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October Odd-yssey
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-yawn-
I’m tired, too…. and hungry….
I had a small portobello sandwich and half a lettuce sammich for dinner.
huuuuuuungry.
I have kettle corn, but I want real food…
on a side note, it’s so weird when a song you don’t know comes on your iPod when it’s on shuffle. Such is the plague of mass cd uploadage…
also, Frank Zappa’s pretty good. Man, I have eclectic tastes….
Orange death! Ooh. *Turns orange*
Speaking of going to bed, I need to get more sleep. B/c I’m really tired this morning…
Hurrah! Finally, a cartoon I recognize after a couple of years sin Muse.
I never get first post here…I can’t be up at midnight. Yet still I’m tired! Getting up early for hikes all weekend didn’t help…
I’m very sorry Feather has a pumpkin growing on his head…a stray seed must have landed up there when he was planting!
Off to school!
Red-tailed HAWK
I’m tired.
*falls asleep on keyboard*
I started by NaNoWriMo at 12:01 last night!
It sounds an awful lot like Harry Potter.
Isn’t NaNoWriMo in November?
Poor feather. *shudder*
Oh no… It’s… It’s GROWING! THE ORANGE DEATH! NOOOOOOO!!!!
*sings* Good morning all! What a lovely morning it is too, all dark and windy and sweet-smelling! I am feeling positively bouncy! (And when don’t I?)
I remember this comic.
The NaNo site won’t let me sign up. Grr.
AAAAGG!! l had the first post! Where did it go?!?!
First posts that just say “first post!” don’t contribute to a thread. We left yours up overnight so you could enjoy the warm glow of achievement, then I zapped it.
D’oh!
8- You can’t sign up until this evening.
11- Haha! I first-posted you!
All the freshies are gone on freshman retreat, so my computer class is canceled. French will be to, prolly, and geometry for sure.
This name brought to you by my organic chem class.
Crapples, I’ve gotta come up with an idea for NaNo. I should really be working on Diffusion, but how could I resist the opportunity to pretend to be a productive writer for a month? Come ON.
If you don’t know who I am you’re probably quite new or not particularly good at guessing names. I took a break of a couple months for various reasons, but I decided to return for my two-year blogiversary. BE AFRAID, okay? snarkin tiem.
(14) Always a pleasure to see you, snarkiness included. Nice name variant. It suits somehow. Oh, and happy blogiversary!
In English class we are studying (you’re really going to love this, AP English 4 for seniors) Lord of the Rings. I find it fun. I thought people might want to know, because I remembered there being lots of rabid LOTR fans on here. No offense. A classmate of mine, Jimmy, discovered a great website for LOTR stuff. There’s a name generator that converts your name into Elvish mode, hobbitish mode, dwarven mode, orcish mode…. It’s pretty cool. My favorite is my dwarven name: Sarin Skysinger. The link will probably get lanced, but here it is anyway: www. barrowdowns. com
Watch it get lanced.
Nope, just delinkified.
Another person, a GAPA no less, who has fallen victim to the disease of word-invent-itis! I’m not alone!
*dances the dance of Flamablamabliffication*
uuugghh, update the nano site already! *impatience*
(note to any who might be confused-NO, i was NOT talking to you. i was, in fact, talking to myself in the absence of those running the nano site. You don’t need to freak out and tell me that it has nothing to do with you :D)
16-*is extremely jealous* Of course, we make s’mores and tell stories in AP l/c, so i guess i can’t complain…
also, wasn’t that link in muse? or at least up on this site sometime in the past? i definitely remember that site, and i think i got to it from something muse-related…
16- Oh, awesome! And we’re stuck doing Pride and Prejudice, ugh. Though I did love Brave New World [with such people in it!]
19- Ugh, I know! I must sign up!!
This is the part of the month when I tell myself I’ll totally keep up with the random thread. I fail every month.
You know what would be really awesome? an LGBT thread! yes, and we’ll probably need an anti-flamewar force…*sigh*…so much prejudice in the world…
LGBT?
Wait… LGBT… prejudice…flame war… Would that, possibly, be Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans? Just a guess.
We already did Brave New World. That was okay, but I think everything in the novel lacks moderation. Everyone takes their ideals to extremes. For instance, the society takes pleasure and relaxation to an extreme, and John Savage takes being miserable to an extreme. Why couldn’t he have a simple existence but enjoy it all the same?
Yay!!!! Nancy Drew game here I come, its back!!! My friend has had it for awhile, but I got it back!!! When is the new one coming out I wonder? Its supposed to take place in New Orleans………*bounces up and down*
6-Yup, it’s just the plot and characters and stuff. No real writing. (Okay, fine, five paragraphs.)
8-Monday NIGHT. *growl*
16-*jeluz* We’re reading *blarf* Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. How boring. I read that in like, fourth grade.
23-Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is. Also known as GLEE (Gay, Lez, and Everyone Else)
I think I know a Trans kid. But, of course, he’s (or she, or whatever) hasn’t told me.
B is EMO!!! I didn’t recognize her! She lookes so… ugh. It’s scary. She used to be all sweet and innocent and then her mom started getting drunk, and…. ugh.
(21) If you think it’s a hot topic, why not take it to Hot Topics?
i went to the word on the street festival this weekend. i couldn’t cross the street to get to it because of the run for the cure…. gr… on the plus side I met the guy who wrote the louis riel graphic novel!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!
26- *hugs* and *hugs your friend B* be there for her because she needs you. if she’s hurting herself (cutting herself/ gouging words into her ankle[my friend actualy did that she has scars saying F*** on her ankle] )she needs your support.
We are reading the Odyssey. Or, supossed to be reading it. I haven’t actually started yet…
28-The thing is, I didn’t really know her that well (obviously, because I didn’t recognize her until she laughed) except for she was the best friend of one of my good friends. I dunno if she’s cutting herself, because she wears red and black MCR bands around both wrists. And I haven’t gotten close enough to see her ankle. But GOD it’s so depressing. In fourth grade (the last time I talked to her) she had light brown hair and blue eyes and always wore a skirt and butterfly shirts. And now she’s got MCR shirts and I bet her SOCKS are Hot Topic. Although I love Hot Topic too. And she dyed her hair black, and never talks.
She was talking about her mom, and she was like “You do NOT want to know my mom. Especially when she’s drunk. She gets *wince* *pause* weird” and didn’t talk anymore.
God help her and her parents.
And M because he best friend is now Emo.
Beavo, l think l stumbled cross your webbi.
20-ebeth lurves P&P!
ebeth hates hw
ebeth likes choklit
ebeth hates people
ebeth likes nice people though
ebeth just dislikes most people in general
ebeth likes reading
ebeth despises hw
ebeth especially hates math hw
ebeth would love anybody who told her the MLA standard for margins
ebeth thinks we should bring back the likes/dislikes threads
ebeth likes those
ebeth hates just about everything else that exists right now
ebeth is in a rather bad mood
ebeth is not happy
ebeth is not a monday person
ebeth wants it to be next year so she can quit math (SQUEE)
ebeth is feeling apathetic
ebeth wants more rain and less indoors
14- YOU!!!!! You traitor! You posted on your blog that museblog was stupid! You can’t get past the blog spy!
21- Good idea! l”ll be on the force!
I just took a picture of myself reading Muse with my webcam, opened it with Paint, cut out all the background* and pasted in a photo of Titan’s surface from the Huygens probe. Hee hee. If I send in a letter with that in it, Muse will be practically obliged to publish it.
*Which is harder than it is with Photoshop. It involves judicious and tedious use of the Freeform Select.
14- I actually had to see the title Diffusion to guess you. Guess I’m not too good at guessing names.
I’m depressing myself by listening to Hare of Kilgraine.
I think I just missed my chance to see The Importance of Being Earnest. *starts crying for real* I was going to bring the money today, and I forgot, and then my acting teacher said the next four people to pay would take the next four spots, or something like that. I’m going to take the money tomorrow in a fit of desperation, but I haven’t got a chance. *sob*
Also, my friend who was going to ride the bus downtown with me forgot, and by the time I realized where she was the downtown bus was long gone and my bus was coming, so I didn’t bother finding her.
And Theseus is bad at keeping his promises. Plus the fact that we have to watch a movie of Theseus in 9th grade English class is sad.
This has turned into a very depressing post. The apples are ripe.
I ended up doing my assignment for acting today (imitate the person whom you’ve been stalking for the past three weeks). I could have postponed it till Friday, but I was really nervous and wanted to get it over with. I thought I was pretty awful, but I must have been good because everyone knew who I was. And I knocked over a chair.
I forgot a pen so I had to pretend, and I hadn’t studied very much and had completely forgotten to wear the lots of bracelets I was looking forward to.
32- Jadestone agrees with most of those. *sigh*
Well, except for the math bit, as she’s taking four years.
(34) Having spent almost the entire day extracting three persons from their backgrounds, I’m here to tell you: Photoshop may make it easier — and with prettier results — but the painstaking tedium factor remains. A digitizing tablet helps a lot, though, no matter what software you use.
33- That was PENTY???? *turns her back*
33- Perhaps you’re misinterpreting it. I haven’t read it, but, knowing Penty, she’s probably saying that some of the stuff taking place on MuseBlog these days is stupid (viz. pointless posts) and wistfully reminiscing about the old days when true hard-core dedicated Musers made up the majority of those that posted here and not just the people who got a Muse subscription from their grandparents and are super-bored because Second Life and/or IM and/or WoW is/are not working.
Just a guess. And a run-on sentence.
39- Oh yah. I do believe I saw that post, actually.
Ah, October… positively resplendent in all its autumnal glory… *inhales, flops on to the grass*
I don’t have a blog. I used to have one, umpteen years ago, but it has since been closed down. It was on a website called something like blogontheweb that no longer exists. I would write satire, and I even put together a series of Rules for Interaction with Grant. It was funny, but it became neglected and died.
No more blog conversations, ‘kay? Let’s not worry the GAPAs.
I have finished all my homework.
Now it’s procrastinating practice time.
Yay.
I love fall.
Fallness!
Today it is officially October. Or Octobre. I’m learning French. Is anyone else learning French?
39- Well, she did claim to be at a low. It was on a astrophysics testing blog. l quote:
“Things I do not like:
-LJ CSS; have I mentioned this one before?
-My organic chem teacher; I’m a slow runner. Deal with it.
-Museblog; was I really that dumb when I was twelve?
-Beowulf; Beowulf”
32- Waitwaitwait. I also think we should have a new likes/dislikes thread. That was the first thread I ever posted on, did you know? I was such a confused little newbie. I couldn’t figure out what anyone was talking about, I had no idea who Sweet Melpomene was, and I was terribly puzzled about those weird little numbers people kept putting in their posts.
But I read the Rules and did my best, and here I am now.
47-and did spiffily
42-ooh, now i’m curious. and sad that it died :'(
46-that was penty? i saw that post once i think…but i thought it was somebody else
(43) Thank you, Alice. That would be most considerate to all concerned.
46- Perhaps what she hates is the quality of her posts at twelve.
45- Spanish.
I think I live for acting class. It’s more like my constant state than a “class.” I don’t count the people I have acting class with as having a class with threm, because acting isn’t a class, it’s School Embodied. Well, the good parts, and the unconventional parts, that is.
Hm. We’re reading the Odyssey in English. Odysseus has a running series of nicknames in our class. It’s rather amusing.
The Many Nicknames of Odysseus
O
Dyssey
The O-man
The Dysster
Odie Otter
Odie McYssesson
Oddizzle-my-Shizzle
That Guy In the Book We’re Reading
14- Penty! I love your new name! Happy blog-aversiary too!
21- Seconded!!!!!
16- I wish I was in your English class… And I’m sure Robert does too.
39- Exactly.
I’ve returned (I think) Our internet kept going down and then I wandered off to go visit a college but now I’m back.
I got mistaken for a 20 year old yesterday. Scary.
52 – We’re going to be reading the Odyssey in second semester. I like the nicknames,
44 – I love procrastinating, like I’m doing right now.
