The Coptic Orthodox New Year, known as Nayrouz or Nairuz, fell on September 12 (by our calendar). Above is a Coptic cross, a symbol strongly associated with this religious holiday.
Continued from Part One.
Patience, Please
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Hehe, MB in pirate? Interesting.
Anyway, done with classes for today! I don’t even understand how that works.
Except now I have a lot of time and a lot of work and I should probably combine the two but I will probably procrastinate and draw a comic first.
Banjo music and the smell of woodsmoke are wafting into my room on this absolutely beautiful day. I love it here.
We thought you would.
Oh my. Pirate MuseBlog? I approve.
I’m applying for an internship at an preserve to do research on the ecology there. I’m beyond excited! I’ll let you guys know if I get it.
I’da forgotten we’d be talkin’ like pirates t’day, fer I was too busy worrying about the effects of detergent on beta-lactamase, an’ more importantly, where I could possibly fin’ sources about it that are legit but not too technical. Infermation on this is like gold t’ me, ye hear? Now, I’m a-going on a treasure hunt through scientific journals. Arrrgh!
Oh cool, it turns whatever I say into pirate!
I should be doing homework right now.
Meh, I would much rather focus on my goal of converting my two best friends to Whovianism.
I forgot today was talk like a pirate day. *headdesk* Why do I always forget about talk like a pirate day?
Ah well. I be approvin’ of this here translating thing. (:
Oh, look, a pirate-speech-generator thing…
I always miss TLAPD. I think this is the first year ever I haven’t… Silly me.
Yo-ho, ye salty sea dogs! I be the first mate o’ The Whalebasher. A finer ship there isn’t anywhere. Our Cap’n be blind, but she still be scary wi’ a gun. She steers, so we hit whales a lot. Our lookout has only one leg and a peg. She be good at sightin’ the whales–not so good at stopping us from hittin’ them. She lost her leg in a battle wi’ a whale. ‘Twas the same whale that swallowed me up. My shipmates rebuilt me, but I got a hook for a hand and no hair but me beard. Our cabin boy be Wench. She don’t have no name or hair. A shark ate it. She cleans me cabin wi’ a parrot on her shoulder. Arrrrrrrrrrrr!!
(Have I told you I love my friends yet? )
Yarr!
Frozen yogurt has got to be the best food anyone ever thought of. It’s like ice cream mixed with a popsicle.
Also, it is very hot today and this makes me sad. Autumn, what is you doing?!
Demigod RPG in pirate is absolutely hilarious, and so is Medieval Fantasy.
Have you tried Letters, England?
Let’s see what the translator turns my comment into.
In other news, my parents now watch Star Trek with me.
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, MuseBlog! I was going to celebrate by watching Pirates of the Caribbean, were it not a school day … So instead I’m listening to the soundtrack while doing my pile of homework. Dum dadadada dum dum dum …
I’ll just test out this plug-in here:
This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
except for the ones who are dead
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying ’till you run out of cake
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
I’m not even angry
I’m being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart and killed me
And torn it pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time
So I’m glad I got burned
Think of all the things we learned
For the people that are still alive
Go ahead and leave me
I think I prefer to stay inside
Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you
Maybe Black Mesa
That was a joke, ha ha, fat chance
Anyway this cake is great, it’s so delicious and moist
Look at me still talking, when there’s science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I’m not you
I’ve experiments to run, there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive
And believe me I am still alive
I’m doing science and I’m still alive
I feel fantastic and I’m still alive
While you’re dying I’ll be still alive
And when you’re dead I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive
I just impulsively sang the whole song because you posted lyrics.
WHAT DID IT TRANSLATE TO I MUST KNOW TELL ME NOW
Oh no, I appear to have missed Talk Like A Pirate Day on MuseBlog.
My friend and I remembered at school and drew pirates during Calculus.
Yeah me too. Nobody else seems to be speaking Pirate, though.
They didn’t have to. We were running a plug-in that automatically translated the entire blog into Pirate.
I miss it…. I also missed it. Meh. Anyway, I like the squiddddd! Squiddy squid. Hehehe squid. SQUIDZ!
SQUID
SQUID FOREVER
ON A RELATED NOTE I SAW SOMEONE WEARING A SHIRT YESTERDAY THAT HAD A GIANT SPACE SQUID ON IT, ABOUT TO DEVOUR EARTH
IT WAS SO GREAT
So what happens when ten squid are accumulated? Or ten squid and ten pies?
Nothing in particular. The way things are set up at the moment, 10 pies still turn a post pink, but the squid have no effect.
You’ll notice that pies and squid are mutually exclusive — i.e., once you’ve pied a comment, you can’t then “squid” it, and vice versa. Of course, you can get around that restriction the same way some people go in for multiple pieing, if you like. I think it makes sense in principle, though. The way squid have been bestowed on the blog heretofore (in sympathy) doesn’t overlap much with the pies’ approximate “like” function.
I understand this but also I am quite excited because SQUID so all the random squids people will get that don’t make sense in that context are probably just me excitedly clicking things.
There’s that, too.
I’m sorry these aren’t as elegant as your drawings, but ’twas best I could manage on a 15 pixel x 15 pixel canvas.
They’re perfect!
My only fear is we will overuse squids for a while, oversquidding everything and forgetting pies exist.
Fear not, but brace yourself for the inevitable.
That would make a good motto, wouldn’t it? Maybe Piggy will tell us what it sounds like in Latin.
Noli timere, sed te compa ad inevitabilem.
Very sonorous. I’ll have it posted in the Muse Academy exam rooms.
We have written exams at Muse Academy?
I don’t believe I have described the exams. But nobody familiar with Icelandic weather would be surprised to hear that most of them take place indoors.
Decrivez, s’il vous plait.
It’s your perfect school. Why don’t you describe them to me?
I imagine they’ll be something like the ones at the New York Circulating Material Repository.
I was chatting with Pollyhymnia just this morning. Next time I’ll ask her how her new book is coming along.
Give her our best!
I like how when you’ve squidded a post, the squid turns black. It’s like it suddenly becomes a demonic evil squid from the inky black depths of the Netherworld.
Oh! They’re squid. I thought it was corn. Blue corn.
A list of things:
-We bought two canaries over the weekend, and I have named them F. Scott Tweetzgerald and Harper Twee.
-I’m really good at physics, and I really like it a lot.
-Boston University has been added to my college list. Which is currently only BU and Cornell.
-Canaries really like bananas and figs and it’s so cute oh my lord.
If you mouse over them, a label will pop up. (Its precise appearance probably depends on your browser.)
I THINK I’M GETTING SICK
SQUID GODS, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME??!?!
Squid gods… like Cthulhu?
SQUID SQUID SQUID SQUID SQUID
So are they like like buttons? Or are they like when you give someone a squid for sympathy or celebration or whatever?
They’re intended to be used as we normally use squids, as Robert expressed in 17.1.
That’s sensible, isn’t it? They are squids.
Quite sensible, I think.
Well, it’s not as if we use pies the way we normally use pies.
Well blow me down, I missed Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Oh well, I’m doing well enough otherwise.
SQUIDDDDDDDDDDD
So, anybody up for an impromptu equinox SPACE meeting in the H&H tomorrow?
Well… I was going to go post on R&P, but I just finished The Sign of the Four and it gave me so many warm fuzzies that I don’t have the heart to rant about anything. I love it when that happens. <3
SQUID
Sympathy squid buttons. I LOVE IT.
SQUID SQUID SQUID SQUID SQUID!
So, yeah, a good day today. You know it’s going well when you walk into Algebra and hear the teacher shouting, “We’re going to do some hardcore graphing today!”
hmm, anyone in portland or the general portland area (i guess?) : IS THE WEATHER REALLY BAD DURING JANUARY?
i’m hoping i have enough money saved by the end of the semester to take a small trip but fsdkjh
i don’t mind rain/cold that much but i am also…..from california…..so that doesn’t mean much. cold is 65 and below 8|
i suppose i should figure out what i want to do first. hmm. UGH I NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS STATE GSDKJHSG
You could come to Nebraska! The average high in January in Lincoln is 33 degrees. But don’t worry, the wind chill’s much lower than that. And there’s an average of 6.1 inches of precipitation, so there’ll be snow as well.
WEEPS
WHAT IS SNOW
You’re going to college in Portland? Cool! Get ready for some expert advice!
I lived in the Willamette Valley, an area (in Oregon, of course) with weather very similar to Portland’s. The winters are very wet. It rains almost every day, but it usually doesn’t go below 30-40 degrees. There is usually at least one snowfall of at least an inch every year. The most snow we had in recent past was two years ago, with eight inches. Also about once a year everything gets covered in ice.
Anyway, temperature-wise, November=50, December=40, January=30-40, February=50. Pretty much. And bring your umbrella!
Oh, and the snow usually happens in January. Because it’s colder. Just thought I would point that out.
alas, i go to school in california in addition to living here for the last 19 years, which is the reason i want to LEAVE!!!! for at least a few days over winter break
maybe i’ll wait till spring, hmm. what are must sees in portland? lol sorry you are clearly a tour guide who knows everything
Why thank you! If Alice could migrate over here she should know a lot of stuff, too.
Note that I’m not actually from Portland so I really only know the touristy things.
