Random Thread, Part 2: Julimi!
MuseBlog dedicates the rest of this month’s random thread to the Muse of Getting Along with People. Long live the Il-julimi-nati!
Date: July 23, 2012
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
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muselover
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 10:51Soon…
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Castle
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 10:53Castle woke up at 11. What’s the first thing he does? Checks Museblog and listens to Beck and looks at his friend’s pictures of two recent music festivals.
So much jealousy.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 20:42I’d say, there’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Castle
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 21:25It is right here on my desk in its current form of a tennis ball.
I can carry it around in my pocket! Just in case I need to, you know, sleep under it or trade with it or use it as a weapon or a parachute or even dry myself off with it.
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Dodecahedron
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 11:12Hi all! I’m at Google headquarters typing this at breakfast while I install the latest Android SDK. My plane flight went as well as a six hour flight can go, and all the people here are really cool. Also, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Google thinks we are special — they gave us Nexus 7 tablets to program on (which is why I have to download the latest SDK (for 4.1) instead of using the 2.1 version I have installed).
Just wanted to check in with everyone, I’m going to be pretty busy over the next week, I think… I’m really looking forward to seeing the giant Android dessert statues, I think we’re going to that sometime today. I’m also really really looking forward to the actual Android programming, of course. My team is still looking for app ideas, but one of our ideas is making a grocery app that warns you when your food is about to expire.
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KaiYves
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 11:31What is an SDK?
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Castle
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 14:31Software development kit.
Developers (Valve, Firaxis, Google, etc) often release the tools they used to create entire games or programs or elements within those games or programs so that the general public and amateur developers can create mods for the game’s community or get experience creating their own software.
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KaiYves
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 15:25Oh, I see. Thank you.
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Vendaval
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 21:43also cool: API
Application Programming Interfaces are the frameworks that allow software to communicate. Say you have an idea for an app that works in part by taking data from Google Maps, but you’re not sure how to integrate it with Google’s software. In the old days you would have to set up a business meeting and negotiate a contract and then both parties tailor their software. Now with a public API you can skip all that and build your software to work with theirs automatically. You can even theoretically integrate legal contracts and revenue sharing agreements into the API, so that any money made is automatically split between the people whose code was used to make the app. Visionaries anticipate a future in which you’ll only meet your business partners after you’ve successfully launched a project together, to discuss long term strategy.It makes me want to ask my grandfather his thoughts on business; he was a traveling salesman for years and is great with people (well, on an immediate and superficial level. Better to say he’s great with strangers.) It’s sad to think that some of the personal connections will be lost as more and more is machine integrated. I hope a lot of it shifts elsewhere, from lunch with business partners to lunch with hacker hostel mates who are also building products, but I know it scares some old-fashioned business people. If your product is good enough and your API is good enough it will sell itself, but there’s so much to be said for the immediate human touch- the salesmanship, the glimmer. I’m not great at it myself unless I’m confident, but having seen it performed by a master I think I understand how powerful it is. It really is a performance, a show that transports you away from the mundane and routine to a place of possibility, familiar props supporting exciting new recombinations.
Anyway, I think we’re experiencing firsthand the beginning of a new age, Welcome to The Internet, it’s as revolutionary as books! But it also makes me want to create something like Tino Sehgal’s This Progress, slow and personal and magical but salesmanlike. That’s what good stores are after all, no? Theaters that sell stories, feelings you can take with you, wrap yourself in, become part of. Identity and survival caught between emotion and material.
… and that was quite a tangent, I should probably get to bed.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:20Greetings, Dodecahedron! Thanks for keeping us informed. We look forward to further installments of your adventures at Google. Don’t be evil! (Just be Mostly Harmless.)
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Agent Lightning
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 20:58Or a food recall app? Enter what brands you bought and it’ll tell you if they get recalled?
Or do they already have one of those? I wouldn’t be surprised; there’s an app for everything these days…
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oxlin
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 22:46App idea: fridgecam. An app with a fridge webcam that shows you your fridge so that when you’re at the grocery store you don’t have to wonder “Do we need cream cheese?”
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:05Brilliant!
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Rainbow*Storm
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 13:32Vocaloids “Crime and Punishment” = Feel like a crazy maniac while doing anything.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 15:09My pet brother sleepwalked onto the couch last night. I wonder what’s next.
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Catwings
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 16:39my mom says one night i sleepwalked. and i said during that night i dreamed that i was jogging in a circle but i thought i was going to the grocery store. then i got to the store. about that time mom said i fell back into bed. then i dreamed that i bought sleeping pills
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Castle
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 21:27I sleepwalked for years. I used to walk all the way across the house every night. Down stairs, around tables.
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Tesseract
in July 24th, 2012 @ 00:20On the band trip in ninth grade, my friend woke up standing outside the locked door to our hotel room at 3 am. None of us woke up when she knocked. The next year she slept with her keycard in her pajama pocket and pushed an armchair in front of the door at bedtime.
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Agent Lightning
in July 24th, 2012 @ 07:08During music camp, Agent Hippie (who was rooming with me) told me I sang in my sleep.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 11:36I once heard about a person that commited a murder in their sleep, so i’m getting a little paranoid.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 11:56There was a National Geographic program about that a few years ago, but I didn’t see it, so I don’t know if they proved it could happen or not. (I only read the TV Guide listing.)
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 12:24I love the National Geographic channel and wish I had cable.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:09Some of their current programming is, as a woman from the NGS described it, “off-brand”, a problem they’re working to improve. Hopefully, by the time you get cable again, they’ll have fixed it.
(And that’s all I’m going to say about that.)
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:11My science-writer friends certainly have some pointed things to say about it.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:36I did, too, but my friend said the Society was appropriately embarassed and her departement was working to resolve it, so I feel that it isn’t right to bad-mouth a problem they’re working on.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 15:39Shoot.
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:48I’m glad they’re working on it. I hope they fix Nat Geo Wild, too.
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Cinnamoon
in July 24th, 2012 @ 20:52On a sleepover a couple years ago, a friend who also sleeptalks and I had a ten or fifteen minute argument in our sleep. Neither of us remembered it at all, but our other friends said that it woke them all up because we were yelling at each other.
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 00:21i heard once somewhere that 7% of the average americans swallow spiders in thier sleep. *sick smile*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 25th, 2012 @ 02:06A humor writer made that up long ago as a parody of bogus “gee whiz” statistics. Unfortunately, as often happens with jokes, a lot of people didn’t get the point and took it seriously.
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Randomosity101
in July 25th, 2012 @ 10:02According to my mother, she caught me sleepwalking toward the kitchen once when I was a toddler, and she carried me into my bedroom because she was worried I would fall down the stairs.
According to my sister, I’ve correctly answered science questions in my sleep that she asked me. I’m not sure I believe that one.
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Agent Hippie
in July 25th, 2012 @ 14:25One night when Drama Llama and I shared a room (when I was about 8), I woke up to hear her crying. I saw the closet and bathroom lights on, so I went to get my mom and dad. As I was making my way downstairs, I got that creepy someone-is-staring-at-me-from-behind feeling and saw her staring at me with one of my sweaters in her hand. I ran down the rest of the stairs, scared out of my mind. It turns out she was sleepwalking, but I didn’t know because I had never seen it before.
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KaiYves
in July 25th, 2012 @ 14:46I read that as “One night when the Dalai Lama and I shared a room…”
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 27th, 2012 @ 11:10Weird…
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Agent Hippie
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 18:06From the last thread: I lost a tooth while eating a Snickers bar.
I just got back from New Orleans! It was fun seeing a new city like that. It’s the biggest one I can remember staying in, but I didn’t get lost because I was wih my church group the whole time. We had worship in the Superdome and got stuck in it during the rain. With 33,309 Lutherans crowding the exit, I’m just glad I’m not claustrophobic. On our tour, we drove through a flood and it was pretty freaky.
In other words, marching band camp tomorrow! I can’t wait to see everyone.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 20:51I had “Brand New Day” from Dr. Horrible stuck in my head earlier today, while I was volunteering at the Botanical Gardens. Actually, I always have that song stuck in my head when I go to the botanical gardens. And today, I think I figured out why.
So, the most common task we do is weeding. And while I’m pulling up these annoying, annoying weeds outdoors under the sun, you know what I’ve got going through my head?
It’s a brand new day/ yeah, the sun is high/ all the birds are singing/ cause you’re gonna die.
My subconscious apparently has a sense of irony. And is vindictive. I freak myself out sometimes. In a good way.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:45“I’m gonna getcha, I’m gonna eatcha…”
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Agent Lightning
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 21:16I’m back from Indiana!! Drive past ALL the cornfields! And soybeans. Because of crop rotation.
THE TIRE STORY THAT MY MOM HAS TOLD TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN BECAUSE IT WAS JUST SO DARN FUNNY WHEN IT HAPPENED BUT IS PROBABLY LESS FUNNY TO HEAR BUT OH WELL I’M GOING TO POST IT ANYWAY
Me, my mom, and my sisters are driving past a cornfield.
Car: BUMP
Mom: I’ll check out the car at the next exit.
Car: BUMP
Mom: Holy cake, is that our tire?
*checks* Nope, we have all four tires.
Tire: wumpwumpwumpwump
Mom: Well, we’ll need to check that out at the next gas station we see. We’ll change the tire.
*arriving at gas station*
Me: … where is that spare tire we’re talking about?…
Mom: Holy cake, it’s not there! We need to drive our damaged tire back up to the turn where we lost that tire because IT WAS OUR SPARE
Road: *significant lack of spare tires*
After fifteen minutes of searching through the brambles:
Trucker: You ladies looking for a tire? I picked it up and left it at the gas station.
Mom: Yes thank you bye!
Car: *wumpwumpwumpwump* *limps back over to gas station
Mom: Okay, I found the spare that we dropped on the road. Now I’ll change the tire.
:mrgreen:1 *driving past* You ladies need any help there?
Mom: No thanks, sir.
:mrgreen:2*driving past* You ladies need any help there?
