Friday, 20 December 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
After spending more than a month trying to get MuseBlog’s slideshow app to work, I’ve given up and decided just to post the pictures I took at the Science March. Here are some to start with; captions and more photos will follow later.
I marched with a throng of paleontologists:
Other marches may have been bigger or slicker than the March for Science, but the scientists had the best hats. Good costumes, too:
We mustered on the Washington Monument grounds and then marched down Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol amid intermittent rain:
Most of the signs were homemade, and not all of them were equally water-repellent. Some of my favorites:
And, of course, the obligatory steely-jawed selfie:
Free to a Good Home!
Robert saith:
This Aroma Mi Three-Cup Rice Cooker is by far the cutest household appliance I’ve ever owned. It also works perfectly and is easy to use. Unfortunately, using it just once revealed that it actually makes just two cups of rice. (The “cups” in its name refer to a roughly 6-ounce or 175-milliliter measuring cup that comes with the cooker.) That’s not quite enough for my household.
My loss can be your gain. The first MBer to send ens address to me at “thegapas [at] gmail.com” will receive this little gem in the mail absolutely free of charge. How’s that for a deal?
(This offer applies only within the continental United States. That’s all the postage I can afford. Sorry, farther-flung friends!)
Since the responses on the Random thread seemed positive, I decided to reboot these threads.
Shiny new rule: No nesties! The conversation will meander from topic to topic anyhow. Also, it adds to the retro vibe.
The last October Incredible Morphing Chameleon thread I found was from 2008. So I purloined the image and the first topic from that month’s random thread. Incidentally, this was also the month I first stumbled upon MuseBlog.
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:
Online media: Post-truth cesspit or literal hellhole?
The election and its aftermath
Halloween
Suggested topics:Â
Have fun!
Date: October 23, 2016
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Experiments, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, Things We like
It’s been a while since we had a new Hot Topics thread, so here goes.
As noted before, this is 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).
KaiYves reports from Athens, Greece, where she is on an archaeological dig:
Today, Gimanator took time out from his whirlwind tour of Europe to hang out with me at the Acropolis Museum here in Athens. I was pretty tired from digging this morning, so I don’t know how coherent I was, but I tried to be a good tour guide and intelligently discuss art, politics, and the ethics of museology. We took this photo outside of the museum.
Also attached is a photo of a pin of Urania that I saw at the Hard Rock Cafe earlier in the day. I didn’t know she had dyed her hair.
A report of our observations for the Kokonspiracy file on a possible heist of the British Museum’s Parthenon statuary will be submitted according to procedure S-39b.
Date: July 17, 2016
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Kokonventions, Random craziness
By popular request, here’s an antidote to the Rants and Complaints thread: a place to talk about things you’re happy about. We could all use a little good news.
Continued from the original thread.
Date: November 15, 2015
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Life, Non-Muse news, The Universe, Things We like
Gimanator happened to be in town for a concert, so we got Chinese food and talked for a while about art and life. Unfortunately I didn’t remember the tradition until we were about to part, so this image is the only extant documentation of the event.
It seems many of us have time management and organizational strategies and many of us could share tips. Share them here! Ask questions here!
Ar-har, mateys! ‘Tis the most wonderful time of the year again!
KNOWN PERPETRATORS: POSOC, Dodecahedron, Choklit Orange
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE (under the cut):
I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that MuseBlog has been a hugely positive formative influence on me. But, as I am a scientist at heart, it wasn’t enough for me to just say “I’m sure I’m not alone.†So I asked some of my friends how they felt about having had MuseBlog in their life for ten years.
Also, I (Dodecahedron) baked an honorary cake with Fern. Julia also baked a cake. Then, with the cake-baking fervor going around, Jadestone made some cupcakes. Pics below the fold.
Date: August 1, 2015
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Birthdays, Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Random craziness, Things We like
A place to explore the implications of broad, far-reaching, perhaps wild and crazy notions that insert themselves into your imagination and somehow won’t go away.
Many happy returns of the day to all you hoopy froods who know where your towels are.
We think one of your lines says it all:
What fools these mortals be!
And the rest is silence.
It’s 3/14/15 according to the American date-writing convention, and this thread is set to go live at 9:26. At some point between 53 and 54 seconds later, the world will experience (or will have experienced, depending on when you read this) Pi Moment.
And there was much rejoicing!
DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
-Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015
Date: March 12, 2015
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Non-Muse news, The Universe, Things We like
In my heart
Is the seed of the tree
Which will be me.
Nourished by understanding
Warmed by friends
Fed by loved ones
Matured by wisdom
Tempered by tears.
–Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
Read more »
Things to do:
1. Check the original Lists thread.
2. Find out what it’s all about and how to do it.
3. Return here.
4. Make lists.
Listening, playing, performing, composing.
Continued from v. 2014
Date: January 12, 2015
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Life, The Universe, Things We like
Continued from v. 2012
Date: January 12, 2015
Categories: Articles and Posts by MBers, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe
Robert writes:
Rosanne is in town visiting her parents, so naturally I jumped at the chance to see them all yesterday. We ate rugelach and strange chocolate laced with hot peppers and Pop Rocks, and then Rosanne and I posed for a photos with a little ceramic Kokopelli trivet.
At first, we had trouble sitting still.
Our faces were the last things to settle down.
Finally the picture fell into place.
How’s 2015 working out for you so far? What are your hopes and plans for the year? Reflections? Resolutions? Better write them down while they’re still fresh and new: that squeaky-clean feeling fades fast.
