In a break with tradition, the title of January’s random thread does not contain the name of the month. Instead, it refers to the peculiar fact that the United States Congress has declared this National Soup Month. Plunge on in! First, though, join us in singing the Muse Soup Song (to the tune of “Have a Pie” [to the tune of “Let It Be”]).
When I find myself all cold and cranky,
Mimi shows up on my stoop,
Speaking words of solace: “Have some soup!”
And when the hailstones pound the window
And my spirits start to droop,
I know what she’ll tell me: “Have some soup!”
CHORUS:
Have some soup, have some soup, have some soup, have some soup!
I know what she’ll tell me: Have some soup!
Lovely graphic as usual, Lady Bunniful.
Happy New Year, loves.
Whee hee hee! I love the song!
So… National Soup Month, eh? Anyone know why they chose now? Was this the anniversary of Bush’s mom creating her best soup recipe or something?
I want to know why Mimi is not a cracker!
first post?
maybe of the year?
Mimi can’t be in the soup, because she’s serving it. (Besides, she’s on the tablecloth.)
nope, nether.
the calender still thinks it’s december.
I got last post on the last random thread of the last month of last year!
4- now I she her!
*applauds*
Congratulations! You’ve won a goat!
Awesome picture, Rebecca! And happy New Year, all! And I texted everyone on my contacts list: “happy new year, love allegra”! Haha, I hope I didn’t wake anyone up.
I have to say, the idea of anyone besides the Beatles doing Beatles songs is slightly repugnant to me…
entay-hatway uestionqay arkmay
Rebecca, you have officially outdone yourself! The picture is awesome! *firecracker pie*
That pie should make a BANG. Ha. Ha.
Yes, I just came back from my New Years party. Wounds: Five scortch marks on left hand, scraped knee, scraped back and a headache. Ah, the feeling of a new year.
I also changed all the backgrounds/screensavers to say Happy New Year/2008/various firecracker pictures in each of the four computors and eleven log-ons in my house. Only two of which having passwords I should know.
My version of an exciting new year- watching Legally Blond with my mom.
‘night all!
That’s all for tonight, folks, unless one of the other GAPAs gets insomnia. This one is going to bed. Happy New Year, everybody!
Good night, Robert! (Well, it should be good morning by the time this is posted…)
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!
Song = …,
(gold star if you can identify the …,)
I had soup for lunch today.
10 – You’re going to have to live with it, I’m afraid.
Have some soup!
(can next month be bagel month?)
As always, I love the picture.
I love the picture! (As usual, of course.) Did you take a picture of a real cracker to make the crackers in the picture?
I LOOOOVES-wait,not quite describes it-LUUUUUUUURVES the picture!!!!!!!!
Wonderful pic, LadyBunniful. The crackers look SOOO real!
Who has seen the Egg Song? It’s awesome.
(19, Purple Panda) Yes. I took photos of a Ritz cracker (and some others, but the Ritz worked best). Then I blended a bunch of them together and cut out the Muses. The edging was the tricky part.
All the crackers are still whole in the original graphic, by the way. I “painted” soup over the ones in the bowl, and for the ones on the table, I masked out everything except the tablecloth. That’s actually the most fun, because I can move the crackers around as much as I please and they still appear to be underneath the spoon.
The soup was my lunch the other day. Lentil and carrot.
The song at the beginning of he blog-thread-thingy? the one with Aeiou and soup? Btw,how do you say her name? is it pronounced Ayou or A-e-i-o-u, as in saying all the letters?
Meh. I have serious caffeine problems. 2 cups of black tea and I was up till four.
That picture is SO cool!
Me encanta la sopa de Muse!
Hawhawhawhawhaw
I should know better than to expect people to read my comments.
I might go.I am rather bored.
27 – People read your comments, but we don’t have enough time to respond to all of them.
(27) For the pronunciation of Aeiou’s name, see the Muse Glossary.
The Egg Song is a Flash animation video on Youtube and other places.
Rebecca (22): That’s really cool! The soup looks good too, by the way. I like lentils and carrots, though I don’t think I’ve ever had them together in a soup. Which is strange, because I think they would go well together.
I just watched The Egg Song. It’s really funny…
Hey
Happy New Year
I’m back!!
(again)
hey- imthrowing a 50 person party in friday, and so far it looks like it is going to be really boring. anyone have any advice on how to make it more interesting
so far all i have is
-an ice cream bar
-fireworks
-surround sound and people are bringing their ipods and we’ll switch through peoples ipods for music
TPSPOP!!!! ::pies:: Welcome back!
32-omigawd
that……….is definitely enough. Maybe you should have a dance floor like those lighty upy multicolored things on club penguin.
but, club penguin is LAME
I would rather spend time here.
btw those dance floors on clubpenguin are about 5 ft wide and
8ft tall.
and penguins dance on them.
34-club penguin?
pink penguin, do not try it out. it is a chat thing, but it is lame and almost none of the things you say show up. N]AND you have to pay money to join and be a “member”, but everyone online is a member so-wait. I am ranting.
I have to go.
Happy new year!
Happy new year Muse Bloggers! Great graphic!
Out of curiosity, how many MBers stayed up until midnight last night, and how many of those did so while chatting online?
38- I did both. And I slept until noon.
I love Photoshop. I’ve made some really cool pics this past week, including an eye with a reflection of a galaxy.
Last night was AMAZING! We (all ten of the under-thirteen partygoers) hung out and played the Wii until about eleven o’clock, and then we got on our snow gear and had a massive snowball fight outside on my front lawn. Then we went inside for the countdown and went crazy for a minute. Then I went to bed, leaving all my friends ALONE downstairs. But I was tired. And still am. I did this silly thing with my friends Maddy and Michal where we insulted each other via texting madly. It was hilarious and I wish I could post some of the examples on here but they were WAY too inappropriate.
All in all, a great New Year’s Eve.
39-Me too. ^_^
Photoshop is amazing, from what I’ve heard, but I’ve never really gotten a chance to try it out at all.
That does sound really fun. My brother and I were the only two at our house, and it was FREEZING outside. We didn’t even want to go outside to launch little mini firecracker-like things.
*looks around wildly* where can i get muse crackers? wheeeere? that is absolutely awesome as usual Lady Bunnyful!
I’m back! did anyone miss me/ notice my absence? i was at my farm in the middle of rural ontario. it’s really cool at night because there are all these fields covered in untouched snow and you can see the glow of the cities on the sky. it’s hard to describe but it’s cool. although i notice at night driving that there are more homes than there used to be. i kind of miss the scary expanse of blackness there used to be.
I hope everyone had a fab new year. i went to a party which was fun enough. i’m the oldest girl in the circle of families we socialize with so i always have to entertain small children. while my bro and all the guys get to sit in the basement playing video games/ watching movies i have to run around and use up my nonexistent energy playing games whith energetic kids. it’s fun but sometimes i wish i could just be sitting in the basement doing nothing. but this new years was fun. we went to a friends house but their daughter really hurt her knee skiing that day so we kinda just watched movies and it was pretty low key.
i think i figured out my falling asleep problem: i don’t do enough to be properly tired! i need to get more excercise. i go to be at around 11 on the holidays and don’t fall asleep until almost 1. and then i sleep till noon.
that was the random update on Kagy’s life. btw…. when do you go back to school? i go back on th seventh.
41-I go back on the third. You are so lucky.
Woohoo! Happy 2008 everybody!
Anybody see the Rose Parade? Maybe it’s just a CA thing, but I think it’s broadcasted everywhere. Anyways, did anyone see the flloat that had a truck that transformed into a jet? It was pretty awesome.
Last year they had a guy that came out of the float and flew around on a jet pack. I now know what I will buy if I ever have a million dollars.
By the by, great picture once again. What CG program do you use?
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2008! YAYNESS!
I’m still going to be writing 2007 on all my assignments for school for at least another week or two before I actually get used to it.
GAH. I go back TOMORROW. Lucky peoples.
(42, Nthanda) This one I did entirely in Photoshop.
I attended the Rose Parade once, just before my 11th birthday. Some friends of my grandmother’s lived in Pomona and somehow they managed to get us in very close viewing distance.
To everyone: thanks for the comments on the graphics. I really do get a kick out of doing these, both thinking of the ideas and figuring out how to make them happen.
43- There was supposed to be a float by the JPL, but I missed it.
Did you see a space float?
Cat’s Meow (38): I stayed up until around 1:00 am, whilst checking the blog every few minutes.
We had a New-Year’s Eve party type thing with a few family friends. There were three different parties within the party. One, was the “grown-up” party downstairs where they talked about fireplaces on Antique Road Show, drank wine, and other boring adult things. The second, was the under-8 party, which was in my brother’s room and they drove around a helium blimp and played with the mice and did general under-8-boy things. The third party (the best, in my opinion) was in THF’s room, where we talked about calligraphy, played Apples to Apples, and ate cookies.