Mom: No thanks, sir, we’re good.
:mrgreen:3 *driving past* Anything I can do to help you ladies?
Mom: No thanks, sir, we’ve got this.
:mrgreen:4 *driving past* You ladies look like you could use some help changing that tire.
Mom: No thank you, sir. Have a nice day. Now girls, see how I’m tightening the lug nuts crosswise? This is very important for maintaining equal pressure–
I AM GOING TO TIGHTEN YOUR LUG NUTS, MA’AM. JUST TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE TIGHT. *tightens lug nuts clockwise instead of across*
Mom: *rummaging in trunk* Uh, thanks…
Me: He’s tightening the lug nuts in the wrong order! He’s tightening the lug nuts in the wrong order! He’s tightening the lug nuts in the wrong order! He’s tightening the lug nuts in the wrong order! *says nothing out loud*~small time warp~
*car rolls away*
I’m glad I could help those damsels in distress.
Me: MOM, THAT MAN TIGHTENED THE LUG NUTS WRONG! YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DO IT ACROSS AND HE JUST WENT CLOCKWISE!Then we went and got our tire changed from a spare to a real tire. We sat in the Goodyear place where they had a cable TV with only one channel purchased, and it was doing a documentary that made leaky drains look like the Black Plague or Voldemort. I bet they got John Williams to write the soundtrack.
Anyway! That was our week! Actually, that was only driving up there. But I got to go the the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, where they have the most accurate clock in North America. It is a water clock and it is the coolest thing on the face of the planet.
Now, marching band camp! And a Kokon tomorrow! I’m really excited!!!!
Oh, and that’s really great thread art! I love it!
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Castle
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 21:28I laughed very a lot.
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*Cskia
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 23:53Same here. *highfives Castle*
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Maths Lover ♥
in July 25th, 2012 @ 07:20*smiles**doesn’t roll on floor laughing* It comes across more as an interesting window into your life than funny. Not that I’m complaining.
It’s good to see :mrgreen:.
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Rainbow*Storm
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 21:39Thanks to various fanmade things, I just cannot take Voldemort seriously anymore.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 05:49Kind of like defeating a bogart, I guess? (At least, he terrified *me* when I was a kid.)
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:53Yes–I started the Potter series when I was 8, and I adored it, but I just could not finish the graveyard scene in book 4. It was quite frustrating.
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KaiYves
in July 25th, 2012 @ 08:13“Her skeleton will lie in the chamber forever.” — Dear Koko, just that message gave me nightmares…
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 25th, 2012 @ 09:48That sentence is creepy.
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Castle
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 22:13I love the illustration!
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Tesseract
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 22:42I have discovered the otamatone, which looks like possibly the most obnoxious instrument ever invented. I think I need one.
I also would really like a full-size multioctave kalimba, because they’re beautiful, and I am really looking forward to my guanzi.
…And I need to practice oboe oops
Kokon tomorrow!
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 11:01I had not heard of an Otamotone. I found the website. I listened to three of the things playing “Greensleeves”. I think I am damaged for life.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 12:33I saw the video too, and they sound like a dolphin with a stuffy nose. I wanted to punch the computer they sounded so bad.
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Tesseract
in July 25th, 2012 @ 09:20The Greensleeves video is the one I saw too. They have the same appeal as a vuvuzela: none at all. Exactly why I want one.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 25th, 2012 @ 10:07Now that I think of it, both have major annoying potential.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 25th, 2012 @ 16:04There is no doubt in my mind that the vuvuzela was invented in Prussiania.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:36Don’t forget the otamatone! Those were definitely invented in Prussania.
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oxlin
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 22:45Ooh. That is a gorgeous illustration!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 23rd, 2012 @ 23:43(10, 12) Thanks! Most of the image is a watercolor painting. Mimi joined the circle by digital means.
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*Cskia
in July 24th, 2012 @ 00:07Nail polish! All the colors! All the shininess!
All the apparent flammabilityI should probably go to bed.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 01:14You know you have a problem nobody cares about when you can’t cosplay as any NuWho caracters.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 05:50Or when you can’t find out the color of John Young’s eyes…
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:21Or when you can’t find a copy of The Phylum Tardigrada in English for sale anywhere on the Internet or off it no matter how hard you try.
(By the way, at first, I thought you were talking about Jon Young, the naturalist, and got excited).
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KaiYves
in July 25th, 2012 @ 14:47No, no, John Young the astronaut.
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Rainbow*Storm
in July 31st, 2012 @ 02:12Same. Having glasses makes it hard to cosplay as anyone. Also, I have no idea where you can buy wigs/hair dye, and the only two blonde characters (River and Rose) are coincidentally my two least favorite.
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KaiYves- Curiosity Will Lead The Way!
in July 31st, 2012 @ 05:41I totally agree about the glasses.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 05:52Warning: description of digestive and excretory processes follows.
When grief meets a digestive system that was already gassy and shaking off an Immodium that was possibly taken in error 36 hours before, sleeping is hard.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 09:33NC kokon is underway! Koppar, Agent Lightning, Randomosity101, and Tesseract. So far we haven’t made it out of the lobby….
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 09:41Greetings, everybody!
|||E (That last thing is a Kokopelli sign.)
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 11:50Whoever’s pieing Kokopelli is gonna get a fierce comeback.
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Prussia=Awesome is very sad
in July 24th, 2012 @ 12:01I beg to differ. He probably deserves it. A lot
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:22Just because he deserves it doesn’t mean he won’t get revenge.
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Catwings
in July 24th, 2012 @ 21:03AWW YEAH!
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 25th, 2012 @ 10:03Good point
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Rainbow*Storm
in July 24th, 2012 @ 14:14Koko’d.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:01Have fun, and tell us all about it when you finish!
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Midnight Fiddler
in July 24th, 2012 @ 14:26Aw, I wish I could be there! Sounds like a good time, do tell us how it goes!
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L
in July 24th, 2012 @ 09:43How could I be away from you guys for so long?
I missed everyone so much!
Getting back on is awesome
Sorry I was gone so long >_<
Blehblehblehbleh.
Hello Everyone!
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Catwings
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:20it OK! you fine
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*Cskia
in July 24th, 2012 @ 21:30Hi there! *waves*
It’s nice to see you back again.
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 00:26L, one question… why is your name just “L” and not “Monkeyboy” like it was when you first joined the blog? what does “L” mean exactly?
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L
in July 25th, 2012 @ 08:52L is a character of Death Note, a japanese anime that I really liked. I like to compare myself to him a bit, but not too much since that would be very immodest. Anyway, depending on how I’m feeling lately, or if I’m just in the mood to change my name, then I do. Here, I’ll change it back to Monkeyboy after this
Thanks everyone!
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Choklit Orange
in July 24th, 2012 @ 10:23Wheehehehee STUFF has been happening in Choklitland. I took a ferry to an Indonesian island and hiked around for a day and saw actual. elephants. just kind of wandering around in the jungle and one of then I hiked along the most beautiful beach ever and an elephant walked into the water so technically I have been swimming with elephants! (from a distance)
I like elephants, okay?
Also, I went ice-skating (mostly for the irony) and had what may have been the best bowl of noodles of all time. And oh god, I had forgotten how good the public transit is here, but it is flipping. amazing.
In other news, the university happens to be located near a cocoa factory, and so everything smells like chocolate. Everything.
This has been a post.
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:26You saw elephants in the wild?! My vicarious joy is too vast to be measured in a timely manner.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 11:44I was beginning to think this month might not have a muse ,until it turned into Julimi, which isn’t something I would have thought of. Mimi is hard to incorporate into a month.
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Catwings
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:05OTHER MONTHS MIMI MIGHT FIT INTO:
September (Sepmimber)
this month (Julimi)
January (Jamiary)
December (Decemier)
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:55I thought September was going to be Mimi.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 17:39Seemimingly not.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 25th, 2012 @ 10:52*dies from bad pun*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 25th, 2012 @ 11:08If it were possible to die from bad puns, MuseBlog would be empty.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 25th, 2012 @ 13:06The planet would be empty.*
*At least as far as humans are concerned. Not sure whether other species might be harmed in the crossfire.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 25th, 2012 @ 15:04I should change that to “dies from REALLY bad pun*.
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 20:52i have a good pun!
if i was getting paid and eating selery and raisins i could say:
i get paid in selery. can i have my selery rasi’n?
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 20:55GOOOOOOOOORD! bad pun ALLKKKKCCC!
*jadestone changes her name to gravestone in my memory*
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:37There should be a thread for REALLY bad puns. Read if you dare.
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Catwings
in July 26th, 2012 @ 16:32i know that would be really cool!
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Gravestone
in July 27th, 2012 @ 22:34YEP
…YEP.
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:34I think we all did. Now I’m thinking it’ll be Bo, simply because that’s much easier than Chad (Chaugust and SeptemBor versus Bogust and… Chadtember?).
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Catwings
in July 24th, 2012 @ 20:57Chadtember seems really cool. i think that’s the only way Chad will fit into a month…
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 00:14Spwtember.
oh wait we already did him… hmm…
Sbotember (ss-BO-tem-bur)is bo the only muse we havn’t used? (besides Chad. we like Chatober)
Feathembor? or did you already use Feather?
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Bibliophile
in July 25th, 2012 @ 11:28We have used Feather. The only ones we haven’t used are Bo and Chad.
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oxlin
in July 25th, 2012 @ 11:42Uranuary, Featherary, Crraw-rch, Kokoaprilli, Maeiou, Pwne, Julimi
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 20:49Bogust. Chadember.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 27th, 2012 @ 16:47Chaugust. Botember
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Bibliophile
in July 27th, 2012 @ 18:34Or SeptemBor.
We’ll have to see.
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:37We knew it wouldn’t be January, though, because it’s a yearlong thing, and we already had Uranuary. There are 9 Muses and 12 months, and so far, there’s been a Muse for every month, so I think October and onward will be different. You never know, though–nobody predicted Julimi! Was that done on purpose?
