The monthly Random Thread continues its smiley celebration (in the picture, anyway; the words you post no doubt will remain as random as ever). Emoticons pop up in the strangest places.
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Welcome dear thread. Nice graphics, Lady B. Your wonderful animations never cease to amaze me.
I love the smiley’s!!!!
Wow. Awesome picture!
I had my first driving lesson from my dad. It was scary!
I don’t want to dis feather!
No! Mr. Joe has taken over Feather’s body! *runs around screaming*
3: Splendy!
5: Noes!!1!!!!!one!!!!1!!!!
Today someone spitballed me and frosting. I called him nasty names and swung my leg up to kick the seat of his backpack. It’s my signature move.
I love the picture! Pwt’s emoticon-face is perfect, and if you squint, the devil-emoticon’s horn almost makes it look like Koko has Voldy-eyes…
I like the picture, Rebecca!
Has anyone heard about what Pittsburgh’s mayor is doing?
Well, this Sunday, the Steelers are playing the Ravens to see who will go to the Super Bowl. Our mayor’s name is Luke Ravenstahl. Because of this game, he is going to legally change his name to “Steelerstahl” so he won’t have Raven in his name (also, coincidentally, “stahl” is steel in German) for the game.
Oh, Pittsburgh…*sigh*
[Another fun Pittsburgh fact: the day after we won the Super Bowl a few years ago, all of our schools had 2-hour delays because they didn’t think they’d have enough bus drivers.]
Very nice graphic!
Did Lady B. draw them all? I get the feeling they’re not Gonick originals. Maybe because they have shadows. Speaking of Larry, I hope Raw Materials comes back soon!
3- I am too scared of driving.
8- That is simultaneously hilarious and worrisome. Maybe a similar situation could be used in a story- some legal documents are no longer valid due to obscure law…, and shenanigans ensue.
Uuuggg…. I need to go practice, do my math, and sleep.
I zoned in math. I barely know anything about slope. *snores*
Yesterday in PE I found I had put my pants on backward. Woe!
Speaking of PE, we’re learning the national dance of the Phillipines. It involves sticks and hopping.
Today at lunch Spumoni and I worked on our comedy routine. Then Melon came up and suggested we involve a banana. Then I started sing Bananaphone (Spumoni was calling her mom to get her lawyer), and we’re now doing that too. It’s pretty dumb.
I’m better friends with Alfalfa’s friends. They’re nice, actually.
(8): I left something out, sorry–it’s supposed to be “sober” bus drivers. Pittsburgh takes its football very seriously. Any rumor/stereotype you’ve heard about Pittsburgh and football-happy citizens is probably true.
(9): Me, too! I’ve been checking it every week since January started, hoping to see a new update!
I like the graphic.
is very Pwt-like, and 
is definitely Koko’s smiley. But what’s this I see? Mr. Joe’s face? On Feather’s body? AAAH! MR. JOE HAS TAKEN OVER FEATHER!*runs in circles screaming*
10 – Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phone – *is gagged*
sweet picture…..
Amberleigh talks so fast that I don’t know what she is saying. This is madness, pure madness. Oh, shes squealing now.
Good morning MB!
I love the pic!
I like the picture, but they look like they are not really by the same artist… My favorite smiley face is B-) or maybe
or maybe 
… there are way to many to choose from!
Gasp! Feather has been zombified!
ATTENTION, ALL BA-ERS! YOU ARE NEEDED ON THE BA-TNG THREAD IMMEDIATELY! IT IS PRACTICALLY DYING OVER THERE!
Ba-ers?
Looooove the graphic Lady B! Verrrry cool.
I got a camera yesterday!!!!!!!! w00t! sorry, I just had to do that. I’m reeeeeeeeeaaally bored because I don’t have any homework to do soooooo……..yeah. I got a 101 on my Social Studies test!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so happy I could just throw a pie! *does* 
18- Short for Bunny Apocalypse-ers. That really should be in the HG2MB.
I might be getting a fishy tomorrow! YAY!
I don’t know if any of you guys saw it on the news, but a plane did an emergency landing in the Hudson River after a bird got sucked into the turbine or something. Anyway, they got everybody out okay and nobody’s apparently hurt seriously, but just imagine that freezing water!
10- Hey, I knew how to do that once! With the sticks and hopping.
21- I hadn’t heard because I don’t watch news (although I bet it’s in the newspaper tomorrow…) It’s good everyone got out alive. The Hudson River isn’t somewhere I would want to swim in good weather, although I guess it’s better than it was.
Also, your name is change in distance over time?
Random thoughts: Is it bad that I hear the metronome clicking when I stop remembering that it’s not nearby or on?
I think the i key on my keyboard is breaking; it only works every other time or so. My laptop keyboard. What does that say about my writing habits?
I am not a fan of emoticons as pictures, although when they’re still in ASCII it’s okay.
23- Well, my hero name on the Superhero RPG thread is.
I don’t know if I’m getting my January Muse issue…. Time to visit the library… They hate me because I lost Prince Caspian. I still haven’t read it. Darn.
I need a new MB name. I’m getting bored again. Any suggestions????
Have a nice night everyone. I’ll be up doing my lab. Which I don’t understand.
Hullo everyone. I’ve been gone for a few days and whew, have the posts piled up! I read most of the ones on the last thread, but not very many of these, since I don’t have much time.
Anyway. I’m glad about that.
Well, yesterday I went with mom and a friend to a music store which was lots of fun. I ordered a new violin case, which will be lovely, since I’ve really been needing one that has a good suspension system and isn’t broken. My old case has been great, but traveling with a case that is in perfect shape but doesn’t offer the greatest protection is a little frightening. The “new” case has good protection but is broken and a piece of junk. String players of the blog: DO NOT BUY AN AMERICAN BRAND CASE. They aren’t made in America and all the ones I got were defective. Shar also refused to stand behind their lifetime warranty.
However, despite that glimmer of goodness this lovely day is marked with sadness. Another friend passed away recently.
The friend in question was an amazing coppersmith who did 18th century work, my family knew him and his wife from living history events because they were some of the ones who were very kind and helped us out when we were starting. We use the cups he made us every day. I didn’t know him really well, but they were some of the people I always looked forward to seeing a few times a year.
I’m reminded of a few years ago when a friend accidentally killed himself before Christmas and then a few months later my favorite uncle died from cancer.
Good night all!
22: Hehe, I suck at it. The best thing I’m at is keeping the beat. Tap tap CLACK!
12: Don’t need quarters, don’t need dimes
To call a friend of mine!
Don’t need computers, or TV
To have a real good time!
I’ll call for pizza!
I’ll call my cat!
I’ll call the White House- have a chat!
I’ll place a call around the world-
operator get me Beijing-jing-jing-jing!
17: I’m sorry. I left because I couldn’t keep up, and the first summary I saw was confusing and just listed what all the characters were doing. I might come back, though.
21-It made news here, maybe because of the Air New Zealand plane of the same make that crashed off the seas of South France, did you hear about that…is the Hudson River big? Is that what separates Manhatten from New York? IS Manhattan separated from New York…or is that Rhode Island? please excuse my ignorance!
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS TWO-HOUR DELAY!!!!!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW RARE THAT IS IN OUR DISTRICT??? YAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
NO SCHOOOOOOOL! NO BIO FINALLLLLLL!! THANK YOU GOD!!!!
*PHEW*
I went to Riverdance yesterday~!
Living in Orlando has its’ benefits!
Weird thing is, I started getting tired around 8:45 PM. That’s really early for me, seeing as I usually go to sleep around 10:40.
Otherwise…
NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL!!!!!
THANK KOKO IT’S A TEACHER WORKDAY!!!
I’D BE AT SCHOOL WATCHING THE CLOCK KNOWING I HAD LUNCH IN ABOUT 40 MINUTES!
NO SCHOOL! I PASSED MY SECOND BIG SCIENCE TEST! YIPPIE-YI-YAY!
Alas, classes seem never to be canceled, unless the prof has an emergency. They do this on purpose, so that students feel bad about wanting a canceled class -muttermutter-
This morning was weird. I failed my first physics quiz, not because I didn’t know it, but because I’d left my calculator in my room, fearing for its life in the cold. It’s the first week of classes, c’mon! But whatever, physics is pretty easy, and only 10/12 of the quizzes count. Still, it would’ve been an easy 100… I left my water bottle in that room too D=
But it’s all good. Because there is a person in my math class, who is annoying as…all annoying things. He will comment on everything done, loudly discuss homework, and inquire about high scores. He’s pretty good at math, really. Just, annoying. Anyway, he had a homework problem wrong and I totally owned him -is irrationally happy-.
I might be able to pick up my new case today! That’s good.
Whereas we haven’t had school the last two days because IT”S EFFING NEGATIVE TWENTY DEGRESS OUTSIDE WHAT THE HECK THIS IS THE MIDWEST WHEN DID I MOVE TO THE TUNDRA.
In other news, my poler bear and I are going to go fishing for seals on the frozen lake today so we can eat and stay warm.
12- Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding, bananaaa phooooooone!
Oh man, I haven’t listened to him since I was like… 7. Wow.
28-
26- *hugs* I’m sorry for the recent loss in your life… that must be very tough.
35~ Have fun with your polar bear.
Thanks. *returns hug*
Owch…I just went to the orthodontist, and apparently I’m getting BRACES in 2 weeks. But they put spacers in my back molars and it kills just to chew anything. I don’t want braces! I’m scared of how I’ll talk and how much they’re going to hurt.
35- Ah but did you get a snowday? It was negative 20 for us too and every other school in the reigon was closed but us.
Hi. my mom accidentally left the door open and my dogs water froze solid. it was inside too. What.
29- It’s big in some places. Manhattan is indeed an island, connected to the outer parts of the city by bridges.
TGIF !!!!!!!
It snowed here on wensday, but the snow melted away by now (or turned black). Sniff…
Burrrrr! It was -25 degrees here this morning!!! A pipe broke in the school library (luckily only a few books got wet) AND another pipe broke while we were in school!! AND there were heating problems and some classrooms were freeeezzing!!!
Oops, SFTDP.
Our grade got these letters from kids in other schools asking for us to do this thing called the Snail Mail relay. So they send us a letter, and us students write back and then write to 4 more schools telling them what the Snail Mail relay is and then you get letters back too!!! But anyways, to the point. Wouldn’t it be awesome if somehow I picked a school that a MBer went to and they wrote back to me??? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!! But unfortunetly, there’s a very slim chance that would happen.
But I just thought that was cool.
OMG, I totally missed getting the pie smiley!
YAYNESS!!!!!!
I’M GOING TO D.C.!
37 – Braces don’t hurt too bad. Trust me.
Well, the two hour delay was fabulous.
…And, in completely unrelated news, it’s snowing. Again.
43- I think that would be very cool.
@46 – Yes they so totally do.
All of my friends just about DIED.
Your smilie…. it is TAUNTING ME…..
Also, about snow, yes, here too.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
48 – Hey, I had braces. ‘Twasn’t that horrible. Sure, it hurts at first, but apparently I have a very high pain tolerance.
Trust me, Aggie, you’ll be fine.
