Ask the GAPAs, No. 5
More questions. Occasional answers. Continued from No. 4.
Date: December 20, 2007
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe
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Beavo the Online Stalker Spy Dude, Master of 2 spdzk points
in December 20th, 2007 @ 11:49Oh, no. Not another one.
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Alice
in December 20th, 2007 @ 12:49I hereby vow that I shall keep up with this one as much as possible. It should be easy till school starts up again.
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Kagcomix
in December 20th, 2007 @ 16:36Hello again!
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 20th, 2007 @ 18:42when you did the Q&A, did you or muse chose the Q?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 20th, 2007 @ 19:32We decided which questions to answer.
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Turquoise
in December 20th, 2007 @ 20:00Is this where you ask questions for the Q&A?
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Beavo the Online Stalker Spy Dude, Master of 10 spdzk points
in December 20th, 2007 @ 20:01Did you send shorter answers back to the people who asked but didn’t get published?
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Kagcomix
in December 20th, 2007 @ 20:556- you can… that’s how i’m gettting into muse!!!!! look in a spring issue for 2008 (*is ecstatic[sp]*)
I asked this on the Polling Place but i’ll ask here too: GAPAs’ do you say THUH apple or THEE apple? it’s very important so if you could get back to me as soon as possible! please!
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ebeth
in December 20th, 2007 @ 21:03thee apple. if you say the before a word that starts with a vowel, it has the ee sound. otherwise, it’s thuh.
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Kagcomix
in December 21st, 2007 @ 10:409- THANK YOU! now go over to the polling place and tell everyone else that!
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Cat's Meow
in December 21st, 2007 @ 19:388-You are? Gratz!
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 00:59Kagcomix (8): I say THIH apple.
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 01:01Beavo (7): Sometimes we sent answers even if they weren’t going to be published. But only rarely.
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Lion
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 14:59Do you ever get really ridiculous questions? Questions that you just want to laugh at, I mean. Obviously non-serious questions.
If yes, have you ever answered any of them in the magazine? (I’m assuming no, but you never know).
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 16:46We’ve posted all the questions through 2005 on the Fan Page. As you can see, some of the questions there were indeed frivolous, and we did answer them.
For example, we’ve received quite a few questions inspired by Monty Python. What is the air speed of an unladen swallow? Answered in Muse. What if Napoleon had had a B-52 bomber at Waterloo? Ditto.
There were a few types of questions that Rosanne and I tended to avoid. For example, we didn’t like to answer factual questions that the questioner could easily look up either in a reference book or on the Web. (Wikipedia didn’t exist when we started.) We also strongly preferred questions that a reader really seemed curious about, as opposed to just wanting to demonstrate his or her advanced question-asking skills.
That still left plenty of good questions to answer. What happens if a rattlesnake bites itself? Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle? Why do you laugh when someone tickles you? Do fish drink water? How much does a cloud weigh? Yes, I’d say we have had a good run.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 17:34Q for any GAPA: is the “dark” side of the moon dark, or is it like the “dark ages” A.K.A. we don’t know much?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 17:46“Dark side” is a misnomer; it should be called the far side of the moon. It can’t be seen from Earth because the moon keeps its other side pointed toward us, but as it orbits each side gets the same amount of light.
Of course, the far side gets dark sometimes. It’s entirely dark during a “full moon,” when the near side faces the sun and gets fully lit. It’s partly dark for most of the rest of the moon’s 27.3-day orbit around Earth. Only during a “new moon,” when the near side is pointed away from the sun and goes dark, is the far side fully lit.
The far side used to be completely unknown. Nowadays, though, lunar orbiters have photographed and mapped the whole moon, so both sides are well known.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 18:0017- that’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 18:02follow up: does the earth go thru the same phases during the day? (if you look at one hemisphere.)
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 18:11Do you mean, as seen from the moon?
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 18:1520- if it saw one hemisphere all day, yes.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 18:23Oh, I see. You mean the view from a satellite in geostationary orbit, one that goes around Earth once a day. Yes, you would see all of Earth’s phases in the course of a day. From the moon you would see them in 27.3 days, the amount of time it takes the moon to orbit Earth. From low-Earth orbit you’d see them all in 90 minutes, though you’d probably be too close to see the whole planet as a disk.
I’ve just thought of something: The far side of the moon really is darker than the near side, because Earth isn’t visible from it. So it gets just as much sunlight but no “Earthlight.”
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 18:30thank you! *no need to send the question to Q&A!*
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POSOC
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 20:59Well, hmm.
Why do cars in Britain drive on the left side of the road?
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 21:10How long on average does it take to wear out a pair of slippers (if you, say, wear them for three hours every day, expecting you are walking while you wear them?)
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Glassboro
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 21:24Well, hmm.
Why do cars in the US drive on the right side of the road?
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POSOC
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 21:4026- And who decided which side of the road cars would drive on, in Britain or the US?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 21:46Both, no? They just made different decisions.
I seem to remember reading that the Brits used to drive their horse-drawn carriages on the left, too, and claim that the custom goes back to Roman chariots. I don’t remember the rationale, though.
I’m sure that many other Q&A columnists have dealt with this question and posted their answers on the Web.
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Alice
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 21:54Ack! I nearly typed in my last name!
Re: Sides of the road: I think cars in most places drive on the left side of the road (or maybe that’s just their steering wheels).
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Beavo the Online Stalker Spy Dude Person
in December 22nd, 2007 @ 22:28I’ve asked that question so many times in my life it’s probably in my school records: “Has tendancy to ask why certain cars are driven in certain places in certain countries.”
Here’s a question that I think is a matter of what you believe. Is the statement “Green is my favorite color” a fact or opinon? It is a fact that green is my favorite color, right? If I were to say what I’m implying, “Green is the best color”, than that would be the opinon, right?
This one’s on my school record, too, I think.
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groundhog22
in December 23rd, 2007 @ 11:04I’m drawing a graphic novel and have two questions about it. First of all, do you know anywhere that I can get advice on how to draw it well without making myself crazy with details, and second, a friend of mine is featured in the comic and he wants to draw himself. How do I politely tell him no?
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in December 23rd, 2007 @ 12:3731 – You could just… I don’t know…Like say: “It’s my graphic novel. I could take you out if I wanted to.”