32 – Kiara hopes Ebeth will have a better day tomorrow, thinks that Ebeth is feeling a bit down.
17 – delinkified! I like that word, I think I’ll try to use it next time I talk to someone about computers.
26 – Yeah, we read that in fourth grade, never understood why we had to read it again in eighth.
Hmm, is it me, or is there something weird going on with the moderation and recent comments bar? It might just be me being impatient too, if so, ignore me.
Sorry for the double post.
21- Seconded.
Ummmm…. you guys? you are aware that you are talking about a post on a personal journal that is meant for a small audience of whom penty chooses and is reflecting general frustrations with people’s attitudes and not MB itself? Also, people keep blowing things way out of porportion. Chill. it’s okay.
54- I would say “Join the club,” but it occured to me that I have a lot of clubs.
31-Really? And what makes you think that? (I have, like, six, four of which I don’t update)
32-Beavo feels sorry for Ebeth. Beavo was feeling apathetic yesterday.
Beavo is not getting many replies to his posts today.
Beavo feels like procrastinating time.
58- I completely agree. It’s not that big a deal.
re: BLOGWANK AT TWELVE: Come on. I didn’t say that I hated Museblog or that it was stupid. For one thing, it was an open-ended comment–the fact that you immediately jumped down my throat about it seems just a bit odd.
Even assuming that I was whining about the blog in its current state (which, by the way, I was, let’s start a witch hunt!), it does not make me any kind of traitor. I don’t have to believe that Musebloggers can do no wrong to enjoy reading the blog. The idea that I do have to is called a black-and-white worldview, children, and it is not a very realistic stance.
Um, also, how on earth did you find my livejournal, and why are you making such a big deal out of this?
This sort of stupid, unfunny wank is why I made that comment in the first place.59- oh, alice.
yeah, but has the person that thought you were 20 said, after finding out that you aren’t, that if you were older he would have asked you out? That was the scary part. I’ve been mistaken for a college aged person before, but it’s one of those things that you never really get used to.
He was really nice though. He thought that Muse was a cult when I tried to explain MB after doing the Kokopelli salute.
54 – Yeah, everyone thinks I’m eighteen or nineteen. Kinda creepy.
58 – I’m sure Penty’s fine and was just having a tough day. You’re right, people are blowing things up pretty big . . .
(29, 52, 55) The Odyssey is my favorite book. I’ve loved it ever since I read a children’s version at the age of seven.
58,61,62- Oh dear. Was anyone seriously making a big deal out of it? I wasn’t really being serious, or even paying any attention to what I was typing. It doesn’t feel like anyone else has really magnified it either. Maybe Ag.
64-
Um, scary?
I tried to explain the HPBs to B after she saw a SSSS I’d drawn on the back of my math notebook and then abandoned. She didn’t really get it.
63- What? Am I being annoying? I tend to do that after a while.
Yeah, it was amusing when I was attempting to tell him about the Muses and what the Kokopelli salute was.
It’s hard to explain these things. I guess it’s because Muse is so wonderful that the average person just can’t grasp it.
68- no, no, the opposite. You’re awesome! and I
(64, 67, 69) These things are indeed hard to explain. Perhaps not everyone is meant to understand them. Some people, after all, are more Harmless than others.
dang it post dissapeard. the rest of it says and I ♥ you. That was just a typical Alice comment and it amused me. Or something like that.
Wait, I thought we were MOSTLY harmless, not more?! I am now quite confuzzled. This is my natural state of mind, it sems, but ah well.
(24) When Brave New World was published, in 1932, readers found its depiction of a shallow, hedonistic future disturbing. They would have had no trouble understanding John the Savage’s reactions. If readers nowadays find it easier to understand Bernard and Lenina than John, maybe that says something about the way people and their values have changed over the past 75 years. Indirectly, science-fiction can be a good way to study the past.
(73) Exactly. Some people are more mostly harmless than others are — Mostlier Harmless, if you like.
Well, I’ve finished my Powerpoint on geographical similarities between Europe and Middle-Earth. It wasn’t that hard. I did my best to make it good, but also make it mine. For instance, on the slide about Mordor, it’s titled “Mordor: The Black Land,” then further down, in smaller print, says “(No offense, Curtis).” Curtis is one of my best friends, and he’s in that class. Then, the second to last slide says “The sun shines on Grant,” has my photo, then says “behold the face of glory.” I like to do things like that to my projects.
Oh, now I’m more confuzzled.
But that’s okay. Muse is the best, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Even it’s hard to explain-ness.
76- that’s a great project idea! and I like doing that sort of thing/when others do too. one time someone in my group had our slideshow randomly end with a picture of Sean Connery because he felt like it. I had no say in the last slide but I approved of the randomness. I don’t know much about Sean Connery minus the fact he played “Bond. James Bond” *wanders off to compare a map of europe and a map of Middle Earth and think about how I could bring this up in history class relating it to Tolkien’s experiences in WWI*
72- Well thank you. :happy:
Goodnight all, have fun while I’m gone, it’ll only be a day or so, probably.
Oof, homework to catch up on, AAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m doomed.
62- l was skimming around google blogs to see if l could find museblog, and l found something that insulted it. l kinda understand you, but you souned like those two girls who wrote muse complaining about how nerdy it was. Why were ebeth and glassboro there?
81- I think it was more complaining about how people here can sometimes be a bit immature. yeah.
Grant is going to insert a message in code for those daring and intelligent enough to decode it.
Mz svtqerl it ospgswlm.
Try and decode that, if you can. I should have made it harder, but I’m tired.
80- Ugh. Misery and woe (=homework, but don’t let my teachers see!). Well, ‘bye.
(…81, 82) I suggest a change of topic. The GAPAs believe in free speech and in ignoring things that happen on other websites. That is the path to wisdom, harmony, inner peace, and world domination.
85- I never really knew that those last four things were coexistent. The things you learn.
You have to put up with the first three to get the one you really want. It’s like dessert.
87- Gotcha.
Okay, so yesterday Opal had what must have been very kid in the neighborhood over. I was on the computer, and Opal, annoying child that she is, came over to bug me.
O: *reading over my shoulder* Who are you talking to? Pan?
Me: I’m not talking to anyone.
O: Beavo the Online Stalker? She’s talking to an online stalker!
One of Opal’s friends: A stalker? *comes over*
Me: He’s not really a stalker. It’s just a screen name.
OoOF: Is he a bad person?
Me: No. He’s joking.
It was really quite amusing and I thought that Beavo might appreciate it.
88. Fun……
85: Is ignoring what happens on other websites a good thing???
83- thanks a lot. l feel like an idiot cause l can’t decode it.
(89),
> Is ignoring what happens on other websites a good thing???
We like it.
90- If you don’t know anything about any sorts of cipher, it is pretty hard. No worries, it’s just that if you know the key, it’s very simple.
*ignores what happens on this site*
92- What kind of cipher did you use?
MZ SVTQERL IT OSPGSWLM.
Transposition ciphers are ruled out, because there’s a Q but no U. So it must be substitution.
The first word is two letters. It could be “an”, “my,” or a few others, but an and my are the only ones I could think of. My is unlikely because that would require M to stand for itself.
Let’s assume that M is A and Z is N. Thus-
An svtqerl it ospgswla.
I don’t think it’s likely that “a” is the end of that word. Let’s try something else.
S is the most common letter in the message. Let’s assume it stands for E.
Mz evtqerl it oepgewl.
— e—— — -e–e–.
That doesn’t help much, except that it gives us two Es in the last word.
Let’s try a different tack. Grant hints that there is a key that one could know, so we’ll assume that there’s a system
A=B, B=C, C=D, etc. That’s pretty common. So M equals N, Z=A, That would make the first word “Na.” Doesn’t seem plausible. Let’s try something different. B=A, C=B, etc. So M=L, Z=Y. Ly. No, that doesn’t seem right either. None of those ciphers work.
Except if the words are reversed in the first one. That would make the first word “An.” I’ll try it.
S=T, V=W, T=U. I don’t know any word that ends in “uwt.” Let’s try something else.
Back to guessing. What if the first word is “if?”
MZ SVTQERL IT OSPGSWLM.
Then M would be I, and Z would be F. But then the last word would end in I, which sees unlikely.
I’m off to research some ciphers.
66- google odysseus nostos. very funny!
30- ooh. wristbands… that’s what my friend uses to hide her scars. i don’t think you realy need to look at her ankle, i think my friend is the only person who would actualy carve swear words into her body.
umm….. I know I said i wasn’t gonna leave the blog. but….. i kinda have to. the blog ocupies waaaay to much of my non existent brain. i need to focus more on my school work. I know that sounds realy unlike me, but i’m temporarily leaving. I know i said i wasn’t gonna….. i’m sorry. it’s just that school comes first and I feel I’m not doing as good on my assignments as I should be. I’ll be away for a while I think. but I still love you all and i’m gonna miss you so much. this blog means a lot to me. probably a bit to much. I’m interacting with people I haven’t met face to face on a stupid electronic device, while neglecting my homework. it’s not even like i have mounds of homework. it’s just… I’m not working hard enough. it’s kinda weird that i’m thinking this way because i NEVER think about my marks…. but now it’s school and I can’t be on the computer goofing off. I don’t have a very smart brain. If i’m on the blog I am forgetting about what i should be doing and it won’t get done. I love you guys so much….. like actualy love you guys…… but i have to go.
SOME FUN HW OMGZ
about time
In brit lit, we have to write a chaucer-esque ballad thing describing a character. I’ve already decided two things, first that i’m doing it on my fake nanowrimo character who hasn’t been invented yet (rhyming is so much easier when you can make stuff up) and secondly that i’m doing it in middle english, just for fun. So i’ll probably be asking for help on that (PB&J, are you listening? :D) Any newer chaucer-lovers who weren’t on the old coy woodnesse thread?
(93) Hello, Em! We haven’t seen much of you lately. How are you doing?
88-My parents were under the impression I was “The Great” (maybe without the Beavo part?) and when they saw Beavo the Online Stalker they HAD to investigate. They wouldn’t belive it was ME until I posted. Of course, I could be an online stalker,
but I find internet petifiles boring.But I think Opal thinking I was a stalker funny.97- I understand completely- I felt that way too, so I took a break for a week, and now I’m back on but less attached to it. I think a little time away will be good for you, and nobody will hold it against you.
Of course, in all likelihood you won’t read this until you get back.
98- You’re lucky. I almost never get fun homework (except in Mrs. S’s class. Did I tell you about the time we wrote fractured fairy tales?)
October! For Halloween I’m dressing up as a fictional monk! (You don’t want to know…trust me.)
103-*wants to know* *but dosn’t let on*
95- Oh my.
97-
Well, good-bye for now, and get good grades!
100- I’m not sure she actually thought you were a stalker. But her friend definitely did.
101- I know it’s weird, but going away for a while can make you care a little less. I don’t care as much now that school has begun and I’m not on a lot.
I chain-blog. Like chain-smoking, but without the ash everywhere.
85-wouldnt exactly call museblog the greatest example of free speech… more like the internet in north korea. but i love you all!
88- … do stalkers call themselves stalkers? i really dont think so.
*is hyper due to superfluous amounts of caffeine* AAAHG!
106-*makes face* Yeah, I’m happy MuseBlog does not get ash everywhere.
Now I know why Mom thinks I’m anorexic.
I’m sTARving.
But I’m not gonna get off the computor until physical force is used. *strike*
Okay, I’m REALLY HUNGRY.
108- Why does she think you’re anorexic? Because you spend too much time on the computer?
hello peoples!!!!!!
The I hate museblog conversation was a little disturbing in how people got obssesed with it. I know thats been said before
Anyway I’m technically grounded from the internet but given that my mom opened the internet for me….
Yay!!!! It just started raining. *is happyful*
95- It’s not a substitution cipher, so the thing where you analyze the most commonly used letters won’t work. Ah ha ha ha. You know, it took me basically 5 seconds to invent the code, then about 2 minutes to type that because I was doing the code out of my head, but it really was worth it.
