Ask the GAPAs, No. 6
You ask, we (sometimes) answer. What’s on your mind?
Continued from No. 5.
Date: June 12, 2008
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Nonrandom Craziness, The Musiverse, The Universe
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 12th, 2008 @ 16:11Watcha reading, GAPAS?
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Miss Inpronouncable, previously known as NAPOI
in June 12th, 2008 @ 16:29Ooh! A new one!
Why can’t muse be monthly?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 12th, 2008 @ 16:39(1) War and Peace. Really.
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 12th, 2008 @ 16:53For any history buffs (Paul’s specialty is a couple centuries earlier, but maybe one of the others might know):
en. wikipedia. org /wiki /Congress_of_Vienna #Polish-Saxon_crisis
Is there any chance the situation described in the (un-linked) link above could have escalated into war?
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 12th, 2008 @ 17:153-Is it good?
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Purple Panda
in June 12th, 2008 @ 17:17While we’re talking about books — what is your favorite Children’s book (or author)?
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Kittymine
in June 12th, 2008 @ 20:00Q. for the GAPAs at large: At about what point in time did the Muse mag stop saying, “From the Publishers of Cricket and Smithsonian Magazine” and change to, “The Magazine of Life, the Universe, and Pie throwing” ?
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints)
in June 12th, 2008 @ 21:10-6 I know you were asking the GAPAs, but…
my favorite children’s author is Jan Brett. ever heard of her? I still take out her books and look at them for ideas. she’s a fantastic artist.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 13th, 2008 @ 03:364 – Well, this is way too modern for me, but – Yes. Politics can always escalate into something nasty.
I suppose we should acknowedge the wisdom of the participants for at least trying to settle their interminable land squabbles over a table instead of with big guns. They did actually manage to secure a lasting peace, even if the treaty was signed a few days before Waterloo, so the fighting was actually still going on. The result was the usual carve-up, with the big boys agreeing to split the best bits, and cutting out the small fry. It would ony have required someone to insult someone else’s mother to provoke a walkout and another war – especially over the Polish-Saxon question.
Still, it held, and to the average peasant, it didn’t much matter who was in charge, as long as he could get on with the harvest, instead of marching half way across Europe and pointing a gun at someone he’d never met and had no quarrel with.
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Purple Panda
in June 13th, 2008 @ 07:44iŹ√Ҳ! – Yes, I love Jan Brett! Her illustrations are beautiful. We own The Mitten, and I used to love finding the smaller illustrations on the side — they were wonderful!
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 13th, 2008 @ 11:089- Thanks.
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 13th, 2008 @ 12:598- Those are Cute!
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Ê‘yviva
in June 13th, 2008 @ 14:137- I remember that….
Somewhere on this blog is a thread with various musebloggers’ suggestions. Don’t remember when it was though, sometime before last august.
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KaiYves
in June 13th, 2008 @ 15:44Do you think the very definition of irony is being redirected to the main page of a forum (Another forum, not MB) while trying to make a post in which you were reporting that very bug?
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Eccentric the Afterthought
in June 13th, 2008 @ 20:45Is there going to be a 2008 edition of the MB signatures design?
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MissSwann
in June 14th, 2008 @ 08:46Aha, I love these threads! So, Robert, what is your favorite word?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 14th, 2008 @ 09:51“Mellifluous,” today. Yesterday it was “Lyriodendron.” New favorite word tomorrow.
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emmatheduck
in June 14th, 2008 @ 11:40What are all the GAPA’s opinions on the word “gardez?” Or on ending sentences with prepositions?
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Gaea
in June 14th, 2008 @ 12:30Hey guys, do you know how The Bookworm & Lurline made my name with the a and e connected (post 25, june b-day thread)? Is there special HTML for that?
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The Bookworm via Iphone!
in June 14th, 2008 @ 12:40Alt and apostrophe!
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 47 brain points)
in June 14th, 2008 @ 13:33ea just testing…
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belle jeune chose
in June 14th, 2008 @ 16:24Can you guess who I am or was if I give yoou these clues?
1. I was on here last summer but stopped in september-ish
2. I have the same birthday as Alice (the one who writes a lot and started public schooling this year)
3. I tryed to come back a few months ago but mentioned makeup and everyone started talking about it and I was worried they would think I was all strange now and got embabarssed and left.I don’t expect you to remeber or care for that matter, but If your bored its a puzzle.
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emmatheduck
in June 14th, 2008 @ 16:5122-BiblioRose? And that probably belongs on the Alter-Ego thread.
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 14th, 2008 @ 16:54Purple Panda (6): I just re-read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. I am in awe. So much fun, beauty and truth. So that would be my favorite, at least for now. I haven’t read any of Juster’s other books. I see he’s written quite a few.
Like ZVX, I love Jan Brett’s stories, too. I only discovered them last year.belle jeune chose (22): I remember the makeup discussion but I’m too lazy to go back and see which musebloggers were involved. But anyway… glad to see you back in your new incarnation, with or without makeup
emmatheduck (18): Gardez is a fine word though I think it’s sneaky to include it in English spelling bees.
KaiYves (14): Yes.
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Piggy, the Biscuit Færie
in June 14th, 2008 @ 17:27When will there be new MB signatures? I want to buy a new shirt, but I don’t want to buy the old one if the new one is in the works.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 14th, 2008 @ 18:16(23) emmatheduck — methinks thou quackest aright.
(18) As for “gardez,” I think it’s a fine and useful word if you’re speaking French. If you said during a chess tournament, though, nobody would know what you were talking about. The modern rules of chess do not require you to announce an attack on your opponent’s queen; I’m not sure you’re even required to announce check. (You do have to say “j’adoube” [I adjust] if you want to straighten the position of a piece that you don’t intend to move, but that’s about all.)
(6) Favorite children’s books: When I was three or four, I loved Pussy Willow by Margaret Wise Brown, with pictures by Leonard Weisgard. At five my favorite was One Fish Two Fish by Dr. Seuss. At seven it was The Iliad and the Odyssey, a Big Golden Book illustrated in the style of ancient Greek vase paintings. Then I read all the Oz books over and over. For a while I was deeply devoted to Tom Swift, which my teachers hated, but at 10 I switched to Robert Heinlein’s “juvenile” science-fiction books. At 11, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Lord of the Rings, which I read three times before I started eighth grade.
(25, 25) We’re working on new MB signatures. Rather, we’re talking about working on them. Lady B. is pretty busy right now. But we know that Musery Loves Company needs some attention.
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belle jeune chose
in June 14th, 2008 @ 21:0123- Your right. I’ll test out my new name on that thread, even though this isn’t technically an later ego. Thanks!
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emmatheduck
in June 14th, 2008 @ 23:35No one answered the other question that I asked at the same time as the gardez one. What do you think about ending sentences with prepositions?
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Turquoise, who has her Internet access back!
in June 14th, 2008 @ 23:49ae testing….
I made up a signature! It looks cool.
GAPAs, have you ever seen True Stories? And did you like it?
It’s on in the background right now.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 04:43(28) As an editor, I think about language a lot and have to make decisions about things like how to end sentences. When I was in school, some of my teachers told us that it was always wrong to end sentences with prepositions and taught us various workarounds to avoid it. Some of those rephrasings seemed to me uglier and more unnatural than the problem they were designed to solve — so it came as a relief, later on, to discover that the “rule” forbidding terminal prepositions wasn’t really a rule at all. Grammarians came up with it in the first place because they knew and admired Latin, in which prepositions are always followed by nouns. But English isn’t a direct descendant of Latin: it’s a Germanic language, and its grammar is very different. You can do things in English that you can’t do in Latin (or Spanish, Italian, or French), and sometimes you should do them.
The bottom line, for me, is that there is nothing wrong with ending sentences with prepositions. You can write an ugly, awkward sentence with a preposition at the end; you can write an ugly, awkward sentence without one; or you can write clear, graceful, nice-sounding sentences either way. It all depends on the sentence.
Winston Churchill is supposed to have said that that terminal prepositions were something “up with which I will not put.” I think that says it all.
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Nora the Violist (and theatre lover and horseback rider and extreme doodler)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 07:5725–Question on the signatures seconded.
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Gaea
in June 15th, 2008 @ 08:07Gaea
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Gaea
in June 15th, 2008 @ 08:09Dang, my try on the ea thing didn’t work….what do you mean by alt apostrophe?
Gaea
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MIssSwann
in June 15th, 2008 @ 08:12How old are all of you?
I know, I’m evil.
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 09:50I think it might only work on Macs… Gæa! Now you can C+P! æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 10:20Our origins are lost in the mists of prehistory. We knew the Crow Girls before they hatched. (We’ve given a real answer to that question on a previous ATG thread.)
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Piggy, the Biscuit Færie
in June 15th, 2008 @ 10:21To make an “æ” on Windows, do the following:
1. Make sure Number Lock is on.
2. Hold down Alt.
3. Press “6 5 7” on the number pad.
4. Release Alt.
5. Voila! An “æ!”Try different cominations of numbers on the number pad for more fun! █ÄΘ»ƒßêô╢▄≥╬ƒ⌠╙♫ò
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Ethan_Muse_Reader
in June 6th, 2014 @ 19:30To do it on mac is much easier!!! Just press option-apostrophe. æ.