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NC Kokon Conglomerate (The Flammable Ones)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 12:05Hi guys! Tess here. We’re sitting in the cafeteria of a science museum in Raleigh. It’s me, Agent Lightning, Koppar, R101, and kiwimuncher, along with Rebecca. It is super awesome and exciting. We haven’t actually really looked at many exhibits or anything yet–we’ve mostly been standing around talking. Also playing with micropipettes.
Agent Lightning here! I’m really thrilled to be able to do this. We’re at the science museum where we have done lots of cool things– once we managed to get out of the lobby.
I love being around so many flamablamablous people. Hi guys! It’s Koppar! This Kokonvention is filled with awesomeness. I slightly got bunnified a bit, but then I got better, so that’s okay. MuseBloggers are the best people.
Hello hello! kiwimuncher here!
This is extremely exciting! In fact, it is so exciting that we are all actually on fire. I should probably go get a fire extinguisher. ….Salve! It’s Randomosity101! This kokon is crazy/awesome/flamablamablous. No offense, Chok, but swimming with elephants has nothing on this! (Though it is cool.) Rebecca Lasley is so friendly and great. Agent Lightning is really energetic and fun. Koppar is such an awesome evil overlord. Kiwimuncher is even more flammy in real life than on the blog (if that’s possible), and Tesseract has an interesting story for everything. We’ve been having such a great time that we almost stayed in the lobby the whole time and just talked!
(In case you were wondering, kiwimuncher joined us sometime after my earlier post. ~Rebecca)
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:13*rest of blog keels over from acute envy*
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 13:47Awesome! Wish I was there!
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:59I wish I could go to a kokon. That being kinda hard , since I live in the Upper Midwest. Anyone out there?
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Piggy
in July 24th, 2012 @ 17:37Nebraska here. It’s lonely this far from the coasts.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in July 24th, 2012 @ 18:36Michigan? During the summer, at least.
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Catwings
in July 24th, 2012 @ 20:56i live in Wisconsin…
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oxlin
in July 24th, 2012 @ 23:37Me.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 23:50I live in Chi-town during the school year…
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Randomosity101
in July 26th, 2012 @ 09:17Lady Bunniful, might the pictures be posted soon-ish, please?
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Catwings
in July 24th, 2012 @ 16:01Julimi? never heard of it… cool! love the art!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 17:40Koppar’s red-haired flammablamability apparerently collided with an instability in the atmosphere, setting off a thunderstorm that knocked the power out at the museum. Therefore, sadly, we didn’t have Internet access to make a late-afternoon group post. But I’m sure more reports will be appearing in the near future.
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kiwimuncher
in July 24th, 2012 @ 17:57Oh my goodness! It really went out?! :O That’s crazy! And… this is probably telling that I haven’t been on here for a while… but what does the squid mean?
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Castle
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:21I have not seen you in a while!
Squids indicate sympathy or congratulations, depending on the context. They don’t turn posts colors like the pies do, but they detract from the pie count – that is to say, if the post is pink (10 pies) and it gets 1 squid, the post will still have 10 pies but no longer be pinked. It will need one more pie to turn pink again.
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Agent Lightning
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:36The use of squids is rather complex, but they are generally used for expressing sympathy, although they are also used on especially squid-related posts.
Yeah, we got the thunderstorm and some power went out. We still marched, though.
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Tesseract
in July 24th, 2012 @ 22:21Rain is no impediment to marching!
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Bibliophile
in July 24th, 2012 @ 19:40Squids can mean almost anything and can also be accidental, but they usually express sympathy. I think someone is sorry you didn’t have Internet access.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 20:04I saw that line of storms on the map over eastern North Carolina and wondered how you were faring. I suppose it’s not surprising that such a high concentration of MBers might affect the atmosphere in unusual ways.
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KaiYves
in July 24th, 2012 @ 21:20Reminds me of Henry Reed, Inc.– “With you and your mother in the same country, volcanoes are SURE to erupt!”
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 26th, 2012 @ 06:12I loved the Henry Reed books.
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*Cskia
in July 24th, 2012 @ 21:29I read that as “flammability.”
MBers having Kokons make me happy.
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Tesseract
in July 24th, 2012 @ 22:20Oh man, the power actually went out? The rain was pretty terrifying when I was driving back…
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 24th, 2012 @ 23:43It wasn’t completely out, but many of the exhibits in the new building went dark, elevators stopped working, and the WiFi was down. Fortunately, the café was still in business.
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Catwings
in July 25th, 2012 @ 00:16at least there was food
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KaiYves
in July 25th, 2012 @ 20:21I like the way you think.
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Catwings
in July 26th, 2012 @ 07:01if you acctually knew what i thought about sometimes when i am asleep you would not like it! that’s why God made our brains to ourselves!
…yeah… when im asleep
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KaiYves
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:20I don’t know if you’ve ever read the Zack Files book “Zap! I’m a Mind Reader”, but it makes the point that as fun as mind-reading sounds, there are a lot of things people think about that you REALLY don’t want to know. (The most salient example was the kid who was thinking: “Is this the eighth day I’ve worn this pair of underwear or only the seventh?”)
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Catwings
in July 26th, 2012 @ 16:21eeww
“is this the first month i have worn this wet sock? or the fourth?”
eewwusually to eew-y things all i reply is “eeww”
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 28th, 2012 @ 13:28FOOOD…
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Koppar
in July 24th, 2012 @ 20:28The Kokonvention was really, really awesome and flamablamablous and flammable. Although nothing got set on fire. Really. I promise.
We spent a lot of time standing around and talking, but we also achieved the two main goals of Kokonvening:
1. Taking silly pictures and
2. Making all the “normal” people look at you funny
Apparently it is not normal to sit in a museum cafeteria and hold a magazine in front of your face so that just your eyes are visible. Or melodramatically reach for/pretend to bloodbend members of your group as they leave.
I will post a longer summary of our antics tomorrow, but right now I am all tired (but happy) and not thinking particularly clearly.
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Prussia=Awesome is a pyromaniac
in July 25th, 2012 @ 09:57Dang! Nothing set on fire.
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Randomosity101
in July 25th, 2012 @ 10:21Are you sure nothing got set on fire? There was an awful lot of lightning…
We did all become semi-bunnified for a few moments, though. I guess that’s worse than fire.
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kiwimuncher
in July 25th, 2012 @ 16:03I could have SWORN I saw fire….
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:39FIRE!! HAHAHHA!!!
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Rainbow*Storm
in July 26th, 2012 @ 14:38BURN! BURN EVERYTHING!
i mean what
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Catwings
in July 26th, 2012 @ 16:19NO ME NOT LIKE FIRE! ME LIKE WATER AND ICE CLANS! FIRE CLAN IS EVIL!
exept in minecraft where you make a big wool sculpture and you don’t like it you can burn it
it’s fun to watch!
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 27th, 2012 @ 14:11AWW FIRE IS AWESOME!!!
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Catwings
in July 27th, 2012 @ 15:24nope
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 27th, 2012 @ 16:51FIRE IS SPLENDIFFEROUS AND I AM EVIL!!! HAHAHAHAHAA!!!
And I just made up the word “splendifferous” if you were wondering.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in July 24th, 2012 @ 21:44Looking at all this news from the Kokon, and amazingly not exploding with jealousy. But really, it’s the little moments I want to share, the ones that always seem to not make ti into my posts.
Buying a leather trench coat at a thrift store for only 30 bucks. (I think it’s a Korean knockoff of an Italian brand.)
Going to this big Art Fair in my area, and all the cool stuff I saw. And heard. The guy who sold hand-painted silk bowties and waistcoats. The lady whose stall was filled with adults playing with reproductions of kids’ toys and puzzles from another century. The guy playing a digeridoo as advertisement for his stall, which sold only digeridoos. Jewelry made from bison bones, and pine cones. Buying a pair of earrings and getting them complimented at the next stall I stopped at. At another stall, trying out a sea salt/essential oil hand wash.
Rolling grape leaves for iftar. My favorite meal ever, but since it takes a couple of hours to roll all the leaves my mom never makes it. At the end, my fingers were wrinkly and stained brown, but when we finally ate–oh, words cannot describe.
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kiwimuncher
in July 25th, 2012 @ 16:42Alrighty. So… yes I have not been on Museblog for a long time. And I confess that is because I have been an extremely busy person for the past long time.
But since it is indeed summer and I am not quite as busy as I am during the school year I do not have nearly as much of an excuse, so I apologize for neglecting the awesomeness of Museblog. So now I shall proceed with an update of very cool things. I absolutely adore NCSU!
Therefore, i’m super pumped for my second year there. Aside from my usual classes and piano lessons, this year I’ll be looking for an Animal Science lab to work in *fingers crossed* and maybe hopefully be the TA of my favorite professor of all time and space! I’m still singing in Wolfgang A Cappella as well, which is going to be REALLY awesome this year because we’re going to host So Jam, a huge a cappella convention in NC. I’m currently not thinking about how I may be pulling my hair out over everything in the future…
This summer I’ve worked a lot on getting my hours for vet school with my job at a local emergency animal hospital. As my first job, I suppose it wasn’t nearly as stressful as I thought it was going to be, and I’ve learned so much! Workin da kennels an’ da lab an’ da surgeries like a boss! Tee hee. ^_^ At the beginning of the summer I also had an internship at the Conservators’ Center, which is an exotic animal center (mostly large cats). I’m still going over there as a volunteer now, and I really love it there! And animals are simply breath taking and lovable to work with. Unfortunately I didn’t get the tour guide position I wanted. But hey, one can’t get everything right? And maybe in the future…So yeah. That’s my life in a nutshell… Not counting my crazy parents of course who recently decided that my almost 23 year old sister should STILL not have access to a car while she’s at school so she has to ride the bus and take an hour and 30 minutes every day to get to work at the vet school on a drive that would normally take her 5 min by car. (Oh yes! My sister is a grad student at NCSU this year! YAY!) Why do you ask can she not have a car? 1) My parents don’t want me to continue to work. So I already informed my boss I couldn’t work during the school year aside from holidays. What’s their next excuse? 2) They don’t want me to be able to access the car at all because I may decide to drive off campus to hang out with friends. OK. Well my sister vows to not let me touch the car and I agree. What’s their next excuse? THEY HAVE NONE! So the real answer is that they want to control my sister. Period. But like I said before, my sister is almost 23 years old!!! Are they going to try to do the same thing to me?! The answer is absolutely yes and I shall murder them!