109-Yeah, I spend so much time and I’m like “Mom, I’m hungry” and she’s like “Well, get off the computer” and I’m like “I don’t want to” and she’s like “WELL THAN YOUR ANOREX” and gets all flipped.
Ooo, thread certainly is expanding at an alarming rate! Let’s aim for five this month!
MuseBlog isn’t perfect. It’s true. As citizens of the world, we have the ability to complain about anything we dang well please.
Me myself, I dislike the intense arguing that sprouts over things that really shouldn’t even bother you. Opinions are opinions. If they have logic behind them, and are not inherently harmful (we’re harmLESS, remember?), then take a chill pill. It’s just what someone says. Now, if Penty-chan were to take action, and say, try to sabotage the blog database… there would be justifiable anger. Actions should infuriate. Not words.
Of course, really, Penty’s agressors are just stating opinions too, so what do I know? *ambles off*
Oh, yes, I’M GOING TO SEE THE TOURING PRODUCTION OF HAIRSPRAY TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
14- OMG, Pentayy, it’s your second blogiversary? Lyk, cool!
Fine. Eat this.
kvdrx mw d r44e%
sry for the 2post.
100- I thought I was The Great. I CAME FIRST…
YAY I SET UP MY CNAME AND NOW MY .MAC ACCOUNT IS [blankityblankblank].COM INSTEAD OF A LONG TEDIOUS WEB.MAC.COM URL!!!
113- We only get three threads a month, period. The GAPAs got sick of all the pointless posts that were made and then the people who started complaing and the ensuing drama.
In a car in a car in a small car in a small car driving– oh bother. Neve mind.
97~ We’ll miss you, Kagy. I always enjoy reading your posts and seeing your comics. I’m glad you’re planning on coming back though. I can completely realte to how much time this takes up, and the Mom-Unit is getting increasingly upset about it. *sigh*
100~ Whenever my Mom comes on she gets a raised eyebrow look if she sees your MB name.
*sniffle* Bye, Kagy. Come back soon, please. I’ll miss you too much. But, school comes first, blast it all.
113- Oh. Dern.
YAYAYAYAY!!!!!! Rendezvous Pics! I lllooooooovvvveeeeeee rendezvous.
Code-breakers! Maybe I used a transposition cipher, changing how many spaces on each letter of a word. Think about it.
G’night all. It’s not very late, but I’ve been really tired lately, go figure, a few weeks on overdrive…. *drags self away from computer*
hey GAPAs, where do we send stuff in for the contest? is it just the email on the fan page or is there like a separate contest email? *is too lazy to find her muse and check…*
do tell, do tell, i have to leave in about two minutes… *eep*
122- “changing how many spaces on each letter of a word” Huh?
A transposition cipher rotates the alphabet by a certain number of spaces. The Caesar cipher, a well-known one, rotates the alphabet three spaces. Thus. “Et tu, Brute,” becomes “Bq qr, Yorqb.” Perhaps, not necessarily, but perhaps, I changed the number of rotated spaces on each letter.
or don’t tell…
So it’s spirit week (aka look at dante and larry week). Monica brought in a pink feather boa (for pink day yesterday, for volley for the cure, which i went to pep band for. we won three straight times in a row, so it wasn’t that long, but we had one of the smallest pep bands ever. three flutes (two of which are complete [expletive]s (just an interesting side note)), four trumpets (durfdurf, me, hahnz, and high tower) one mello (haha, stupid andy), all three tubas, one drummer (that was odd, usually there’s more) and two saxes (cheese and dan))
Anyway, back to the main point, feathers keep falling off it, and it’s been worn a lot by many different people. so i’ve been collecting the feathers and giving them away to random teachers (i love studying teacher reactions)
the first two that fell, bill and i gave to feathers. (haha…feathers gets feathers..haha…ha…ha…k sry). he was a bit busy at the time, so we just left them on his desk, but he apparently wore them in his ears all day. success!
The next feather went to flores, who just smiled a bit and said “thank you” and took it with a completely straight face. aah, flores. Dan was wearing it during science, and a bunch of feathers fell so he left them in a pile on blanchard’s desk. flores and blanchard share rooms, depending on when the AP chem classes are, so he was in there next and found them and put them all in a beaker at the front of the class. i went in after school to ask a q and there they all were!
Two feathers went to nolan and almos. almos was just like “aww, thank you!” and nolan laughed and thanked me rather more sarcastically.
Bill insisted we give a feather to messerly, so we did. Then bill asked “do you and mr. flores talk?” and messerly was like “yeah, we talk all the time at lunch,” and bill said “aww, that’s cute” i was cracking up the entire time, because this was the result of a conversation we’d had once about how messerly and flores would probably hate each other. Anyway, her reaction was basically the same “aww, thanks!”
Another feather went to hemmel when he passed us in the hallway. he laughed and said “thanks” less sarcastically than nolan, but still not quite seriously
The last feather was as we left, we saw feathers with his son luke (luke and i are buddies :D) so i gave luke a feather. he was SO CUTE he just sat down and started playing with it right away *cue “awwww*s*
Five other feathers had ended up intertwined in my shoelaces, on my trumpet, and behind dan’s ear.
yay for feathers!
Hello, everybody! Sorry I wasn’t able to stay very long last time, I only had about 3 minutes. I have approximately 1 hour this time.
My parents found out about Museblog and I am very happy to say that they thought it was okay!* However they don’t want me coming on here very often so only when I am at the library can I come on here. I am using a library computer right now.
I look forward to finally coming back, though you may see me only once every 2 weeks or so.
–E2MB
*They weren’t so hot about the hot topics threads, as I expected, but they said I could use my own judgement to decide whether a thread is appropriate or not. I have discovered that you GAPAs actually do an extremely good job of keeping the junk out compared to most of the web.
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! AYAYAYAYAYAYY!!!!!!
*pies E2MB* You’re BACK!!!!!!!! 
That’s great! I wondered if you would ever return!
Let’s have a big party! *pies all around*
Red-tailed HAWK
130 – *blush* thank you!
*pies red-tailed hawk just to spread the spirit around*
128- Sounds fun!
129- YAY! That’s WONDERFUL! I missed you!
So anyway, I’m going to see The Importance of Being Earnest tomorrow (and I get to teach another girl how to crochet! w00t! But that’s beside the point) and so that means I’m missing untold numbers of classes (three, and one tutorial). So after the bell rang I went to my math room to ask my teacher if I could just turn in my hw on Monday instead of tomorrow. He said yes, it wasa perfgectly fine, and it was only a few minutes after three. I could have made it to my bus. BUT– (see where this story is going?), L was there. She asked me how Spanish was (she dropped out to take choir), and we started talking. After about ten minutes I realized that I was going to be late for my bus, and sure enough, the only people still at the bus stop were the people who took K bus. K bus is B’s bus, which is nice, and I took a very long time agonizing over the fact that I had missed my bus and what was I going to do now since my mom was working. I decided to take B’s bus, got off at the third stop, and walked five blocks home. Joy. I’m ever so glad I decided I didn’t need my science binder.
*snivle* Bye, Kagy. We’ll miss you.
128-Hehehehe. Sounds like something I would do…
129-WELCOME BACK!!!!
Anyway, we made cinnamon rolls in FACS today. *drools* They were T to the A to the STEY even though we baked them an extra three minutes. Yummie.
And so I’m always making jokes at Tessa who has a locker next to mine. And the lockers are so scrunched, she always puts the back of her locker door up against mine and her purse where I have to crouch down and get my stuff. So I always say something like “That’s a very nice decoration for my locker, Tessa” and “Thank you for the pretty purse, I can add it to my collection hidden in my closet” and stuff like that. And today she actually LAUGED. *happy*
Brook (that emo girl) was making jokes (WOW) in class about how if she had to choose between the four guys at my table (Me, Gregory, Xavier, Wilson, and Pierro) (That’s five, but…) (Someone said Pierro was gay and didn’t count as a boy he counted as 1/4 a boy) (she corrected herself) that she would become lesbian. We were all like “thats nice” and she started yacking about some poor guy named Tyler that she (you dont want to know what she did). It was kinda scary. She used to be a cheerleader.
Speaking of people not being around for a while, where is Glassboro? Or KT? Orrrrrrrrr………….many people…I think the first wave of skool knocked a bunch of people out for a while. I can’t speak from experience as I wasn’t here last year at this time…but I have noticed some others not being present lately.
Anyways, to anybody who is reading this, we are going to dig up our front yard this Sunday. That is, we are going to dig up a little over 64 square feet of it. I’m going to start a vegetable garden next spring! How neat is that? It is going to be a raised bed, but in four 4×4 sections, like a four-square garden. I’ll grow some………..ooh, what can I grow to put in a pie? I guess I could make a vegetable pot pie…
The funny part of the story: Last night at dusk my mom and I drove to the hardware store to buy the wheelbarrow, but then it wouldn’t fit in the trunk. So we had to walk probably a mile home with it in the dark, and then my dad and mom went with the other car to get the first car. It was totally fun, though! Making the town wonder even more about the strange people to whose house an issue of Muse is spotted going into…
/ 
Red-taield HAWK
Bye for now. It was fun seeing you all again.
KAGY!!!!!!!!! YOU’RE NOT LEAVING THE MINUTE E2MB GETS BACK ARE YOU? *SOBS SNIFFLESNIFFEL* !!!!!!!!!!!
Our Chef! No! Waah!
I know about MBlog taking away schoolwork time, and vice versa. But I don’t think I would ever be able to just STOP for very long. that is just…Brave!
The minute I said I hadn’t seen Glassboro in a while he’s on. It’s like magic!
Red-tailed HAWK
97, 136 – I really need to stop doing so much internet stuff . There’s just too much work at school. I haven’t been on MB since June or July, wow.
I’m doing a Harry Potter fansite called [snip! –Admin.], facebook, writing.com, have about four different emails, and am trying to start on MB again because it’s so awesome and I haven’t been on in months. And the interenet connection is slower than dialup.
Ugh. But MB’s too cool to stay away from forever, even though I haven’t visited for a few months.
97 – Aw, Kaggy, that’s too bad. Hope you can come back on breaks and vacations!
127- So did you use a Vigenere square? Or was this completely random?
136- Ditto! I could NEVER pull myself away from the MB.
I just started reading the Warriors series. Any comments?
My website is up and running and personally I think it pwnz the sox off the intarwebzez.
I need to update myself on all the webcomics I read.
134- I don’t know where I am, really. Sorry.
So guys, like i said, i’m writing my ballad thing for brit lit in middle english, because otherwise it’ll sound absolutely horrible. unfortunately, i’m having issues making it longer. it’s supposed to be 20 lines, and i have 10. so two requests, could you first tell me what i could add, and second correct any mistakes i might have made on grammar and suchlike?
Ther was once a clergeon, of 17 yeer
His profession was but to leere
Sobrely, and eek clene clad
In blak, and browne eyes he hadde
Of evene lengthe, and thinne is he
He was rebellious, hardily
His speeche came als cleere as daye
But soothly, he had no fey
And eek little curteisie
He cleped things as he saw them to be
Brilliant, Ebeth! You’ve described your clergeon vividly. Now, how about spending the next ten lines describing something he does? Maybe he’s a party animal, for example. Here, I’ll feed you a possible next line in modern spelling, which you may either Chaucerize or ignore as you see fit:
And, after dark, he fain was wont to go…
yes! my internet’s finnaly up! hahaha! I don’t know when it’ll go down again…oh, october isn’t october ookiness…
ooh, good idea.
tankers
aah, i don’t know how i’d survive without the good ol’ blog…
138- I did not use any sort of square. It’s quite simple, really, once you get started. Very systematic.
done!