But that’s mean…xDD
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Kagcomix
in December 23rd, 2007 @ 15:1931- oh I can help you!!!!! *eagerly raises hand* okay 1: what i do is I draw something to the best of my ability and if i’m still frustrated i leave it for a day of two then come back when i’m fresh and in a good mood (it can take me an hour to draw a page sometimes… and then my art skills stop working) and work on it some more. tip: never ink something the same day you drew it. this is a problem with me because i rush and then i realize and arm is too long or something like one eye is noticibly bigger than the other (lol). and 2: he deffinitely can’t draw himself because it’s hard when two people work on something together (styles clash, angers flare). just don’t discuss the project for a while, while secretly drawing it at night when he’s not around. then a month or so later mabe show him or whatever. i f he gets angry use Cappy’s response or say “it’s my idea!” although that sounds a bit bratty. you could possibly offer to let him draw an opening page to a chapter 9you know how some people do it how they get different artists to draw a picture on the page that says chapter 3. (an example of that is hopeless savages ground zero). but he’ll probably forget about the whole graphic novel thing if you stop talking about it!
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groundhog22
in December 24th, 2007 @ 05:45Thanks, you’re awesome! (I actually did stop talking to him about it for exactly that reason) I’m starting drawing all of the characters as soon as I get info from their real-life counterparts about how they want to look.
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Gaea
in December 24th, 2007 @ 09:57say i send in a letter on…December 23. what issue would it be published in if it were going to be published?
i’m still looking for that letter i sent in 6 months ago
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 24th, 2007 @ 10:22(35) It’s hard to say. Not before April, for sure, but they could keep it on hold for a while. Sometimes letters hang around until the magazine has a “hole” the right size on the Muse Mail page. It may sound strange, but it’s true: length is very important to editors. Things have to fit on the page.
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Kiki the Great
in December 25th, 2007 @ 19:39how does the wii-mote know where it is in relation to the console?
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ebeth
in December 25th, 2007 @ 19:46i think you should find out what sizes the “holes” are and give us a word count so we can email in the perfectly sized letter
i’m sure the blog makes very enthusiastic letter-writers out of us, at least until we realize that we can just say whatever we want to say on here…
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ebeth
in December 25th, 2007 @ 19:47In fact (double post aah!) i think i’ll write a random letter because i feel like it…
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Kiki the Great
in December 26th, 2007 @ 10:5039- Yeah, me too. I haven’t written a letter in the while.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 26th, 2007 @ 11:16do the GAPAs have to use the or do the type in itilices automatitly?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 26th, 2007 @ 11:40We use the <i> and </i> codes just like anybody else. The italics are just a convenience so MuseBloggers will know which posts to ignore.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 26th, 2007 @ 11:53did that show up?
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 26th, 2007 @ 11:54no, it did not.
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greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak!
in December 26th, 2007 @ 12:2142- I don’t ignore them. We (okay, most of us) relish in the possibility of getting another gem of wisdom from the GAPAs. I really did think the italics were automatic though…..
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¡Ã߀ƒ!
in December 26th, 2007 @ 12:43I’ve heard that eating too much chocolate can give you a headache. Is this true?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 26th, 2007 @ 14:21Hmm… Rosanne is probably the resident expert on eating too much chocolate.
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Kagcomix
in December 26th, 2007 @ 16:5534- thank you! i always forget what my friends lok like so i generaly tend to sort of make up their apperances when i can’t remember. just one word of advice for drawing people you know/are friends with: don’t make your drawings too similar to them so that you can say it’s only “loosly based” on them if they are dissatisfied and get angry or something. that’s what i do but mainly it’s my crappy memory of faces that keeps me like that.
if you have anymore questions scoot over to the manga/anime/graphic novels thread. i am always glad to help and i check out that thread every couple days (although no one else does)
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ebeth
in December 26th, 2007 @ 17:1547-*ahem*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 26th, 2007 @ 17:29Oh. I beg your pardon, Ebeth. But in terms of total lifetime consumption, surely she… No, huh?
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Kiki the Great
in December 26th, 2007 @ 17:30again, how does the wii-mote know where it is in relation to the console? i’m sure with your extremalicious ultra GAPA knowledge you could answer that. :D?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 26th, 2007 @ 17:34*realizes to his mortification that he has never been near a Wii*
Maybe PB&J can tell you.
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Midnight Fiddler
in December 26th, 2007 @ 17:39Here’s my question: Why doesn’t the whole MuseBlog thing at the top of the page load anymore? It looks like it says “MuseBloq” now. I thought it was just my computer, but it’s the same on thelibrary computer….
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Kiki the Great
in December 26th, 2007 @ 17:5452- *gasps* Fine. PB&J!!!! GET YOUR SMELLY BRITISH BUTT OVER HERE TO ANSWER MY QUESTION!
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POSOC
in December 26th, 2007 @ 18:12Wii will give everything wii own in order that wii might receive a… you get the idea.
Actually, I have never even seen a Wii.
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POSOC
in December 26th, 2007 @ 18:12And I don’t want one- sorry about double post.
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Alice
in December 26th, 2007 @ 18:26What’s a Wii? It’s some sort of weird video-game playing thingamajig.
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ebeth
in December 26th, 2007 @ 21:1957-um, it is pure awesomeness. Has anybody gone to the weather globe and spun it around in circles? wheee!
the rabbids game is really fun too. but sad. poor bunnies…at least they’re not hot pink…
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Jadestone
in December 26th, 2007 @ 22:35Well, caffeine supposedly stops headaches (opens the blood vessels, which makes sense) but it is also found in choklit, so I don’t think it’d be too bad.
Then again if you don eight boxes of Frangos I don’t think there’s much of you thats not eventually going to feel it.
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Kiki the Great
in December 27th, 2007 @ 10:14Poor Wii-deprived souls. GET WITH DA PICTURE, PEEPLES! But, yeah. It’s really fun.
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [10,000 piepoints ©]
in December 27th, 2007 @ 11:04Wii.
My cousins have one each, and they race each other on it and get all competitive and nasty towards each other and such.
I’m sorry, but it looks insanely boring, and also a good way to start to hate whoever is playing against you. I just say I’ll watch them play, because I have zero interest.
I prefer the real world. And this post isn’t meant to insult you, I don’t like offending people, so that makes another good reason not to play on the things…
Red-tailed HAWK
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 27th, 2007 @ 11:11but there so much! I can update my mac for that much. also, I still have a CRT tv. 16 inch.
RE: headache and cholkit: I don’t think it gives you a head ache, but maybe a stomach ache
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ebeth
in December 27th, 2007 @ 13:2761-eh, that sounds like they’re playing normal videogames on the wii. which is no fun. if you have a wii you should be playing wii games, which are less competitive and lots of fun. that’s why i like it so much, because it’s not like most other gaming systems
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in December 27th, 2007 @ 16:30So, does being excited or stressed out really make a person have to urinate?
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in December 28th, 2007 @ 06:1664- CAPPY!!! Let’s try for some tact, shall we????
To answer your question (although these topics SHOULD really be avoided) YES.Can eating larg amounts of dark chocolate give you halucinations? *believes she has read this somewhere*
On more tactful issues, how many hours a week are you GAPAs outside?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 28th, 2007 @ 06:33(65) “Outside”? Oh, yes, that’s that cold, noisy place between buildings, isn’t it?