The number one must-see is Powell’s books, the largest independently-owned bookstore in America. With four floors and the area of a city block, it is easy to get lost in the labyrinth of books.
OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) is interesting as well. If the Narnia exhibit is still there when you go, don’t pay for it; it’s not worth the extra $2. Anyway, the museum usually has one or two cool exhibits along with a bunch of permanent stuff. Beware of small children that usually roam the permanent exhibits.
There’s the Portland Art Museum if that interests you. There aren’t any masterpieces or anything like that, but there is a range of art from all sorts of continents and time periods.
Pioneer Courthouse Square is the main, for lack of a better word, square in Portland, and there might be stuff going on in the spring. There is an echo point in the middle that’s pretty cool.
The Pearl district is where all the fancy people and expensive stores are. Also some weird sculptures.
Portland has a pretty cool downtown, so exploring is a good option. Apparently there are also a lot of stairs, but I’ve never really taken a leisurley stroll around the city. My trips were usually business-related, such as going to the airport or getting my cello fixed. Again, Alice might be able to provide you with more information.
Haha, sorry if that’s a little dry; it’s 1:30am.
I love how almost every post in Recent Comments has “squid” or “SQUID” or “SQUIDDDDDDDDDDD”. ♥
CO – Ooh, hardcore graphing. I hope the class lived up to that hype.
Oh cool, squid! I accidentially squidded some posts. This will take some getting used to but SQUID. Thank you, GAPAs.
Hey, does this mean we could have squid emoticons? That would be FLAMMY. Or maybe that’s not possible; I don’t really know. Then I went to Flute’s house and we hung out and then we went out for dinner. It’s my sister’s birthday, and I’m wearing socks that I tie-dyed! Cool! And my tablet is being a cakehead again so I am back in the dialup age (aka using a laptop) but I don’t mind; I’m in a pretty good mood!
Today I tie-dyed in pep band. My thumb got dyed yellow. My friends and I kind of have like a gigantic inside joke about this so we laughed for about an hour. Not to mention that I was dying the shirt with an object of romantic interest (R+R thread if you happen to be interested in listening to me rant for half an hour about office supplies and tie dye and my younger sister, if not never mind) so yeah, interesting day. We’re playing a lot of stand tunes and I Gotta Feeling (the Black Eyed Peas song) is one of them and we got them today and it was the same adaption that I played around twenty thousand years ago in my beginner band at band camp. OH NO A BEGINNER BAND ARRANGEMENT but it’s okay because my object of romantic interest is there to share my agony with me; he hates it too ALL WE HAVE IS QUARTER NOTES and again this should go on R+R but Hey, we have squid! When did we get squid? Squid are awesome!
Wow, that was a really unstructured post! Anyway, bye!
I am continually amazed at the way this blog continues to evolve. Squids. I mean, SQUIDS. It’s indescribable, the way these things start and become part of the blog. Although we should probably add squids to the HG2MB now.
That would be helpful.
There is no better feeling than pulling one’s hair out to read Montesquieu and write a paper about his allegory of the Troglodytes in relation to the expansion of absolutist monarchy in early 18th century France only to get an email from the professor saying that the due date has been pushed back two days and also here’s a few helpful hints.
But it just smells like late summer again. I wonder what happened to autumn.
After a few days of O-Week, I’m really surprised at how many people did or tried drugs/alcohol in high school. Like, a lot of people. Actually, now that I think about it, I was one of the only people in my high school that hadn’t tried drugs/alcohol, so I shouldn’t be so surprised. Anyways, I haven’t been to a frat party yet, and I’m not planning on it. My (future) friends need to accept that I don’t do loud parties with alcohol.
There was an open mic tonight with free coffee, as in, made like at Starbucks coffee. So I drank some, and then I needed to practice cello, so I practiced cello at 11:00 at night. In the creepy basement of the dorm.
Our high school has signs up that say “64% of [our high school] students don’t drink regularly! Join the crowd!”
That means 1 in slightly less than 3 do. And that part of that 64% drink irregularly. *facepalm*
We have those too! And we have one that say “80% of students don’t smoke marijuana!” 1 in five people smoking marijuana sounds like quite a lot to me.
Ooh! Squid!
Eh. I am tired of late.
Squid!
Yay, lots of French vocabulary to memorise…
Now, I forget: what purpose exactly do squid serve?
Sympathy, usually.
But also sometimes celebration. Such as *congratulatory squid*.
Space.
SPAAAAAAACE
Thoughts on the squids:
Squid is going to very soon become a verb
People, especially those using iPods/kindles etc like me, are going to start missing the pie and hitting the squid, or vice versa.
Maybe I can find a way to put more space between them.
So wouldn’t that be…
*sunglasses*
A giant squid space?
I already do that with pies and spam, depending on how the layout falls. (Don’t worry, I can undo the spam errors, but there are still nonsense pies floating about. Not that I can take credit for all of them.)
In GAPA layout is the spam button near the pie, then?
It depends on the monitor. Tiny screens squash everything together, and if you have blunt fingers, strange things can happen.
“Approve” is usually stacked between “pie” and “spam.”
Squid me!
isdfh
I’m doing the whole 5.5-hours-of-sleep thing this week it seems, oops.
Anyway yesterday was a friend’s bday, so we surprised him with a vegan cake (with frosting!). It was fun. I also rewatched the 3rd ep of sherlock, and an episode of Torchwood with friends.
Organic chemistry is hard
5.5-hours-of-sleep is a perfectly reasonable way to function, what do you mean??? O.O (Crazy-eyes)
Organic chemistry is awesome, but hard.
I think she means she’s getting too much sleep. You know, with Jadestone, the whole ‘SLEEP, WEEK, ETC.’ thing.
Okay so we had a sub in band today.
First all the percussionists dropped their sticks with more accuracy than their entrances in the songs.
Then the euphoniums played the wrong song ON PURPOSE. She didn’t notice, and I only found out because they both ride my bus and mentioned it afterward.
Trombone section was laughing hysterically the whole time as was the tuba and half the trumpets. Guilty partly because I was sitting next to an Object of Romantic Interest. Enough said. “Everyone gets schooled by a teacher!”
If my director doesn’t get back soon my head’s gonna implode. From laughing. And frustration.
And playing too loud.
I got my new used tenor back from the shop! It is playing well. I would record scales but the antivirus software my dad installed is making it lose in a race to a snail. Seriously the snail could evolve into an intelligent being and advance its technology in order to build a much more sophisticated computer and program it and make it work and build a saxophone and record scales by the time it took this PC to open my program.
Then my friend ruined the bus ride by saying something involving school administrators. And Doctor Who. And the next season having Mr. Administrator and Ms. Administrator be the Doctor and his companion next season. So now I am scarred for life.
And I don’t care what time train number two arrives at the station, even if they are giving me high school credit.
Interesting day overall.
So, it clouded over and they canceled observing, but we still got to hang out at Astronomy Club and talk about astronomy and I got to calculate the escape velocity of Mercury and we tried to work out the Drake Equation and… yeah, it was fun even without any observing.
SQUIIIID!
I now have Internet.
There is a woodpecker in my backyard. A red-bellied woodpecker. Not always,
but often. I’ve never seen en, but I hear en.
I get to do Science Olympiad!! But they’re not doing Ornithology this year.
I just found out that at least one of the people who keeps asking me about
tardigrades is making fun of me, which is a pity, because I’d just given
them the lyrics to the water bear song. As to the others, I still have no
idea. The questions are sometimes bizarre, but…
Anyway, they’re fun to answer.
Re: Pottermore: I’m in Hufflepuff!!! I’m a bit surprised; I expected Ravenclaw. I don’t
mind, though; it’s my favorite house. But I am SO jealous of the Slytherin
common room. Not just envious, really jealous; I’ll have to put a talking
portrait of J.A.E. Goeze in there or something, because there’s is TOO
AMAZING. Their common room, I mean; obviously the Slytherins don’t have his
portrait; even theirs isn’t quite that awesome. But they regularly see giant
squids, mermaids, grindylows, and everything else outside their window; I
ask you, is that fair?!!
And my wand has unicorn hair and is unyielding, just like I always dreamed
it would be!! And elm! Squee!
I have a pet Natterjack toad! Not in real life, but still! I named him Klönen Hansel Ekel, Hansel for short, because it literally means natter jack toad in German.
New seating arrangements in science have me sitting with the girl who knew about tardigrades. I’m quite lucky, I suppose. She draws really, really well, too.
Now that I live in Chicago, I feel obligated to visit Muse headquarters. Of course, I have no idea where it is and won’t have any time until the middle of winter, but still.
I have a physics test today on light/optics and I have no idea what I’m doing.
We just took our first test yesterday, on acceleration and velocity and such, and the class was 9.4/15. I got a 10, so I mean, I didn’t do too badly. Waiting for the second part to be graded is killing me, though. I hope you did well!
I got 103 on the first test (sound) so that should help offset this one… It was 10 multiple choice and 5 problems plus a bonus. I guessed on a few multiple choice, didn’t have time to do the bonus, and kind of just muddled through and wrote stuff down for #3. The rest were okayish though… Hoping for something in the 80s.
Guys, I’m leaving MuseBlog, for reasons I’d rather not go into. I’ll say indefinitely, but it’s probably forever. It’s nothing to do with any of you, rest assured; I still love you all. You’re fantastic.