Hold shift to make it up again: Æyou can do a bunch of stuff like that on mac.
`¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ“‘«åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æΩ≈ç√∫˜µ≤≥÷`â„€‹›ï¬ï¬‚‡°·‚—±Œ„´‰ˇÃ¨ˆØâˆâ€â€™Â»Ã…ÃÃŽÃËÓÔÒÚƸ˛Ç◊ı˜Â¯˘¿
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MissSwann
in June 15th, 2008 @ 10:4737- Thad doesn’t work on my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are your opinions on the Beatles?
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 15th, 2008 @ 11:29
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Ethan_Muse_Reader
in June 6th, 2014 @ 19:32 That’s a private use character. That means it doesn’t have an official symbol and therefore can be used for whatever font designers want it to be. For example on my computer it is the apple symbol.
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 47 brain points)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 11:34did it work?
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Kiki the Great
in June 15th, 2008 @ 14:35Okay.
Q. Have you ever been in a band
and
Q. What’s your favorite food?
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in June 15th, 2008 @ 15:18it’s fun watching you guys struggle to make æ. It’s a regular key on danish keyboards. As are ø and Ã¥. æøåæøåæøåæøåæøåæøåæøåæøå!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, GAPAs. Do you speak any languages other than english?
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speedofsound26
in June 15th, 2008 @ 16:1642- do your keyboards look weird then?
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MissSwann
in June 15th, 2008 @ 18:2443- No, there’s probably some odd combination of keys you press to make the æ. But the Danish keyboard probably looks odd.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spdzk and 100 PiePoints)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 19:0744~ Odd to us, I’d imagine. Probably to Vixen, ours would be disorienting.
Umm, a questions for the GAPAs…….
What is your favorite music? Bands, artists, songs, etc. This has probably been asked before, but I’m too lazy to look it up.Also, one time Robert said that he liked to sing when he’s vacuuming, what songs do you prefer for housework?
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 21:30Alt 657 gets me this: §∞¶
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oxlin
in June 15th, 2008 @ 21:52æ!
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The Provisional Countess Hypatia (Lady Libretta who thinks you a chauvinist)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 22:03What do you all powerful and august administrator humanoids think of audiobooks?
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 15th, 2008 @ 22:54Æ!
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Kokonilly [86 wung points, 80 piepoints, 10 spdzk points, 5 punxsutawney points]
in June 15th, 2008 @ 22:58æ. Yay!
What do you GAPAs like to do in your spare time? (Besides moderate this, of course.
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 15th, 2008 @ 23:06Vixen (42) I’m not fluent in any language other than English. I’ve studied Hebrew (which I knew pretty well for a while but it’s starting to fade), French (faint memories only), Mandarin Chinese (even fainter memories) and German (I’ve got the basics down kinda sorta). I’m actively studying German since my husband’s side of the family speaks German and hardly any English.
Most of the time I’m happy with my brain. As it’s aged, I think it’s gotten better in a lot of ways. But when it comes to learning languages, I REALLY miss my younger brain!
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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
in June 16th, 2008 @ 05:1951- I am horrid at french. Of course, it might be because our teacher just keeps yelling at us.
44- Well, some of the keys are in different places, and we have to press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-2 to get @.
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Alice
in June 16th, 2008 @ 11:2822- Biblio! Hiya! *pies*
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 13:27Vixen (52): My French teacher did a lot of yelling too. I really should’ve taken German instead!
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Piggy, the Biscuit Færie
in June 16th, 2008 @ 13:36I’m gonna start writing AEIOU as ÆïÖÜ.
146=Æ 139=ï 153=Ö 154=Ü
GAPAs: Mac or Windows?
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Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko
in June 16th, 2008 @ 13:40æøåæøåæøåæøåæøåæøåæøåæøå yæy I got it!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 13:46(55) I’m biplatformal: Mac at home, Windows at work.
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Kokonilly [86 wung points, 80 piepoints, 10 spdzk points, 5 punxsutawney points]
in June 16th, 2008 @ 14:01ÆïÖÜ Cool!
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 16th, 2008 @ 14:2557- what type of mac?
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muselover
in June 16th, 2008 @ 14:42Okay, here’s one: Could you PLEASE do a Lego thread?
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earthgirl and eria and The Totally Random Pie Vendor
in June 16th, 2008 @ 14:55} ª{╚•◘○♦╚qσ•♣♠○◘♠♣•æ whee! fun with symbols!! ┘îDxNQPA󧧧§ I like that one best!!! § §☻ε┬§
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press ALt
hit the whole thirk row of number keys on the pad
hit the whole second row of number keys
hit the whole first row at the same time
{╚§ or just the whole top row E§§§ that worlks better
MORE fun with symbols!!!
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Kokonilly [86 wung points, 80 piepoints, 10 spdzk points, 5 punxsutawney points]
in June 16th, 2008 @ 15:0360 – Take it to the Suggestion Box.
61 – Would you like a “Tinkering With Special Characters Thread”? I suggested one in the Suggestion Box.
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Ethan_Muse_Reader
in June 6th, 2014 @ 19:34SUPPORT THIS THREAD TOTALLY IF ANYBODY STILL CARES ABOUT IT
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The Totally Random Pie Vendor
in June 16th, 2008 @ 15:14am I allowed to make up a new kind of point?
or is that viiolating some kind of sacre law that I dont know about?
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earthgirl and eria and The Totally Random Pie Vendor
in June 16th, 2008 @ 15:3562- that might be fun! would it be like the stupid sensless smiley stories? §- that will be my signature from now on!!
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [9,137 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] �|�
in June 16th, 2008 @ 15:42*Old person to the rescue*
62-We have that, it’s called HTML Practice and Typographic Tricks. You posted there six days ago, actually…
63-It’s strongly discouraged. There are Piepoints and spdzk points, and others either aren’t in circulation or can’t really have value. It gets confusing with too many types, and they lose their value if there are too may types. People still invent things and put them in their names to feel important I guess, but it really confuses things. However, if you want some points, piepoints, let me know, because I’m trying to get rid of some!
I try to help answer questions when I can, so I hope that was helpful…
Red-tailed HAWK
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MissSwann (of the 5 Swannpoints!!!)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 15:4249- Good for you.
60- We need a NEW suggestion box!!!!!63- Make up a new kind of point? What exactly do you mean?
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Ohh, yeah, like Wung Points and Piepoints, etc! Don’t worry, I made myself the proprieter of Swannpoints a little while ago. I was feeling left out. To acquire them, you need to do something totally awesome. You can make new points.
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [9,137 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] �|�
in June 16th, 2008 @ 16:0466-Oops, I suppose I shouldn’t be arguing with my Fiancee!
But it is getting confusing now. I thought Wung points were separate but… I don’t know. See, there are too many and it is getting confusing. Piepoints and spdzk points came first, so they should remain. If you feel left out, why aren’t you asking for piepoints?! Many, many times I have offered them and people didn’t respond!
Anyway, sorry to be taking up room on this thread, but this is a somewhat important discussion.
Red-tailed HAWK
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earthgirl and eria and The Totally Random Pie Vendor (my symbol is §)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 16:26ok then… piepoints please! :puppydogface:
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 16th, 2008 @ 16:29Wung points are acquired from Paker.
When will the wedding take place? It’s June already!
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [9,137 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] �|�
in June 16th, 2008 @ 17:2368-Sure! How many do you want, 100? 137? More?
Anyone else want any? I am seriously still trying to give away these things.
69-First, that’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure (I’m not sure what the game is, actually…). Second part, I don’t know, that seems to have died
Red-tailed HAWK
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 18:01I use a Mac at home and at work. I lead a sheltered life.
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Eccentric the Afterthought
in June 16th, 2008 @ 18:4822 – I don’t know if I knew you or not before, but hi!
42 – Cool! I tried typing something in English on a Czech keyboard once…it didn’t go very well.
52 – Eep, me too. The grammar is fine and I do okay with the spelling most of the time, but the pronunciation kills me.
65 – I would gladly take some of those pie points off your hands.
Pirates or ninjas?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 20:40(7) The last “Smithsonian” issue was July/August 2006. The first “life, the universe, and pie throwing” issue was September 2006. (That was the issue Paul Baker started off by making fun of SUVs. It’s curious how Master Baker always manages to be simultaneously centuries behind and years ahead of his time.)
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 16th, 2008 @ 20:5573- He’s allergic to the present, maybe?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 16th, 2008 @ 21:13That wouldn’t be much of an inconvenience, would it? The present is infinitesimally brief and always moving. Though I suppose that the future-oriented part of his awareness would have to be careful to stay out of its way…
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 16th, 2008 @ 21:3075- It’s like ragweed: he only has to be in its vicinity to feel the effects.
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 16th, 2008 @ 22:3075- the past is gone, the presant never happens, and the future is unknown.
-Theo, Timejumpers(or jumpman)
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100% cotton
in June 17th, 2008 @ 13:46are you reading War and Peace because they were talking about it on NPR?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 17th, 2008 @ 13:51(78) Welcome back, cotton! I’ll summon some MBers to pie you with sea foam and redwood bark.
I hadn’t heard anyone discussing W&P on NPR. I’m reading it because it has been on my list for a long time. By the way, I highly recommend the Signet Books translation by Ann Dunnigan.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 17th, 2008 @ 14:51<50> Spare time!
