MuseBlog

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here. As always, we start this thread anew from scratch every month.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Chronicles of Museica (IBCF)
Pieceful Pie Planet (IBCF)
Ship’s Logs (IBCF, kiwimuncher)
Muse Scouts (Hypatia)
Wungs (GAPA’s choice)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Vegemite (Purple Panda)
Religion and Religions (Hypatia)
Hot Topics (Hypatia)
Romance and Relationships (Karinnn Tayyy)
Advice (Karinnn Tayyy)
The Kokonspiracy (Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon)

SILLY FUN
Ble! Newlluj-No Fulst (IBCF)
penguini’s Christmas Bunny Melée (IBCF)
Dissing Mr. Joe, Again (IBCF)
Bunny Apocalypse (IBCF)
Muse Academy RPG (Kokonilly, Mogget’s Little Sister)
Round Robin Smiley Stories (Zinc the sorceress, Mogget’s Little Sister)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Alter Egos (Trebel_Cone_Freeskier!)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Midnight Fiddler)

WRITING – RRRs
The Sea Roc (Purple Panda, kiwimuncher, Mogget’s Little Sister)
SMASS-TT (Hypatia)
Etheterre (Alice)
Terraformed (rewrite) (Alice)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Role-Playing Writing [The Empowered] (Purple Panda)
Poems and Songs (Hypatia)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
History (Hypatia)
Space (Hypatia)
Books and Reading (Hypatia)
A Thread for HAPPY Things (Crazy Titan Nerd)
Music (Kari)
Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels (Kari)
Coy Woodnesse (Hypatia)

USEFUL ITEMS
May’s Don’t Forget These Threads (curious and questioning)
HG2MB v.2008.1

Robert is having lunch with speller73 and her parents this Saturday, May 31. Anybody else like to come along?

(La Speller has just progressed to the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.)

That’s a relief, after two days in limbo.

You’ll have noticed that the “Latest Comments” sidebar has disappeared. There’s a story behind that: During the hiatus, our host company noticed that MuseBlog had been overloading its server with queries. The problem turned out to be coming from the sidebar. The plug-in that creates it operates very inefficiently, by looking through the whole blog every time to find the most recent comments. So we had to disable it.

(Someone has noticed that you can check recent queries almost as easily by looking at the RSS feed.)

The good news is that we’re upgrading our service to something called a “virtual server,” which will allow us to make as many queries as we like without inconveniencing anybody else. If it works, “Latest Comments” will be up and running again within a couple of weeks. The only drawback to the virtual server is that it costs more money, so everybody should hurry over and buy lots of T-shirts from Musery Loves Company Robert will be living off oatmeal for a while.

Anyhow, welcome back, and happy blogging! A round of pies for everybody!

Slow loading and error messages have been plaguing us this afternoon. We’re not sure what’s going on. If MuseBlog goes off line, we’ll reopen our “lifeboat” blog:

museacademy.wordpress.com

See you there (if necessary)!

Who’s your Muse?

Suggested by The Man For Aeiou, who describes it this way: “remember the feature from 2003ish in the mag? like that, only for Muses of us artist, writers, Etc. What’s POSOC’s Muse like? Who’s Alice’s? what about the rest of the MBers?”

If you’re new to MuseBlog, make this your first stop. The locals will greet you in our traditional way you and show you the ropes.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here. As always, we start this thread anew from scratch every month.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Ship’s Logs (IBCF, Logogeo96)
Chronicles of Museica (IBCF)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Religion and Religions (Logogeo96)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Vegemite (Purple Panda)
Origins and Beginnings (to help out Hypatia)
Romance and Relationships (Karinnn Tayyy)
Advice (Karinnn Tayyy)
Just Friends (Karinnn Tayyy)
Complaints and Rants (Tumsy)