G’bye. ♥
I’m sad to hear that; you’ll be missed; and I hope you have a marvelous life, whether or not we’re a part of it! Adieu.
Um… okay. Safe travels. We’ll miss you.
Goodbye, ZNZ. We’ll miss you.
*sob* I am so sorry you have to leave. We will all miss you so so so much. :'(
I’ll miss you. Calo Anor Na Ven.
Oh, ZNZ, ZNZ, we’ll miss you, have a good happy life, take care and goodbye. *huggles and squids*
I’m sorry to hear that, but I wish the very best for you anyways. May there be many squids and pies in your life, even if we’re not part of it.
It’s almost like the GAPAs knew that this was going to happen, and added the squids for that purpose. Goodbye, ZNZ.
We didn’t, though.
Yes, I figured as much.
We’ll miss you!
…I am so glad I have other ways of communicating with you. (And by the way, the pm;y websites I’m talking about have links in prominent places on this website, so everyone else, please don’t worry; there is nothing here that I’m not allowed to talk about–just the Cricket ChatterBox and NaNo and such).
SQUIIIID!
I now have Internet.
There is a woodpecker in my backyard. A red-bellied woodpecker. Not always, but often. I’ve never seen en, but I hear en.
I get to do Science Olympiad!! But they’re not doing Ornithology this year.
I just found out that at least one of the people who keeps asking me about tardigrades is making fun of me, which is a pity, because I’d just given them the lyrics to the water bear song. As to the others, I still have no idea. The questions are sometimes bizarre, but…
Anyway, they’re fun to answer.
I’m in Hufflepuff!!! I’m a bit surprised; I expected Ravenclaw. I don’t mind, though; it’s my favorite house. But I am SO jealous of the Slytherin common room. Not just envious, really jealous; I’ll have to put a talking portrait of J.A.E. Goeze in there or something, because there’s is TOO AMAZING. Their common room, I mean; obviously the Slytherins don’t have his portrait; even theirs isn’t quite that awesome. But they regularly see giant squids, mermaids, grindylows, and everything else outside their window; I ask you, is that fair?!!
And my wand has unicorn hair and is unyielding, just like I always dreamed it would be!! And elm! Squee!
I have a pet Natterjack toad! I’m not sure what to name en, though. Ideas of mine are Heidrun (not after the goat who eats from the tree of life and produces mead from her udder, because it means secret heaths, and they love heaths)
Okay, I want everyone’s thoughts on CERN recording neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. Especially Robert, since he’s probably known about it forever.
I have heard of neutrinos! It is kind of an interesting concept, as well as a really good base for a science fiction novel. I still can not quite wrap my mind around the concept of anything going faster than light, though.
There. I am sure my thoughts on this aren’t very analytical, but hey, you wanted them.
Experimental error?
Big gaping hole in physics?
AWESOME.
Would they be going backwards in time, then?
It’s not exactly clear. Assuming they’re correct and there wasn’t some experimental error they haven’t found (which is a distinct possibility), a hefty chunk of Einstein’s special theory of relativity is out the window and we have to rethink a lot of what we think we know about quantum physics.
I read an article about it online and it said that the difference was so tiny that it might have been a mistake, but the same results were found in another experiment done before this one. Anyway, the good folks at CERN are going to improve the equipment and try again.
If the results are true, then the really mind-boggling thing would be that something with mass (no matter how tiny) can move faster than light, which has no mass (as far as I know).
Little particles moving backwards in time as we go forward–that would be craziness. Maybe they’re debris from the end of the universe?
Isn’t there a theory that antimatter is going backward in time?
I think we should wait and see if it can be repeated.
I agree. Consistency would be a better indicator of accuracy.
If it’s true, it’s pretty freaking cool. If it’s not true, science is still pretty freaking cool.
Did anybody notice that you can now do a Google Search using your voice? The have a Voice Recognition button in the search bar now.
ME GUSTA.
*smiles* Today has been a good day. It’s like today was meant to make up for the cake that happened yesterday and the day before. For once I didn’t have to hurry to be on time to school, I wasn’t sleepwalking through class for the first time this week, I had fun in my classes, a stranger complimented my hair right before I went to get my school picture taken, I hung out with my friends, the Brain Game team meeting went wonderfully, I got the Castlevania games I ordered from amazon.com SEVEN DAYS EARLY, my computer actually connected to the internet immediately, and Ducky shared great news with me.
I am a happy squid.
Days like that are the best.
Since I did not have a good day, I am happy that someone else in the world did.
Congratulations, I like happy squids.
Ants play-fight.
And chimpanzees have been recorded making spears and brutally killing animals with them.
My mind is blown.
Where did you find this out? Is it a reputable source?
The ant play-fighting is from a nonfiction book called The Year of the Ant written by a respected entomologists who clearly tries very hard not to anthropomorphize (which my spell check doesn’t accept, even though it accepts anthropomorphizing :roll:–and succeeds, as far as I can tell. He doesn’t call it play-fighting; he calls it mock fighting, and he doesn’t explain it, but he says they do it. It could easily just be instinctual exercise or something–after all, it said afterward that the ant mainly focused on in the book, after mock fighting, was in a good enough physical condition to move on to the next task. But it’s still amazing. I tried to find information about it on the Internet, but it was impossible. It’s a great book, by the way; I don’t agree with all of the author’s opinions, but everything’s really fascinating, and I’ll never look at ants the same way again, I’ve learned so much.
My brother told me about the chimpanzees; I’ll ask where he got the information from. He says not all chimpanzees do this; as far as we know it’s just in one area, but anyway, since Muse says that young ones already use sticks as dolls, it would be a logical next step.
So should I do YWP and set a lower word goal since I might be really insanely busy or just go for 50000? This is my first time and all my other novels have been written over the span of years so I really do not know how fast I write. Advice?
I downloaded the sound of a space shuttle liftoff as my ringtone. Life is good.
MUST FINISH MEMORIZING PERIODIC TABLE BY TOMORROW
SLEEP, WEAK, ETC
OH MY WE HAVE TO DO THAT BY MONDAY AS WELL
SQUID, CHOKLIT, ETC
Ah, just finished it, posting this from my iPod while others are still finishing the test. Methinks I did well.
I wanted to go to Ecuador on a school trip, but apparently you have to be a good swimmer to go. Cake!!
I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM THE INTERNET THAT I STILL PROUDLY SHIP JAMES/LILY
Sorry, but Sev/Lily FTW.
Why shouldn’t you be proud of that? It’s canon!
(But then, as you’ve seen, the extent of my personal shipping is limited to real-life couples who have been happily married for many years…)
On a tangent: my friend Egeus now reports that I have had such an influence on him that when he’s reading his history textbook and comes across sentences like “the embargo damaged the shipping industry”, or “shippers sent goods to Britain”, or even “cotton was shipped across the Atlantic”, he has a moment of confusion before he realizes the book means naval ventures.
On that note… how do I describe shippers to friends who have no experience with them? It’s a difficult concept to define and all of the things I’ve come up with sound weird as cake.
I don’t think that’s possible, POSOC. Shipping is weird as cake.
“‘Shipping’ comes from ‘relationship’. When people say they ‘ship’ characters, it means they wish for those characters to have a romantic relationship, or support the relationship that already exists between them.”
…Cotton was shipped across the Atlantic? Speaking of history, I am now a diehard cotton/Increase Mather shipper. I don’t even remember who Increase is, but…
They are Meant To Be. Cotton Mather proves it. He wasn’t a real, historical person; he was Increase Mather wearing cotton, symbolizing and affirming their union, Either that or it’s their child; I’m not sure which. Time period doesn’t matter. Anyway, they lived near that ocean! It makes sense! I should write a historical novel about this! Or should it be a theory in a historical paper? Oh, the possibilities…
Were those two squids because people like what I said or because they feel sorry for me?
I think people are just overusing squids out of excitement about squids.
Sleep, weak, etc.
Actually that’s a lie, I just want to go to sleep. I have lit and physics to do though. Maybe I’ll do physics in the morning, if I can get up early enough.
This has been a pointless post brought to you by Oh God I’m So Tires And I Definitely Won’t Be Able To Keep Up My Streak Of Staying Awake In Stat Class Now
You’re tires? Oh dear.
Actually I’m jet engines so
I am Saturn V F-1s, baby.
Augh. I was just hanging out with my friends tonight and I feel like I got frustrated with them. Being frustrated is fine. What happened next frustrated me more though as I felt I acted somewhat childishly in response. On the other hand, I really do get frustrated with the response of “you’ve never seen /x/?!” when I say I haven’t seen a kid’s cartoon show/disney movie. No, I didn’t watch many of those as a kid. Yes my experience is just as valid as yours. I also get that response with video games. I also acknowledge that I am sometimes one of those people saying “you’ve never seen Princess Bride?!” so then I just feel hypocritical. I also got frustrated with a friend for trying to regulate when I was doing my homework. I’d brought Russian homework along to do bits of it but I didn’t need to do it all in chunks.
Fortunately then the topic turned to people teaching me this really neat martial art (well, the basics) and then to self defense and then to this guy’s time in Indonesia and then to same guy’s efforts to start a writing magazine.
