Though they’d much rather spend all their time approving posts and chilling with MuseBloggers, Robert and Rosanne do have “day jobs.” As a news editor at Science, Robert has just spent the past month or so masterminding the magazine’s annual Breakthrough of the Year section. Anyone curious about Herr Administrator’s alter ego can read the section online, see a video, or listen to a podcast featuring an interview with the man himself. Bill Nye, watch out!
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yaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! first post! (of course, now that i’ve said that it won’t be)
*gasp* you don’t spend your whole life administrating this blog? ( i knew that)
you’re and editor? ive always wnted to be and editor. whenever i see something written i get the urge to edit it, but i think it would be rude.
The music at the beginning of the podcast scares me…
i got to the part with Robert Coontz, and then it got all messed up. i don’t think quicktime likes me.
i get to: “…spoke with sciece deputy news editor, Robert Coontz about some of them.”
“Robert lets-” and then it stops. but if i move the little thingy forward, it continues from a later spot. but the first time i did it it got all fragmented and wierd, and it sounded like everybody was speaking in alien, or they had a very bad stutter.
GO ROBERT!
Maybe the problems are caused by a memory shortage. You could try hitting “pause” and then “play” again. That helped when I had trouble playing the video.
Can I call you Mr. Editor-dude-who-mods-us?
yay go GAPA!!!
bill nye scares me…
*shudder* must….not….think…about….how….the….GAPA….has…a…life…
lol that’s ok. you can have a life. if you really want one that is. they’re quite frightening you know. I gave up mine ages ago. i still have nightmares sometimes….remembering…how i used to spend my time…effeciently…and…i was…useful…and never wasted time….and…i *gasp* i’m distressing myself. must stop.
wait- there’s supposed to be a video? in that same podcast? grrrrr…
(kills computer)
oops
(magically brings computer back to life)
Computer: You should be grateful to me, I bring you Museblog.
Me: Well yea, you’re right. I still hate you though.
Computer: Aww.. I hate you too.
I couldn’t get the podcast to work. It came up on media player and at the bottom of the screen it said “buffering” and showed a couple loading bars where there obviously should have been more. I have no idea what “buffering” is, but it usually only takes a couple seconds. Something has gone terribly wrong.
worked for me. came up in quicktime.
Ahaha…ha…Bill Nye…haaaaaa good times.
mine worked. yessness. sry but u having a voice seems weird. i mean come on ur the GAPA!!! y’know…i dunno…
well ok. i suppose you can have a voice too if you want it. actually better choice this time. i’d rather have a voice than a life any day.
well as long as i’m piercing your secret identity might as well go see that video clip that i never looked at…you will not be unknown to me for long! mwahahahaha!!!!! *frenzied evil laughter fades off as ebeth gets really bored and decides to go find that leetle thread that she knows is somewhere in the archives…*
woooow. it’s 10:30 already. it seemed earlier than that. hoom de doom de la de da doodle dee i’m procrastinating. i don’t know what i’m procrastinating from since i have nothing else to do anyway. i suppose it’s just instinctive. anyhoo. off i go…
No sound on my computer. Biffle. I’ll have to do it on the big computer once Dad gets off.
um.. what is this?
Calendar
WordPress database error: [Lost connection to MySQL server during query]
SELECT DISTINCT MONTH(post_date) AS month, YEAR(post_date) AS year FROM wp_posts WHERE post_date
uh oh. i think the museblog is eation my posts.
okay, now that thingy with the calender is gone.
…and now its back again.
Oka, from now on you are Mr. Dude-Person-Who-Moderates-us.
Bill Nye went to college with my pater. Cornell. He’s in the yearbook as Super Major Extreme Nerd Mogul.
The Museblog monster never eats your posts. They’re way too nausea-I mean, wonderful for that. After all, the monster is Chad’s invention.
Mr. Coontz sir, we’re glad you have a life. You know, maybe if YOU have one, I could have one too! Maybe I could even *whisper* get off the computer.
Naaaaaah…
Mr. DPWMU? or are you going to type it all out every time?
GAPA, MAP, Mr. Administrator, Adon Moreh (is that right spleling?), Robert, Rosanne, Mr. Coontz, Ms. Specter, Mr. Dude-Person-Who-Moderates-Us, Mr. DPWMU…well whoever you are.
you should have a separate “Who Am I” thing just to hold all of your names….
MDPWMU?
MDPWMU is short for Mr. Dude-Person-Who-Moderates-Us, but really it’s MrDOWMU
I meant MrDPWMU.
ah, but if you put something between greaterthan and lessthan signs it gets eaten. so do spaces.
MDPWMU?
