Category: Life

July 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known MBer birthdays this month:*

July 03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996 – light blue/lime green)
July 05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
July 07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
July 09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
July 15 the mole’s birthday
July 19 La Mort, La Vie, L’Amour’s birthday (1992 – black, silver, and red)
July 20 Silver Lining’s birthday (1997 – lime green and silver)
July 21 Moo I’m a Cow’s birthday (1995)
July 22 IBCF’s birthday (1993)
July 26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – sky blue, navy, and bubblegum pink)
July 28 Amelia Peabody’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 24 and November 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between May 4 and June 3, 1990.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in January.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Quotations, 2009.2 Atheism

Continued from Quotations, 2009.1.

Anyone who doesn’t want to argue about the existence or nonexistence of God had better go to Quotations 2009.3.

Reminder: As is the case with all threads dealing with potentially contentious subject matter, this is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions, not brawls. We expect MBers to be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, AND to be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.

Easier said than done, of course. But, as we’ve said before, MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.

Hot Topics, v. 2009.3

This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.

MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.

Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.

Continued from version 2009.2.

Happy 144th Birthday, William Butler Yeats!

The Irishman had a way with words.

The girl goes dancing there
On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth
Grass plot of the garden;
Escaped from bitter youth,
Escaped out of her crowd,
Or out of her black cloud.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!

If strange men come from the house
To lead her away, do not say
That she is happy being crazy;
Lead them gently astray;
Let her finish her dance,
Let her finish her dance.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!

June 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known MBer birthdays this month:*

06-04 Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd’s birthday (1994)
06-05 Potato Chip’s birthday (1994)
06-09 taekwondogirl’s birthday (1996)
06-09 Eli Romley’s birthday (1996)
06-11 yesterdays_kinked_moose’s birthday (1992)
06-13 muselover’s birthday (1997 – green)
06-14 Grant O. turns 7,000 days old
06-19 Raynpho’s birthday (1994)
06-19 Elwing (formerly Sam)’s birthday (1994)
06-20 Kricket’s birthday (1993 – royal purple, gold, and anything sparkly)
06-27 oxlin turns 7,000 days old
06-29 Bluefyre27’s birthday

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between September 24 and October 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between December 28, 1992, and January 26, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between April 4 and May 3, 1990.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Mischief

As graduation nears, pranks proliferate. Here’s a place to discuss them: ones you’ve been involved in, ones you’ve heard about, ones you’ve been involved in but want to pretend you only heard about. Consider it a Kokopellian korrective to the earnestness of the IlluMimiNati.

(Thanks to Kokopelli52 for recommending this topic.)

NinjasSneaky People Needed

For centuries, people have spoken of them in whispers. They are the covert-action wing of the Kokonspiracy: a shadowy cabal devoted to committing anonymous acts — some simple, some spectacular — in the spirit of the Muse known as Mimi. They are the WD-40 that keeps the gears of civilization turning, or at any rate loosens the lug nuts of civilization when they get stuck. Who reshelved that beautiful astronomy book that some idiot had stuck in the middle of the football section, where neither the librarians nor anybody else would ever have found it? They did that, and much, much more besides. Make no mistake about it: Unlike a similarly named supersecret organization depicted in certain popular books, movies, and video games, these are GOOD guys.

They are

The IlluMimiNati.

And they want you.

No membership fee if you sign up now!

May 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known MBers’ birthdays this month.

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-02 Nora the Violist’s birthday (1993)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-08 Peace*’s birthday (1997 – turquoise, black, hot pink)
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-11 Dancergirl13’s birthday (1994)
05-15 JJjetplane-girl w/cats’s birthday (1996)
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42’s birthday (1996 – red)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992 – blue/purple/green/brown)
05-22 RoseQuartz’s birthday (1995 – pale pink and silver)
05-28 Syllabub’s birthday (1996)
05-28 MissSwann’s birthday (1996 – deep purple)
05-28 Elizabeth’s birthday (1992 – black and white “like a cow”)
05-29 Andrew’s birthday (1995)
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994 – turquoise)

Turquoise will be 5,000 days old on May 6.
The Man For Aeiou will be 5,000 days old on May 23.

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 24 and September 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 27 and December 27, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

April 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

04-02 Taiwan Hippo Fan’s birthday (1995 – black, purple, blue)
04-08 Beavo the Great (1995 – neon green or jet black)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994 – “grurple” [=green+purple])
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990 – blue)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995 – indigo)
04-18 trust kokopelli’s birthday (1998 – olive)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994 – red or orange)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-27 Em’s birthday (1992 – octarine or black)
04-27 Zoe’s birthday (1994 – pink and plaid)
04-28 AthenianPsycho’s birthday
04-29 Cliff Eagle’s birthday (1994 – gold and blue)
04-30 oxlin’s birthday (1990 – chartreuse)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and August 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 28 and November 26, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.