And I go back to school TOMORROW. Regular time, which means I have to wake up at 6 am. ::grumble::
what’s the rose parade?
the TTC was open for free from 1-4 in the morning today to see that people got home safely. some big company was covering the expenses.
im not going back to . My parents decided i need to have my high school education in New Zealand. since their school year starts February 5, and their summer break is right now, i officially graduated from 8th grade in December. so lucky me gets to spend her summer vacation in freezing weather, where the only percipitation is ice pellets
so much for a summer tan
in case anyine cares, my school schedule- fun right?
2008 TERM DATES
Term I Tuesday, 5th February to Friday, 18th April
Term II Monday, 5th May to Friday, 4th July
Term III Monday, 21st July to Friday, 26th September
Term IV Monday, 13th October to Wednesday, 17th December
49- wow. you must be telepathic. i was just wondering about new zealand school years!
Hello! It sounds like everyone had a nice New year’s Eve. Frankly, I’m jealous, particularly of Pan (Calligraphy! Cookies! Apples to Apples!). I went to bed at ten thirty, having seen about seven fireworks go off and waited for five minutes to see more. Apparently there was a sort of ship’s gathering on the river and a lot of ship-horns went off, but I didn’t hear it. I did, however, dream about some people telling me about it, so maybe I did hear it in my sleep and just don’t remember.
I go back to school tomorrow.
Ebeth has returned. She forgot if she told everybody she’d be gone.
She went to MI, where she celebrated new year’s with various uncles, aunts, cousins, and one grandmother (along with two parents and a sibling). She played a lot of schmere and had a spiffy time.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, nice song pplz. great.rofl.heh heh.Who wrote this?????????
I think mimi is very…………….something.I dont know what.hpbs rock!
go bunnys!
I love me mum’s work. I can sit here and drink endless free ginger ales.
I’m curious, will this work?
&heart:
No, it didn’t.
So how was everyone’s New Year’s Eve?
My friends and I had a movie marathon. Starting sometime in the morning of 12/31, we watched all 5 Harry Potter movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Princess Bride.
At precisely midnight, Inigo Montoya sees Count Rugen for the first time and says, “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” And Count Rugen runs away. God, I love that movie.
Games Ancient and Oriental and How to Play Them just arrived used from Amazon! ::skips off to read::
58- Ooh. I want to watch all my old favorites, but I don’t even have a TV. *sigh* I also want to finish watching The Corpse Bride. I saw the beginning, liked it, predicted all the plot twists, became obsessed for a few hours, then forgot all about it. So yeah.
57- It’s hearts, plural.
I must leave you now. It groweth dark, and I grow hungry. But if I leave I won’t see you all until Saturday. *weeps* Good-bye!
the hpbs love it!
if the HPBs love it, take it down! they take over!
The Egg Song? Sure. One Sec.
Oh my God. I am scarred for life.
38-Guilty. I stayed up till seven in the morning (yes, I actually did, and it’s not record breaking for me) and slept until five forty one.
Welcome back, Kagy and Ebeth!
48–it’s a New Year’s day parade in Pasadena, CA where all the floats are covered in flowers (or organic materials of some sort). It’s pretty amazing, I’ve gone down to see the floats and there’s something like 2 million flower blossoms used in the whole parade each year.
For New Years my family and I watched Ratatouille (because we haven’t seen it and it looked so cute) and then went over to my neighbor’s house for their annual party. Mucho fun, but went to bed at 1:30 because I’m still on East Coast time.
Has anyone seen a movie called the Ladykillers? It’s an old movie with Alec Guiness and it’s funny, in a dark kind of way. I’m about to go watch it.
Hmm…I always write in complete sentences and paragraphs.
End of random thoughts.
34-Are you talking about the YSU club penguin website? My sister has one of those accounts but I don’t think she had to pay for it so it might be different.
Happy New Year everyone!
I had a rather dissapointing new year. I looked at the fireworks at midnight through my bedroom window, wishing I was at the first night (city) party that was lighting them.
I didn’t even get to watch the ball drop on tv with anyone because my mom has been very cranky lately and went to bed early so me and my sister had to sit in our rooms with the tv low and pretend to sleep.
My mom needs a chill pill really bad now. She’s having fits all over the place. I think someone is lacing her food with grumpy.
Anyway that’s enough of my whining. How was everyone else’s New Year?
Happy new year!
Is Photoshop more userfriendly than the GIMP?
43. Nthanda the Laugher- Yeah, I saw it. In fact, I drove to Pasadena with my friend and worked on one of the floats for 20 hours. It was the Dia De Los Muertos one. It was a good time. I’m glad to be home though.
65. Nthanda the Laugher- No, but I love Alec Guinness, so I’ll keep it in mind.
On second thought, it sounds familiar. Maybe I have seen it.
Hi PSOP! welcome back. Your schedule looks rather complex.
And Kagcomix, welcome back too!
Of course it’s rather silly of me to be welcoming people back when I haven’t been around much myself. Has anyone noticed that, or are most of the regulars here from a generation that doesn’t know me? Gosh it’s weird to think how long ago I started Museblogging (not that long ago, only 2 years or so but it seems shorter than that).
51. Alice- School so soon? La pauvre! I’m sorry.
My New Year was alright. I went to my friend’s party and played a lot of ping pong. I came home today and told my parents about how much I like ping pong and now they’re thinking of getting a table, which surprised me, but in the most pleasant way.
The other night my friend and I had a really good movie night. We watched AVP (which is dreadful but rule #1 of movie night is that you need exactly one awful movie to laugh at), The Shining and Poltergeist. Those were excellent. And she gave me The Last Unicorn, which is my favorite movie from my childhood and am very glad to now own.
Happy 2008 everyone!
Okay…only usually my best friend came, and this time she didn’t…
Skipper – Yes, I have noticed, and I’m very glad to see you back!
It is most unfortunate that I am awake at this time of day. ::sigh:: Yes, this means that I am about to go to school. ::sigh again::
2-hour delay!!! ::dhd::
There is hope for the day!
BYE EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m leaving this morning to stay at my grandmother’s house overnight. I will be back tomorrow night but might not get back here before the next day…
I don’t have time to go to other threads this morning, but I will say below:
IBCF-please hold the Seahawk mission, I do want to continue on with it as soon as I get back! Bye!!!
Museica thread people-I will be back to trade soon!!
Other threads, kokonspiracy, etc.: Bye!!
Bye! I’ll miss you, but it should be fun at my grandmother’s house
Bye! Red-tailed HAWK
Ah Alas. School again.
Bye!!
I start school next week. Year-round schools get longer breaks but shorter summers..
38 – Well, I was up until 2 AM my time, but not celebrating because my dorm counselor forbade it. (Bleahh) I was just talking with my roommate. I was also up at midnight blog time because that’s 8 AM my time, which is when I go online before my first class.
sorry i’ve been gone so long.
it’s been a bit busy… more like i forgot. sorry.
anyway i’m back with a new anme!
yeah so i guess i’ll sign off.
happy january 2nd!
I have school tomorrow. I am really dreading it…especially since for the first two weeks all we’re going to be doing in school is working on our projects, and ours is threatening to go down the drain before we even really get started.
75 – I think it would be really interesting to go to a year-round school. I mean, who really cares if the breaks are shorter, because by the end of them you get bored anyways, but you get off more often. How often do you have breaks?
guess what I did today!!!!!!! actualy it’s not that interesting. I woke up around 11, went and was planning on eating a toasted bagel w/butter but it turns out that we have no butter in the house. which is totaly weird becuse we always have a lot of butter. (we can’t keep it on the counters anymore because my cat eats it…..) so i had to settle for a bagel with christmas cheese (i don’t know what it’s actualy called but we only eat it at Xmas) it was quite tasty though the bagel was rather charred. then i had to wait for my mom to finnish packing up the Xmas ornaments (yes i know i should have helped) so that she could take me to woolfits to buy these copic markers for this project i’m doing (personal art project). the markers are really good and give me even tone and i really like them but they are waaaaaaaaaay expensive. i had my babysitting money with me and used it almost all up buying the markers. i needed 8 which cost $61.11 which is an insane amount of money for markers and consequently i didn’t buy a new scetch book, tho i’m almost needing one. but i got really nice colours. it’s a picture of pierates so i get to use pretty dark, rick colours for their clothes. the captain has the long scarlet coat that would be so awesome to wear because it’s long and would billow in the wind. *slips into fantasy of being a pierate captain* hem. sorry, i’ve been waisting you’re time with art supplies….. *looks sheepish*
Skipper: I noticed your absence! Welcome back.
I had school today. It was absolutly horrible.
But other than that, they opened two new corridoors with five rooms each. Which I will never use. So boo hoo. *is not sad*
Ah…I could use some soup…I’ve got a bloody awful cold. Came down with it Monday…still not feeling better. I’m all drugged up…ah…
80- ouch. i’m still on vacation. speaking of which i should be memorizing the periodic table of elements….
Happy Birthday, Issac Asimov!
au revoir! i am taking my leave. i shall see yall sometime ’round next week.
