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The Polling Place, v. 2013

Polling Place threads: vital source of Muserly information, time-wasting distraction, both, other, or what? (We pick “what?!”)

Continued from v. 2011.2


March 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995)
03-03 Adeliae’s birthday (1997)
03-25 Sans Orchestre’s birthday (1993)
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991)
03-26 Clare de Lune’s birthday (1996)
03-27 ~Cskia’s birthday (1996)
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990)
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 24 and July 24, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and January 31, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between April 7 and May 7, 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.


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Thank You, Kind Friends

Robert writes:

I haven’t mentioned it on the blog until now, but apparently word got out through other channels that my father died on January 26. Much to my surprise — well, no; very little that MuseBloggers do surprises me anymore. But I was touched and moved to receive by email a sympathy card that several of you jointly designed and created.

I’ll tell you more about my father soon and will try to post Time Capsules of some of his proto-proto-Muserly boyhood papers. Although Dad probably never saw MuseBlog (he developed dementia and stopped using computers about the time I started experimenting with WordPress), he contributed to it in important ways, both by helping to make me the person I am and by inventing some of the cornerstones of MB culture. For example, the useful gender-neutral pronoun “en” was his idea, and he would have been delighted to see how it has taken root and flourished on our threads.

I’ll paste in the card itself after the jump. Spoiler alert: it involves space squids. For a naval captain who loved science-fiction, I can think of no more fitting totem animal to guide him on his final voyage.

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Happy 204th birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!

Both were born on February 12, 1809. Both changed the world.


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Hot Topics, v. 2013

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).


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World Domination 101

Advice and support for those applying for internships, trying to figure out what to do with their lives, and generally groping to find their way.


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Dispatches from Collegeland, 2013

We haven’t started a new edition of this thread since 2010. It’s high time, wouldn’t you say?


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February 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997)
02-02 Groundhog22’s birthday (1989)
02-03 Ambystoma Maculatum’s 6K Day
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996)
02-08 Lawson’s birthday (year?)
02-09 Drama Llama’s 5K Day
02-14 Beetles’s 5K Day
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-18 Shadowkat’s 8K Day
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993)
02-26 Kai D.’s birthday (2001)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 27 and June 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 4 and December 31, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between March 10 and April 6, 1991.


Coping, v. 2013

New year, new thread. The original Coping thread described its purpose thus:

Coping with difficult situations, disappointment, depression, boredom, whatever unpleasantness life deals out. What tricks have you learned? What works for you?


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Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!

J. R. R. Tolkien, if he were alive, would be 121 years old today.

Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
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Happy Birthday, Lady Bunniful!

In honor of Rebecca’s birthday, would all Muse Academy students and alumni please rise and sing the Lasley House song:


Take my soul,
Take my mind,
Leave me not a scrap behind.
I don’t care,
I’ll still be
Loyal to my House, Lasleeee.

Take our knees,
Take our butts,
Take our bones and blood and guts.
Lock them up,
Lose the key —
You can’t take my House from me.

I’ll return
Home and free,
Led by serendipity.
You can’t take my House from me!


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Maths Lover’s Christmas Card

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December 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

12-01 Selenium’s 6K Day
12-05 Kokonilly’s 6K Day
12-07 shadowfire’s 6K Day
12-12 Koko’s Apprentice’s 6K Day
12-14 Kagcomix’s 7K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 26 and April 26, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between October 3 and November 2, 1993.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in June.

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


Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan!

(9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996)

Thanks and best wishes from the gang on the pale blue dot.


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November 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (1992 – green)
11-18 Cello-Playing Mathematician’s birthday (1993 – violet)
11-18 Enceladus’s birthday (1996 – purple, blue, and black)
11-26 starr’s birthday (1996 – purple, pink, and silver)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991 – purple)
11-27 Dodecahedron’s birthday (1993 – green)
11-27 Cinnamoon’s birthday (1994)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 24 and March 25, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between September 3 and October 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between December 8, 1990, and January 6, 1991.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in May.

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


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Happy Hagfish Day 2012!