(Referring to comments 17 et seq.):
Polly Shulman reports that she is writing away on her latest book-in-progress, a sequel to The Grimm Legacy with different characters. It’s called The Wells Bequest and involves science-fiction objects, including several time machines.
Beyond that, I am sworn to silence.
Ooooh! That sounds cool!
It just occurred to me: why would you need several time machines? Are some models faster or sportier or more comfortable than others? I guess the TARDIS’s cargo capacity would be handy if you had a big family…
You need several stowed away in convenient locations in case one breaks and leaves you stranded in the past.
If I had two time machines, I’d put one inside the other, and then set one to go forward 1000 years and the other to go backwards 1000 years, just to see what would happen.
a) It does nothing. Maybe the entire thing overheats and explodes, but overall nothing happens.
b) Congratulations. You have just succeeded in destroying the universe.
wouldn’t only one move then? the first would go forward and stay there, and the second would ‘come back’. thought this is assuming that it is not confined by being inside the other one, idk
or maybe you just accidentally the entire universe as fantasyfan said
Duh. Each machine can only travel within the manifold it is contained in. The outside one travels forwards 1000 years relative to the outside universe, and the interior one travels backwards 1000 years relative to to the inside of the first time machine. The first time machine is located in 3011 AD, and the second wherever the first one was 1000 years ago subjectively.
Wait, you didn’t actually do this experiment? Sorry, I forgot what era I was in.
ENC! Clean up your paradox duplicates, please. They’re cluttering up our chronology. We don’t want to have to get No Such Monastery involved.
I did.
I combined them into one Enceladus who is currently typing and writing this.
WITH ALL MY
POWERSPARADOXICAL CHRONOLOGIES COMBINED!Assuming this is the TARDIS (because it’s the time machine I’m most familiar with; also the TARDIS could fit itself inside itself), if I were somehow around before the extinction of the Time Lords and had two of them, (for simplicity’s sake let’s assume both have their chameleon circuits stuck on “blue 1950s Earth telephone box”? I mean, the TARDIS in any other form would be just plain weird…) I would fit one TARDIS inside the other and set the outside TARDIS to 1000 years in the future (let’s assume I have somehow taken these pre- Time Lord extinction TARDIS (er… what’s the plural???) time machines to the year 2000 just to give us a point of reference) and the inside one 1000 years back (also can we assume that the oustside TARDIS is the Doctor’s? You’ll see why in a second) so the outside TARDIS is in the year 3000 now. (*cue TARDIS noise*) If you lived in the year three thousand and saw the TARDIS appear and went inside (assuming you had a key, of course) or if you were the one who was inside the TARDIS (you’d be a Time Lord, I guess) you would see the inside TARDIS disappear. The inside TARDIS would then appear at whatever negative number of Doctor they would have been at one thousand years ago. The Doctor is thousands of years old, so he would be in the TARDIS in whatever regeneration he happened to be in one thousand years back on his own timeline. If you walked outside of the inside TARDIS and outside of the outside TARDIS you would be wherever the Doctor was a thousand years ago on his own timeline.
((Actually, I think simply the action of putting a TARDIS inside itself might be what kills the universe.))
Ooh neat! I should catch up on Pollyhymnia’s books! I’ve only read Enthusiasm.
For some reason, when I squid a comment, I can either no longer pie the comment or it automatically pies it, seemingly randomly.
I would love to test this phenomenon out more, but am hesitant to start squidding and pieing random posts.
Meh, just go to some old threads; nobody will notice.
OK, the 5,000 Days Old thread has now been assaulted by random squids and pies.
In conclusion, it seems that if I pie a post the squid turns black and I find myself unable to squid it, and vice-versa. Doing both at once was a fluke, apparently.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas on how to fix?
The pies and squids were originally “thumbs up” and “thumbs down,” respectively, so you can’t choose both.
Oops, I hit the squid instead of the pie.
Do you by any chance have a cousin named Kalvin?
Not that I know of…
Okay. XD
Yeah, my (Muser) friend Kalvin has twin fifteen-year-old cousins in New York, and I was kind of wondering (unrealistically) that they might be you.
My friend just acquired the password to our school’s Internet network from her mom, a teacher! *rejoices* Productivity is now down 60%!
Also, we’re watching Mean Girls in AP Calculus. THE LIMIT DOES NOT EXIST.
Don’t you love those “secret” passwords? Pretty much all the students have ours, and the teachers all know about it, but no one really cares. xD
Also, I am jealous of your AP Calculus class. We’re just doing math stuff in ours.
So (both of) you don’t get Internet at school unless you have a ‘secret’ password?
Or, more correctly, neither of you get Internet at school unless you have a ‘secret’ password?
It was the same at my school. But since the passwords were never changed, people were on the wifi quite a bit. My junior year the administration tried to crack down, blocking the MAC addresses of anyone they saw on the network, but that didn’t really do much.
That’s true for us too. There’s a guest network but no one knows the password, weirdly, but we do have the password to the teacher network. It’s about 64 random digits and characters.
Mine school is the same way, except the password is glaringly obvious. Ever since I figured it out, I’ve been using it so much, because my home internet is a piece of cake.
Well, some sites are flat-out blocked on the school computers, like the Voldy Network. The block can be bypassed by teachers with a special password. The teachers do change those passwords really often, but I have the latest one, so when I’m on the school computers I can go wherever.
But there’s the actual wifi network, which, like most wifi networks, needs a password of a long string of letters and numbers. Which my friend has just acquired. YEAHHHHH.
I got my Pottermore registration email.
It doesn’t work on my outdated Powerbook.
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
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Remember my friend who is starting a literary magazine? I submitted a poem to him just now! whee!
So last night I went to this football game at the high school and played in the marching band! I didn’t have a stand and I had none of the music memorized so I slide-synced! So before the game I left my music in a parking lot (my WHOLE music binder with EVERYTHING in it), right before the game I stood in line with the baritone section (all the high schoolers had these neat silver marching baritones instead of trombones) and tried to slide sync to the national anthem since I didn’t have it memorized and someone decided it wasn’t worth it to make trombone marching music stands WHICH LET ME TELL YOU DOES NOT WORK WHEN YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WITH A SLIDE; EVERYONE ELSE HAD VALVES XD
Then first and second quarter our team scored!! *gasp* . The marching baritone player next to me (who I knew last year sort of) was like “OMG THEY SCORED THAT’S AGAINST THE RULES” because they never scored. They were ahead the whole game and we actually got to play for them! (usually they just ended up playing tunes for the other team just to get a chance to play). So I slide synced first and second quarter (some people had trombones to play in the stands so I was slightly more successful at slide syncing) and it was fun!
Then we watched the high schoolers do the halftime show (it was eighth grade night so there were a lot of eighth graders there, most of them from my middle school) and they were really really REALLY good. So we applauded and then it was third quarter so me, Flute and Altosax went to get popcorn and we were nomming the popcorn up in the low brass section when TWOO (The Wizard Of Oz) comes up to us and says “Hey, I kind of dropped part of my trumpet under the bleachers” and so we went down there and about half of under the bleachers was insanely muddy and we couldn’t see any shiny metal thingies so we told TWOO: “Go up where you dropped it and stick your hand through” and he couldn’t get his hand through. So I went up there to where TWOO had dropped the shiny thing and stuck my hand through until they saw it and got it stuck. I unstuck it and went down to where they were and saw it! Right in a mud puddle. So I basically saved TWOO’s life WHILE EATING POPCORN.
Fourth quarter we played again and you will not believe this but they ACTUALLY. WON. 22-7 was the final score I think and we all played stand tunes (or slide synced stand tunes in my case). After that we marched back up and put away our instruments.
There was food outside so naturally Altosax and Flute and I snuck away to look for my music binder and it was on a curb in the parking lot just where I had left it. So there was another binder there and I opened it and saw one of our jazz combo pieces and a bassoon solo and realized it was MO’s. (the Musical Overachiever who I’m sure you all are sick of hearing about) and we ran back up to the food and started yelling MO’s name really loudly. But we couldn’t find him so we ate and then we left. Apparently he was still there (my mom emailed his mom) but I have to give it to him on Monday.
BAND BAND BAND BAND
BAND
♥
We should make comments with at least ten squids turn some sort of color. Maybe…blue? I don’t know.
SQUID INK
And what color should the text be, then?
White, I guess. And in rresponse to KA, I think the color it had turned first. Pink on default in the case that two people pied and squidded simultaneously.
Then what would happen if it had both 10 pies and 10 squids?
Depending on the 10 squid color, either purple or red. Preferably. To me.
A little while ago, I was thinking about Halloween.
First Part of My Brain: “Hmm… How about an astronaut costume with a tinted visor and I can attatch the green thingy?”
Second Part of My Brain: “Wouldn’t it be simpler just to get a costume gas mask? I already have the stuff I need to make a scar.”
Third Part of My Brain: *already screamed and ran away at the mention of gas masks*
I got into Pottermore!! *squee!squee!*
I just read an article about people who make their own micronations. Wy would they try to do that? Anyone can Sealand isn’t just given away for random people to make a Freetown.
I see what you did there.
UChicago has its own resident king of Kemetia.
On the downside, fleas.
But Ravenclaw! Chesnut with Unicorn Hair, Twelve and a Quarter Inches, suprisingly swishy!