SPARE Time!
Oh, the very thought of it!
Hahahahahahaha!
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Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko
in June 17th, 2008 @ 14:5579- Okey Dokey. *pies cotton with sea foam and redwood bark pies* welcome back!!
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 17th, 2008 @ 14:5780 – Okay, let me rephrase that.
What do you do to relax?
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 17th, 2008 @ 15:0173, 74 – I’m not present-allergic. I just get bored easily.You may be interested to know that the main reason I haven’t been on the blog much is that I’ve been commissioned to create a large automaton, featuring, among other delights, an escaped lion. It will be controlled by one of the many delicious new microcontroller devices coming onto the market, and I’m currently bringing myself up to speed on PIcMicro assembly language, which has now become an obsession. In between programming microcontrollers and sorting out stepper motor drives, I’m stil playing Tudor music at people in castles. Life’s very exciting, but slightly over-full.
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 17th, 2008 @ 15:03Wait —
Post No. 80 isn’t italicized!!!!!! WEIRD!
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 17th, 2008 @ 15:04Tudor music has the unusual quality of being played “at” rather than “for.”
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 17th, 2008 @ 15:16Aww. Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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NerdAndProudOf It
in June 17th, 2008 @ 15:4184-Yes, it is.
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 17th, 2008 @ 17:4083-An escaped lion?
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Alice
in June 17th, 2008 @ 18:20*pies 100% cotton with sea foam and redwood bark pies* *considerately gives towel to wipe off the poky bark*
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MissSwann
in June 17th, 2008 @ 20:41I went to the beach with my grade today. And I didn’t use sunscreen. *shudder* Please, use sunscreen, my fellow musers.
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 17th, 2008 @ 21:0187 – It wasn’t before.
Your fave movie?
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 13:0291 – I forgot to italicise it, so one of my fellow GAPAs helpfuly post-italicised it. They’re very good with detail. Unlike me.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 13:0388 – Indeed.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 13:03(92) Not really. More like we’re good with other people’s details. That’s why there’s four.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 13:06(82) What I do to relax: Nap. Not often enough.
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Jadestone
in June 18th, 2008 @ 13:46Who are some of your favourite musicians/bands? I know vaguely what all of you like, I think, and a few artists but not really anything specific.
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [8,737 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] �|�
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:09*Hands Earthgirl 200 Piepoints*
*Hands Eccentric the Afterthought 200 Piepoints*Anybody else?
Red-tailed HAWK
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MissSwann
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:2597- How about a few for your fiancee?
What is the GAPA opinion on Stephen King?
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The Guy Your Parents Warned You About
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:2690- Oooh, that must have hurt.
95- Don’t we all?
97- If there are any left, I’d love some! Oh, and do you keep the Wung points after Paker ends?
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in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:3199 – Yes.
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:32Do any of you have kids/Nieces/Nephews/Friends with kids that are Musers/muser age/younger then muser age?
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 47 brain points)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:37what do you define as ‘muser age’ ?
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [8,337 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] �|�
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:5198-Hahah, of course!
*Gives 200 Piepoints*99-Sure! *Gives 200 Piepoints*
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 18th, 2008 @ 15:53102- 8-15
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 18:19What are you doing right now?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 18:38(105) Since you ask…I am eating soup and toast and just getting ready to write a note to POSOC.
POSOC, you sent the movie project file, which is just a set of instructions, without the supporting data. You need to open the project and save it as a movie. (For Version 5 — go to “save movie file” in the menu. On the wizard that pops up, click “the web” as your destination and follow the prompts from there.)
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 18:44106- *facepalm* This comes of being a Windows Movie Maker neophyte. *goes to follow instructions*
OK. Opening project…
I clicked “Save As,” but the only option was the one I’d already picked. All right, menu…
I can’t find “save movie file.” Am I looking at the wrong menu?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 18:54Under the file menu below “save project as” — but your version may be different. Try using the keyboard shortcut control+p and see if anything happens.
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 18:57Ah! They call it “publish movie,” but it’s “ctrl+p” and it’s in the right place. Would it work?
Wait, there’s no “the web” option.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 18:59You should be able to save it as a WMV (windows movie file) somehow or another. It should give you some resolution options. Try what you can find, and see what file sizes you generate.
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in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:00This is why I use Macromedia Flash MX. *is pied*
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:06110- There’s no WMV option.
Let me try something.
Publishing it to e-mail. Apparently that’ll allow me to attach it.
OK, it’s asking me for a bunch of stuff about my e-mail service provider.
I’m stuck.
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:08How do you use Windows Movie Maker? So far I’m making the still frames, but I have never used it before. *is innocent and clueless*
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:15YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
I followed a hunch and published it to my computer, and there it is, sitting pretty as you please under Videos, as Bunny.WMV.
*dances around the room*
*reflects that only a total nerd would dance around the room following something like this*
*keeps dancing*
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Purple Panda
in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:15Robert (30): Yeah, that’s exactly what I do. I’ve always learned not to end sentences with prepositions (one of my favorite phrases used to be “Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.”), but when I took Journalism our teacher said we didn’t have to do that anymore — when editing articles for the school newspaper, I usually just leave what the author wrote, unless it sounds awkward or is using a strange construction.
(42/45/Danish Keyboards): I asked my Uncle about Danish keyboards, and he said they’re almost identical to US keyboards, with just a few keys added:
(tab) Q W E R T Y U I O P Å, (¨, ~, ^)
(caps lock) A S D F G H J K LÆ Ø, (*)
(shift) (angle brackets, \) Z X C V B N M (; ,) (: .)Is that what yours is like, Vixen?
Just for future reference for US keyboard-users, Ø is made by doing option/alt-O, and Æ is made by doing option/alt-‘/” (for Macs, anyway).
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:26114- Yea!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 19:55(114) Yayness! Any excuse to dance, I say. *joins the dorky happy dance*
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 20:38*Dances*
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Kokonilly ♀
in June 18th, 2008 @ 20:40Yay! *joins the so-called “dorky happy dance”*
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Purple Panda
in June 18th, 2008 @ 21:25*skips into dorky happy dance party*
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The Guy Your Parents Warned You About (200 pie points, 14 wung points)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 21:33103- Thanks!
114- Awesome! I love those moments. *joins dancing because my game is finally starting to work*
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 21:42*stops dancing* Hit another snag, guys. The file won’t attach. I think it’s too large. Any way to change the resolution or something like that?
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 22:25I need to shave at least 5.4 megabytes off the size. Any ideas on how to do that? Maybe I could remove the credits… they didn’t come out right anyhow…
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 22:35It’s down to 22.9… the first image isn’t that important, maybe if I get rid of it…
No, there has to be another way. Let me try something else.
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 22:40Ah! That worked! The image quality is kind of poor, but all the text except one section is still legible. On to send it in.
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Eccentric the Afterthought (+200 pie points)
in June 18th, 2008 @ 22:4783 – Automatons and Tudor music, interesting combination. Now I’m curious about the lion automaton; will there be a Muse article about any of this in the future?
90 – Too late, but I definitely won’t be forgetting my sunscreen again anytime soon. *sunburned*
97 – Thanks! By the way, do points have a purpose other than name embellishment?
*joins dorky dance party*
I second the Stephen King question, with the addition of your opinion on popular reading material in general. When I’m shelving the books people return to my library, I rarely encounter fiction that isn’t a harlequin romance, a mystery, or something by authors other than Danielle Steele, Catherine Coulter, Stephanie Meyer, etc. Are these books actually good, or just popular?
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 18th, 2008 @ 22:48IT WORKED!!!! *dorky happy dance* Should be in the inbox right now.
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Cat's Meow and Aume
in June 18th, 2008 @ 22:49Windows Movie Maker is always hard to use the first time, isn’t it?
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Lisa O'Malley (Pierate Captain)
in June 19th, 2008 @ 16:46I have a question: how is it that I was “Fallen Angel [:Kagz:]” for several weeks and it did not make it onto the who’s here page but I was Potassium Silver for about three posts (by accident) and it immediately makes it onto the who’s here page? just wondering. It’s not that important. you don’t have to answer.
126- they show the world how much cooler you are. (naw, I’m kidding) they’re just for fun I suppose. Have 7 KAG points.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 19th, 2008 @ 17:03(129) Alas, some things never make sense no matter how much you find out about them.
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points!)
in June 19th, 2008 @ 17:14Can I have some KAG points, Captain O’Malley?
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Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko
in June 19th, 2008 @ 17:19uhhh, stupid question:
Why’d you choose WordPress for the blog?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 19th, 2008 @ 17:21(132) Because it was free.
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The Guy Your Parents Warned You About (200 pie points, 14 wung points)
in June 19th, 2008 @ 20:47Hmmm, let’s see… What’s your favorite place to visit?
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Lisa O'Malley (Pierate Captain)
in June 20th, 2008 @ 10:48131- sure! have 42 KAG points!
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Turquoise, who has no points...
in June 20th, 2008 @ 21:08Can I have some KAG points, Captain?
Question: What is your favorite season?
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eragon
in June 20th, 2008 @ 21:11GAPA’s, I doubt it, but were any of you homeschooled?
