MuseBlog

A place to describe times when things might not have turned out quite as well as one might have wished.

Continued from the original FAIL Thread.

Do you think it’s time 2011 had its own Polling Place thread, yes or no?

Continued from v. 2010.

Known MBers’ birthdays and “K Days” this month.

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday (1995)
05-05 Rainbow*Storm and Kiga’s 5K Day
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-13 Choklit Orange’s 5K Day
05-14 Pax the Hamster’s 6K Day
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42’s birthday (1996 – red)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992 – blue/purple/green/brown)
05-28 MissSwann’s birthday (1996)
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994 – turquoise)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 23 and September 22, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 27 and December 27, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 2 and April 1, 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.

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

Suggested by recent exchanges on the Rants and Plaints thread.

You gave us words, and worlds.
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Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

04-02 THF’s birthday (1995)
04-08 Beavo’s birthday (1995)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994)
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-11 FantasyFan?!?!’s birthday (1993)
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995)
04-18 Maths Lover ♥ ‘s birthday (1996)
04-18 trust kokopelli’s birthday (1998)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994)
04-23 Ducky’s birthday (1997)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-27 Robert’s 20K Day
04-30 oxlin’s birthday (1990)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 24 and August 22, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 28 and November 26, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between February 1 and March 1, 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.

The United States stands almost alone in writing the date March 14 numerically as 3-14. Change the hyphen to a period, and you have the first three digits of pi. Contrived, yes — but any excuse for a party, we say.

(Tau-ists, please hold your peace. Your day will come.)

Suggested by Piggy. His description:

We could share factoids we’ve read, advice from personal experience, observations about the world, what-have-you. Everyone learns something new every day, and I’d like a place to share.

Continued from Part 3.

Please put a period somewhere early in the post — perhaps after the song title. Otherwise the lyrics will clog the recent comments panel.

Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.

Continued from version 2009.2.

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

03-01 Nighthawk’s birthday (1996 – actually February 29!)
03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – orange)
03-02 Jadestone’s 7K Day
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – carroty)
03-04 bubbles’s birthday (year? – teal)
03-07 bluefire27’s 5K Day
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday (YEAR? COLOR?)
03-23 Optimatum’s birthday (1996)
03-24 Goldendoodle’s 6K Day
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – black, purple, and silver)
03-26 Clare de Lune’s birthday (1996 – robin’s egg blue, lime green, and chocolate)
03-27 ~Cskia’s birthday (1996 – red, white, blue, black)
03-27 Kokopelli #13’s 6K Day
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-29 Silver Lining’s 5K Day
03-29 Red-tailed HAWK’s 6K Day
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)
03-31 The Skipper Nancy’s 7K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and January 31, 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.

Requested by Midnight Fiddler; seconded by Armada.

Before the day ends, the GAPAs want to thank you again for your services to civilization.

Listening, playing, performing, composing.

Continued from v. 2010.

Requested by Cat’s Eye, who wrote, “Can we have a Manifesto thread? Just, like, a thread where people post big philosophical statements they try to live their life by, or epiphanies they just had, or thoughts about life they’ve had rolling around in their brain for a while?”

Two of our favorite things! Now, let’s hear Choklit Orange’s ratatouille recipe.

Continued (loosely speaking) from v. 2009.

We had fun with this topic on the second January random thread, so let’s give this a try. Post your new calendars, improvements to the existing calendar, new systems of timekeeping, or disquisitions on other ways people have kept track of time in the past.

MBers at all grade levels have been talking about this lately, so we’re giving the topic its own thread.

Triggered by a comment from Vendaval:

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

02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997 – *confusion* purple, black, and gold
02-02 groundhog22’s birthday (1989 – denim blue)
02-04 Tessera Rose’s birthday
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996 – red and black)
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-18 TreeCafe’s 5K day
02-19 muselover’s 5K day
02-26 Ötzi’s birthday (1993 – cerulean)
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993-purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 22, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 4 and December 31, 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.

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.

For whatever it’s worth, the American Pie Council (www . piecouncil . org/) has declared every January 23 National Pie Day. Although the APC seems to focus mainly on eating pies rather than, you know, we think this new holiday is a peach of an idea (peach pie — yum!) and encourages MBers of all lands to embrace it wholeheartedly. Those who can’t will get another chance when Pi Day rolls around on March 14.

Pie stories, anyone?

Continued from Dreams, v. 2010.

For times when you need HELP!!!

(You can read the 2010 edition here.)

Whatever your medium, if it’s visual, here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas.

Continued from Visual Arts, 2010.

As hobbits might put it, Professor Tolkien would have been eleventy-nine years old today.

The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Tolkien woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Tolkien‘s Day.