Congratulations! And your pet?
Barn owl
What kind of toad did you say you had?
He’s a Natterjack toad, but I would have bought a harlequin toad if they weren’t endangered. I considered buying a screech owl, but I ended up choosing Hansel because of the species name, the low maintenance, the fact that putting it one in my house wouldn’t be traumatic for en and my dog both, the fact that my backyard birds wouldn’t get eaten, etc. Not that I wouldn’t want an owl in my yard; I’d love that; I just wouldn’t want an introduced owl in my yard. (Yes, I take my pretending way too seriously; why do you ask?).
Oh, cool! I think it’s awesome that you’ve thought it out that thoroughly.
I wish I’d chosen a toad because although barn owls are CUTE a ton of people have them… I didn’t know it was an option until I actually bought my owl though.
I have a barn owl too! They’re absolutely adorable; I wish I had one in real life.
Not a single shop on the whole ruddy campus sells chewable Imodium. Rassle frassle…
Two years on MuseBlog as of yesterday, the 24th!! (It’s still the 24th in some places so I didn’t miss it, really…)
It’s been an awesome two years (feels like a lifetime though) and I’m so glad I discovered this place, I love all of you!
You’re welcome.
You’re less than a month “older” than me? Jeesh, I thought you were ancient.
Nope, not so ancient! Why, do I seem it?
We just got back from our first marching band competition! We didn’t win much–never do at the first competition–but my love for band has, if possible, grown even more. Our show was the best it’s been so far! There were no major phasing problems or anything. And we’re done setting drill so we get to clean for three weeks before we compete again!
I’m a captain, so I’m in the retreat block on the field During the awards ceremony. (I’m going to be sore tomorrow from standing, I swear.) My friend C is also a captain, and she lost one of her gauntlets (power ranger-esque wrist covers) somehow. The rest of the band was in half-uniform, but we needed to get an extra gauntlet somewhere before the awards ceremony. So, C and A and I left to walk back to the trailer, where we broke in and took a gauntlet from a freshman’s garment bag. Then, when we got back to the band room about half an hour ago, C goes up to the freshman, hands him the gauntlet, and goes, “Thanks!” Freshman: “…I thought I put this away.” C: “You did! Thanks!” Freshman: “I… What?” C: “It’s a long story.”
Also we sang Disney songs the entire way back with some freshmen in the flute/clarinet/mello sections. We have the best freshmen EVER this year, I love them so much.
Ahhh… Band is awesome.
<3 Band is amazing. I can't wait till next year when I am in the high school marching band… you probably saw them at competition.
Probably. That’s really strange. I wonder if they were in our class.
September’s nearly over! How can this be?!
At least I figured out why I was having so many gastrointestinal issues… (The smoothies in the cafeteria are 3 servings of fruit, and I was also eating fruit with every meal, so… yeah.)
Might I be permitted to appear out of the blue, with appropriate apologies, after another unconscionable absence?
Unless I’ve overlooked it, no-one on Museblog has mentioned the recent weirdness at CERN. For those who haven’t seen the reports, a bunch of physicists have been firing beams of neutrinos from Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy (732 km through solid rock. – COOL!) and they appear to have travelled faster than light – that’s faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which Einstein reckoned was the universal speed limit. I don’t think they believe it themsleves, but they’ve now analysed data on 16,000 bursts of neutrinos, and checked and cross-checked for all the potential sources of error they can think of. Now they’ve published the results so that other physicists can attempt to either replicate them or locate the bug in the system. Not that it will affect much if it turns out to be true. Just major modfications to the theory of relativity and the re-thinking of most of physics for the past 100 years. What do you reckon? Amazing phenomenon, something dodgy in the software, or a dead rat in the detector?
See 46 & nesties
Although I didn’t know that they repeated the experiments, that adds a lot more credit to it in my opinion.
Piggy did, I believe. I never caught on to the universal speed limit idea just because the Starship Enterprise can travel faster than light, but I think I’m going with the dead rat.
Or dead baguette.
That looked quite strange in the RC bar.
Hello, Mr. Baker. Your presence is welcome!
And it could be any of those three. My bet’s on the dead rat, but it’s probably just an amazing phenomenon. Either way, this calls for more testing!
Good to see you! We actually had a short discussion about neutrinos and CERN beginning with comment 46.
I mentioned it in comment 46. I’m waiting for more peer review before I pass judgement.
Ahem. Sorry to burst your bubble, Paul, but see post 46 on this thread.
…Now I feel bad.
Have you seen the xkcd take on this? (It’s the current installment, #955 for future reference.)
It’s another classic.
Apols, people. I didn’t spot the discussion in 46. In my defence, I plugged “neutrinos” into the little Museblog search box and nothing came up except contents pages for back issues of Muse. I knew I should have sent a Wung ferreting.
1 hour ago: Well, I’m going to try watching My Little Pony. Not that I’ll enjoy it or anything. Strictly to see why it’s so popular. Because it’s good to be aware of memes and Internet culture.
57 minutes ago: “Twilight Sparkle”? *snicker* Why do people even like this show?
50 minutes ago: Wh-why does the pony have a southern accent?
45 minutes ago: “Every pony in this town is CREEPY!” Got that right.
40 minutes ago: The evil moon pony is actually kind of awesome … oh, there’s a second part? I should watch it. You know, to be aware of Internet culture and stuff.
35 minutes ago: These ponies are kind of cute, really.
33 minutes ago: Aw, sweet little Fluttershy.
30 minutes ago: So giggle at the ghosties … GAH I AM 14 WHY AM I SINGING ALONG TO A PONY SHOW
20 minutes ago: Yeah! Go Twilight! Power of friendship!
Hooray! Welcome to the herd!
I suppose we’ll see you in a day or two once you’ve watched all the episodes? Get through Season 1 right away, because the two-part premiere of Season 2 is really, really fantastic.
In class the other day:
Teacher: We need a finite set! Everyone, name a My Little Pony.
Girls: Oh, we haven’t played with My Little Ponies in ages…we don’t even know their names. There’s probably a pink one, right?
Boys: Awesome! There’s Twilight Sparkle, Friendship Is Magic, etc.
Girls: 8 O
Boys: Don’t you watch My Little Pony? It’s so awesome! So much drama!
Girls: Well, this is ironic…
Five Confessions I have to make regarding Lord of the Rings
1. I didn’t like Lord of the Rings. I’ve read it once, and it took me three years to do so. It was just so boring. To this day, I’ve felt disconnected from the blog every time the subject comes up.
2. A few months ago, I discovered an old diary entry stating something to the effect of , “I like LotR so far.” I decided I should probably reread it. It had been nearly ten years since I started reading it for the first and only time, after all.
3. Last night I attended a Star Wars/LotR (extended edition) marathon the roleplaying club at my college was hosting. I was there until 1:15, watching the first movies of both trilogies. It was fun, and there was free cheesecake. This increased my desire to read the books again.
4. At this moment the first book is sitting accusingly on my desk, a bookmark on page 138, waiting for me to pick it up and read it again.
5. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I checked the book out of the library, but it isn’t as boring as I remember. Although I have no idea why people complain about the camping scenes in The Deathly Hallows. The ones in LotR are so much worse.
Although I like LotR, I know what you mean about this. I had to drag myself through some parts.
And yet it’s really rare to see any criticism of it, particularly on this blog. I know that it’s epic and classic and groundbreaking–but I just couldn’t fangirl over it like everyone els seemed to. Hence, well, my previous post. Part an attempt to see if there’s something I missed, part exercise in slogging through pages.
I got into Pottermore! It’s fun and I’m really enjoying it, and I haven’t really been on in twenty four hours because it sorted me into Ravenclaw instead of Hufflepuff and I’m sort of in shock and trying to deal with that, because I’m apparently taking it all way too seriously.
The test is well designed, by the way. Very much so.
*Empathy* I’m in Hufflepuff. I value its qualities the most, so I’m honored, but I thought I was in Ravenclaw. Like Evanna Lynch, who always thought of herself as a Ravenclaw but was Sorted into Gryffindor, “I feel like Jo just told me I was a man.”
I agree that it was a good test. I’ve taken a few Sorting quizzes that I thought were really good, and I think the Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff ratio was about even, although some of the ones that put me in Ravenclaw said I was more Gryffindor than Hufflepuff as well–which I wouldn’t agree with, but I can see how they’d get that idea. I’m complicated. Anyway, I’m confused as well.
I have the same problem as Evanna Lynch. I’m the least Gryffindorian person I know! Why not Ravenclaw?
I just spent the past hour reading my posts on the past year or so’s random threads, procrastinating my APEH. (Late commemoration of blogiversary?) I certainly have evolved in maturity.
Hello MuseBlog! On my school laptop because I’m in chorus and bored. (We have a substitute and don’t really have anything to do.) The rest of the class appears to be playing games. Involving ducks.
Our band sub is a band director, so she makes us play. It’s… interesting.
Hi!
You have a school laptop?
Yes!
POTTERMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRE
And I probably won’t be able to actaully get on until tomorrow. Sigh.
This was not a good day to leave both umbrellas at home.
Suddenly the entire distance between my apartment and the school has turned into a giant river.
Gueth who juth got her retainerth.
