombobulation of just about everybody. It seems like only yesterday, and now suddenly we’re seven years old! Seven eventful years, and nary a squib in the bundle.
Expressions of dysphasic ecstasy and delirious incredulity will be most welcome, of course.
Date: August 1, 2012
Categories: Birthdays, Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Life, Nonrandom Craziness
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er hi.
Known Muser birthdays this month*:
1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada (1996)
7 August – Koppar (1996)
8 August – small but fierce (1998)
12 August – Sweet Melpomene’s 8K Day
13 August – Pie Girl
21 August – Alice (1993)
22 August – Mikazuki (1998)
25 August – Optimatum’s 6K Day
27 August – Errata (1996), Rainbow*Storm (1997)
28 August – Clare de Lune’s 6K Day
29 August – Cskia’s 6K Day
30 August – Thief of Light (1998)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 28 and March 29, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 3 and July 3, 1993.
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.
We’re saddened to learn and sorry to report that Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and an honorary Muser if there ever was one, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 61.
This is the second and final Friday the 13th of 2012. (The first one was in January.) Let’s hear your good-luck stories from the day.
As before, Robert takes on the world (or at least the world of logged-in MuseBloggers). The twist is that he will keep all of his pieces on “his” side of the board, the first four rows, unless forced across because it’s the only move available. White will be hunkered down for trench warfare; Black will have to go in and dig him out. Ready? Let’s go!