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in December 28th, 2007 @ 08:2166- Yes I suppose that would be considered outside if the only wooded are you’ve seen is an urban jungle.
Wit beyond measure is a human’s greatest treasure.
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in December 28th, 2007 @ 13:0665 – Ah, but what is tact when it comes to science?
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in December 28th, 2007 @ 14:4168-It’s good manners. I don’t have a problem discussing the matters in a strictly scientific surounding, but it does not make nice tea conversation. As a matter of fact, I had been in the middle of my third cup of tea when I read your comment. Iam now in the middle of my fifth.
It had to be asked at one point. What kind of teas do you Gapas like?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 28th, 2007 @ 15:38The tea I like depends on what kind of mood I’m in. For herbal tea, I’ll drink almost anything fruity, minty, or grassy. (Grassy tea includes chamomile, for example.) For caffeinated tea, I like Earl Grey and Lady Grey, Darjeeling, Oolong, kukicha (twig tea), genmai (green tea flavored with toasted rice), and once in a while puerh (dark, highly fermented tea that tastes the way rainwater might taste as it trickles through decaying leaves on a forest floor) or yerba maté, a somewhat rooibos-like infusion that gauchos drink in Argentina. I’m not crazy about chai.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 28th, 2007 @ 15:51(69) Almost any tea except Earl Grey.
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greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak!
in December 28th, 2007 @ 16:08hehehe…. I’m not supposed to have caffine but…..
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oxlin widdershins
in December 28th, 2007 @ 16:2470- ooh I like maté! and chamomile-y teas mmm…
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Alice
in December 28th, 2007 @ 18:07Tea……..I want tea……. *casts longing glance at counter where tea menu lies* Wish I had some money…
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Jadestone
in December 28th, 2007 @ 18:12We had this very good tea in China, made from boiled chrysanthemum (ooh, who spelled that right on the first try? I think… spellcheck says so, but it has lied before) heads. It was really good, and sweet enough that you didn’t even have to make sugar. And would be easy to make on your own, come spring/summer.
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in December 29th, 2007 @ 08:23MMMMmmmmmm…………….. chrysanthemum tea……
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Queen Francois The Fist
in December 29th, 2007 @ 11:07YAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY NAME IS FINALY ON THE WHO’S HERE LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way what does GAPA stand for?
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¡Ã߀ƒ!
in December 29th, 2007 @ 11:2477- I can answer that–GAPA stands for Great And Powerful Administrator.
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greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak!
in December 29th, 2007 @ 11:34GAPA’s, can we please have a new “Just Friends” thread??? No one is posting and we are stuck at…..* checks umber of posts on thread* 199.
Which do you prefer in your tea? Honey or sugar?
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NerdAndProudOf It
in December 29th, 2007 @ 16:05What is UP with tea? Half a year ago our house was overflowing w/ it!
Also, What’s wrong w/ earl grey, 71?
God, 69, you drink fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in December 29th, 2007 @ 17:3469 – Did I ask that you drink tea? It’s astounding the types of wonders you may find here! Tsk tsk! Be prepared, my dear!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 29th, 2007 @ 18:10(80) I must admit many years have passed since I even tried Earl Grey, so my tastes may have changed by now. But it was the only tea I ever tasted that I actively disliked.
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Beavo (and such)
in December 29th, 2007 @ 18:17Assuming you have a train that travels faster than the speed of light, a flashlight, a blank board at the other end of the train track, and a window in the train, which would reach the board if you shined the flashlight out the window in the direction of the board: The flashlight’s beam, or the train traveling faster than the flashlight’s beam even though the flashlight is on it?
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 29th, 2007 @ 19:47and can you travel 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000…1 seconds slower then the speed of light?
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 29th, 2007 @ 19:53to be sun to the tune of joy to the world.
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in December 29th, 2007 @ 20:4383- Light goes at c no matter what. Light from the headlights of a speeding car goes no faster than light from a stationary flashlight. So the train would reach the board first.
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Beavo (and such)
in December 30th, 2007 @ 01:14Cool! Now my life is fufiled.
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [10,000 piepoints ©] FREE PIEPOINTS©!
in December 30th, 2007 @ 08:29Crvsto volanti noli obstare.
GAPAs-I have a good idea of what it means, as Robert told us at the Kokonvention, but I cannot seem to burn the exact translation into my brain. Help!
Red-tailed HAWK
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 30th, 2007 @ 08:35“Don’t stand in front of a flying pie.”
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [10,000 piepoints ©] FREE PIEPOINTS©!
in December 30th, 2007 @ 08:4889-Yes! Somehow I had that mixed up into “duck to avoid the flying pies”, so thank you…
Red-tailed HAWK
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in December 30th, 2007 @ 09:2280- I average about a cup of tea an hour. Or half hour, if it’s good. And I drink eight cups of tea a day on weekends, but only two or three on weekdays. I’m on holiday. It’s all weekends now!!!!
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 30th, 2007 @ 13:39is infinity times zero infinity or zero?
infinity times anything is infinity.
zero times anything is zero.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 30th, 2007 @ 15:49Infinity isn’t a number, so the results don’t always make sense when you try to use it in numerical operations.
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in December 30th, 2007 @ 15:59Did you know that there are different sizes of infinity?
It’s true. Here’s the reasoning:
There are an infinite number of whole numbers. But real numbers include all the whole numbers, as well as many other numbers. So the infinite number of real numbers is somehow greater than the infinity of whole numbers.
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Midnight Fiddler
in December 30th, 2007 @ 16:12Why doesn’t the full MuseBlog thing load at the top of the page anymore?!
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KaiYeves
in December 30th, 2007 @ 18:16No matter how big a number you get, you can’t approach infinity. There amazingly large numbers like googol and googolplex, which have no equivalent in nature, as there aren’t even enough sub-atomic particles in the universe to be gogolplex, but these numbers are EXACTLY AS FAR FROM INFINITY AS ONE!
Isn’t it grand?
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in December 30th, 2007 @ 18:22The only infinite thing we know of is the number of numbers.
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Midnight Fiddler
in December 30th, 2007 @ 18:42It’s scary, and I’m starting to get a headache…..but yes, it is amazing. And when you start looking at how huge the universe is, and how tiny we all are in comparison it’s mind blowing.
And, considering, why do I still ask about a emblem that does not properly load on the computer?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 30th, 2007 @ 18:46(95, 98) As far as I can tell the page loads properly.
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Midnight Fiddler
in December 30th, 2007 @ 19:0499~ Strange.
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Kiki the Great
in December 30th, 2007 @ 19:3798- Sounds like the Total Perspective Vortex to me. Have you read HG2G #2?