Ther was once a clergeon, of 17 yeer
His profession was but to leere
Sobrely, and eek clene clad
In blak, and browne eyes he hadde
Of evene lengthe, and thinne was he
He was rebellious, hardily
His speeche came als cleere as daye
But soothly, he had no fey
And eek little curteisie
He cleped things as he saw them to be
To a fight, he wolde never say no
And, after dark, he fain was wont to go
Ydelly to the tavern, to maken stryfe
Needelees, but swich was his lyf
He werreyed the world, his woodnesse was kowthe
And so yvel and foul was his mouthe
Thoroughly reprevable, was he
He did nothing thriftily
Yet wyse was he, for all his yowthe
They put up with him, for al his sooth
we should have another homework thread, those were good…
97- Goodbye for now, dear friend.
l know you won’t read about this, but don’t forget about our comic. Wow, you even got HAWK to drop his pleasent attitude. The minute my rival returns, my friend leaves. 
Farewell, kag.
127- Then you should be able to decode mine.
Beavo, you do not moderate at all. lt’s sad.
137-You have facebook?
Everybody’s going… I’ll miss you!
YAYAYAYAYYAY I LIKE OCTOBER!!!!!!!!
147-Oh nO!!!!!!!!!!
Red-tailed HAWK
*gets dizzy and falls over*
147-Moderating meaning what?
goodbye all who are leaving…aw, now I feel sad…
145- Do you actually know what a Vigenere square is?
149-YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAY ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *secret handshake of october-lovers*
Hey all, welcome back to those who have returned, goodbye to those who are leaving.
So, I can’t go trick or treating because my violin lesson and percussion lesson are on Halloween, and of course I can’t get them moved. And then my mom yelled at me for complaining (like she wasn’t complaining about new york parking for 15 minutes straight) and how I’m so ungrateful about being driven into the city twice a week. Honestly. I don’t know what’s wrong with my parents. And then they try to tell me that I’M hormonal. This is not PMS… this is being fed up with constant criticism and such. This is how I look at it. There’s two people in my life (parentals) that tell me I’m an ungrateful… I’m not going to say the word here) and then there’s my friends, who don’t think that (you don’t, do you?) and are supportive of me. (by the way, thank you
)
Also- there’s no math today because of HS open house, and no math tomorrow because of a pep rally or something. So I would have study hall for the last two periods of the day. My mom would be picking me up at 2:10 anyway, because I’ve never taken the bus home from the middle school. So I ask her if she could please pick me up early today and tomorrow (it’s no different, right? just and hour and a half earlier, and it’s not like she’s doing anything) but NO. She yells at me about how I’m taking advantage about her and how she has to write a NOTE. *gasp* “How am I going to explain this?” honestly. the attendance office understands my predicament with the math. all she has to do is sum it up in a few sentences. it’s not an essay. eventually she did it, but not without calling me over to her computer to proofread it for her. and lots of complaining and yelling.
Apologies for the rant. That was longer than I intended.
You don’t have to read it.
And, those who know my parents, please don’t say anything. I know you wouldn’t.
Thank you all again.
I hope this is just a bad week.
>_>
*shifty eyes*
My brother can’t leave his room for three hours. Don’t ask.
I think homeworkz is taking up way too much of my time. I mean, I’d never quit the MB, but I might have to consider erasing some of my bookmarks that I check everyday. *sniffles*
AHHH GLOBAL WARMING!! IT IS 81 DEGREES IN THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER!!!!!!!!
Seriously, it’s freaky.
I’ve been roasting all day. Yurgh. Yesterday was really nice, though.
I love fall. Ths is really pointless, so I’ll quit typing now…..
Haispray= hilarious. I love my parents. They are lovely to me, even though I don’t deserve it.
Well, children, gather ’round. Let me spin ye a weave about CHOREOGRAPHY DAY IN MUSICAL THEATRE.
Once upon a time, there was a lass named Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas. After much sweat, tears, and sore throats, she was accepted into The Wiz. Now, her year had been going along in this class with scarce trouble to speak of. Then Miss Veronica, the choreographer, came in for the first time and changed everything. Gwendolyn learned that the Scarecrow in the original version of The Wizard of Oz has more rhythm than her. However, there were many other scarecrows in the class, so Gwendolyn’s performing ego was not to badly dented.
She just hoped they didn’t cast her in a part with a lot of dancing… *shudder*
It was actually pretty amusing. And by the end, it was way better from when I had started. We get cast next week *nervous twitch*. I want to be Evillene very badly, but that’s probably not going to happen. Oh well.
hey… i’m kinda back… well, i did my homework for today and my parents are out so i thought “What the hey i’ll visit MB… and skimmm the coments without actualy posting” and then I realized people actualy missed me so I came to say hi and post on R&R (i love that thread
) and stuff. but the wierd thing/ funny/ predictable thing is that i didn’t realy miss MB once i decided to give it up……. but i love you guys and think this was a wondeful creation. yadaydayada…. now to check some threads…
158-yay! *welcome back pie*
Glad to have you back, if only for a brief moment.
137 – Why snipped? I have the same username there as I do here, and it’s a pretty cool site. Who here doesn’t like Sirius?
148 – Yep.
152 – I certainly don’t, but I don’t know about Grant.
154 – Aw, Chip. Everyone has bad days once in awhile (well, maybe more), and I don’t know if I’m the only one who reads ranting posts, but I know that ranting people need sympathy. Sounds like my mom there, she’s always calling me fat and then yelling at me when I lose weight. Some people are so paradoxial. Bit of a big deal about the note, you just have to jot down a few sentences on a piece of paper and there you have it.
157 – Good lucky Gwendolyn! I love musical theatre, I’m going to be trying out for a winter musical, “Once Upon a Mattress”, in December. And I’ve been picked for the Solo and Ensemble quartet for my choir! I’m horrid at most dancing. I’m an elephant in a tutu in ballet. I’m pretty good at tap and Irish Step, and have never tried hip-hop or clogging. I’d like to learn them, though, heard they’re fun.
I haven’t heard much about The Wiz, who’s Evillene?
158 – Yay Kaggy!
But remember to do your homework first, don’t be a bad person like me and put everything off till ten o’clock. Of course we miss you, and MBers shouldn’t have to leave if they don’t want to. (MuseBloggers Bill of Rights, First Amendment)
158- Hi Kaggy! I miss you!
161-Are you in the Koko group?
Oh dearie me. I’m such a stalker/stalked person…
161-How can you not like sirius?!?!? *dies of shock*
161- Hi, thanks. It’ll be better, I guess. We got along pretty well after they got back from open house…
On a happier note, I’ve finished all my of my homework, except the French project. I’m in a much better mood now, and I can’t find it in me to complain about it.
Evillene is the equivalent to The Wicked Witch of the West in the traditional story of Oz.
154- It’s okay. You can’t trick-or-treat with me, though? I was going to ask. Never mind, but you have to be free some of that time…?
158-methinks these revisits will be frequent. or at least, i hope they will.
Hey all, I read most of this, but I’d like to read other threads so I don’t have many comments except that ebeth’s poem was wondress.
Yesterday was the last day of tennis (except for the 8 of us going on saturday to the topurnament, which will be all day again X/), but about 15 of us showed up today anyway and had Steph sort of tell us what to do, as she’s going to be manager next year. Practice her feeding and stuff.
Then I went stright from there to the frosh soccer game to observe it for sports medicine, which basically means Kathy R and I sat in Mr. G;s golf cart thingy and talked about random things becaus eno one got hurt. A little while before I left a kid crapped his knee (not bad at all, it didn’t seem to be bothering him but it was dripping a bit), and we were all like “Oooh!! Look! He’s bleeding! And watched Mr. G put acid and gauze and a band-aid on it. Somehow I have to turn that +8.5 more hours of things like it into 2-3 typed pages. It was funny, the soccer coach (my english teacher) would ocasionally get sucked into our conversations even though he was really trying not too.
After that I came home for about 2 minutes then jumped in the car to dryland/hockey. Now I’m back. And sunburned…
But no school tomarrow!! Or monday! My goal is to actually sleep past nine for the first time in a while… ah…
150- Meaning your webbi.
Sorry.
54: I feel your pain. Okay, no i don’t. My parents are nothing like that, and i really have no idea what you’re going through, but i do feel really bad for you. How’s that? Whenever my parents bug me, i retreat to my room with some good-quality headphones and listen to some heavy metal or really aggressive punk super loud. I don’t know why, but that seems to help.
Crap, you just reminded me that we have a pep rally tomorrow. Does anyone else think pep rallies are a pointless waste of time? I don’t know about you folks, but at my school the football team really sucks. I think they won three games last year. In fact, when they won a game this season, the local paper read, “[football team’s name] get a rare taste of victory.” It’s not like some pep rally is going to make them suck any less. So anyway, i just read during pep rallies until the band plays. You know what else i just reminded myself of? The Game. To whoever it may concern I just lost the game. And now that i’ve said that, it will concern you all for the rest of your lives. Mwahaha.
158- Yay! Welcome back!
I only have five minutes, but whatever.
The Importance of Being Earnest was SO GOOD! And the bus trip was a lot of fun!
Now I’m happy. Summary to come after school and after I go with B to the middle school and after I do my heaps of homework and make-up work et cetera.
Actually my weekend is extraordinarily busy, so if you don’t see me for a while, blame my Field & Lab report.
167- I’m not… I get home at 9:00pm.
171- Thanks… my parents aren’t normally like that. It’s weird. Eventually, they dismissed whatever I did wrong as PMS, even though it wasn’t. But it’s pretty much OK now. Except I got a date rape lecture and a career options lecture last night.
And yes, pep rallies are a waste of time… do you *have* to go? I don’t know if I have to go next year.
It is so hot out. It does not feel like October. More like August.
171- At least your football team wins occasionally. I don’t think my school’s team has won a game yet this year. It’s so bad, that a the last game I went to, we were losing 28-0, and everybody started freaking out when we actually scored. People acted like it was a miracle or something…
We had a pep rally today. It was boring. I went to the junior/senior one instead of the freshman/sophomore one because all the varsity teams (including band) were at it. We stood around on the turf and played with a fuzzy caterpillar while things I had no interest in happened. Our team rarely wins too. But the band didn’t play at the rally.
My college’s football team lost every game for five straight years. Only St. Olaf ranked lower in the national polls. Finally, in my sophomore year, one of the TV networks (CBS, I think it was) sent a camera team to cover the “school where winning isn’t everything” for its morning news show. The team won, stopping a last-minute drive by Muhlenberg one foot in front of the goal line. The spectators went crazy and tore down the goalpost. Spoiled that story…
Yeah, we *have* to go. We don’t have to pay attention though. I, for instance, read the whole time. Well, until they made us stand for the school alma mater, which i didn’t even know we had until today. Nobody knew the words, so the athletics dept. guy just sort of said them. Not sang, mind you. Said. In a depressing sort of monotone. It was one of the most pathetic things i’ve ever heard in my life.
I wrote new lyrics to our school’s “fight song” for a contest after they combined the schools my sophomore year, but they didn’t win. I don’t know why. They seemed to me to distill the essence of high school songs:
Proud Titans are we, and we’ll shout it near and far!
Proud Titans we be, and proud Ti-i-tans we are!
Unmatched is our might, and our lust for vic-to-ry!
So hustle and slam like the Titans we am,
Proud Titans are we!
</boring_gapa_reminiscences>
158-*pies* Welcome back!! STAY. Good Kagity Kag.
170-How did you get to my webbi[s]??? The link got snipped quite a while ago.
178-It’s okay, it happens to the best of us.
It’s okay, guys. For a long time we were on a 40-game losing streak. A radio station even sponsored our team because they decided to pick one that wasn’t doing well.
This is DWF, but I changed my name because I got bored.
SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS!
Done with that. I feel better now. Brian Sunny Jones and I are rooting for them.
172-Read “Lady Windemere’s Fan.” Avoid “Salome”–it’s creeeeepazoidal creeposis. And creepily fetishistic.
178-Fight, Harvard, fight! “Let’s not be rough now–but do fight fiercely!”
158- w00ticles!