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Midnight Fiddler (she of the 2 spdzk and 100 PiePoints)
in June 20th, 2008 @ 21:33GAPAs, will you answer the questions I asked in post 45 please? *cute puppy dog eyes*
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 20th, 2008 @ 21:53Hey, MF, that takes some thought. FAVORITE music. Hmmm. I have to eat dinner now. Will think about it and answer soooooon.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 21st, 2008 @ 03:18138 – My current favourites – Handel, Jacob Clemens, Guillaume de Machaut, Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, Wagner, Bismillah Khan, Abba.
Housework music – that comes under background music. I don’t use music as background, and I avoid places that do. I think it fogs the brain, reduces concentration and causes low-level stress by forcing the brain to multitask. It’s just my theory, of course, but I have a few friends who leave radios and even televisions playing when they’re not actively listening. They all have persistent angst. Whether the background music is a cause or a therapy, I’m not sure, but it drives me potty.
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Brendan The Science Whiz/Fforde Ffan
in June 21st, 2008 @ 11:38To not make my parents worry, I should ask this, Has there ever been instances of creepy people on MuseBlog?
“creepy” meaning Cyberbullies, “we should meet in the mall!-ish Sociopathic people” or anything mean like that.This will be greatly appreciated by my parents.
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in June 21st, 2008 @ 13:24141- No creepy people. Maybe some strangeness, but we’re harmless. Mostly.
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The Bookworm & Lurline (10 piepoints and two B-Day Points and 42 KAG Points!)
in June 21st, 2008 @ 13:52131-Thank you!
140-Yay! Handel!
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Alice
in June 21st, 2008 @ 14:26140- I like background music, actually. Sometimes it increases stress, but most of the time it actually decreases it. Besides, I get fidgety if I just sit there listening to music.
141- Maybe. It depends on who you ask.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 21st, 2008 @ 16:13(141) BTSW/FF,
MuseBlog has mercifully free of such annoyances. We try to keep a low profile on the Web, and the Administrators read and approve every message that goes up. Our rules forbid exchange of specific geographic information, and we’re hard on anything that looks like bullying. Long-time MBers will concur, I think.
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The Man For Aeiou&Pete
in June 21st, 2008 @ 19:35145- *CoughFS’sBanCough*
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POSOC with 5 BP and 60 IWP
in June 21st, 2008 @ 20:04145- A-yup.
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Alice
in June 21st, 2008 @ 20:27145- Yes, I suppose so.
Everything comes back to one event. Funny that it can still have such a strong effect on me nearly a year after it occurred. I hate being distrusted by people that I like. I think I will leave now.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 21st, 2008 @ 20:33I’ll try to answer a few of them:
(134) My favorite place to visit: probably the San Francisco and Santa Cruz Bay areas. Many of my old friends live there, the hills to the west of Route 280 are beautiful and smell wonderful, and then you pass through the redwood forests and come to those long, sweeping beaches. I lived in San Diego until I was 12 and still need to wade in the Pacific Ocean once in a while.
(136) My favorite season: autumn. October is beautiful here in the Washington area, and the cool weather makes me hungry, and there are always such good things to eat.
(137) Homeschooling: not I. Very few people my age were homeschooled. But I learned at least as much from my parents and their books as I did in school.
(138 > 45) Favorite music: That’s a hard one to answer. I like many sorts of music, and my favorite at any moment is likely to be something I haven’t heard lately. When vacuuming, I usually find myself singing either something by Stan Rogers or some long, mournful sea shanty or ballad (“I’ll Go to Sea No More” and “The House Carpenter” are always good for a dismal stretch of housework).
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 21st, 2008 @ 23:25Midnight Fiddler, I’ve been thinking about how to answer your “favorite music” question and read Paul’s answer and realize that lately my mode of listening is exactly what drives him nuts. I usually listen to music in the background while I’m working at the computer — writing or editing. And my favorite thing to do lately is to go to the classical department of Amazon’s music store and run a search with a musical instrument that suits my fancy. Then I select an album and listen to the 30 second samples all running together. Harpsichord is my latest fave. It puts me in a good mood. Or at least I think I’m in a good mood…
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Çɟıן suÉÇɯ Çoz
in June 22nd, 2008 @ 00:47146 – Frigid Symphony got banned???????? :gasp: when???
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 22nd, 2008 @ 10:28144, 150 – You’re not alone. Most people, it seems, do like background music. I was out till midnight last night in Bolton playing the stuff live. Got home at 3:30.
I think it’s just me. Fair enough. Live and let live. What I do object to, though, is having background music imposed on me in shops and malls. It’s invariably music I loathe – generally bland, middle-of-the-road pap that’s defined as safe and inoffensive by some vacuous marketing parasite at head office. It’s played through tinny speakers which insult music of any sort, and I find it deeply offensive. I often say so, to whatever passes for Customer Relations. I don’t think they like me much.
The real social issue, which has been noted by various academics, is that we’re getting scared of silence. It’s a shame, because silence is valuable. if you ever want to totally de-stress, pick a nice, sunny day, find somewhere pretty and devoid of people (It should be much easier in the States because you’re not crammed into a tiny island), turn off your mobile phone, iPod and anything else that might disturb you. Don’t even take a book, because it’s information input again. Sit and watch things – clouds, trees, a river, any stray birds that might be passing. It takes an hour at least for your brain to adjust to the fact that it doesn’t have to process information. After that, it’s idyllic. It’s not silent, of course – there are thousands of little sounds you’ll start to notice, but they’re the sounds that we’ve been programmed to notice by a few million years of evolution. Provided none of the sounds you hear implies “bear” or “snake”, you’ll have a very restful time.
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 47 brain points)
in June 22nd, 2008 @ 12:28-103 hey! can I have a COUPLE points? not 200 if you don’t want to give me that much, but a few?
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Alice
in June 22nd, 2008 @ 12:58152- Silence is nice.
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Brendan The Science Whiz/Fforde Ffan
in June 22nd, 2008 @ 17:13103:
Can I have a few too?
if so, thanks!
if not, Thanks anyway.
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 40 brain points)
in June 22nd, 2008 @ 20:55-155 you can have some brain points…7 I want to conserve mine though…
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muselover
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 12:24Could you make a suggestion box which doesn’t involve e-mailing you guys? My parents don’t let me e-mail anyone but my friends.
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muselover
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 12:25Do brain points mean you’re smart? If so, I have like a billion.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 12:34(157) The Suggestion Box doesn’t involve e-mailing us. It’s a thread. Come to think of it, though, we’re overdue to launch a new one.
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muselover
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 12:35I didn’t know that!
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Vendaval
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 13:34151- I think he was banned for two weeks or something after a spat on the religions thread, and his presence has gradually dissipated to nothing. If you really want to talk to him, he might hear about it.
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Jadestone
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 13:50140- Huh, for me the background music is defiantly therapy. It is much better for me to shove my headphones in and just listen to a song to calm myself down instead of looking for a crossbow to hunt people with.
Music has seriously saved my mind several times the last two months, esspecally when I was still in school. And yesterday. Yeah.144- I get fidgety without music, in the rare instances I don’t have any playing. Like school and stuff. No matter where I am/what I’m doing there is a song in my head.
152- Ah, this I concur with, though. I can’t stand a lot of that type of music they play in malls and such, it’s good I never really go. If I had to be in one that was playing music I really dislike for a long time, I might abandon all good taste and listen to my iPod inside.
As to silence, it doesn’t really bother me, but I can lay for hours listening to a playlist and thinking about the songs, how they make me feel, the hidden meanings in them, certain phrases that just taste good to say–I love it. Modest Mouse especially is good for this, lately, their songs all seem to have layers and layers. Unless I just think to much.
But I ♥ music.
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 47 brain points)
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 19:01-158 brain points originated with smarts, but they’re just adding now. They’re very small little creatures that look similar to lightbulbs and float around. That’s the creature, which awards points to those who can answer a riddle it creates spontaneously. If you answer the riddle, they give you points. They can be found lurking around {a href=â€https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1375″ title=â€Free Brain Points!″>Bunny Apocalypse.
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iŹ√Ҳ! (11 piepoints, 47 brain points)
in June 23rd, 2008 @ 19:03oops!
that should have been:
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Miss Inpronouncable
in June 24th, 2008 @ 12:12157-That’s odd. But technically it makes sense.
158-No bragging…
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muselover
in June 24th, 2008 @ 15:08But I’m not! I get, like, straight A’s!
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Kokonilly
in June 24th, 2008 @ 15:19166 – A lot of people here do. It’s not something to brag about on a blog with a ton of smart people.
It’s like going to the Olympics and proudly announcing you ran a marathon without dying.
Nearly everybody there has done it before and, frankly, they don’t care.
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muselover
in June 24th, 2008 @ 15:22I didn’t know that. Sorry if I offended anyone.
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Kokonilly
in June 24th, 2008 @ 15:24168 – That’s okay. I was just saying.
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Çɟıן suÉÇɯ Çoz
in June 24th, 2008 @ 17:08166 – Wheee I get straight C’s and B’s and D’s and F’s and once in a while A’s and in NZ Achieved and Merit’s. No excellences
Oohh beat my amazing report
I play nice with others and I am cooperative.
I need to lay of the cold medicine I think
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The Man For Aeiou
in June 25th, 2008 @ 12:54Wait, Were there most post here yeasterday, or is it just me?
Are the Colors going to change ever season from now on?
