Words & Names, v. 2009
Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about.
Continued from v. 2008.
Category » Things We like
February 2008 2009 Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes or the month ends.
Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: The weather
Coming up: Cool places we’ve been to or want to go to
Date: February 1, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Ideas, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y, v. 2009.1
An ever-popular and flourishing thread:
Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.
Continued from version 2008.1.
Happy 303rd Birthday, Benjamin Franklin!
In 1783 he wrote to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society:
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.
We’re sure he would have been even happier to see what had been discovered 200 years thence, and would have felt right at home in the Hare & Hedgepig.
Happy Eleventy-SixthSeventh Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien!
Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
Yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier
mi oromardi lissë-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
ómaryo airetári-lÃrinen.
Happy Birthday, Isaac Asimov!
The most prolific member of the Holy Trinity of classic mid-20th-century science-fiction (along with Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein) would have been 89 years old on January 2. There are still a few minutes to wish him well, in whatever dimension he currently inhabits.
Science-Fiction
Any sub-genre, any medium (books, movies, TV shows, etc.). Many MBers seem eager to talk about this, so it should be a lively thread.
January 2009 Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
A new year, a blank slate!
Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes or the month ends.
Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Silly laws
Date: January 1, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Ideas, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
Visual Arts, 2008.2
Whether your medium is traditional, digital, or in a realm of its own, if it’s visual (or you hope it will be one of these days), here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas, no matter if you’re an artist or not.
Happy 178th Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
In one of her letters she wrote:
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
You pretty much have to celebrate the birthday of someone who feels like that.
December 2008 Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
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Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Snow, and things to do in/with it
Holiday “wish” lists
Date: December 1, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Ideas, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
Harry Potter, Again
Just because people can’t stop talking about it, and we haven’t had a new thread for it since the summer of 2007.
Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan!
The planetary scientist and space guru would have been 78 years old today.
November 2008 Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
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Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Puzzles and riddles
Date: November 1, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Ideas, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
Our Reclusive Gardens, Part 2
This online daydream started with a comment by oxlin:
Bah. I’m sick of society. I want to go live in a shack somewhere with Teal and not pollute and eat mushrooms and herbs we gather and carrots we grow and draw and write and be happy.
Where would you rather be right now?
Continued from Part One.
The Polling Place, v. 2008.3
Ask questions; find out about one another; repeat ad infinitum.
Continued from v. 2008.2.
Date: October 18, 2008
Categories: Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
Computer and Video Games, v. 2.0
Continued from the plain-vanilla Computer and Video Games thread, and probably self-explanatory.
October 2008 Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
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Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Factoids
Children’s TV shows
Date: October 1, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Life, The Universe, Things We like
Harry Potter Trivia-Off, Part 2
Impress your fellow MBers by showing how much you know about something that doesn’t matter very much.
(NOTE: This is thread number 1492 — and coincidentally, 1492 is the year in which something significant happened to a prominent denizen of Hogwarts. Who was en, and what was the event?)
Continued from Part One.