Hah lol my friend Talia brought her laptop over and I stole my dad’s and we’re laptopping together! xD
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s RAINING! I know that I’ve said this before and you all think that I’m nuts, but ot hasn’t rained since the last time I posted that it rained, and that was a long time ago! Hopefully, this means that we won’t have to be on water rationing anymore! I don’t even care that the rain is totally ruining our schools homecoming night! RAIN IS SO GOOD!
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Water rationing? Where do you live?
Hey! That’s top secret information. I can’t tell you. Then I’d have stalkers trying to find me.
183- Me too! I like running in the rain.
it’s also romantic.
um, it flamablamablous celebrations day! sigh. I rember the comment , the theard, the subject she devesred from, to bring us that. it was the Xaris=? theard, the topic was autism (for some reson) and I am proud to be one of the people who remeber that!
(183) I empathize. Our hearts are one on this matter. I love my desert, but the lack of rain is depressing.
Agh. Our football team is aweful. It’s painful to watch. But I have to, being in band.
I can’t believe it. I’m doing homework. It’s friday. Gah. I have driver’s ed from 9 to 6 tomorrow. Then on sunday…guess what? More homework! And cleaning the house. Which I must do in order to make money so I can go to China this summer.
*goes to die in a vat of electron configurations and dutch rebellions*
299 On last thread (c+q)-
Ooh, I wrote a program on my TI-84+ for the quadratic formula a few days ago! Except instead of-
:Prompt A,B,C
:((-B+√(B²â€“4AC))/(2A))→D
:((-B–√(B²â€“4AC))/(2A))→E
:Disp “POSITIVE ROOT:”,D
:Disp “NEGATIVE ROOT:”,E
Mine was-
:Input A
:Input B
:Input C
:(-B+√(B[squared]- 4(A)(C)))/(2(A)) -> D
:(-B-√(B[squared]- 4(A)(C)))/(2(A)) -> E
:Disp D
:Disp E
186–running in the rain is good for the first few days or so, or until some wise guy yells “Wet t-shirt contest!” as the girl’s XC team runs by. But after a while it gets kind of icky, being wet all the time. I guess I’m a spoiled Californian.
But you know the best thing to do after rain is? After we do our eight mile death rain run in the arroyo, I go into the locker room and take off all my dripping-wet, freezing-cold clothes, put on jeans and a sweatshirt, and eat a bar of milk chocolate. O my goodness it is the best thing EVER.
Except runners aren’t supposed to eat chocolate. Oops.
179- The miracle of google.
Cotiillian tonight! l have a pwnsome suit. Wish me luck!
181- Queenie, I’ll recognize you no matter what you name yourself. (or should I call you King DF?)
189- I write one too!
183- hooray for rain!
Robert, what school did you go to?
Rain pwns everything. I just watched a movie in which it rains a lot.
I’ll continue to post about marching band in this thread for uniformity’s sake(all my other band posts are on the random thread) even though there is a new music thread.
We had a football game today. I came early because our section leader was making sure we knew the anthem because otherwise she wouldn’t let us play. Verdict: I can play the anthem. Then we all dressed (half-uniform; it was hot, or at least not cold) and then after a brief musical warmup we went on. Tunnel/fight song while football players ran through(like last week, only less waiting), anthem, bleachers. Even though I had about 12 different pins, two scrunchies, and hairspray in my hair, it fell mostly down. We sat in the stands in half-uniform most of the time, occasionally playing Iron Man or We Will Rock You. Once we were asked to play Sunshine Of Your Love, which wasn’t handed out this year, so the freshmen(including me) were hopelessly lost. At halftime it was an average performance, I think. The director said that it was worse than last week, but we had changed many things on Wednesday and hadn’t done a run-through since then, so I don’t think that’s fair. We lost badly (42-21), but , you know, 42. It was a pretty average game, I suppose, but it was marching band so that isn’t too bad.
(189) I wrote one of those once! But unfortunately it was on a calculator that was on lone from the library and I had to return it. I wish I had on right now, because that is what has is killing my grade in Alg. 2 Trig right now.
Solving quadratics! It’s not even hard! I just always screw it up some how. And I always thought I was good at math….I am kind of depressed because my last couple grades have been 75, 45, 73. The 45 was only a quiz but it still sucked. They weren’t even that hard. I just suck at math tests.
And my dad is a highly successful and prominent mathematician, and I understand it when he explains it, but I just never do well on the tests!
GR!
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*the calculator was on loan. not lone. oops.
176: Haha!
Programming calculators is beyond me. I just get my genius friends to give me games and the quadratic formula.
190: Another runner!! Hooray! I’m on the cross-country team, too. It sounds like you have a lot of fun. Except no choclate?! I’ve never heard that… :/
Whoops, I meant this one:
I have made comment 93 and comment 193 in the same thread! w00t!
191- Cotilion? I WANT TO GO!!!!!!!!!! *sobs*
200-I personnaly disliked it, but you’re a girl. who knows. you might’ve enjoyed it.
Goodmorning everyone!
Hi everyone! I haven’t been posting but I’m still reading!
I have a question for you, moderators…. Or fans, if you’re so inclined:
Would you please tell me all the previous issues of muse from today back to the start of this year? I have a feeling I missed some even though my prescription WAS intact back then (time to renew now though), and I don’t want to miss any of Muse!
Thanks,
/gradster(1)/
Ahoy there, Gradster! Good to see ye, matey.
Let’s see… January: 10th anniversary issue.
February: What Is This Creature? (handicrafts from Oaxaca)
March: Ligers and Tigons and Bears, Oh My! (lion cover)
April: Extreme Origami (origami dragon)
May/June: Money
July/August: Pump and Circumstance (cholera in London)
September: Unemployed Elephants (southeast Asian painting of Hindu elephant god)
October: Ghosts on Audiotape?
Ah… the sun hasn’t been out since Wednesday. Cloudiness and overcast skies.
I am happy.
201- I want to go to a dance with decent music. Badly. Cotilion being ballroom dancing, I think it logical that it should have decent music. Plus I could dress up. *sigh*
VERY IMPORTANT POLL!!!!!!!!!
What does surrealism mean to you? I NEED people to answer this question.
I think that, in the case of a ball (and yes I’m talking about a ball), the surrealism lies less in the individual costume than in the contrast between it and other costumes. If the ballroom were full of people in strange and elegant hats and one person dressed as an elephant, then that would be surreal because it was unexpected.
206-the music at mine was a couple of songs played over and over. it got really annoying.
surrealism? gee…um…fantasy, or weirdness is what comes to mind. or sarcasm. hmmm…that probably doesn’t help…
I’m sorry about this, GAPAs. This is potato chip, but I don’t want my username/email to be remembered on this computer. Je regrette.
Re: graphing calculators- I can’t work mine. I just use my scientific, because I know how to do fractions on that.
202- Good morning to you, too!
206- I have a vague idea, but not enough for a definition…
207- I was thnking a bit more specific, you know? Like, what would make something surreal, in your rmind?
isn’t there a way to clear the fields?
sorry, again.
Oog. lt would have been gr8 if the girl l danced with didn’t make cracks about my height.
I’m miserable. I can no longer find joy in the thought of cooking (not that I ever can). An improv workshop just within my grasp–and then my mom’s car had to go and break down miles from here. And if that wasn’t bad enough, I had a chance to go to the workshop anyway, but Opal and her horrid friend are making it impossible! I hate babysitting!
209- in my words :synonyms of surreal – strange, psychedelic, odd, out of place, divorced from reality.
Your elephant example was ok. I treat surreal as when things don’t seem like a part of average reality in a weird way, like if I’ve been looking around somewhere and getting lost for a while and there’s ethereal music coming from some non-obvious passageway, my thoughts would be “This is just like Myst. That’s so weird. Kind of surreal, almost.”
209-i think you said it, something unexpected. so unexpected that it doesn’t seem possible.
so we won our homecoming game! which is nice. somebody put blue pom-poms on every seat of the home side, including the band’s, so we would stick them in our instruments and throw them up in the air at the ends of songs and suchlike. the spread was panda express, which was great, but it was at hermann’s, which meant a mile and a half march to the school, and then the homecoming parade (which is up and down a couple streets). We were in winter uniforms, and it was almost 90 degrees (high 80’s actually i think…like 88-ish). johnson rushed the parade and gave us ten minutes in the band room before pregame. we basically drowned ourselves in water and flopped on the ground. some of the flutes were like “eew, don’t you know how much spit goes on that floor??? eeeew” (flutes annoy me…no offense to any flute players, i’m sure you’re way cooler. but our flutes are all either annoying, or dogs of the female persuasion, or both, with the exception of courtney) we were like “k first of all, you guys are the ones who let the spit drip out the ends of your instruments, as opposed to leaving it in neat little piles, and secondly, we are so gross with sweat that i’m sure the floor is disgusted that we’re lying on it too” seriously, we were all dripping with sweat, and the game hadn’t even started.
pregame went ok. we played a lot through the game. i sat with dan and the saltmaster (frosh named andrew salt. great name) everybody was there, it being homecoming. we even saw tater and cheese’s stepbrother (who’s name is daniel, but we call him cheese’s stepbrother). it was much more enjoyable away from certain people who annoy the hell out of me lately. we played the trumpet cheer like three times, and we added a new tradition (it’s traditional as of friday’s game, anwyay). when we went down before halftime, the trumpets all waited at the gate, and then ran through screaming our heads off. then of course we did our speech and cheer (“who are you?” “TRUMPETS” “who?” “TRUMPETS” “who?” “TRUMPETS” “what are you going to do?” “KICK [BUTT]” “what?” you get the idea. That one’s relatively new too. it used to refer to certain parts of the female anatomy, as well as a less socially acceptable term for sex, but johnson told us to change it)
the speech next year is going to be so crowded, because it’s seniors that stand and everybody else takes a knee, but about half of the trumpets we have now are juniors. the trumpets are so screwed after we graduate…
the other band was cool. especially their drum major, he was sweet. we saw them coming back and we were like “yeah other band! woohoo! good job!” and a few of them said “thanks” but most glared. i think they thought we were being sarcastic. they were really good though. even if our dancing skillz pwned theirs.
afterwards we tried to get people to go somewhere, and we ended up with a few people at cup o joe, but it was mostly people i don’t hang out with much, so i left at around 11:30. they couldn’t have stayed too much longer anyway though, because cup o joe’s supposed to close at 11.
211-speaking as a short girl who makes fun of tall people all the time, she’s probably jealous.
213- Yeah, that’s what I gnerally think of as surreal, but since this ball came up, I’ve had to revise my opinion. I still think it’s all in the atmosphere.
191- what’s a cottillion?
211- aww… poor ag. what a mean girl. i never make cracks about anyones height but my own…. how tall/short are you.
212- ouch. is opal your sister? improv is so much fun. That stinks that you couldn’t go.
and speaking of surreal… i think of surreal as something sortof ghostly. like a surreal dress would be one that had a lot of see through layers that moved as i under water. i don’t actualy know what surreal means though.
I got this cool old orange skirt today. wow. me in a skirt. kidding, i actualy have 3, now 4 skirts i like. it’s really nice. it’s a simple orange with a bit of black paterning. it’s really high waisted. it sits at my belly button (i’m unused to this. i wear my pants really low.)
216- A cotilion is ballroom dancing, or something along those lines.
Opal is indeed my sister, and a perfectly beastly child at that. Especially when she’s around her friends…ugh.
That’s a nice if inaccurate definition of surreal. Surreal means sort of dreamlike. That picture you just painted reminds me of something, a poem or song or short story or movie. Not The House Of Usher (by which I mean the movie from the twenties, not the story (or is it a poem?))? That was fun to make fun of but not particularly fun in any other respect.
That sounds like a nice skirt.
216- A little on the short side, but girls are expected to be taller at my age!
Alice, I just read a book called Thwonk, and the main character made me think of you. (That’s a compliment!) It’s a shame the book was corny.
Surreal situation- something that happens so fast or so inexplicably that you can’t quite comprehend it. Or something so wonderfully bizarre (like a strange pattern) that it is beyond analysis without gratuitous deep thought.
219- Why thank you!
