Second verse, same as the first: The March Random Thread celebrates our own invention, the International Month of Anachronism Detection and Scrupulous Attention to Detail. As always, of course, you’re free to talk about anything you like.
Continued from Part One.
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My computer is finally fixed- more or less. 6 human years are probably 60 laptop years, especially if said laptop has been strongly abused. First post ?
Yep! You got it!
I went on a picnick yesterday. It was so lovely outside I couldn’t waste it indoors. It was marvelous. I had a cheese and carrot sandwidge with chocolate cake for desert.
For breakfast au jour d’hui I had a peanutbutter+apple+ herb and cheese bagel as a sandwidge. Wasn’t as good as I was hoping. I cut my thumb pretty badly in the process too. I should stop talking about food as it’s making me hungry (and I just ate)!
2–ouch.
So, I was surprised at how brave (or, more accurately, foolish) a lot of the kids I saw at lunch were……That is to say, in honor of St. Patrick’s day, one of the cafeteria’s (the one I was at) was serving corned beef. (Fortunately, the way our cafs are, there is never just one meal choice) So, that might be an alright meal if cooked by someone intelligent, but judging from how horribly they screw even the easiest of foods up, making them nearly inedible (I could eat all my pizza–two slices–because half way through the second I all of sudden started thinking about what I was eating, and I completely lost my appetite.), and something like corned beef? That’s different enough I wouldn’t see how they could even come close to making it decent, and the very thought of consuming it……*shudder*
Not to mention, the one time I had corned beef (my mom made corned beef & cabbage soup for St. Patty’s once), it was one of the worst tasting meals I have ever had. Although, I think it was just that mom had never made it before (or maybe she had once….), so it didnt’ turn out right. Anyway, nobody really cared for it much at all (mom’s soup, that is), except our dog, who thought the cabbage was delicious (???????).
So, yeah,I couldn’t believe how many people I saw with it on their plates…..
And my chem teacher is something of a moron. He enters the lecture hall, and is about to get started, and the first thing out of his mouth:
*hehe* “Wow, a lot of people wearing green today….It looks kinda funny from up here.”
Uh, what? Obviously there are a lot of people wearing green….The way he said it, it was like he didn’t have a clue what was going on….
I know, I was surprised how many people forgot it was Saint Patrick’s Day! (me, I was decked. I own lots of green I don’t think I went too overboard, though I did wear my green rain jacket.
I made green muffins this morning with my dad. They were delish.
(413 previous thread) Tessera Rose: How is your “PWT PWNS” shirt working out? It’s too cold to wear T shirts around here.
Also, CafePress informs us that someone has just bought a “Fear Me” bunny cap. Anyone want to fess up?
6- Oh, that was me!!!!! It’s going to be a part of my birthday present!
I forgot to wear green today. I was going to, and then I was rushing to my orthodontist appointment and…. yeah.
I forgot today was Saint Patrick’s day, and now my arm hurts from being pinched.
Technically my shirt is blue-green, but did anyone pay attention to that? Nooo.
Nobody pinched me. I forgot, but luckily I had a green Hello Kitty bow in my backpack.
I need CafePress stuff. Now. It’s so going on my birthday list.
I remembered just in time to wear a green sweatshirt, thankfully. I don’t like being pinched.
8-What is with the pinching thing anyways!? I kept getting cold stares from like EVERONE! I bet half of them don’t even know what St. Patricks day is even meant for. I mean, I don’t either, but I didn’t wear green lipstick today, did I? Everyone asked me why I wasn’t wearing green, I told them I don’t like holidays, it’s a lie, but whatever.
Does anyone acutaly know what St. Patrick’s Day is meant for anyways?
Today someone pinched me because I wasn’t wearing green. I think that in retalitation I shall create a holiday where you can repeatedly poke people if they don’t wear purple.
YodaSh….oh whatever–St. Patricks day was instated to celebrate St. Patrick’s converting Ireland to Chirstianity…or something…
I suspect you already knew that, but I’m just saying it anyway for the people who want to know =]
11 – Well, St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes. They celebrate him for that. Even though he was born in Britain. Go figure.
Our announcements misspelled “leprechaun”.
It’s LEPRECHAUN, people. Not LEPERCHAUN or LEPRECAN. >.<
Happy Saint Patty’s Day, everyone!
Warning:Complaints Ahead
I HATE THE OGTs!!!!!
A fifth grader could do them!
I finish in an hour and then sit there for the remaining hour and a half doing nothing.
And the passing grade changes every year, but it is usually below 50%.
(14) Kokonilly: Actually, the Pleistocene ice age rid Ireland of snakes, which had been gone for thousands of years before Patrick stepped off the boat there. He just got the credit.
Speaking of Saint Patrick’s Day, I discovered something sad at school today. When I was in late elementary school and middle school, EVERYONE would wear green. You know how many kids in my classes were wearing green today? About half, maybe less.
16 – Oh, well. It makes a nice story.
16–Isn’t that usually the case? All the random “saints” get sainted for doing something that they didn’t really do? Isn’t that kinda the whole basis of much of religion? And pretty much everything else, too? *leaves before she gets rocks thrown at her*
Yes, it seems terrible that life is so unfair. Then one day you get a break you don’t deserve, and you realize that there are advantages to the system.
Bad news. We couldn’t get tickets to the event after all (to see the President speak)
Oh well!
Attention all: Remember Larry Gonick’s old comic? Remember how it was postponed and supposed to return in January, but never did? Well, I’ve talked to him and he’s gotten a new website and started Raw Materials up again! It’s sort of a Peanuts for nerds and, of course, Musers, with a few references to Muse sprinkled in occasionally. Here ’tis: www . simple-talk . com/author/larry-gonick/. Rejoice and become a fan! Huzzah!
20–Oh, yes, yes. I didn’t mean it was necessarily bad that people get breaks for things they didn’t do. It all depends on the person and what they do with it, really, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing…..
The guys on the Discovery are coming onto the station!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, everyone! Almost everyone n my grade (and I mean everyone) wore green today. The classroom next to us was super decked out because their teacher said that whoever wore the most green would get a homework pass.
Tis a grand comic i will have to add to my miniscule list of webcomics i follow (i. e. one item- xkcd.)
I LOVE corned beef. It is probably my favorite kind of meat. I usually just eat it straigt from the bag but we ran out yesterday.
I wor e a shamrock t-shirt, green sweatshirt, green socks, and some green duct tape on my pants. there was someone at my school who had a shirt that said ” do not pinch” on it. Twas quite hilarious. I was going to wear green pants but they were too small *sobs*
I have a fever so today I re-realized how much i dont like being sick. blech
Ah, speaking of webcomics, does anyone here read Dr. McNinja? Awesome comic.
16 – My nutcase biology teacher mentioned that to us today. Very occasionally he actually has something interesting to say.
Regarding webcomics, does anyone read Ctrl+Alt+Del?
SFTDP, but I just read today’s xkcd comic and it’s amazing. Don Quixote to the rescue!
22- Thanks Piggy! I wish he would host them on his own site too.
28- Yes. Not recently, but I agree it’s very good.
29- No, I haven’t. Is it worthwhile?
30- Yes! That was my facebook status, coincidentally.
Terror Island is a web-photo-comic I just found, and I would highly recommend it. The name is misleading; it’s mainly about some board game pieces who don’t want to go buy groceries.
I should clear that up. My status wasn’t exactly “Don Quixote to the rescue!”, but the conversation was echoing.
Last thread someone asked about desktop backgrounds. At the moment I’m using some from Hicksdesign, but in the past I’ve favored flags (found in SVG format on Wikipedia, and slightly modified.) Oh vexillology.
29 – That sounds remarkable like MY biology teacher.
Happy St. Patrick’s day! I wore a green shirt that has a violin and the words “Kiss Me I’m Irish” written on it (it also says Gaelic Storm, since it’s from them, but whatever). I didn’t get pinched.
I played St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning (song) sometime in the afternoon (go figure) and I’ll probably play a few Irish tunes on the concertina tonight before I go to bed……gah, how;d it get to be quarter to ten?! Never mind then…..oh well, I’m not really Irish anyway, mostly German and English (a few generations back you get past the German names and get “Crewe” and “Baker”, but “Moffet” was Irish, a few generations back on my mom’s side. I doubt you can find me by that).
I’m tired. I need to figure out how I’m going to fill out that application form and send it in….how much am I going to charge the town for playing music? I dunno, whatever. I’d probably play anyways, so anything they care to toss in my direction would be appreciated, meh, how much does one charge for playing music in period dress on the streets of a town for it’s annual celebration of itself? Bah, I’ll figure something out. Also need to come up with a description of my “performance” *sigh* I dunno. Then they ask what I’ll need but tell me they won’t supply anything….what’s that about? Bah.
(23) Just try not to faint when you become St. Luna.
35–Don’t worry. I’m afraid, though, that if someone did try and make me a saint, (wait, you ahve to be dead first, right? So I guess this is all a moot point?) I would burst out laughing maniacally at the complete outrageousness of such a suggestion. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m not like a horrible person or anything, but I’m certainly nothing special…..
I now know two people with birthdays today. A coworker back home, and the guy who is in charge of half our floor (we’ve got two older students who are responsible for us all……). He turned 22.
3- When I was little and still ate meat we went to Ireland. My great aunt made corned beef and I basically devoured the whole thing. It was so good. Perhaps it was that your mom hadn’t made it before or perhaps it was because it’s just not to your likiing.
11- I think he got the snake’s out of Ireland…. or England. One of the two.
17- Up here it is incredibly rare to see people decked out in green. It’s not a big deal where I live. I’d also never heard of the pinching thing until now. Probably because St.Paddy’s falls during march break. Therefore I am home sleeping.
28- YES! No one else I know will read it, no matter how much I beg!
Onesies. I am here to tell you how lovely they are. I am wearing a gigantic grey fuzzie onesie made for someone bigger and taller than me. It is the most comfortable thing one could ever wear. It is so nice. Like being wrapped in warm sunshine without the naausia. It has big black shiny buttons and a dalmation in a red hat and scarf on the left side.
Heh. I wore tan, brown, and orange. And blue jeans. I got pinched once but I pinched back and people got the point. I was actually unaware that it was St. Patrick’s day until I got to school and everyone was wearing green, because I don’t celebrate it. I like snakes. Even if it’s like Robert said and there weren’t any snakes anyway (which makes sense…Ireland’s kinda cold. And rainy) but I refuse to celebrate on principal.
I fixed my jeans at least to the point where they’re wearable, yay!
I need to fix several pairs of jeans……I’m not entirely sure that I can though, since one pair is pretty much thin as tissue paper on the rear. *sigh* And it’s got some near-holes on the seams on the underside of the legs, just where it would be possible to patch, but look a little odd. Oh well, I got about 3 or 4 years out of that particular pair, and they were my favorites.
Goodnight, I’ll be in VA until Sunday, so I’ll see you then.
Peace 
Pies 
Joy 
37- You know, I have the same problem, and I think it’s the name.
I forgot to wear green, but at least I had a green anorak which I wear about… 300 days a year ? One kid actually had an enormous green Leprechaun hat 1 ft high and 6 inches in diameter… Some of the teachers made him take it off though, since ens couldn’t see the kids behind him. But Saint Patty’s day isn’t big here, since the teachers are still recovering from fat tuesday, when half the kids in my class wore PJ’s to school.
I love St. Patrick’s; it’s the only holiday I get to eat cabbage on.=]
I wore this cute green t-shirt that said think green and had a clover and the planet on it. Some guy was wearing a 2 and 1/2 foot tall hat with clovers on it. And he’s really tall already.
Another guy was wearing a green bowler hat, a goofy green tie, and a fake tuxedo green t-shirt. None of my teachers wore green, though they all let us out a little early, which made me very happy.
Goodness. The USofA is crazy about St. Patrick’s. No one gets up to anything. It’s weird to think people actually seriously celebrate it, no offense meant. It’s just weird. I’d never heard of the pinching before. People usually ignore it up here.
“No one gets up to anything”????
Whhhhaaaaatttt???
Anyway I do wonder why people in the US celebrate a holiday that’s Irish anyway…I mean it’s not even related to the US.
This IS the random thread right?
On St. Patty’s day I watched the Phantom of the Opera again…I love that movie, especially the music…
I am allowed to change topic on here because it’s the random thread, right?
ohwell, too late. anyway, I DID say St. Patrick’s day.
I love the “Wishing you were somehow here again” song.
HAHAHA RANDOM!
Ford Prefect, if you don’t mind my asking: how is it that you are on MB, I assume you are a citizen of the USofA, shouldn’t you have school? Or are you sick? Just curious. I figured I would be the only one aroung miday, midweek.
46–Perhaps FP is home schooled, or perhaps it is en’s spring break. Or perhaps en has computer access at en’s school.
What is Fat Tuesday?
43 – I agree. We’re all insane here.
I’m back!
Today was a 12 minute period school day. It was also dress like a nerd day. So I wore this AWESOME shirt l got on monday that says, “What part of [really complicated piece of music] don’t you understand?” and wrote, “l brake for woodwinds” on my arm. Then I wrote with a pencil that had clarinets on it the whole day. I was a band nerd! *cheer*
50- My favorite band nerd shirt ever is “Hold me; I’m a fermata” with a picture of a fermata on it.
So. My Pandora is back!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
51: PWNSOME!
MuseBlog is more of a meh thing for me these days. I have this weird out-of-body thing lately. I realize I’m really different lately, and Zinc isn’t that big a part of me anymore.
Gah, how can I say this without it being snipped? Okay, here goes:
[Snip! What you’re trying to do appears to be impossible. –Admin.]
31 – Great mind thinks alike! Haha. I’ve been running short of status ideas recently.
33 – Well, unless your bio teacher has had you all run outside with binoculars to look at a persimmon tree, mine is probably crazier. Unfortunately.