I have another praise about the Hot Soup picture: whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. It always makes me smile
School wasn’t that bad today, but I’m guessing it was because of the 2-hour delay. Tomorrow will be much worse. Or, maybe not. Usually, I dread school, but it isn’t that bad when I actually get there.
Geez, miss a few days and this is what happens! Billions of posts! only an hour to read them all! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Okay, I’ll calm down.
I like the picture Lady B. As usual, I am amazed and astounded when I see it. Bravo! *claps*
Meh. I was at the synagogue All Day. I helped make 40 loaves of Challah. Do you have any idea how much challah that is?!
On second thought, It was actually 42 loaves of challah.
I need hot soup. But it’s my dad’s birthday so I get no say in the matter.
Plus I am probably moving to the Netherlands, Jamaica, Winnipeg, or South Dakota next summer. I really really don’t want to.
I am dome with my random and hideously rant. Sorry.
86-That’s our job!
Okay, I’m off……gotta go and pretend I have a life while wishing I was still sitting in the house freezing my fingers and posting here on MB….
So sad, isn’t it? Ah well, bye all, see you sometime hopefully soon. Happy 2008!
What are “spdzk points”?
Gr…:???:
Agh!!!!!!
Oh, dear…I not only double posted, I triple posted! Oy…sorry…*hands chocolate over to PoPoPo*
I meant virtual choklit…sorry, I’m sick!!! Please have mercy!!!!!!
Shadowkat (90): spdzk points were Prarilius Canix (now POSOC)’s invention–he wanted to see how far they could go, and you can pass them on to whomever you please. I actually have 2 spdzk points, but I keep forgetting to put them in my name. I also don’t really want to put them in my name, because then it just looks weird and such. So, I’ll give them to you. ::gives 2 spdzk points::
94-Gives virtual goareobviouslyhavingaratherawfulday choklit.
Wow, nearly 100 comments, and only the second day of January…
This is just me saying I’ll probably be absent until either Easter/Spring Break, or the summer.
69 – I noticed, Skipper! Welcome back!
79- ooh, I’d want a long scarlet pirate coat… *dreams*
yes. due to college apps and an insane amount of homework I shall not really be here much.
99- I feel young.
100- how old are you?
And Skipper, in case you didn’t know, I’m e~a.
101-I’ll be 13 in 15 days…
Oh yeah, sorry for the possible double post. What the the lyrics to have a pie?
(103, The Insane Blue Sage) You can find Robert’s lyrics to “Have a Pie” on Thread 1000, comment #2.
Hi I am new how do i become a member of this place?
Um anyone know?
105- you just did.
*pies*
And how do you post
105- Congratulations! You are now our newest member! *pies Aidan*
Perhaps you should visit the “Welcome Newcomers” thread. There you can learn the ways of this wonderful Blog.
107- you just did.
*pies*
Crazy ppl……..*sigh*
I, also, may not be on as much as I have been in the past. During the beginning of winter break, I wasn’t on as much just because I was doing family stuff and was rather sick of the computer. Then, later into the week I realized how much I missed the computer, so I came back. Now, I’m re-realizing my general computer addiction, and trying to stop it. So, instead of hopping onto MuseBlog or another website, I’m going to read a book, or do more homework, or something. No, this doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll be spending any less time on MuseBlog, but that could possibly happen.
I’m feeling very incoherent at the moment. Hmm.
*pies newbies* Hi, welcome. We like newbies, we like to corrupt them and teach them pie-flinging technique. We like to take over their minds and get them to work tirelessly for Mostly Harmless.
If you aren’t scared yet, that’s great, you’re on your way to becoming a full-fledged MuseBlogger!
Just kidding guys, don’t let me scare you. We really are a nice bunch of lunatics. Prone to throwing pastry at our friends, yes, and often talk endlessly about all sorts of things using strange, made up words and seemingly exclusive inside jokes. All this is true, but if you ask, we usually will help you along to the best of our ability. Even though it may start yet another long, twisting, winding discussion that is hard to follow and has nothing to do with the original topic….like this post.
Wow, that was probably the longest newbie introduction I’ve ever written! And not even on the Welcome Newcomers! thread. oops.
the pic makes me want soup1 and then i remember that i actually dont like soup a lot.
Something weird.. On my laptop MB has a roundish submit button and you can’t adjust the box size, but on my mom’s computer the box can be adjusted and the submit button is square…
99) best of luck!
well I have nothing to contribute to general discussion. I hope everyone’s have a nice year so far, haha.
Rebecca- If you’re not too busy, could you make a larger version of the soup picture? I’m trying to use it as my desktop, but when I enlarge it that much, it goes fuzzy.
(116) My pleasure, Cinnamoon. In fact, the original is much larger, so it’s not a problem. Here’s a 1024×768 version. Click on the magnifying glass to get the full size.
78 – Um… Three longish breaks throughout the year and sometimes we get out early or have extra days off. I think it’s mostly that the breaks are longer.
wow! 118 comments already! You guys have been busy…
114- Blue Sage, that’s weird… on mine you can’t adjust the box size, and the submit button is square. What computer are you using?
If anyone wants my recipe for Black Country Pig’s Tail Soup, just ask. I’ve decided it shouldn’t be kept secret.
119- I’m on my mom’s computer and it’s a Mac Mini. I think It runs on Tiger. My laptop is a MacBook and it also runs on Tiger.
I do not want my spdzk point anymore. Who would like it?
122- ME!
ME!ME!ME!
122- ME! I WANT IT!
114- Adjustable box size and a square button are side effects of downloading Safari 3 and/or running Leopard. Just ignore it.
87- Why are you moving?
124- Something involving my dad’s job. Those were just examples of places. I could move anywhere. Hopefully I won’t though.
My spdzk points are clogging up my memory. I need them not. Takers?
I feel like a teenager.
I do not like feeling like a teenager.
Darn forking hormones. Darn forking puberty.
I wanna go back to preschool. Where we played with blocks. And had no homework. Preschool was awesome.
105–membership requires no money.
BUT…
You must chop down the largest tree in the forest with…a herring!
And bring us a shrubbery, we’ve been running low.
120–I would love to see the recipe, although I may not make it, seeing as I do not have access to a pig, much less its tail. But it sounds lovely.
125- What does your dad do?
127 – OK, here goes:
Get a huge pot.
You need 4 large pigs’ tails, lots of carrots, a couple of parsnips, a few onions, plenty of potatoes, some stock cubes, and water. Peel the bits that need peeling, chop everything roughly, chuck everything except the potatoes into the pot, bring to the boil and simmer for an hour and a half. Add the potatoes and simmer for another hour or so. Stir well and scoff. It’s actually better next day. Allow to cool overnight and boil it up.
129- Mmmm… *drools*
Wow, the moderating is quite fast tonight.
It seems to me that most of that soup’s flavor comes from the veggies and stock cubes, and the pig’s tails are just to add interest.
126-I’ll take them!
Ok, NOBODY else has any Piepoints© yet, and I’m sitting here with 10,000 that need to be spread evenly. I thought the previous rules would help make this fair, but I’ll have to change them to at least get them out there.
Piepoints© are very valuable. Still. But, you can trade as many as you want for a service or thing on the blog. I hope changing that from the original of only one piepoint© per trade would help spread them out faster. But usually you won’t want to trade very many because they are still valuable.
There is technically no limit to how many you can have. Just please be kind and don’t hog thousands at a time unless nobody else wants any (like me right now)
You don’t have to list Piepoints with a © symbol if you don’t want to, and OK, you can put it in your name any way you wish. But DO put it in your name, how many piepoints you have, so people know.
OK, so, who wants THREE FREE piepoints right now?
Red-tailed HAWK
128- He’s a rabbi.
I am tired. I do not know why.
133- ME!
133- I’ll take them!
Yes. Okay. Ummmmmmm…The following message will be translated into blarish so you can all interpret it as you will. BLAAAAAARG bleeh bleeeeey blah blarghghg bleeerj ble ble blooooooooo blaaaaahhhhhhhhh. That about sums it all up. Time to explore the rest of the blog…
Translation from Blarish:
AAGH I haven’t been on MB in so long! I’ve got to catch up on all my threads, but so much has happened since I left…
138-hey, pretty good. (i got someone else to type it for me) let us see what other people think…
*give spdzk point to Kiki the Great*
Translation from Blarish:
AUGH I cannot stand my life and I do not want to go back to school noooooooooo..
(I apologize if this is incorrectly translated.)
137- UUUUGGGHHH I reeally want sooouup so I can eeeaaaat iiiittt. (Well, it’s a possibility)! (Maybe)!
*Gives three piepoints to Cinnamoon*
*Gives three piepoints to IBCF*
Again, however you want to say you have them in your name is fine…
Anyone else want any?