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Dodecahedron
in July 25th, 2012 @ 17:28Day three. Our app is now an app that gives you short tasks to accomplish when you have only a little free time. You can input tasks with a length of time of the task, and hopefully sometime we can set up a sample database with short tasks that you don’t have to input. We’ve started programming, which is tedious when I’m waiting for others’ code in order to keep working on mine (like now). It’s my first time working with a git repository, and I’ve learned a lot about it. I’m having a great time and learning about everything, but it’s a lot of work too — we only have one more day to program before our final presentations, and the time change is getting to me — I’m asleep by 10pm each night.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 25th, 2012 @ 17:37Nice going, Dodecahedron! “Moderate MuseBlog” is my usual brief task of choice, but it probably isn’t generally applicable.
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Agent Lightning
in July 25th, 2012 @ 19:30if the code’s still compiling you could have a swordfight
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Castle
in July 25th, 2012 @ 23:14“And what do you think YOU’RE doing!?”
“Code’s compiling!”
“Ah. As you were.”
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Randomosity101
in July 26th, 2012 @ 09:11My father has that t-shirt.
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Dodecahedron
in July 27th, 2012 @ 00:36Java code runs in a virtual machine layered over the actual machine. (side note: Android has its own virtual machine, different from the JVM (Java virtual machine). The Android one is optimized for embedded systems, I believe, and is called Dalvik.)
This means that unlike a lower-level language, such as C, where your code must be compiled into something your computer can understand on a basic level (which varies for different kinds of systems — x86, x86_64, ppc, arm, etc.), your code must be compiled only into bytecode that the virtual machine can read and not all the way into machine language. This is pretty fast — I would barely have time to unsheath my sword before I was done compiling, especially since our app isn’t very large./more information than you needed
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Bibliophile
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:20…Git repository? I’m guessing that means something else in context? Because I’m picturing Filch…
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Dodecahedron
in July 27th, 2012 @ 00:26Git is a version control system. A version control system allows you to upload your code to a server in a repository, where you and other project members can download, edit, and upload changes to the code. It also allows you to go back to previous uploaded versions of the code if a recent update breaks something. It’s good for when you want to work on a project with multiple people. It has a bit of a learning curve, though.
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in July 25th, 2012 @ 18:42Um… So I decided ages ago to study Spanish and test out of Spanish 2, but I didn’t talk to a counselor about it. Apparently, I was supposed to. I’ve already studied, and I cannot bear the thought of taking a class where I already know so much (I’ve gone through enough of that, thanks), and I have to take a Spanish class next year, so we’re contacting the district trying to find any way we can to allow me to take the test. And it turns out the best time is tomorrow. In the early morning. Let me clarify: They told us so today. Around 5:30 this evening.
I thought I’d have a bit more time to study than that.
This is just the exam for the first semester. We’ll have to see about the other semester, if I even decide to bother with it. But I’m kind of panicking. If I don’t take it tomorrow, there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to take it at all. But I’m not ready! I’ve been studying for an hour, and I don’t know that I can prepare myself with just today.
They have ridiculously unfair standards for credit by exams. You only have to get a 70 to pass a class, but you have to get at least a 90 to pass a credit by exam. As I am, I think it’s quite plausible that I might get a B. That would be just as bad as getting a zero–worse, because at least if I got a zero, I’d know I really did need the class. It’s just not consistent to have such higher expectations for credit by exam! I’m sure some of the people who’ve taken the class wouldn’t pass it! Either require everyone to get an A to pass or no-one.
I’m just terrified of having to learn all this over again when I know I don’t need to. I’d be studying now if the document I need wasn’t loading. I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t pass this, but if I don’t take it tomorrow, I might not ever get to take it. I still haven’t decided whether I’m going to take it tomorrow or hope for a later opportunity; it depends how much I can cram at the last minute. I just… I’ve never had this feeling before. I have never had to worry about tests; I’ve very rarely had to even study. And now the anxiety is here all at once, and I have no idea how to deal with it because I’ve never experienced anything like it before.
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Bibliophile
in July 26th, 2012 @ 08:01…And, a few minutes before it’s time to leave, I find out we need a recording device and something to record on. HAHA OOPS
I hope I didn’t study for 5 hours last night for nothing.
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Bibliophile
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:22Never mind; they had them for me.
I’m not sure I got an A because I didn’t finish on time. I’m pretty sure it’ll take ages for me to learn my score, so I think I’m going to take it again just in case.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:51At least you got through the experience. I hope it will all work out for you.
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Agent Lightning
in July 26th, 2012 @ 15:38Same here. *gives support squids to Bibliophile* At the very least, if you have to retake the class, perhaps you could try to take an extra-challenging class that semester so the time you spend not studying for Spanish 2 won’t be wasted?… I’m not sure if you can do that, though– at my high school, you choose your courses and then they throw darts at your schedule.
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Bibliophile
in July 26th, 2012 @ 18:33Thanks, but the unfortunate thing about my school is that you don’t really get electives in freshman year (not counting Friday, when you volunteer instead of learn, and they try to give you your first choice for where you do it, so you at least ‘elect’ your location). That’s made up for by various other aspects of the school, though, such as the fact that the electives you do eventually take give you many more options than most high schools–options like Environmental Biology and Wildlife Conservation and Management–and they’re for college credit. That’s why I studied to begin with–if I skipped Spanish 2, I’d have 2 semesters of extra electives next year.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to take the test again before school starts, and hopefully, they’ll use the highest score I receive (I’m not 100% certain), so that I won’t have to take the class. It’s possible something could go wrong, though.
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KaiYves
in July 26th, 2012 @ 15:52What she said.
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in July 25th, 2012 @ 20:24So my Dad was in town last night and today, and we ate dinner at this really flammy restaurant by Union Station, and then I got to see inside the hotel where he was staying, which was cool, and today we went to the Botanic Gardens and it was so much fun…
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:41Sounds flammy!
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KaiYves
in July 26th, 2012 @ 15:50It really was, I hadn’t seen him in months. I recommend visiting the Botanic Gardens to anyone who’s in DC, especially if they’re visiting the Capitol and don’t have much time to do anything else.
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 01:35By the time you read this, I’ll probably be getting my wisdom teeth out!
Wish me luck? I’m pretty nervous. I’ve had oral surgery before but it was only to put a chain through my gums (loooong story). Also, suggestions on what to eat from the experienced? Mom’s bought Jell-O and applesauce, as per tradition, and we’ve heard good things about ramen. I’ve also heard absolutely no carbonated drinks, or sipping things through a straw. And I’ve heard no rice, as it can get stuck in the holes. (Ew!)
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KaiYves
in July 26th, 2012 @ 05:39Stellini pasta, with (very finely chopped) meat sauce.
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Choklit Orange
in July 26th, 2012 @ 08:00Good luck, Cat!
First off, the chain thing sounds horrendously painful, and secondly, I haven’t had my wisdom teeth out, but I’ve had somewhat similar dental surgery, and I recommend pho soup or something else with soft rice noodles (but without bits of meat or anything spicy or irritating in the broth).
Milk toast (toast with cinnamon and sugar, soaked in warm milk) worked for me, and so did soft tofu, which is really good breaded. And mashed potatoes, and chocolate pudding.
Oh yeah, and hummus. Hummus is your friend.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:46I had to have a tooth pulled when I just got braces, so I could only eat soup and milkshakes and the like for a day or two. Smooth peanut butter is good, but avoid chunky ( which is sadly better than smooth).
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kiwimuncher
in July 26th, 2012 @ 08:41Pudding!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:07Milkshakes are my standard source of nourishment (and comfort) after major dental work.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 26th, 2012 @ 13:57Get out the blender and experiment.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 26th, 2012 @ 19:47That just reminded me of some “blender burger” thing. Eew.
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Catwings77
in July 26th, 2012 @ 16:39sorry just wondering if it was possible if i could have numbers in my name
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Agent Hippie 13
in July 26th, 2012 @ 17:49Of course you can!
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Catwings77
in July 26th, 2012 @ 20:57AWSOME! 7 is my lucky number and whenever i feel good about myself on museblog i just automatically type the number 7 in my name i don’t know why but i do and i keep having to remind myself to erase the numbers! i was just wondering if i could use numbers because i hate to have to remind myself so…
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42 Castle Avenue
in July 26th, 2012 @ 20:47It’s one of the surprisingly few things Museblog CAN’T do.
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Catwings77
in July 26th, 2012 @ 20:59you can’t not watch things!
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Bibliophile
in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:57<strikeWell, you can try to type with your eyes closed, but it may not work… *opens eyes* This time it did, though.
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Bibliophile
in July 27th, 2012 @ 10:58Oops–the strikeout didn’t work.
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42 Castle Avenue
in July 27th, 2012 @ 11:07That was supposed to be massive sarcastic contradiction.
The “Museblog can’t do it” combined with the number in my name.
Perhaps the sarcasm was too sarcastic.
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Robert Coontz (#1 Administrator)
in July 26th, 2012 @ 20:58You mean like Randomosity 101, Kokopelli52, bluefire27, and speller73?
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Catwings77
in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:03oh i forgot about Randomosity101! sorry… i guess your gravitar that somehow reminds me of grape jelly doen’t come to mind
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Catwings77
in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:04no offense
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 08:03Grape jelly? Hehehe.
I guess it’s the purple Gengar reminds you of that? I’ve never made that association myself. It’s pretty funny, I think. Now I can justify having a color I hate on my gravatar, aside from the fact that Gengar is my favorite pokemon.
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 27th, 2012 @ 16:56When I see your gravatar, I think of a piano for a weird reason.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 16:57SFTDP. I meant Catwings .