SILLY FUN
Off with their Heads! (IBCF, groundhog22)
Ble! Newlluj-No Fulst (groundhog22)
penguini’s Christmas Bunny Melée (groundhog22)
Dissing Mr. Joe, Again (groundhog22)
Bunny Apocalypse (IBCF, groundhog22)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (IBCF)
Round-Robin Smileys (for Zinc the sorceress)

WRITING – RRRs
Fairy Tale (TMFA)
Sea Roc (TMFA, kiwimuncher)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Muse Fanfiction (Kokonilly)
MA RPG (Kokonilly)
Poems and Songs (Hypatia)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
Cooking and Food (Purple Panda)
Coy Woodnesse (Hypatia)
Music (Hypatia)

USEFUL ITEMS
Suggestion Box

The latest Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog (HG2MB) thread gives experienced MBers a chance to tell newcomers about aspects of the blog not covered in The Rules, the HG2MB Page, or the two earlier HG2MB threads: version 2006.1
and version 2006.2. Share your wisdom!

(Please includes in-blog links wherever you think they’ll help.)

At Taiwan Hippo Fan’s suggestion, we’ve added a line of “Pure Evil” Bunnies to meet your leporine needs. Talk about truth in packaging!

As always, just let us know if you don’t see a CafePress product that you want, and we will cheerfully, nay, gleefully add it.

It seems like a good time to collect these in one place for the benefit of newcomers and the terminally confused (i.e., everybody).

Ebeth’s Muse Academy House Placement Quiz:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1026#comment-8

May Day Ball organizing committee:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1308

House Songs
Coontz:* https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1026#comment-114
Baker: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1057#comment-74
Spector:
– by POSOC: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1057#comment-76
– by Cat’s Meow’s (1): Other Spector House Song (by Cat’s Meow)
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1187#comment-142
– by Cat’s Meow (2): https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-290
Lasley (by Kagcomix):
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1026#comment-77

*The Coontz House song is officially unofficial until something better comes along. It’s pretty good, though, so that may take a while.

Other MA-related music:
House Sorting Song (by Cat’s Meow): https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-198705

We’ve added a few Categories used for classifying threads and have reorganized the list a little. It will take a while for us to update the classification of old threads.

You can help! If you spot a thread that needs to be reclassified (RRRs, etc., are particularly ripe for it), just post its name and URL here. Thanks!

But alas, your exhausted GAPAs (no longer DAPAs) can’t stay up all night extending their April Fools’ Day prank into April 2. A new, real monthly random thread will be arriving shortly.

Meanwhile, in remembrance of Mickey Muse Blog that was, we’d like to leave you with one final verse of the song that’s been driving you mad all day. This time, mercifully, you have to click it to play it:

No, not GAPAs — DAPAs: Disney™ Aggressively Perky Administrators! Actually, you’ve met them already. They’ve been your friends for a long, long time. Now they’re our newest loyal Disney™ cast members. They’ll be here helping you cheerfully all the time, day and night, forever. Yes, they will!

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to blog we go…

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://musefanpage.com/Sound_files/Kokopelli_March.mp3″]

New here? We like newcomers! Confused? Join the club! But you can report to this thread (and please do) for a hearty MuseBlog welcome and answers to your questions.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Ship’s Logs (kiwimuncher, Red-tailed HAWK)
Pieceful Pie Planet (Kokonilly)
Zemtee (Red-tailed HAWK)
Pie Isle (Donaldo)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Vegemite (Purple Panda)
Romance and Relationships (Red-tailed HAWK, Treble_Cone_Freeskier!)
Religion and Religions (Logogeo96)
The Kokonspiracy (Kokonilly)
Complaints and Rants (popular acclaim)

SILLY FUN
Ble! Newluj–No Fulst (groundhog22)
Off With Their Heads! – Part 2 (groundhog22)
penguini’s Christmas Bunny Melée (groundhog22)
Dissing Mr. Joe, Again (groundhog22)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Let’s Get Physiognomical (Treble_Cone_Freeskier!, Taiwan Hippo Fan)
You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y (Treble_Cone_Freeskier!)

