May 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday (1995)
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-07 Thief of Light’s 5K Day
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992)
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42’s birthday (1996)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992)
05-28 MissSwann’s birthday (1996)
05-28 gradster’s 7K Day
05-29 Selcothe Sikaria’s 6K Day
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 24 and September 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 28 and December 28, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 3 and April 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between June and July 7, 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.

Muse Academy May Ball 2012 — Planning Thread

Amid all the talk of IRL proms, don’t forget that the Academy’s spring formal is coming up soon and needs planning, too. It’s the high point of the academic year, so let’s make it a good one.

For inspiration, you might want to consult the proceedings of May Balls held in 2011, 2010, 2009, and
2008.

What’s Going On

It’s like this:

Previous April Fools’ Day celebrations on the blog consisted of pretend-takeovers by various nefarious entities. MBers were getting tired of that (last year, some of you were so uncomfortable with Victorian diction that you clammed up entirely), so this year we decided we’d do something simpler: We’ve found a bunch of goofy plug-ins and unleashed them on the blog. Text will appear distorted, rainbows and unicorns will appear if you don’t move your mouse every five seconds or so, and — oh, yes — there’s an Asteroids game embedded that will allow you to destroy the home page if you can find and activate it.

Silly enough for for you? If not, try a little Pac-Man:

[Sorry! We’ve taken it offline now. Maybe some other year. –Admin.]

[8:30 p.m. MuseBlog time on April 1: we’ve decided to leave the unicorns and the Asteroids game up overnight for the late-night crowd. Everything else will be restored to what passes for normal around here. Sorry, Comic Sans fans! –Admin.]

April 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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)
04-15 small but fierce’s 5K Day
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995)
04-18 Maths Lover’s birthday (1996)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994)
04-23 Ducky’s birthday (1997)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-26 KaiYves’s 7K Day
04-29 Mikazuki’s 5K Day
04-30 Oxlin’s birthday (1990)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and August 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 29 and November 27, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between February 1 and March 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between May 8 and June 6, 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.

Robert’s Time Capsule: Multivariable Calculus

Page from Robert's multivariable calculus homework

Robert’s annotation:

As late as freshman year in college, I was still doodling in math class — though less productively than Vi Hart. Apparently I was also having trouble finishing my homework on time. This was my first problem set; I tightened up my operations (mostly) later on.

KaiYves’s Spacey Day in New York

KaiYves sent this illustrated report on her spring break:

I wanted to go to a lot of space-related places in the New York area over Spring Break, but the problem is that my parents still had work and my brothers still had school, so my dad told me I could go see them all, as long as I did it all in one day, I woke up at 4 AM to drive into Manhattan with him, and I took cabs in-between all the sites and paid for my own cab fare.

Naturally, I agreed.

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