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 10:35What am I, a next-door neighbor?
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 10:39Phoo, you know you’ll always be Rosebud1 in my book.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 11:17Where’s the first Rosebud?
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 17:55Charles Foster Kane has it.
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 17:39That was a flammy Kokon!
I’ve been SO busy with marching band and my shoulders are so sore from that marching baritone. I keep myself going by thinking of the tuba section. Our section leader told us that some piccolo players complain about the weight of their instruments, which weigh less than our mouthpieces… ah, perspective…
And this was just freshman camp! REAL band camp is next week!
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 20:59Annd there are four teeth missing from my jaw!
Apart from an unpleasant Jell-O experience (apparently reading after surgery makes me nauseous, who knew) it’s been all right. We’ve acquired chicken noodle soup and ramen and clam chowder and I am pleased, since my body seems to be craving salty/umami-type tastes right now. My high pain tolerance is also kicking into action again, hooray!
It’s a movie marathon right now at my house; I’ve watched The Incredibles and Dr. Strangelove (which is hands down my third favorite movie of all time) and tomorrow plan to see if Mom will stand my watching Return of the King for the approximately ninth time, or if I can wheedle one of the parents into renting Fight Club and/or The Princess Bride (which are hands down my first and second favorite movies of all time).
The inside of my left ear is numb. Is this bad?
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:10i am glad the time at dentist chair went well! i hope it didn’t hurt too much.
i don’t think your ear being numb is bad. maybe a little bit of the stuff they gave you to numb it dripped into your ear or something.
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:24Just as long as you’re getting the feeling back in your tongue, it’s okay. I remember how my brain freaked out and thought I was choking on my tongue because I couldn’t feel it.
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 22:00Once, the entire right side of my face (including my ear) was numb from a dental procedure because we didn’t realize until too late that the pain I felt (from my mouth being stretched so much) was something the numbing didn’t help with. It was an interesting experience, especially smiling (with only half my face) and chewing (again, with only half my face).
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 11:22My whole mouth was numb for a hour or so afterward.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 09:23Glad it’s been going well. Dental procedures are a great excuse to rewatch all your favorite movies. *gives squids for a quick recovery*
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:25I haven’t added a tag to my name in a while, but the upcoming Curiosity launch demands it. Ten days to go!
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 16:29Landing, that is, not launch. Sometimes I type too fast for my own good.
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 21:32The Kokon was awesome, and I am not going to do a summary post because I know I will forget things so I will wait until photos are up. But everyone was lovely and it was wonderful.
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in July 26th, 2012 @ 22:37PIGGY PIGGY PIGGY! I REQUIRE/WANT/NEED YOUR MULTI-LINGUAL ABILITIES. (or as my close friend Cskia told me, you are some sort of language professor thingy. Sorry I couldn’t remember that well. I have a weak memory.)
Anyways, I really really badly want to learn Japanese and I don’t know where to start. I’M SO CONFUSED, SAVE ME FROM THIS MESS. I NEED A HERO.
P.s could you also point out some mobile way I can learn it too? (meaning something I can download onto my phone and use on the go.)
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 00:13Uh, I don’t really have a specific method. I’m using the book Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig to learn 2200 kanji, but other than that I’m winging it. Look up the website “All Japanese All The Time” to get a basic idea of how I’m doing things. Basically it’s just “listen to and read a bunch of Japanese and eventually you’ll know what’s going on”, though there is a bit more to it than that. I’ve seen other people recommend Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese if you want a more structured sort of thing. The Genki series of textbooks are pretty well liked too, though you’d have to pay for those.
ãŒã‚“ã°ã£ã¦ã‚ˆï¼ Don’t let it intimidate you. It’s just a system that associates sounds with meanings; it is not mysterious or impossible, as many people make the mistake of believing. Three-year-olds have no problem with it, and I think you’re rather more clever than most three-year-olds.
There are some other folks here much further along in their study of Japanese than I am; they might be more helpful with nitty-gritty stuff. Like I said, I’m playing it by ear here.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 10:29Also, just for future reference, he isn’t a professor. He’s studying Classical Languages in college and learning Japanese on the side, but he isn’t teaching it. He doesn’t have a degree yet, actually. I expect he’s very good at languages, though.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 12:48Ah, thank you, I should’ve cleared that up as well. I’m also majoring in Spanish, because one can never know too many languages.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 11:25Watch subtitled anime. It DOES help, belive it or not. I’ve picked up a little Japanese this way. Pick something you like and start watching.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 02:42ALERGIES SUCK!
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 10:29*empathy squids* I’ve been there–so many times.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 15:09thank you.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 15:31i can’t breath out of my nose and i can’t swallow because it all goes up into my nose and i can’t see out of one eye it is watering so much!
and people laugh when i talk because my dose iz pluggt.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 15:38WOOO! i forgot to tell you guys about this but i am going to VBS (Vacation Bible School) and and there we have teams, there is the:
• Bears (ages 2-4)
• Huskies (ages 5-7)
• Eagles (ages 8-9)
• Bobcats (ages 10+)IM IN DA BOBCATZ!
we had a competition againsed the huskies and DA BOBCATZ won!every day we play a cool volleyball game! (love volleyball) and it is cool!
i am having an awesome summer!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 09:20Oh cool, I usually work a VBS each summer! You must use a different theme/company than us because this year the theme was “Sky” but I remember being young enough to participate in VBS and really liking it.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:51I’m tech crew at my church’s VBS! We did Operation Overboard this year. What was your theme? Probably something to do with animals?
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 19:20Lovely picture, Lady Bunniful!
Ah, it’s good to be home. Though Quebec was amazing. The architecture was beautiful and I think I really improved my French. I like cities a lot, particularly old ones.
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 19:21Sorry, wrong email…
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 21:26woah i was like, cool did Mika change his picture? but no… no new picture
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 21:26WOAH!!! MY NAME IS SO JUNKED!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 10:24*her
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 23:07i wondered about that for a moment…
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 14:56It’s like you got a new picture thingy. Maybe someone has a similar email.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:14Or maybe she has more than one email address and has avatars for both.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:19Actually, some people have multiple gravatar accounts with different emails for different accounts. If you change your email to one on a different Gravatar account, your picture changes.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:44Once I was posting quickly from a library computer, and put in a random email instead of my real one. Turned out that person has a gravatar of some guy grinning in a slightly manic way.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 17:16This is probably a good time to remind MBers that you can use the e-mail address “anonymous(at)museblog.com” for anonymous posts.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 14:19I think it worked…
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 09:25SFTDP, it didn’t.
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 13:08SFTTP, it now worked. Awesome!
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in July 27th, 2012 @ 22:31Hi! I’m in Colorado! Did I mention I was going on vacation? Well I did/still am
I don’t have much to say
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I hiked up a mountain. The sibling and I made it to the summit, but we had to leave the parents around treeline. My family = not the best suited for hiking at altitude–dad’s only got one lung, I have crap knees, and the sister has shin splits.
But she and I made it to the top, which was cool. 14,433 ft, starting elevation around 9,000.
But I had to walk down most of it backwards because my knees hurt too badly
Now we’re in a hotel, watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. But WHERE IS THE DOCTOR?
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 00:17cool! sounds fun!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 01:41Indeed! Especially now that I’ve had a long soak in a pool fed by natural hot springs and a day to recover, haha.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 09:18THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT TOO
Oh well at least they had Matt Smith carry the torch for part of the way.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 10:20It’s a couple hours away from the mountain you climbed and I don’t know where you guys are going, but if you’re near/going through Idaho Springs, go to Tommyknocker Brewery. That’s the fabled site of the best food I have ever eaten in my life. It was a daily special, so they probably wouldn’t have it again (an open-faced buffalo burger with red chili on top), but the other food (and root beer (and regular beer, I presume)) is great too.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 17:24“And carrying in the Olympic torch tonight, David -” *HEART ATTACK* “Beckham, soccer player.”
Not gonna lie, it was a little heartbreaking when they didn’t mention Doctor Who at all. “Hey Jude” and the steampunk-ish Industrial Revolution thing were very cool, though. And J. K. Rowling!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 18:04Something like that happened to me once…
*Sees book partly sticking out of desk*
“By Carl Sa-”
*Removes book*
“-fina.”
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 23:15something that happened to ME once:
i ate a piece of cheese for lunch!
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 08:13Only once in your whole life?
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 12:14yes… then i found out i was allergic to cheese
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 17:07So am I. Actually, I’m not sure if I’ve ever eaten cheese before.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 17:34At all, or just by itself, as in not on/with some other food?
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 19:46At all. I was tested for dairy allergies very early because my brother was allergic to dairy, so I was saved the experience of trial and error, although we’ve certainly made a few horrible mistakes in my life related to not reading ingredients labels carefully enough.
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 09:26Cheese is really good.
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 07:530_o How can you survive?!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 19:09Allegedly there was the TARDIS noise, however. But yeah, I expected a few of the DW villains in the nightmare section at least! Alas.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 19:52I heard the TARDIS sound in the transition between decades during the last section before the parade of nations. The nightmare section was children’s literature, so that wouldn’t have been the right spot.
Of course, there may have been additional touches that didn’t appear on the telly. After all, NBC cut an entire segment of the show.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 21:10That’s true. And there’s always the closing ceremony!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 18:27Wow, congrats on making it to the top!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 10:26This morning my cousin taught me how to drive clutch. Oof. His car is pretty forgiving, but it was pretty rough regardless. But apparently I was doing a lot better than his sisters did when he was teaching them. Expertise is still an immense distance away, but at least now I could do it in a pinch. It’s a good skill to know, I suppose–though I’m glad I first learned to drive on an automatic. Trying to learn everything at once would be awful.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:01I love having milkweed in my yard. There are always so many aphids and a ladybug or 2 and several snout beetles (for Randomosity’s benefit I will add that while I really am not sure whether they are weevils or not, they’re certainly cute enough), and it’s near some plants that attract green anoles and various kinds of wasps–and today, there’s a monarch caterpillar! I’m very excited; I’ve never seen one there before. I didn’t even notice the eggs; some of the aphids are so small that it’s hard to tell what’s what. I showed it to my mother; she’s happy, too. I have 2 books with instructions on rearing caterpillars, one of which talks specifically about monarchs; I think I’m going to keep this caterpillar until it’s a butterfly–and then I’ll have it tagged and let it go. Of course, I suppose there’s a chance it won’t survive that long, but it has plenty of food, and it’s not as if it has many predators.