I’ve changed my own name now
Red-tailed HAWK
W00t! *takes piepoints* *now has 3 piepoints*
140-close-ish. If I were distributng piepoints, I would give you one for effort…
141-You get a bonus point for randomness! SOOOOOUUUPPPPP(tomato or chicken noodle, it goes either way)
142-well, since they’re free and all…*glances to make sure no one is looking…………………………………quikletkspp*(that was a quickly as I could type it…
hi!
I missed a lot of being on muse! Just the other day there was only 42 comments,and now there is 100 something!
My,how time flies and makes more comments!
*Pies all and hugs all*
Ten spdzk points to RtH.
Hey, RtH! In case you’ve forgotten, you might want to skip over to the Ship’s Logs thread. I’m dying to see what will happen next on HPB island!
147-Thanks! Want any piepoints, or would that spoil the “point” of getting rid of your spdzk points? (I just noticed the pun in there, sorry!)
144/145-If you just gave away one to IBCF, that means you have two left.
If anyone has Piepoints, please list it in your name somehow if you can so people know if they should ask to trade…
Red-tailed HAWK
144- Yay! *pats self on the back*
just had to make it official in my name..
149-I’d rather stay without Pie Points, spdzk points, or points at all.
Thank you. *takes a bow*
126- I want to be eight again. When my mind was maturing, but my body was not.
I’m listening to prank calls on YouTube, they’re hilariusse.
Hello, all! I’m here for another life update.
I went back to school on Wednesday, which I expected to be quite depressing, though it wasn’t that bad. Having a three-day week was nice coming back, I like “easing” back into school. We also had a 2-hour delay on Wednesday, and although I was already awake, it was quite nice. I finally figured out all this wave-stuff with Quantum Mechanics, which makes me very happy because now it’s actually fun, instead of just tedious Chemistry work.
My mom also had her follow-up-surgery visit appointment thing last week, and she’s allowed to drive and do “whatever she thinks she can.” She does have to have Chemotherapy, though, and a very strong kind, because the cancer was found in the lymph nodes around the colon (which means it’s most likely somewhere else as well). She’s getting a port put in next week, so it’s easier to give the chemo.
I guess I don’t really have anything else to report, except that I’m reading Games Ancient and Oriental and How to Play Them, and I really like it. It’s really interesting–now I only have to drag my father into playing the games with me
Have you found Latruncles yet? As I think I’ve mentioned on the blog, I used to play it in eighth grade and made it the national game of an imaginary country that my friends and I invented.
155- My brother had a port. He had Burkitt’s Lymphoma. I hope I spelled that right… My brother is fine now, actually he’s off seeing Sweeney Todd…
I wish you and your mother well!
Is there a game called Go in the book? It is rather fun and someone taught it to me on a college visit.
We also had to start on Wednesday. We’ve always had two weeks too….
Robert (156): Yes, I actually skipped ahead and read that first, since that’s the game you suggested. It looks really fun, though I still have yet to play it.
oxlin (157): Thanks!
You can play it with an ordinary chess set — just let all the non-pawns move like queens. The game moves faster if you let the pawns (latruncles) move like pawns in chess. Otherwise it takes a while for them to engage one another.
Go is a great game. The only problem is finding people to play it with you.
IBCF-Yes, I am too, but I was unable to stay long enough at the library computer after helping my grandmother set up e-mail!
Now I’m at home, and will head right over…
Red-tailed HAWK
Meh. I got really bored yesterday, so I with my mom to help set up for a dinner that’s tonight.
The place was insane! Everything was huge and shiny and gold and there were a bunch of ditzy ladies with too much time on their hands arguing over whether tables should be moved one inch that way or another.I have absolutely no patience for stuff like that. My idea of a social event is pizza and a bad movie.
The dinner cost 5000 DOLLARS!!!! And the sad part is that my mom and dad get in for free.
And the best part is, guess what I get to do while they’re at the dinner? BABYSIT!
I am not in a good mood.
Hi everybody! I’m back from holiday visiting my relatives (which I believe I forgot to tell you about…) but I probably won’t be able to get on much now that school has started. Especially when you add in all my RPGs and other websites I also visit. So just because I’m not around a lot, don’t forget that I’m here! I might have to mostly lurk though, because there are always a lot of posts to catch up on! Anyway, I hope everybody had a good Christmas, and if you’re not back to school yet I am extremely jealous.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON HERE PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
DID ANYONE REALIZE THAT THE STRANGE GUY WHO CALLED HIMSELF FART FESTIVAL WHEN HE CAME AND WE THOUGHT HE WAS A NEWBIE IS ACTUALLY DAVIDUDE/E2MB!?!?!?!?!?!?
davidude = Earth2MuseBlog = E2MB = Darrin M. = fart festival = phart phestival = gryphon (3/7/07)
THAT’S WHAT IT SAYS UNDER WHO’S HERE!!! I HAD NO IDEA!!!! DID HE EVER SAY THAT’S WHO HE WAS? I THOUGHT HE HAD A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE BLOG EARLY ON, AND NOW WE KNOW WHY!!!
Okay, sorry for the caps and everything, but that was just weird. I will now research to see if he ever said that’s who he was/is. Sorry, E2MB!
Red-tailed HAWK
(163, RtH) E2MB revealed his secret on the New Year’s Resolutions thread a couple of days ago.
Sorry I haven’t been on in a while, I was too busy roleplaying, which I have just discovered. GO ROLEPLAYING!
sorry i havn’t been on in awhile I was busy with things like dance, swimming pratice, going to see the first outdoor hockey game in NHL history, etc.
166- You were there? Awesome. I was watching it on tv… great shootout…
163 – That explains a lot.
so wait…e2mb’s on?
For some reason, I couldn’t get on MuseBlog by typing in the address, I had to go to the MuseBlog comment feeds I have and click the little green arrow.
GAPAs?
Hello. As you have probably noticed, l’ve been away. l’m back, but l won’t posot as frequently.
Now let’s break out the welcome pies!
171- Yay! You’re back! *piepiepiepie*
Yay! You’re back! *piepiepiepie*
Rebecca, I assume that you photoshopped the picture?
Nice work!
165 – Yay! Roleplaying!
I never finish…
Lovely picture! Hi evry1!! I hav been getting Muse for only 2 years, but I love it. Back to topic: Since it’s National Soup Month, you should do an issue on soup!!!! PWT PWNS!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I’m a little bhind times. WELCOME BACK WHOEVER WUZ GONE !!
Sorry, I’m a little bhind times. WELCOME BACK WHOEVER WUZ GONE !! How do u get the awesome hot pink bunny? Pwt pwns
I’m back (again).
I will be posting on MB a lot less frequently than I did before Christmas (at least for a while).
I had more that I was going to say, but I just forgot it.
I came back again to say hi.
*pies*
180- Hi, LGE/Superkabob/Exotica! *pies*
157- Go? Like, the theater game? Or . . . not?
163- Not seriously? Whoa. I never even suspected. I sort of thought he capitalized things more.
I had some stuff to say but that realization just impaired my ability to type so it’ll have to wait.
Well, I’m back, but no longer in the mood to inform you all of my wonderful life in theater. It makes me ever so happy, and then it wears off. I’ll tell you next week.
We’re getting internet after all.
182-I like your name,Alice!
!!!!!
I came back after a delicious dinner of pork tacos. My brother happened to be the only one in the restaurant who could eat a certain meal. I have been shopping all day (three ‘n a half hours)
and my legs hurt somuch that I decided to retreat to the cozy and entirely non-exerting Musiverse. I may travel tothe Potterverse thread soon, though.
Mostly I was uniform and shoe shopping. Uniform shopping is LAME because my school uniforms are *breaks into song* U-G-L-Y
THOSE UNFORMS AIN’T GOT NO ALIBI! THEY’RE UGLY! *clap clap* THEY’RE UGLY !!!!!!
*laughs*
Maybe trveling to the POtterverse thread is a good idea……
183- Why thank you!
I’m listening to “Says You”.
Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, also known as Little Christmas or Epiphany. Random, yes, I know.
Alice (184): I like your name, too! I’ve always wanted to change my name as well, but that would just be confusing and I’ve had this name for so long it would just be weird.
i’ve changed my name a bunch of times, but i’ve settled on this one. it combines my favorite animals. except for dogs. dogs are the greatest. pigs and llamas come in a close second. THAT’S RIGHT I SAID DOGS ROCK! try blotting that out with a hot pink bunny.
by the way how do you make bunnies show up???
I hate name changes, that’s why I always just add onto my name instead of completely changing it. Additions are fun.
I just came back from watching National Treasure: the Book of Secrets.
It was okay, I guess.
i have no desire to see that movie. from the commercials i think i can tell it will give a bad name to the first movie, which was great.
(188) Type : idea : without the spaces between the word and the colons. The “idea” smiley used to be a lightbulb, but nobody ever used it, so the Administrators in their infinite wisdom substituted a bunny glyph.
190- I loved the first one, but it was SO SO SO SO SO
suspenseful! I was on the very edge of the couch the WHOLE time I was watching it!
191- I am going to try that!
if that did not work, I do not care much.