My choir is doing Beauty and the Beast! Unfortunately, we were going to get info about it today, and I was too ill to go (nausea). Try-outs are tomorrow. I’m excited, though! I want to be Belle or maybe Mrs. Potts, preferably the former (Belle’s a character I’d really love to play), but the trouble is, I’m terrible at dancing. Ah, well, that’s not part of the audition, at least. Anyway, I’ll be happy as anything (including just a member of the chorus) except a Silly Girl or Townsperson or Babette, and you can ask not to be in a specific role, and it works as long as you don’t list everyone except 3 or something.
I’ve been watching excerpts from the movie and musical today in lieu of getting information, and the music is really good, although we’re doing a condensed version–but it does include my favorite songs from it, so that’s fine.
Cool! I was Mrs. Potts once.
It’s a great movie and musical.
Yes, I’m listening to Belle/Little Town as I type this. I can certainly relate to it…
JOBS. HOW DO THEY WORK? HOW ARE THEY FOUND?
HOW DO YOU QUIT ONE WITHOUT DISAPPOINTING YOUR MOM?So today in orchestra, my teacher decided that she’ll give extra credit to anyone who hands in a graphic novel version of the song we’re playing called “Curse of the Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space.” This is going to be awesome.
I like the original REZfOS better, because it has a better cello part. But CotREZfOS has a better storyline.
Huh, I didn’t know there was an earlier version. But yeah, the storyline for CotREZfOS is pretty flammy. Plus I love the glissando and the playing-past-the bridge and stuff.
OH POTTERMORE WHY MUST YOU HAVE SUCH OVERWHELMING DEMAND
I AGREE
IT NOW WORKS
YAY
NOW IF ONLY I DIDN’T HAVE TO SIGN IN EVERY TIME
OH CAPS LOCK WHY MUST YOU HAVE SUCH OVERWHELMING DEMAND
I just revisited Filboid Studge and discovered that my Studge Academy house was Swampworthy. As Studge names go, I think that was the coolest one…
We had “sorting” yesterday at Quidditch practice, and I’m in the Nargles! Our color is purple, which is my favorite, and we’re the rough Ravenclaw equivalent among the teams, so I feel good about this.
“You! Can’t! Hit! What! You! Can’t! See! Nargles!”
QUIDDITCH!!
Oh man that reminds me I have to run conditioning today, I should figure out what we’re doing oops
*a wild Fern appears*
Hello, wonderful people!
I’ve been kind of busy, but I’ve been kind of checking MB, just not posting.
I miss you.
I need to do homework and then sleep.
I drank 4 cups of coffee today, but the jury is still out as to whether it has any affect on my energy levels.
According to the Mystery Cartoonist that’s been posting caricatures of the people in my dorm on the common room wall I’m completely hyper. According to my work crew I’m always half asleep. According to me it’s somewhere in the middle, but more towards lethargy.
*ROSEBUD used GLOMP!*
Why does the living room smell like toothpaste?…
One of the great mysteries in life.
I have synesthesia!
Sort of. I’m confused about it, anyway. This came up because I was talking to my mom about The Scarlet Letter, and I was trying to explain why I felt like Dimmesdale was a very innocent character even though he was consumed by guilt, and so I said, “He’s guilty, but he’s got a really white personality, so he’s pretty innocent, too.”
And she had no idea what I was talking about.
I tried to give her more context– like Hester Prynne is a fairly red personality, not just because she wears the scarlet letter, but because she feels passion in a red way, and she acts incredibly red around the town leaders, especially when they’re trying to take Pearl away. And Chillingworth is dark, ashy grey, except sort of crumpled up, too, like a piece of paper. And she still didn’t know what I was talking about.
And then I tried describing more, and we found out I feel emotions in a colored way. I don’t mean that blue is happy and pink is bored, I mean that I can say to myself, “I feel sad, but I feel sad in a rainy indigo way, so it’s not like orange sad, which feels horrible.” Or “My friendship with her is all gold dust and red, but my friendship with him is deep blue and black, with occasional red, which is why he takes up so much more of my energy.”
So apparently other people don’t do that. Which is kind of weird to me, and I feel like this will be very difficult to explain when I’m trying to put something into words that really only works as “I’m really bright red happy today, please calm me down because this hurts a little”.
Does anyone else do this/feel like this? My cousin says she sees personalities as colors (apparently I’m blue, but I’ve been getting oranger lately).
I do this more with moods, but I’m pretty sure it’s not synesthesia, just subconscious associations.
That’s a characteristic of synesthesia, but everyone I know has at least one characteristic. I recommend you look into it more before deciding you definitely have it.
Yes, that was the point I was making.
High five! I used to do that, up until about age 11, and then I stopped seeing personalities as colors, just thinking of them as having one.
I have to go take my math test in a minute… nervous!
Yeep, good luck!
For the first time, I accidentally pied a comment instead of squidding it. I wonder when the reverse will happen.
First microgravity team meeting today!
Have to make a good impression…
What’s that?
Kind of loathing myy orthodontial
torturedevice at the momentt. Pep band with it in was kind of excruciating, so I will take it out for the game tomorrow.On the plus side, second chair! I was expecting third, seeing as the other trombonists have both been playing brass longer than I have (although the third chair switched from trumpet) .
i have so many things to do
do all the things
do none of the things and take a nap instead
cry, and your tears are also blood,etc
i will type up a thing about the TEDx conference if anyone wants!! it was really great and fsdkjh
i bought wonders of the universe a week ago and have yet to have an opportunity to read it. when i say “bought” i don’t think you understand what really happened, i went to the bookstore and was looking around in the science section, spotted it on the top shelf and may have thrown myself at said bookshelf in a half formed attempt to scale it. thankfully a good samaritan used her feats of height to retrieve it for me.
it is hot and dry outside, california why are you like this, why do i consistently live in a desert pretending to be a valley
Yes, do tell us all about the TED conference!
I would love to hear about the conference!
Hey People! I had a rather awesome day. This week is spirit week at my school and today was Twin Day! It was rather funny. We had some cool costumes, like two people who were twister games and two girls who have basically the same haircut & color and wore identical outfits. Also three teachers were triplets, and the only male out of the three came to school with a skirt and makeup on.
My twin and I wore the same shirt and jeans, but it didn’t really work until we drew on our faces with blue marker. (We had my school’s initials across our cheeks and nose.)
Also my semifriend C was being really funny in Algebra and flirting with my friend–oh, I’ll call her Shinigami–in a very obvious way. And when my twin and I teased him about it his ears turned red. So did her’s. XD
While I was at the bookstore I discovered a bunch of pins for sale which had stuff like “I read the Dictionary.” on them. Also one that said “I <3 Pie" with a tentacle-ed monster on it. And one that said "I'm gay!" with a monster waving on it. They made me laugh. ♥
I WANT THEM
NOW
SEND ONE THROUGH THE EGGERNET: I WILL SEND YOU THE MONEY
OKAY
JUST A SEC
WAIT WHAT ONE DO YOU WANT? THERE’S ‘I LOVE BUGS’ AND ALSO ‘I LOVE BIG WORDS.’
SO MANY OPTIONS
CANNOT CHOOSE
JUST SEND THEM ALL
I HAVEN’T READ THE DICTIONARY, but I’m working on that; yay motivations and self-rewards!
Girl Who’d Heard of Tardigrades–I’ll call her Urslet–is doing being friendly, is doing some of the same SciOly events as me, and said I was awesome! Oh, and I get my braces off tommorrow!
My history teacher informed the class today that while she respected our rights to differing opinions, the use of “gay” as a derogatory term is in her class considered one of the least tolerable behaviors. On par with stealing materials. Thinking on this, I realized that not only had nobody used the word as such in the class thus far, I’ve almost never heard it used in my school at all. I’m very happy.
I’m happy for your school, too. Now, if only that extended to the schools here…
Yayayayayayayay!!! That’s really great! I wish that everyone would realize that being homosexual isn’t wrong, that it’s just fine. I hate that people use “gay” in that way.
Or even if they do believe that, they should be considerate enough to respect people and not use it as an all-purpose derogatory term.
My AP Lit teacher.
Oh my god.
After last year’s amazing English class, I had gotten used to a class where the students are expected to intellectually explore and where there are no wrong answers, only ones that are less commonly accepted. My teacher would let us come to conclusions on our own, guiding us to the standard interpretations but presenting them as the subjective opinions that they are. It was one of the most inspiring learning environments I’ve ever been in.
This year… well, I think the best way to sum it up is through a quote from class today, regarding an essay we’re writing tonight: “Don’t write what you think, write what’s in the book.”
She said that. She ACTUALLY SAID THAT.
That class makes me so angry I don’t even.
I should clarify that the book in question isn’t a novel, but a literature textbook. She means adhere to the book’s black-and-white distinction between literary and commercial fiction, and write only about the points that the textbook makes. No independent thought required or even permitted.
That’s horrible! Sounds like your teacher is teaching to test, rather than for the sake of knowledge… *gives hug and squid*
…Can you ask to transfer? And I though my 6th grade math class was bad…
Groundhog: Sounds accurate. Thanks for the squid! And hugs of course.
Bibliophile: No, unfortunately. The Honors English IV teachers aren’t much better and the only other AP Lit teacher’s class is during seventh period, which’d throw a wrench in my schedule.
