Category: Life

March Discussion Thread Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

Current topic:
Pet peeves
Death
Anorexia, recovering from
Wikipedia article about Muse
Home videos
Eclipses
Race? or Guantanamo Bay?
Naruto
Archaeology/Paleoanthropology/Paleontology

March 2007 “Happy Birthday” Thread

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays this month:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – color?)
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – purple)
03-07 Arianhrod of Orkney’s birthday
03-13 Magus’s birthday (1992)
03-21 M & M’s birthday (year? – rainbow)
03-22 Violetfire’s birthday (1994 – violet)
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-25 Bellatrix LeStrange (the MuseBlogger’s)Necromancer’s birthday
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – scarlet, deep purple, and/or gold or silver, or tie-dye)
03-29 Luna the Lovely (formerly Michelle W.)’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-30 kokopellic (gradster1?)’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1990.

February Discussion Thread Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

Current topic: Seinfeld Guitars Musical instruments Airsoft Lego Complaints.

(This topic could last a while. It’s probably good thing that the next chameleon thread is just a few days away.)

February 2007 “Happy Birthday” Thread

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays this month:

02-02 groundhog22 (1989 – denim blue)
02-02 Lady Visala of Reverie (1993 – psychedelic)
02-14 Violindino (1993 – purple)
02-22 Shotgun #10 (1995)
02-26 Ötzi (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1990.

Hot Topics, version 2007.1

Before posting, please read the below-the-fold reminder of what Hot Topics threads are all about.

The first Hot Topics thread was started in November 2005 because discussions on some of the other threads were getting too intense. The Administrators decided to carve out a special space on the blog for (as the original description read) “politics, religion, and anything requiring an extra dose of civility.” The idea was that if MBers wanted to discuss something controversial, they could bring it here and swap opinions and information in ways that didn’t make one another mad. In between controversies, Hot Topics would lie dormant.

People seem to have lost sight of that original purpose. Instead, a lot of MBers evidently think that (1) at any given moment, there always has to be a hot topic in progress, and (2) “Hot Topics” is a place where you’re supposed to try to make other people angry.

Not so. This isn’t talk radio or Fox News. We’re all Musers here. (Every now and then, someone has to finish that sentence.) Please remember what this thread is for, and use it for its intended purpose. And if no potentially inflammatory topics happen to be roiling the blog at the moment, don’t try to manufacture them. Give ’em a rest. Everybody needs a rest sometimes. Oh, and remember: Crusto volanti noli obstare.

Thanks for your attention.

–The Management

January 2007 DiscussionIncredible Morphing Chameleon Thread

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

Current topic: Alcohol Caffeine “The Gilmore Girls” Foreign languages

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

The rules? Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. And, as always, have fun.

January 2007 “Happy Birthday” Thread

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays in January:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992)
01-01 FrigidSymphony’s birthday (1991? – …um…octavarium?)
01-03 Kari’s birthday (1995)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-06 Sir Penguin’s birthday (1994)
01-13 Anonymous Coward’s birthday (1992)
01-13 Kororra’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-17 The Insane Blue Sage’s birthday (1995 – black, silver, green, and red)
01-30 Skipper Nancy Blackett’s birthday (1992)

(And, of course, Muse itself came into being in January 1997.)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1990.

Muse, Pennsylvania

Robert passed through it while driving home to Virginia after spending Christmas with his sister in Ohio. More photos inside.

Muse turned out to be a tiny place, one of those towns that people describe as “a wide spot in the road.” It’s not far off the beaten track, but you probably wouldn’t stumble across it if you weren’t looking for it.

It has a smattering of wooden houses,

two lodge halls (Kokonventioneers take note!), a church or two, a beauty salon, a day school that appears to double as a general store, a post office (see above), an elementary school,

and not much else.

Cell-phone photos taken on a gray, drizzly day in late December probably don’t do it justice. All the same, it’s probably never exactly picturesque.

In other words, it’s absolutely bursting with potential.