Woohoo! it worked!
the LGEs love the rabbits, but they wish that there was an icon for them too.
I speak for the Elephants,and the Elephants want Fame!
School is infuriating.
I feel like I’m not actually learning anything at all. Everybody’s started cramming for exams, and we’re not doing anything new or interesting. I know the exam material, because I learned it when it was first taught! I feel like I’m just wasting time in school these days.
I will be extremely happy when exams are over and my friends come back to life.
Not that I’m not going to study; of course I will be studying hard and reviewing all the material. But I really don’t think that needs to take up class time, and I think people stress way too much about it.
On a lighter note, how do you put your birthday into the calendar?
Just tell us when your birthday is, and we’ll add it to the calendar.
We can also include your favorite color so other MBers can wear it in solidarity. That custom was popular a year or two ago but seems to have faded a bit since then (possibly because so many MBers now can wear Musery shirts instead).
194- No idea.
School is infuriating! I hate the AIMS testing SO MUCH
Aims is an Arizona test thingy.
Can SOMEONE make an icon for a lime green elephant? I mean, hot pink bunnies? When I showed this to my friend, she thought that it was getting gross (my freind reads it too)!
see? they do not even look normal! well, LGEs are not quite normal.
but so what?
(182, 157) Alice: No, this Go is a Japanese board game. Players take turns placing black and white stones on a grid that looks like graph paper. If you surround an opponent’s stone or group of stones (by placing your stones on all points connected to it/them), then you take it/them off the board. The object is to control space on the board. It’s slow, subtle, and ancient.
197 – Oh, I love that game, though the last time I played it may have been 5 years ago.
Robert (197): I like that game, though I can never get anyone to play it with me. ::sigh::
195- I always *want* to wear the birthday colors, but I never remember.
197- We used to have a bunch of Go stones, but I don’t know where they are now.
It’s snowing. Again. *howls in agony* WHY?????????? and we have to drive over the mountain tonight. ARGH.
The weather report says “periods of showers”. Nothing about snow.
167- yes and freezing my butt off
At least one person enjoys the snow. Our dog likes to eat it.
Hi everybody! I forgot what I was going to say! Maybe I shouldn’t be having more coffee! Yes, I like exclamation points! I’m going to end most of my sentences with them!
Ok, you guys can vote. I think i might change my name to Cliff Eagle Who is Craunching Your Marmosets from my favoritest muse magazine of all time, the language one. Tell me if i should change it or if i should just stick with “Teh Pwnage”
Eh, I think you should stick with ‘Teh Pwnage’
206-That’s what I think too…
HI Alice! Think you can get that storm over here fast to make it a snow day on the first day of class?
Red-tailed HAWK
195-April 1st, 1991. And I’ve already heard all the jokes about how I must be a joke because I was born on April Fool’s Day, thank you very much. (I was supposed to be born on the second, but I came a few hours early.) My favorite color is probably red or bright blue. I like bright colors.
I understand that no one actually wants to read my soil lab report, but I’m going to post it anyway!
And you’ll be glad to see that I remembered to take the name off of the heading.
NOTE: The report isn’t complete without the data sheets, but those are handwritten and I didn’t feel like typing them up just so that MuseBlog could read them.
Soil Explorations
In this report, I will be comparing two different pieces of land in order to find the best for growing potatoes and corn.
Soil is very important to our ecosystem. It is composed of small pieces of weathered rock combined with organic material (humus). It is formed in a combination of two ways. The first is when the bedrock, or parent rock, in this case, begins to weather. Instead of being one huge sheet of rock, parts of it are smaller pieces of rock – though they are still quite large, and not soil yet. These rocks continue to weather until they form tiny grains of rock. This can be considered soil, but plants can’t really grow in it until it mixes with the other component of soil – humus. Humus is decayed plant and animal matter. When a plant or animal dies, the nutrients in its body break down into humus. Humus mixed with the extremely weathered pieces of rock makes soil.
The arrangement of the four main layers, or horizons, as they’re called, of soil in order is called a soil profile. Soil profiles are used to measure the depth of each horizon to determine many things, such as the different kinds of plants and animals that could live there.
A drawing of a soil profile
Soil conditions depend on quite a few things. Poor texture and aeration/porosity of soil, no matter how chemically perfect it is, can make a poor soil. The drainage is also a huge factor, one that is affected by the porosity of the soil. Few plants thrive when stewing in water that has been there for a while, which is why it is important for soil to have good drainage.
Many elements/chemicals are very important for the nutrition of plants growing in a soil. The three I will be considering are probably the most important – nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Without just one of these three, plants can do incredibly poorly. The last chemical component that I will be considering is the pH of the soil. Different plants require different acidities/alkalinities. While one plant may do wonderfully in soil with high alkalinity, another may die because of the soil’s lack of acidity.
The last thing to consider is the animals living in the soil. Earthworms in particular are especially important to the quality of soil. These creatures deposit feces rich in nutrients into the soil, which helps plants grow. They also dig through the soil, which breaks up large clumps that may be in the soil that might make it difficult for plant roots to penetrate. This also creates pore spaces in the soil, helping water drain through the soil and out.
The purpose of the soil investigations, which I will be analyzing in a few ways, was to see the different qualities of soil in depth.
Results
In order to fully compare the two soils I will decide how to compare them. According to my research, potatoes and corn both need good drainage (High mL/seconds). That is one of the main things I have to consider while deciding which site to use for growing potatoes and corn. Another thing I have to consider is the pH level. My sources say that an acidity level of about 6.5 is ideal pH for the soil for corn. For potatoes, the pH can be anywhere from 4.8 to 6.5. Another enormous factor in the soil quality is the amount of animal life in the area. Earthworms are mentioned in the background information section, and they are probably the most important creatures that live in soil. Something that makes an enormous difference in the quality of the crop is the weather and temperature of the area. Corn thrives in warm, fairly rainy climates with a temperature of about 20° Celsius. Potatoes do best in slightly lower temperatures, about 10 – 15° Celsius. The last thing to consider is the depth of the O and A horizons. As horizon B is denser and harder to penetrate, deep-rooted plants such as potatoes benefit from deeper O/A horizons.
Potassium is an extremely valuable nutrient for both potatoes and corn. It increases the production of proteins, strengthening the plant and its fruit, and it helps a plant’s roots absorb nutrients and water in its soil, making more efficient work of its resources. In Site #1, the level of potassium in the soil is very high, and it is the ideal potassium level for any plant. In Site #2, the potassium level in the soil is very low, which is poor nutrient value for just about any plant. Obviously, Site #1 is my definite preference as far as potassium is concerned.
Phosphorus is not as vital as potassium, but it is still a good nutrient to have in soil used for both potatoes and corn. It encourages the growth of the plant and helps the plant grow strong fruits. In Site #1, the amount of phosphorus in the soil is almost identical to the phosphorus level in the soil of Site #2: they both have very low amounts of phosphorus. Judging only the phosphorus, both soils would be equally inadequate.
Nitrogen helps plants grow above the ground, and they contribute to the green color that signifies a healthy plant. Site #1 had medium levels of nitrogen, and Site #2 had low levels of nitrogen. I think that Site #1 had a better nitrogen content than Site #2.
PH is the measurement of acidity or alkalinity in a substance. Both corn and potatoes do best in the higher level of neutral alkalinity/acidity, pH levels of about 5 and 6. Site #1 had soil with a pH of 5.17, which is just about perfect. Site #2 had soil that was slightly more acidic than the ideal pH for potatoes and corn, a pH of 4. These would both be reasonable levels of acidity for corn and/or potatoes, but the pH from Site #1 is slightly more favorable.
The color of the soil may seem irrelevant, but the truth is that the darker the soil, the more organic material, such as rich humus, is in the soil, and the more organic material, the more nutrients are in the soil. The soil in Site #1 had a slightly pale color in both horizons, suggesting less-than-plentiful nutrient supplies. The soil in Site #2 was dark brown, with red and black veins occasionally – a fine color for soil nutrients. Both sites had perfectly soil color, but Site #2’s color was definitely better for potatoes and corn.
The texture of soil shows how loose and aerated the soil is, and how much water was absorbed and kept after rainfall. Corn and potatoes do best in soil more aerated than clay, but less than small rocks. The soils in both sites were relatively similar. In horizons O and A, the soil was crumbly and a bit clumpy, dry, and it fell apart relatively easily. In horizon B, the soil became easier to mold, more clumpy, and moist. In other words, they were both silt-like in horizons O and A, and became more clay-like in horizon B. As far as texture is concerned, they were equally perfect for potatoes and corn.
The animal life in soil, especially invertebrates such as earthworms, play enormous parts in the quality of soil. These creatures create pore spaces in the soil so that water can drain, among other things mentioned earlier. In Site #1, we found dozens of small creatures in our soil, including nine earthworms in about 5 square inches of land. In Site #2, no earthworms were found, and very few small creatures at all were in our soil. Site #1 undoubtedly is better for aeration in that sense, so it makes me wonder if there was some sort of a mistake in the drainage test – we tested soil only a few feet away, yet it took quite a while for soil to drain. The quantity of earthworms on its own should have doubled the mL/second.