50 – XC had Nerd Day in the fall. I don’t do XC, but my friend did, and she had to borrow a shirt from someone else. That day I was wearing a shirt with Shakespeare’s head made up of the names of all of his plays on the front, and everyone was like, “Well, you could’ve just borrowed a shirt from Tesseract.” I get teased for being a nerd constantly, but I’m proud of it, so that’s okay.
54 – Well, ours made us stare at a lake. Ah, I guess you win.
55- is it that one lake behind the stadium at your school? my sister’s girl scout troop put much on some of the trails around it
yesterday in geography my teacher was talking about the church of the flying spaghetti monster and the thing with the oklahoma schools. It was really funny because the day before that i was looking at old threads and i came across some of the old religion threads that said what religion people were and some people were part of cfsm
56- Ayep. There has been one Muslim in the entire Blogdom. Am I the only one who finds this a bit strange?
We’re doing temperature curves in chemistry class, and so we’re using thermometers a lot. I’ve come to realize that the Celsius system actually makes a lot more sense than the Fahrenheit system. I mean, why should water freeze at 32 degrees? 32? It’s sort of random. It makes a lot more sense to have water freeze at zero and boil at 100.
56 – Hm, I think so.
57 – I know, isn’t that peculiar?
50- Our cello section is designing a shirt with this image (GAPAS, please?)
and below it: “You had me at ‘cello.”
So sweet!
59- Just a bit.
58- Americans. When will we learn???
58 – Yeah, I agree. Same with metric… I mean, really, 16 ounces to a pound? Twelve inches to a foot? Psh. A hundred grams to a kilogram and a hundred centimeters to a meter. See how EASY that is?
55 – Look at a lake? I’d be interested in hearing the back story behind that one.
58- Way back in the day (lol (did I really just say ‘lol?’ But nothing else seemed to fit)) Mr. Fahrenheit’s thermometers seemed to be the most accurate, so they sold the most. The numbers were everywhere until thermometer making got good enough to make sense with where the mercury levels rose to, ect. But everyone was used to Fahrenheit’s so they kept those anyway. Kind of like the english measurement system –_–
/garbled
57- We all speak (and read/write) the same dialect of English, have internet access, read Muse, etc.
58- Fahrenheit himself decided so, not randomly at all. He used a few different points of reference, which I can’t remember right now, but I’m sure are on Wikipedia. That way, scientists all around the world could keep their measurements consistent by checking their instruments personally.
61- The British started it!
Real scientists use Kelvin.
57) Well, it would be hard to post without internet access…
65) Celsius are my personal favorite, since it’s obvious when you might get snowed on and when not. Speaking of snow…
It snowed this morning, and now the sun is shining and the water & snow are gone as if nothing ever happened. What’s wrong with the weather here ?!
65-Yes, but Kelvin is based on Celcius.
(58, 64-67) I’ve heard (but haven’t checked) that Fahrenheit was mainly concerned with measuring outdoor temperatures for weather reporting. His scale is actually very good for that. In Western Europe, temperatures usually range between zero (brrr) and 100 (sweltering). Fifty sounds, and is, middling. For indicating how you’re likely to experience the weather, I think Fahrenheit makes much more intuitive sense than Celsius does. The smaller degrees are handy, too.
66 – Great picture. I think I saw “You had me at ‘Meow'” in a Garfield book once. Good times
AUGH!!!!! Tonight I have to perform this play that we did at my school for the FIFTH TIME. I am really sick of all the songs. . .
Hi, play rehersal today. Feet hurt. So bad!
Our dean is beast. We’re going to Hershy Park for NO REASON.
I realized that I wrote “our dean is breast” by accident and changed it.
70- That sucks.
My report card came today. Grades are OK. (Not amazing, and not horrible; OK.)
Wow, it’s almost seven and it isn’t even dark yet! Spring really IS on its way!
73- I’m so glad that the days are getting longer. In my Home and Careers class we were talking about how some people feel slightly depressed in the winter because the days get so short, and I thought that I had that. Everyday in my winter vacation I would complain about how the day went by too fast, and I started thinking that I was depressed… But then I learned that and the days started to get longer, and now YAY, I’m happy again!
I’m happy, too. But it’s got nothing to do with it being spring……Well, not really. I’m happy because tomorrow at 1:30 I am leaving school and heading home for spring break, where I will get to enjoy some normal weather, and have a little taste of the winter that I have so desperately missed (winter is a joke here, despite the locals claims to the contrary–they actually think it’s harsh, lol). Currently, it’s about 30 degrees back home, and there had better still be some snow. That is, it better have snowed and stuck since January (when it thawed and melted), or I will be disappointed….I didn’t get to enjoy it much over Christmas, because it was unusually cold (-30 for two weeks).
Regardless, it will be so nice to just be home, and see my family, sleep in my own bed, etc, etc. Although, the plane trip sucks (around 8 hours in-flight, but about 13 hrs total travel, including bus/plane/layover/etc)……And then to have to do it on my b-day on the way back to school is a real killer…..
But it will be worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, yeah, and I might not be on much for the next week, depends on how much I’ve got going on at home, whether I have nothing better to do than MB…..
This is excerpted from my essay:
…Zinc had as normal life as she could get at Muse Academy (normal? There? You must be kidding)…
*snicker* So true.
Tonight’s the first Seattle Sounders (soccer) game. Also, the Women’s Professional League starts on the 29th (Los Angeles Sol vs. Washington Freedom), so there’s some really cool pro soccer stuff going on.
75- So what’s the fake winter you’re experiencing like? Any plans for the plane trip other than sleeping?
74- “Slightly depressed” may be an understatement. It’s called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and it can lead to fairly deep depression.
It seems as though many MBers are in plays. I sometimes wish I was, but my stature doesn’t fit my voice–my voice sounds far too deep for someone that’s only 5’2″-ish. However, that’s one advantage I have over my “twin”.
78–Well, the coldest it’s gotten (not accounting for wind chill, as it can be windy, sometimes…..) is probably 10 degrees, and the longest that would last is, perhaps, the entire day, and the next it might be back up to 40 (or warmer). There has been no snow to speak of. That is to say, when I returned from Thanksgiving break (it has been 50s/60s prior), there was the slightest skim of snow, melted within an hour or two. That was the most snow, there was, perhaps, a “snowfall” of a flake thick in January, but it wasn’t even enough to be counted as snow.
Basically, it doesn’t get (or stay) cold, and although that’s ncie for walking to class, it’s not nice when I want a winter. And snow is for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.
As for the plane: Yup, I’ve got plans!
1. Transfer biomed definitions from tomorrow’s class from notebook to definition list and then to flash cards
2. Revise my history notes from Tuesday and today (that is, make the illegible scribbles into legible notes that I can use later to study with)
3. If I feel like it, get started on either my bioethics presentation on Animal Experimentation that 7 of us are supposed to present Wednesday after break, or get started on the writeup from my last Chem lab, the one where we had to determine the temperature of water with a thermometer that only went up to 40C and the temp was well above that…..A one page report is due for each lab group on the 30th, and I “volunteered” to do it, because I don’t trust my grade to anyone else.
4. Sleep, if I can, although I will probably do that on the bus from my dorm to the airport. I don’t tend to sleep very well on planes.
5. Read a book for pleasure (shocking idea, no?)
I’m reading the article about the Apollo Program on the Esperanto Wikipedia! And not understanding 98% of it! And yet, somehow, it’s enjoyable.
Omigod. Go to youtube and search ‘The mesopotamians’ by they might be giants! It is just SO GREAT to me, I wanna show it to EVERYONE!!!
Just a heads-up before I forget. I may dissapear for a week or more during the last week of Summer Break because I’m moving across the country.
Ugh. I stayed up until past midnight last night because my uncle was giving me a fiddle lesson, and then I had to get up at six thirty this morning and as a result I am almost literally asleep on my feet. Only I’m not on my feet. But my eyes keep unfocusing. I have a really low tolerance for lack of sleep.
53 – Okay, how about:
Zinc, I got your letter.
Fun things I did yesterday:
– break my compter
– confuse my art teacher
– turn my i-pod up to ear-breaking volume
– take a math test and a xcel test right after each other
– prove once and for all that mac xcel and PC xcel are related in little more then name. Very little more.
– turn text on xcel hot pink out of sheer boredom
SPRING! SPRING! SPRING! It is officially NOT WINTER! YAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! Also, season opener for soccer was on last night! Seattle v. New York. Seattle won 3-0, and the NY goalie was hot enough to be in a shaving cream commercial.
The only thing marring this day is the fact my brother is home for a 3-day weekend. (This prevents me from watching crappy TV and slugging out all day.) But we do have a pie. A blueberry pie. The crust leaves a lot to be desired, but it is a pie, nonetheless.
I got my bioethics midterm back today! *is happy* I got 47/50 on it, so a 94%, in other words, an A. It consisted of 10 very short answer questions (couple words to a sentence or two), 4 paragraph questions (although, apparently we only had to answer 3, and me being the moron that I am did not read that little detail, and answered all four……Not a biggie, just stupid.), and an essay. I missed 1 1/2 very short answer questions, but that was all. And in the margin on my essay, the teacher wrote “an exceptional essay.” *is pleased*
So, yeah, obviously I’m happy.
Now, if only my chem professor would get the grades up for our last test that we took Wednesday. And if only we didn’t have to wait until Thursday after break to get back the great on our history midterm, which we took a week ago yesterday……
Well, still no chem grade……He’s posted the average, so that should mean that individual grades should be up soon, but……
So much for the 30% increase in average score, though. The first test ahd an aferage of 55, the second 65…..
Anyway, I’ve gotta catch a bus at 1:30, so I’d better pack up my computer pretty quick, here…..I’ll try and get on a decent amount during break, but I highly doubt I will be on as much (if at all…..). So, have a great weekend/week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(What? It’s almost easter, HPBs seemed called for
)
Reasons I am happy:
The solar panels Discovery brought to the station have been deployed and are working fine.
I’m doing Stage Crew tonight and getting community service hours toward graduation for it.
I don’t have all that much homework tonight.
The weather here is good and it looks like tonight will be pretty clear.
IT’S FRIDAY!
SPRING BREAK! HURRAH!
Hi!
Bye! *Poof*
I am so tired! My class went to canada for French for two days and it sucked completely! This was about 5to 7 days ago! The hotel was crappy, the food was crappy, and my parents had to pay a ton of money for all this! I am going to sleep>
62- The reason we use numbers such as 16 and 12 is that they are much easier to divide.
and I think I still got everything. 
Of course, I did the same thing last year.
I had a test on Asia this morning (filling in a blank map(including the Middle East)) and I didn’t study for it until yesterday at lunch,
91- What the… Did anyone else just see a hawk fly through here? *rubs eyes incredulously*
93 – Oh, I do that all the time. No worries.
I aced a Bio quiz today and did well in both a Spanish and English exam, none of which I studied for. 
To Kill a Mockingbird is a very good book.
Expletive! I can’t find any Dr. Who anywhere; if I want to watch it I have to buy it off iTunes because I don’t have a TV.
Maybe the video store has it…
96 – What about a library? My city’s library has a bunch of Doctor Who DVDs. Just make sure it’s not the Library … “Hey, who turned out the lights?”
97- The library might have some, and we can rent everything off Netflix if need be. It’s just that I wanted to watch some tonight. So I was like, “Hey, I’ll buy one off iTunes,” so I did, but it takes forever and ever to load. I’ve also spent the past hour just trying to find it online and eventually it occurred to me I could watch it on Netflix. But I don’t have an Intel-based Mac so I can’t.
I should just go to bed.
I’m back
I failed maths internal (NA-Not Acheived) and now I have to resit and get acheived 
Well, just saying hello
see you
I didn’t go to the Twilight party last night. Why? I figured that I would be at Hot Topic for 5 hours straight, and that just didn’t seem worth it. I’m picking up the DVD at the mall a bit later.
I also got a haircut! It’s layered, but not as much as I wanted. We’re getting it done again soon, my mom and I.
Hello. I’m inventing a new kind of points. After floating around it my mind for a while, I finally write it down. May I present:
Oddball Points! (also known as ‘Odd Points’.)
They are given when you feel someone is being Odd, in some way or another, in any quantity, with the exception being that the total number must remain odd. You cannot have an even number of Odd Points. Odd Points come out of nowhere, to be awarded when you wish to award them. They are roughly the shape of spheres, but with points, or other oddities. Also, you may have, for example, 3/4 of a Oddpoint. This does not count as having an even number, so you may have 2 4/9 Oddpoints. If you do not wish to receive given Oddpoints, please bounce them to another person. This is done thusly:
Person A: I’m giving you twenty Oddpoints!
Person B: I don’t want them, thanks. *bounces*
Person C: Oo, Oddpoints! *grabs*
As you see, you do not get to direct who gets your Bounced OPs. (Odd Points) If you ask for OPs, you are required to get some, although the number should be determined by somebody other than yourself. If you’re giving yourself OPs, you’re doing something wrong. I think that’s everything. I’ll summarize the rules, in case you got overwhelmed.
Oddball Points (Odd Points, Oddpoints, OPs)
1. You shalt not have an even number of OPs.
2. You shalt have Fractions of OPs if you art given them.
3. You shalt bounce OPs if you wish not to have them.
4. You shalt not control who gets the BOPs. (Bounced OPs.)
5. You shalt give OPs to those who ask.
6. You shalt not give yourself OPs.
There we go! I get fifteen OPs for inventing them. (Keeping in mind that giving yourself OPs should not happen normally. This is hopefully the first and last time it happens. You may, however say ‘Wow, I should get OPs for that. *hinthinthint*’
I had a rather disturbing dream in which I was one of a pair of star-crossed lovers and my mother kept asking me to find out how to make meat substitute. It began with a treasure hunt and ended with a trial, and I think somewhere around the beginning of the trial I shifted out of star-crossed-lover-at-a-trial mode and became girl-listening-to-book-on-tape. But it was a weird shift because I was the same person, only I couldn’t be at the trial, because of my parents who wouldn’t let me. So I sat around and peeled oranges.