38- There was no new snow. We got a ‘cold’ day. Yesterday as well.
I have Invisalign braces. They’re not too bad, but I keep not wearing them… oops.
AHH!!! FINALS!! STUDY STUDY STUDY!! I had my debate final yesterday, and I didn’t forget my speech, and I got an A! Which I know isn’t very impressive on here, so I’m not bragging about it. I’m just happy because I was worried about that final.
50- Yes, my brother had those, too. I wanted them so badly.
48-Eep! *hides*
49-I have a very low pain tolerance! I’m gonna die! *headdesk*
Everyone! Go on youtube and watch “imma firin mah lazar” aka “shoop da whoop”
It’s funny and makes no sense.
I’m somewhat excited because I have a new heater in my room at dad’s. I’m always cold anyway and at both houses I have the room that gets the least heat and most drafts, so I need heaters all the time.
35, etc – Negative twenty? That’s kind of ridiculous. It was about twenty or twenty-five today and everyone is talking about how freezing it is. Still no snow, unfortunately.
53 – That is amazing. I think I’ll bookmark it with my other youtube videos. You guys should all go watch Pachelbel Rant!
I’m going away again this weekend, and I’ll be back on Tuesday. Every year for MLK weekend, my family drives up to DC to a gathering of my dad’s old college friends and their kids. It’s usually fun, and I get some interesting stories out of it, including one about hide-and-seek in the dark and psychomurderers. This year everyone’s going to New Jersey instead, though. (I think the people whose house we usually have brunch at have a bar mitzvah to attend.) On Sunday afternoon after brunch my family is leaving to go to the unveiling of my grandmother’s headstone, though. That’s going to be depressing.
37- I tried to not talk….so noone would see and then my Korean friend said kindly “just get over it Sam. Noone cares about it” and so far the most painful thing about braces is having to get 4 teeth out so the braces will go on…or something, the actual braces aren’t too bad….I still cant wait to get them off though
Back at my creepy library….
Snow: Meh. *grumpy face* Don’t talk about about snow. It’s taunts us, saying, “We’re in the same state as you…”
Gwyn’s kicking me off to do “homework.”
54-Pachelbel Rant is awesomeeeee!
Atch! The deletion of the latest thread, while necessary, has created empty links on the side bar! What’s more, the blog-specific 404 is lacking a closing quotation mark.
Sorry, these just annoyed me.
Does anyone know what a “Submarine Egg” is?
What about Eggs Over Havana, eh?
Birds’ Nest? Hole Toast? The thing V cooks in V for Vendetta?
I recently discovered that my family is the only group I can find that uses the first phrase. I highly suggest you try to make it for a snack.
54/57- As a cellist, I understand what he’s talking about, but I actually like the piece. The repetitiveness never bothered me too much, I wonder if he was playing an arrangement for young kids. I played it in a piano trio this summer with some friends, and it was fun to play, as well as sounding good.
58- why was it necessary?
The links directed the viewer to a site that demands payment to read the articles (by Larry Gonick) Robert hoped to share. Leaving the post up would’ve confused and aggravated many musers.
Awesome picture!!!
It’s disturbing how the faces match the personalities…
8-Yes, I heard on the radio!! A DJ called him up and left a message, while on the air, kidding him about it. Is he legally changing it, forever, or is it a joke? Either way it’s funny, but I wondered how serious it is…
21-I know! That must have been scary for the people on board.
26-Aww, I’m sorry. This has been a hard couple of months for you!! *Pies*
Oh yes, I meant to say how the pie smileys pwn!!!
37-Oh no!! Sorry! *Pies*
39-Inside? Wow.
It’s cold here. 7 or 8º F or something around there. But some people here have -20º F?! That’s scary. And it’s 43º in Fairbanks.
45-You are coming to D. C.?!?!?!?!
KOKONVENTION ALERT!!!
I don’t know if you will have time, but it’s cool that a Muser will be in D. C.!
ooooh, chilleh. it was -20 or so today with about a foot of snow on the ground. ehhh i hate chicago winters…
58- we call it Toad in the Hole ’round these parts, but yes, I do know what it is. howwww do you do the pie smiley?
fabulous!
I am much to exhausted to read the comments made before now. The Princess Bride is over. Wow. I am not at the cast party because I am exhausted. And because I have plans tomorrow. I had so much fun working on the play. I met a lot of people I never would have spoken to without Theater Company. It is for sure going to be one of my favorite memories. I also made improv team. That has made my day. I should go to bed.
Sam and anyother MBer in the southern hemisphere: Do you draw your compas symbols with the S on top. That’s what my science teacher said but I’m not sure if he was joking.
Sorry I haven’t been on in a while. I’ve been using all the time my parents allow me on the computer to play a new video game I got for christmas.
I have a serious taekwondo addiction.
My friend Bear just called and asked what I did yesterday. I told him I went to taekwondo then I realized that yesterday was a snow day and I didn’t go to taekwondo. I’m so used to telling people that’s what I was doing that I don’t even remember when I don’t do taekwondo.
Ughh. I’m so tired. I’m a bit better now though because I got to get Arthur Treacher’s for lunch. It’s a fish & chips place and they also have these lobster ball things that aren’t really lobster but they’re still really good.
I hate cold weather. IT WAS FLIPPING NEGATIVE 5 DEGREES THIS MORNING!!!!! AND WE’RE GETTING MORE SNOW TONIGHT!!
Sorry, I just had to let that out. At least it’s warmed up to 20 degrees now. Ooooh, heat wave!!!! *spazz*
66 – You think YOU have it bad… Negative five? Psh. A couple days ago *coughyesterdaycough* it was -25. Today it was above zero! The first time in a while!!!
But now the wind is blowing really hard so it’s kicking up the snow. It’s awful outside.
67-It was -25 here yesterday too. But you’re right, you’re probably worse off that me. At least is wasn’t windy here…
8- I was watching NASA TV and Commander Mike Fincke on the space station was doing this whole bit where he put on a Steelers cap and did something with a towel and then said “Here in space, it’s Steeler country!” before he turned off the camera.
I found out why school was delayed yesterday. I was wondering about that…
The biodiesel in the buses turned into gel. They needed time to heat them up so they could run the buses.
Yes, that’s the only reason.
We need a thread for complaining about the weather…
The weather is staying at around 60/70 degrees, methinks.
I wonder when Martin Luther’s birthday was. I’d like to celebrate it.
And can we celebrate Jim Henson’s birthday along with mine? Jim Henson is one of the three people I admire immensely (the others are Leonardo Da Vinci and the person who did the pictures on the paper money- nice attention to details, man!).
Martin Luther: November 10, 1483; Jim Henson, September 24, 1936; Leonardo da Vinci, April 15, 1452.
71 –
*extreme jealousy*
Not jealousy: envy. There’s a difference.
74- Ohh, I should have known it would be here I could find more people who know/care about the difference
74 – What is the difference? I never found out.
Like to explain, Jadestone?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I just put up my blog (I know, no links) but I’m super excited. *dashes off*
Well, let’s see if I can get them correct after all, then.
‘Jealousy’ is more of a feeling of resentment towards someone because of their acheivements/avdantages/ect, ‘envy’ is because of a person’s things, possesions/qualities/situation. SO jealousy is more person-oriented.
I also think in the spanish language the difference is made… larger? Clearer? But when we’ve used it in spanish class it’s usually romantically inclined, and envy more because of objects/situations.
*hopes she got it mainly right and doesn’t look like a fool*
But for me I just instinctivly know when to use one or the other. Like finding a direct object in a sentence. I couldn’t tell you how I knew what it was, but I could find it (actually I know the definition now though, haha. Oh freshman year english.).
78 – That’s great!
79 – Wow. I never knew that. Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to remember that.
It is cold here. About 20 degrees with wind out there right now and it feels like a heat wave, last night was SO COLD.
I spent a good bit of the day looking for the cat to make sure he did alright last night in the cold. After I found him (in probably the warmest place he could find) I went and got him some food and water, which he devoured and guzzled, for a rather small creature he put away a lot in a very short amount of time. Then later I brought his dishes back to the porch. And gave him more water since the water dish was a cake of solid ice.
Now my porch is like an ice skating rink. Because he caught a mouse and messily devoured it in a strategic location so that I was unable to open my door. *sigh* Let’s see if I can avoid killing myself when I go to bed tonight.
Anyway, aside from catering to and cleaning up after our cat, I did the obligatory homework and not a whole lot more. Other than prank calls to my parents, ooh, having a cell phone is fun!
Aaand, GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?! I might be able to go sailing this summer! I printed out the information, my parents are going to look it over in detail with me (probably tomorrow) and they both seem okay about it. *hopes desperately* The ship is the Brig Niagara, I’ve mentioned it here before, if you’re at all interested in these sorts of things it looks like a very thorough program for their sail training. And they have a focus on history too! *bliss* I really hope I can go.
(79) I draw a slightly different distinction: Jealousy is possessiveness — a nasty fear that somebody you care about might betray you. So if you know a girl with a wonderful boyfriend, you might be envious of her; but if you think she’s trying to steal your boyfriend, you’ll be jealous of him. That’s the old sense of the word, and I think it’s a difference worth preserving, even if many people nowadays use the words interchangeably.
Do you want to start a new topic? Or this can be a little disruption to the topic… It is the random thread…Anyway! This is a hard-to-answer-question that I want to see if any Musebloggers know, including the GAPAs. Okay. This is the question:
How do people get seedless grapes?
OK. That was the question… If you think you might know, just reply to this comment… Bye!
83~ I would direct you to the Q&A section in a recent Muse, I can’t remember the exact one, but Cat’s Meow got a question published (under the name Gail G.) that was asking about seedless watermelons. Not entirely the same, but I’d guess that it would be a starting point at least.
Please forgive the double post, but I just realized that I’ve not yet tried the new pies! *horror*
MWAHAHAHA!
I like keeping jealousy and envy separate.
Today I think I’m going to the park with Bear to take pictures. It’s very pretty but it also means more walking in the cold. Darn coldness. At least it’s not as bad as the last couple days.
I still can’t believe how much these pies are being used, especially in combination. And apparently everyone is cold. But not me. It’s about 32 degrees at the moment, so hopefully it’ll heat up a bit more and melt some of the ice. I thought this was January, but it seems more like late February.
Microsoft Paint can be a lot of fun.
Yes! It is COLD! For a while, it was like spring here! There was a hint of flurries today. Unfortunately, it isn’t supposed to last. Alas.
it’s 82 degrees out lalalala
I should be studying but I saw this in the paper and though you guys would appreciate it.
Lincoln 2.0 Inaugural Ball
Host: Destination DC
Venue: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Crowd: Professional period re-enactors, history buffs, steampunk aficionados
Dress code: “Black tie preferred, Victorian attire welcome”
Which means: Bust out the beaver toppers, spats, corsets, hoop skirts and assorted laces.
Quote of note: “There are a bunch of professional Abraham Lincoln re-enactors out there, and we expect that a handful of them will show up in the full outfit with the beard and the top hat and everything.” — Carla Barry-Austin, media relations manager for Destination DC
*sigh* I’ll just have to settle for hbo coverage and a DELAYED viewing on the inauguration, since I will be taking finals instead of watching maybe the most historical moment of my short life.