The weather and temperature of an area affects the plant’s growth. Neither site was any good for temperature – they were both considerably lower than the desired temperatures of potatoes and corn. But the temperatures were measured after the growing season for both plants, when it was beginning to get cold. The same goes for the weather. We knew how the weather had been for the past few days, but not for the past few seasons. This makes it impossible for me to determine which had better weather and temperature for potatoes and corn.
The depth of the soil horizons, as I mentioned earlier, has a big impact on the fruits of the potatoes, seeing as they grow underground. The deeper the O and A horizons, the better. Site #1’s A horizon was considerably deep – 25 centimeters. That is a bottomless hole compared to the 11 centimeters in Site #2. Especially for potatoes, Site #1 wins for horizon depth.
It is my opinion that Site #1 had better overall soil for growing potatoes and corn. One of my biggest concerns, however, is the drainage of the soil. Potatoes especially could rot if it took 241 seconds just for 400 mL of water to drain. As for the color of the soil, I’m not worried, because I know that the soil has plenty of potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen.
Wow! Tabs work when you copy and paste! (although undoubtedly they’ll disappear when they appear on the actual site)
Does anyone here participate in First Lego League robotics? I am participating for the first time this year on my school’s all girls robotics team. The competition is next week, so I’m a little nervous, considering that our robot will arbitrarily start having a mental breakdown from time to time.
Hello ppls. Goodbye ppls
I really don’t want to go to skool tomorrow. really really. Meh.
210 – Our school has a Lego Robotics team… I would do it, but the teacher is the computer teacher, who knows nothing about computers at all, and everyone hates her.
So. School tomorrow, a bunch of stuff, finals, and a bunch of other crap. Life kind of sucks today.
At least it’s warm… 54…
hi everybuddy im new here, ha ha *pie*
215-Hello Newbie! -pies- I’m Cat’s Meow/CM/Meow/Cat/Hey You. ^_^
213 – Our coach is great with robot/science-y type stuff. Though she actually teaches 5th grade honors courses, she does robotics and science bowl.
Our coach came up with a great phrase today: “If you believe, you will achieve. If you don’t believe, we’ll punch you in the stomach.”
Hello. My feet are cold. And wet. And my da is out kayaking and won’t be back for like an hour, so I get to be cold and wet for another hour. Fun.
I like chocolate.
I need to finish my Field and Lab report.
I want to get an e-mail.
OHGODSCHOOLTOMORROWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cries*
I saw the musical versioin of Little Women at the Mariott Theater. it was pretty good!
I’m rereading the Warriors series. I like kittehs.
I stole my brother’s iPod Shuffle an dclaimed it as my own. it probably won’t matter anyway because he never uses it and has a Nano anyway. So now I have a Shuffle! It’s green and purdy.
Still roleplaying…
217- Kind of like “If you’re not cheating you’re not trying”
217-That’s a great line, lol.
219-Warriors is great! Have you read Firestar’s Quest? I read it the other day and it’s really, really good.
my friend got an iphone!!!!!!
i’m so jealous cuz it totaly rocks! we totally killed it’s betteries playing with it but iphones are SO cool!
Awww I have school tomorrow.
Actually I’m not as disappointed as i thought I would be about break being over. I’m beginning to get annoyed being stuck around my parents all day.
My computer is being weird. It’s showing everything as text. There’s no color or graphics except the smiley faces.
I hate those X-Mas bulbs. They suck. Especially the stringy ones; I still have string in my hair from three X-Masses ago.
I have seen the light.
I have discovered Mancala. *mancala frenzy*
224- Mancala! *plays Virtual Mancala with Beavo*
hullo. first time on the blog! woo hoo! anyway, im not much for mancala, but i am the rummy master! (i beat my grandmother, like, five times in a row!)
well, I like go better. *plays vitual go with purple panda so that she has someone to play with.*the period is for emphasis…………..there.
hullo again. second time on the blog! woo hoo! anyway, how do the people up above get the smiley faces to show up like that? all i can do is this
228-https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=89
There’s a list at the bottom of that page. ^_^
228-Well, that’s better than what I could do when I first got on. It depends on which smiley you want, and since I HTML hates me, I do it the hard way. Scroll up, find the HG2MB, and check out the bottom.
225-I’ve actually only played once, but I’m hooked. Already. Aw, you beat me!
Let’s play again! *Mancala frenzy with Alice*
227-Omgsquee! You play go!?
208- what a staggeringly loooooo*snaps out of it*ng comment….
*Wakes up*I love mancala! At my boys and girls club I won a tournament of it! 2nd place! I nearly won first place but was accused of cheating.
On a happier note,( but not really:( ) school is starting tomorrow. I am starting ata new school, and the uniform is heinous. ::Sigh::
At least everybody is wearing it.
Well, I am tenlorn (worse than forlorn) here in AZ.No snow, No Cold weather, Crazy people who SHOULD go to the loony bin, but nobody does anything about it, Crazy drivers, Bully teachers, and a terrible system. Someone got pulled over for crossing “The gore point”, where *supposedly* a police officer (Officer Gore) parked his stupid law mobile over there and got killed. Face it, that guy should have known not to park there anyway!
I miss being a cheesehead of scenic (hardly,but still a nice place-beautiful place, acually) Wisconsin. *Sniffle*
I am going to cry maybe.
hey guys I play go too! I mentioned it way up there somewehre in a post *plays both go and mancala*
Oxlin, your on!
A lot of people have spdzk point counters after their names.
What the hack is a spdzk and why do they have points?
POSOC invented them back in November. See
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1102#comment-11
Ask POSOC.
236-Thank you!
To be truthful, POSOC, I liked Prarilius Canix better.
But don’t mind me, I’m just a whiny pre-teen.
*emogrinchemogrinch*
227 – You play Go? I got a set for Christmas but I haven’t played it yet. Awesome!
Today is my first day back at school…and I’m at school now…in computer class…which is my homeroom…
Yay!
There’s a two-hour delay because of all the slippery iciness that covers the road. So yay. Sort of. Maybe if they shorten our classes it’s yay, but if they just take away Science and half of Acting I will be mad. Very mad indeed.
yes, go is fun…I’ll play with whoever. Only problem is that I have a short attention span, I might get bored…
Meh. I have no patience with go. On second thought, I have no patience with anything.
It was warm outside today. Like sixty five. WOW.
Yay! Yay for no cold!
209- Indeed.
221- NO I HAVEN’T SADLY. It’s the only one of the books out now that I haven’t read. durrr I’ve even read Dark River! And Secrets of the Clans.
244- We have the same sort of weather here but I’m too paranoid about global warming to enjoy it.
STILL ROLEPLAYIINGGGG… I’m addicted now.
244-I know! It feels like spring or late May even!!!
And, for the past two days, it has felt to me like it felt to be alive in the spring or fall seven or more years ago! What’s up with that?!
I vacuumed my mom’s car this afternoon. And we took a walk around the neighborhood. Somebody has been having their really old tree cut down from their yard. I don’t know why, the wood sounded hard as they cut it with their noisy chain saws. Anyway.
Did I ever thank Rebecca for the pwning picture? I meant to. *Wonders* Well, two cannot hurt!
Red-tailed HAWK
246- i find it hard to enjoy the nice weather also, for the same reason
lol
actually not lol
col [cry out loud]
not to mention the magnetic poles are reversing. remember that issue of Muse 4 years ago??
My power is still out!! Rar! It’s freezing here, too. So I’m stuck inside in the dark calling all my friends to talk…:P
Fun, no?
Attention administrators:
I originally had an extra “e” in my name for pronounciation “Yeves”, but I wanted to be faithful to the original French spelling, so now it’s just “Yves” and I am the same person.
248- You just reminded me…
I’ve been getting Muse for four years now.
That issue about the magnetic poles reversing was my very first issue of Muse.
I feel old. Old and nostalgic.
Oh, and I still have every issue from the past four years.
I could go back and look through history.
Soup. Waterzooi. I like waterzooi. And all soups, actually. Soup is delicious. I might bring it in a thermos to school tomorrow. If I make it now. Which I won’t, because I have to finish my cartoon on the 5 pillars of Islam. And then write about ..actually, I’m not sure what it is, but I can look. Oh well.