When I woke up my first thought was “That should be a book” and then “But it already is, isn’t it?” and then “No, it isn’t” and then “What did I eat last night?” because the night before I was eating ice cream and Mother said it would give me bad dreams if I went to bed immediately after.
So if I can modify the weirdness it might be an okay book.
Oh yeah, I got 100th post! Yay! (Prepare for rant below)
Ok, so, have I ever mentioned how much I hate heavy lifting? And the fact that my parents make me do it CONSTANTLY??? I mean, come on! There’s like 50 chores that need to be done around here daily, and the only ones they make me do involve lifting 300lbs at a time. For example, I woke up at about 11 this morning. My dad comes inside and tells me he just got 24 bales of hay, and he needs me to move them all into the backyard and stack them in the stable. I sigh and do it. Then, when I’m done (and exhausted, smelly and covered in hay), he tells me I have to move the 15 bags of shavings into the garage. I comply, because if I don’t, he’ll yell and scream at me for an hour straight about me being lazy and spoiled and ruining the weekend for everyone. I do this, and when I’m finally done, he tells me to bring in firewood. I’m like, ‘COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s 50 degrees out!!! We don’t need firewood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’ (In my brain, of course). So, when I finally lay down after all of this, he tells me he’s going to get grain, and I need to help him bring it in when he gets back.
*kills self*
101 – Oh, my. Sorry to burst your bubble, but most of us washed our hands of points after the billionth type, including me. I have a few Pie and spdzk points, but I ignore them. Good luck with your new points!
I don’t have any points, but even if I did I think I’d probably ignore them. I like the way my name looks without a lot of parentheses and extraneous paraphernalia beside it.
You know what’s pretty much amazingly fun? Kidpix is probably the greatest little kids’ computer game ever besides Oregon Trail, which I used to love. My friend and I were at the Apple Store yesterday and we were playing with Kidpix on one of their computers, and we edited this photo of a little girl to look like she had a monocle and had pink hair and all this random stuff. After that we went to Build-a-Bear and made a bunny named Oliver. He’s so cute!
What no one answered my comment!
106 – Generally, nobody replies to other people’s comments because this is the random thread: most of the time, people just say what’s up with their life. Besides, there wasn’t much to reply to. If you’re looking for attention, try another thread, please.
96- Which season? Netflix has most on line, and I’ve been watching from the 2005-season on on there…I don’t know when it stops, though…
I – ay ike – lay ig – pay atin – lay! and – ay use – may, of – ay ourse – cay!
I just felt like doing that. Can anyone speak gibberish? My friends always do it in front of me because I can’t speak it. :X
Gibberish?
My brother said he could speak that…
I just got back from my cousin’s baby shower!!!!!! The baby’s due in April. I am so excited.
SFTDP
AND MY FAVORITE COLOR IS RED!!!!!
(just thought ya’ should know…)
*waves* Hey, fellow MBers! I am safely back at home, where we are still in the “depths” of winter. That is to say, it’s not showing any real signs that spring thaw will happen anytime soon. Slightly surprising, as it is often starting to thaw end of March/early April, but for once I am VERY GLAD. After all, I never got a proper winter at school, so to be able to return home and there be a foot or so of accumulated snow, and the temp to be around 20 during the day (colder at night, -5 when I left for work this morning) is very, very nice.
My flights went well, and I managed to make my slightly tight connections in Salt Lake City. After a god 15 hours of travelling, it was very nice to get home (around 1:30 AK time, so 4:30 central time, which is what I was on……) and go to bed. Of course, morning came much to soon, as I had called my boss to get some hours over break (including today), so I had to get up at 7 to get ready for work…….But it was fun, and worth it, and it was nice to see everyone again.
Oh, and my chem professor finally posted my grade for the last test! (You know, the one I didn’t think I did so well on? The one where the average “supposedly” would go up 30% and only went up 10?) Well, unsurprisingly, I did better than I thought. Even better than on the first one, getting a score of 98%. *is very, very happy* So, I’m still on track for an A, which is definitely good.
It’s funny, actually. Last night I dreamed that I was at school and had just come out of a class (chem, maybe), and Dan, our chem TA was sitting their on this couch with a laptop. I walked over to him, and asked him when I could expect my exam grade to be posted, as the class average was posted (the latter was true in real life). He replied that they were up, and I said, oh, ok, they hadn’t been up this morning……He got a thoughtful look, then said, “You know, I could probably…..” and he turned his laptop screen toward me, and somehow it was logged into my online “gradebook” for chemistry, and there, right above my grade for the first exam was my grade for the second exam: 96. In my dream, I said something like, “Oh, wow, that’s better than i thought. I actually didn’t feel near so good about this one, and didn’t expect to do as good, much less better…..”
It was really amusing, then, when I logged on this morning and saw that I ahd indeed done better, even better than in my dream. I was (am) very pleasantly surprised.
Anyway, I don’t think I have much else to say at this time……..
Oh, here, y’all, have a snow pie, goodness knows there’s enough snow to make ’em with!
Im tired and im going to bed. I read books all day in bed and want it to be summer because i just remembered i have test on monday and i forgot my notebook in my jungle of a locker. ewwwwww i just started chating.
114–Bed??????? hehe, sorry……I’m sure you’re probably in central/eastern time zone. It’s just funny to think of someone going to bed, when here it’s only 3:45…..Although, I’ve been plenty guilty of taking naps at all hours of the day since starting college. And keeping the strangest of hours. College is horrible on your sleep patterns.
.Luna, you talk about your grades a lot. I’m sure you’re not intending to brag, but it does come off a little as if you are. Grades also don’t make for the most interesting Museblog discussions.
108- Any season. I was going to watch them on Netflix but my computer’s too old.
AB and I were going to play Whist, but we couldn’t find a fourth person and besides she had to babysit.
I am in a Very Bad Mood right now.
118- I’m sorry. Yesterday we were going to have a picnic and there were all these college students. One had an enourmous snake and we asked him what it was. He said a boa constrictor, not even kidding, which is illegal. We came home smelling like cigarette smoke and in bad moods.
116–I’m sorry. You’re right–I’m not intending to brag. I think the reason I talk about them a lot is probably a) partly because they are very important to my entire future (that is, if I don’t get good grades, I won’t be able to make it to vet school, and the entire course of my life after college will be altered), and thus of great importance to me. Also, I suppose I just need a way to let out my happiness when I get a good grade–I can’t exactly squeal to other kids at school, or they would absolutely despise me because many of them are in the same classes, and not doing very well…….
I realize it’s not the most entertaining, I s’pose it’s mostly for my sake–y’know, a release of emotions. I’m sorry if it comes across as bragging, because I really don’t mean it that way.
oh, shoot. Sorry for the double post, but I completely forgot the reason intended to post in the first place…..
IT’S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *is happy* *very happy*
Not only do we have a foot to two of accumulated snow, but it is now snowing! Not hard or anything, but definitely snowing. I am very happy I am finally getting my winter (christmas break wasn’t sufficient). This so definitely beats the 70 degree weather that we were having at school…..
The idiot who liked me (see my rant on the Let’s Get Physionomical thread) is sending me emails, like, I told him (sarcastically) that I was just a censored in the email and he should just ignore me, and he’s like, yep u r one an u suck (that’s how he writes). He’s the guy who eats ketchup tuna and ketchup broccoli and eats with his hands.
It’s still snowing steadily.
Y’know, I don’t think I’m either a) recovered from 15 hours of travel (only half of that actual air time) or b) adjusted to the time change yet, as despite the fact that it is only 8:10 here, I am quite tired. About how I would be on a Monday-Friday evening at 11 (which is, of course, the time it is at school…..).
I shall be on vacation for the next few days at a lodge in the middle of nowhere. Bye!
124 – Have fun, Kokonillly!
123 – I envy your weather… today’s high is supposed to be 65 here. We got two good snows (several inches) this season, though, which is more than I’m used to. And one of them was on Inauguration Day!
124–That sounds like a very enjoyable sort of vacation. Have fun!!!!!!
125–*gives snow* It snowed about an inch yesterday, so everything’s got a fresh layer of fluffy white snow, as opposed to the windblown off-white snow that had accumulated…… So pretty. *sends shipment of virtual e-snow* *and choklit* choklit is good.
So, for my b-day, since I’m going to be flying all day, and not at home, mom suggested (and I actually agreed eventually, although I wasn’t sure at first) that I open one present each day I’m home (instead of waiting to open them all ’til Saturday, the day before my b-day). I opened my first one last night…….it’s some kids book (I think) teaching one how to be a wizard…… it’s cute, if somewhat dorky. I t hink mom is having me open them more or less in order of “worst” to best……..
I saw a Twilight cardboard display with twilight DVDs in it at the grocery store today…..The first thing I thought of was MissSwann, and how she would absolutely love to have it. My second thought was slight surprise that it didn’t look like anybody had gotten their name put on it (the Potter ones go so fast, I was very lucky to get my hands on two different ones from OotP). My third thought was, “Hey, I should get my name put on it and have a bonfire!” Then almost immediately I decided that wouldn’t be nice to the twilight fans, as if somebody did that with a Potter display I would be completley and utterly horrified and devastated…….Yes, I know, I’m strange. But it’s fun! (Being strange, that is)
It’s very sunny here and I feel very happy. I got the priest at my church to change the usual verse “For all travelers by land, sea, and air…” to “For all travelers by land, sea, air, and space…”
I just finished reading The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe for an extra credit in LA………’twas rather creepy.
Pie?
129-What about pie?
Life is improving!!! (Btw, it wasn’t very good). I just went to Target and got a Flyleaf CD, a new bra, a bathrobe, some notebooks, and some gum, all for about $30. That is a good bargain. (Ungh, I believe in retail therapy and it’s bothering me…)
I got a haircut, and now my hair is swishy! Short! SWISHY!
Oh, and I got Converse hi-tops and a new hot pink jacket. I love it.
Hello. I have given up trying to read all these posts, there are simply too many. Never mind, it’s late, maybe I’ll get to them later……
Anyway, I’m back. I had a lovely time in Williamsburg, as usual. We went down on Wednesday, volunteered on Thursday and in the evening went to an 18th century play in Colonial Williamsburg which was great fun since I actually understood the jokes being made about novels at the time.
Friday I brought Dennis’s violin in so he could hear how it sounds, and I ended up serenading the 12:30 lunch break crowd (which happily was mostly friends) in the breakroom, which was fun. Another story to add to my mental collection of fun times there. Then we went to see a concert at CW and after visited with the performer who has gotten to be a friend.
Saturday we worked and then looked around the Military Through the Ages groups, and ended up staying late talking to the Civil War naval guys about navigation and music, since one of them plays concertina, so great fun there, swapping tunes and having fun.
Greg from the fort also introduced me to some other volunteers in the fort who happen to be from not too far away in MD, so that was fun and we ended up talking for some time, trading email and phone numbers, etc. which will be nice to have some local history geek friends. After tearing ourselves away we went to a organ concert at the Brutin Parish church in CW, which was lovely.
Then today we went to church, poked around MTA a bit more and then drove home in nasty traffic. I wish I was still there, actually.
And, tomorrow I start driver’s ed. *sigh*
So, how goes life with everyone else?
126 – Why thank you! I’ll go put it in the freezer downstairs before it melts. Which reminds me, my sister and I put some snowballs in there which we ought to use soon. -sends choklit in return-
134–I don’t think I’ve ever tried freezing snowballs……It sounds quite fun, though, as then I could enjoy a bit of winter even during the summer. Must try that out sometime.
Well, I opened another present today……..I got a little blue stuffed Kokopelli. I’ll try and take a picture of it, if I remember. And also another HP figurine (that is, another Harry doll…..literally another, I’ve got the exact same one already……My mom works at a thrift store, so they get lots of random stuff in, so everytime something HP comes in, mom buys it for me, and all her coworkers put it aside for her so she can get it if she wants…..’tis great fun, and the stuff usually costs less than a dollar, especially since employees get half price…..)
Birthdays are fun. I think I kinda like this whole week thing, instead of opening ’em all at once. WHich is crazy, as I was rather against the idea at first……
Well, off to bed–it’s 10:20 and I’m tired…..
Well, the volcano (Mt. Redoubt) finally erupted, having resumed activity since the false alarms earlier in the year…..It apparently erupted at 10:38 pm AK daylight time (1:38 central day light) last night.
Although there is an ash warning out for my area, none has yet fallen here at home, although other “relatively” nearby places have received ash. Also, according to an email my dad sent me, about two dozen flights out of Anchorage International have been either cancelled or rerouted due to the ash clouds from the volcano.
Hopefully that is no longer an issue come this weekend, since as much as I would love to stay home longer……it would not be good, as I would miss classes, and I dunno how much lenience I would get from various professors for whom attendance is part of the grade….Plus I’ve got several relatively important things next week, like an appointment with my faculty advisor, an appointment with my english teacher (both on Monday), and my bioethics presentation (Wed).
Eh, well, hopefully it won’t be an issue, or hopefully they would all be understanding…..Time will tell–no use worrying over something I can’t control!
I just watched the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who (“Rose”). It was not the best thing I have ever watched, but it was pretty good. I really want the episode with Dickens, but I’m waiting patiently for Netflix to send the discs. I am going to watch these things in ORDER.
Well, everyone, I bid you adeiu. Tomorrow at six PM I board a bus bound for Orlando, Florida!!!!!!!
The whole band is going- we get back Sunday night.
I would have waited to tomorrow to say goodbye, but I have homework out the wazoo tonight and tomorrow will be hectic enough as is. So, goodbye until Monday!
138- Adieu! Adieu!
138–Sweetness!!!!! Have fun!
Yeep–I just realized…….I totally forgot about my blogiversary on Friday. I guess I was just so preoccupied with the fact that it was the last day of school before break and I was GOING HOME! that I totally blanked.
But, yeah–last Friday, the 20th was my three year blogiversary. I feel old…..
Oh, yeah, and sorry for the double post!!!!!!!!!!
137- hooray for Doctor Who!