91~ Sounds fun!
Brrrr. It’ gotton over 30 degrees today, how amazing! It’s supposed to get really cold again for the rest of the week though. *sigh* I need clothes but we can’t do laundry because the washing machine is in my room with water coming through a hose. When it gets this cold the hose freezes and we have no way of doing laundry. That’s just the beginning, because once we have clean clothes we have to dry them, and hanging laundry on a line outside when the weather is under 30 degrees is hell; no gloves because then you can’t feel the pins, and the combination of wet, dry, wet and cold plus wind makes your hands crack and get so stiff you can’t move your fingers.
So everyone, be glad that you have washing machines and dryers in your houses.
Maybe when I move out on my own I’ll get a real house, what a revolutionary thought. Someday I’ll be able to take a shower and just walk from one room to the other to go to bed. every. single. night.
Of course, I had been promised that the new house was going to be built by the time I was nine so I could have a real room and live under the same roof as my parents. I’m sixteen now, so we’ve got negative 7 years to get it done in to keep that promise. I doubt that I’ll ever live here in a real house.
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K, everyone who is not watching the Party at the Mall right now, needs to be. It’s AWESOME.
I took the Mary Sue litmus test for Edward Cullen. HE GOT 56. (for those of you who’ve never taken it, that’s the score that means “KILL IT.”)
94 – Hahaha. I figured.
94- ??? What is the Mary Sue Litmus Test???
Just Google it. There’s more than one. It’s a test to see if your character is a Mary Sue.
Mary Sue: http : / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Mary_Sue
96- A test that lets you know if your characters are too perfect to be believable and can be found here:
[It’s easy to Google. Or search elsewhere on the blog. –Admin.]
Oh my goodness. I’m addicted to a new geeky thing I just discovered: Kingdom of Loathing.
What with xkcd, MuseBlog, and now this, I desperately need my own laptop.
Hmmmmmm. I gonna perform that test on one of my characters in the book I’m writing………,
29. That’s not too bad. *sigh of relief*
Okay, not to be in any way political, but did anybody else watch the “We Are One” concert on TV at the Lincoln Memorial? And, if so, did anybody else catch George Lucas in the audience? That just made it perfect.
Hi, back from grounding. What’s new?
Oh, cool! New emoticons!
New Guilty Pleasure: Britney Spears’ song, Circus. Where is my taste going?
It’s warm here. Happiness!!
103: You must be insane.
:P:P:P:P:P
Is anyone else in D.c. for the inauguration? I’m so excited!
Sorry RtH, I don’t think we’ll have time to kokonvene, but it’s nice knowing you’re nearby.
99- Ah yes, I myself am a Frog Boss. It’s nice for its lack of visuals and reliance on wordplay. Everything is so busy these days!
105) I’m so jealous! (or is it envious? haha) argh! you ought to take pictures if you can….of course with so many people I don’t know if it’s worth it! Well anything would be amazing to see. I wish I could go to D.C. anyway and the inauguration only makes it more amazing! a thousand heart breaks! I will be starting my math final exactly as it begins…sob
have fun though! and any other musers who will be there. my disembodied spirit will be there somehow
102) I did see that! everything was so moving…
99- I am addicted to all three of those things. HIGH FIVE-O.
98) I’ve just found out that my character who’s power is to pretend to be a Mary Sue is a Mary Sue, even though that isn’t technically her power since she isn’t really one because she has another power that she can’t control because she
a) Doesn’t know about it and
b) Couldn’t use it even if she knew she had it
I’m confused too.
Is there a dreams thread? I had the most AMAZING one last night involving me as Eragon, then as a racecar driver, then as an English schoolboy. Eating quiche. Getting balloon rides.
It was pretty **** ******* **** *********** *** *********ing AWESOME, as Jameson would say.
/gradster(1)/
Whoa – just noticed – has anyone seen Luna the Lovely lately?
That’s supremely odd.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP who forgot their title last time, oh bother me, and boy is it early in the morning for them
Greetings MB!
I just got back from the dentists! Now I have a loverly smile! 
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It’s snowing today, and actually sticking, I hope we get enough to go sledding! I haven’t been all winter.
I made myself some hot chocolate form the American Heritage chocolate they sell at Colonial Williamsburg (YUM) if you ever have a chance to try it by all means do so, it’s amazing. They made it from colonial era recipes which means that it’s a dark chocolate with lots of extra spices and a slightly gritty texture. Sounds weird, but it’s flamablamablous. *chocolate bliss*
Sorry GAPAs, I know you’re all (I assume Paul is as well) chocolate addicts too, I hope this post hasn’t prompted you to do anything rash!
105 – Yay for computer geeks! *high five*
107 – See above!
103)
Back…away…verrrry…slowly…
Me, too! Except I kind of meant for it to be that way…
105) *jealous*
108)
I got a new fishie(or as I like to call him, my latest source of distraction)! His name is Delta (sorry for stealing, Kai!) and he’s a red betta with huge fluffery fins. So beautiful. There may soon be a picture available on the Visual Arts thread, if I am lucky.
Wowsers! It’s going to snow here to! I don’t know whether to be overjoyed or worried at that. I have my Chemistry exam tomorrow…….
(109) Gradster: I’ve just launched a new Dreams thread for 2009.
(112) Fiddler: Thanks for reminding me about the Penzeys hot-chocolate mix I got for Christmas. (Penzeys is a spice company in Wisconsin.) It’s made from sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, and vanilla beans. I’ve just made myself some, and it’s lovely.
115~ I know about Penzys…..that’s one of the places that’s high on mom’s “places to go” list, though we’ve no yet made it.
That cocoa sounds quite lovely too, of course, just about anything with chocolate…..
115- I have Biology…funny how that worked out.
We’re getting snow here, also. It’s too fluffy to stick, but there is supposed to be loads of it coming down today, and hopefully tonight.
(112, 116) You’ve bothl inspired me. I keep forgetting someone gave me a couple of varieties of Green & Black’s. Right now I’m having the dark chocolate (with soy milk, Fiddler) and eating an orange alongside (thanks to my brother, who sent me a box of oranges and grapefruits).
I used to get the Penzy’s catalogue, but when I didn’t order, they cut me off. It was great fun to look at.
110- She’s probably too busy with college at the moment. I hear it takes up quite a bit of time. Wait, has she gone back to AK yet?
(120) Her classes resume tomorrow. She said we might not hear much from her during break.
I think I’m going insane
Everybody is studying for midterms
And I can’t
I’ll check here or YWP, but it makes me feel all guilty
I’m so screwed it’s not even worth mentioning
Dang that “Witch in the Starspangled Jeans” label! It keeps on comeing back!
Yay! I have returned from making a batch of scumptious peaches and cream muffins!
(124) Wow, those sound yummy. If I weren’t about to enjoy a bowl of steel-cut oats with fresh blueberries…and yes, Decadent GAPA is eating breakfast in the middle of the afternoon.
124- Mmm…yummy… *licks lips*
125)
Do you mean Oatmeal?
I’ve just returned from the dentist *shudder*. I’m trying to aviod getting braces *double shudder*
YodaShmoda is also missing-weird. Here there’s not much going on academically, since the teachers are busy testing people who need to correct their grades. Funny enough, my worst grade is art (B-). No, pwease don’t ask why.
(127) A kind of oatmeal. Steel-cut oats are a coarse cut of the whole grain, completely different in texture from rolled oats. Sort of like wheatberries.
I’m still thinking about those muffins, though.
128-AHHHH!!!!
YOU SAID P*EASE!!!!! *dies*
128- AAAAH! THE P*EASE WORD! *goes crazy*
(129) I did the same thing yesterday! Breakfast for lunch, with steel-cut oats. That kind of oatmeal takes half an hour to cook, but it’s worth it.
It’s snowing, for like the second time in the last 365 days.
Mercy’s growling at me and trying to eat my shoelace.
I duct taped the words “Steryotype me, I dare you” to my wall yesterday.
Hey, everybody. I finally got around to watching Fly Me to the Moon and I really liked it.
I went to the beach yesterday. It was lovely.
Then we went to the country. We stopped a the video store and got Alice’s Restaurant and two discs of Firefly, and then ended up watching four hours worth of Lost instead.
On the bright side, I now have six hours of Firefly to watch if I ever have time.
My dad got a new sailboat!!!!!!!!!!! It’s big enough to be sailed by two people, unlike the Scorpion we had before (still have, actually, for a while yet), and it’s in better shape, too. We just need a new rudder and Daddy has to fix the trailer, and then we can sail!!!!!
133- I want a T-shirt that says that,
136- You could have one made. Or, better yet, just get a t-shirt and stick the duct tape onto it.
135- Where do you live (ish) that you can sail? I’m stuck in the middle of the continent.
I have a question for people who’ve been around here a long time:
Has anyone seen E2MB (a.k.a. davidude, gryphon, and a bunch of other weird names) on here in a while? I’m curious.. it’s like he’s dropped off the planet.
137- I live in the Pacific Northwest, near many different bodies of water (lakes, rivers, the ocean…not that I would go sailing in the ocean.) Even in the middle of the continent, surely there’s a large river not too far away?
Didn’t E2MB leave?
(140) He shows up every so often, most recently in July, before that in April.
138- E2MB wasn’t supposed to be on here. He had been hacking into his parents’ computer for goodness-knows-how-long, and they got a new computer and changed the password, so he had to leave. Since then, he’s managed to get on library computers and stuff every now and then, but for the most part, your guess about his having dropped off the face of the earth really isn’t too far-fetched.
Oh, by the way, I think I’m hooked on Firefly. This is a Bad Thing, especially since it only ran for like two seasons or something.
(142) I know what you mean. I got hooked on Firefly this past November. Have you seen the Jaynestown episode yet?
128) What a coincidence! I went to the dentists yesterday too…….
OMG! IT’s SNOWING! For a while their, it was like spring was upon us, with robins and daffodils in December. But this morning it’s SNOWING!
And I’m so ecstatic that I don’t even feel put out that I couldn’t have my exam today and that I have to go through another day of worrying about it. But the thing is, I’m NOT going to worry because there’s SNOW! 
142- Ah, that’s so interesting. Because he’s been on youtube quite a bit. He seems to be able to get on when he’s at home.. I wonder why he doesn’t get on here anymore.
(144) We have snow, too! Probably not quite an inch, but at least it’s something.
143- No, I’ve only seen the first episode so far. The one good thing about it being so short is that it never has time to get confusing, unlike Farscape or Lost or any of those shows that run past season three.
145- Do you know him? Or are you a longtime Muser who suffered a serious name change? Either way, if you have outer contact with him, tell him to come back!
147- Yeah, I know him, I met him on another website (no I’m not a longtime Muser, I came here yesterday :P)… we chat quite a bit. Once in a conversation he hinted at something that led me to believe he posted here and through some extensive searching (stalking? no..never..) I figured out he was E2MB, and read many very interesting posts of his. Why’d he leave? He certainly seems to be able to use the internet very freely.
YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOO! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Obama’s the prez! great speech too!
I just watched Another Gay Movie and I’m in the middle of Another Gay Sequal. Raunchy, promiscuous, degrading, and wonderfully addictive.
I heart Niko!
Well, that’s that. ObaMa is president. Pretty speech. Of course, they all are.
Honestly! Their rover and crew were in the inaugural parade and what’s being shown on NASA TV right now? Archives from the Future Forum months ago! I mean, I love them, but…
obama messed up in his oath! doesn’t seem like a good way to start the presidency! it was really the justice’s fault cuz he messed up the order or something. Did anyone else get to watch the inauguration in school? I got to skip most of skils for adolescents! Hoorah!!! :~)
148- -impatient foot tap-
Tell him this:
Alice says that she lost the RRR in the fire and now they’re rewriting it with proper science. Meow’s deserted, you’re gone, and Lord R/Stormwatcher’s gone, and so it’s only Alice and POSOC and TMFA occasionally, and they need someone who knows the story well enough to help nurse it back to health, namely, the other main writer, namely, you. If you’ve really had access to the computer, it was quite unfair for you to abandon in its hour of need the very story that you helped to revive. Before you left, you said that you’d “return in glory.” Now do it.
I’m going to learn to play the fiddle!
Obama, four inches of snow tomorrow, and no school tomorrow make today one of my better days. I love tracking events like this on people’s Facebook statuses: this morning, thirty or forty people changed theirs to “SNOWWW” and then “OBAMAAA” around noon, and now everyone is virtually screaming “NO SCHOOL YESSSS!”
Firefly: I’ve heard a lot about it and I want to watch it sometime. It sounds interesting.
Obama: I think he was a good choice in the election, but I’ve heard too many people talk about him being a great president. He hasn’t even had a chance to do anything yet so I don’t know how people can think he’s a good president. A good politician, yes. President, we’ll wait and see.
Snow: I used to despise winter but this year it’s growing on me. It’s by far the best winter I’ve ever had.
Midterms/Exams: Awwww snap I need to go study for Biology, Algebra 2, and History.
A final note: Today on the morning announcements the kid who does them came on and instead of doing the normal “Good morning “school name”, these are your morning announcements” He said “Good morning “school name”, I just lost the game.”
It was the most epic loss of game in the history of the school.
154- Ok, I’ll tell him, but I kind of get the idea he was (possibly?) avoiding this website… I mean..why wouldn’t he come here if he could? No clue.. but I’ll tell him all the same. I hope he doesn’t get mad at me for getting on here and reading all of his posts. Well, it’s been very interesting, at least.
We had snow yesterday! Maybe two or three inches… It almost completely covered the grass. It’s nice to at least have some snow on the ground for a bit…
How is everyone?
157- Ask him if he’s avoiding and if he is, why.
Er, please.
I miss my generation! GreenQween and E2MB and I all revived the sci-fi RRR together, even if we did make a horrible mess of it, and now they’re all gone.
Not to mention Screnzy with GreenQween and running into E2MB all over the place in the early days…
154) Which RRR are you talking about?
Welllllllllllllll good morning MB!
No school AGAIN! Amazing! I’ve put off my exam ANOTHER day! Gosh. How much studying can one do?
Speaking of deserted RRRs:
C’mon, you cant resist such a cute row of
s !
159- *Hugs*. According to the new generation list, I’m in your generation. I know I’m no substitute for GreenQween and E2MB though.
161) I know, right? And to anyone looking for an RRR that hasn’t gotten to the point that you have to read a TON to get caught up, come to the Alchemy thread! We haven’t gotten very far at all……
New colors! I like the blue. But lo! What’s this I see? The comment box is … HOT PINK‽‽‽
AAAH! HPBs are slowly taking over Museblog!
153- I think it was sort of humanizing. If I was getting sworn in as president, I’d sure be nervous. Heck, I’d be lucky if I didn’t faint.
I’ve seen all of Firefly. I have not seen Serenity.
160: whats with all the missing school? we dont have a single millimeter of snow at my house, and it’s JANUARY in COLORADO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
156: I usually love winter, but this winter has been especially disappointing because there hasnt been much snow. It’s 67 degrees outside, for heaven’s sake!! I miss doom and gloom!!!
There’s far too much cold and snow.
Michael Buckely, I love you.
Anyway, so today we went back to school and had exams. The last four questions on the Algebra I exam were something along the lines of:
1) What company produces iPods?
a- Apple, b- Dell, c- Windows, d- Michael Jackson
Really?
165- Hmm. On my computer, it’s a cool lavender-ish purple, but a bit darker.
153- I think Obama just started talking too early, and then got flustered.
169- It’s D, right?
*bangs head against the desk*
oh no…
people haven’t forgot about me…
>.<
I can use the internet almost freely now. A lot of things have changed since then.
A lot of things.
A lot of things…
I’ve been avoiding museblog recently because I was such an absolute jerk back then. I said so many mean things, all the time…I can’t get over it…
I didn’t come back because…um…well, I was embarrased at how I behaved back then. I tried so hard to completely forget about museblog, and put it out of my mind.
Also, at the same time, my interest in Muse waned a lot and my interest in Narnia grew a ton. I joined the Narnia fanbase and mingled there…and it was great…I met a lot of awesome people…one of them knew about Muse though.
So…um…yeah.
It seems people are still disgruntled with me.
*sighs*
I still have almost all the Sci-fi RRR on my hard drive.
I will try to make amends.
I’m sorry.
Very very sorry.
*sighs again*
very very VERY sorry.
(171) Hello, E2MB, good to see you!
171 – Who are you? Seriously, I don’t remember you. And I’m not exactly a neophyte…
Welcome back, E2MB! Don’t go all Dobby on us. Just smile, and wait for your pies.
171- You’re BACK!!! -hugs and pies simultaneously-
I don;t think you were a jerk at all, well, except about the bunnies, but that was all in good fun, right? The only reason I was disgruntled with you was because you left, and now you’re back, so everything’s wonderful!
And also, it doesn’t matter that you don’t care as much about Muse. MuseBlog isn’t really about Muse, at least it doesn’t have to be.
It was rather silly to think we’d forgotten. You can’t just die and expect people not to remember after a few months. Vanishing off the face of the web (or at least the part of the face I pay any attention to) is very much like dying, only without the death.
Anyway, I’m ever so glad you’re back, and I forgive you completely for whatever you were apologizing for, and search “Terraformed (rewrite)” in the little search box and click the link.
dobby?
arrrgh now I’ve said the complete wrong thing again…*smacks head*
why do I keep doing that?
well ok thank you for the welcome back.
*heads off to the terra-formed thing*
171-Hi! *tackles with hugs and pies* Don’t worry, we still love you here.
Welcome back!
And I can’t believe some of the stuff I’ve said on here either (thank God for closed threads) so you’re in good company. Although I can’t really remember you saying anything as stupid as me…
OHMYGOSH E2MB IS BACK
176- Wow! I didn’t think you’d come back. How long has it been?
And Dobby’s the house elf in Harry Potter, who is always hitting himself in punishment for imaginary cases of disobedience. And, though I wasn’t on that RRR, I’m sure nothing you had done could be as bad as some people have done on MB. You’ll always be welcome here. 
176- did you just not get the reference or were you shocked that it was used it that context? Cause if you didn’t get it then (HARRY POTTER 7 SPOILER ALERT!) you should know that Dobby (the house elf)…. “leaves” for a long long time. Or Robert could have been referring to the fact that we see Dobby in a total of two Harry Potter movies. way to break the bank Warner Brothers….
Well I haven’t read the harry potter books so I didn’t know who dooby is.
I didn’t know where to put this, so here you go. It’s a bit long, but worth it. Sent by my crazy aunt.
After the recent teetering-on-the-edge-of-total-economic-and-financial-meltdown for a couple of weeks it seems economic systems and their
workings have pushed their way into the need-to-know-category.
Well thanks to a friend from rural Ireland we can now simplify this all down to what makes sense and explain 21 economic models
with cows. It is remarkable how much sense it all makes from this real world perspective …
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some
milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some
milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the
other, and then throws the milk away…
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take
harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce
the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why
the cow has dropped dead.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly
listed company, using letters of credit opened by your
brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so
that you get all four cows back, with a tax
exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows
are transferred via an intermediary to a
Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority
shareholder who sells the rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight
cows, with an option on one more.
You sell one cow to buy a new president of
the United States, leaving you with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block
the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the
size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image
called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100
years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don’t know
where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42
cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2
cows.
You stop counting cows and open another
bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to
you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and
high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real
situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the sh#t
out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you
are part of a Democracy…
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers
to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.. ”
Sorry it’s long. But isn’t my aunt beast?
Hei Young would like a blogname.
I finished an email to her with my name then my blogname, and she said she wanted a blogname. This is what she said-
rob, i totally need a nickname
like ☼Zinc the sorceress☼
but not the same thing…..
can u make me one??? ㅇㅅㅇ?
She likes reptiles, playing her flute, green, ‘Hey There Delilah’, and dragons, hates cussers, people who abuse animals, and her school in South Korea. As you can see, she’s Korean.
Please help? I can’t think of anything. And what should the unicode be? (I’m thinking music notes, but I dunno…)
181- House. Elf. He’s kinda funny in that he wears a tea cozy on his head and does some other oddidies. Mostly he gets in trouble for excessive bowing and getting in the way of Beatrice’s silver…whoops.
182- That has to have been one of the funniest things I’ve read in awhile. Seriously. Can I put it on my blog, citing your aunt of course?
169) Apple. Why?
171) Hiya!
Welcome back!
Sorry to double post, but CHEESE!
And American Idol! Bye!
182-I’ve seen a few of those before. I like them!
183-Heart and Seoul! I like puns.
Dear Everyone: It is very hard to understand Karl Marx when you are exhausted. I’m attempting to read Capital right now but I’m too tired to absorb any of it. I’m going to work on it over the weekend I think.
184-I don’t think she made it up, but sure.
182- That made my day.
It’s hilarious.
Hello. We had snow the other day and I went sledding with my mom. That’s why I have a blue/black bruise on my left knee, a sore shoulder (left side, again) and my right hand has two cashes across the palm. Uum, yes, I fell down. And did a flip. Down the hill. And slid. Crash landed with the sled somewhere next to me, I’m not entirely sure, I was focusing on getting up as soon as I could because I heard mom scream as soon as I fell, it must have looked very impressive.
I’m fine, but I also don’t bruise very easily.
So kids, don’t be like your pal Fern who likes to go sledding down very steep, rutted hills standing up on her toboggan. You can stand, so long as you have sufficient balance, just make sure there’s enough snow, my little tumble happened when I hit a patch of mud. A few feet, thorny locust branches and a flip later I was done, but it wasn’t quite exhilarating enough to be worth it.
Just, ya know, to keep in mind next time you’re tempted to do some genuinely stupid thing like me.
Ignore my post about new colors and a hot pink comment box. I was on a school computer, and for some reason the colors looked different.
182- Whats the last one supposed to mean????