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speller73
in December 30th, 2007 @ 19:40This was asked on the random thread, but can we have a Broadway Musicals thread?
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¡Ã߀ƒ!
in December 30th, 2007 @ 22:27GAPAs, have you noticed that the right side of the
icon seems to be a little bit cut off? Or am I not seeing straight?
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¡Ã߀ƒ!
in December 30th, 2007 @ 22:30As a matter of fact, both of the sides seem to be a little cut off. Is that what they’re supposed to look like?
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in December 30th, 2007 @ 22:35Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon (69):
I like all preparations of Camellia sinensis (tea) I’ve ever tasted, even Earl Grey. My favorite tea is 2nd flush Darjeeling. I especially love the way it smells. It’s hard to describe. It’s like flowers or wine. Wine blossoms?As to herbal teas, I like them too, especially peppermint made from fresh leaves. The only one that I’ve tried that I really don’t like is hibiscus. I wish I did like it because the tea is such a pretty red color! But I just can’t get myself to enjoy the way it tastes. And unfortunately it crops up in a lot of herbal tea mixes. I hope Koko does something about this once he is president.
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 06:56Robert (93): Can you use infinity like a variable?
Rosanne (105): We make our own herbal tea in my family, and one tea we’ve abridged is Red Zinger. We took the ingredients from a box and changed them so it tastes better. Normally, the tea has tons of hibiscus and a small amount of rose hips and lemon grass, but in our version we switched the amounts, so there isn’t very much hibiscus. You still probably won’t like this tea, but if you find herbal tea mixes that you like, you can just look at the ingredients and go to a co-op or other whole-foods type store which has bulk spices. Then, you can get all the ingredients except hibiscus, solving the problem!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 07:56If you’re ever in Boulder, Colorado, take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings factory. The Mint Room will knock your socks off.
You can use any symbol as a variable. But it’s not legitimate to use sideways-8 to mean both a number and infinity at the same time, because infinity isn’t a number. I know that sometimes you’ll see people write equations like “one over infinity equals zero,” but a mathematician would write it differently: “the limit of one over x as x approaches infinity equals zero.” And even that’s just a symbolic shorthand.
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 08:59(107) Mention of the mint room reminds me of the vegetable garden where I used to live. The garden measured roughly the length and width of several lanes of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and I planted peppermint around a fair portion of the perimeter. Whenever it was mowed, the air would turn to mint. What an incredible sensation, like breathing the atmosphere of a different planet.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 09:31Ah, lovely to think about. The Mint Room, by contrast, is warehouse space, filled with bales of spearmint and peppermint stacked about 10 feet high. The mintiness is overwhelming. It would probably kill you if someone locked you in there.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 14:54Hey, those of you who like math might be interested in this math podcast series put together by the cousin of a friend of mine. (Yes, not only are all my friends nerds, but so are all their relatives, it seems.) You can find it at www. mathmutation. com .
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 15:00110) Who me, like Math?
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 15:51Robert (110): Cool, thanks! By the way, nerd friends are the best kind of friends. I wish I had nerd relatives as well, but unfortunately none of my cousins are nerds.
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 17:02112~ Most of my cousins are evil or stupid. The other day we got the latest news on my oldest cousin, she wants to learn to play the Irish fiddle. Somehow the fact that I’ve been doing precisely that for several years completely escapes her, and she asks my grandmother if there i any difference between an Irish fiddle and a fiddle. This is, of course, the cousin that got a music minor in college.
see what I mean?Math scares me. Very much.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 17:09Let’s see: you play the violin, Nora plays the viola, Gaea plays the cello… Now if we can find a bass player, we’ll have a complete string section.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 31st, 2007 @ 17:41i like math
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 17:5291-I still say that’s fast and a LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 18:32Why were my hpb’s not allowed in?
And how do you suggest a thread?
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 31st, 2007 @ 18:40117- because:
A) you put two many in
B) HPBs are eviland search for suggestion box in the search box at the top of the page.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 18:40I explained that here. And you suggest a thread by suggesting it, preferably on the Suggestion Box thead.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 31st, 2007 @ 18:43119- you added to your post after mine!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 18:44Yes. I was looking up the URL while you were writing your post.
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:14116-*shrugs* I like tea? What can I say?
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:23Rosanne is the editor of the Stanford medicine news or something like that, right?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:26Her magazine is called Stanford Medicine. She is the super-head-honcho editor there.
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:30124- Oh yes, Stanford Medicine. My dad really likes that magazine.
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The Man For Aeiou
in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:3325- are you trying to get something from him?
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:41126- Recently, I mentioned Rosanne’s name to my dad and he recognized her as the editor of Stanford Medicine. I was just checking to see if it was true.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:46Oh, yes. We Administrators are quite respectable when we’re not moderating MuseBlog.
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Purple Panda
in December 31st, 2007 @ 19:54Robert (114): THF plays violin, and is going to start viola soon.
My step-grandfather actually loves Science Magazine. In his “younger” years, he was a scientist-zookeeper-person, then he taught college journalism. He reads it cover-to-cover, every week. I don’t know anyone who reads Stanford Medicine, though.
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KaiYeves
in December 31st, 2007 @ 22:18I’m a science and history nerd, not a math or computer nerd.
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in December 31st, 2007 @ 22:33118- how do you know how many I put in, anyway?
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in January 2nd, 2008 @ 00:30¡Ã߀ƒ! – Wow, that’s so cool that your dad likes Stanford Medicine magazine. Squeeee!
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in January 2nd, 2008 @ 16:18114- i play bass.
110- that sounds cool. *must look it up*
i was in chapters the other day and decided to poke about the magazine rack and they didn’t have Science Magazine. it was down heartening because i kinda want to see the magazine…..
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in January 2nd, 2008 @ 16:23(133) Try the public library.
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in January 2nd, 2008 @ 16:33134- good idea!
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in January 2nd, 2008 @ 22:10I love libraries. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 01:59Purple Panda (106):
Your family’s abridged herbal teas are brilliant! What’s your favorite mix?Rebecca and Robert re: Mint
If I want to wake myself up I’ll just think of either of those mint-tensive environments and I’m sure that will do the trick. Whoooosh!
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in January 3rd, 2008 @ 09:12Great and Powerful GAPA’s could we plese have a happy birthday J.R.R. Tolkien thread? I think that if Sir Issac Newton gets on Tolkien should definatly get one too!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 09:58Newton really has affected your lives more than Tolkien has, whether you realize it or not. Still, there’s no reason not to celebrate Professor T. as well. Any excuse for a party, as I’m sure the old hobbit would be the first to agree.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 12:4354 – How do you know I have a smelly butt?