Besides which, I much prefer sticking with things to quitting them. I just like to complain about the most absurd of the absurd once in a while.
Okay, so we had the first meeting of the BU chapter of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) today. There were six of us total, three boys and three girls.
We’re going to submit a proposal for an experiment to be tested on the “Vomit Comet” jet, which flies up and down in parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness. If NASA selects our experiment, we get to build it and five of us (plus an additional cameraperson) get to fly with it on the plane, observe the results, and FLOAT AROUND WEIGHTLESS.
Our experiment will be to examine the properties of identical samples produced by a 3-D printer in normal gravity, microgravity, and higher-than-normal gravity. If the samples from microgravity are just as good or better than the ones produced in normal gravity, then it might be possible in the future to use a 3-D printer to manufacture replacement parts in space in a pinch, or even to produce complex tools and equipment.
Everybody else in the club is an engineering major, but outreach is a major part of the proposal, and everybody was impressed by the samples of my Photoshop work that I brought along. If our proposal is accepted, we’ll get to go to elementary schools and give presentations both before and after the flight. I suggested that, on the first visit, we ask kids if there are any additional small experiments they’d like to see us try. (Like trying to propel ourselves across the cabin by letting air escape from a balloon, or seeing if we can make a yo-yo come back in microgravity.) When we come back, we can show those kids the video of us doing the very experiments they suggested, which I think would be much more engaging.
Is the time of simulated microgravity long enough for a 3D printer to print something quantifiable? And is there enough stability onboard for it to print accurately? Which method of printing would be used–inkjet? sintering? I bet that even if the primary test shows that it doesn’t print as well, there would be ways of designing a printer specifically for use in microgravity.
I really love the experiment you’re proposing. Good luck!
We wouldn’t be able to make anything big or concrete, just little test strips probably the side of a piece of gum or smaller.
That’s so cool. I wish you luck in your endeavors!
There simply aren’t enough pies in the world for this.
I’m thinking of volunteering at a hospital, has anyone done that, and what is it like? (… I was going to volunteer at the SPCA, but it’s way to far to drive there…)
I’ve just been through the first two days of college, and it’s amazing! I feel so independent! And for some reason I’m hungry like, all the time.
Anyway, the only class that I really want to switch is physics, because the professor is bad. I need the good professor!!! AARGH!
But contrary to my past experiences with the subject (TOK and English both awful), my humanities class is awesome!!! Here’s a sample from the syllabus:
Course Objectives:
1. Read great literature and debate its meaning and merits.
2. Figure out what the point of this course is.
3. Eat a great custom-made cake on the last day of class.
And the professor said the cake was the most important part.
POTTERMORE NEEDS TO PUT DUELING BACK UP. It’s driving me insane. The last time it was up was a month ago!
Hnnnng. Had my first organic chem test yesterday. Oh god that class. Not sure how I did yet.
But friday/saturday was a FANTASTIC geology trip, I will talk more about that after class today. A guy came and told us about all the times he hung out with bigfoot and I nearly swam across a river!
Nearly swam across a river?
Sigh.
Life is not going absolutely brilliantly on SilverLeopard’s end of things.
I have the teacher I wanted least for not one, but TWO classes. I’m exhausted. Everything relating to school is easy, boring, or both. My exchange partner got here but we’ve grown different from each other (mainly, she’s a popular sort of person, I most certainly am not) since I went to stay with her last year. I have a massive case of writer’s block.The Home key and the = key are still right next to Backspace.
But I have a double free block (since I’m in 8th grade and I take math at the high school, so I have a block without a class) right now, so life is better than it might be. There are also trips relating to the exchange coming up so I’m excited about those. But I really wish I could hang out with my exchange student and my friends, because my exchange student’s friends’ hosts aren’t really friends of mine.
Oh well, life comes on (not goes, that’s too depressing).
When I came home from school I started singing parts of John Rutter’s Magnificat and then Berstein’s Chichester Psalms.
I love my life.
I GOT MY POTTERMORE WELCOME EMAIL!!!!
I COULDN’T GO ON BECAUSE OF SO MUCH DEMAND
BUT I WILL BE ABLE TO SOON!
Oh yeah, and SFTDP, I just think that it’s hilarious when you click on the squid in the preview of your comment, it says there is a fatal error. Who’s dying?
The same happens with pies. I mentioned it months ago. Robert decided that it clearly wasn’t fatal to the clicker, at least, but I disagree; it didn’t say ‘immediately fatal.’
Oh, well, everything is fatal to us in the long run.
I read that as “everything is falafel to us in the long run.”
You mean everything isn’t falafel?
NEIL GAIMAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY FALAFEL
Win.
Everything? Even tardigrades? I can’t think of any way they could do a human any direct harm, unless all the tardigrades of the world banded together and choked one for no reason, which has never happened. That’s not all, either; I’m sure I can think of something else completely innoccuous… like…er… actually, maybe they are just about the only–wait, ladybugs! Unless a human is starving and the only thing to eat is aphids; never mind… Well, then, tardigrades are officially the only thing I can think of that definitely will never directly directly harm a human being. Yay!
I’m afraid there’s overwhelming evidence that everybody who comes into contact with a tardigrade eventually dies. So does everybody who reads about tardigrades or even thinks about them. Tardigrades, like everything else, are 100 percent fatal to human beings.
*facepalm* How did I not see what you were saying…
No. 8 Southeast Gale or Storm Signal, yeah! It’s raging outside. But I still have to write my Euro essay just in case this doesn’t keep up and we have school after all.
Well, the Hong Kong Observatory says the warning will remain in force most of the morning. Hmm…should I do the essay?
Yes. If school is cancelled, you can spend the rest of the day free to do whatever you want.
I’d skip it and if it turns out you do have to go to school, look windswept and say you were carried off by the wind.
Yes, it can’t hurt, and you might need to.
Sorry guys, too late! (See 109.) Thanks, though! I wrote it anyway, school was cancelled, but our APEH teacher asked us to type them up and send it to her so it wasn’t a wasted effort after all.
I’m going to see They Might Be Giants tonight with some friends! I’m excited, and I’m dancing around my room listening to Simon & Garfunkel and cleaning while eating honey mustard pretzels with a spoon, because that’s all I can pay attention to right now. I am SO TIRED.
I didn’t get anything done last night, because I ended up going on a long walk with a friend who really needed to talk, and it turned out I needed to talk too, so it was good. I also needed to just walk around and be not holed up in my room trying to cram down tiredness and be productive.
But I will get things done. Somehow. Working on how.
It’ll be good.
>.<
ANYWAY, they Might Be Giants!
Have fun at the concert! Ooba Tooba and I are seeing They Might Be Giants on Saturday night.
Cool, have fun! I saw them week before last and it was amazing. And I’m seeing them again on Friday.
ooh awesome man I wish I were going to see TMBG.
(SFTTP?) Never mind, I wrote it anyway because I was on a roll, and it turned out to be not that hard. But YES no school tomorrow = four day weekend!! (We have Friday off anyway.)
Yes, we actually don’t have school! I just woke up. xD It’s funny because everyone’s Voldeynet statuses were praying for a typhoon 8 to come, and this morning when we actually had no school they were all celebrating the typhoon 8. Well, I’m talking to myself so I’ll just stop now.
The final score of the fooball game was 42 to zero. We lost, but I played in the pep band. It was kind of disappointing after seeing what it was like playing for the high school. Oh well, at least I have an awesome stand partner and we shared the misery, heat, sweat, blood, tears, ect. And I got a chance to play insanely loud, which is usually a big honking NO! in concert band. I should get back to my homework now. November seems so close, and yet it is a month away HOW CAN THIS BE?
Kai- that sounds like an awesome idea! Have fun!
97.1- Oh yes. *squid* Don’t worry, things will get better.
On a less serious topic, I keep forgetting to post how much I HATE the ending to “A Journey’s End”. COULDN’T THEY FIND A BETTER WAY TO GET RID OF DONNA?!?
Finally into Pottermore! A whole two days early, but still. xD The demand issues are irritating, but whatever. I’m a patient person… sometimes.
(98) Is it conceivable that the textbook contains useful information that you the teacher wants to make sure you have absorbed?
PREPOSTEROUS
Yes and no. The textbook itself annoys me a little, but it does make some good points and I like the stories the editors chose to include. Ordinarily I’d give the teacher the benefit of the doubt, but given the way this teacher has come off for the past month of class (she is very much a textbook teacher and isn’t terribly original) I’d say that what she wants is not to make sure we’re absorbing information from the book but that we are subscribing to and able to parrot the ideas it presents. It’s a thin line between the two, though.
*peeks head around door* *curls foot around door* *slithers in quietly, LIKE A BOSS* *tip toes behind MuseBlog*
BOO! HELLO MUSEBLOG! Did I scare you?
I don’t know why, when I haven’t posted anything on here in what feels like eternity, I am so insistent on being obnoxious.
Basically, I am in that big scary thing called HIGH SCHOOL now. And it feels…basically like middle school, only different.