Hagfish in an aquarium

Every year, the highly Muserly website Whale Times devotes the third Wednesday in October to celebrating one of the most unlovable creatures in the ocean, the lowly hagfish. For more information, visit www . whaletimes . org/HagfishDay1 . htm.


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October 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

10-01 Kiki the Great’s birthday (1995)
10-12 Ebeth’s birthday (1991)
10-13 Paul Baker’s birthday
10-16 Kagcomix’s birthday (1993)
10-17 Thanks for All the Fish 42 turns 6,000 days old
10-19 LittleBasementKitten’s birthday (1997)
10-18 Alice turns 7,000 days old
10-25 Red-tailed HAWK’s birthday (1994)
10-25 Randomosity 101’s birthday (1995)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between January 24 and February 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between April 29 and May 29, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between August 3 and September 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between November 7 and December 7, 1990.

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

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


Things for Which We Are Grateful

Requested by Midnight Fiddler, and so obviously a good idea that we’re amazed nobody suggested it years ago.


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September 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

09-01 Ambystoma Maculatum’s birthday (1996)
09-02 Trojan Tiger’s birthday
09-04 Choklit Orange’s birthday (1997)
09-13 Catwings’ birthday (2001)
09-15 The Man For Aeiou’s birthday (1995)
09-17 Castle’s birthday (1997)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990)
09-19 marfwarrior’s birthday (1995)
09-19 IBCF’s 7K Day
09-19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day
09-20 Maths Lover’s 6K Day
09-22 Catkopelli’s birthday (1999)
09-22 Prussia=awesome’s birthday (1999)
09-22 Spudman’s birthday
09-24 Zinc the Sorceress’s birthday (1997)
09-25 Optimatum’s 6K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 25, 1998, and January 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between July 4 and August 2, 1993.

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

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


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Back to School, 2012

It’s that time again (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), and you must want to talk about. So here’s a place to do it, courtesy of your ever-obliging GAPAs.

Actually, Jadestone reminded us with this helpful offer:

Think it’s time for another back to school thread? Since many musers are heading off to college for the first time I’ve been thinking about making a list of less-thought of items I found really useful to have freshman year.


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Hot Topics, v. 2012

We haven’t had a new one of these threads since v. 2011.2. With elections coming up in three months, we’ll probably need one for 2012.

Description:

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).


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Happy Birthday, MuseBlog!

It’s that time of year again: the very date on which our beloved blog erupted onto an unsuspecting Internet, to the discombobulation of just about everybody. It seems like only yesterday, and now suddenly we’re seven years old! Seven eventful years, and nary a squib in the bundle.

Expressions of dysphasic ecstasy and delirious incredulity will be most welcome, of course.


August 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada (1996)
7 August – Koppar (1996)
8 August – small but fierce (1998)
12 August – Sweet Melpomene’s 8K Day
13 August – Pie Girl
21 August – Alice (1993)
22 August – Mikazuki (1998)
25 August – Optimatum’s 6K Day
27 August – Errata (1996), Rainbow*Storm (1997)
28 August – Clare de Lune’s 6K Day
29 August – Cskia’s 6K Day
30 August – Thief of Light (1998)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 28 and March 29, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 3 and July 3, 1993.

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.


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Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

This is the second and final Friday the 13th of 2012. (The first one was in January.) Let’s hear your good-luck stories from the day.


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July 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known MBer birthdays and “K Days” this month:*

July 03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996)
July 05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
July 09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
July 10 Koko’s Apprentice’s birthday (1996)
July 12 Cerulean Pyros’s 6K Day
July 13 Rosebud2’s birthday (1998)
July 15 Reasons.’s birthday (1997)
July 16 Bibliophile’s birthday (1998)
July 18 Fortune Cell’s birthday (1992)
July 20 cromwell’s 6K Day
July 22 Mago Berry’s 5K Day
July 26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994)
July 31 Agent Hippie’s birthday (1997)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 24 and November 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 28 and February 27, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between May 3 and June 2, 1993.

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.


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