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in June 26th, 2008 @ 16:09162 – Ah, now there’s the distinction. Lying down for hours listening is just that – listening. I do that. It’s what music is for. What I can’t do without getting stressed is half-listening to music while I’m trying to do something else. I can’t concentrate properly on either, and it does me ‘ed in, John.
Not that your name’s John.
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muselover
in June 26th, 2008 @ 16:10168- Although that probably offended me more than it did anyone else…
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Brendan The Science Whiz/Fforde Ffan (7 Brain Points)
in June 26th, 2008 @ 17:06Thanks 156!
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Purple Panda
in June 27th, 2008 @ 08:58GAPAs — do you look forward to each month so that you can come up with an interesting idea for the random thread?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 27th, 2008 @ 10:44(175) Yesno. Depends on when you ask. [insert smiley face here]
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Kokonilly, the sensible nillybuckbuck
in June 27th, 2008 @ 10:46Where is your favorite place to vacation, GAPAs? The beach? The city? The Sahara Desert?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 27th, 2008 @ 11:24(177) On my sofa, the most comfortable one in the world, alternately reading and napping.
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muselover
in June 27th, 2008 @ 12:22Hey GAPAs-go over to the Muser Profiles thread and see what I asked you on post 4.
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Jadestone
in June 28th, 2008 @ 11:35172- Not that it’s not
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in June 28th, 2008 @ 12:34Kokonilly (177): A perfect vacation for me is plenty of time on a beach where the weather’s warm and the surf is great for bodyboarding. Also crucial is the presence of a few lovable people and a stack of juicy reading matter. Oh yes, and delicious food within walking distance. Even better would be all of the above plus super snorkeling.
My family’s vacations on Maryland’s eastern shore come close, despite the lackluster snorkeling.
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Eccentric the Afterthought (+200 pie points & 7 KAG points)
in June 29th, 2008 @ 23:00129 – Wow I haven’t checked this thread in awhile….thanks, belatedly!
152 – Are you by any chance an introvert? I feel the same way about background music as you do, but my extrovert friends all love it.
It’s a shame people are afraid of silence! I relish it, but that might just be because I live in a heavily trafficked area where it’s a rarity. When I want peace and quiet, I usually end up visiting the cemetery.
GAPAs, have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs test? If so, what were your personality types?
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Piggy, the Biscuit Færie
in June 30th, 2008 @ 14:43OEADs, when you were children, what did you want to be when you grew up?
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Kokonilly
in June 30th, 2008 @ 17:10How do you publish a web site on Microsoft Publisher?
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Piggy, the Biscuit Færie
in July 3rd, 2008 @ 17:34184- Ask someone on the Computers thread.
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Zinc the sorceress and Leafygreen (Jerdana and Katrina)
in July 18th, 2008 @ 13:40Do the GAPAs sleep in coffins under their desks?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 18th, 2008 @ 13:51(186) I wish! A nap sounds very good to me right now. Unfortunately, I still have miles of editing to do before I sleep.
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Alice
in July 18th, 2008 @ 14:01186- That’s a weird question. Do they seem like vampires to you?
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Zinc the sorceress and Leafygreen (Jerdana and Katrina)
in July 18th, 2008 @ 14:19188- Well, they spend just about all day moderating; where else would they sleep?
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Zinc the sorceress and Leafygreen (Jerdana and Katrina)
in July 18th, 2008 @ 14:20187- Sorry to double post, but was that a tweaking of a certain Robert Frost poem?
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The Bookworm & Lurline (410 piepoints and two B-Day Points and 42 KAG Points!)
in July 18th, 2008 @ 16:21He’s Robert Coontz-Frost! Oh, GAPAs, who are your favorite Poets?
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eragon
in July 27th, 2008 @ 12:06We need a thread devoted to video games. Seriously.
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in August 19th, 2008 @ 13:57Generally, what are the character traits of a MBer?
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earthgirl and eria and the totally random pie vendor
in August 19th, 2008 @ 14:52funny, nerdy(slightly) a insane to various degees, at least a little intellegent, a weeee bit violent ((see bunny apoclase)) and totally random ((see teh abundance of random threads)) oh! and usually not average at anything, from style to CMT scores, for we are the elite of tween-teen-post-college-graduate society, the unique!
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in August 19th, 2008 @ 14:52oh, and occasionally a bit bossy, but only becuase everyone likes their own ideas…untill a better one comes along
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in August 19th, 2008 @ 15:21in some cases, overloads of sarcasm (why are you all looking at me?) and in pretty much all cases exceptional observation
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Zinc the sorceress/vampire and Leafygreen
in August 19th, 2008 @ 15:28It’s kind of obvious- we’re all insane.
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Syllabub
in August 19th, 2008 @ 15:42I don’t know if this has been asked before, I’m too lazy to read all of these questions.
GAPAs-how many hours a day do you spend on MB?
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Mezi the awesome
in August 19th, 2008 @ 15:47I don’t know about the average thing
I’m average at a lot of things: sports for example
well actually, that would probably be considered worse than average….
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 19th, 2008 @ 17:12(198) I usually moderate in little snippets of time, maybe a minute or two each. I don’t know what they add up to, but probably less than an hour a day in total, except at the end of the month when we create several new threads.
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Syllabub
in August 20th, 2008 @ 18:45Oaky, here’s another-what time zone are the times on the posts set to? Because it doesn’t match up to my time here in NH.
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Kokonilly
in August 20th, 2008 @ 19:03201 – Central. I am on blog time.
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The Man For Aeiou
in August 20th, 2008 @ 21:27Why is it that, at the end of the credits for movies, there’s something that says produced by Blankyed blank prodution for the purpose of copyright law in the United Kingdom?
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Syllabub
in August 21st, 2008 @ 06:20202-how many hours difference is that from eastern time? 1 hour? 2? It’s not even 7:30 this morning for me so my brain isn’t working.
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 ¡Red-tailed HAWK!  [6,000 piepoints ©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] �|�
in August 21st, 2008 @ 08:38204-One hour earlier. For example, in your comment you said it wasn’t quite 7:30. Your comment registered as 6:20.
The GAPAs have it set for central time because Muse is in Chicago.
Red-tailed HAWK
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peary moppins
in August 21st, 2008 @ 09:30Ohhh….figures. I’m on Eastern Time, too, and the post I posted was an hour earlier.
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Syllabub
in August 21st, 2008 @ 12:33205-Thanks!!
206-what state do you live in?
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Armada
in August 25th, 2008 @ 19:29I don’t know if this is even true, but I seem to remember one of you saying in a former ATG thread that none of you had ever met Paul personally (meeting yourself doesn’t count). If so, how did he get to be a GAPA?
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The Man For Aeiou
in August 25th, 2008 @ 20:46208- That is a good question.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in August 25th, 2008 @ 20:54(208) Oh, I don’t know. Grant and Zoe (then Treble_Cone_Freeskier) lived on opposite sides of the world and had never met, yet they collaborated very effectively on that film strip. I think it’s perfectly possible to like, admire, and work with someone you’ve never been near. I’m sure we’ll get around to meeting Paul one of these days.
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The Man For Aeiou
in August 25th, 2008 @ 21:03210- and then we can find out how crazy he really is.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in August 25th, 2008 @ 21:13(211) Are we ready for that?
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Armada
in August 25th, 2008 @ 21:17210- Oh, definitely. I was just wondering.
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The Man For Aeiou
in August 25th, 2008 @ 21:18212- we’ll never be.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of 2 spzdk, 500 PiePoints and 30 Muszey points)
in August 25th, 2008 @ 21:25212~ Probably not.
What gets me though is one time after returning from WI, and reading a post from him, saying how he was just back…..from WI. *smacks head* Drat.(No, you don’t see this post, it’s a figment of your imagination. I’m actually packing to leave for Wisconsin tomorrow.)
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peary moppins
in August 26th, 2008 @ 09:54*oblivious to Midnight Fiddler*
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KaiYves
in September 9th, 2008 @ 19:24Would it be possible to increase the pressure in an aquarium so that you could keep fish from the very deep ocean in it?
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~badrang~
in September 15th, 2008 @ 15:53how long till you get on the whos here thread?
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Cliff Eagle
in September 15th, 2008 @ 19:19218- If the GAPAs had a nickel for every time they heard that question, then why would they be running a blog full of adolescents when they could be relaxing in their million acre beach mansion in Beverly Hills?
But anyways, sorry for my sarcastic comment? Are you possibly new? If so, please take a moment to enjoy the key lime pie I have just thrown in your face.
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Kokonilly
in September 15th, 2008 @ 19:59219 – Badrang’s not a ‘phyte, as far as I know.
Hallo GAPAs! What are your fave colors??? *random*
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The Man For Aeiou
in September 15th, 2008 @ 21:23219- his just very ‘phyte like.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 15th, 2008 @ 21:24Favorite colors? That’s a dangerous question to ask Lady Bunniful. She knows colors I haven’t even heard of.
As for me, I’m partial to blue — most shades, particularly the eye and sky kind.
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Kokonilly
in September 15th, 2008 @ 21:41222 – I also like blue. Light blue. And lime green.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 15th, 2008 @ 22:00(219) Cliff Eagle,
I don’t think there are any beach mansions in Beverly Hills — Santa Monica is in the way — but even if we had one (or four), we’d still keep moderating MuseBlog. Priorities are priorities.