I’m going away on the 25th. On a boat XD for 4 days. Im…scared!!! I dont really like boats and the sea, I hope its fun ><
I had something amazing to say. I completly forgot. There is someone on here who really likes cheese, right? I have to say I agree
I watched the Inauguration yesterday live, from 5:30am! I was so happy because everyone else was happy! Like when someone yawns, and everyone else does too!
171- welcome back!
FLAMING ARROWS & REDSHIRTS DYING my favorite kind of TV shows… lol Lost ftw. This is amazing and awesome and I’ve only watched the first ten episodes of the first season and the recap this evening and it’s still AWESOME. Anyone else watching?
194- I’ve seen a few episodes of the first and third seasons. They were exciting if overly complicated. I’m not watching tonight though, since I don’t have TV. I’m watching Firefly instead!
191 – Interesting.
Do the colors of the blog just randomly change? Right now the blog is blue and purple for me, and I remember for the longest time it was green. Is this just a browser issue or something?
-siiiigh- Oh, I do love Firefly. I swear it’s all I can think about. I dread the day when I finish Serenity. What will I do? Write a desperate letter to Joss Whedon? “Why, WHY did it end??? PLEASE do more, PLEASE!!!!!”
196- It changed first for halloween, ((right? or did the fall colors come before halloween?)) then for fall, then for the winter ball, and now it’s this color scheme ((Or maybe the winter ball colors weren’t different. Oh, well…)). It’s been this way for about two months. I think the GAPAs are going a little color crazy.
My school friends now think blogging is dangerous, because I’m putting up my email adress, and my info on Muser Profiles.
Any tips for telling them it’s not dangerous?
(199) I guess it depends on how trustworthy you consider the GAPAs. We’re the only ones who can see your e-mail address, and we don’t let MBers post locations or other identifying information that we consider too specific. As far as I know, nobody here has had any trouble traceable to the blog. I couldn’t claim that it’s absolutely safe (there’s some danger in just drinking a glass of water), but it’s designed and monitored to be as safe as we can make it.
That said, I think your friends are smart to be cautious. It really is possible to get in trouble on the Web.
192) Cheese is height of all things wonderful!
197) Firefly? Is that a book? What’s it about?
199) Tell them that, as long as you’re careful, then you’ll be fine. Just be careful if someone comes off as sounding stalkerish.
Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. yay. Today I’m assisting my mother at school. Gosh. They had a teacher lunch. And MAN! It was like they were feeding an army. Maybe they were……… an army of educators!
Dear god, that picture is just disturbing……. I like it, Rebecca!
Anyway, yeah, I’m back…….And there is absolutely no way I am going to read through all the posts since I left…….Uh-uh not doing it. There are probably over a thousand on monthly random threads alone……
So, yeah. Today is the third day of school, I am mourning the loss of winter. Over break back home we had the weirdest weather. First week, through the weekend after Christmas, it was normal winter weather, a couple feet of accumulate snow, below freezing temperatures, the occasional below zero temp, but not significantly below. The friday after Christmas, it dropped to below -20, and for two solid weeks, it ranged anywhere from -20 to -30, closer to -30, more often than not….. Then within a couple days, the temp increased by 70 degrees, and we were having warm (yes, warm) 40 degree weather, within another couple days almost all the snow had melted, the side roads were solid ice, and it was pouring rain……Not fun for driving, not fun for walking out to the car. My arm still has a large mostly yellow spot now from where I slipped and fell and my arm collide very, very forcefully with the edge of the bottom stair. Still hurts if I poke it (yeah, don’t poke it, I know).
‘course, the thaw wasn’t that unusual, it always thaws out for a fewdays to a week in January, then drops back down, but the subzero was unusual in that it usually does not stay that cold for that long, at least not in the part of AK I”m from. I”m just glad I don’t live in Fairbanks–the temps there were -50 to -60, I believe……. They get the extremes: hot in summer (80s/90s, maybe even hotter, not sure), and very cold in winter.
And here the coldest it’s been since I got in Monday night is 25, and currently it is 49. Yup, not cold in the least, spring weather.
ANYWAY. Not the reason I’m writing……I’ve been avoiding comi ng on the last few days, cuz I”m afraid I will jsut be drawn back in to sitting at my computer hitting refresh 24/7, and that’s not probably good if I wanna get my stuff done for school. I have tons of reading, because I will have to actually read history, bioethics, chem (probably, if I want to do well), and english. And of course write english papers.
So, yeah. The reason I”m writing. So, I had chem lecture this morning, and our prof told us that determing the speed of light had in the past posed a huge problem for scientists. And he wanted us to do this little experiment and calculate it for ourselves. And, as my brain screamed seconds before he told us, “chocolate”! And as I muttered under my breath right before he himself said it.
So, he wants us to ‘wave chocolate, just like the Muse article said (and like he read about in a science journal). That is, it’s optional, and we can post our results online on the courses forum, but his instructions were kinda sketchy. Not very thorough, and not very well explained.
So what I’m asking is this: Could anyone type up the instructions or could one of the GAPAs email me a copy of that article? I looked it up, it is April 2008, but is unfortunately not one of the mags I have here, as it was pre-college, and unfortunately as I am thousands of miles away from home, I can’t just go hopme and get it…….Pretty please?
I don’t supposed dark chocolate would work…..
202- Ahhhh, that’s been happening here! A couple weeks ago it was ranging from -20 to -30, then the next day it was in the balmy 30s. There’s something wrong with this world. Ice is not fun. A little while back I slipped on it and cut my hands because it had some sharp pieces sticking up. >.<
Today, my dog got muddy and jumped on me. My boots need cleaning now.
And my jeans. I hate washing my boots, it makes me nervous.
Two more exams left!
203–ouch. I think I’ve managed to avoid cutting myself on ice thus far in my life, but I’ve gotten numerous bruises……usually when ice skating. Yeah, the subzero temps really suck (as do the thaws, when it all just refreezes), especially for driving. Let’s just say that both of my parents vehicles that I drove during those two weeks were very sluggish even after having been plugged in for several hours…..
204–exams still (already)? what sort of system are you on?
204) Block scheduling?
I FINALLY have my CHemistry exam tomorrow! About time too, after all this delay due to snow, teacher work days, etc.
201- Firefly is a TV show, I think.
I have to go to some college thing which is very boring tonight.
Yeah, blocks. They were all screwed up today.
We got Steven and Max to wear eyeliner today. Max kind of looked like a drag queen
and Steven looked kind of semi-hot, but not really.
Just stopping in before my clarinet lessons! I’m going to post on as many threads as I can!
Hrm…..I won my district spelling bee. I’m rather happy, as it means I don’t have to go to school tomorrow telling people I lost to our rival school. Doesn’t really matter to me, but you know how ultra-competitive people are.
bored. hungry. tired. very bored. …. i think i might possibly need to get a life. or read a book. they’re not mutually exclusive. so bye!
210- congrattehz.
208- OMG, that just gave me this hilarious image of the Steven and Max I know wearing eyeliner. LMAO!!!!!! Thanks, Beavo, you brightened an otherwise dark day.
Yeah, so Chihuahua is at it again. In PE last block today, we were playing volleyball, and I said “I call serving next” (it was a very random vball game) and she flipped. She said she already called it, so I was like “Sorry, I didn’t hear you.” So she served and then later I served and got us a point and was extremely happy. Then Leah called serving after… I forget who, maybe Shalee, and Chihuahua called after Leah. She gave me this really nasty look and said, “Did you hear that, Hannah?” I said as nicely as I could manage, “Yeah, I did. Sorry I didn’t hear you earlier, actually I might have called it before you but you didn’t hear me cuz I’m losing my voice, but it doesn’t matter.” At least that’s what I started to say. Chihuahua started flipping out again and screaming “DON’T TALK TO ME! I’M NOT LISTENING!” She was going crazy, so I was like, “[Chihuahua], STOP!” and I tried to put my hand on her shoulder, since she was running around in circles. That girl is certifiable. But of course she moved, and I’m not used to people being A FOOT SHORTER THAN ME, so it ended up looking like I hit her. She started screaming louder and I just ran. Then the evilus Mrs. Stewart who is Mr. Joe stopped me in the hall and started yelling at me and saying [Chihuahua] said I hit her. So I obviously said NO I DIDN’T! And she didn’t really say anything of interest after that so I don’t know what’s going to happen. I hate Chihuahua. Actually I think everyone does… my friend and I were just IMing about it. It’s like she isn’t happy till everyone else is really ticked at her.
202- Instructions for Chocolate thing, copied mostly from Muse…
Materials: Bar of cocolate (the longer the better)
A metric ruler
A microwave oven.
Procedure: Remove the turntable from your microwave oven–the bar of chocolate needs to be stationary. Put the chocolate in the oven and cook at a high temperature until it starts to melt in two or three spots–this usually takes abut 40 seconds. Because the chocolate is not rotating, the microwaves are not evenly distributed throughout the bar, and spots of chocolate will begin to melt in the high-intensity or “hotspot” areas. Remove the bar from the oven and measure the distance in centimeters between adjacent globs of melted chocolate.
What’s Going On?
The frequencey of the microwaves is the key here. A standard microwave oven will probably have a frequency of 2.45 gigaherts (GHz). If your oven is 2.45 GHz, this means the microwaves oscillate 2,450,000,000 times a second. You will need to adjust this figure depending on your oven’s frequency, which should be printed on the back of the oven or in its instruction manual. (If the frequency is given in megahertz [MHz], you simply need to know that 1,000 MHz is equal to 1 GHz.) Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation and therefore travel at the speed of light. Once you know the frequency of the microwaves in your oven, finding out their wavelength will allow you to calculate how fast they are traveling.
This is where the chocolate comes in. The distance between the molten globs of chocolate is half the wavelength of the microwaves in your oven, so double the measurement you have taken of the gap between the molten globsto find the microwaves’ wavelength. In our microwave oven, the distance between the globs was six centimeters, so the wavelength in our 2.45 GHz oven is 12 centimeters.
To calculate the speed of light in centimeters per second, you need to multiply this wavelength by the frequency of the microwaves: 12 * 2,450,000,000 = 29,400,000,000, which is astoundingly near to the true speedd of light of 29,979,245,800 centimeters per second (or 299,792,458 meters per second, as it is usually expressed). Since scientists have universally adopted the metric system for measurements, the speed of light is defined in meters per second.
Try it yourself, measuring as accurately as possible to get a figure even nearer to the true speed. If your chocolate bar is chilled beforehand, the molten areas tend to be more bistinct when they first appear. Of course, you may find testing a variety of different chocolate bars, all of which taste delicious slightly melted, is an aid in your research. Dedicated scientist know that they must always double-check results.
Editor’s Note:
Any scientist will tell you that most experiments fail the first time. Well, that certainly held true when Muse tried this experiment. Our first chocolate bar emerged from the microwave almost as soon as we’d put it in, alooking like a dog turd that had been in a volcano. Undeterred, we waved away the smoke, begged around the office for more chocolate, and kept going. After our third try, we had edible results and a rough approximation of the speed of light. We also had a few pieces of advice:
1. Use the longest chocolate bars you can find.
2. A solid bar is better than the kind scored into sections.
3. Put your chocolate on a plate when you melt it; otherwise it will become a permanent fixture of your microwave.
4. Keep a very close eye on your chocolate. It might start to melt after only a ffew seconds; open the door to check if you can’t tell.