Anyway – I’m told that a wiimote contains three acceleration sensors, configured (somehow) to detect tilt. By correlating information from all three, the wii can sense the controller’s orientation, and whether it’s moving through space. Well, more correctly, if it’s accelerating through space, because constant motion can’t be detected unless you have a fixed frame of reference.
How’s that?
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 12:4769 – Yorkshire Tea. But you can’t get the real stuff in America. Posh delis sell “Yorkshire Gold”, but it doesn’t have the corrosive effects of the tannin-laden original.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 12:5091 – You should move to England. We need some new blood to help maintain the old standards. We’re getting lax, and it has to stop. Coffee must go!
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 12:55110 – you might also like BBC Radio 4’s series on the properties of numbers :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/another5.shtml
Enjoy!
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 12:58128 – The GAPAS? Respectable? Aren’t you forgetting the customary activities of a certain PB&J?
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Purple Panda
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 18:26Rosanne (137): My favorite tea concoction we call “Uncle DJ tea.” We got a jar of tea from my uncle for Christmas one year, and we looked at the ingredients and went from there. It’s actually the easiest, by far, of all the teas we have made. It’s simply licorice root and peppermint, about half and half (you can do a little more, a little less depending on which you like more).
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 19:02Mmmm. Sounds good, Purple P. And I already have teabags with straight peppermint and others with stright licorice root. So I could just mix them together. Will try soon.
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 20:11Since a couple people mentioned Stanford Medicine…
If anyone’s curious about Stanford Medicine, where I work as The Editor, you can see the online version here.
One thing you can’t really appreciate online is the graphics, which are usually pretty fab, I must say. Our current online design doesn’t give them as much play as I’d like. But we’ve got a new online format starting with the next issue, which will highlight the graphics more. Yay.
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Purple Panda
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 20:13The link doesn’t work. Is it just my computer?
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in January 3rd, 2008 @ 20:17Purple P: When I first posted it the html got erased for some reason I don’t understand. But I’ve put it back in now and it’s stayed this time. The link works now, for me at least. So if you give it another try I think it will work for you too.
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in January 3rd, 2008 @ 21:05*goes to staff list* *sees “Rosanne Spector, Stanford Medicine Editor”* Ooooo! Aaaah!
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in January 3rd, 2008 @ 22:06
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in January 6th, 2008 @ 20:33151- I think the HPB killed this thread.
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in January 8th, 2008 @ 15:36have the GAPAs’ ever been to Canada?
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in January 9th, 2008 @ 18:08152- yeah.
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in January 11th, 2008 @ 23:06¡Ã߀ƒ! and Kagcomix (152, 154): It’s not dead yet!
Kagy (153): I’ve been to Canada but only a couple of times. I went to Montreal with my French class when I was about 12 or so. I hardly remember anything about it except that the hotel we stayed at for the first night or two was really scuzzy — for example, the lower sheet on my bed had a wet sticky spot on it before I got in the bed. Ick! It’s amazing how fresh that memory is at least 30 years later. I definitely don’t hold this experience against Canada, though.
Much more recently I spent a few days in Toronto and had a great time. I love that city. I was there over New Year’s a few years ago and we saw the new year in by dancing by the side of the water at First Night Toronto. It seemed like an interesting city full of friendly people — and good food.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 12th, 2008 @ 06:49(153) I’ve been to Toronto, too, and one summer I went to Quebec City during the biannual Renaissance fair, Les Medievales. As the only walled city in North America, it’s the perfect place for that sort of thing. The people were friendly, the costumes and music were pretty, and the food was excellent. I’d recommend it to any Muser.
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in January 12th, 2008 @ 09:06144-It’s an easy thing to forget around here *accusatory glare*
i’ve never stayed in Canada…i’ve only just gone for like a day and come back…
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Cat's Meow
in January 13th, 2008 @ 17:06Does moderating ever get boring when no MBers are on? What do you guys do then?
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The Man for Aeiou
in January 13th, 2008 @ 18:37158- probably work and eat.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in January 14th, 2008 @ 09:31(135) Purple Panda, as I rummaged through the cupboard this morning trying to decide which tea suited my mood (having already drunk sufficient coffee for the day), I realized I had both peppermint and licorice, so I decided to try your recommendation. I am enjoying a cup at this very moment. It’s tasty and not quite what I expected.
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Kagcomix [o' the 50 pie points]
in January 15th, 2008 @ 16:32155- yeah we have some awesome food. next time you’re here, please tell me! i’ve nevre actualy been in the city for new years…. i’m always up north at variouse other peoples houses.
Rebecca, what do you do for a living? i hope that doesn’t seem rude. i realized recently that I know what all the GAPAs’ do (Robert and Roseanne are editors, Paul Baker is a writer and musician) except for you. Also , forgive me if this seems rude, but what is your connection to MUSE?
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in January 15th, 2008 @ 17:57What do you tell people when they ask you: “Who’s Kokopelli?”
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 15th, 2008 @ 18:31Oh… You’d better get out.
You’d better make room.
You’d better not doubt
You’re facing your doom.
Kokopelli’s coming to town!He’s baking them up,
Letting them cool,
Heading your way to
Make you a fool.
Kokopelli’s coming to town.He’s everything you wanted.
He’s everything you’re not.
He’ll size you up and shut you down,
So watch out for what you’ve got.You’d better not stay.
You’d better like pie.
Don’t get in his way.
I’m telling you why:
Kokopelli’s coming to town!
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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)
in January 15th, 2008 @ 19:39163 – Sounds delightful.
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in January 17th, 2008 @ 14:28Sory if this has been asked before–I’m too lazy to read the entire thread–How do I know which house in Muse Academy I’m in? Is there some sort of personality test?
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Nora the Violist
in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:26163: OMG I love it.
Is the “FEAR ME” on the bunny shirts meant to be referring to the rose-coloured rodent on the front, or the wearer of the shirt? I am assuming it’s the rodent.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:28Both, except that rabbits aren’t rodents: they’re lagomorphs.
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The Man For Aeiou
in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:29163-they put a rodent on a bunney shirt? were all the lagomorph models out of town?
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:30drat! the GAPA got to it first!
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:35When I wore my “Fear Me” bunny shirt, many ignorant classmates were very confused about why you should fear a hot pink bunny. And the class
clownmaniac screamed “No!” when he saw my shirt. I think he was referring to me, not the bunny,
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:38(169) Yours made me laugh, though, picturing all those tall, skinny (and hot pink) lagomorphs strutting down runways in the latest Paris fashions.
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:42If anyone doesn’t understand why a
should be feared, then you should show him *shudder* this.
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:43That didn’t work.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=49
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 19:45That didn’t work either. *frusturated* Post #49 on SSSS 2007.4.