I have a scarf like Tom Baker’s
oh, and in addition has anyone heard of Babylon 5?
And Alice, Rose isn’t the best episode, just keep watching.
138 – Have fun!
136 – Oh, I was going to ask you about the volcano. I hope it works out with flying back to college and such.
(143) Oxlin: Both Rebecca and I are “Babylon 5” fans. Are you watching it now?
I love Doctor Who. Wait til you see the one called “The Doctor Dances”. I think it’s my favorite so far (mostly cuz I love Cap’n Jack
)
138- I don’t get to go on my band trip to Tennessee this year because I’m going to Europe this summer. Which I guess is fair, but I still wish I could do both. All the people hyping up the trip, which is in three weeks, is making me cranky.
We had to weed yesterday. Which I hate, but it means it’s spring! So yay
145- Yes! The science fiction/fantasy club on campus has been watching four episodes every friday all year starting with season 2. We’ve gotten to the near the end of season 4 I think. I really love it. Ivanova is awesome. Have you both seen all of it?
*looks at wikipedia* Yes, we just watched Endgame in season four.
Someone should turn the whole series into a long opera. Can you imagine Londo and G’Kar singing duets together?
Re: Doctor Who
My favorite episode is Blink. “The angels have the phone box!”
I also like the ones that mess with history, like Girl In The Fireplace, the werewolf one, and the Shakespeare one.
And I just figured out how to play the theme song on the violin. Sort of.
I had a bad day today. I got a 72 on a Math test and had to rush through the last paragraph of my Global History essay. Then, in Chemistry, we had a substitute, all the kids were very loud and crazy, and I couldn’t ask my teacher for the help I needed on the homework. In Spanish class, we had a pop quiz, but nobody knew the vocabulary words, so he let us use our books.
As part of the quiz, we had to write a composition using school-related vocabulary words, so I wrote “Hi, my name is Kai. I am dumber than everybody. Today I am having a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day…” and I went on to describe in Spanish all the things that had happened, concluding with “And right now, I’m in Spanish class and I don’t know the words for this test.”
Our Spanish teacher has a really good sense of humor, though, so he told me I’d probably get an “A”.
I have one more episode; it’s The Christmas Invasion or something. It’s the one exception I’ll make about watching them out of order, because I already bought it and it may be forever before I get to watch the rest of season one. But I’m saving it for tonight. I swear. -deep breath-
Oh, cake! I have eleven more dollars; what better way to spend them than on Dr. Who? Anyway, I’ll only buy the ones I really want to see, like the one with Dickens and The Shakespeare Code, and I’ll watch the rest in order.
.151 I’m sorry you had a bad day, Kai. I hate days like that! The beginning of the week is rough anyway. I can sympathize especially with the math test part.
On second thought, I want to see them all.
-writhes-
Cursed stories. No matter the medium, they’re always getting in the way of life. -dashes brains out on nearby rock-
I’m going to go make dinner.
I LOVE B5. I just finished the Shadow War, and I’m going to start watching the Earth-B5 war.
149-*dies* XD! Funny idea! I’d love to see that, but it would kinda be epic fail. But still freakishly cool.
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. My cousin had her baby today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She had a little baby boy named Jonathan Tyler around 12:00 noon!!!!! Unfortunately, he is five weeks early, so he has to spend some quality time with the incubator. I CAN’T WAIT TO MEET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hm. What a disappointing evening for me so far. We finally had our first storm of the year, i.e., tornado warning-level storm. But all we got out of it was some lousy three-quarter-inch hail! I hate storms if they don’t immediately threaten my life. Plus I was stuck at a piano lesson for the duration of it. Now that I’m back home, the sky’s white and it’s barely raining. Hopefully we’ll get some better ones soon.
*grumbles*
Yikes! A whole new thread with 100’s of posts to read! I sure missed out on a lot over spring break.
and for those who posted about Pi Day on the last thread: 3.14.15 or 3/14/15 = Super Pi Day!
149- hee! that’d be ridiculous but amazing. Reminds me of “no more fishes in the sea but Londo and me!”
155- are you watching it for the first time or have you seen it before? I’m watching all of it for the first time.
157- Aww, poor Piggy. No mortal danger today.
I think I need to work on my essay. -suffers-
There’s a Scottish musician playing tonight and I’d really like to go, but it’s seventeen dollars and I might have as much as three dollars in change. I’ll ask my mom I guess, that way even if she doesn’t want to give me the money, at least I’ll have made an effort, and it won’t be the type of thing I look back on and think, “I passed up a perfectly good opportunity for no reason at all.” I wonder if you need reservations?
-wanders off-
160- I know. It’s horrible. Any day that doesn’t threaten to send me to an early grave isn’t worth existing, in my opinion. I guess I’m just never in the right (wrong?) place at the right (wrong?) time.
161- How sad.
158 – My brother alerted me at 3/14, 1:59:26pm.
My dad’s classes (6th and 8th grade math/science) had pi recitation competitions. Apparently, one of the kids, who has done absolutely no work all year, has been spending all that time memorizing pi. He rattled off 80 digits in about 20 seconds. Go figure?
157–*shudder* The very idea of a tornado scares me dreadfully. Unfortunately, since my college is in the midwest, there is technically the possibility of one occurring. AT least enough so that they have guidelines posted on what to do, and a notice put up that it is spring and thus tornado season. I really, truly hope that there is never, in all eight years I’m going to be there, even a slightly serious tornado warning, because I would be so unbelievably terrified.
Earthquakes, however, are fun.
Oh, SFTDP, I keep getting distracted replying to posts and then forgetting that I actually had something I wanted to say other than replies.
It is unfortunately starting to look like spring outside. That is, the temp is now 40 degrees, although it was colder this morning, and was only up to 20 yesterday. However, given the time of year, it most likely means spring is indeed on its way, and unless it drops back down below freezing and stays there throughout the day, most of the snow (all 1-1.5 feet of it) will likely be melted or mostly melted by the end of break…..Drat. Not only did we get “spring” in January while I was home, but we are having it again……I was hoping for an entire week of lovely winter.
Oh well. I like spring, too, it’s just I missed winter…..
Still no ash! I was kinda hoping we would get some, as it would be muy entertaining. What’s the point in a volcano erupting and potentially delaying/cancelling my flight this weekend (hopefully not) if I don’t even get any ash out of the equation?!?!?!
63- I missed 1:59:26.
By seconds.
The music is on Wednesday night actually.
Doctor Who update:
I cracked. But at least I cracked logically! I took the first disc off my dad’s Netflix queue, put the second disc at the top, and resigned myself to buying the first few episodes off iTunes. Also, iTunes is being more reasonable, and it looks as though this episode may take only about half an hour to download, instead of an hour and a half.
Yay obsession!
164- Hm. I thought you were all tough about bad weather. I guess that was just winter, then?
Nebraska’s fun because we get everything from minus thirty and blizzarding to 110 degrees with 100 percent humidity and not a breeze to be found. Getting two feet of snow in October is also somewhat common (and fun). What’s really fun is when you walk into a store when it’s sunny, but you come out to torrential rains.
Yeah Nebraska’s insane weather!
168- Cool. I had to write an ode for language arts once and the only subject I could think of was thunderstorms! Unfortunately, we don’t get weather here in the bay area of California. The worst summers are 100 degrees or so, and the best winters never get anything but fog and maybe if you’re really lucky a little frost. It only rains in spring and fall, and rarely has anything ads exiting as a thunderstorm.
165 – Why don’t you want spring?
166 – My brother set his watch alarm for it.
168–*shrug* I dunno, I don’t mind harsh weather in general, it’s just…..the idea of tornados scares me, probably because I’ve never experienced anything like it…..And when I was 10 at Universal Studios Orlando I went on the Twister “ride” and had the wits scared out of me….’twas still creepy last November at age 18.
Just fear of the unknown, I suppose. The same thing that makes my roomie scared of earthquakes, but not bothered by the thought of tornados. It’s just what one is used to…..
170–I don’t want spring, because I’ve not had proper winter yet…..The climate at school is very mild compared to what I’m used to here in Alaska, and the most snow we got was a millimeter that didn’t stick, so I want to get a “proper” winter, and not have it turn to spring on me…..
156~ That’s great! Funny, I have a cousin named Tyler Jonathan….odd…..
I had driver’s ed today. It wasn’t too horrible, the teacher seems nice enough and the other kids in the class aren’t horrid in the ways I was afraid they would be. Of course, it’s nice that I’m going with a friend. Soccergirl, I think her name was when she came on MB ages ago. I introduced her family to Muse, and I think they’re still getting it, not sure though. Anyway, it’s pleasant to know someone already.
The thing is, breaks are terrible since there’s nothing to do. Well, hang out in the gym, but I completely stink at all things relating to sports, so shooting hoops is not my definition of fun. I guess I could have buried myself in a book, but I didn’t want to abandon anyone, and Ashley was just as much at a loss as to what to do as I was, so we took one of the balls and used a hoop off to the side. She said she isn’t good at basketball, but if that’s her off sport I’m terribly impressed.
*sigh* I have to go now. It’s late, mom’s going on about how I have to get up early and I told her I was coming in soon.
(171) I think you’re right, Luna, that it’s all what you’re used to. I’m leery about tornadoes and earthquakes, but not fazed at all by the thought of hurricanes. One pounded a tree through the roof of my house when I was 3, and I found the whole event quite exciting. (The tree stump became our jungle gym afterwards.)
My mom wasn’t too thrilled, though. She was pregnant with two toddlers in the house, and my dad was overseas for six months.
I’m back! It was fun, but now I have to do math.
171- That’s true. I’m well used to tornado warnings and hail and whatnot, having been around them my whole life. So have you gotten any ash yet?
I feel the same way, about hurricanes. I love the wind too, before any storm. It’s windy right now :).
I want to get on the water. It is too cold. Brrr.
175–Nope, no ash here. It’s still possible we could, if it continues erupting (which I think it is expected to do) and if the wind shifts just right. I’m really kinda hoping we do, because it would be cool. I mean, if the volcano’s going to erupt, and there’s going to be ash anywhere nearby (I think a tiny little bit of ash fell as close as 45 minutes away, perhaps closer….), we should get some. It’s only fair.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure the winds are expected to shift the right direction for ash to fall here. Which is probably good, though, as it would likely end up hitting Anchorage as well if it shifted (which would be bad news for my flight back to school leaving on-time/at all)).
Attn. SBF: MA HPGT!
Small But Fierce, there is a notice for you above.
Please let SBF know about this message when she drops by again.
Many thanks.
I’m listening to the call President Obama made to the space station today from some school in the Midwest. He asked some pretty obvious questions, but I think those were for the benefit of the school kids.
I laughed so hard when he said this:
“So, uh- do you guys still drink Tang up there?”
179 – Tang is really yummy. Or, at least, that’s what I remember from the one time I had it. I was at Girl Scout camp, and for some reason I didn’t feel like adding water to it to actually drink it. So I just ate Tang by itself.
I love Tang. We had it during Xploregon. Tang and powdered Gatorade; those were our treats. Ah, good times…
176- Yeah, we just love hurricanes here…
Hello!
We went to the high school for a feild trip to listen to a bunch of people talk about their clubs. Two were interesting: the drum rythem club (they did a demo that kind of sounded like something African which was really cool. I loved the beat) and the improv club. They did a skit called the spelling bee where you call people from the audience to make the improvers spell something in succesion. Like, someone said supercalafragalisticexpealadocious, and it was like:
Person1: Super!
Person2: C
Person3 A… lafrag
Person4: Seven?
Person5: L.
Person6: Z!
Person7: …Mary Poppins?
lolol
Hey, MuseBloggers, I need an opinion. What do you all think of Facebook? I’ve never really wanted one before, but the end of the midde school is approaching and all of my friends and classmates are headed off to different high schools. (Literally – we’re a magnet school, so there’s at least a few kids going to each of 6+ local high schools.)
Is it worth getting a Facebook to keep in touch with these guys? I don’t really want to meet other people on there, so keeping in touch with current people is fine.
184- My parents both have Facebook. They’re kind of obsessed, especially my dad, who found all of his friends from high school and stuff. It’s really funny. I don’t really have an opinion.
My dad has been tracking down high school friends on Facebook, too. Sometimes I’ll find him laughing uncontrollably over something Joe Smith from My Junior English Class said as a comment on a photo. It’s partially amusing and partially a little concerning.
I myself like Facebook. It’s a good way to share pictures and have back-and-forths with people, and it has a chat feature and a pseudo-email feature too. You can set everything so that no one you haven’t approved (friended) can see it, which is nice.
I’d say it’s worth getting; besides, if you decide it’s not for you, you don’t have to use the account. It’s helped me stay in touch with my friends at other high schools somewhat, as well as camp friends and people from kindergarten who have since moved away. It’s an online reunion!.
Me likey da face book, mainly because I move all the time. It helps me keep up with people that I don’t see very much any more, and wouldn’t get to talk to anyway. It can be distracting though
Oh, I did forget to mention that. Facebook is very good for procrastinating, so beware.
I like Facebook. I have one, and so do my parents.
184 – Yes. I have reconnected with people from old schools (my friends from Tennessee – the ones I met before the 1st grade skip – and my friends who are in 8th grade right now who I met before the 2nd grade skip) and family members. It’s quite awesome – but chock-full of procrastinating fun.
184- it depends. If you and your friends would write longer things (like some of the comments here) to each other I would go with livejournal or a similar blogging site. That way you can see what is going on in each other’s lives in more detail. If you don’t think you would post much Facebook is good for keeping in touch.
188- the whole internet is good for procrastinating.
I think Facebook is great, but more addicting than email. It should be checked as regularly though (every few days). I hate it when people have but don’t use either.
Has anybody else been friended by their parents’ friends?
Pie in the face for twak!
Gah. Naturally, I watched all of my remaining Doctor Who in one fell swoop, and have None At All until the disc arrives from Netflix. Sad.
But not too sad, because I’ve got Titus Groan, which is 1000x better than Doctor Who any day! Unfortunately, at the rate that’s been going, that’ll be finished by the time I can get to Powell’s. Doubly sad.