5. Whatever you do, DON’T use the tastiest-looking chocolate bar first.
213–Thank you, thank you, thank you. Much appreciated. *gives Kyra a pound of [uncooked] virtual choklit* Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Oh what the hey. There’s no point in lurking. I always seem to do that. So. What’s been going on here? AARG! When did these come along?!?!?!
:!:. Neato. Time to go check other threads! *Leaves to check other threads*.
215- About a week ago (ish). Do you like them?
Does anyone here play PMOG? it’s @ p m o g . c o m w/out spaces if the GAPAs don’t zappit. It’s extreeeeemely fun. Even more fun than KoL, if that’s possible.
but seriously, guys, try it out. SHAMELESS PLUGGGG
215–
The arrow and the exclamation smiley got replaced by pies! *gasp* oh no!
Yeah, i’m kinda weird right now……not enough sleep does that to me. They are super awesome cool smileys! (the pie ones, I mean)
(218) The desire for pie emoticons has been rumbling along for some time. The pictures themselves were ably created by Piggy, to whom the GAPAs are most grateful. What better way to celebrate Emoticon Appreciation Month?
219–I am clearly out of the loop on discussion of emoticons…….*thinks* I’m out of the loop on a lot of things, actually……
*bows to Piggy*
That recent? That’s fine. I like them. I also didn’t use the arrow smiley(if you want to call it that) and only rarely used the exclamation point.
SFTDP.
I have a stupid microwave (which, coincidentally, was manufactured the same month that the chocolate bar article was printed in muse). It does not say the frequency on the back of it. After hunting all over the microwave, flipping through the instruction manual, and even digging the box out of the suitcase where it is being stored, then finally returning to the ‘wave, I found it, on a little sticker, that you ahve to open the door to see (but that is not actually in the microwave). it is 2450 MHz, so…..that makes life easy, being 2.450 GHz. Good.
off to see if I have any chocolate. I think I might have some dark chocolate, I know I don’t have any milk, except those little dinky bite sized hersheys. so, hopefully dark chocolate works ok…..they are, unfortunately, scored, even if I have them…..
219- I don’t know if I’d go so far as “ably”, but I accept the praise. “To my loyal subjects, pie!
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SFTTP.
Piggy, in response to your question “How’s life in college again?” and assuming it isn’t a sarcastic, “we know all aobut you and your irritation with college life” question. (which the first time I read it, I read it as just asking how life is being back at college again, then I read it again, and decided it was ambiguous, and then my brain hurt and I didn’t ahve a clue…….yeah. Nothing seems to make any sense right now, hasn’t since school started. Probably still jet lagged.)
So, yeah……It really kinda sucks to be back at school, because it was so nice to be home, not have anything to worry about, just stay home, read, go to work a couple to a few days each week. Biggest thing I had to worry about was when two of our three cars broke down during the subzero weather and I had no way to get to work (I had no desire to walk at that temperature, although it is not too far in decent weather. I used to bike int he summer before I got my drivers license–that is, the first two months I worked there, when i was 16…..)
Mainly, I think I”m just jetlagged and tired from getting up early for classes (8 am class MWF, 9 am T/Th), and just stressed, what with it being the first week back, and not sure what to expect in all my courses. I think the first week is the worst: It’s all new courses, you don’t really know what to expect from any of your courses, and all the things you know you’ll have to do at some point during the course seem unbelievably overwhelming, and your brain is constantly screaming “How the heck am I going to manage to do all this, in the amount of time I have, and still get an A?????????” It’s like finals week, except without the reassurance that you currently are doing A work, and will almost certainly get a B at worst, no matter what your test grade…….
I have decided the first and last week of each semester are the worst…..and this is going to be a very reading (and writing) intensive semester. Except for one course (biomed terminology) which does not have any reading, I think I will have to read all the assigned stuff in every course (four others), and three of my courses involve a minimum of two papers (ok, not a lot, but when you add them all together, plus all the little minor writings I’ll have to do in English…..) (oh, yeah, history, eng, bioethics are the courses).
And chem is, I think, going to be very challenging, and I almost wish I hadn’t decided to take it (my AP score credits me out of all three of the “basic” chem courses required, but I am taking the seocnd one for a review). I am currently freaking out that I will not get a good grade, and I have to get a B minimum, because it is one of those required prevet courses (I can only get one C total in any of those, and it would suck to blow that C now, when I still have three years of harder coursework to go), and for my GPA, and A would be awesome, because I really want to keep my 4.0. Yes, I know, overachiever, but for what I want to do……it’s necessary.
So, yeah……that was probably more than you, or anyone else, really wanted to hear, but……I think it helps to vent, and hey–you don’t have to read it all……
mmmm pie. pie is good. especially lemon.
This is sorta random, but my friend is totally addicted to the jonas brothers, and nobody else seems to mind her constant “IHEARTJB!!!!”. Am I the only one who finds this annoying?? (no offense jonas people)
Well, that didn’t work…….my first chocolate bar only developed one melty spot, right in the middle (that is, smack in the middle of my microwave, right ab ove where the little center thingy that, if I hadn’t taken it out, would’ve made it rotate). I will shove my next one in the freezer for awhile………But yeat, just one melty spot, and I had to cook it for probably close to 40 seconds jsut to get that.
oh, wait, it says takes about 40 seconds…oh well, will eat this one, freeze the next, only have four total, two are snapped in the middle, which could affect the results…..
202 – Welcome back!
210 – Congratulations. What was your winning word?
225 – I am absolutely Anti-Jonas. Not only does their popularity far exceed their musical talent, but the oldest one creeps me out.
I’m so tired of hearing about how you have to prepare your college applications starting now, freshman year of high school. Does it really matter what summer camps I do or if I take AP WH instead of Civics next year so that I can take more AP classes total, or if I get three SAT books and do five questions from each one every night? I want to get into a good college, really, but this seems somehow a little over the top.
SFTDP, but I just remembered something else. One would think that a World History teacher would at least mention an historic event like Obama’s election or inauguration. It seems wrong to me that we spent the day after the election taking notes on Ancient Egypt and today working on Rome projects, without a word about major current events.
second chocolate bar (chilled), same result. Just a melty spot in the middle, left in longer in the hopes it would get another, but it merely spread, fianllyr eaching one end of the bar, still no second melty spot. Maybe my oven just doesn’t ahve interference between its waves, and since there is no interference, it onloy has one point of high intensity…….I dont’ really feel like melting the two remaining bars, and it was an optional experiment…..
Hm, what do you plan to do with the two remaining chocolate bars? *can’t imagine*
230–Gosh, I don’t know……maybe eat them eventually?
That doesn’t sound very scientific. Still, I suppose science isn’t everything.
232–well, maybe when I feel like eating them, I will try melting them first…. y’know, see if the experiment turns out any better later. Afterall, the chocolate does taste quite good melted, especially when I dip marshmallows in it….
217- did you watch lost yesterday? amazing or what! …also I missed the episode of fringe from two weeks ago due to finals stress/strudying/school craziness but I saw this week’s and it was good too!
224- I got stressed out reading that. good luck! only one C? that would freak me out like nothing else…not that I make a habit of getting Cs, but the knowledge of the requirement (what’ the word I’m looking for? I don’t think requirement is right)
I hope things go well, in any case.
225- argh jobros. however i approve of lemon pie, especially if meringue is involved.
227- come to the College / University / Higher Education thread also known as the “axa complains loudly&obnoxiously while others look on sagely” thread
misery loves company! or is it musery…hummm
but yes needless to say i am also tearing my hair out
I finished finals today, I ought to be happy but am not at all.
234- of COURSE i watched lost! and yes it was FARBULOUS & even though i’m not really following it, it was still awesome and timetravelly and i <3 locke and he’s not really dead OR IS HE—–but fringe was awesome toooooooo i luv giant cold-virus slugs!!!
Are people allowed to do more HTML now than in the past? I’ve noticed non-administrator people using colored posts…
236- Welcome back! Links in-blog are allowed, the usable html is still limited to “Some HTML allowed:”
I’m not sure what you mean by “colored posts.” If you’re talking about 234, yes, 232, no.
237–I think E2MB was probably referring to posts with colored text in them. Still, HTML is still the same, although we do have a couple new smilies. The red text is formed the same way the MB “classic” green text was: it’s just linked text, with or without a true link. <a>text you want red</a>
Because WordPress indicates links with colored text, the GAPAs discourage its use as decoration.
239–ah, yes, true. But we tend to do it anyway…….I know I’ve been guilty of that several times, although I usually only do it rarely. I think. *shrugs* You know what? I probably have been consciously guilty of it more than enough times to be rather annoying to the GAPAs……
sorry GAPAs, I try to be good, but–I can’t help myself! 
I’m possessed my HPBs!
Wow. I’m tired.
This whole week has been a blur of working, studying, and midterm exams. I’ll be happy when it’s the weekend.
I’m really excited for Saturday because Andy (Bear on R&R) is probably taking me to dinner and the planetarium to see “A Briefer History of the Universe” We’re assuming it’s about Stephen Hawking. (Steven/Stephen?) It will be a really nice way for both of us to relax at the end of this week. We haven’t even been able to have a full conversation all week because we’re both so busy with school and work. It’s just been a text of “Sorry I’m too busy to call tonight” every day, and sometimes a message on a social networking site.
238 – Oh I see. The change in color scheming changed the color of the links, which at first confused me.
Luna- Thanks for the chokolit!!! Yum.
Cafeteria people are nice. I lost my retainer at a camp at U of O and they found it for me.
Considering your microwave troubles–could you somehow possibly get another one? Like, gate-crash some random person’s party to use their microwave? Or ask cafeteria people if they have an extra one you could use.
243–Hmmmmm. That’s a good idea. Maybe tonight, if I’m not too busy, or too tired, and I feel like it, I will wander downstairs to the basement and see if there is a microwave in the kitchen there. There is a microwave at the cafeteria for kids to used, at least at one of them. I’ve seen it, not sure what they’re supposed to be cooking, but it’s there, near the waffle batter & iron……I”m just not sure I really want to wander into the cafeteria with a chocolate bar and ruler and stand around trying to melt chocolate. I’m not fond of people staring at me and giving me weird looks. I prefer to be invisible…..
20 days until Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off!
Luna’s back! *hugs and pies* good to see you again, I missed your many posts.
244~ Who wouldn’t want to go into the cafeteria armed with chocolate bar and ruler to take over the microwave?? Odd looks are amusing…..never mind.
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Homeschool review today. Mom’s writing down what we’ve done.