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 20:03https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1022 is the thread. Look at post 49.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in January 26th, 2008 @ 20:12(174) ¡Ã߀ƒ! , I fixed your link in 172 so the dramatic flourish would not go to waste.
The “p=” refers to the page number. To go to the specific comment add “#comment-49” (without the quotation marks). In other words, the link should look like this:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1022#comment-49
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 20:14176- Thank you. *sigh*
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in January 26th, 2008 @ 20:42How come if you click the link to the Muse Contest page, the most recent contest mentioned is ONE YEAR OLD?
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Alice
in January 28th, 2008 @ 11:52GAPAs– Are you ever sorry you got involved in MuseBlog? I mean, heaven knows how much time you spend moderating every day.
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 11:56(179) Never. Not for one nanosecond.
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 11:59180- Yay!
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:00178 – I have no idea.
180 – Do you multi-task while you’re moderating?
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:08179- Why would anyone ever be sorry they got in MuseBlog? (Not a question directed towards the GAPAs)
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:14183 – I dunno. Maybe if they got ultra over addicted. I mean, I’m addicted to MuseBlog, I’m full aware of that, but I still ♥ it. Who could ever get sick of you guys?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:17(182) Definitely yes to the multitasking question, both when I’m working at the museum and at home. Though my laptop doesn’t have quite the convenience as Robert’s Treo, it does make the job fairly portable, thus you have helped me clean my garage, create graphics and watercolors, write, prepare for my students … a lot of stuff I would otherwise be doing alone, so it’s nice to have such pleasant company.
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:26185 – Haha. You’re welcome.
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:40183- I was just wondering, ’cause the GAPAs do so much for us, and they moderate all the time, and they consult each other about what to snip and what to let through. It seems like a lot of work. But a lot of really fun work. I want to be a GAPA!
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 12:49187 – It would be really cool if on your birthday you got to be a GAPA-for-a-day or something. People would probably add funny messages to everybody’s posts, or change what they said, or something like that. But it would still be really cool…
And that way whenever I was on there would be a GAPA on! @_@
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in January 28th, 2008 @ 13:21188-then again, you’d moderate your own posts, you could get away with locations, swearing….
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in January 29th, 2008 @ 15:45182- What does it say on the Muse Contest page when YOU open it?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 29th, 2008 @ 16:33Wow! It is a year old! And the Kokopelli & Company comic is old, too.
Apparently, somebody in Chicago is not doing ens job. If you’d like to give en a nudge, the e-mail address is muse@caruspub.com.
*stands back to watch the avalanche*
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KaiYves
in January 29th, 2008 @ 18:47Can we do something for the 50th anniversary of Explorer 1, the United States’ first satellite, on January 31?
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in January 30th, 2008 @ 16:05Thanks, guys!
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in January 30th, 2008 @ 20:35Question for GAPAs: Do you have to italicize your posts yourselves, or is it automatically done?
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in January 30th, 2008 @ 22:11Oh, fine. Lagomorph. *hmph face* I suppose if I had actually thought about that one, I would have noticed that bunnies aren’t rodents… That’s what I get for not thinking. *pies brain*
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Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spzdk points)
in February 10th, 2008 @ 17:29Do the GAPAs think of us MBers rather like neices and nephews? Because sometimes to hear you talk about blog business it almost sounds that way.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in February 10th, 2008 @ 19:33(196) Is that a good thing? Was there something in particular that made you ask? I seem to be in a questioning mood tonight.
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 19:44(196) How do you know how we sound when we talk about our nieces and nephews?
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 19:48Robert (198): She’s probably basing it on how her aunt and uncle speak to her, or how she imagines it.
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 20:30197/198~ I guess I didn’t make sense, did I? What I meant was that sometimes when I’ve heard you talking to people about MB, and saying something about the MBers it seems like they’re like, well, almost like neices and nephews, instead of a bunch of weird kids that you have to moderate posts for day in and day out.
Oh never mind, I’m still not making much sense….
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 10th, 2008 @ 20:35In my experience, nieces and nephews + a bunch of weird kids = not mutually exclusive. But my family may be atypical.
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 20:55I dunno, never mind. *shrugs*
I’ll come up with another question sometime, but probably not for a little bit.
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 21:01(200) Maybe it’s partly because I’ve been an aunt for such a short while, but I tend to think of MBers as being in a category all their own.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spzdk points)
in February 10th, 2008 @ 21:08Oh. I was just wondering.
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 22:21It’s really fairly simple. We like you and want you to be happy and successful and rule the world and erect statues of us. That’s how I feel about my nieces and nephews up to a point, but then it veers off into unique territory.
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in February 10th, 2008 @ 23:04205- If I ever rule the world I will certainly erect a statue of you.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spzdk points)
in February 12th, 2008 @ 19:17Okay, if I get around to taking over the world and ruling it, I’ll erect many statues of all of you and write books on how wonderful the GAPAs are and why we should all worship them.
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in February 12th, 2008 @ 19:26Don’t go overboard. Statues will suffice.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spzdk points)
in February 12th, 2008 @ 19:45All right then, if you don’t want books about how wonderful the GAPAs are, that’s fine. I won’t wear myself out.
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in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:37i have a question GAPAs’: what does lagomorph mean?i like the word and want to title a short comic Lagomorph but i have no clue what it means.
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in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:41210- A rabbit is a lagomorph.
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in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:41The lagomorphs are a family of mammals including rabbits, hares and pikas. Loquacious people refer to HPBs as “fiery magenta lagomorphs.”
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The Man For Aeiou
in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:44212- or, for short, FMLs.
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in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:46212- Not family. Order.
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in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:47211-213- thanks
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in February 17th, 2008 @ 18:48Rabbits and hares are family Leporidae, and pikas are Ochotonidae.
Don’t you just love Latin names?
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in February 22nd, 2008 @ 19:34Latin rocks!
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badrang
in February 25th, 2008 @ 01:15GAPA:s with Q&A do you…. (1)anser all questions? (2)pick and choos? (3)anser all questions but take forever to do so? (4)other———— spesefy see I sent in a question a year ago still hasent come up love badrang
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in February 25th, 2008 @ 01:17all my nice formating….*snif sob*
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Daisy*chain
in February 25th, 2008 @ 20:20How did the whole pie-throwing thing get started?
That’s what I’d like to know…
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in February 25th, 2008 @ 20:40220- This deserves an essay. Or a book.
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Daisy*chain
in February 27th, 2008 @ 17:39oh, um never mind then.
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¡Ã߀ƒ! [155 piepoints ©]
in February 27th, 2008 @ 22:44Why do faraway mountains and hills have a sort of bluish color? Or do you have any idea what I’m talking about?
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Purple Panda
in March 2nd, 2008 @ 18:26GAPAs – how do you keep up with the blog when it is this busy? I’ve already given up on keeping up with the posts, how do you moderate them all?