221-Why, you’re welcome! If you really want to know, the girl’s name was A.J. and was madly in love with a person named Peter, and she was obsessed with photography. I know this has nothing to do with you, but the way the author expressed her thoughts was similar to the way you write on MuseBlog.
222- I know, I looked it up.
Good lord, I’m bad at using Photoshop. It’s quite sad, actually. I found a tutorial that taught me how to change the colors of things, but I’m still absolutely pathetic when it comes to using lasso tools, so I might as well not know how to use the colors…
Whatever. I give up.
209-someone wearing a trash can over their head. yup. not suggested for a costume, but still.
*snickers at ag*
it wasn’t…*looks around, then says in whisper*T*end whisper* …was it?
225- Who suck? You suck.
226-*figures it out* SNORPFTHLM! heh…kkcthic!(muffled laughing)
wait…it was?
Alice, when I first started using Photoshop, I couldn’t believe such a sophisticated program used such a clumsy tool as the lasso. Don’t be discouraged. Making good selections is a challenge that takes practice to do well. I’m pretty good with it now, but Photoshop offers many other (and better) options.
Do you use the add and subtract tools to fine tune the selections? They can really help to ease lasso frustrations.
Have you tried Quick Mask mode? It’s a lot easier to use, especially if you’re trying to select something with detail. Press either the “Q” on the keyboard or the Quick Mask button on the tool bar (below the palette swatches, the icon on the right that shows a light circle on a dark background). Press the “B” on the keyboard to choose the brush tool (or click its icon on the tool bar).
When you’re in Quick Mask mode, the palette selections turn black and white. Use black to paint your selection, white to erase mistakes. (The “black” will show up as a red mask on the picture.) The cool thing is you can use all your regular brush features — change size as needed, use soft brushes for a feathered edge, hard brushes for a sharp one, and so on.
When you’re done, press “Q” again (or the standard mode button to the left of the Quick Mask button) to return to standard mode, and you’ll see the familiar marquee around the area. If it still needs work, you can switch in and out of Quick Mask until you’re satisfied.
Hope my explanation doesn’t sound too complicated. It’s really easier than it sounds. Let me know if I can clarify.
228- SWEET! I am soooo trying that when I find my graphics pen… which will be never.
surreal means magical, cool, and impossible to explain.
[Snip! –Admin.]
I have absolutely nothing to talk about.
I saw The Game Plan last night for my birthday party… it was OK. Then we went home and opened presents and I got a Blick’s gift card! :D:D
227- lt’s only fair for the rest of us to pressure you till you tell me who you like.
229-Hehehe. [Retroactive snip. –Admin.]
228- Thanks! I’ll try it out right now. I really want to be able to make things look cool on Photoshop and I KNOW it’s possible, but I just can’t figure out how…
231- Yeah, but no one posts. Or moderates. HINT!!!!!!!!
233-I still cant figure out how you got onto my site. Did YOU post? There’s not exactly any horrible language. And I did get a few posts from my friends yesterday.
228- Yay graphics geeks! l myself have only clunky old paint on my compooter, but l use paintshop pro in my compooter graphics class. You can use the magic wand function to select a closed area of a bitmap, and flood fill it. l’ve made several cubes on this principle.
The Great And Powerful Administrators discourage discussions of personal websites and may zap such posts mercilessly and without right of appeal.
234- You have to check them. if you don’t, people can only see their posts with the “awaiting moderation”. l saw a snipped link to your webbi, so l googled it.
236-Whatever.
The Recent Comments sidebar isn’t working on my computor.
Nor mine. Weirdness is in the air.
l don’t think the gapas are moderating my invisible comment.
Whoa. Recent comments works again, and beavo and l have most of the posts. Robert has 1 and alice has 4 of so.
Fixed! Thanx GAPAs.
237-Whoa. I can’t get to my webbi by googlling it. And my posts are immidiatly moderated, and I can edit them if I want to. Which I usually do.
Wrong site then? l just used the most basic thing l could think of.
(237, 242) Um, guys, please note comment 236.
Sorry.
244-Sorry, I was curious.
(232) By the way, by default, Quick Mask is set so that the area you paint with black will be masked (i.e. protected from edits). If you want the area to be selected instead, you have a couple of options. You can double-click the Quick Mask icon and click the appropriate box under “color indicates.” Or when you return to standard mode and find you made the wrong choice, simply invert the marquee (Select/Inverse using the menu, or on the keyboard: Shift+Ctrl+i on a PC, or Shift+Cmd+i on a Mac).
Don’t be discouraged! Photoshop can be overwhelming. I’ve done everything wrong at least once. Making perfect selections is an ongoing challenge.
(235) The magic wand works well for certain purposes, but there are many other ways to select areas. Some choices are merely personal preference, others depend on the type of image you’re working with or the particular result you have in mind.
Paint Shop Pro is a very good program and considerably less expensive than Photoshop. Nowadays I use it mainly for the cool kaleidoscope filter.
What version? We have 6.
(248) I have PSP 11 at present. Can’t remember what I had before I upgraded last year, but it was several numbers back.
you lucky peoples. all i have is mspaint
(250) There’s a freebie out there called Serif Photo Plus, easily Googled. I looked at it only briefly and don’t remember what all is in it, but it’s definitely several notches above MS Paint.
Hey, I still use Adobe Illustrator.
My math teacher is around 60, really masculine, loves da Bears, etc. Or so we thought. Eighth period yesterday, his phone rang. His ringtone? “Umbrella.”
230-hmmm. yeah, that is true. either you’ll figure it out, or I’ll post some stuff on her later I guess.
252-Eeeehehehehe.
hey im going 2 india
can some1 help me and tell me what 2 pack!
PLEASE?
255-Clothes, Sun Goop, Insect Goop, FOOD, a Kazoo, a firearm or two, and a Muse. (Usually a cell and pocket computor helps, but that’s not mandatory.)
That’s if you’re going to the Jungle. India is actually pretty big, you know.
[Zapped in accordance with comment 236. –Admin.]
Okay, someone posted some messed up Newspaper titles a while ago. I found summore!
Slain Doctor Worried About His Death” — In a local paper in Canada.
“Public Inquiry To Be Launched Into Avalanche” — A front page headline in the National Post.
“Youth Hit By Train Is Rushed To Two Hospitals” — In a local paper.
“Ministry Probes Dead Fish” — In a local paper in Canada.
“Nixon Beneath the Surface” — The headline of an expose column about Richard Nixon, several days after his death.
“Golfing Immortal Dies Aged 69” — A headline in a New Zealand paper.
“Flawless Take-Off Marred By Hitch” — A headline in a New Zealand paper.
“Holy Mother Crushes Sacred Infant” — In a Catholic newspaper, referring to a basketball game between two Catholic High Schools.
“Women Look Good” — In a Canadian newspaper, referring to the women’s curling team during the 1998 Winter Olympics.
“Joint Committee Investigates Marijuana Use” — A local newspaper of a suburb of Toronto, describing a committee set up by the board of education and the local municipality to investigate marijuana use among high school students.
“Church Plan Upsets Brothel” — Adelaide Advertiser, October 23, 2000
“Man Died of Natural Causes” — Wirral News Group, October 25, 2000
“School Praised After Vandalism” — West Briton, November 9, 2000
“Tortoises Held Hostage As Lobster War Turns Nasty” — Independent, November 19, 2000
“Rise of ‘Mutants’ Leaves France a Divided Nation” — Times, November 21, 2000
“Pepsi To Increase Recycled Content In Products.” — The headline of an article in Plastics news about Pepsico increasing the amount of recycled plastic in their bottles.
India! *seethes with envy*
Definitely pack a Muse issue. Insect repellent may be benificial. Snacks for the flight. Sunscreen, maybe. Comfortables clothing. A good pair of sneakers. Some device that allows you to contact people.
257-WHAT?! Oh. *grumbles* I was trying to defend the blog.
259-Doctor! Head to the ship!
*sigh* sooooo………tired…………*snores*
No one came to our performance…………..
Ooh! I’m gonna start a contest for MuseBlog records (like best writer, most first posts, etc.). If you wanna join, please respond!
Gunnight ebery1!
258 – Those are hilarious. I really like the “Ministry Probes Dead Fish” *poke, poke*
261 – That’s too bad, hope the next one gets better turnout.
262 – That sounds relaly cool, even though I haven’t been on in months and won’t get as many chances to post, I’d like to join!
So, marching band -myschool- invitational today.
Spent half an hour trying to get my hair up at home, used copious amounts of pins and hairspray and actually bothered trying to straighten it. It’s still up now, though, so it must have worked.
Got there a little after noon, set up instrument fast and got shako and plume, everyone playing the anthem warmed up and then we played it at the stadium in concert arcs.
Then anthem people went to get ready with the fragment of the band not part of anthem-playing. Everyone[=me, Charlie, Brian, Evan] cleaned their slides and reapplied slide-o-mix (I didn’t name it… it works amazingly better than oil, that’s what counts) {Why am I always the only one with a spray bottle? No matter, at least I don’t get sprayed this way. And it’s funny watching Brian spray Mike(and everyone else).} And penguini gave people mini carrot-cupcakes. Which were good. And I got a brass nickname. Apparently I haven’t done anything compromising in band yet (yes! I’m beginning to really hate Rob and Mike constantly attacking me and finding fault with who I am, I don’t need more of that.). I’m called Clover (everyone has brass nicknames for the section t-shirts), because I make chains out of 3-leaf clovers. I thought that was normal. I mean, seven or eight years ago at hebrew school we would always make violet chains and the stems are practically the same. Anyway, we all got ready and then did musical warmup and marching warmup (I saw you from a distance, Margaret!) and lots of stuff like that for two hours, then performed the show in exhibition. I messed up the ways I always do, it was an average performance I guess. As I’ve said, though, average still gives you feelings of joy. It was rather hot today. Then the seniors had their ceremony and we stood at parade rest forever for that and the awards for everyone else. After that we marched back to cafe A where our stuff was and I left.
Currently listening: The One I’m Waiting For, Relient K, Mmhmm (looping the song)(format: song, artist, album)
Yes, it is somewhat out of character. Long story. But this song isn’t reflective of religion, and once I get over the circumstances in which it was acquired the song’s pretty good.
More messed-up headlines! I can’t remember where they’re from though… some major newspapers!
“Man Shoots Neighbor With Machete”
“Study Shows Sex, Pregnancy Link”
“Survey Finds Dirtier Subways After Cleaning Jobs Were Cut”
“Official: Only Rain Will Cure Drought”
“Teenage Girls Often Have Babies Fathered by Men”
And one from my school newspaper:
“Secret Ninja Clan Kidnaps Teacher Free the Achilles One, Students Cry
Happy No-School Columbus Day, where we celebrate the fact that Columbus discovered America, even thought it’s not named after him, and several other groups of people came there first, and there were some people already living there. The mammoths really discovered America.
258-Ha!
I want to go to India! *whines* Um… books about India?
262-I’ll join!
It rained when our band was supposed to march…
267- Hey, as long as we get a day off, I’m fine. I just wish they call it Explorers Day, or maybe Kill Off the Natives By Bringing Disease Day.
Kiara and purplefinch (and anyone else who wants to join the MB contest)-
Please state which contests (you may pick five, not including Most Impact) you would like to enter:
Best Writer (determined by MB vote)
Best Artist (MB vote)
Best Musician (MB vote)
Best Sense of Humor (MB vote)
Best Speller (MB vote)
Most First Posts (determined by blog searching)
Most Last Posts (blog searching)
Most Threads About Them (blog searching)
Most Impact on the Blog (Can be anyone, MB vote)
Hopefully, the results will make the next MuseCast (curtesy of Express Scribe :)) and if not, I’ll just post them.
270- How ’bout most alter egos?
and most name changes?
I would like to enter most threads about them.
270- How about “most typos”? That wqould definetly be popular here.
*parties for reasons that are nunya beezwax*
Happy Leif Ericson Day!
270- I’ll enter whatever, I don’t really care.