WRITING – RRRs
The Sea Roc (Purple Panda, kiwimuncher)
RRR SMAS-TT (Hypatia)
Etheterre (Taiwan Hippo Fan)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Role-Playing Writing [The Empowered] (Purple Panda)
Role-Playing Writing [Settling a Planet] (Purple Panda)
Muse Academy RPG (Kokonilly)
Muse FanFiction (Kokonilly)
Poems and Songs (Hypatia, Nthanda the Laugher)
The Diaries of ??? (Hypatia, Nthanda the Laugher)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
Books and Reading (Hypatia)
Music (Kari)
Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels (Axa)
Cooking and Food (Taiwan Hippo Fan)

During last week’s Muserly get-together, Alice, Cat’s Meow, and IBCF — all loyal members of Muse Academy’s Spector House — recorded themselves singing the house song (with lyrics by POSOC). You can hear an MP3 file of the performance by clicking right here.

The event now sets sail for the history books, the photo albums, and bloglore. Reports thus far proclaim the meeting of our Washington State Kokonventioneers to be a success enjoyed by all.

MuseBlog’s host company, DreamHost, seems to have solved its server problems, so it looks safe to post here again.

Meanwhile, those of you who missed the overnight-and-morning excitement should know that we’ve instituted a “lifeboat blog” that MBers can move to whenever MuseBlog goes offline. Called “Muse Academy,” it’s at http://museacademy.wordpress.com. We just threw it together and made it up as we went, but it kept us all occupied and communicating when the chips were down. We’ll leave the threads open for a little while just in case.

Whew! Now let’s hope we just have ordinary MuseBlog weirdness for a while.

Ever since we installed the new blog software, some of you have been afflicted with comment boxes that get smaller and smaller until you can’t see what you’re trying to post.

Good news: a WordPress programmer is on the job and says he expects to solve the problem this week.

Of course, that will require another upgrade… *shudders*

Yes, this is a day early, but Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon sent a card and may not be here on the 17th.

The plot progresses, as seen in the previous installment.

At least, we think so. The blog is back online, mostly, apart from the page tabs (“Who’s Here,” “What’s Here,” etc.), which we’re working on.

Meanwhile, please note the new “Who’s Talking” feature over on the right. We’re hoping that it won’t cause the same sorts of problems that “Recent Comments” did, but it’s too early to say. So keep your fingers crossed, and start blogging!

We’ll be taking the blog offline on Thursday morning (March 13) to try some more tinkering. Anyone visiting the site will see long periods of nothing interspersed with weirdness. In the unlikely event that you are able to post, your comments will be lost. So you’ll be better off doing something else — studying, getting some fresh air and exercise, that sort of thing.

See you before and after.

The good news is that dear old MB is back online. Post away, and let’s hear how you spent your Saturdays!

Now here’s the bad news:

We didn’t manage to upgrade the software. Robert spent his Saturday trying to install three different versions of new WordPress software, each of which proved fatally flawed. As a result,

1. we haven’t been able to revive the “Recent Comments” sidebar; and

2. we’re going to have to go through the upgrade ordeal again in the near future.

The partially offsetting compensatory news is that we’ve stumbled across some new things that we think you like and plan to try them soon.

But not yet! It’s too nice a day here (and here, and here, and here).

At the moment, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, MuseBlog is even weirder than usual.

We’re not sure exactly what’s going on. Apparently the blog’s software started sending too many queries to our Web host’s server, so the host company took us offline. We’re back, but the blog appears to have amnesia — either because we can’t tap into the database, or because the database has been erased.

We’re trying to restore things to what passes for normal around here. Meanwhile, we’ll open some temporary threads so that you all can keep communicating. It will be a little bare around here for a while, but MUCH better than a MB-less universe. [Not as bad as we feared. A little mopping up has solved most of the problem. –Robert]

Keep on Musing — and posting!

–The Administrators