I really need to look at the milkweed more often; it’s wonderful what one finds there.
I should check our citrus for caterpillars, too; I often see giant swallowtails around it, and their larvae are fascinating. I saw them at a nature sanctuary once, and it was delightful.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:13And just now, I saw a skink elsewhere in the yard, so closely that I might be able to figure out what kind it is! I’ve known for ages there are some in the yard, but they’re really secretive; I rarely get to see them for long.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:14I raise butterflies, and our neighbors are happy to let us “borrow” some. I also like to stare at whatever is on the leaves. I am considering Killer as a monarch name. Good or bad?
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:58Ah, milkweed. At the elementary school I went to, all the 1st graders raise milkweed beetles, which are one and a half times as long as ladybugs, narrow, patterened red-orange and black, and poisonous due to their diet – just like monarch butterflies. Speaking of which, you should definitely raise the monarch caterpillar you found! Catterpillars of any species are shockingly easy to raise; all you really need is housing for it and plenty of food, and it sounds like you have all the milkweed you need. You’re right that monarchs really don’t have to worry about predators, but keep in mind that they tend to migrate huge distances and their lifespan of just a few years means that they sometimes don’t quite make it all the way back. I’ve never heard of tagging a butterfly before. Could you please explain how you would do that?
I’ve never actually seen a patch of wild milkweed before. I must find one sometime, it sounds amazing to see what lives there!
Citrus does tend to attract butterflies of various species, and giant swallowtails happen to be one of my favorite kinds. Tell us if you find any larvae, OK?
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 23:06I have a book that suggests putting milkweed stalks in a container of water, putting that container into a container suitable like an aquarium with gauze over the top, and putting the caterpillars in there–provided you cover the water so that they don’t climb in and drown. That way, you don’t have to keep refreshing the milkweed, and you also don’t have to move all the caterpillars if you can get the stalks you found them on. They’re tiny at the moment (about 2 centimeters long, each), so I only took the stalk with 2 of them on it and moved the other caterpillar. Moving it seemed to cause stress, even if it was only for a moment, which I didn’t notice when it was the stalk I was moving, so I think it was a good idea.
What I meant by whether it would survive “that long” was long enough to become butterflies; sorry if that was unclear. The tagging isn’t primarily so that I’ll recognize them if they come back, although that’d be nice; it’s for science. There’s an organization called Monarch Watch that provides tags and information on how to apply them; each tag has an individual number on it and also contact information, so that anyone who finds the butterfly can let them know where it is and when, and whether or not it’s alive. They put that information online, too, so if the person who tagged the butterfly is interested (and I will be), they can read it, too. I haven’t looked into the exact process of putting a tag on a butterfly, but I’m sure you can find it on the Monarch Watch website.
I don’t know whether the milkweed I’m referring to should be considered “wild”; it was put in my yard on purpose, after all, and it is cared for. Pesticides aren’t used in my yard, though, so there are plenty of insects to see. It really is amazing! The caterpillars actually barely have room to walk because of all the aphids; occasionally, aphids get attached to their feet, and the caterpillars have to shake them off. I haven’t watched the snout beetles as much, but the same may be true for them.
I’ll definitely tell you if I see any larvae on the citrus.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 17:37So the milkweed-in-water thing… isn’t working, to say the least. No caterpillars have drowned, although I’m worried because I’ve only found 2 of them so far today (I really don’t think it can have pupated yet), but the aphids… I thought I covered it, but I was only thinking of the caterpillars. I didn’t realize how tiny the aphids are; they can find room to slip through anything.
I thought masking tape would work, so I took out the milkweed, uncovered the water, and decided to remove all the dead aphids so that if any more appeared, I’d know something else had gone wrong. However, the water had attracted lots of mosquitoes, and it was really, really difficult to remove every single one while keeping them off me in the hot weather. (I’d just let them have my blood, but I’m afraid of getting a disease, so I have to try to scare them away). It took a while, and by the time I was done, I realized how many aphids there were at the bottom of the stem. If I put it in the water, they’re drown, too.
I would have brushed them off, but they are tiny. Many of them are actually smaller than grains of sand. I really didn’t feel like I could be sure that I wouldn’t injure any if I tried to brush them off, and I absolutely didn’t have time to convince every single one to crawl off, because I really can’t convey how many there were.
So I’m going to just keep giving the caterpillars leaves instead of trying to keep that milkweed stalk alive, but I just feel awful. I really don’t know how many aphids died. And afterward, I asked my mom for advice, and she just really wasn’t in the mood, and it just added to my stress.
Anyway, I guess I wouldn’t recommend that method to anyone who cares about aphids–which probably doesn’t include many people. I just wish one of my books would have mentioned somewhere that this might happen.
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 09:04Oh man, I’m sorry to hear that. Yeah, aphids can be smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. You’re supposed to be able to get them off the plant safely by spraying the stalk with water, but you would need to make sure that no caterpillars were on it first. Don’t feel too bad about what happened.You didn’t know, so there was no way you could have prevented it.
In the realm of accidental insect mistreatment, I horribly commited one of the oldest crimes in the book yesterday. I stepped on an anthill. I was walking my dog, not paying attention, when I stepped on somthing soft. I turned and saw my footprint swarming with black ants on half of a mound of dirt about two inches tall and a foot and a half in diameter. I felt absolutely awfull.
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 18:48When I got up this morning, I had no time to check on any of the insects, so I was going to do it when I got home. As it turned out, my mom did it in my absence. This was very nice of her, and I’m grateful, because apparently, they really needed new leaves. The trouble is, I’ll be at camp, and I can’t replace them. So she put the covered water back. She would never kill aphids on purpose, which is a lot more than can be said of most gardeners, but she really doesn’t understand my concern for them.
I did realize she’s right in that I can’t keep refreshing the leaves when I’m off at camp, and it isn’t really fair to expect her to do it. Furthermore, she doesn’t want me to have to keep tearing leaves off her plant, which is understandable. But I really don’t want to stop the project. I think I’m going to try reinforcing the covering with a rubber band, but they could still get int through the holes with the plants… I wish they could understand that it’s dangerous to climb into water like that, but I can’t expect that, of course.
I’m a bit concerned about one of the caterpillars. It’s the smallest, and the way it moves… It always looks like it’s struggling not to flip over. It spent some time on the ground; I’m worried it might have gotten too much soil in its legs or something, but I don’t know. I’ve read about the diseases they get, and it doesn’t look like one of those. Maybe it’ll be fine; I really have no idea.
I’m sorry about what happened; I know what that’s like. I watch my step really carefully (read: stare at the floor wherever I go, even inside, in the hopes of finding an interesting creature), so it’s only happened to me once in the past few years, but that was just a month or so ago, so I remember it well. I was picking up trash at a nature sanctuary, and I was so focused on what I was picking up that I didn’t watch my step. It… certainly put a damper on my mood, although what happened afterward was so awesome that I couldn’t help but be uplifted.*
*The trash pickup was for a nature club I’d never been involved with before, and afterward, there was a walk. Most members of the club were seniors; I think my mom may have been the youngest there besides me–but everyone was really friendly and welcoming and knowledgeable and taught me so much (there was someone there who recognized every single lepidopteran we saw, not to mention the birds), and we saw so many amazing things, including three giant swallowtail caterpillars and a velvet ant. They aren’t doing anything else this summer, but I definitely plan to attend their events during the school year.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 14:04You would need a very tiny CritterCam.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 16:23I found two more monarch caterpillars! I’m delighted! They’re having some trouble walking around, though; there isn’t much room with all the aphids.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 18:07That is so flammy! You should keep them all like you were talking about.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 11:51Oooh, I have a lot of milkweed in my yard. Monarch caterpillars are some of the most adorable creatures ever.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 17:51Do you have 10 or more plants? Because depending on several other things in your yard (like how many nectar sources you have, whether your family uses insecticides, etc.), it might be eligible for certification as monarch habitat. Monarch Watch does it, if you’re interested; you can find the requirements if you search for the organization’s website. My yard isn’t eligible right now because we don’t have enough milkweed yet, but I’m hoping it might eventually get there.
On another positive note, I signed up as a volunteer for the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project! It’s a citizen science thing that’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. I’m very excited about it.
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 19:25Oh, interesting! We’ve definitely got more than ten plants on our property. There’s probably about 50 in our yard. (I have a big yard.) I’ll check that out; thanks!
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 15:57Theatre camp. Yeah. Long post ahead, beware.
So I’m not new to this company, I’ve been in their adult and Young Company camps for the past two years. Young Company generally puts on the same play as mainstage (the YC leads get to play extras in the adult production), except instead of having a several-month rehearsal process we have a one-week intensive sometime in July with a couple meetings over the months beforehand.
Except the company is in deep financial crisis this year (they are really not the best run), so our producer decided that this year Young Company is going to be a two-week camp which everyone who auditions gets into, putting on two hour-long productions of Twelfth Night. Because this sounds like just the thing to save our reputation, clearly.
Also, we’re an outdoor company which is currently without even a stage because the venue we perform at decided that they didn’t like our beautiful new stage from last year. Yup. We’re performing on the grass. Very professional.So we’ve got two directors, two casts, etc. A bunch of my friends auditioned this year (Electros, Camilla, Electros’ sister Nevada, and Lemonade, who is about four feet tall and has white-blond dreds and that is more or less all you need to know about him), and we’re about half-and-half between the two casts — I’m Sebastian. We got our scripts five days before camp starts, and this is sort of the first signal that this is going to be a little weird.