Can I call you Person-Who-I-Am-Addressing-You-Know-The-One-Who-Mods-Every-So-Often?
if you can say it all…
Another name?
PWIAAYKTOWMESO
wow. long one.
how about the Admins of the Many Names…
or the Mysterious Ones That Your Parents Lose Sleep Over Wondering What You Are Doing To Their Poor Innocent Children?
heck let’s just have a thread called Naming The Unnamed and figure out how many names you guys have…
How about Alfred?
I have it!
Late For Dinner!
In fifth grade we used to call Bill Nye Greg. I have no idea why. Greg is a cool name.
Random piece of info about my mysterious history…
I know a name!!!!!
BILLY-JOE-JIM-BOB!!!!!!!!
I hate Bill Nye. We saw his movies about once a month in fifth grade, and it was incredibly boring. They’re made for five year olds.
No, Billy-Joe-Bob-Joe-Jim-Joe-Patty-Joe-Cheese.
Robert and Rosanne, now you two are The-Powers-That-Be.
“Anyone curious about Herr Administrator’s alter ego…”
shouldn’t that be “her” instead of “herr”
isn’t that like Mr. in german or something like that??
Yes, that’s what I had in mind. I don’t know why German–it just came to mind.
Nain ish shprechen Doich. Boy that gramer was really bad, but the statement is true…
ich bien ein berliner
plz don’t kill me if i spleled it totally rong
Herr=Mr. German.
I like German. Actually, I have a German eggtimer you put in the pot with the eggs, and when they’re poached it beeps. And I have a little instrument (cup at one end, a pole up, a ball that rolls up and down) that cracks the egg. Germans are awesome. Except for the lederhosen and the dirndls.
I’ve sussed it! Captain Pelluw is the invisible servant of the Admin. The cat runs around looking at people’s backyards through her invisible ship, and occasionally visits our P.U.s (Parental Units) to rat on our activities. Pater and Mater then get a satisfactory stat on our plots and plans, and Zarquon knows what’s in it for Mr. Coontz and Ms. Spector. Mr. Baker doesn’t look involved in it.
I am not tri lingual. I’m barely bi lingual. Explain or I’ll set my husband on you.
Huh, I only know a few German words, and all of them are insults.
I’m practically fluent in Pig Lating, though, if that helps.
i speak latin. a bit.
puella habet baculum. Musebloggers Cave!!!
if i messed up the grammer, well, i suck at grammar in any language. just pretend it’s right…
i sort of speak pig latin but it takes me a while.
i know some random phrases and insults in elvish…
and i can write in dwarvish runes…
and i’m fluent in ENGLISH.
go me.
yay for procrastinating. and choklit. huzzah.
Ishmael, I said, “I don’t speak German”. I know random words from lots of languages, though! Nami= wave in Japanese. Ravin= spear in old English. Helde= warrior in Norse. Ankaa=Phoenix in Arabic. I actually am learning Arabic.
Kawaii = cute in Japanese. My contribution is small but mighty.
*Ich spreche kein deutsch. = I speak no German.
but you’re not german. what about frau administrator? what does she do?
Ich studiere Deutsch.
That means “I’m studying German.”
Ebeth, you said “Ich bin ein Berliner, ” which means “I am a jelly donut” in German. Just what do you mean by this? I would think you’d be a choklit glazed!
Em, I’m an editor too (like Robert). I work at Stanford University’s medical school where I edit Stanford Medicine magazine.
You can check it out here: http://mednews.stanford.edu/stanmed/
Ooooh. Coool. Stanford Medicine is one of the family favorites. (I come from a short line of official science nerds.) I LIKE that magazine!
oh i said that cuz my dad told me a funny story about how some president..i think kennedy went to berlin and he meant “I am a berliner” but instead he said “I am a jelly doughnut”
hah hah, i heard that story too.
cool magazine.
Queen J. and Em — I’m glad you like Stanford Medicine. !!!!
No, Joe-jim-bob-bill.
That’s awesome – your jobs sound interesting! I don’t have an iPod for the podcast though…but hopefully I will eventually. ^.^
You don’t need an Ipod. The “podcast” will play on your computer if you click on the link.
cool. I might want to be an editor.
Why are all the editor’s fonts in Italics? See? I can do it too!!!
The italics are an old tradition dating from the Gaboomba days. They give readers an easy way to tell which posts to skip. Technically, they should be orange, but that’s too much trouble.
Oh. BUT THOSE ARE THE MOST INTERESTING ONES! Orange hm… I think they should be. Then people would be able to SEE THEM BETTER!!!
Although if its too much trouble, I guess we can lay off.