Wow! Apparently when there’s so much censorable content that it makes your face hurt, the post is deleted. Never seen that happen before. I’m sure never doing that again.
Anyway, I’d like to suggest a category: not Most Alter Egoes, but Best Named Alter Egoes. Now I’m going to hang up my new map of Europe that I got at Wooster today. That is where I am going to college.
Some posts collapse under the gravitational pull of their own information content and vanish from the Musiverse.
Revised List:
Best Writer (determined by MB vote)
Best Artist (MB vote)
Best Musician (MB vote)
Best Sense of Humor (MB vote)
Best Speller (MB vote)
Best Alter-Ego (MB vote)
Most First Posts (determined by blog searching)
Most Name Changes (blogs searching)
Most Last Posts (blog searching)
Most Threads About Them (blog searching)-LCMoO
Most Impact on the Blog (Can be anyone, MB vote)
271-That would take too long, because some people are still undetermined.
279- Fine. Enter me under Best Alter-Ego and Best Speller.
I think my alter egoes rule. DeathJackal? Stormcrow? Spongo? No contest there, man.
I’ll enter writer, speller, threads about. Do I need five?
Ahem.
Okay, that was weak.
There don’t seem to be any catagories l could win. l could try, but gimanator would probably get them.
270- I’ll enter, but I’m not sure I like the idea of voting “Best ___”
Anyway, whatever. Best Writer, Best Speller (though of course I’m neither), Best Sense of Humor (I’m not that either).
Oh, and in 170, I think you meant courtesy.
oh, I’ll enter sense of humor for the heck of it. I feel a little odd nominating myself and the whole idea of best disagrees with me a little but my curiousity won. oops. ah well.
All righty people! *copies all down*
285- Completely agreed.
Best artist. Other than lady bunniful.
Hmm. I’ll go in for writer, and um, musician, I guess.
Best Writer, possibly Best Musician. Maybe Busiest Person? Longest break from MB until coming back? Biggest Harry Potter fan? Just kidding,
.
Best Writer, maybe, save for the constant typos when I don’t check posts over and overuse of detail, and lack of monolouge, and severe edits to whatever I do write, or dying threads like TERENIKA. People, please post, there we need help.
277 – I’d really love to go to a college outside the U.S. The only problem is that I only know Spanish and American (no, not English, I mean American. English has much better grammar.) I’ve always wanted to go to England, too bad I’ll probably never get to. *sniff*
It’s really weird when you get into high school, everyone’s asking you what you’re going to do with your life after college and which college you’re going to.
Me: “I really have no idea, I just started highschool, how am I supposed to know what college I’m going to, what job I’m going to have, who I’m going to marry, and everything else that happens until I die?!”
Yeesh, councilors and advisors really need toknow everything.
Most frequent poster.
290- l speak english as well as american.
235- me has paint too. i don’t even bother trying to make stuff look flawless. i just adapt it to my best ability.
270- mabe it could be by nomination… i wouldn’t want to enter myself in best artist.
283- you could enter “most lovable”
279-i’ll just enter them all, though i doubt i’ll win. i’d like to vote though
281-Spongo was good
262/270- I’ll enter… musician, I guess. I don’t really see the point that much…
Why is it so hot? It’s october…
292-Anyone can enter themselves. Tis okay.
293-Everybody can vote, if they want to.
For the Most Impact on the Blog, you cannot enter yourself, you have to be nominated. I nominate (drumroll….) Prallius Canix, or Montgomery Gurl.
I’ll second monty
or are seconds unnecessary?
oh well
also, i’m assuming GAPAs don’t count?
Enter me under everything. I hope I win something, because right now it’s like life is running around in front of me, screaming “***** YOU!!!!!” like Lewis Black.
Too many asterisks. That was a mistake.
292- Aw, thanks.
(296) We don’t count, and we aren’t counting.
252- lawl.
279- Enter me in Best Writer, Best Speller, and Best Alter-Ego (anyone remember Peeves?)
295- I nominate Monty too.
294- You are freaking right. AAH GLOBAL WARMING IS UPON US!
292-somehow, you were the one I expected to say that, kagomix. I’ll enter…gee, I see how many other people would beat the categories…and I want them to win…but…humor, and musician…there should be a ‘on average, how many posts in a day?’ one. I’d enter that, I think I could actually beat other people.
Is it just me, or has everyone been watching too much SNL and Pure Pwnage?
oh. for most impact, I nominate Alice.
oops. and that darth jedi whatsisname that invented pie wars.
K well i don’t know who’s entered what, but i’d say…
Best Writer: Alice (or phoenix)
Best Artist: Hmm…not sure.
Best Musician: Lizzy or fridgey
Best Sense of Humor: Queenie or the chairman
Best Speller: emmatheduck
Best Alter-Ego: Haven’t really kept up with the alter egos…
Most Impact on the Blog: Monty (or fridgey?)
277-you’re going to wooster? i love that place! except only for the name, because i don’t know anything about it. and i know one person who went there. she played flute, and i always got her mixed up with her best friend, who also played flute.
I’ll enter….EVERYTHING! Yes, everything. I’m the best here. lol
If I were to nominate people, this would be the list:
Best Writer: Lessee . . . Canix or TNÖ, very probably. Or maybe Vixen.
Best Artist: Kagy!
Best Musician: Erm…erm…erm…could I have a list of musicians please?
Best Sense of Humor: Oh god. I can’t vote Robert? I dunno, then.
Best Speller: emmatheduck (it goes without saying)
Best Alter-Ego: ???
Most Impact on the Blog: Uh…say what? I haven’t been around long enough… *withdraws*
297) Lewis Black…I enjoy Lewis Black.
l nominate Gim for best usurper.
I’m going to send something to the GAPAs…tomorrow…
307- Said the person using “lol.”
309- Yes, but it isn’t Lewis Black. It’s life acting like Lewis Black, running around and shouting “**** YOU!” =
The Management discourages swearing even when it’s lightly masked by asterisks, dashes, or what have you. More-creative circumlocutions are encouraged.
I know. Saying a curse world and altering it slightly is practically the same as actually saying it.
Oooh! I got the pi post! 8)
ohhhhhhh how about best dancer?…………
281- My Personal Best Alter Egos: Sarcasm, Archaeopteryx, Buteogallus urubitinga, Goth Genius, Zapper, don’t give a damn and I can’t think of any more good names right now
304- I second it.
I nominate Ag for most lovable
Hmm, the random thread isn’t so random anymore…
I’m pretty sure I won’t win any awards. Not even most obnoxious. That definitely goes to FS.
300-I’ve got an MS Word document that keeps score.
I’m gonna think of a time when I can end the entering and people can start voting. When’s the next MuseCast coming out?
302-That would take way too much time to count.
305-Darth Yoda?
320-How about most… continental name??? JK
310-usurper? as in Impact, or what?
Best Writer: Phoenix
Best Artist: Kagy
Best Musician: Lizzie?
Best Sense of Humor: Queenie J
Best Speller: emmatheduck
Best Alter-Ego: Not a clue
Most Impact on the Blog: MontgomeryGurl.
Yeah… my answers are sort of similar to Ebeth’s. ah well.
ah poopy. I am soooo not winning. *snibble*
Someone should keep a tally, but I’m way too busy. Or lazy.
I’m makin’ mah Halloween costume! My Maximum Ride wings will be teh pwn, if only I can stop burning myself with the hotglue gun. OUCH. I also think I bought too many feathers.
324-That would be me… I invented it you know.
l had a fine reputation, until gimanator, who had never heard of muse, stole it.
320- FS was NOT obnoxious. l nominate you.
318- *Sniff* You are such a good person!
320 – lol,
322 – Usurper, as in Etheterre. Check the RRR threads.
324 – Maximum Ride. I’ve heard about that before, something about kids with wings, a blind guy, a kinda emoish guy, and a few other character’s whom I’ve forgotten. Is the book/series any good? What’s it about? Ouch about the glue gun, I’ve done that before, not a good experience.
301 – IT”S GLOBAL WARMING, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!
291 – Amazing,
327- Um, no. Let me respond.
322- Someone who undermines someone’s position.
328-no, I know what it means, just why do you nominate me for that?
326-FS was the most insultive, obnoxious person on this blog! and if you just bring muse to school, or C++D gets the stupid 17 dollars so we can split it evenly and buy it…
woah. I just went back to my first post…it was so weird lookikng at that…I remember it so well…maybe because it was only about 6 months ago…hmmm…
In defense of FS: He was insulting, but he was never obnoxious. He actually made very good arguments, and would have come across as a very smart MBer if he hadn’t viewed himself as superior to everyone else. So, smart:yes; insulting:yes; disrespectful:yes; but obnoxious:no.
I don’t really remember him. He must have been on when I wasn’t. Which will probably happen again soon.
332-ok. that is true, I guess…
Best Writer: Umm… widdershins or penty
Best Artist: Kagy?
Best Musician: Myabe Midnight Fiddler? (or FS)
Best Sense of Humor: Ebeth (her posts always make me laugh)
Best Speller: emmatheduck, then Alice
Best Alter-Ego: Ah… Traggle had a lot.
Most Impact on the Blog: I’m gonna agree with either FS or Monty. (and in on the discussion, he always had facts and reason to back up his arguments. Though he did insult people and didn’t censor himself, his points were good and even though I already agreed with lots of them, they made me think.)
333- what? does that mean you’re leaving again shortly? maaann, back to being one of even less gen 0 ers.
for best writer I’d have to go re-read writing threads. Hold that thought.
and I agree that Alice should also be nominated for best speller what with her correcting of all of us and all.
Thanks – I see you know about International Talk Like A Pirate Day? But you’re a bit late….
I don’t think I have:
May/June: Money
July/August: Pump and Circumstance (cholera in London)
Do you have any sort of record of the covers? If so, may I see those two? I don’t want to miss Muse!
/gradster(1)/
P.S. @ Jadestone I think I have the best spelling and grammar of anyone here. Have me meet this emmatheduck (who, incidentally, didn’t even capitalize her own name, though I don’t either – it’s an online thing) and Alice sometime. At the risk of cliché (and my reputation as a speller) – I will pwn them.
PENTY SEES A MEME! *_*
Best Writer: Way too many people and styles for me to give an award. Copping out wut.
Best Artist: Never seen Kag’s art, but Em and Cappy are both pretty good.
Best Musician: Why are you asking me this? No idea.
Best Sense of Humor: Queenie. Dispute and burn.
Best Speller:
ME…AXABest Alter-Ego: …whut?
Most Impact on the Blog: MG probably. If I were her I’d be sick by now of the thousands of ways in which people use her incluence: “lol MG would hate the RRRs/the HPB smiley/the fact that we can’t have 4562 random threads a month U SHUD B ASHAME!!11!!ONE!”
-floats-
326 Why, thank you!
Shouldn’t there be a separate thread for this?
WASHINGTON, DC—In the latest in a long series of ominous public pronouncements, the Department of Evil released a statement Monday demanding that all residents of the United States must die.
Dread Secretary of Evil Hammond S. Reynolds told reporters that they, too, must die.
“Yes, all must die,” Dread Secretary of Evil Hammond S. Reynolds said during a press conference in Room 1228 of Washington’s Robert C. Weaver Federal Building. “There shall soon come an accounting in which all will fall before the Grim Reaper as wheat in winter, as lambs under the knife. Soon all necks will feel the steely bite of our soul- thirsting axe, wielded by the unforgiving iron hand of the Department of Evil. Thus spake I, Dread Secretary Reynolds.”
The dread secretary then took questions from the assembled reporters.
Although the Department of Evil has not yet announced the exact timetable for the death of all, it recommends citizens make their peace with doomed relatives and spouses immediately, as the hour of their ending draws ever nigh and will be upon them as soon as the necessary funding has been authorized by the House Appropriations Committee.
“This budget approval is merely a pitiful, niggling formality, for soon we’ll be free to swarm across the land draining the life-pus out of all you quivering mortal worms,” Reynolds said. “Doubt us not: Come the wintertide, you all shall die, and die you will. Sorry, I meant ‘must.’ Die you must!”