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~badrang~
in September 22nd, 2008 @ 14:36219 —i}*pied* I think I ‘m oldish…..(a year) but is not one a “phyte” till they get on the whos here thread? *goes off to search for anser given to other musers* &* gives gapa nickel*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 22nd, 2008 @ 15:00Appearance on the “Who’s Here” page has nothing to with a MBer’s status as neophyte or veteran. In fact, as far as we GAPAs are concerned, phytehood is an all-but-meaningless concept. Once you’ve received your welcome pies and settled into blogging, you’re the same as anyone else. We’re all Musers here. What’s the point in drawing finer distinctions?
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Cliff Eagle
in September 22nd, 2008 @ 15:10226- AAAARGH! UUH! OOF!
*recovering from a direct blow from the Phrase that must Not be Named*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 22nd, 2008 @ 15:43It’s actually the Phrase That Is So Self-Evident That It Usually Need Not Be Named, but That Isn’t Formally Forbidden.
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Luna the Lovely
in September 22nd, 2008 @ 15:52228–and here I thought it was “the dread phrase”.
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The Man For Aeiou
in September 22nd, 2008 @ 16:53226- *Pies Robert for saying the dread phrase.”
We should have nicknames for you and Roseanne!
Hmm…. Dread Pirate Roberts, Anyone?
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muselover
in September 23rd, 2008 @ 19:00I’m pretty sure you have a googol (or, to be even more specific, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) questions about this, but, just to clear things up, is “Mostly Harmless” (relating to the Kokonspiracy) a reference to the article on Earth in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 23rd, 2008 @ 19:13(231) Only Duncan_Quagmire can say for sure, but my working hypothesis is “undoubtedly.”
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groundhog22
in September 23rd, 2008 @ 20:38230 – Good idea. Especially after he said the “Dread Phrase.”
We may all be Musers, but the point in drawing finer distinctions is so that we may better help the newcomers.
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KaiYves
in September 24th, 2008 @ 13:34Is Muse Academy Island near Surtsey?
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Cliff Eagle
in September 24th, 2008 @ 14:04234- I think its in Vestmannejar. Which is relatively near surtsey.
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muselover
in September 24th, 2008 @ 21:00230- Yes, but it should be Dread Pie-rate Roberts instead.
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The Man For Aeiou
in September 25th, 2008 @ 22:11233, 236- do eaither of you know where the DPR comes from *Hint: it’s be willium Goldman*
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vaxiddxvii
in September 26th, 2008 @ 17:22Here’s a question: a while ago (I don’t remember when) there was a thread where the muses came and answered questions. Is that going to ever happen again?
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~badrang~
in September 29th, 2008 @ 14:15thank you gapa! my name is on the W.H.T.! why do a lot of the names not have the ♂ symbol but we do? 230 236 the romping robber Robert?
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muselover
in September 29th, 2008 @ 14:28237-Uh, yeah, The Princess Bride?
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♫ Syllabub ♪ and MissSwann
in October 3rd, 2008 @ 18:33Ahhh!!! We have a problem. We just took the Muse Academy Placement Quiz and our answers don’t match up with any of the houses!!!!!!!! Help?????
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♫ Syllabub ♪
in October 4th, 2008 @ 08:54Someone? Help? Please?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in October 4th, 2008 @ 09:01Syllabub: When that happens, you get to pick.
(Actually, MBers are perfectly free to skip the quiz and choose a house for themselves, but, being dyed-in-the-wool nerds, most prefer the imprimatur of a test result.)
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Zinc the sorceress and Leafygreen
in October 4th, 2008 @ 09:10I took the test, and it was a toss up between Baker and Spector Houses. I chose Baker because writing isn’t really my thing. T_T
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♫ Syllabub ♪
in October 4th, 2008 @ 09:11243-Thank you!! I’ll tell MissSwann.
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Mogget's Little Sister (AKA Kyra [Pronounced KEER-rah])
in October 8th, 2008 @ 00:16Am I allowed to post daily entries from my journal if I want to? They’re from a year ago, and I’ll —— out names and anything to do with my hometown.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in October 8th, 2008 @ 06:21(246) Kyra: Posting journal entries isn’t so different from posting anything else on the blog. Go right ahead.
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Mogget's Little Sister (AKA Kyra)
in October 8th, 2008 @ 18:49247- Sweet! Thanks.
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Kittymine, Official Summary Writer, with 11 piepoints+7 brain points (yay!)
in October 10th, 2008 @ 12:11This is an important question! (I’m not saying that all the other questions aren’t but…)
I would like to try and post pictures of my characters in BA/BA:TNG (these are animated pictures). Where, if at all, would I be able to do that and How?
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muselover
in October 13th, 2008 @ 14:52Could you post a picture of yourself, Robert? I want to do you in the caricature contest, but I don’t have a good photo.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in October 13th, 2008 @ 15:12(250) There are quite a few pictures of Robert scattered about the blog. I think the most recent (not including the Time Capsule) were from the Pie-eating event in August.
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muselover
in October 13th, 2008 @ 15:54Thanks.
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Ӝ ҉Piggy҉ Ӝ (Current High Bailiff)
in October 23rd, 2008 @ 18:34One question: When will the sig shirts come out? You’ve been ignoring the signature thread. I need to put it on my Christmas list. Thanks!
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~badrang~
in October 31st, 2008 @ 01:02we should have a thread on military tactics….but what I came here for how do you get a thread on to the “current category’s” place with the big lettering in green? the easily accessible place? when I put the Chronicles of museica in the don’t forget these threads thread I had hoped it would go there so all may look upon the mighty and fantastic glory of museica and muserland we repeat glory glory glory *singing*I post this now as we near the end of the month the time when the blog is redone ~hint hint~ oh wonderful and beautifully GAPA please PLEASE PUT THE Chronicles of Museica, Part the Ninth
August 29th, 2008on the important place please! *grovel* if you don’t I will send a large army of sylphs to rip up your papers and make general mischief… sinisterly love and choklit ~badrang~
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MissCullen (Temporary surname until Nov. 21)
in November 13th, 2008 @ 19:50So, GAPAs. If it’s not too rude, where do y’all stand on politics?
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Armada
in November 14th, 2008 @ 21:22249-OH, YEAH!
Sorry, that was kind of random….. Bleah, I’ve been so weird lately…..
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Koko's Apprentice
in December 2nd, 2008 @ 14:00If its not to personal (which it probably is) how much do yourget paid?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 2nd, 2008 @ 14:21(255) I support politics. As a means of choosing leaders and settling disputes, it’s vastly preferable to coercion, intimidation, chaos, paralysis, hereditary privilege, or war.
(257) You mean, paid for being GAPAs? The sheer inconceivability of that notion makes the mind reel.
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Luna the Lovely (11.5 Potterpoints!)
in December 2nd, 2008 @ 14:36258–nice evasion of the question there, Robert.
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MissSwann of Isle Esme
in December 4th, 2008 @ 19:20259-
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Piggy
in December 4th, 2008 @ 19:49257- GAPAs are like House Elves. Paying them is out of the question. And did someone accidentally give Master Baker a sock?
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in December 4th, 2008 @ 20:40Favorite music: Anything that’s beautiful, soothing or happy without being boring or annoying. It’s a fine distinction and varies from day to day. Example: ABBA songs usually annoy but on rare occasions are the perfect treat. And Bach’s Goldberg Variations are almost always welcome — except when I’m really sick of them.
Lately the music I listen to most is bossa nova.
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Tesseract
in December 4th, 2008 @ 21:22This was already asked much earlier in the thread, but do you guys have kids?
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Tesseract
in December 6th, 2008 @ 10:56Also: How does one pronounce “GAPA”?
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Piggy
in December 6th, 2008 @ 11:31264- I, for one, pronounce each letter separately.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 6th, 2008 @ 11:35I’ve always assumed it rhymed with “Zappa.”
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Piggy
in December 6th, 2008 @ 11:38266- When I pronounce it like that, it sounds too much like “kappa”, which reminds me of some sort of fraternity or sorority. Like “GAPA GAPA Phi”, or something. Say, does MA have a college as well? That could be an elite fraternity.
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Luna the Lovely (11.5 Potterpoints!)
in December 6th, 2008 @ 13:58264–I pronounce it Gap-uh
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♫ Agrrrfishi {Aggie}♫
in December 6th, 2008 @ 16:14264- I always assumed it was pronounced “gahpah” but to each is own.
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Kagcomix
in December 6th, 2008 @ 16:43266- that’s how I say it.
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in December 19th, 2008 @ 22:26I found a thread called “Special yay4hotpinkbunnies! First Post Thread” (Here, if the link works.) It appears to be a thread on which only one person can post (there’s not even a comment box). Why did you make the thread? Can anyone have a First-Post Thread? And if not, who can?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 19th, 2008 @ 22:47(271) That was a special case. The blogger formerly known as yay4hotpinkbunnies kept being disappointed in her attempts to attain a first post. The one time she managed to be the first MBer to post, she still came in second because Robert used his GAPA powers to take the spot. In recompense, he created the special thread for her.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of 2 spzdk, 500 PiePoints and 30 Muszey points)
in December 19th, 2008 @ 22:58271~ Anyone who nags, apparently. I don’t now though, GAPAs? I second this question.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of 2 spzdk, 500 PiePoints and 30 Muszey points)
in December 19th, 2008 @ 23:03Oh, I stand corrected. Robert, how could you flaunt your special powers and take away a Muser’s first post? cruel and unusual punishment!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 19th, 2008 @ 23:04(273) I think he was just overcome with eagerness to do the first-post dance.
