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May 25. It’s a “Hitchhiker’s Guide” thing. Do you know where your towel is?

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

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday
05-05 Errata’s 5K Day
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
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)
05-21 MontgomeryGurl’s 7K Day
05-22 RoseQuartz’s birthday (1995 – pale pink and silver)
05-24 Shadowkat’s 7K Day
05-26 Iamisthebest’s 5K Day
05-28 Sequoia’s birthday (1996)
05-30 Em&Em’s birthday (1993)
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, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 27 and December 27, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 3 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.

agrrrfishi requested this thread after attending an assembly at her school, probably prompted by the case of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old girl in Massachusetts who was bullied for several months and finally committed suicide. Here is what agrrrfishi says:

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A good-news counterpart to the FAIL Thread — for describing times when things turn out better than you could have imagined.

By popular request, a place to describe times when things (how shall we put this?) might not have turned out quite as well as one might have wished.

We don’t know why MBers seem so eager to talk about this, but we have a sneaking suspicion that this will turn out to be an unusually popular thread.

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun;
Nor the furious winter’s rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.
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It’s been ages since the last homeschooling thread. We deem it high time for another place to discuss life outside the educational system.

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

04-02 Taiwan Hippo Fan’s birthday (1995 – black, purple, blue)
04-04 You Are Never Safe Without A Towel’s birthday (1997)
04-08 Beavo the Great (1995 – neon green or jet black)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994 – “grurple” [=green+purple])
04-09 Armada turns 5,000 days old
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-11 FantasyFan?!?!’s birthday (1993 – turquoise or any bluish shade)
04-11 Colormaster’s birthday
04-12 Dotty Kay turns 7,000 days old
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990 – blue)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995 – indigo)
04-18 Maths Lover ♥ ‘s birthday (1996 – teal, lilac, hot pink)
04-18 trust kokopelli’s birthday (1998 – olive)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994 – red or orange)
04-22 Cello-Playing Mathematician turns 6,000 days old
04-23 Ducky’s birthday (1997 – black, purple, leopard)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-27 Zoe’s birthday (1994 – pink and plaid)
04-28 Loreena Chatheng’s birthday
04-29 Cliff Eagle’s birthday (1994 – gold and blue)
04-29 Adeia turns 5,000 days old
04-30 oxlin’s birthday (1990 – chartreuse)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 24 and August 22, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 28 and November 26, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between February 1 and March 2, 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.

Listening, playing, performing, composing — it’s a big part of our lives.

Continued from v. 2009.2.

Continued from Quotations, 2010.1.

In which MuseBloggers gather data about that ever-popular topic, one another.

Continued from v. 2009.2.

There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light;
She set out one day,
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.

Unfortunately, we weren’t fast enough to post an announcement on Einstein’s actual birthday (March 14). Nevertheless, on behalf of all the bright young ladies and gentlemen here assembled, MuseBlog thanks him.

March 11, 1952, saw the birth of the man who gave the universe, among many other things, the spaceship Heart of Gold, Marvin the Paranoid Android, the Campaign for Real Time, and the Total Perspective Vortex.

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)
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – carroty)
03-04 bubbles’s birthday (year? – teal)
03-19 Logogeo96’s birthday (1996)
03-20 gimanator is 6,000 days old
03-20 crazyquotescollector is 6,000 days old
03-20 Kagcomix is 6,000 days old
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday (YEAR? COLOR?)
03-23 Optimatum’s birthday (YEAR?)
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – black, purple, and silver)
03-26 The Book Thief (1996 – robin’s egg blue, lime green, and chocolate)
03-27 CTN’s birthday (1996 – red, white, blue, black)
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and February 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.

(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)
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MuseBlog’s resident veterinarian-in-the-making spent part of her weekend monitoring a sick tiger. You can read details on the Random thread. Photos inside.
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By overwhelming demand.

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 2010.1.

Two remarkable people, born thousands of miles apart on the same day in 1809.

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)
02-02 Shadow Gallery’s birthday (1993 – psychedelic)
02-03 Miss Swann and Sequoia turn 5,000 days old
02-04 Tessera Rose’s birthday
02-04 Der Wachtelschlag (Queenie J) turns 6,000 days old
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996 – red and black)
02-11 jammin j turns 6,000 days old
02-12 Dot Keet’s birthday (1991 – bright orange)
02-15 Eli Romley and taekwondogirl turn 5,000 days old
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-21 Karrdash’s birthday (2000 – red)
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, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 4 and December 31, 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.

Continued from Quotations, 2009.4.

By popular request, here’s an antidote to the Rants and Complaints thread: a place to talk about things you’re happy about. We could all use a little good news.

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 2009.5.

The author of The Lord of the Rings would have been 118 years old today (January 3, 2010).

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

“He [Bilbo Baggins] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step onto the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.'”
–Frodo, in The Fellowship of the Ring

Known Muser birthdays and 5K Days this month*:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-01 Elias Eiholzer-Silver’s birthday (1991 – no color, but loud heavy metal music)
01-02 BlackBird’s birthday (1999)
01-03 SilverLeopard’s birthday (1998)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-04 ZVX’s (or ☮iŹ√Ҳ!☮’s) birthday (year? – black)
01-05 Alyss (the green one)’s birthday (1994 – green)
01-12 Faye Beauchamp’s birthday (1989)
01-13 penguini’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-21 JJjetplane-girl and Thanks For All The Fish42 are 5,000 days old
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday
01-23 Alice turns 6,000 days old
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995)
01-29 Sunrunner Bramblewood turns 6,000 days old
01-30 The Skipper Nancy’s birthday (1992 – yellow or sea-green)
01-31 Dandelions Are Wildflowers’ (::DAW::’s) birthday (1992)
01-31 Birthday of greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (1994 – rainbow)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 3 and December, 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.