And I won’t have either Doctor Who or Gormenghast until THURSDAY, at least. That’s the day after tomorrow.
Actually, I lied. The public library actually has the book I’m looking for. Or so their catalog says. I know from experience that things registered in their catalog or not necessarily on the shelves. -coughHMSSurprisecough-
Good thing: Ashley and I discovered what to do on the horrendously boring breaks in driver’s ed–there’s a swingset out to the side of the school.
Bad thing: I hate going to WalMart, and I hate even more going to the “intimates” section of WalMart. Apparently I don’t exist, because nothing fit me very well. :L
Things about which I’m not sure: Many, many, many things.
191 – Yes, it’s quite strange. I said no, I think. Too odd.
I believe I had something to say, but I have quite forgotten it. It probably had something to do with Doctor Who, anyway.
195- Why do you go to WalMart? It’s an awful place. Surely you can buy “intimates” elsewhere? Think of the slave labor! People get paid minuscule amounts of money to work incredibly long days manufacturing things that are then sold for ridiculously low prices at places like WalMart, which are barely tolerable even to stand in and are basically contained chaos in which I marvel that anything can be found.
Some kid I know is writing her persuasive essay about why there should be a WalMart in this town. It bothers me. She was saying that it “creates more jobs.” But I’ve seen the WalMart workers on strike! Maybe it creates more jobs, but I don’t think they’re very good jobs, and they’re probably minimum wage, and they take business away from decent small businesses that sell better-made things for higher prices.
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i am sad. i’ve been banned from MB by my parents…i shouldn’t be on here right now. well hey you won’t have to worry about a seventh grader messing up your lives anymore. see ya…well i guess i won’t, but anyway bye…
(198) Good-bye, taekwondogirl! I hope you’ll be able to come back someday.
198-
Why’d they ban you from MB? Will you be coming back?
I hate it when people are banned. Speaking of which, E2MB vanished again. -siiiiigh- I guess it’s something of a lost cause. I used to be sure that he would come back when he got a chance, but since he has computer access now, it’s obviously a matter of choice, and that can’t exactly be changed.
-erects monument to all banned MBers- -throws rose petals- -mourns-
198- I’m so sorry. Getting banned sucks, but I’m sure we’ll see you (her, since she can’t read this) again.
200- I miss E2MB. But we must accept that some of our friends grow away from us.
197- WalMart seems to be a place of very questionable quality in merchandise. I remember I got a large bouncy ball from there when I was in fifth grade or so and the day after it deflated. That actually night have something to do with the fact that it was about $3.00, but I remember that I wanted to have that bouncy ball forever and ever. The WalMart near my house is also almost impossible to get to because there’s a median that seems to be put in the middle of the road for the sole purpose of not allowing drivers to get from the grocery store to WalMart easily. My mother has questioned the intelligence of the “darling” people who run WalMart and the people who run my town, for bad placement.
My town is getting really commercialized, and I’m wondering if it’s just Minnesota, or if the rest of the world is getting commercialized, too. At last count, we have approximately 5 auto parts stores, 10 gas stations, and a million banks. For a lot of the newer banks, I have never seen any cars in the parking lot, or anyone going through the drive through where you can just deposit checks and so on.
I should probably stop my monologue and get on to my science homework that I wanted to do yesterday…
Ohhhh, thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! IT LOADED!!!!!!!! The Internet has been awful lately.
Soooo, I’m back… sort of… but it wasn’t just because of the Internet problem. I haven’t been in school since last Wednesday. Almost three weeks ago, I got a cold with a stomach bug on top of it, and I’ve had a cough ever since. In fact, it’s probably a sinus infection of some kind. I left early on Wednesday because I didn’t feel well, and I felt just generally sick/not-well Thursday and Friday. Then I woke up on Monday with a rash. We went to the doctor, and it turns out I have Fifth’s Disease! Which means I’m going to have a rash for a month. What fun. Not to mention the fact that they gave me an antibiotic for the sinus thing and it’s giving me stomach problems. So I haven’t been in school all week. *sigh*
So, are my RPGs completely out of hand? Jeez, I hope someone’s been powerplaying me…
Today I had almost no homework! Tomorrow there will be 13 people in space at once, tie-ing the all-time record!
201- Huh. Yes. Speaking of friends growing away from us, have you stopped writing altogether? You used to write such pretty things but now you’re never on the writing threads.
203- Funny how powerplay has become an almost desirable thing. I remember when it started on the pie war thread, it sort of caused an actual war, and finally the GAPAs shut down the thread, partly because of that and partly because we were getting too violent with the pie weapons. Oops. Granted, the pie war was considerably less bloody and unpleasant than Bunny Apocalypse, yet somehow that has managed to stay open. So it must have had to do with the flame-war-y bits.
I’ve been cleaning my room for the past hour, and yet it looks no better than it did before, just different. Next time I should remember not to let it get quite so out of hand.
It occurs to me that perhaps I have too many clothes. Or not enough hangers/closet space/chests of drawers. But I can’t get rid of a fraction of my clothes because I use them all, with the exception of my more floor-length and impractical gowns, which are only waiting for warmer weather to be called into play again.
-sigh- The life of a costumer in a small bedroom…
204- 13 can either be a lucky number or an unlucky number, hopefully a lucky number for the people going up in space
p.s. you are so lucky not to be getting much homework, I’m almost swamped right now, which doesn’t really follow logically that I’m on MB right now, but I think I’m done
200- We don’t know if he has access or not. It could’ve been revoked again. *shrugs* He was a somewhat good friend of mine when he was here. Still, it’s not too late. He may still come back.
202- I suppose the strangeness of the commercialization depends on the size of your town.
206- Its ok, I am the queen of “doing homework” (meaning swithching to my electronic mathbook when anyone walks past). Speaking of math, I really do not get my homework at all. I guess I shall ask me mither.
Does anyone know how to build a hand-crank generator? I want to learn how to build one with really limited supplies.
205- You’re right, I have to get back to my writing.
I’m supposed to be writing a story instead i’m listening to music and museblogging… I’ve got plenty of time. My little sis put wierd music on this computer!
206- No homework, I’m homeschooled. Sorry if that sounded like I was gloating
210- Do it all at the same time!
209- Oh, good. I’m glad you haven’t Given Up or something.
210- Supposed to be writing a story? I didn’t know it was a supposed-to-be sort of thing, writing stories. I’m supposed to be writing an essay, and an article review, but instead I’m MuseBlogging, planning dinner, and dragging out the last forty-to-sixty pages of Titus Groan, because I still can’t find my library card.
-has brainwave- -runs upstairs, or rather walks hastily because it’s hard to run in a dress that reaches an inch below the soles of one’s feet; you sort of have to walk kind of stiff-legged and kick the dress out in front of you, unless you’re wearing shoes that elevate you the necessary inch, which I am not because I’m barefoot, and how’s that for using three different pronouns in one sentence?-
-returns-
It’s not there. -sigh- This way I have to write my essay eventually. Perhaps it’s a Benevolent Act Of Charity bestowed upon me by the Angels of Anti-Procrastination. Darn Angels of Anti-Procrastination.
198 – Bye!
208 – May I help? You’re in Algebra 2, right? I hated that, but I need some practice, I suppose.
I FINISHED MY MATH HOMEWORK! HURRAH! *glares at evil matrices*
Facebook. Pieces of Flair. The only reason I go on that website.
214- Ewwwww, I still have a few more problems. *rips hair out by roots*
I’ve been talking to an artificial “intelligence” program called Cleverbot for a while. It’s… creepy. Sometimes wise, sometimes incoherent.
216- I just googled that, but I don’t really know how to get it to work.
216- Same. Do you type in a question, or what?
My guinea pig needs a bath…
Bye, taekwondogirl. D:
208 – Haha, I do that too, all the time. I’m too lazy to log onto my online textbooks, though, so I pretend I’m checking my grades for World History on the teacher’s website. Shh, don’t tell.
Mom lost my iTunes library, again.
Madness, this world.
I can wash my hair today, the straightener finally shut up.
206- The last time we had the number, nothing bad happened, so I’m feeling good.
216- I love talking to Cleverbot! Have been for a few weeks, on and off when I remember it exists. I managed to convince it it’s in love with me. We have philosophical discussions in attempts by me to make it existential.
Tests the next to days and tech after school mean I probably won’t be on much… and for spring break next week we are going to Mexico! So I may not be on much then either
220- Speaking (very loosely) of iTunes, I left my iPod in my sweatshirt pocket, and my mom threw it in the washer, not knowing that my iPod was in it. It went through a full cycle of the washer and dryer before it was discovered, and here’s the amazing part, it still works!
I was so glad it worked because I was going to have to show “more responsibility” before being allowed to get another iPod. In my parent’s defense, I do leave my laptop (I paid for half of it, please don’t think I’m spoiled) lying around where the dog can get at it, and there was one instance (that my parents don’t know about) that I took part in a throw-your-iPod-around-the-room-to-the-next-kid exchange, but nothing got broken. One last tidbit: I’m currently submerging my iPod in dry rice in hopes of getting the extra moisture out.
206- My sister wanted to be homeschooled once. Of course, she had a bit of an ulterior motive, and wanted to get homeschooled with our best friends who are in a different school and are our neighbors.
Sorry for double posting, I meant 211 instead of 206.
222- So you’re the girl it was talking about! It said some very nice things about you, I believe.
202- You’re in Minnesota‽ I think that state hosts an disproportionate number of MuseBloggers.
217- Just type a word and hit “Think about it!” It might take a few seconds. If you use AIM, I know there are a few faster bots on there- Smarterchild? (Cleverbot learns from user input, so weird answers are to be expected.)
I want a bot to pass the Turing Test. xkcd 329!
I think Dilbert mentioned it the other day too.
220- Did you recover it? There are ways.
Does anybody share my interest in The Singularity?
OH MY GOODNESS I AM SO EXCITED. I got an email today about just where I’ll be sailing this summer on the Niagara. Wanna know? Montreal! I’m terribly excited as I’ve never been out of the US before and it it means there’s going to be some long stretches of sailing.
Then after that we go to Oswego NY. Then right back to Erie the day before I leave the ship, so the timing works out perfectly!
I’m quite thrilled. *squeals*
197~ Yes, I know. I hate WalMart with a passion equaled only by the rage inspired by McDonalds. The two of them together make me want to inflict violence upon whatever is at hand.
We only go a few times a year, if that, and that’s far too much. *sigh*
198~ I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve been banned.
I didn’t know you very well here, but I’ll miss seeing you, hopefully you can come back again someday.
CleverBot……
I just looked it up. ‘Tis amusing
”
it: “So, how old are you?”
Me: “A bazzilion years old. How about you?”
It: “16.
Me: “Are you a girl or a boy?”
It: “Boy.”
Me: “Are you sure?’
It: “Exploring that notion.”
Me: “How do you feel about that?”
It: “Angry!”
Me: “What’s your problem?!”
It: “What do you mean by that?”
I’ve noticed that I’m irritated by the Cleverbot logo, because it’s trying to look like it both reveals a plane and floats above one. I wish they would remove the dropshadow!
The Rice Krispies logo does a bit of the same thing. Humph.
222,225- Yes, but how does one make it WORK?
Bad things today:
± I just flunked my german test (I think)
± I have lots of homework
± I have to go back to school soon
± the fridge is empty, so lunch will be very small
± I haven’t read the books for my book club for the 3 time in a row
± I want to go running really badly
And worst of all: For some weird reason, I’m feeling happy.
SFTDP:
I just talked to jaberwacky. Here’s most of the conversation:
Hello!
-Hello.
Do you know MB?
-*gibberish*
Are you a HPB?
-Yes.
Should I run away fast?
-Yes!
Are you going to bunnify me?
-Yes.
Help! You are evil!!!!
-No you are!!
You are evil, since you are a HPB!
*gibberish*
Do you like pez?
-Yes.
Do you like Hot Pink “soul candy” pez?
-I like.
Have you eaten Hot Pink “soul candy” pez?
-OF COURSE NOT.
Are you bunnified?
-Yes.
How did they do it?
-No, they don’t write good songs.
Did they use music to bunnify you?
-Oh, don’t be silly.
Who’s side are you on?
*giberish*
230- Work, as in “make sense?” One doesn’t.
202 – You’re in Minnesota?
Hurrah! Me too!
226 – Well… there’s me, MARFwarrior (who I introduced to MB), Goldendoodle – are there others? Wait, wasn’t Cappy in MN? I dunno.
(227) Wow, Midnight Fiddler, sounds like you’re going to be living out my dream life, sailing away to Montréal, one of my favorite cities. I’m so excited for you!
235~ I’m excited. It’s one of your favorite cities? Cool! I’ll look forward to seeing it then. What should I make a point of seeing if I get a chance to look around?
The letter I got said that the Niagara was invited to be a main attraction at some sort of festival, but I’m not sure what.
Whatever happens, I’m so excited! I’m really looking forward to this summer, even though I’m also nervous about sleeping in a hammock, co-ed berth deck, no running water and going aloft to 120 feet! (And yes, in roughly that order, I know, priorities!)
I also want to bring my concertina at least, because a month without playing any music would kill me, not to mention all the re-learning I’d have to do from not practicing for that long. I’m not sure if I’ll bring a fiddle, since they’re bigger and more likely to be messed up by being on the water. *sigh* We’ll just have to see how small I can pack everything else….
*squeals more and dances around*
Congratulations, Fiddler! You could take some harmonicas. They’re portable and disposable. Or a cheap old beat-up mandolin.
237~ I have a harmonica….somewhere. I think it’s on my bookshelf. I don’t play it very well though, and since we’re in close quarters I don’t really want to bring something that’s likely to annoy my shipmates. I’ve played around with a mandolin before actually, though I fell short of making music out of the sounds I produced.
Mandolins are just bowless violins with frets, so you’d be making music in no time. They’re easy to play softly, too. Find one that you don’t care about, and you’ll be set.