See, the other cast, the one Camilla and Electros (they’re Viola and Sebastian respectively) are in, actually has a decently nice director. They’re a lot more ensemble-focused and their cut of the play is more story-driven than anything (though they have so many talented people — Malvolio, oh yes, and Maria and Feste, of whom there are two, and Malvolio, and Malvolio). I mean, it’s not like we’re putting on real productions here, not like we have in previous years. But at least it looks like they’re getting to have fun.
Nooooot so much so in my cast. Our director’s partner was in a car crash maybe a month or two before camp started, and I’m not sure whether that’s her problem or what, but she is one snip of a snippety-snip. She doesn’t understand Shakespearean and she gets supermad when anyone in the cast who does tries to explain a line to her, she will not listen to anyone’s ideas about their character whatsoever, she cut our script with complete disregard to what aspects of the characters our actors actually wanted to play up (and she cut it after our first readthrough, so she has no excuse there). She and I actually got into a bit of a shouting match on Monday, though we pretty much made up on Tuesday, but she is still incredibly snippy and demeaning to everyone, even the people who aren’t in her cast. It really is painful.So we opened last night in a complete panic (our cast, anyway) after what was probably the worst dress rehearsal in the history of theatre. Our director hardly helped, since her idea of a preshow pep talk (at the point where half the cast was having a nervous breakdown already) was to give us notes in her usual fashion and end by saying “And remember, this is no great piece of work in itself, so pick up the pace or the audience will stop caring.” I wish I were exaggerating.
But our show was great. Our audience was gigantic and they loved it and nobody screwed up or cut their leg off (unlike the dress rehearsal). It’s sort of hard to believe that our intensive days together as a cast are actually over. I’m starting to miss everyone already in spite of myself.I think I’ll probably post more about the individual cast members later? I don’t want to intimidate everyone with enormous walls of text.
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in July 28th, 2012 @ 19:35Hi everyone! Reporting in after wreacking havoc on the east coast. The relatives are actually fairly nice and I actually set foot on a college campus, Brown.
Things I’ve been up to:
-Visited college, more or less (I sort of realized that I had no map of Providence when I ended up in Providence, alone, sans map. But, Occams Razor, Brown College is somewhere between College Street and Brown Street. It took me about half an hour to find the college, but only 2 minutes to find the Irish pub. That’s Irish genes for you)-Got a VERA WANG ball gown for 30$. I know MB isn’t that much of a fashion place, but Vera Wang.
-Didn’t kill any relatives
-Lost dog (multiple times)
-Found (the same) dog (multiple times)
-Ate enough to feed anyone else for a year
-Envisioned the Grand Ultimate Supreme, the mother of all frozen yoghurt sundaes and secured the funding
-(and a bunch of other things, but I really need to run. My mom’s going to turn me loose in a parking lot and teach me to drive sometime soon, so every meal might well be me last and I shall eat accordingly.)
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 07:21So I’m back from camp. It was okay, I suppose. I wrote some poems and a fairytale and a short story. Did anything happen while I was Internet-less for two weeks?
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 29th, 2012 @ 14:08I got bored.
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Choklit Orange
in July 29th, 2012 @ 09:28Today I:
– Went back to Singapore UU. I was actually rather disappointed; it seems like it’s changed from sixteen people sitting on the floor singing and chatting, to one of the more talkative guys giving an hourlong ramble about Things He Found Meaningful While Reading Walden and proceeding to bash atheism. (Usually, someone reads a sermon by an actual minister or imam or rabbi in the US and then we all
loudly arguecivilly discuss it.) Also, everyone there now is, like, a birthright Unitarian, which makes me feel sort of awkward.– Saw Jiro Dreams of Sushi, which is a documentary film about a sushi chef in Tokyo and oh my lord it is filled with all these amazing shots of sushi. You could almost taste it.
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Was talked attalked to a very vocal anarchist for several hours; he appears to have opinions on everything from Israeli politics to Singapore’s agricultural ministry (which is basically two hydroponic farms and some goats). So, it was hard to get a word in edgewise, but I managed not to explode into a flaming ball of socialism, and other than a tendency to preface everything he says with, “Noam Chomsky believes…”, he seems a very charming guy.– Broke Ramadan fast with my friend’s family- I’m not fasting, but her mother keeps inviting me over because she thinks everyone is underfed. So. Much. Food.
– Watched preparations for National Day (Singapore’s independence day). It’s on August 9th, but they set of fireworks and hold parades several weeks in advance to annoy Malaysia.
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Mikazuki
in July 29th, 2012 @ 10:58Jiro Dreams of Sushi! I saw that movie about a month ago; it was absolutely amazing. I thought the camerawork was superb; it kind of echoed Jiro’s philosophy. Also, the sushi looked very yummy.
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Mikazuki
in July 29th, 2012 @ 11:48Last night I went to an Ingrid Michaelson concert! It was really incredible. A lot louder than I thought it would be, but that just made it better. Ingrid Michaelson’s voice is really strong, and even more so in person. I had an excellent spot on the floor, so I could see her really well the entire concert, and it was just good, okay? I’m kind of drenched in fangirl glee at the moment, mainly because I have an autographed poster now. It was just a fabulous concert, in general.
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Castle
in July 29th, 2012 @ 12:13So I decided to channel my inner Jadestone.
I’ve started watching season 1 of Pokemon. I remember this well. The first episode premiered a month or so before I was born, so by the time I was old enough to watch it (5 or so) there were several seasons for me to catch up with.
Brock has still not been met yet. I’m on episode 5. I forgot how much I love this show.
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Catwings
in July 29th, 2012 @ 12:30oh boy!
today we have a thing a my chirch where i have to get up on stage with about 26 other kids. and i have to dance and sing and do a speech (they had to pick ME for the speech!) i am getting so nervous. and i am Irish!wish me luck of the Irish
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Prussia=Awesome
in July 29th, 2012 @ 14:10My friend does Irish dance. The same friend that’s taking me to visit her grandparents today. In one hour
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Cawings
in July 30th, 2012 @ 21:42Prussia=… your gravitar! has been MUTILATED!
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 20:31Wat does it look like now?
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KaiYves- Curiosity Will Lead The Way!
in July 29th, 2012 @ 14:30Good luck!
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Catwings- did very well in her preformance today!
in July 29th, 2012 @ 20:15WOOT! it all went well! i was told by the minister i was very good! and i won a trophy! just for doing the speech! the other kids just got a certificate. i am really happy! and when we left we stopped at a store and my dad bought me a new toy to play with. good day so far!
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Cat's Meow
in July 29th, 2012 @ 22:11I am back from Satori, the Museblog-like camp that I attend each year! I had a fantastic, incredible, wonderful week, and once again, I think I have returned a better person just from spending a week with such amazing, intelligent, thoughtful people. (I told one of my friends about you guys! Of course, I described MuseBlog as “a Satori-like online community” – the descriptor works both ways.)
I’ve caught up on the 3 Big Threads – Random, Romance, and Rants – and I am very happy to be back talking to you all again. I hope things have been going as well here as they have been for me! I envy all of the Kokonveners, of course.
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Bibliophile
in July 29th, 2012 @ 22:21My high school has a mandatory, week-long camp for freshmen that starts tomorrow. It takes up most of each day, and I didn’t do all my homework in advance, so I might not be on as much, although I’m sure I’ll have some interesting things to tell you, like where I’m going to volunteer every Friday. (My school does ‘service’ instead of regular classes on Fridays, which is pretty awesome. They try to give you your first choice organization to work with, but there are no guarantees, especially for freshmen. I turned in my application form several months early, though; that should help. Also, we go home early on Fridays; we don’t volunteer as long as we’d normally be at school).
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Bibliophile
in July 30th, 2012 @ 19:11Well, the first day went much better than expected. I mean, for one thing, I made a friend. Seriously, an actual friend. On the first day. What.
(See, that’s really unheard-of for me. I often don’t know what to do in social situations, but I went to a counselor a couple of years ago, and she taught me how to start conversations, and I guess I’ve practiced enough now that I’m not afraid to do it with people I don’t know–but before, I’d have considered myself lucky if I made a friend before the year was halfway over. But they did so many get-to-know-you activities that I actually eventually found an activity I’m really interested in that someone else likes as well (birding), and since I’d never met anyone in my group*, I figured she’d be as good a person to talk to as any–and it worked! She didn’t know anyone, either; that may have helped. But she was shy, so I had to keep thinking of new topics to introduce, and it was hard, but it paid off)!
Anyway, the teachers seem awesome. The English teacher was wrong about what semicolons are for, but she looked it up, and I was relieved to discover that I’d been right all along. Also, she didn’t seem to think I was being rude, so that’s good. I’ve heard she has students say, “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul,” whenever they don’t turn in homework on time; I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s the second-best hypothetical punishment ever (the best being having someone sacrifice ens firstborn on a bed of moss, of course). Also, doing school assignments has made me realize that the Internet is making me forget to indent paragraphs, which I can’t allow, so I’m going to indent from now on.
A science teacher loves insects and has done independent research in biology in the past. That’s a good sign. I hope she teaches biology next year so that I’ll have her; she hasn’t yet been told whether she’ll teach biology or chemistry.
I also met a Spanish teacher who is awesome and quirky. I don’t know if she’ll be my teacher, either, because I don’t know what level of Spanish I’m taking, but I’d love to have her. She’s also vegan, which is interesting.
I met 2 other teachers as well, but one didn’t make a big impression on me, and the other is definitely not going to teach me next year. Anyway, I’m optimistic.
The one unfortunate thing is that because so many people want to volunteer at the place I have in mind, everyone who does will have to be interviewed, which I’m sure means it’ll be difficult to get in (and also that turning it in early probably doesn’t give me an advantage after all). That’s alright, though; I don’t know that I can’t do it this year, and there are lots of other awesome places.
*I have somewhere between 1 and 4 friends going to this school, depending on where you draw the line between ‘friend’ and ‘acquaintance’, but for camp, we’re separated into class-sized groups that do everything together, and we only see the other freshmen at lunch. None of my earlier friends/acquaintances are in my group.
