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Known Muser birthdays this month:*

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-02 The AHHH!’s birthday (19__ – color=?)
05-02 Nora the Violist’s birthday (1993)
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-11 Dancergirl13’s birthday (1994)
05-15 SupremeMuser2000’s birthday (1994 – aquamarine)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992 – blue/purple/green/brown)
05-23 Parmandiriel’s birthday (1989 – silver)
05-28 MemyselfandI’s birthday (1992 – blue)
05-28 MissSwann2233’s birthday (1996)
05-28 Elizabeth’s birthday (1992 – black and white “like a cow”)
05-29 Andrew’s birthday (1995)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 24 and September 23, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 28 and December 28, 1991.

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

Requested by Queen Francois the first.

Our intrepid scriptwriters forge ahead….

Continued from Script Frenzy Countdown

Continued from version 2008.1 because, well, why not?

In which Musers research the habits, tendencies, proclivities, inclinations, preferences, and predilections of other Musers.

Continued from version 2008.1.

Requested by Alice, seconded by Kari, and thirded, we suspect, by most MBers.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: What’s cute?
Hating weddings
Food with no sugar added
Would you rather..?
Favorite fantasy characters
Injuries (worst, weirdest, funniest, etc.)
What’s the topic going to be?

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

04-02 Taiwan Hippo Fan’s birthday (1995 – black, purple, blue)
04-03 Angel’s Holocaust’s (=Majora’s Wrath’s = Gemini Elf’s) birthday (1995 – neon green)
04-06 Frodo (the MuseBlogger)’s birthday (1994 – green)
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)
04-10 Margaret’s birthday (1993 – purple)
04-11 FantasyFan’s birthday (1993 – turquoise)
04-12 Ven’s birthday (1993 – aquamarine)
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990 – blue)
04-21 Tumsymonster’s birthday
04-22 Andromeda pineapple-duck’s birthday (1991)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994 – red or orange)
04-24 book_addict’s birthday (1993 – green)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-27 Em’s birthday (1992 – octarine or black)
04-27 treble_cone_freeeskier!’s birthday (1994 – pink and plaid)
04-27 Bob’s Your Uncle’s birthday (1994 – orange)
04-28 NerdAndProudOf It’s birthday
04-29 Cliff Eagle Teh Pwnage’s birthday (1994 – gold and blue)
04-29 Tyler L.’s birthday (1995 – blue)
04-30 Birthday of oxlin (1990 – chartreuse)
04-30 Princess Heather of Medieval Scotland’s birthday (19__)
04-30 Lord Raguevire the Shadow Mage’s birthday

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and and August 23, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 29 and November 27, 1991.

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

By overwhelming request.

Beforehand: What are your plans for the day? What sort of foolery do you have in the works? How will you avoid becoming an April Fool yourself?

Afterward: Well? How did it go?

(By special request of our New Zealand friends at Muse Academy South, for whom days start earlier than they do in blog time.)

By popular request. Continued from the 2007 edition.

For communicating in other languages and in variants of this one.

Long-term MBer Lizzie sent us three sound files of her playing the violin. It took us several days to convert them to blog-friendly format (sorry, Lizzie), but here they are at last: Part 1

Part 2

Download

Cadenza

Download

Here’s Lizzie’s description:

A few months ago, I asked the blog if anyone would be interested in
hearing a recording of my playing. Several people responded
positively, so I went off and recorded me playing the concerto I was
working on at the time, which was the first movement of Paganini
Concerto no. 1. Since the piece is about 20 minutes long and really
hard to play through well at one sitting, I split it into three parts
(the first part, the part that comes after that and approx. 50
measures of rest, and the cadenza that comes after the second part).
Hopefully, I included them all in attachments in a format that you can
open / post. The first part is probably the best, the second part
contains some really cool parts that may, alas, be slightly out of
tune (or more than slightly, but hey, I’m still a student, and I’m
getting better), and the third part the hardest and most showy (Sauret
cadenza. I swear, that man must have had a horrible childhood or
something, and had this unresolved grudge against the world of
violin-playing, and decided to get it out by writing the hardest, most
evil cadenza he could think of).

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.

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.

For those of you who don’t know, Script Frenzy is NaNoWriMo’s younger sibling, specifically for scripts. This year its auspicious opening day is April 1st. For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is…that’s National Novel Writing Month.

Continued at long last from version 2007.2.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Princesses (real, not fictional, and emphatically not Disney; requested by Kokonilly)
Fairy tales and Disney and such
Spelling mistakes (including one in Harry Potter)
Plans for Easter/spring break and Favorite colors

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – orange)
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – purplecarroty)
03-07 Arianhrod of Orkney’s birthday
03-13 Magus’s birthday (1992)
03-21 M & M’s birthday (1993 – rainbow)
03-22 Violetfire’s birthday (1994 – violet)
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday
03-25 Necromancer’s birthday
03-25 hedgehogboy5’s birthday
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – black, purple, and silver)
03-26 Birthday of Queen Francois the first (1994 – pink)
03-29 Luna the Lovely (formerly Michelle W.)’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-30 Pyro’s birthday
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 24 and and July 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 28 and October 28, 1991.

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

…Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.”

That’s the prize-winning mnemonic that a 10-year-old girl in Montana came up with for keeping straight the planets and dwarf planets of the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris.

The news story doesn’t say whether she’s a Muser, but it seems likely. You can read about it here (spaces have been added to the URL, as usual, to keep spambots from tracing links back to us):

www.space. com/news/ap-080227-planet-mnemonic-contest. html

Of course, we’d be interested in hearing about any other good mnemonics you’ve learned or invented.

February 29 is rarer than a day in June, though less rare than February 30 (which never comes at all). Conservationists are marking the occasion this year by kicking off the Year of the Frog — not to be confused with the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar, which, confusingly, this also is.

Leap Day is also the traditional day when women may propose marriage to men (or, presumably, ask them out) — something that maidenly modesty forbids the other 99.9452% of the time.

How was your Leap Day?

It’s been a while since the last time we had a thread on this ever-popular topic.

It must be frustrating to turn 199 and realize that the really big party is a year off.

A thread for discussing non-romantic relationships.

Continued from Just Friends, Part 2.

Today begins the Year of the Rat on the Chinese lunar calendar. How do you plan to celebrate the noble rodent?