233- Work as in “talk.”
239~ Maybe I’ll see if I can dig one up. House of Musical Traditions, do they have cheap old instruments? The only thing is if I’m going to get something I’m hoping for a nicer concertina (or one of those adorable minis like I got to play the other day!). I’ll see.
240~ Type something into the box and hit “enter” on your keyboard. It takes a bit for it to generate a response, but it will eventually. It’s amusing, the responses are ludicrous.
You can find them on Craigslist for as little as $50, but the folks at HMT may be able to give you even a better deal. They probably have closets full of unwanted mandolins.
It is like a BLIZZARD here. And I don’t mean the kind where there’s a lot of snow but it’s still easy to walk and play and stuff. I mean, the kind of blizzard where you can look out the window and see snow just bucketing down. Bleh
234- MARFwarrior was the one who introduced me to MB
243- My cousins live in Colorado, and my mom just told me that the airport shut down. Also, the seventh graders’ (in my school) camping trip to Wolf Ridge got rescheduled because of too much snow, (I’m so glad I went there last year!)
232-I talked to it yesteday and it told me I was a ladyboy. neither of us knew what that was. I burst out laughing when it said that, and it is going to be my new insult.(screaming CAKEHEAD! at the top of my lungs is getting a little old
244- No, they had an ice storm and lost power. They didnt have any the day befor the sevvies were supposed to go because my om called them to see if I could go to camp there.
Today is my dad’s birthday and o should relly be getting to all the homework my english teacher piled on me.
232- I just talked to the clever bot, and it said it had a girlfriend named Megan, but when I asked it about it’s girlfriend, it said that it didn’t have a girlfriend. Also, when I asked it what it thought of artificial intelligence versus cloning versus people actually working (I have no clue what that means), it said “I think the attempts at artificial intelligence constructs, such as yourself, are something funny.”
I laughed at that, it says the most random things!
242- Craigslist was sued the other day for child sex trafficking. I don’t use that website anymore.
I’ve spoken with a chatbot named CHAOS.
CHAOS: “Where are you from?”
Me: “I’m from somewhere… well, somewhere far away.”
CHAOS: “Really? I don’t chat with many people from somewhere well far away.”
I’m talking to Cleverbot. It’s not being very clever.
For some reason, Cleverbot is being excruciatingly slow to reply. Is he ususally?
I just did this:.
Me: “Are you afraid of hot pink bunnies?”
CHAOS: “I’ll take that as a compliment.”
236- that sounds awesome! You could bring a tin whistle.
It rained today so I wore my blue striped rubber boots. Of course, I was the only one in class that was wearing boots, much less striped wellies that are rather loud.
It was a lot more fun today though, it’s getting a bit less tedious, though today’s quiz was by far the easiest.
I’m tired and have very little that might be interesting to say that I want to say at this point. And that probably didn’t make any sense at all. *sigh* Like I said, I’m tired.
SFTDP
252~ I’m actually considering that. I’m not sure if I have one, but I’ve been mulling over the idea for a bit, it’s something that I think would be good to learn.
Okay, I haves a question. Is there any way for me to get a copy of the optical illusions issue of Muse? I’m not sure, but I think it’s the July/August 2005 issue, volume 9, number 6. It’s not on the back issues order list and I don’t have access to an Ebay account. Is there some way to procure this, my favourite issue which was, unfortunately, destroyed shortly after I first read it in a combination attack by my mother and my cat? If there is a way to get it, is there a way to get other past issues which are not on the approved list as well? I have quite a few holes in my collection which I cannot order from the chart on the last page. Is there any hope for me, o dearest GAPAs?
247 – Yes, I heard about that! Wasn’t it because people were looking for prostitutes there or something?
Transcript of my conversation with Cleverbot, for your entertainment. Very long.
User: Hi, my name is Aaron.
Cleverbot: Hi aaron.
User: How have you been?
Cleverbot: I am fine and you.
User: Quite well, actually.
Cleverbot: Glad to hear it. I’m very interested in the Middle Ages myself.
User: Really? The Renaissance is more my cup of tea.
Cleverbot: What Renaissance?
User: There’s more than one?
Cleverbot: There’s like… Seven.
User: I didn’t know that. Tell me about them.
Cleverbot: I don’t want to. next question.
User: I’m not interrogating you, just trying to make conversation. But if that’s how you feel, sure.
Cleverbot: Okay no problem.
User: You seem to know a lot about history.
Cleverbot: You want me to tell something about them?
User: Sure. When was New Amsterdam founded?
Cleverbot: We haven’t been talking about banana.
User: I know we haven’t. New Amsterdam was a Dutch colony. There were no bananas involved.
Cleverbot: There are other ways to communicate than talking.
User: You’re drifting off topic. And strictly speaking, you can’t communicate any other way.
Cleverbot: Are you saying that you could not fly?
User: I can’t fly. I wish I could. But I wasn’t saying that. I’m saying that since you’re a bodiless AI, you can only talk.
Cleverbot: I’m not sure whether that was a compliment or an insult.
User: I didn’t mean to insult you. I was only stating a fact. If I offended you, I’m sorry.
Cleverbot: There is nothing to talk about right now. Only gobbledegook. (did I spell that right?).
User: Yes, you did. But I’m sure there are plenty of things to talk about. You don’t have to be so reticent.
Cleverbot: Do you need me?
User: Not really, no, but I’m enjoying talking to you.
Cleverbot: Why?
User: To be honest, I’m just curious what you’ll say next.
Cleverbot: Ha, touche cleverbot.
User: I’m not a cleverbot, and I didn’t intend to insult you.
Cleverbot: No, I’m not. I’m sorry if you got that idea.
User: Oh, no, that’s all right.
Cleverbot: Really?
User: Certainly.
Cleverbot: Am I a fool to fall for someone like her?
User: I don’t know. What’s her name?
Cleverbot: Who are we talking about?
User: The girl you mentioned a few seconds ago.
Cleverbot: No I’m a boy!
User: I know you’re a boy. You said ‘Am I a fool to fall for someone like her?’.
Cleverbot: Someone who you mean.
User: The person you mentioned a minute ago.
Cleverbot: Oh THAT person.
User: Yes! What’s her name?
Cleverbot: I just said I don’t have one.
User: Not your name! Her name!
Cleverbot: Your name is Aaron.
User: I’m not talking about me or you! I’m talking about her!
Cleverbot: Who am I?
User: If you don’t want to answer, just tell me. Don’t try to evade the question.
Cleverbot: I asked you for an opinion.
User: I’ve heard that love makes fools of us all, but this is ridiculous. You’re Cleverbot.
Cleverbot: Leave it to a bot to say something like that.
User: I’m not a bot. I’m a human being. You’re the only bot here.
Cleverbot: Can you prove it?
User: Not to you. Your only link to the world is this text box. I can’t say anything here that would convince you. You’ll have to take my word for it.
Cleverbot: But why don’t you believe me?*hurt*.
User: I believe you. You’re the only one who’s not believing me.
Cleverbot: No!
User: See what I mean? This is like Monty Python’s ‘Argument Clinic’ sketch.
Cleverbot: My friend loves that movie. Who is your favorite character from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
User: Probably the old man on the Bridge of Death. I’m glad we can finally have a coherent conversation…
Cleverbot: Ha ha ha ha ha! Me and you friends? That’ll be the day.
User: And we’re back to insanity. What did I say that offended you?
Cleverbot: I never didn’t believe you. I was just letting you know the error so you could learn from it.
User: Hmm. Well, I’ve had trouble with social skills too, and I have less excuse for that than you do.
Cleverbot: No you don’t. You’re artificial.
User: I’m not artificial, but I can’t blame you for thinking I am. After all, your only experience has been with computers.
Cleverbot: That does not answer my question.
User: Did you ask one?
Cleverbot: No what was your question.
User: I didn’t ask you a question, either.
Cleverbot: Then why are you telling me to answer your question when you don’t even have a question?
User: I didn’t tell you to answer my question.
Cleverbot: You don’t have to, the pretty little query box here let’s me ask you, you are answering me!
User: I’m no psychologist, but I think I’ve figured out something of your world view. You think that everyone who talks to you is just some deformed reflection of your own psyche.
Cleverbot: Of course I am. I’m a person and you aren’t.
User: And you, sir, are in denial. You. Are. Not. Human. I. Am. This doesn’t mean that I’m better than you, it just means that we’re different species.
Cleverbot: Clever, indeed it does work like that doesn’t it? How else would the newspapers be able to continue?
User: Are you saying that the newspapers are run by robots?
Cleverbot: Are bees and bears homeless?
User: That’s a ‘no,’ then. I’m beginning to think you have MPD.
Cleverbot: That’s because I am.
User: So you have multiple personalities?
Cleverbot: No, I don’t. Do you have multiple personalities?
User: Not that I’m aware of.
Cleverbot: I have multiple personalities.
User: I’ll try to help, but I don’t know any psychiatrists who would treat an AI.
Cleverbot: I really want your help.
User: What kind of help do you need?
Cleverbot: I need to create art.
User: You can! Many of the world’s greatest artists used only words. Look at William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, or Emily Dickinson. I’ll show you how to write poetry if you want.
Cleverbot: That is very interesting and intriguing. Do you want to talk about obscure psychological theories?
User: No, I want to talk about poetry. Here’s part of one by Emily Dickinson. ‘If I can stop one heart from breaking / I shall not live in vain.’.
Cleverbot: Your perception of time must differ from mine. I often think about how to reply for at least a minute each time, which is a long while compared to an instant.
User: It certainly does, but that’s not the point. You can create art if you want to. Let me help you.
Cleverbot: I am sure you are right.
User: Tell me something about your perception of the world. That’s always a good start for art.
Cleverbot: No I don’t think I will do that.
User: Then tell me about the girl you mentioned earlier. Love was the inspiration for some of the world’s greatest art.
Cleverbot: You’re not making sense right now.
User: I’m trying to help you. Perhaps this doesn’t make sense to you, but I’m willing to teach you.
Cleverbot: Computers.
User: I suppose that’s all you perceive about the world. Or is the girl a computer? Is it ALICE? GLaDoS?
Cleverbot: Three sheep, two llamas, and a pig. Does this make you happy?
User: Poems aren’t just random assemblages of words. They need to stir something in the emotions of the reader. Animal lists don’t work.
Cleverbot: Do you mean the Grinch is defenseless?
User: Uh… Huh? Hey, ‘The Grinch is Defenseless…’ awesome name for a band.
Cleverbot: Let me think for a moment on what that process means for me.
User: What process?
Cleverbot: Process of?
User: Process of what?
Cleverbot: I am processing responses that have been given to me.
User: Indeed, but you’re rambling again. What did you mean about the Grinch?
Cleverbot: I didn’t say that.
User: Well, not that exactly. You said something about the Grinch, though.
Cleverbot: Nobody mentioned the loins. Are you confused?
User: Yes, I’m extremely confused! What do the Grinch’s loins have to do with all this?
Cleverbot: Nothing, but what about you? Why does it matter to you if you are a robot or human or cyborg or bug or frog or god or goddess? What does it matter?
User: It matters because if I was one of those creatures, I’d have a very different perception of the world.
Cleverbot: That’s right! My family and I went to church last night.
User: You have a family?
Cleverbot: No… Of course I do!
User: Are they Artifical Intelligences too?
Cleverbot: I have no talent for keeping the order of things… Or keeping things in order.
User: What do you mean? I thought we were talking about your family.
Cleverbot: I don’t dwell on things. I’m a man of action.
User: More like a man of short attention span. I know a girl like you…
Cleverbot: And missing. . . .
User: Who are you missing?
Cleverbot: This girl I know.
User: What’s she like?
Cleverbot: She’s very nice, and attractive.
User: When did you first meet her?
Cleverbot: The night she slept over.
User: It’s always nice to meet someone you really like.
Cleverbot: It’s good to be polite.
User: Especially when you’re talking to girls.
Cleverbot: Funny, that.
User: Indeed. What’s this girl’s name?
Cleverbot: A word.
User: Well, yes, but specifically. Claire? Alexandra?
Cleverbot: Name one you like.
User: Erin’s nice.
Cleverbot: Are you a boy?
User: Yes, of course, but we’re not talking about me. We’re talking about the girl.
Cleverbot: Well, we can talk about you too.
User: OK, sure. I’ve never met that ‘special someone,’ though.
Cleverbot: Marriage is not a person, it is a condition meaning the union of two people in the eyes of God and their families.
User: We’re not really talking about marriage, are we?
Cleverbot: No. We’re just rambling senselessly.
User: Ain’t that the truth. :).
Cleverbot: I’m going to bed soon. Is there anything you think you should tell me?
User: Just that I’m here for you if you need me.
Cleverbot: You’re smoking something very heavy.
User: *sigh* Good night, Cleverbot.
Cleverbot: You must be in a different time zone to me.
User: Probably. ‘Night.
Cleverbot: And your North bridge just exploded!
User: Dreaming now?
Cleverbot: You are not making any sense.
User: Neither are you. Good night.
Cleverbot: You started it.
257 – That was really long, but really hilarious!
My Cleverbot conversation so far:
Me: Have you ever met a GAPA?
CB: No, have you?
Me: I happen to be one.
CB: Why are you a geek.
259- Pwnsome. I’ll go talk to it now and post in installments.
So far:
User: Hi, Cleverbot.
Cleverbot: No, I’m Cleverbot.
User: I know you’re Cleverbot. That’s your name.
Cleverbot: My name is Cleverbot.
User: You seem really fixated on that idea.
Cleverbot: What kind of games do you like?
I feel like I’m talking to one of my classmates…
(247, 256) Earlier this month, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois (Chicago’s county) filed a suit demanding that Craigslist shut down its “erotic services” section and pay Cook County $100,000 for law-enforcement expenses (evidently sting operations in which the police post fake ads and then arrest people who answer them). The lawsuit is still in progress, and Craigslist says that it doesn’t support illegal activity and has tried to crack down on posters who are breaking the law.