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Bibliophile
in July 30th, 2012 @ 23:50Oh, and I just wrote a paragraph about you in a homework assignment: “While I have sometimes lacked close consorts in my peer group at school, I have gained such support [the type mentioned in the previous paragraph, which you didn’t read] from others. One major source has been a tightknit online community where I feel at ease. Everyone there has various things in common, so it’s always easy to find things to talk about. We have all grown very close, and the things said are often heartwarmingly kind. I have never seen the malicious stupidity there that characterizes much of the Internet.”
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in July 29th, 2012 @ 23:45Closing night.
We performed outdoors, thank god, even though the weather was looking a bit iffy for most of the day. My cast had the best show yet, and though Camilla keeps claiming that her cast sucked, I watched their whole thing from behind the audience and it clearly did not. (Though, to be honest, I never really remember anyone except their Malvolio. By the time their play is halfway through he can just walk onstage and the audience will applaud. He… is amazing.) Our Viola wore her TRIUMPH belt (inside joke) under her costume for good luck, and clearly it worked.
Aaaaand people from Winter’s Tale last year came to see us and it was so wonderful to see them again and then a bunch of people went to this diner which we always go to for cast parties, and we guessed who in the cast was gay and read embarrassing personal stories off of random websites and stole milkshakes from the waiters and were loud and theatre-cast-party-y, and othercast!Malvolio tried to order fish sticks and custard (apparently he actually eats them) but the diner didn’t have custard so he just ate other people’s onion rings, and it was good not to have to say goodbye to everyone yet, even though nobody really interacted with me. And then othercast!Malvolio (I really need to give him a pseudonym, but I’m too tired to think of an appropriate one tonight) and his mom gave me a ride home and that… was sorta it.I can’t really believe that I’m not going to see some of these awesome people ever again. I always hate shows’ closings so much.
So… I keep saying more on the actual people (who are awesome and deserve to be described) and cast drama and stuff later, but I really am too tired to write it all down and give people pseudonyms and things tonight. Hopefully I’ll get to that sometime, if anyone cares?
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in July 30th, 2012 @ 07:57Hey Chok and *Cskia? Not sure if the GAPAs will let this post through, but I’ve been away at camp for 2 weeks and my mother seems to have been closed out of the e-mail loop and we do not know of any plan. Could you please tell your mothers to catch us up?
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Choklit Orange
in July 30th, 2012 @ 09:52I believe Cskia’s mother will be contacting you shortly.
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*Cskia
in July 30th, 2012 @ 11:23Sorry about that! My mom should be contacting your mom soon.
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Mikazuki
in July 30th, 2012 @ 11:29I got a camera. A Nikon D60, that is. For $200. Off Craigslist. My cup overflowth. Also, it didn’t come with a lens, so I’m using my mom’s lens from her manual film camera. The camera I have now doesn’t love the lens, but it puts up with it. The bad thing about that is that I have to do EVERYTHING manually. LIke, not just focusing, but selecting aperture, shutter speed, etc.: I have to figure out what I need. Which is, um, kinda hard, because I know not a lot about the fiddly bits of photography, but who cares? I WILL LEARN.
Because guys, I got an awesome camera.
Does anyone have any experience with completely manual shooting? Or any tips for me? ‘Twould be greatly appreciated.
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Castle
in July 30th, 2012 @ 16:14Yeah.
Shutter speed, aperture and ISO are all relative to each other. Find stuff online that will tell you about them.
If you increase the shutter speed, you can take less blurry photos of fast-moving objects, but you’ll also let less light in, which means you need to change the ISO. A lot of cameras do it for you, I think. I don’t have much experience with it.
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Mikazuki
in July 31st, 2012 @ 10:43I have a film photography book that I’ve been looking through, and it seems to be pretty clear; it’s a lot to memorize, though. My camera is one of those that normally does do things for you, but it will only work with the lens on full manual mode. Who knows. Anyway, thanks.
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Catwings =3
in July 31st, 2012 @ 00:47for some mistaken reason before i watched a doctor whooves video on youtube from My Little Ponies i mistakenly thought a Tardis was a type of wedding cake. when i think of “Tardis” i see a white three-layer cake with a heart on top and with pink borders and designs.
ah the bitter sweet irony of it all…
why did i just say that i feel kind of zany tonight… it’s after midnight…
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in July 31st, 2012 @ 01:12Well, uh, the Doctor popped out of a cake at a bachelor party once….
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KaiYves- Curiosity Will Lead The Way!
in July 31st, 2012 @ 05:46Also, don’t confuse it with a TDRSS (a satellite system used to realau communications from the space shuttle or station to the ground, pronounced Tee-driss), as I once did.
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Bibliophile
in July 31st, 2012 @ 18:23Or the other TARDIS, TARDIgrades in space.
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KaiYves- Curiosity Will Lead The Way!
in July 31st, 2012 @ 20:20At least she’s be pronouncing it correctly in that case.
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 06:50So I had a problem, until recently.
See there’s this incredible website called WeLoveFine that basically caters to the needs of fangirls such as myself. And on this magical site there is a hoodie. With Rainbow Dash all over it. And I was like WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT until I saw it was $60.
Yeah. $60 dollars for a hoodie. I love Rainbow Dash so much.
BUT ALSO, my iPhone case is breaking. There’s a fairly large rip in the top, and it’s only going to get bigger. So I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to go online shopping for a new, Portal-themed one. And I found the perfect one! It has Wheatley’s awesome face on it and everything!
Well, except for the fact that it’s $42. I love Wheatley as much as I love ponies.
So my problem was (and I stress “was”: I’ll get to that later) which do I save up for first: the hoodie or the case? ‘Cause if I had the hoodie, I could wear it on the first day of school and be all “BROHOOF”, but if I had the case, I could look at Wheatley’s face all the time.
SO while my dad and I (and my brother, but he’s not important) were watching Batman, I explained my predicament. He said I should save up for the hoodie and I could just get the case for my birthday in October. I agreed this sounded reasonable. So I have $25 dollars in my jewelry box now, and I get $5 a week.
Do you guys think it sounds like a good idea, saving up for the hoodie and getting the case for my birthday?
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KaiYves
in July 31st, 2012 @ 07:39You’re very lucky you get $5 a week. I never really got allowance.
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LittleBasementKitten
in July 31st, 2012 @ 16:50Well it’s supposed to be $5 a week, but it’s more like every couple of weeks my dad remembers. He said he would be better about it for the next few weeks, though.
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 20:36Lucky. I get zero allowance, and i get a little money fromwalking the neighbor’s dog. Will start babysitting soon!
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Choklit Orange
in July 31st, 2012 @ 10:15That does sound quite reasonable. If you’re good with GIMP, you can also get some transfer paper and a blank hoodie, and make your own.
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Castle
in July 31st, 2012 @ 12:04I could make an extremely high-res stencil outline (low detail, sort of graffiti-ish) of Rainbow Dash in Illustrator/Photoshop and upload it somewhere. It could be printed on thick paper via Staples or something, cut out with a craft knife of some sort and used to mark a hoodie with some sort of ink designed for that purpose.
It would be black and white.
I also never got an allowance. My primary sources of income are summer jobs with my father and my birthday, although there’s a job up in Boston (two weeks of camp counseling) that pays very well that I’m looking at.
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 12:53The best way to stencil on fabric is using freezer paper. You print or trace the design onto the non waxy side of freezer paper, then cut out the parts that you want to be black or whatever other color. Then you iron the freezer paper onto the fabric (the waxy side will stick to it), and using a sponge brush and fabric paint, go over the whole thing. Afterwards you peel the freezer paper off and get a nice clean stencilled drawing. It doesn’t have to be black, either – you can use any color, and even multiple colors if you’re careful.
Hoodies are expensive even if they’re plain, though, and I wouldn’t want to risk messing one up while I was doing it. I’d say save for the hoodie. However, if you wanted to make a rainbow dash t-shirt or something, you can get those quite inexpensively and you could freezer paper stencil on them.
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 16:49I no haz GIMP skills, unfortunately. The most advanced imaging editing tool I ever use is Paint on my old PC.
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bookgirl_me
in July 31st, 2012 @ 10:25I’d save up for the hoodie, if only on the basis that it’s easier to fix an I-pod case with duck tape than create a hoodie from duck tape (*if you use the white kind, you could probably draw Wheatly on it). I’ve never really had a case for any of my I-pods, so they can probably survive without one for a certain period of time.
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Bibliophile
in July 31st, 2012 @ 18:26Duck tape… I’m picturing masking tape with 2 dots drawn in sharpie for eyes and a plastic beak and webbed feet attached…
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 10:46Bibli! I found a monarch caterpillar. It’s sitting in a butterfly jar behind me right now. (Don’t worry, it’s not actually a jar. It’s a mesh tube with a wooden top.) It’s nomming the milkweed.
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Choklit Orange
in July 31st, 2012 @ 13:10University life:
1) It’s orientation week for the new freshman, and they are parading down the street next to my building singing their dormitory songs and holding impromptu waffle-tossing competitions.
2) The Faculty Wellness Committee wants to encourage healthy living, so they gave all of the professors a small blue foam doll with the words “Healthy Living” printed on the front.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 31st, 2012 @ 15:06The blue dolls will probably work as well as any other incentive I’ve heard about.
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 18:29Except the kind that rewards you for, you know, actually doing something, rather than just saying, “We are giving you a gift, and we trust that you will do something in return afterward, but we won’t actually check to ensure you do it.”
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in July 31st, 2012 @ 20:47Left the boat today.
Got paid for boatwork for the first time in my sailing career.
Feeling feels.
A lot of them are boat-related, others are general the-world-is-unbearably-beautiful related, a few are people-are-weird related.Tomorrow I get to go to The Button Box, which is a store that sells and repairs free reed instruments, so going to get my concertina checked out, possibly fixed, and/or maybe get the concertina that I’ve been wanting for a few years.
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