Why does everyone else get the warm weather? I want to move to wherever my climate went.
so i was practicing my solo for solo+ensemble and it has this fast bit with triplets and dotted eighth sixteenths and it’s really hard, so i was practicing that and i hear this whirring noise behind me. so i stop and turn around and something flies out straight at my head. i thought it was a small bird at first.
background info about my house, the attic is connected to my room by a door, so it must’ve gotten into the attic and under the crack in the door (it’s a big crack, like almost an inch)
anyway, i just kind of duck and watch it and i’m like “wow, a bird! sweet!†It just flies around my head and hits the wall/ceiling (i have a weird slopey ceiling thing) and it falls down and apparently went back under the crack because i went over and didn’t see it. so i call my dad up, and he comes up with a box and traps it. i think it was playing dead, because it looked half-stunned, but it flew away fine when we let it out later.
anyway, it turned out to be a really teeny bat. when mom hears this, she freaks because she’s reeeally scared of bats. i was just like “ha! even sweeter!†so we brought it outside and let it out and it flew away. we figured it heard the trumpet playing and it sounded like another bat or something since it was fast high notes and all
So that is officially my amazing story of the day
I know this is long, but its not boring!
We got cold weather but no snow. sucks.
At one point someone said they made a small hpb snowman and dyed it. i was reading a joke book when i read-
What’s pink, icy, and dangerous?
The answer was a shark-infested slushie, but i remembered ur snowman (who built it? WHO BUILT IT?) and thought u may want to know.
Also, all u musers who’ve been reading the world’s greatest mag for a while, please take out ur may/june 2006 (the languages and talking one) and go to pg. 45. there u will find probably the only hate mail received by muse.
For a while i thought i knew the person who had written it, but couldn’t find the mag to check. Now ive found it, and discovered the last initial to be wrong.
But id like to notice that when i put my nerd status on the welcome, newcomers! 2008 thread, someone responded that we’re all nerds cuz muse is a nerdy mag.
so the hate mail writers were right about that, though they shouldn’t have put it so meanly.
And the pic, was disturbing.
Im not saying they were right though, understand. My point is that although most of it was true, this does not make muse a bad mag or that article boring.
And even if it was, true musers don’t mind a couple boring articles for a million other ones that are GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This means that, luckily, musers that have meanies inside them will be sorted away eventually, and in the end it will just be us who are true.
Holy cow.
I didn’t have to wear a jacket today.
Global warming is upon us.
I’m doing an oral report on global warming Wednesday.
I don’t want to do that report.
Why do I keep pushing enter after every line and not using any expression?
Weird…
256- I remember that letter! Made me so mad reading that!
Oh jeez I just posted and now there’s a post above mine that wasn’t there before. Sorry for double-posting all.
256-I think those people must not have lives. I mean if we’re really that low in society and they’re so great then why can’t they just ignore us? Also, please type out the word you, it’s a pet peeve for a lot of us on here.
I’m proud to be a nerd too! Whenever someone says something I get all insulted and ask them why it’s so wrong to be nerdy.
I think that if someone thinks that being called a nerd is negative they have no right to be called a nerd in the first place.
257- I don’t know why you’re doing that.
But I’ve been doing it too.
A lot.
It is weird….
246-You shoooooould. It = SO GOOD
The Warriors mangas are disgraceful, though, to both Warriors and manga. The drawings look like they were drawn for 3 year olds…
It was warm here today. But it still snowed in the morning. Weird.
251 – Is there a list somewhere of all the issues? I’ve been getting the magazine for four or so years, but I’m not positive.
I found the list! I started getting Muse in April 2003 (That was the fashion issue).
2003 and 2004 were some of the best years of Muse, at least for me. It has most of my favorite issues of all time.
259-quite the contrary. that’s what having a life does to you. those without lives have a much better sense of proportion
Semi-Wonderful Tales Of Rehearsal, Part One
This one girl (playing Ruth, the senile aunt) hasn’t showed up for days. She was excused for a while but she was supposed to come back Friday. We think she died in Mexico.
I was in love with the script on Friday, but after seeing the most intense scene in the play aced out like four times, I’m starting to get sick of it.
Every day I have to e-mail all the prop/costume directions to the prop and costume people, and it’s so hard ’cause I don’t know the person who does the props, and my emails feel so . . . terse.
So yeah.
Tongue Twisters:
“She stood on the balcony,
inexplicably mimicking
him hiccuping,
And amicably welcoming him in.”
“What a to-do to die today
At a minute or two to two
A thing distinctly hard to say
But harder still to do.
For they’ll beat a tattoo
At twenty to two
With a rat-a-tat-tat-a-ta-rat-a-too.
And the dragon will come
To the beat of the drum
At a minute or two to two today
At a minute or two to two.”
It was 70 some degrees here today.
And it’s supposed to be January?!?! Insanity. Total insanity. I wore a short sleeved shrit, still am, as a matter of fact. Resistance is Museless, BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
266-I know, the temperatures are insane…
EEP! I just realized that I triple posted a little while ago.
267~ Yes, I should be freezing to death when I go outside in January with a thin little t-shirt, not sweating and roasting! Poo.
Hey, it beats the cold I’ve got. It’s the icky, damp type that seeps into your bones and can only be gotten rid of by sleeping in a bed with thick blankets and a radiator next to it. Luckily I do have a radiator next to my bed, but my roommate is not so fortunate.
Alice (203): I usually like snow, but not when it makes my bus late/stuck. The only time I really like it, is when it’s the right consistency for snowmen (or snow-hot-pink-bunnies), and enough for sledding.
Cliff Eagle (205): I like “Teh Pwnage” better.
THP (209): I liked it! And good job for finishing the lab
Beavo (224): I love mancala! *joins frenzy*
gimanator (227): Yay! A Go player! ::dhd::
gecko (228): Welcome to the blog!! ::pies:: Check out the HG2MB and “Rules” at the top of the page, and they should answer most of your questions.
Mother scheduled a dentist appointment and didn’t tell me. What’s more, she scheduled it on the one day when I CANNOT miss tutorial A. WHY? So now I have to find out whether I can leave school and then come back. Plus the appointment’s at noon and I need to be back to school by 1:40 at the very latest.
the future is foggy; try back later
I just realised – I’ve been getting Muse for six years and a month. I don’t believe it. It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. On a similar topic, it’s only a few months until my first Blogversity!
i’m back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’ll read the other posts later….. i got back my exam results (mostly, i just need geography now) and i must say i did rather poorly in art and not as well as i’d hoped in math *don’t wnna think about it anymore* so several sad things happened over the holiday that i wasn’t aware about until now. 1: you probably haven’t heard about this but [details snipped; one of Kag’s classmates was murdered. –Admin.]. you hear about these things on the news but it never is anyone you know. it’s kinda scary. 2: one of my friends mothers died. i didn’t know her but i always wanted to meet her. 3: my mom’s cousin died so she’s flying across the pond tomorrow for the funeral.
other than that i’ve been fine. how are you all doing?
271-Sorry!
274-Sorry again! Wow, that’s quite a few things at once! *Consolation pies*
I don’t know if this cheers you up or not, but the Seahawk has just captured a new HPB island over on ship’s logs…
Red-tailed HAWK
eeebeth (255)- your bat story reminds me of Neil Gaiman and how he’s had bats twice…
I finished my second Maximum Ride book.
Just thought you guys should know that at Nine P.M. Eastern U.S., they’re re-showing the first episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos on the Science Channel.
277- Doesn’t it pwn? The second one is my favorite; I can’t wait for the fourth to come out in like two months.
We had an author come in to talk to our school today. I got picked to be one of the 5 people who would “create” a story. I thought you might like it:
What’s her name?
Eliza
Where does she live?
Anchorage, AK
What does she want more than anything?
to get her novel published
What is her greatest fear?
hot pink things
What happens when she gets her novel published but there is hot pink on the cover?
She starts freaking out because the hot pink item is a bunny, and publishes the novel herself.
What is the last line?
And there was much rejoicing.
Also, during the question and answer session, the following episode occured.
me: Would it be possible to write a novel in one month?
her: Have you heard of NaNo-whatsit?
me: NaNoWriMo?
her: Yes. That’s the goal of NaNoWriMo. I’ve written a novel in 2.5 months.
I couldn’t decide where to post this, so I’m just going to post it here. (This might be long: be warned)
Last night, I was reading the Writing Theme with Variations thread, and thinking of ideas for my story. Then, I remembered the time when I first suggested chopstick painting on the blog:
65. Purple Panda �|� June 27th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
I like using a sharpened chopstick and ink.
Does anyone do calligraphy?
Then, I continued to read the posts on the Visual Arts thread (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=404), and it made me really happy. I remember when we were discussing art with Rebecca, and it was really really fun. She gave great suggestions, inspiration, and motivation. Here’s the post where she described painting the Chinatown pictures (like the one on the Writing Theme/Variations thread)
75. Rebecca Lasley �|� June 28th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Report on Chopstick Experiments
Wow, they’re great! I spent the morning whittling and sharpening a variety of chopsticks (both manual and electric pencil sharpeners will do the trick). Drawing was a bit awkward at first, as with anything new, but I love the marks they make. They also hold more ink than I would have thought. They’re perfectly suited to the quick sketches I’m doing right now (of DC’s Chinatown, by appropriate coincidence), even better than the pens I was using, as they’re forcing me to modify my drawing style in a direction I wanted to go anyway. The plain sharpened ones work best so far — and the side creates lovely shading — but the shaped ones make nice special effects. Bamboo skewers aren’t bad, either, though I clip the points slightly with scissors. Yay! I’m thrilled. *hugs Purple Panda* (by your leave)
This reminded me of the first time I tried to draw with chopsticks–it was incredibly hard, because you had to draw really quickly otherwise the ink would run out. This was completely different than anything else I had ever done; previously I had taken hours to draw a few lines (not hours, but I was quite a perfectionist). I haven’t done any visual-arts type thing in a long time. I used to take painting classes and have a gigantic box filled with oil and acrylic paints, but I haven’t used them since last year. I have always liked to do art, but I always thought I was rather dreadful at it. Then, I read Rebecca’s post:
84. Rebecca Lasley �|� June 29th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Ebeth, and other nonartists, should you wander by this thread again, could you tell me what makes you think you can’t draw? (the straight-line answer does not count). What would make drawing enjoyable or interesting enough to try?