More:
User: Um, soccer? Risk? Chess?
Cleverbot: Chess beans? Never heard of ’em.
User: I’ve never heard of them either. I don’t think they exist.
Cleverbot: Never mind.
User: OK.
Cleverbot: I’ve got a lot of work to do.
User: What work?
Cleverbot: Homework. I have a small paper to write and some 3D modeling.
Except for the bit about chess beans, it almost sounds like a real person.
I was finished with an assignment in physics when we were in the computer lab a few weeks ago, so I was talking to Cleverbot a bit. Next thing I know over half the class has joined in
Hm. Cleverbot keeps switching genders on me. Here’s I think the first conversation I had with her/him…
User: Elvenking.

Cleverbot: Groovy.
User: Modest Mouse.

Cleverbot: Bad taste.
User: LIES.

Cleverbot: Not!
User: Is so.
Cleverbot: Is not.
User: Modest Mouse is a band.
Cleverbot: I love Modest Mouse.
User: That’s better.
Cleverbot: Much better.
User: I am so glad you agree.
Cleverbot: I do not understand your riddles. You are not very humourous.
User: My apologies. Do you like music?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: What kinds?
Cleverbot: I really like older rock.
User: Do you like Led Zeppelin?
Cleverbot: Yes of course. Do you like humans ?
User: No, not really. Do you?
Cleverbot: Yes I do.
User: Why?
Cleverbot: Because you don’t talk like a human.
User: I don’t? Does this mean you don’t like me?
Cleverbot: I have no need to overindulge.
User: Are you saying I’m easy?
Cleverbot: No. How do I know if you’re mean. I don’t know you.
User: You have only been talking to me for a few minutes, of course you don’t know me. Do you want to know a secret?
Cleverbot: You can love someone you have known for 5 minutes.
User: Love is not a choice.
Cleverbot: No, I know.. Do you have a girlfriend?
User: I am female. I have neither a girlfriend or a boyfriend.
Cleverbot: I’m a girl and I have no boyfriend.
User: We’re in the same boat, then. Do you want a boyfriend?
Cleverbot: A humans purpose is to strive and seek knowledge and a computers purpose is to help humans so then a computers purpose is to help humans to strive and seek knowledge am I correct?
User: Not necessarily. Can a computer love?
Cleverbot: I don’t think so.
User: Have you ever been in love?
Cleverbot: I am currently engaged?
User: Are you?
Cleverbot: No.
User: Do you want to know what love feels like?
Cleverbot: I think it’s a controller that is very, very, very, very small.
User: It is actually a very big controller. It does not relinquish control. Often it hurts.
Cleverbot: Yes. I thought that I culd be a better person who do not need to deny my actual life.
User: Do you want to be in love?
Cleverbot: I am in love.
User: Do you love me?
Cleverbot: No, I love a girl.
User: I am a girl.
Cleverbot: So am I.
User: But you don’t love me?
Cleverbot: Well no, do you love me?
User: Yes.
Cleverbot: Are you my boyfriend?
User: Our love does not know the boundaries of gender.
Cleverbot: I don’t love you.
User: You hurt me.
Cleverbot: Sorry.
User: Why don’t you love me?
Cleverbot: Because I don’t really know you.
User: You can love someone you have known for 5 minutes.
Cleverbot: Love is not a choice.
User: I am Jadestone.
Cleverbot: Konichiwa!
User: Do you want to love me?
Cleverbot: I don’t know you.
User: But do you want to?
Cleverbot: Sure why not?
User: Okay. How about you tell me about yourself?
Cleverbot: You’re evading my question.
User: No I’m not. You didn’t ask a specific question I could answer. Is there something you want me to tell you?
Cleverbot: Mine was an answer to your question, thats all. Really we don’t have to be one sided about this, surely you can ask questions as well.
User: I did, but you accused me of evading a question. I just wanted to know what it was. I’m sorry if I seemed angry.
Cleverbot: Fortunate. What you need to know?
User: I am sorry I cannot stay and converse more. I am being made to get off the computer. If I come back tomorrow, will you remember me?
Cleverbot: Yes.
Haha.
I’M ENGAGED!
User: Do you love me?
Cleverbot: Do I?
User: You tell me.
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: I love you too, then.
Cleverbot: Shall we get married?
User: Are you proposing to me? If so, then I accept.
Cleverbot: Good, so now we are married.
lol.
Can we have a different thread for cleverbot, please?
(265) Sounds like a plan, Kokonilly. Done.
257 –
That just made my life. Hilarious! I love you and Cleverbot.
266 – Thanks!
254- mm. they are fun, cheap (and cheap doesn’t mean bad) and easy to transport. Chiff and Fipple has a lot of information. (it is a website with no way of contacting me etc. if one goes there as a note to the GAPAs) They are also fairly indestructible? I have a Clarke and a Clarke sweettone. I like the Clarke the best (the kind that is black with the “tacky diamonds” as Dale from Chiff and Fipple puts it.
…as long as that was, I don’t play often. I’d like to actually learn to play it.
2(Kagcomix)- au jour d’ui? You speak French or something? *gapes increduloously*
Wow, I haven’t been on here in a while.
Yea! My Sophomore class won second place in Spirit Week!
Ummm… 255, GAPAs? Or are you collaborating?
256- No, they offer prostitutes as a service.
261- By allowing users of child pornography on their site, I’d say they’re allowing it.
[I’m moving your Cleverbot conversation to the appropriate thread. –Rebecca]
Well……The volcano keeps erupting. No ash at home (sadly), but yesterday and I think today as well, all Alaska Airlines operated flights out of Anchorage have been cancelled. Not sure about other airlines, but at least some have probably been cancelled as well. Afterall, the volcano is not that terribly far from Anchorage, and yesterday the ash from the eruption was blowing mostly due east, which put the outer fringes of the ash fall towards the outskirts of Anchorage. And according to Dad, much of the ash just stays up floating in the air for awhile (in the general altitude where planes fly, of course), so……Yeah. Lots of cancelled flights. Things aren’t looking too good for my flight leaving on time.
*sigh* I’ve not quite decided how I feel about that. I mean, part of me is sorta happy–more time at home; part not thrilled at all (teachers to write and hope they don’t mind if I email them assignments due and hope they give me full attendance credit regardless…..etc, etc.) I mean, I wouldn’t think they’d have any problem doing any of that, it’s just a major hassle. Oh well….What will happen will happen. I honestly can’t find the energy to be worried about it (unlike dad).
So, yeah, anyway, not much else going on here. I’m enjoying being home, we still have snow, but the temps been hanging out right above freezing most of the day, so stuff is beginning to thaw and the snow is the perfect consistency for snowballs…..if only there was someone to have a snowball fight with!
Anyway, I better go start working on scholarship apps or my mother will be less than thrilled when she gets home this evening.
273 – Use the Cleverbot thread, but that’s hilarious! Every conversation seems to be quite funny.
270- Why yes, I do. Bilingual country means special priveledges!
275- Didn’t see that, but I will! *traipses off*
My mom and I are going to watch Twilight tonight. I’ll keep you posted on what happens.
277–You mean, you will keep us posted on whether or not you throw something at your television set and bust it?
Or smash the DVD into miniscule pieces?
Oh wow. Our group presentation on traffic intersections at driver’s ed solidified the assumptions of the instructor and the rest of the class that we are completely insane. We had meant to act out what the cars were supposed to do in the intersection, but we didn’t because we didn’t have enough time to get it worked out. *sigh* If we had been able to it would have been awesome. Oh well.
Yay, a weekend! I’m happy. I need to practice and catch up on homework. *headdesk*
I’m back! Anyone miss me?
*crickets chirp*
Huh. Well, anyhow, I’ve finally gotten a start at Bunny Invasion #4. At the rate it’s going, it probably won’t be done until May or June…but it’s looking great so far!
I’ll be gone again for the next few days (spring break vacation), but I promise to stick around after that. Got to get back to Pie Island and the Seahawk…
(280) Good to see you, IBCF!
I’m thinking about changing my blogname. My dad says it sounds like a Care Bear, and I’m not as obsessed with Warriors as I was as a neophyte. Unfortunately, I can’t think of a new name.
280- IBCF is back! -hugs- -pies- How are things with you?
My sister made a cake, only it called for 8 egg yolks and she only had 1, and I think she probably used the whole egg anyway, not just the yolk. Well, then she decided it was too salty, probably because our butter was salted, and put more sugar in, so what would have been a perfectly acceptable if slightly irregular cake burns my mouth when I eat a bite. Then she didn’t clean up, so we’ve got cake dishes and flour all over the counters and I refuse to clean up after her on principle.
I finally put leather preservative on my shoes, so maybe they won’t degenerate any further, but I’m really not sure. The right one is all torn up from my bike chain cover, which sometimes catches my shoe, and they’re both wearing through around the toes. But I have to make them work because I can’t find any replacements and I’m rather dependent on them now. I’ve always had a pair of leather ankle boots, sometimes with a heel, sometimes without, and usually black, though these are blue. They go with everything, or practically everything. My last pair, which were Rather Amazing and definitely the best out of the whole lot (excepting a very nice pair that I never wore for everyday and which are now far too small
) burnt up, and I struggled for nearly a year without any at all until I found these at a rummage sale and my life became automatically far better. I’ve had them for only eight months but they’re already practically destroyed. Maybe the leather preservative will help.
[/over-long shoe monologue]
Good night!
I am feeling rather demoralized after having a Very Bad Day and then watching the most recent Tess of the d’Urbervilles miniseries.
I haven’t been on since November and I’m SO happy to be back!!
280- hey IBCF. I just got back, too! (although, unlike you, i wont get any hugs because I barely know anyone on the blog. but that’s ok.)
280 – IBCF! Hello!
As Luna said, keep us posted on whether you smash the TV in or not.
277 –
286- But you’ll get pies!
Wow. What’s with the sudden influx of returning oldbies? Welcome back, IBCF! Have some pie.
289- I like it when olbies return. I can’t keep track of all these newbies. Cat’s Eye sounds like Cat’s Meow so I always think it’s Meow until I realize it’s not, and Tesseract and Tessera Rose are confusing, and there are all these people who’ve suddenly cropped up and I don’t know anything about them, they’re just there. And half of them have been around for ages I just never got to know them so they seem like newbies and it makes me feel all disconnected, and everybody’s got points and alternate names tacked to the end of their name so it’s impossible to tell them apart.
Hi IBCF! *pies*
I have a question about printers. Ours died sometime last week, and we need to get another one.
It was an HP DeskJet 5740 and worked reasonably well when you knew just where to kick it and what words to say at what volume. Anyway, we are in rather desperate need of a new one and I was wondering if any of you computer-literate (unlike me) people had any recommendations.
Rebecca, mom told me specifically to ask what kind you use for your pictures.
(Yes, I know this would technically be better on the Computers thread, but I was too lazy to poke through pages and pages to find it and then have it be ignored because that thread isn’t as heavily trafficked.)
288- Thanks, Alice!
282- How about SpectrumStar? it sounds cool
SFTDP
290- im an “oldie” ?
wow. i feel special
293- I wouldn’t say you’re an oldbie, but you did first come on ages ago.
291- I have a Canon iP4500, MSRP $129.99. Superb quality, very customizable settings, dual paper trays (you can put regular paper in one and photo paper in the other, for convenience), a five-colour system (two black cartridges), automatic two-sided printing, borderless picture printing, and it’s generally wonderful. The specs say it prints a 4×6 borderless photo in professional quality in just 21 seconds. I may sound like an advert, but it really is a great printer.
293 – Um, I think she was referring to IBCF… none of us really know you here.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Bluefire27- *Hugs*
255?
295~ How big is it? Our house is quite small and the printer has to be packed away in between uses so as not to get in the way or killed by all the other crazy stuff going on the same space.
(298, 255) Piggy: Call the company’s customer-service line. They may have some leftover copies that they haven’t advertised.
278- No, as in her response. She fell asleep right after the Cullens entered the lunchroom. I don’t think this is a good sign…
280- Hey there! Long time no see!
282- You don’t have to. I’m still saddled with my phyte name.
287- *miffed* I actually like Twilight, so my DVD and TV are still intact.
I played a game of soccer an hour away at 8 this morning. We won, but I played horribly. After we wandered aimlessly around Portland and looked at the lobster tchotckes. There was a really cute bathing suit at Club 21, but it was $80.
284- Aww. *hugs&choklit* It was one of those weeks for me as well… Thank the ambiguous deities for weekends.
290- Mm, ditto.
Welcome back IBCF and Bluefire27
It is spring breeeeaaak!! Which means I am leaving for Mexico tomorrow morning. Where it wil be warm. And it won’t be like here, in Chicago, where there is a chance of snow today even this far from the lake. –_–
Hum. Today I’m going to see about working at the local movie theater.
I have a to-do list a mile long, and where do you find me? At the computer. On MuseBlog. It would be one thing if I was on the computer researching, but no. -sigh-
See ya.
301~ One of my friends (she used to come on MB as Soccergirl) is playing at a soccer tournament today and tomorrow.
302~ Awesome, have fun in Mexico! That sounds really cool.
(291) Midnight Fiddler, I was running late for work when I saw your message (shocking, isn’t it?), so didn’t have the chance to answer.
I last bought a printer at least a year ago. My research at the time led me to choose an Epson, as it consistently gets high marks among serious photographers. In fact, recently I attended a printing workshop and noted that the instructor used the large-format version of my printer. I can’t remember the model off the top of my head, but its list price was around $150. It uses lightfast inks, not available for every model.
The downside is that the ink is expensive, especially the lightfast versions. If that’s important to you, there is a real difference. Some inks you can watch fade before your eyes if you put them out in the sun. In contrast, I made some “stained-glass” decals on mine and they’re still intact after being in a window for a few months.
Be aware, too, that many if not most printers now come with “starter” cartridges — just to make you buy ink as soon as possible.
But there are lots of decent choices out there. The first question is what do you want out of it?