Descriptive, I know. I have a way with words. (Somehow my absence has made me more arrogant…somebody should really bring my big head back down to Earth, m’kay?!) I can’t remember how much of high school-rambling stuff i ever ended up writing on here – if any at all, when was the last time I posted?! – but if I did: apologies, if I didn’t – well, here ya go:
For the most part, I like high school. There are good things about it, (more responsibility) and bad things about it (more responsibility) but for the most part I like my classes and my teachers. I miss my friends from middle school (well, okay, two friends in particular) a LOT, but I’ve made some new friends as well. I’m running cross country for the first time (I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that before on here….yeah, I’m almost positive I have.) which sucks a lot but is also putting me in the best shape I’ve ever been in. I’m thinking about not playing a winter sport – sad to see basketball go, but it’s high time to get real and recognize that I’d most likely be sitting on the bench, plus I’ve only heard negative things about the coaches – so I can take some time to get involved with clubs, because I’ve heard they come in handy later for that little thing called college. I might do Academic Bowl! And possibly Model UN! Which is really exciting, because my old school didn’t have either of those things. I have no idea if I’d be any good at it – come to think of it, probably not – but who knows? I might be a natural. Or maybe not.
Also, HOMECOMING: why are freshmen who have only known each other for what? – A little over one month! – so frantic about getting a date? (for the record: nobody has asked me, and to be frank, I haven’t had my eye on anybody in particular.) I’ve heard that having a date at Homecoming when you’re freshman doesn’t make you “cool”, and if that’s true, I guess that’s one thing I’m doing right…honestly though, date or no date, there is far too much drama spiraling the whole shebang.
Sorry for the long post. I miss MuseBlog and think about it often – it’s odd, because sometimes I’ll hear a phrase or be sitting in class and see something and it’ll trigger a memory to a very specific MuseBlog post from awhile ago – strange, right? But I do miss the time when not being on MB for a day was a tragedy instead of a normality. Sorry to dump my mini life story on you now, but I wasn’t sure exactly what/where to right. :/ getting back into the swing of things is odd.
Hi! Welcome back! You’ve got the right idea with not freaking out over dates.
Shana Tova, everyone!
I just discovered Junior Skeptic magazine. Where was this when I was younger?
When I was 8 years old and interested in paranormal stuff, my parents should have gotten me that instead of letting me read the sensationalized books I did that gave me nightmares.
I know how you feel.
Poster: Install a detector! Protect you family from CO!
Me: 0.o But… what… oh…
Run for your lives everyone, it’s CO! AHHHHHHHH-
I totally didn’t get it at first, either… man, there go my credentials as a chemist.
Guess what I received in the mail?
A DOCTOR WHO POSTER! SQUEEEEEEEEEE MERE WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE MY SQUENESS NOW MY DORM ROOM IS COMPLETE
Today I had a choir concert at the middle school. The only other male in the class inexplicably decided not to show up, so I had to carry the entire 20+ person choir with my single male voice.
It was awesome.
Nice.
Attention, BA fans (you know who you are). I wasn’t sure where to post this, but at last you can enjoy the full, edited version of that phenomenon known as Bunny Apocalypse.
Oh my gosh that is amazing!
Leaving to Singapore for the long(ish) weekend! My dad has to work there every week on a project for work, so this weekend instead of him coming back to Hong Kong we’re going there. I’ll be bringing my computer to do homework, so hopefully that means unhindered MB access.
BLAAARRGH MY TIMING IS AWFUL ISN’T IT…
Hi Sel! Have fun in Singapore!
So I read this blog sort of thing that is solely comprised of a guy making up names for various things–for instance, “A band and their album” or “Some restaurants with poor marketing possibilities”. A few minutes ago he made up a name for a new genre of music: “Squid rock”.
I think we should make this happen.
YESYESYES
Hmm, how would that work? Rock performed BY squids or ON squids?
Or about squids? Or next to squids? Or inside squids?
Rock played by musicians dressed as squids?
TMBG was awesome. They played Istanbul not Constantinople, and yes, I know it’s their most common song, but it’s my favorite. I need to get some of their CDs (read: all of them). This is a fact that has been established.
I also need to get some homework done, since my parents will be here in about an hour or so.
Sweet Koko.
They didn’t write the song, though. It’s older than I am.
Get Dial-A-Song. It is a bunch of their songs all on one album. Then get Flood.
We had our first SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) meeting today, and we had a professor who studies the properties of drops and bubbles present about his experiments. He was an alternate Payload Specialist for a shuttle mission in 1995, but the guy he was an understudy for didn’t get sick or hurt, so he didn’t get to go into space. But he still received the full training.
He was so nice! And he talked all about going on the Vomit Comet, which makes me hope our Microgravity Team wins even more.
“And when things start to happen,
Don’t worry. Don’t stew.
Just go right along,
YOU’LL start happening, too.”
I just hooked up my computer to the free internet television in my dorm, and my jaw dropped when I discovered that I get BBC America. Do you know what this means?!? Doctor Who sans iTunes!!! I can watch it right
And I get more channels here than I get at home.
*I can watch it right when it comes out!!!
oh god so much work how did this happen why is there so much data but some is still missing how does excel work what are words anymore ffffff
i know that feel, bro
i know that feel
how do i essay
okay so what constitutes an unreasonable amount of work for a given time?I am being serious.
Last weekend my geo class went out and survayed a river system. We had 8 sets of data for sections of river/tributaries–channel width, depth, water velocity, pebble size, pebble roundness. For each site. We have to write a lab report analyzing all of this information, which means graphing it all/finding the averages and also using it to calculate discharge and cross-sectional area. It is due tomorrow at midnight.
We got most of the data for it yesterday. We all had compiled our info since there was WAY to much to do it in our normal groups of 3, but the teacher’s upload failed and she didn’t resend it until wednesday afternoon.
Now not only does one person in each group have to write the lab report (it’s my turn this week, of course), but one of the other group members is a “editor/reviewer” and their section/grade is dependent sort of on you getting stuff to them to edit. And both my partners will be gone from 7am tomorrow until after it’s due (on a geology trip with a different). So I worked a bit yesterday because wednesdays are busy for me, and then I have been working for over five hours on this pretty solidly. I’ve finally gotten all the graphs done for the stream profiles and the average pebble size and average velocity and written the first half of the report but there is still so much to do on it. At like 10:50 I just had to send what I had so far to the reviewer so she could maybe get her part done so she at least can get a good grade for it since I am nowhere near finishing it tonight.
And it’s due tomorrow midnight and I’m busy till 6pm, like I am every day of the week but monday. Even later a lot of days (wednesday I was not free until 9 D: ).
So there are like a ton more calculations I have to do since I haven’t even started discharge/cross-sectional area, and I haven’t analyzed any of the graphs beyond depth/channel width either. I am really not pleased right now. Last week’s lab report was all this data for just ONE site, not 8, and they had more days to do it in because the data was available a full week before.
So anyway. I’m not sure what to do, I’ve never asked for an extension on anything before and while I feel like it’s too much work, what if it’s really not and everyone else is fine? Or she’s like “no” and thinks I”m just lazy? I don’t even know. Uhg. Opinions?
ugh okay so i might not be the one to answer this since i’m not in any science classes at the moment but THAT SEEMS LIKE WAY TOO MUCH WORK. especially since it’s a group (sort of?) thing i don’t think it would be that bad to ask for an extension. also since your professor had a delay in uploading/sending you something. it’s not like you haven’t been doing it, there is just actually not enough time available to complete it. so yeah i would think asking for an extension is fine. *HUGGGGS*
I will just say that one of my biggest mistakes in college was that I didn’t talk to my professors when I got in a jam.
*is quite honestly picturing you floating in a jar full of strawberry jam right now*
Just sayin’.
By extraordinary coincidence that’s exactly what I look like right now.
…what sort of bubble bath do you use?
That is too much work. Ask for an extension.
Oh my gosh, a guy came to school today with a gas mask on. *hides under pillow*
*hides under a pillow and hugs a teddy bear*
Oh god if that ever happens to me I am so going to scream aloud and dive under the nearest table.
Mikazuki-
Yipes! Do you know why en did that?
Rasebud2- So would I.
*dives under coffee table hugging laptop like a teddy bear*
*Has ‘Dial-A-Ghost’ flashbacks*
*shivers*
Thanks for the support guys but the teacher actually mentioned she doesn’t give extensions today, before I even seriously considered asking x_x Good news though is that my partners aren’t actually leaving till tomorrow morning. So that’s some of the stress out of the way… but a lot more got added today and I can’t even talk about it right now uhg
also I seem to be making a habit of falling into rivers this is probably not good
Slithering squamates, another cold? Really? That’s the second one so far this month.
I’ve taken to using that phrase often. I stumbled upon it by accident; I saw a lizard with legs not using them (slithering instead), and then I saw a similar slithering a few days later about the same size but didn’t get to see if this one was a lizard or snake, so I called it a ‘slithering squamate,’ and my mom remarked that it sounded like a comic book exclamation, and…
I love my history class, by the way. And today I was given a beautiful new bracelet, which is nice.
Just got a scrabble app for my iPod and am now enjoying playing 10 different games at once over long periods of time using school wifi. It’s very educational, actually. The problem is, I learn the words but not always the meaning, as the included dictionary does not give a given string of letter’s meaning, just its validity in Scrabble.
I didn’t get to meet Dava Newman (The spacesuit glove lady I met at the World Science Festival last year), because she’s in Portugal this week, but I know where her office at MIT is, and she’ll be back next week.