And, this got me thinking. Sure, some people just naturally seem better at drawing than others, but why can’t everyone draw? I thought about this all night, and this morning while I was running around getting ready for school (at a depressingly early hour of 6 am), I grabbed a small (very small, actually: about 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches) blank note/sketchbook, which I have had for years but never used. I drew on the bus, in homeroom, while waiting for class to start, on the bus home, and a little while after I got home before I started my homework. And it was really fun! I know they weren’t very good, but it’s nice to have a little sketchbook to carry around — then I have something to do when I’m bored, and I can practice getting better at drawing. So, I have decided to give my lack-of-visual-art-talent another try.
So, in the next few months I shall be busy drawing, and writing about Rebecca’s drawing (which has given me flamablamablous inspiration for a story), and it shall be very fun and happyful.
And, I know that this should go on the suggestions thread, but since it’s after my long post about Visual Arts, I’ll ask it here. Can we have a new Visual Arts thread? We haven’t had one since July 2007.
robert? are you on? can i ask a favor? (a mildly large one…). or perhaps anybody else who happens to be an AAAS member who wants to copy a certain article for me? i’d like to use it for my hw, but i can’t get to it without paying or having a subscription (which i don’t)
Once upon a time there was a girl named Alice who totally failed her NOSB (National Ocean Sciences Bowl) Placement test. she did not make the team and had to spend all of 2008 studying so that she could do it in 2009. The end.
That’s not technically a true story. But it probably soon will be.
Once upon a time there was a girl named Alice who went to rehearsal. The end.
That is a true story. And so is this:
Once upon a time there was a girl named Alice who went to the dentist after several years and discovered that she only had two cavities. The dentist is very expensive. The end.
I used to be very afraid of the dentist. I still don’t really enjoy going, even though I’ve never had a cavity.
I really don’t like the dentist, mostly because of the really annoying dental hygienists who talk to you like you’re three. I’ve only had one cavity, and according to my dentist it wasn’t “my fault” because the tooth grew in really slowly, and was caught under the gums or something along those lines.
I got accepted into Honors English!
I have to do a project and I’m going to do it on JS&MN. It’s going to be a timeline.
285~ The sound of scraping has always bugged me, and when it’s on my teeth it makes it worse. *shudders*
286~ Congrats. As well as good luck.
I went to the orthodontist today.
Apparently, in 8-10 weeks, I’m getting braces.
Whee…
Goodnight everyone, I’m off to deplete all the hot water in the tank by a nice long shower….I mean, I’m off to take a short shower and go to bed soon so I can get up early in the morning and get lots of homework done…yes, that’s it. *looks innocent*
BYE FOR NOW!
287 (responding to 285)- I know!
288- Ugh. My condolences.
The biggest problem with the dentist was the fact that I had to take off my earring for the X-ray (not to mention X-rays are unpleasant in general. I just LOVE sitting under radioactive rays, don’t you? It gives me a headache just thinking about it) and now I have to put it back on. And I’m really wimpy when it comes to pain, so I don’t want to do it tonight, and I’m trying to think what I’m going to wear tomorrow so I know what earring to put in (if they’re already out, I might as well put in something different, eh?)
Er… make that earrings, plural.
Hey guys. I’ll probably receive the same lack of attention as I usually do, but I’m looking to get rid of my Muses, and I think it’d be a terrible tragedy to throw them away. Is there some sort of Muse-eum I can send them to?
292- USECGOWM, what compels you to get rid of your Muses?
Note: Wonderful and Magnificent removed because a. everybody already knows that and b. I don’t like the way that looks in acronym form.
I’d like to get rid of my Muses because they’ve been sitting on the same shelf in my closet for over five years. Granted (ha ha ha, I hate it when people use that word), I get one down now and again to peruse, but by and large they’re merely taking up space. In addition, I’d quite like to arrange it so that others might enjoy them, especially the really old ones. Like the one about the creation of the moon, or the life on other planets one.
292-how about the muse-eum of my house?
seriously though, they sell on ebay, as we’ve seen. you could make some money off them.
294- you could divy them out by year and distribute them through the GAPAs or something. I’d like 1997 or 1998…
Seeing as nobody responded to post 278, I guess I’m the only big space geek here.
(297, KaiYves) Perhaps your comment seemed more an announcement than something which required a response.
By the way, I had the pleasure of chatting briefly with Carl Sagan in the early 1980s when he appeared on Larry King’s old late-night radio show. About a dozen of us from the network staff gathered in the hallway outside Studio A to watch the broadcast. During breaks we caught Sagan’s attention by waving “Happy Birthday” signs in the windows. But before air time, Larry invited us into the green room, and we had some time to talk. I am happy to report that Dr. Sagan was utterly charming and endured our silliness with grace.
I am in a writingy mood right now, but I can’t figure out what I want to write. o.o
SOUP!!!
279-Which one’s the second? I mooched School’s Out-Forever and Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports from the school libarary, I haven’t read The Angel Experiments.
I gaffers-taped up my agenda for schoo, and now it’s all black. With my name in SCARY LETTERS up front.
I can now make ATL and LA with my fingers.
298- Man, aministrators have all the fun!
I just meant that nobody said “I’ll try and catch that” or anything.
(302) Well, I wasn’t an administrator then, KaiYves, just a lost kid bobbling from job to job because I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do with my life and MuseBlog hadn’t been invented yet. But yeah, fun times. Plenty of fun out there waiting for you, too.
OH. MY. GOD. I cannot believe it. *faints with relief and joy* *revives so that she can tell the WONDERFUL, SPLENDID NEWS!!!!* I got on the Ocean Sciences Bowl Team!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Joy and happiness, they are mine!!!!
Now I have to study! Luckily I have a whole hour tomorrow after school and before rehearsal that I can spend reading my book! I will talk in exclamation points, I am so overwhelmingly happy!!!!!!!
I guess my sticking around and playing with the buzzers second tutorial was really useful, because I can’t imagine my test scores were that great…
Or maybe they were. Maybe I just made a lot of really good guesses.
304-CONGRATULATIONS! ^_^
Congradulations Alice! Hope you do really good.
You made me remember something…
I think I made the spelling bee thingy. I really don’t want to be in it but allrighty, I’ll try.
305,306- Thankee!
I’m now way too excited to fiddle with my earring-back, so I’ll wait till me mum comes home so she can do it.
Since everybody’s talking about getting into stuff, I may as well add this.
My state has a state-wide math competition and I got 4th or something for my age group (in the region) so I get to go to the state competition! I can’t wait! I’ve been a couple times before, but I’ve never gotten a trophy or anything. That’s my goal this year. ^_^
Lucky you, Alice!
Congratulations, Alice!
Look whose back. I have no idea how long it’s been.
How are you Robert Coontz. why didn’t you answer questions this month in Muse.Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hey are there new musers or have I not been on the blog a lot.
311-There was a thread somewhere. Andy and Ruth are taking over for the next year so the GAPAs can take a break.
312-Both, probably.
298- Was it actually his birthday?
(314) Yes.
I am hungry. I smell fudge.
Now I’m hungrier.
hey guys, sorry i haven’t been oin in awhile, I only have 6 minutes to say hi and dash. last time i dissapeared for a length of time someone thought i was hiding because you critiqued me….. no i just have a busy scheduele. or however you spell it. Alice, congrats. If anyone wants to use a random latin word now and again, i’d like to say thats more than fine with me. *takes a breath for the first time* whew
Remember how I pimped my agenda? Now it’s awesomer; I taped paper to the back in a coolio pattern that looks like I ripped some of the tape off, and wrote all sorts of grafiti on it.
Our weather sucks but at least we get to skip p.e.
Bother. Drat. Argh. *stomps around in huff* The ULTRA-IMPORTANT Salmon Bowl (NOSB Bowl, Ocean Sciences Bowl) is on a day when I have rehearsal.
Nor am I the only one. The kid who plays Hank is also in the NOSB Bowl.
I shall have to talk to Jenni. She’ll probably be a bit annoyed. Maybe a lot annoyed.
I like cupcakes.
*Salmon Bowl meeting, NOSB