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KaiYves
in December 20th, 2008 @ 11:29If you spit in a centrifuge, will the spit fly back in your face and hurt?
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Gwyn the illustrationist who is finally done!!!
in December 28th, 2008 @ 16:35I have a 3 1/2 foot long illustration to send in. How would I do this?
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Kagcomix
in December 28th, 2008 @ 17:28277- I would recomend making it into section. Or scaaning it in sections and then piecing it together. I have no idea how to do that but whoever does “Minus” ( a webcomic thiny) did that (I think).
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 28th, 2008 @ 17:56(277, 278) Yes, you can scan it in sections. The most important points to keep in mind are to keep the original lined up as straight as possible as you change sections and to allow plenty of overlap (an inch and a half or so is probably sufficient). The reason for the overlap is that the lid probably won’t completely close, so the edges may come out a different color and require trimming.
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Tessera Rose
in December 28th, 2008 @ 18:55Five questions I am dying to have answered:
-At what temperature does diamond evaporate?
-Who invented the rubber duckie?
-When was it invented?
-What broadleaf trees occr naturally in the pacific northwest?
-How do you spell the word I just mutilated?
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Kokonilly
in December 28th, 2008 @ 19:07If a solid turns straight into a gas, is it called sublimation?
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Kagcomix
in December 28th, 2008 @ 20:06281- yes. A gas into a solid is also sublimation.
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KaiYves
in December 28th, 2008 @ 22:03280- According to Wikipedia, nobody knows who invented the rubber ducky or when.
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Tessera Rose
in December 30th, 2008 @ 12:35How does your name get to be on ‘Who’s Here?’
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 30th, 2008 @ 12:42(284) Um, catch the attention of GAPAs when they’re alert…we do try to add new bloggers as they arrive, but what with one thing and another, we sometimes miss. You’re on there now.
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Tessera Rose
in December 30th, 2008 @ 12:45yay!
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Kagcomix
in January 11th, 2009 @ 16:06Dearest GAPAs,
I have a burning question. How does one properly use the punctuation “:” and “;”? I have no idea and would really like to know. Please? Thank-you.
Sincerely,
Kagcomix
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Piggy
in January 11th, 2009 @ 17:50287- If the GAPAs don’t mind, I could answer that question. Use a semicolon to separate two thought or clauses; the thoughts are like separate sentences, but related. You, by which I mean Kagy, can also use “;”, the semicolon, to separate two long, but still related thoughts; but you use a conjunction, like “but”, “and”, or “or” after it. The “:”, or colon, is used for a plethora of situations. It can: introduce a list, separate hour from minute (4:06), or, especially in semi-formal writing, introduce: a single item.
If I’m wrong on any of these definitions, I’m sure Robert will be here to correct me. He loves doing that. As do most, nay, all Musers.
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Cliff Eagle
in January 12th, 2009 @ 18:13Mr or Mrs. GAPAperson,
One of you lives in North Carolina. I would like to know your standing on Duke vs. UNC vs. NC State. I would like an honest answer and if the answer is “UNC”, you can choose to plead the fifth.
Much Obliged,
Cliff Eagle
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Tessera Rose
in January 18th, 2009 @ 21:45Is there a thread someghere called ‘So long, and thanks for all the pie”?
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in January 18th, 2009 @ 22:06290- No, although it may have been a subtitle somewhere. If you use the “What’s Here” button (also at the top of the page) and press Ctrl + F, your web browser should give you a “Find” box. This works well for the “Who’s Here” page too.
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Tessera Rose
in January 27th, 2009 @ 22:32What happened to Paul Palnik?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 27th, 2009 @ 22:36(293) He’s still in business. You can see many of his non-Muse cartoons at his website, www . thegodofcreativity.org .
(291) No, but gimanator used the phrase in its H2G2-paraphrastic sense last March on the Hare-athon thread.
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Midnight Fiddler (she of 2 spzdk, 500 PiePoints and 30 Muszey points)
in January 27th, 2009 @ 22:40What, may I ask, is our valiant GAPA doing awake at this ghastly hour?! it’s 11:40! Go to sleep! Heavens, are you trying to encourage us innocent young MBers to stay up late because of the super fast moderation?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 27th, 2009 @ 22:45Just about to sign off and go to bed. Rosanne will probably check in later (though earlier in her time zone). ‘Night, Fiddler!
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taekwondogirl
in January 28th, 2009 @ 09:11Um, hello?
I just want to know how the GAPAs know people’s b-days? also, how do you become an official MBer with your name on the “who’s Here” and the signature thingy (can’t think of the name right now)
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 28th, 2009 @ 09:25We’ll know your birthday if you tell us your birthday; otherwise we won’t. People send us their signatures, which Rebecca adds to the products at Musery Loves Company whenever enough new ones have piled up. MBers’ names appear on the “Who’s Here” page whenever we get around to adding them — in your case, today. Sorry that it took so long!
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taekwondogirl
in January 28th, 2009 @ 19:19is there an address to send signatures to?
P.S. 6/9/96
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Luna the Lovely
in January 28th, 2009 @ 19:21298–sweet. You’re b-day is the same backswards and forwards. very nice.
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taekwondogirl
in January 28th, 2009 @ 19:27thank you. maybe that’s why 6 and 9 are some of my favorite numbers
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 28th, 2009 @ 19:50Our e-mail address is gapa @ musefanpage.com .
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taekwondogirl
in February 2nd, 2009 @ 14:57thanks!
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Cliff Eagle
in February 2nd, 2009 @ 15:34Dear GAPA,
I have a pressing question. The fate of the entire world depends on it, and humanity will fall if the question isn’t answered.What is your favorite kind of cheese?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in February 2nd, 2009 @ 15:40Only one? That’s almost as difficult as choosing my favorite color, and we all know the quicksand into which that leads….
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taekwondogirl
in February 2nd, 2009 @ 15:41i like chedder
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 2nd, 2009 @ 16:15(303-305) That’s a tough question, all right. Lately I’ve been eating a lot of smoked Gouda (e.g., with soup, on rice crackers), so I suppose that’s my favorite “workhorse” cheese for daily consumption, at the moment anyway.
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muselover
in March 5th, 2009 @ 17:41Here’s one: Since bunnies are an available symbol on the MB, why can’t the new red-letter “splat” be one?
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Piggy
in March 5th, 2009 @ 19:11*stands in to answer question*
307- Because A. We wouldn’t use that symbol, and B. MuseBlog’s software only allows a certain number of emoticons. If we wanted to add the splat, we’d need to dump an existing symbol.
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Daisy*chain
in March 5th, 2009 @ 21:05When is the next signatures page going to be made? I’d like to know so I can be on it…
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in March 5th, 2009 @ 21:22309- Probably not for a while. We just made a signature shirt a few months ago.
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Vendaval
in March 5th, 2009 @ 21:24309- It’ll be a while, there’s generally a long break between signature renewal. You could look at the What’s Here page to get a better idea of how long that is, but the best thing would to do would to make a signature now, save it somewhere memorable, and then iterate it whenever you remember.
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Daisy*chain
in March 5th, 2009 @ 21:39310, 311- Thank you very much.
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in March 6th, 2009 @ 01:24Cliff Eagle (303) – Current favorite cheese: Grassfed New Zealand Cheddar. That’s what the label says, but I’m assuming it’s actually cows that are grassfed, not the cheese. (An image of cheese wedges roaming verdant New Zealand hillsides flits through my mind.)
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Midnight Fiddler (she of 2 spzdk, 500 PiePoints and 30 Muszey points)
in March 30th, 2009 @ 21:52Do the GAPAs have a preference of dark, milk or white chocolate?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 30th, 2009 @ 22:35I know it sounds more sophisticated to prefer dark chocolate, but good milk chocolate really hits the spot sometimes, too. White chocolate isn’t chocolate, as far as I’m concerned.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 30th, 2009 @ 22:49(315) I’m pretty sure white chocolate doesn’t contain any actual chocolate, so you would be correct. I actually like it, but I almost never eat it anymore, since its nutritional profile is purely bad news. There are other ways I’d rather use my saturated-fat calories.
(314) I do prefer dark chocolate, probably because it’s not as sweet. It seems more satisfying, too, somehow. But I’m happy to eat milk chocolate.
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Tessera Rose
in April 8th, 2009 @ 14:28did museblog appear before or after the bunny wars?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in April 8th, 2009 @ 14:36(317) Which bunny wars?
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muselover
in April 8th, 2009 @ 15:53Okay, what in the world does THIS mean???
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/gapa/musefanpage.com/blog/wp-includes/class-template.php on line 27
It’s in the top right corner, where the alleged advertisements were supposed to be.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 8th, 2009 @ 16:20(319) It means that on February 25, some evil non-MBer hacked MuseBlog’s WordPress code to show advertisements in that space, and now the inserted code is malfunctioning and causing slowdowns and other problems. I’ve tried to track down the problem, but the commands are well disguised and seem to be spread out among the files in a way that will break other parts of the blog if I simply start deleting them. I’m going to reinstall our software tonight. (I tried to do it last night but had to go to bed before I could finish the job.)