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Fallen Angel [Kagz]
in March 3rd, 2008 @ 16:13Dearest GAPAs’,
I have a pressing question. What would happen if Iron Man got hit by lightning wile flying through a storm? let’s say it was a substantial lightning bolt, would he be fryed inside his metal suit? what would happen to the electrical wiring in his suit? Now my second question is what if Iron Man was stading on the ground and got hit by lightning? I think he would be cooked alive inside his metal suite and probably electrocuted, but I was wondering what you had to say.
Yours,
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A Mouse Named Alice
in March 6th, 2008 @ 18:27224- *cough* I’ll explain…
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Luna the Lovely
in March 9th, 2008 @ 22:48#53: My MuseBlog emblem is cut off at the top as well. It reads MuseBloa. So, it’s not just you! WHich I suppose ought to be evident by the fact that it occurs that way on both your’s and the library’s computer.
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badrang
in March 10th, 2008 @ 15:54Do the GAPA answer even 2% of questions asked?
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Luna the Lovely
in March 10th, 2008 @ 18:44In response to my previous post, and #53, the emblem fully loads on our mac, using safari, just not our pc using internet explorer–but then, it’s been slow and having issues recently
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 10th, 2008 @ 18:44(228) I don’t know. That’s also the answer to 225.
The answer to 216 is “yes.”
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [9,237 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points]
in March 14th, 2008 @ 17:20225-Kagy, I think in the air he would be fine, but on the ground he wouldn’t be. Always remember, it’s current that kills, not voltage.
* passes out* *Wakes up and walks around as zombie repeating stuff from school books* 
*COUghcoughpardonmesorryaboutthat *223-I know what you’re talking about, IBCF! I can walk a little ways from my house and have a great view of the mountains, and they look just like that. I imagine it has to do with light waves bending and distortion due to the distance from which you are viewing the mountains. I know that sounds vague, but I believe that’s pretty accurate, just not as precise and fully explained as I would like it to be
Why when the blog is updated, do the GAPA’s names lose their green color and why does my second smiley turn to text?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 14th, 2008 @ 18:19(231) RtH, still working on the green issue, but it you put two spaces between each of your smileys, they’ll come out right.
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The Man For Aeiou
in March 14th, 2008 @ 20:02232- Your names are green.
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in March 14th, 2008 @ 20:08233-Wait a minute, this is weird! Only Rebecca’s comment saying they’re working on the problem has a green name!!!
You know, I’m really starting to think THE THING (creepy music plays) in the egg is doing all of this Thanks for the advice, Lady. B, it works now…
But now my who-knows-how-many comments of the past all have one text smiley how saddening… Red-tailed HAWK
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 14th, 2008 @ 20:19(233, 234) Comment 232 happened to be my test post of my theory for restoring greenness. Which it did but not retroactively. Sorry about your signature, RtH. Maybe we’ll fix a couple at random every now and then.
On a brighter note, think of what must have happened to the smiley armies.
I’m all for blaming everything on the egg.
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The Man For Aeiou
in March 14th, 2008 @ 21:13BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!BLAME THE EGG! BLAME THE EGG!
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Alice
in March 14th, 2008 @ 22:05I’ve got to say, it’s awfully suspicious…
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in March 15th, 2008 @ 13:15I think hare-athon keeps slipping because the egg doesn’t want its hatching to be so obvious at the top of the page. Once The Thing has hatched, it will dry itself and come to the top of the page and pie us all!! *Hides in room, and pulls covers over head*
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in March 16th, 2008 @ 07:03Two questions: One about the blog, one not.
When you make a new thread because one has filled up, do you make the new thread and then close the old one, or the reverse? Because I’m wondering, is there a split second when there isn’t an open thread for a topic? Not that it’s a problem, I’m just curious..
And, poison ivy. I know you can get it from the leaves or the vine… But once the oil is on your skin, and a rash has appeared, why do more rashes appear later? I’ve read conflicting evidence. Some say once the rash is formed, it can’t spread. But why then, after a small rash appeared on my right arm yesterday, do I wake up this morning with a red blotchy rash on my left hand?
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in March 16th, 2008 @ 09:08Usually we create a new thread, save it as an invisible draft, close the old thread, and go back and publish the new one. The thread is offline for a few seconds — usually not longer than that.
I’m not sure about poison ivy. I’d think it would be noncontagious if your rashy skin were dry and unbroken, but contagious otherwise. Of course, you can still catch it from clothes and other things that have picked up some of the plant’s resin. Maybe one of the other GAPAs can give a definitive answer.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 16th, 2008 @ 10:43(239) My former house had woods full of poison ivy, so I read up on it. The rash itself does not spread, but as Robert said, you can pick it up from handling your clothes or shoes. It’s possible, too, that the contact points may not all break out at the same time.
You can also get it from handling your pets if they’ve been out in it.
Often you can prevent an outbreak if you wash up immediately after contact (or very soon), unless you’re as sensitive as my brother who seems to break out just thinking about poison ivy.
Poison ivy is less potent in the winter but it can still affect you. Persons who have never been bothered can still become allergic later on.
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in March 16th, 2008 @ 10:59Egad. I used to live in an area with a great deal of poison oak. OWWWWWWWWWWWW.
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in March 16th, 2008 @ 14:29Robert+Rebecca-Thank you! That’s very helpful.
A couple of years back I had so much poison ivy on my leg (Can’t remember which one though) that A. it itched terribly and B. it formed such a huge bumpy disgusting blob on my leg I couldn’t bend it at the knee. I actually had to take medicine for it…
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in March 16th, 2008 @ 15:01A question:
Alberta considers itself “an essentially rat-free province,” according to the Department of Agriculture and the latest issue of Muse. Is it illegal for pet stores to sell domesticated rats there?
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:06Another question:
Is there any way to access the complete “Dates to Remember” calendar?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:09(245) The dates are all in a text file.
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:13246- Drat. So there’s no way for the MBers to get at them?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:19(246) Did you need something in particular that you can hint at in sufficiently roundabout way so as not to tip your hand as to whatever nefarious schemes are spinning through your mind?
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:23248- Er, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I just wanted to know if there were any major MBer-celebrated holidays (like Pi Day) coming up. Just curious, no nefarious schemes at all. *thinks “dang, she’s on to me”*
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in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:25247, 248- *lurks* *wonders what Prarilius Canix is up to*
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 16th, 2008 @ 23:41(249) Here’s the list of events through September, not including MBer birthdays. *hopes she won’t regret this*
04-01 April Fools’ Day
04-23 William Shakespeare’s birthday (1564)
05-01 May Day
05-05 Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)
05-25 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday (1859)
05-25 Towel Day (it’s an H2G2 thing)
06-13 William Butler Yeats’s birthday (1865)
06-18 Paul McCartney’s birthday (1942)
07-07 Ringo Starr’s birthday (1940)
07-22 Gregor Mendel’s birthday (1822)
07-31 Harry Potter’s birthday (also J. K. Rowling’s)
08-06 Andy Warhol’s birthday (1928)
08-22 Ray Bradbury’s birthday (1920)
09-15 Kakashi’s birthday
09-19 Talk Like a Pirate Day
09-22 Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’s birthdays
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in March 17th, 2008 @ 00:11251- Thank you!