*sigh* I don’t think I’m very good at school. The fact that I’m doing algebra 1 still and again isn’t very encouraging. *sigh again* Mom’s going to ask about math tutors. *headdesk* What’s hard is that I sometimes get tantalizing glimpses into how math works, and for a few seconds everything makes perfect sense and the universe is laid out in front of me and then a moment later I’m sitting there in tears because I simply cannot figure out how to go about solving the problem on the page. It’s not helpful that my brain is trying to push me off the edge into insanity; I’m forced against my will to do math problems in my head. And I don’t really even like math that much, but I can’t stop! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! *dies*
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246–*hugs back* Glad to know my multiple posts are actually appreciated……
today in bioethics we were discussing “distributive justice”. In other words, the fact that medical resources (organs, machines, specialized emergency surgery/surgeons) are limited, and how you decided who gets something and who doesn’t……
The teacher’s specific example in question (which he says actually happened, recently, I think) was there is this specialized surgeon, who performs surgery on peole with anneurisms or something like that, and he’s the only one around. So he gets this call one night, there’s this 70 year old woman, pillar of her community, good insurance, really rich, done so many great things, etc, etc who needs the surgery. so he head in, and seconds later he gets another call that there is a 15 year old boy in need of the surgery (and because he’s the only one, he can’t do both), but the 15 year old is the child of two Vietnamese grad students, who plan to go back to vietnam once they finish school….oh, yes, the kid’s parents I think don’t have much money.
So, the question is: who should get the surgery and why. So, we discussed this for a little while in class, and I think the discussion is going to continue Monday (8 am is not a good time for a class that requires participation and clearheadness)…..Needless to say, there really wasn’t a firm aghreement on anything, and I don’t think any of us really wanted to decide……
Our teacher was also talking about organ donors, and how only about 20% of americans are registered organ donors (they ask when you get your license, at least in most states). He specifically mentioned that 4,000 americans die waiting for transplants each year. Anyway, he said something about when motorcycle helmet laws were put into effect, the number of organs available for transplant went down significantly, causing more deaths, and that when many states repealed these lawas, motorbike deaths soared, and there were lots more available organs. But my thought, both when I read this in the “textbook” and when he said it, was somebody is dying either way. It’s the same about of deaths. Either a person dies waiting for a transplant, and the cyclist lives, or the cyclist dies and the transplant patient lives. Either way, someone dies, so how is it a good thing? (neither the text nor the teacher actually said it was good, but the way they stated the fact, it was almost like they were saying that this increase in organs was good–which yes, an increase in organs is good for those in need of them–but it’s still a life, regardless of whether it’s the transplant patient or the ‘cyclist………..)
Yeah, so, enough about school…….
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh! OMG I’m so hyper I can’t believe it becaue I finished my exam and then my mother said why dont’ we celebrate so I’kll take you to sonic and then you can get a treat, so I went and got a reeses sonic blast and now I’m so hyper I know I shouldn’t have eaten it but I did and now…… yeah…….. and I’m typing so fast so I’m most likely misspelling everything but I can’t bring myself to slow down and guess what?! THis morning one of the room in our basement overflowed because our pluming got clogged up and it was relaly nasty. So now we can’t use of toilet facilities, etc. until it gets fixd so…… yeah…. at least we don’t have to pay for it because it’s the cities job, but then again, the city is most likley going to take theri sweet time fixing it and we won’t be able to go to the bathroom. And exams are now OVER and I think I did really well but I don’t knwo yet because I jsut finished and I’m typign really fast, and……… how long is this post?
gah stupid idiots at the stupid mexican fast food in my dorm complex (and not even good mexican fast food) need to learn to fill orders right. I very clearly said no salsa and not tomatoes on my taco. there is salsa on my tacos. I do not like salsa on my tacos. and that makes a barely tolerable taco even less tolerable…….and it turns out they use shredded instead of groud beef, which is just bad. [/rant]
We totally skipped gym to go find out why we failed our math exam…
And then walked ssslllooowwwlllyyy back.
250- OMG I LOVE DOING THAT!!!! Except we usually wait around the band room waiting for our band teacher when he’s not there and we’re pretty sure he’s not coming. And then after sitting there for about 10 minutes we go (slowly) back to gym.
248- Ew. That happened to me more than once. About the sewage I mean.
We were in Spanish the other day and all of the sudden we seea humongo flock of geese sit down in the field next to our class room. And this random dude comes OUT OF NOWHERE and starts running and screaming at the geese “DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!”.
Ok our class started CRACKING UP!!! I mean, you would too!!! It was really weird. Most of the geese flew away except for the slow ones. Yeah. They were slow.
Anyway we were hoping he didn’t take out a shotgun.
OK I’m done ranting. Time to feed the chickens!!!!
249: I have come to the conclusion that ALL fast food joints mess up peoples’ orders! I hate melted cheese (like he kind you get on pizza) and, inevitably, there’s some of it on the food i want, therefore i order my food with no cheese, and make sure that’s there’s no cheese, please, and then my order comes out smothered in the stuff! I have figured out, though, if you actually want your food like you ordered it, you have to go to a sit-down restaurant. They actually listen when you order.
247~ Of course your multiple posts are appreciated.
The review went well, I guess.
However, my “friend” completely ignored me the whole time I was there. She’s not really a best friend or anything, I certainly know that I’m nowhere near the top of her list, but it was still rather upsetting since she’s never been that rude before. One thing I know is that I’m not going to make an effort to be at reviews anymore if I’m just going to be ignored (her mom is our reviewer, that’s why I was at her house).
Ugh. I have other friends, but they all seem to be very far away. Muffy and Sarah are nearby but because of uncompatable schedules we don’t get to see each other very often. Some of my friends I haven’t seen for years.
The others I see rarely and many of them are adults.
I just wish that there could be some more people my age to hang out with who didn’t drop me whenever they wanted to.
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202- LUNA’S BACK! HIIII LUNA!!!! *pies* *choklit* *hugs*
250- Always the best way to skip gym class: Condradict eveything you’ve ever learned about running.
252-
I wish every day could be like finals! Longer lunch, longer break, no homework, and tea in the library!
255–Hey, Aggie! It’s great to “see” you again too! *hugs&choklit*
Hello, Luna!
Hiya, Kokonilly!
ho hum it is raining outside. it’s been raining all day. i suppose it’s a nice change. it’s not helping my mood at all.
254– i sympathize. well, I suppose I actually empathize. I wonder which one it is? oh the ambiguity of it all.
I’m sorry you’re in that situation, though.
I think I want to be an organ donor.
252-
Love it.
I had a cello lesson today and guess what I’m going to play! BRAHMS CONCERTO IN E MINOR!!!! Best piece EVER!!!
It’s been hot all month but it got to 37 a couple of weeks ago. If Sam can beat that I will beleive in global warming.
Hi everyone!
245 (KaiYves)-Thanks for letting us know, I’ll keep it in mind!
246 (Midnight Fiddler)-I’m sorry to hear Math is being so troublesome. What book are you using?
254(Midnight Fiddler)-Don’t worry, we’re all here for you!
261 (KaiYves)-Really? Wow!
262(C-PM)-Nice!
263 (MLDM)-It got to 50º F here today. It was very warm for January!
263- We had March-like weather here in NYC yesterday. All the snow melted in about one day. /Naruto/ Believe it! /Naruto/. (I don’t actually watch the show, but I learned his catchphrase from my friend, who does.)
So I woke up today with a cold and my voice sounds funny. My mom’s making me wear socks around the house and not letting me go out.
GAPA’s I can’t find my name on “who’s here” even though I’ve been here since 2007. I was on the July newbie blog. Please help.
250- Haha, I did that on Tuesday. I accidentally-on-purpose forgot my sneakers so I could go to the computer lab and finish my Science Fair proposals. Which I didn’t end up finishing. But oh well.
I’m guessing that no one could find anything to say to my post #212, since no one has responded to it?
(266) The oversight is now corrected. Our sincere apologies.
ok, I’ve got a question. Why do things like: what obama’s wife wears to the inauguration, whether or not obama can use email, obama’s potential future dog, etc, etc, etc, none of which is truly newsworthy (regardless of what person they’re talking about, not just obama in particular) make headlines online (such as yahoo home page), but other, seemingly much more newsworthy things not?
For instance, the chinese boy who decapitated the chinese girl yesterday at Virginia Tech. Yup, decapitated, in one of the cafeterias with a kitchen knife. True story. google it.
And if they want to talk about Obama, ok, but don’t talk about him and his family’s clothes, talk about what policies he has or has not implemented, talk about something he’s actually done since becoming president, not about pointless garbage like what his wife wore at the inauguration. I’m sorry, but that’s not news, just like what anybody wears to, say, the Oscars isn’t news.
269- because it’s yahoo. they make it their business to report irrelevant inanities. that”s why I switched to gmail, but I keep my yahoo address for other things. The Onion has better reporting than yahoo. trufax.
One of the things Obama has already done is reverse a last minute Bush policy of taking the grey wolf off the endangered species list. Hooray for wolves!
270- ditto. yahoo gets on my nerves. that’s why i use it for my spam email.
i got sparkly brown eyeliner and it’s reallllyyyy pretty! it makes my plain black liner look very plain.
(270, 269) I’m sure Yahoo keeps track of all the hits on its news pages and provides what it knows its users will read. There are plenty of places to get solid, fact-filled, in-depth news and analysis, but the home page of a major Web service is not one of them. “Horses for courses,” as the Brits say.
262-Oh my gosh. I wish my school played Brahms. I might have stayed in the band.
I just realized that I have 13 spdzk points and they’re never in my posts.
271-When I still had my black eyeliner (mrgh, I can’t find it!) I would put sparkly blue over the edges and on my eyelid, and it’d look really fancy.
Or that sparkly eyeshadow in purple or blue looks really good over black.
Good afternoon MB! This day has sure passed quickly! Well, the snow is entirely gone and the daffodils are taking over again. At least we had a little taste of winter! School starts again on Tuesday, which is sad. I guess I should be happy about starting a new semester. But I have an online class (OMG! The textbook is SO scary! It has pictures of people on the cover and they’re STARING at you! :shock:) and my DAD’S class!
Being in class with my dad? Might be interesting. And he comments today while we’re at the library. “Oh, how nice. You’ll like those books. Too bad you won’t be able to read them, due to the load you’ll have to read for MY class.” Pah!
273- Due to my new-ness, I have no idea what spdzk points are.
275–it’s not just the new who have no clue. (eep, that rhymes…..scary) I’m really not sure what exactly spdzk points are, either….
There was a thread at one point a couple months ago that discussed points, due to the many repetitions of “What are points???????” being asked, and if you enter “points” in the search box at the top of the page, it should come up. I don’t know if it answers the question of what spdzk points are, or not, but it might!
SFTDP.
How is it that on tv they manage to make white lab coats look cute/attractive/sexy (just watch a medical show, you’ll see what I mean), but I just look stupid (like I’m wearing a large, badly fitting, well…..white lab coat)? So not fair. [I am going to have to wear it when I trail around an intern at the vet hospital]
273- sparkly is very fun, but it’s better when the sparkle & the color comes in the same pencil!
but putting on eyeliner kinda hurts… does your eyelid callus eventually or something?
277: I would MUCH, MUCH rather wear a lab coat than the safety goggles I have to wear in technology. I wear glasses, so while everyone ELSE gets, cool sunglass looking things, I get plastic goggles that cover two thirds of my face. Why can’t safety stuff like lab coats and goggles be fashionable AND safe??? It must take a lot of work to make a product that nobody looks good in.