That’s the story. I think I’ll make it into a blog announcement so everyone will know.
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muselover
in April 8th, 2009 @ 16:27Thanks, Robert!
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Silver Lining
in April 8th, 2009 @ 17:14Random question that Peace* made me ask:
Have you ever been to Liverpool? (Kudos to you if you know why Peace* wanted to know this.)
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in April 8th, 2009 @ 17:20(322) I don’t suppose that would have anything to do with some band that used to play there in the ’60s?
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Silver Lining
in April 20th, 2009 @ 18:51Oh of course not.
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Rainbow*Star
in June 7th, 2009 @ 11:21I’m making a WordPress blog (Blix theme, like MB used to be), and I’d like to know two things:
How do you change the blog colors?
How do you make it so avatars don’t show up in the Recent Comments bar?
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Vendaval
in June 7th, 2009 @ 12:04Is your blog on WordPress.com?
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Rainbow*Star
in June 7th, 2009 @ 12:20Yup. The URL is this format: http:// nameofblog. wordpress.com
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in June 7th, 2009 @ 12:21Whoops, sorry. Didn’t realize there was an actual blog ccalled Name Of Blog.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 12:27Rainbow*Star, you probably can’t change the colors. We used a version of the theme called Blixkrieg that allowed for customization. It’s not available in WordPress.com.
To remove the avatars, look in the lefthand column for widgets. On the widgets page, click on Recent Comments to get the drop-down window. Next to “avatar size” is a drop-down list that lets you choose “no avatar” or the size you’d prefer. Remember to save your options.
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 15:38I (and Armada) want to start a fanfic RPG, taking place, oh, sometime far enough in the future to have invented some type of time travel. Ok, GAPAs? Call it “Fanfic time travel RPG”
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 15:52“Fanfic” means you’re writing about somebody else’s well-known characters, doesn’t it? Is that what you have in mind?
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 15:54Well, then RRR, with MuseBloggers and Muses and HG2G peoples.
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Armada
in June 7th, 2009 @ 15:55I think so…..I’m not too sure. Enceladus, we were having it be something like the MB fanfic but with more technology, right?
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 16:32Ok, then. But with the ‘realizer’ and ‘derealizer’ it would be easier to make the Muses and HG2G characters.
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Armada
in June 7th, 2009 @ 17:32It’s your idea, you make the rules. I was just asking you, because I wasn’t quite sure.
Waaaaiiitttt…..There are going to be H2G2 characters involved? Oh, gods. This is going to be crazy. But good. Awesomely awesome, in fact.
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 18:19Just imagine….
Zaphod Beeblebrox vs. Kokopelli
funfunfunfunfunfufunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfun!!!!!!
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Armada
in June 7th, 2009 @ 18:31No kidding. I want to RP Random!
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 19:07So, GAPAs, when are ya gonna make the thread for us? Hmm….?
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Armada
in June 7th, 2009 @ 19:27We may need more than two votes for this. I suggest we go to the Suggestion Box.
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 8th, 2009 @ 13:57Please! GAPAS, makee a thread!!!!!!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 8th, 2009 @ 14:06Enceladus, did you read Robert’s comment? Have you found some more recruits?
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 18:25SFTDP
GAPAs, this is completely off topic, but on the recent comments bar, random symbols are being imported in, without being in the original message. Why? Is it another…. virus? *cowers*
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SudoRandom
in June 7th, 2009 @ 18:35I’ve been seeing this too, although sometimes with me there are just letters missing. Mine weren’t symbols, just misspellings of names and such.
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Armada
in June 7th, 2009 @ 18:59Oh, you mean all the random numbers and spaces and symbols and stuff? I’ve been seeing those for the past week, maybe, though more frequently today. I sure hope it’s not anything sinister.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 19:17The ones I’ve seen look like the HTML numbers for punctuation, such as & #8217 ; (without spaces) for the closing single quotation mark or apostrophe.
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Armada
in June 7th, 2009 @ 19:25Oh, yeah. That’s okay, then. I’ve been seeing similar stuff to that. Why does it do that, though? I mean, it does smileys, why wouldn’t it do punctuation?
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Peace*
in June 7th, 2009 @ 19:38What are you guys reading at the moment?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 19:53(328) Apart from MBers’ posts, you mean? I’m reading Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernières.
(327.2.1) Mysterious are the ways of the Blog.
(326) We’re always cautious about launching a new RRR (etc.) until we are sure there’s a real demand for it. Two people, however enthusiastic, aren’t enough to sustain one.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 7th, 2009 @ 20:25(328) I’m sort of between books right now. I just finished Joseph M. Williams’ Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to think about how they might improve their writing. It’s what Strunk and White should have been.
Intermittently, I’ve also been poking around in Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book a novel-length poem about a murder in Renaissance Italy as well as a couple of books about algebra.
Sadly, though, I haven’t had much time for any sustained reading lately. My shelf of library borrowings has dwindled down to almost empty.
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Insane MLDM+Ferelda(^&^) (114 coolpointz)(1 b-day point)(200 twisted evilpoints)
in June 8th, 2009 @ 04:57Do the GAPAs like maths? And did they like maths when they were, say, 13ish?
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Insane MLDM+Ferelda(^&^) (114 coolpointz)(1 b-day point)(200 twisted evilpoints)
in June 8th, 2009 @ 05:01SFMPA (Sorry For Multiple Posting AGAIN) but someone asked on the Muser Profiles thread that if you moved from a city with a <1 000 000, can you say where you moved from (or something to that effect)? So, can you?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 8th, 2009 @ 10:11(331) Let’s see… 13 years old… “advanced algebra.” I liked the mathematics books on my father’s shelf (probability, permutations and combinations, that sort of thing) more than the boring stuff they were teaching us in school at that point. I majored in math(s) in college and tutor kids in it nowadays, so yes, I do like it.
(332) Rather not.
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cromwell
in June 8th, 2009 @ 14:12Um…A while ago I tried to get a diplomacy thread. I gave up the idea because it seemed too hard for you (collective) to do. But if there were (or was?) seven people, do you think you could find something like the new chess application? In other words, may I renew the search for diplomacy players? Or would it be a burden to have such a thread?
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Enceladus and Nimly (*.*)
in June 9th, 2009 @ 05:59I’ll join. What’s it for?
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cromwell
in June 10th, 2009 @ 12:23It’s for diplomacy.
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Insane MLDM+Ferelda(^&^) (114 coolpointz)(1 b-day point)(200 twisted evilpoints)
in June 9th, 2009 @ 04:46333- Yes!!! Someone who liked maths (one of my friends likes maths because she’s in a lower maths class and therefore doesn’t get a lot of work, but that wasn’t quite what I had in mind) !!! *faints with joy* *celebrates with choclate pies*
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 9th, 2009 @ 07:33(331) Insane MLDM, age 13 was the beginning of my mathematical downfall. My 9th grade math teacher was marking time till retirement and had no idea how to control a classroom. A bunch of older jocks sat in the back shooting spitwads all day. The teacher droned on. I couldn’t imagine asking him for help on the confusing parts, and my mathematically trained father only confused me more.
My other math teachers were more of the same, except for one. She was a fiend. Even my dad agreed and let me drop the class. By then, I was convinced I was hopelessly stupid. It wasn’t until about twenty years later that I began to realize (a) that I was not hopelessly stupid and (b) that I had really missed out on an essential (and fascinating) experience.
Every few years since then I make another attempt to learn more math. It’s slow and I still make a lot of the same mistakes I did in my teens, except now I better understand why I make them. Plus I’m much more patient with myself now that I know that my stupidity wasn’t the issue.
I don’t know how far I’ll get, but I love trying. And I love what I’m able to glimpse of the structure of mathematics. I have this crazy idea that I want to paint equations though as yet I haven’t figured out exactly what I mean by that….
As an aside, I also love counting things. I’m not sure why, but it’s very soothing to tot up columns of numbers and work out patterns.
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RoseQuartz
in July 11th, 2009 @ 17:24What happens if a kid MBer has an adult friend they’d like to invite to MB? Should the adult use ens full name at the risk of exposing information about the kid, or break the full-name rule and use a pseudonym?
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Silver Lining
in July 16th, 2009 @ 12:36GAPAs, is it possible for you to zap all of my posts with the purple triangular frowny-face avatar (including this one) please? Thank you.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 16th, 2009 @ 12:57Sorry, Silver Lining. That’s a dozen comments over a week and a half, and some of them have replies attached; plus removing them would throw off all the numbers, which could also cause problems.
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Silver Lining
in July 16th, 2009 @ 13:20Could you zap the ones without replies? It’s fine if you can’t…
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Silver Lining
in July 16th, 2009 @ 13:30Never mind.
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RoseQuartz
in July 16th, 2009 @ 16:19Hey, uh, GAPAs? 337? P*ease?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in July 16th, 2009 @ 17:57RQ, could you email us a little more information, please? Such as, who this person is and why you want en on the blog. Thanks.
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Errata
in August 10th, 2009 @ 15:55Could we have a new thread for this? This one’s old and full. P*ease?
[Good idea. –Admin.]
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