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The Man For Aeiou
in March 17th, 2008 @ 17:18251- Who’s Kakashi?
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in March 17th, 2008 @ 17:24*gasp* Kakashi’s birthday! Really? YAY!
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ZVX, formerly known as Mouse. (210 piepoints,
in March 28th, 2008 @ 16:32um, GAPAs, would you please answer this exceptionally ignorant Q? how do you get smileys onto your posts?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 28th, 2008 @ 16:53Smileys are explained in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog (HG2MB).
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The Man For Aeiou
in March 28th, 2008 @ 17:12What is smell?
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ZVX, formerly known as Mouse. (210 piepoints,
in March 29th, 2008 @ 13:20-256 I tried that and it didn’t work, could you please give me a few explanations?
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ΡÖŞÎĈ
in March 29th, 2008 @ 13:22257- I think trace chemicals in the air are detected by special sensors in your nose which send signals to your brain.
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KaiYves
in March 29th, 2008 @ 13:32251- How about July 20th? It’s the 39th anniversary of Apollo 11.
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Luna the Lovely
in April 8th, 2008 @ 21:38Okay, here’s a question for you, GAPAs:
A person can become infected with HIV by using syringes and hypodermic needles previously used by an infected individual. However, “there is no evidence that it can be spread through the bites of….mosquitoes.” If sharing needles can pass it on, I would think ‘sharing’ mosquitoes could as well–since they can transmit other diseases between people. UNLESS there is something in their ‘saliva’ that destroys this particular retrovirus. If this is the case, couldn’t scientists simply isolate the chemical in mosquitoes that destroys the virus and create a drug containing this chemical that could be used to cur HIV infected individuals? Or even use it to create a vaccine?
Quote is from Modern Biology. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 1999.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 8th, 2008 @ 23:25Luna,
Good question! We answered a similar one in the Q&A column in April 2004. You can read the short answer here:
https://musefanpage.com/NewFiles/q%26a_04.html#mosquitoes
As for HIV, Rosanne undoubtedly knows a lot more about it than I do. My impression, though, is that anyplace outside the human body is fairly hostile to the virus.
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POSOC
in April 11th, 2008 @ 20:03A question for Robert in particular. What is the best (scientifically plausible) way to simulate gravity, and what are its pros and cons? This is necessary for the Terraformed revision.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 11th, 2008 @ 20:29Do you mean steady, constant gravity? Acceleration is the only way I know. Einstein showed that it’s equivalent to gravity, and nobody has come up with a better idea. The acceleration can be either linear (going faster and faster in one direction) or radial (the inward push needed to keep you moving in a circle).
For spaceships or hollowed-out asteroids, that amounts to something like a big spinning drum. But the gravity drops off as you climb inward toward the spin axis, and the ends of the drum exert no pull. They’re just walls. A rotating wheel would do the job, too.
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in April 11th, 2008 @ 20:40264- Many thanks. I’ll inform the other RRRewriters.
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in April 11th, 2008 @ 20:48OK, given that these drums are attached to each other via a series of tunnels, and the tunnels are not spinning, will people be able to walk in the tunnels?
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in April 11th, 2008 @ 20:59266- They’d float, I think. Not enough gravity to keep them on the ground, at least not on Ceres.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 11th, 2008 @ 21:21If I’m imagining things the same way you are, the tunnels would run straight out from one “drum” to the next. That’s parallel to the mock-gravitational force, i.e., up and down. So you’d have to climb through them, with ladders, staircases, or elevators.
The closer you got to the middle of the asteroid, the less everything would “weigh.” At the exact center, you’d float.
Of course, the “drum” doesn’t have to be completely hollow. Tunnels running along the imaginary inner surface of a cylinder would have the same effect.
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Logogeo96
in April 20th, 2008 @ 11:55How do you put a picture in a post?! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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in April 20th, 2008 @ 12:15269- You have to e-mail your picture to them, usually.
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Logogeo96
in April 20th, 2008 @ 12:27270- To the GAPAs?! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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in April 20th, 2008 @ 13:09270- And what Email address?! ! ! ! ! ! !
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The Man For Aeiou (10 or 7 Wung Points, Creativity Ceylon 31)(2 Temp Bday points)
in April 20th, 2008 @ 13:11271- YES!!!!!!!!!!!
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in April 20th, 2008 @ 13:23Yes, Logogeo96. To gapa @ musefanpage.com (without the spaces around the “@”).
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Ź√Ҳ, ƒơrmerly known as MơǜsЄ♦(210 piepoints, 13 wung points, 224 vxt points, 48 spdzk points©)♦ |
in April 20th, 2008 @ 13:34GAPAs, i just sent you an email with an embellished mostly harmless logo, please post it!!
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Logogeo96
in April 20th, 2008 @ 15:00274- Thanks! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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The Provisional Countess Hypatia (worthy possessor of 43 wung points)
in June 8th, 2008 @ 13:04Is this thread remotely alive? Because, I have questions that need asking…
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 8th, 2008 @ 13:41(277) Ask away. We’ll see the posts, in any case.
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The Provisional Countess Hypatia (worthy possessor of 43 wung points)
in June 8th, 2008 @ 13:50Have all the GAPAs met each other in person at some point?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 8th, 2008 @ 14:14(279) I don’t think any of us have met Paul in person; Rebecca and Rosanne each knew Robert individually, but met each other when the three R-GAPAs assembled as a group for the first time at the D. C. Kokonvention last August.
Robert and Rosanne have been friends for many years. Though Robert and Rebecca technically met when they were classmates in high school; assorted other lifetimes intervened before they crossed paths again and became friends.
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in June 8th, 2008 @ 14:30Can I have your autographs?
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The Provisional Countess Hypatia (worthy possessor of 43 wung points)
in June 8th, 2008 @ 14:42280-Love the third person…And thank you for answering so thoroughly! Much obliged…
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 8th, 2008 @ 19:46280- Third person ROCKS!
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Queen Francois the first
in June 9th, 2008 @ 13:02Um I forgot what the GAPA’s e-mail adress is. Could someone plese tell me what it is? Thanks!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 9th, 2008 @ 13:03Our address is “gapa @ musefanpage.com” (though “gapas @ musefanpage.com” will also work if you get confused).
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