Originally established by an act of Congress in 1953 and granted broader powers and funding in 1986 under the second Reagan administration, the Department of Evil has been an occasional source of controversy. Its 1993 And The Streets Shall Run Red With The Blood Of The Innocent initiative was highly criticized at the time by moderates, who thought the department’s agenda overly harsh.
An official from the Department of Evil described their 2007 strategic action plan at a conference in January.
In 2004, an ambitious plan to seed the clouds with blood and then rain excruciation down upon the thrice-damned didn’t even make it past a Senate budget committee, which criticized the plan as poorly conceived.
And last year, the department received a stinging blow after Congress voted to allocate only one-third of the money requested to swell the ranks of its deranged, barbarous demon cavalry.
Despite those recent setbacks, a DOE spokesbeast said that the dread secretary remains confident that his department will prevail in the end.
To publicize their current mission, the Department of Evil distributed to media outlets a ring-bound portfolio titled “You Shall All Perish Screaming 2007,” which provides estimates and logistics detailing how everyone will die, a line-by-line budget breakdown, and an addendum apologizing that the document was not printed in human blood. The full text is available at evil.gov.
The “All Must Die” initiative, the highest-profile program proposed by the DOE in recent memory, came under almost immediate scrutiny from politicians on both sides of the aisle.
“I don’t understand why we still even have a Department of Evil,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said. “It’s a Cold War holdover, an artifact of the ’50s that has outlived its usefulness. Mr. Reynolds has done as good a job as any recent dread secretary, but as afraid as I am of him, I believe his talents would be better served at Education or Agriculture.”
“Once again, Mr. Reynolds wants to throw money at the everyone-dies issue—in this case, $11.43 billion,” Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) said. “This is a waste of taxpayer dollars to do work best left to the private sector. It’s high time for the DOE to be absorbed into Homeland Security, where it belongs.”
At the press conference, Reynolds refused to disclose his reasons for proposing that all must die.
“Question not the dread secretary, insects!” said Reynolds, rearing back his mighty head and bellowing as a powerful crescendo emanated from the department’s enormous Gothic pipe organ. “First, the bandwagoners in Congress seek to derail our plans or committee them to death. Now, the mindless blood-bags who populate this teeming nation wish to know why they must perish. I will respond with the same answer we have always given: Despair, groveling vermin, and may your deaf, blind God forsake the United States of America! We’re done here.”
This article is not mine in any way, shape, or form, and belongs, in fact, to The Onion.
Best Writer: Alice or PC
Best Artist: I don’t know
Best Musician: Again, I don’t know
Best Sense of Humor: agagabagabag xarcu zepata, or whatever he’s calling himself today
Best speller: Me or Alice
Best Alter Ego: Me (duh)
Most Impact on blog: PC, agagabagabag xarcu zepata, or FS (most impact doesn’t have to mean the best…)
(338) Interesting point. So do you think perhaps the
threatLegend of MG is the real source of her impact? Might that apply to FS as well, I wonder.338- I’m not her (or am I????) and I’m sick of it too.
338- check out the talk like a pirate day thread and the “when they’re not on the blog” threads…. from a while back.
I NOMINATE CAPPY FOR BEST ARTIST, SHE IS PWNSOME!!!!!!!!!!!
the only thing I’ve been nominated for is an insult, thought rather poor. oh well, it at least gives me a good chuckle. *good chuckle*
337- I accept the challenge.
338&c- Everyone uses MontgomeryGurl as an excuse for . . . something. I really haven’t the faintest idea what IU’m talking about, but it’s probably making a mountain out of a molehill.
342- Quite honestly, I don’t think that FS was nearly as bad as he was made out to be. I mean, he was a little offensive, but not *EVIL*.
Not that anyone was saying he was evil. Now that I have tangled my threads of thought beyond all comprehension, I withdraw.
337- She was in the big spelling bee in washington. I havn’t seen her on much lately though. *hello-you’ve-been-gone-a-while pies*
i’m trying to run for student council pres. or vice pres. and i don’t have any good slogans, but also most of my grade is boys and they’ll probably only vote for boys, so how should i go about getting them to vote for me?
i need slogans or ideas!
I actually liked Fridgey. And was sad that he left and I couldn’t say goodbye. Ditto with Monty. As one of the few bloggers to have known both individuals for a considerable period of time, I can honestly say that the personalities of both have been very misrepresented lately on the blog.
306, 338-Awwww…I love you too.
POINTS OF MY DAY:
6:34 Was doing really well.
6:35 Woke up.
7:38 Arrived at school.
8:12 Nearly removed own right index finger with tin snip due to scream in ear, which hurt considerably and ruined nerves.
9:01 Met new French and Spanish teachers.
11:39 Lunch. Was nearly drenched in Mountain Dew by cute but curiously oblivous boy.
12:21 Listened to lecture on Darfur. Learned 0. Was disgusted by bottled smell of rotting flesh.
12:54 Talked to Jonathan N. about his braces. Suggested saltwater, ice cube.
13:08 Met new French and Spanish teachers. Again. Practiced Portuguese.
14:39 Was forced to karate-chop own locker to open it. Had visit from the Screw-Up Fairy.
15:16 Ran into (fig.) women’s sabre team captain, Kohn. Had 2 minute conversation w/her on subject of 2007 team.
15:20 Scholastic Bowl practice. Told team Branwell Bronte story.
16:38 Got hit with cellphone thrown by cute boy. Hit shoulder and bruised. Finished new Farley Mowat book.
19:20 Home visit by adviser of older sister, Ms. M.
And that’s where I am, folks. Chillin’ like a villain. Actually, this week I received the news that I will need to wait until junior year to take Driver’s Ed and receive my drivers license. Disheartening, yet not catastrophic.
348-I used to be VP of the fifth grade Student Council, but now it’s a joke and no one really runs because they want to.
Everyone discussing Most Impact: What am I, chopped liver?
351-Hmm… are you stationed in a little wax paper baggie inside a dead chicken?
The deadline for nominations is October 28th and the voting takes place (hopefully) on October 31st.
Add this category to the list: Most Similar to Chopped Liver.
353-Hmmm… I’ll think about that.
*sings*
ALLL THE RICHES BABY
WONT MEAN ANYTHING!! LALALALALALA
Whoa I’m like, high on Gwen Stefani right now. *scared*
My friend’s gonna by a Harajuko girl for haloween and I told her she should use her iSpeker and hide it in pigtail and play Rich Girls. Genious, I know that.
Has anyone mentioned the idea of a Kokonvention at the ProgPower festival (where EK’s going to be playing)?
335- I am insulted. I am the best musician (
), as well. as the best speller.
351- Well, because you returned quite recently, you havn’t created any uproars yet. And, sorry to say, there’s not many people left here who remember you from before.
351- True. You were the first person to post. That’s pretty impactful.
Most Impact: I would nominate Grant O., E2MB, or Red-tailed HAWK.
356-So your nominating yourself?
351-You’re much tastier than chopped liver. Something more along the lines of a pie, i would imagine. Although of course we wouldn’t dream of throwing you (or would we… *dun dun duuuuuun*)
Queenie, you just made my life with the following:
6:34 Was doing really well.
6:35 Woke up.
I think monty had an impact while she was around too. it wasn’t just after she left when people were like “OMGZ monty wuddnt like that it’s why she left!1!” But she was the one to send in a letter about the blog to muse, drawing in a LOT of new people (whether this is good or bad is irrelevant in this case…and i think most people are pretty undecided on that anyway). She also drew the first generation graphs…look at e~a’s post (336). i’m pretty sure she’s also the one who started the rather short-lived MB book club (which we should try again, btw, i think that’d be fun…if we didn’t pick such a long, slightly boring book)
Fridgey’s impact is pretty obvious. The Chairman has been around forever, can’t forget him.
And there’s also people like penty and e~a and queenie that we all know and love, they’ve had quite a bit of impact. If GAPAs were included, it would be a definite vote for robert (he’s just the one who started this whole thing…) but as it is, idk.
Anyway, i think monty’s a fair choice, and not just because of her name being tossed around constantly.
360- MB BOOK CLUB? Let’s do it!
I liked whatever her name was, the girl who wrote that thing about the girl. Something to do with dragons, the story was. I think her name was Phoenix or something. Too lazy to look it up. I don’t know where this is leading. I s’pose I’m just reminiscing.
Most Similar to Chopped Liver: GrantI liked Fridgey, actually. I didn’t necessarily agree with him, thought most of his opinions were extreme and unhelpful, and strongly disapproved of his tendency towards generalization, but as a person I did like him.
Not to mention, he was relatively easy on the eyes.Moar awards!
Most Provocative: Fridgey by a bunch.
Most Chemical: oxlin
Most Addicted to RRRs: Alice Alice Alice Alice Alice.
Most Likely to Live in a Refrigerator Box: Me, followed by Glasseh.
Miss Congeniality, e. g. Nicest Ranting Stalker Ever: Ebeth.
349- you don’t love me too? hmph. look for my post on nominees. and I love the woke up bit too. hehehe hehe. I do ♥ you Queenie!
Licenses: I have to wait ’till I’m eighteen because the stupid place went out of buisness and didn’t keep any behind the wheel records. Argh.
MG & Fridgey being misrepresented: very true. Though FS was here a lot more recently than MG.
YES! A bookclub again would be amazing! (thread hint GAPAs?…)
363- ah, penty. I ♥ you too.
come to think of it *both* penty and queenie are nominated for humor by me
and penty by me for most chemical. (her current name anyone?)
and I second the Alice rrr nomination of course.^_^
….as I blatantly steal Penty’s categories….
351-he sells me down the river, so what am I, chopped liver? it seems beacause I’m working class…I’m just the horses —(it’s from monty python’s spamalot. broadway production)
263- Is that a compliment or bad thing…?
361-oh, yes. I agree.
349 – lol, sounds like a great day! The guys sounds like this one person who keeps on giving me random hugs. It’s actually really nice, and it doesn’t involve being drenched in a soft drink!
345 – If I were a rich girl, la la la etc ….!!!! I’d have all the money in the world, if I were a wealthy girl! Make up a dance routine, walk around dancing to the personal theme song . . . I was diong that earlier today with one of my friends, just walking around doing random dance moves. twas fr00dy!
346 – No, not evil, but quite stubborn. Made good arguments, though, and was the only other person here who really knew how to write in Runes. And he was fun to talk to, if not exactly easy to always agree with. I was gone for a few months, I’m pretty sure nobody noticed that, but why did he leave?
360 – A book club would be fun, so long as we’re doing an interesting book
365 – Spamalot!
Gotta love Monty Python. Anyone who hasn’t seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail needs to do so, now.
360 (Ebeth)- I do agree with you about Monty having a lot of impact while she was here. I think that often sort of gets tossed aside because most of the people on the blog these days did not coexist with Monty (which is sort of why I get so pissy about them invoking her every time they see something they don’t like) and so are only acquainted with her legacy. But while she was around, she was one of the most active bloggers, starting a bunch of trends. Even though we all knew each other in those days, if we went back and asked our younger selves for a high-impact blogger of those days, MG probably would have come up fairly often.
362 (Grant)- Phoenix did have a thing for dragons and writing, so it’s probably her you’re thinking of. I miss Phoenix.
364 (oxlin)- -blushstammerthanks-
Eurgh, now I’ve gone all nostalgic and stuff. -wibbles-
I nominate myself for Most Contradictory and Most Confused!
Honestly, I think the “most impact” category is a canard. (Look it up!) Everybody here influences the blog, and this place wouldn’t be the same without any of you. How many MBers does it take to change a lightbulb?
If you must assign a superlative for influence, though, I think you ought to say, specifically, what your nominees did.
Honestly, I think the “most impact” category is a canard. (Look it up!) Everybody here influences the blog, and this place wouldn’t be the same without any of you. How many MBers does it take to change a lightbulb?
If you must assign a superlative for influence, though, I think you ought to say, specifically, what your nominees did.