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MA’s big annual autumn event is fast approaching, so it’s time to start nailing down some details. Creativity is encouraged, but remember: Muse Academy and all its functions are subject to physical laws and contemporary technology. No antigravity or unlimited sources of free energy, please!

Here’s how the ball unfolded last year.

Attention, MuseBloggers!

Just to be annoying for fun, we’ve decided to keep our English-to-Pirate translation plug-in running for an extra day. During that time, everything you post will automatically turn into pirate-speak. If you find that obnoxiously distracting, that’s the idea we’re sorry. Everything will be back to normal (or at least “normal”) on Tuesday, unless we change our minds.

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This group project started on the “Partial Scripts” thread and quickly became popular enough to warrant a thread of its own.

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Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada (1996)
2 August – mas0n (1996 – blue, red)
7 August – Koppar
8 August – small but fierce (1998)
10 August – gingerkid (1996)
13 August – pie girl
21 August – Alice (1993), Adeia (1996)
22 August – Mikazuki (1998)
27 August – Nthanda the Laugher (1991), Errata (1996), Kiga (1997), Rainbow*Storm (1997)
28 August – Sunrunner Bramblewood (1993)
30 August – Witchneko (1998)
31 August – Quintessentia (1992)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 23 and December 23, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 3 and July 3, 1991.

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.

Expect moderation to be patchy for what remains of the night as GAPAs are either out and about or down for the count, depending upon local conditions.

The latest version of our chess software has an option for bigger boards (with squares 48 pixels wide instead of the usual 32). We’re giving it a try. Let us know how you like it. If the boards are too big now, we can go back to the smaller ones.

(There’s a sample below the fold.)
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On June 21, an unfamiliar MBer called Sans Orchestre left a comment on the random thread saying that she* had posted before under different aliases but now wanted to return for a fresh start.

Searching the blog and other sources, we discovered that her history went beyond simple changes in alias. We replied that first she should tell other MBers who she had been. Since then we haven’t heard from her or seen her on the blog, so we’ve decided to post that information here.

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Here’s our policy about meeting other MBers offline:

• MuseBlog’s administrators do not encourage you to do it.
• We won’t help you plan to do it.
• If you insist on holding a real-world meeting, your parents must plan it and supervise it.
• To assure us that they are involved, your parents should e-mail us at the gapas @ gmail.com. We will help them exchange e-mail addresses, and they can take it from there.
• Any details about meetings (exact time and place, what you’ll be wearing, etc.) must stay off the blog. Please don’t try to post them. We won’t let you.
• After a Kokonvention, we will post photographs of Kokonvening MBers with parental permission.
• That’s all we will do.

Your friends,
The GAPAs

To cut down on clutter, unfinished chess games in which neither player has made a move for more than a month will be considered inactive and taken offline. (We can restore them on request, though in most cases that seems unlikely.)

We’re here again, as you can see. Ice-cream sundaes for everybody at the Hare & Hedgepig!

It’s today (Friday, June 11), as declared by bookgirl_me. Um, bookgirl, what are we supposed to do, exactly?

The Muse contents subpage under “What’s Here” has been updated through March 2010, but the issues keep coming. Anyone who can add contents for the April or May/June issues will have our gratitude. Thanks! (See? There’s some gratitude already.)

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We’ve just installed a plug-in that’s supposed to make the blog look and behave better on iPhones and other small-screen devices. The documentation says you can toggle between the new and old formats.

We have no idea what it looks like or how well it works, so tell us, please. It’s just an experiment.

Thanks,

The GAPAs

What do you want to see on the blog, at Musery Loves Company, or anywhere else in the GAPAs’ domain? Here’s where to make your wishes known.

Continued from v. 2010.1.

Prussianian fans: Fantasy Fan sent us her long-awaited zeppelin illustrations. We’re adding this announcement since some of the RRR participants may not show up before the post sinks out of sight on Recent Comments.

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Strange as it might seem, the MuseBlog administrators do know a few things, and sometimes they’ll even tell you about them.

Continued from No. 7.

In keeping with our theme of tomfoolery, this thread is reserved for pure randomness, pointless posts, and non sequiturs.

Any attempt to have a reasonable, intelligent conversation on this thread will be zapped.

Moose.

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