Time sure flies when you’re sick and confined to your house. But on the plus side, I read four books! Every so often I donate some of my books to the library to make room for new ones. (And if I ever want to read them again, I can take them out at the library.) I think it’s about time to do that again. It’s funny to look at some of the books I’ve kept. For one thing, I still have my copy of Kids’ Letters to Harry Potter even though I gave away my actual Harry Potter books years ago.
275- A social experiment by POSOC (or was it IBCF? Argh.) 100 were given away to the first person who could answer a question. Something about a chemical indicator. Sorry for the vague answer. I think there’s a thread for points, on which their merits are discussed in great length.
277- If I were you, I’d look into getting a tailored high quality lab coat. I think tools should be of the best quality.
279–*wince* *nosewrinkle* I hate safety goggles. Are they those kind with the elastic strap around the back of your head, greenish tinged, and the actual goggle part pretty much suction cups to your face, leaving a big red ring when you take ’em off? I’ve used those kinds in previous chemistry classes, although it seems the goggles we have to wear for my college chem class can be the much nicer clear hard plastic ones…..of course, we have ugly purple plastic aprons we’ve got to wear.
My AP chem class that I took junior year in highschool (correspondence, as I was homeschooled) actually had “cute” black lab aprons. That is, they weren’t bulky and ugly and loose, but if you tied the string at the waist tight, the whole thing was kinda snug and form fitting and, well, for a lab apron, it was pretty dang cute. (yup, i’m weird)
As far as why they can’t be fashionable……it’s a conspiracy: the people who manufacture the stuff want us to look like idiots.
211- Thanks!
227- My winning word was ‘divulge’, if you can believe it.
281- It was my social experiment. They’re still around? Amazing.
282- It sacres me that we don’t have to wear goggles or lab coats. Well, we might have to wear goggles eventually, but I know that my school lacks lab coats for the freshmen. Which is kinda scary because it’s an all-guys school. So you’ve got twenty or so guys doing potentially dangerous activities with little or no protection- no wonder we have so many fire drills.
278-If you put it on right, it shouldn’t hurt. It also depends on the pencil, the sharpness, and how much you press on it. Try running the pencil tip under water for a second and then getting the water off by rubbing it on your palm, it makes it softer and easier to put on, and even when you do. I hate uneven, crumbly eyeliner (ahem, this means you, CoverGirl and Hot Topic brands!).
277-Try getting a black cloak with a hood, sweeping edges and flaring sleeves from your local New Age store and dying it white. Almost anyone looks sexy in a cloak and the right amount of eyeliner.
We only wear goggles sometimes for stuff with chemicals, which isn’t often at all because we’re Physical Science, not Life Science like last year. And never lab coats!
Today was a total waste of time. I’m reduced to surfing XKCD and forcing Pandora into being nice to me.
Yesterday, I snuck into Clarissa’s basement and there was a bunch of other people there, so we went to the park by her house and discussed stuff that would totally be zapped if I posted it on here. At nine thirty in the night.
284- I think you happy you didn’t choose me to give all 100 to. I did answer first, technically. I hate points.
273- I’m playing it for my private lessons, but oh, well. In school we’re playing neat things, too.
282- We have those lab aprons, too!
279- We got these goggles called VisorGogs. Everyone loves them, and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the name. Anyway, they pinch my face really bad, but almost everyone else’s faces are fine. I guess I have a weird face.
182 (Beavo)- I’ve seen some of those. They’re completely insane. ( :
RoseQuartz (94): I did that awhile ago, and he got an astronomically high score. I remember Bella got 93, or something like that, and Edward got something above 100. Oh, Twilight…*sigh*
Alice, Rebecca (142, 143): A friend of my mom’s lent us the first season of Firefly so she could watch it in the hospital. She said it was good, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. High addiction rate, though?
Beavo (150): Hey, what a coincidence! I just asked on R&R if anyone has seen that movie (before I had read this post).
(290) Definitely a yes on the addictive question. Enjoy when you get the chance!
290-I just responded before I read YOUR post!
This is creepy. Watch you respond to my post on the R&R thread, then see this one, respond before I see your response I’m responding on the R&R thread to your response of my response…
Have I lost you yet? If not,
Clarissa took the Mary Sue Test and got a 1. I took it and got somewhere in the 20s.
286–Nice idea…..but I doubt it fits the qualifications for the dress code for what we’re supposed to wear when shadowing at the vet hospital….
288–which, the purple, or the black?
Beavo (292): That would be hilarious. Good thing I read your post on R&R first, or I think we’d still be going back and forth.
260~ Thanks.
264~ Teaching Textbooks, Algebra 1, lesson 48 out of 129. *hits head on wall*
And thanks, I really appreciate my blog friends, online and off!
Hum. Today was cold again. Yesterday was very, very warm and nice.
I’m tired even though it’s not very late yet. *sigh*
262- WHOA, you lucky thing. Brahms is like… *ahhhh* refreshing music, it’s so beautiful.
As usual I am only dropping by and therefor have no time to read the previouse posts. I hope everyone is well. I am busy, of course. Busier than usual in fact. I decided to, for a project, write a short comic. It has eaten up my time. Consider this: each page is representative of about two hours of work. Every pannel is a miniature painting. I have never, before, truly understood what Mark Oakley did for “The Wandering Mage”. He is quite skilled with the watercolours and seeing as his comic was not abstract but had both setting and a sense of time, why each page must have taken him hours! I must say the most tedious part of the comic-making process is the inking. Spending an hour or so on drawing exactly the same thing over again. Never, I repeat, never assume that creating comics is easy. It is wonderful work. You should only attempt creating something big if you have the perseverance to pull it off. I still have four pages to write, ink and paint, although I am not sure if that is necessairy. The comic seems complete, though I do not feel the message has quite been portrayed properly. Well, I’ve wasted enough words moaning. Have an excelent week. I shall see you in a while.
286- that sounds like a good idea, i’ll try it tomorrow (day 2 of awesome eyeliner)
urgh i have nothing to reaaaaadddd. does anyone have any cool science fiction or fantasy or non-stupid books to recommend to me cuz i am BORRRRRED. medical-mystery/neurological-nonficiton-oliver-sacks-style works good for me too. fang yu~~~
298–as far as fantasy, I would suggest anything by Mercedes Lackey. I like her books.
Medical mystery……um, what’s his name, Robin Cook, I think, writes good medical mysteries. I just read one over break, I forget what it was called, but I know he has written quite a few.
Happy Chinese New Year’s Eve, everyone!
(The New Year is tomorrow, but today is traditionally more important!)
Lab Coats/Goggles – For Science Olympiad last year, my team was planning on getting lab coat/goggle nerd uniforms if we made it to nationals. My friend and I did some research online and there were actually a few cute lab outfits out there. Of course, we didn’t make it to nationals, so it ended up not being relevant.
Hey, people! I’m a little better today, but not much. Hopefully I’ll be better by Tuesday, because there’s no making up a mid-term!
Good morning everyone. I hear birds outside the window. This makes me incredibly happy.
There aren’t any lab coats at my school, at least not in biology; it might be different in chemistry or something. I think we wear aprons, when we wear any sort of protection at all, which is rarely. And the goggles aren’t really goggles either.
301- Haha, I bet my Science Olympiad coach would totally do that. Not like we’d ever in a million years make it to nationals, though. All our work is done in the two weeks before and after Regionals.
Good afternoon MB! How’s everybody doing?
Today is a good day. fortunately, school starts tuesday and my online class starts tomorrow. Bleh.
306–there’s a skim of snow on the ground here……I am happy. although it will undoubtedly be gone by tomorrow, if not the end of the day….
Ah ha ha ha! It is COMPLETE! Now to go write a short story and paint a set design.
LOOK AT THIS REVIEW OF MUSE THAT I FOUND ON AMAZON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO MAD!!!!
1.0 out of 5 stars Not A-musing!, February 10, 2006
By Midwest Bibliophile
Muse is terrible for 12 to 14 year olds. Instead, Discover (adult magazine), National Geographic, and Science News are wonderful magazines for this age group. If your child is bright, give him or her real reading material at the adult level. Don’t waste your money–or your kid’s time–on Muse.
308 – Yeah, well, ignore her.
308–ouch.
308- Really? That review is almost as infamous as They Who Must Not Be Named. It used to be Midwest Educator, though. Maybe she changed her username.
But seriously she really Must be one of those people that hates anything fun and cheerful! Those people make me sick……..
(308, 311) Yes, there was a whole thread about it back in March of 2006. You can find other references by doing a search. The revised name, “Midwest Bibliophile,” was noted one time on MB in March 2008. I don’t remember if we determined definitively whether M E/B is male or female.
313- could you make a new version of that thread it was a good one!
*reads thread* Aha! So that’s where Dissing Mr. Joe came from! By the way, I don’t think Mr. Joe is the Midwest Bibliophile. En is obviously under his mind control, as Joe himself isn’t smart enough to type. By the way, I said the review wasn’t helpful!
It really wasn’t, as en didn’t actually give a reason for disliking Muse. And yes, most Musers could probably read adult magazines, but Muse is a lot more fun! 
Wow, I’m italicizing a lot.
311 – Who’s They Who Must Not Be Named? Is it Frigid Symphony?
Maybe she dropped the Educator from her name because she got fired. Hopefully.
315–that’s a nice thought.
315- No. I was referring to Tiffany and Laney, the notorious hate-mailers. *touches iron, crosses fingers*
318–
. I remember them…..Was it ever decided if they were for real or not?
318 – Oh, yeah, I read their letter in an old Muse from the library. I can’t remember the exact wording, but they called Musers “nerds” and complained about the picture in the race article of “boys and girls standing around a light in their granny underwear”.
304 – My team’s as well, this year. We’re such slackers in high school. In middle school last year, we made it to states, though. I placed fourth in Bio Process lab! My school was eighth overall–not bad, considering the first six places receive trophies. Our regionals trophy is named Freddy.
320- If it was fake, it was a brilliant satire of today’s nerd-hating clique culture: if it was real, I pity the writers.
I GOT SPORE! yay!! i am very happy. it’s a great game!
I had fun today. Muffy came over and we decided to go to the floodplane and hang out near the bridge. There was some rather thick ice under it, so it became a challenge to see if we could break it (really mature, I know) which ended in getting bigger and bigger sticks until we got one large enough to actually break through the ice, that’s when we realized that it was 3 inches thick! There’s documentation in the form of fuzzy cell phone videos of us banging away on the ice with this log that I found……’twas vastly amusing and totally pointless.
Good day and I’m really tired.
Then, because it was about 30 degrees (F) and we were both just wearing sweatshirts (smart) we realized that we couldn’t feel our noses so we came up and watched Love Actually in my room. Then Mom taught us how to make stir fry.
I made chocolate-chip oatmeal cookies using Purple Panda and THF’s family recipe (thanks, Pan!). They were a great hit with my father and with my play-reading group.
352~ That sounds good……now I’m all hungry.
Play reading group? *is intrigued*