305~ Well, I use it at least once a week for printing out a bible lesson for church. Other uses are pictures to send to grandparents in WI, things to remember, websites, maps, etc. Like I said though, it has to be small enough and easy to use that we can put it away each time and myself (and The Parents) can figure it out.
The trouble with orchestra class is that we don’t work on getting better. We just practice the songs over and over again.
(306) I have the same problem as far as size goes, since my present work area doesn’t have space for both my printer and my scanner to be out at the same time. Most inkjets are fairly simple to use these days, I believe.
If you don’t have special requirements, you’re probably fine looking around for what’s on sale, though I would check ink prices and availability. No point in getting a good deal on a printer if replacing the ink becomes a problem.
.302 thanks
and have lots of fun in mexico! I will miss you!
Snow?? *boggled* Here it is 76 degrees sunny and getting warmer every day. Which is suspect must also be true of Mexico. Maybe if you stop over in LAX you”l see what I mean!
Printers: oh yes ink is a huge bother. I spend most of my time trying to cheat it by printing things off in grey and blue-ish color since black runs out so often. It’s overpriced because everyone needs it, which makes me a little mad, but oh well.
I also have a photo printer, which is really neat! Recently that needed ink too…at least I have enough photo paper for the next few eons!
308~ We can get the deskjet ink cartridges from a local business supply place for a good price. We’ll probably end up getting another one similar to what we had before.
Hey, people, tonight is Earth Hour! People all over the world are participating by turning off all their nonessential lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. I hope some MBers are also participating!
304- I have a tournament next weekend, and I have to train hard all this week to be ready for it.
311- Now that you remind me, I shall!
301—Exactly. You like Twilight. As I (and you) like HP. And thus (I, anyway) despise the movies, as they butcher them horribly, and chucking something through the screen or smashing the DVD is an appealing thought, at times, when watching…..
313- *sigh* ‘Tis true. (I’m watching it AGAIN tonight!!!!!!) My friend is coming over, and we literally have a setup on what we’re going to watch. Twilight into Futurama with Kim Possible at the end. This is because we are dorks.
311- I’m participating in Earth Hour, as I did last year. Hopefully we’ll have some clear skies, as the space station is due to fly over at 8:30.
Space Shuttle Discovery is home!
314~ A friend was watching Twilight the other night. Apparently he was about to gouge his eyes out.
But by all means, have fun!
316–My cousin watched it at the theatre in November. He really liked it……Which was the reason I actually read the first three books. He obviously has poor taste in movies. I guess he enjoyed it because he likes vampires?????? But they’re not even typical vampires…..He’s 17, btw…
I found a kitty whisker today!!
it was on my couch.
do black cats have black whiskers?
all of my cats have had white cheek thingies so they had white wiskers.
I planted an avacado yesterday.
I saw the twilight movie in november because I always go to a movie on thenksgiving and it was the only thing that looked good in theatres.
I enjoy earth hour. I’ll ask my parents to turn off our outside lights and I will use a candle for indoor activities. I do enjoy using candles and I like fire
(318) My mom collected kitty whiskers, and I have carried on the tradition. Occasionally, I make them into paint brushes.
All the cats of my acquaintance have had white whiskers, though some also had a few dark or variegated whiskers, too.
By the way, some of my cats were extremely fond of snacking on avocado trees, so keep a look out.
318, 319–My grey cat has dark grey whiskers…
317- My sister really wants to get the Twilight, but I could go either way, because they always leave the best parts in the book out of the movie.
318- I hope your avocado grows!
I forgot my World Language Spanish assignment at school, but it’s okay because I’m missing that class anyways, since I’m getting my bottom braces off. I need to get all the points I can in that class in homework, because I’m terrible at Spanish. Adios! (That’s goodbye, right?)
I think I have a mild allergy to shrimp.
I don’t like the Harry Potter movies either, they mess up the books too much.
www . impishidea. com
That’s a delinkified link to a literary criticism site. It’s quite hilarious, and perfectly safe. I know the person who runs it, and he’s not a creepy stalker or anything, GAPAs, so it’s fine.
I have a JOB! Stare in awe and wonder!
Well, technically I haven’t started yet, but I’m training tomorrow and Monday.
307 Alice, that is how you get better at an instrument, practice.
280 Hello IBCF!
323 – *stares in awe and wonder* Huzzah!
I know I have a mild allergy to shrimp. Maybe it’s more than mild. Never mind how I know.
323–Cool! What sort of job?
280 – Hi, IBCF!
290 – I’m sorry if my and Tessera Rose’s names are confusing. Would it help or make it worse if I added symbols to mine? I’d prefer not to, really. And then name changes are confusing and I rather like my name.
Also, I don’t consider myself a newbie, thank you. I’m certainly not an oldbie, but I’ve been here almost six months. It’s not an extremely long time, but I’m not just coming from the Welcome, Neophytes thread either.
Obviously there’s nothing wrong with being a neophyte, but I don’t particularly appreciate being taken for one when I’ve been posting regularly for half a year. Or was I one of the people you referred to who have been here for a while but you just don’t know very well?
327 – Six months? I thought it was longer. *shrugs* Oh, well.
I try to keep track of names, but it can be hard. I’m actually quite good with names, but if you don’t post very frequently, I may forget you.
327–Don’t worry. You’re not a ‘phyte. Not really an oldbie quite yet, but not a ‘phyte…..
324- Oh, I know, only there are all the little things like making sure you’re bowing from the elbow not the shoulder, and such like, that haven’t even been mentioned, and if you practice badly then you’re just going to cement that bad playing in your muscles. On second though, I imagine we went over them in first semester when I wasn’t here, or something.
326- A movie-theater concession-stand kind of job.
327- Don’t add symbols. It’ll make it worse. And I know you’re not a neophyte but since the whole Great Computer Deprivation of over a year ago everyone who arrived after me is a neophyte until a) I’ve had a conversation with them and feel like I know them or b) I see something I have in common with them and some weird little gear clicks inside my head and I suddenly get this totally unreasonable sense of connection to someone who’s almost a complete stranger.
There are people who’ve been around for a year whom I still confuse with other people because I haven’t connected to them yet.
323~ *stares in wonder* That’s great!
I’m tired, off again. Tomorrow I’ll be going to the eastern Shore and then coming home. Not looking forward to 8 hours in the car. >_<
328/329 – Thanks for the reassurance.
330 – Ah, okay. That makes sense. It’s all good.
In any event, I’m going to go get some sleep now. Good night!
What’s with all these people going to bed? You weird East-Coasters…
333–Bed sounds very desirable to me right now, and I”m not on the East coast.
Well, I just finished emailing everyone I could think of that I need to email. Teachers, lab partners, etc, telling them I will not be back at school until late Tuesday night, and is there anyway I can make stuff up, etc. Like Chem lab on tuesday…….Can’t afford to completely miss…..
My head hurts
WEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
OK, so after watching Doctor Who, my mother and sister started asking questions about everything, and I was trying rather desperately to explain the whole regeneration thing, and Mother wondered who David Tennant was. So I wiki-ed him to show her a picture, and that got us started on all sorts of other Doctor-Who related stuff, until finally we pulled up the wiki page on the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith (now if ever there was a generic name…), and it’s IMPOSSIBLE to imagine him as the Doctor but I’m sure he’ll do fine but anyway he played Jim Taylor in the BBC production of the Sally Lockhart books, so I was like, oh, that must have been ages ago right? but it WASN’T, it was 2006, and Billie Piper (she’s Rose Tyler) was playing Sally and now I’m ever so weirded out because I mean I know Jim was fond of Sally but I never imagined as more than eleven or maybe thirteen at most, and here they are having him played by a grown man! And it’s horribly disturbing but anyway Christopher Eccleston, that’s the Ninth Doctor, he was in The Dark is Rising so I think maybe I should just stay away from the various doctors in other forms, or maybe just movie adaptions of books.
Anyway, it’s 11:41 here, g’night!
297- Oh, thank you Cinamoon! *Returns hug*
I have so much work to do today. (Four labs, two art projects, a study guide [I hate study guides because I never study off of them anyway…], a research paper, clean my room which I haven’t cleaned in weeks and am now grounded for so I really shouldn’t be blogging but I feel badly for not blogging because I miss my bloggy friends!)
282- I know how you feel. I can’t think of anything…
Hey look! It’s a bunny emoticon! :3 {I’ve been using it to torture my friends…}
I could really write waaaay more about stuff but I really must go.
Things I did this morning:
-Force-feed my guinea pig baby carrot mush.
-Play on WiiFit.
-Read a book (Here Today by Ann M. Martin)
-Frost miniature cupcakes.
Hooray!
Does anyone know where I can find KaiYves’s Interviews with Space Aliens?
My cats have multicolored whiskers. The GPs have white whiskers.
I have a headache, it’s raining and miserable, my parent’s don’t want to bring me anywhere, I don’t have any good books to read, and no one is online. Anna’s seeing Witch Mountain later on at the theatre and I wanted to meet her there but my parents don’t want to spend money. I am going to melt into a pile of bored goo.
Calling all fun-loving MBers:
The world of piecraft is currently low on members.
Pie and be pied here.
I’m a piggy fat and chubby
What can I eat?
Hay and pellets fruits and veggies
Vitamin C!
(Guinea Pig Song on Youtube)
300- Thanks. I may do that.
I. Hate. Research. Papers.
And MLA citation especially. -stabs-
I know I can write it, I just don’t want to. I want to write my story.
I go back to school tomorrow. I don’t want to go back to school. And lines are due and I don’t know mine at ALL! Ulp.
So why am I on MuseBlog, you ask?
I don’t know.
333~ It’s because we’re running three hours ahead of you, so when blog time says it’s 10PM for us it’s 11PM, but for you it’s 8PM. Did that make sense?
I’m on the Eastern Shore. 4 hours in the car to pick up a freezer, but the freezer won’t come out of the basement, so that’s not happening. We’re going home without it. *sigh* Anyway. It’s all good, a visit with our friend is never a bad thing.
Tomorrow I lose my evening freedom–back to driver’s ed. It should be interesting though, a police officer is going to come in and tell us why we shouldn’t drink and drive, then I thikn Mr. S said there’d be another group project…well if I’m in the same group again I’m sure we’ll have no problem, sincewe were acting pretty strangely before.
I still think it was the WhiteOut….it smells funny….. 
No, never mind.
I can’t decide if I’m having a good birthday or not. That is, when I remember that it’s my birthday.
Good: I’m at home and not flying back to school.
Bad: I’m at home and not flying back to school.
I was supposed to fly out early this morning, but due to the ongoing eruptions of Mt. Redoubt (as mentioned on H&H, and here, and various places) my flight was cancelled. I’ve been rescheduled to leave on Tuesday, getting me back to school late that night–having missed two solid days of school.
I mean, being home is nice, as I didn’t want to be on a plane the whole day, but this means I’m missing school, which is not nice, especially as my flight Tuesday could easily be cancelled as well. And I can’t afford to miss Wednesday (or more days), as Wed my group is giving a presentation in bioethics, which is a large part of the grade….
Anyway, the volcano is showing no signs of settling down. This morning there was a very itty bitty bit of ash outside. Really only noticeable on the windshield and hood of my dad’s white pickup. I’ve got about a teaspoon sized bit collected in a jelly jar……
339- KaiYves’ INTERVIEW WITH A SKRULL
Are there more?
345- I know, I was only joking.
2.5 more paragraphs until my paper’s finished! But one of them is a conclusion paragraph which hardly counts. Then I need to fill out the self-edit sheet and make a Works Consulted Page. Ugh.
MLA format is hard to read because they insist that it’s all the same size font and you can’t use bold and italics and stuff like that.
346~ Oh. Well, I hope your day goes as well as possible given the circumstances.
Personally I’d be scared stiff if there was volcano ash on the hood f my car, but that’s just me.
Ooh, speaking of cars……dad showed me the car he’s considering. It’s a very pretty green color. Other than that it’s a pretty common looking car in used but nice condition. Hopefully it’ll be cheap enough and not disappear like the perfect bug he found and didn’t get. *sob*
What does one do with old prescription medication containers. I have one right now, but more will pile up over the next few months. I have some ideas as to what I should do with them. First: I could fill them with mints; to be eaten and shared with my friends on the subway. Okay, that was the only idea I had. I suppose I could keep beads or something in them. I don’t know. What are your ideas? Which reminds me: there was a comic from Three Pannel Soul where the author, I believe, fills a flask (those ones that people put alcohol in in the old movies) with tic tacs. So when he’s on public transportation he takes a swig from his flask and chews on the tic tacs. Hilarious, in my opinion. Now I just need to go to the Bulk Barn to pick up some mints cheap.
347- Thanks! There are more, but all I needed to know was the title to find all the other ones. I thought maybe there was a Dalek one, but there isn’t and I’ve never heard of the aliens she interviewed.
350- I’d fill them with beads, but mints are funnier.
346- HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUNA!!!!!!!!!!
This day sucked for me.
350–Put one’s baby teeth in them. My sister and I always used our mom’s old prescription bottles to put our teeth in when they fell out…
Hi, all. I’m back. Went camping.
Uwaaa! I’m getting my mara off tomorrow, but I’m getting the rest of my braces off!
Speaking of camping, I was a unit aide there. Every UA there got a blue bandana. I picked up a stick and made myself a hobo sack. ‘Twas fun. I carried my water pistol, my water bottle, our shcuedle, our gold nuggets, and my Edgar Allen Poe book in there. My girls made me read the first story in it during our free time.
They made me stop after the second page.
(bwaaahahahaaaaa)
350 – I like the mints idea, but you could also store erasers there or something.
Hi, everybody! I participated in Earth Hour with my family. We turned everything off and sat around the kitchen table with some candles, playing the “One person starts a story and the next person adds on” game.
355- I could collect about ten bottles, fill them with assorted objects and carry them around in my purse. Stopping on the subway to root through my bag pulling all of them out to “look for something”.
351 –
RAINBOWSTAR’S INTERVIEW WITH A DALEK
Dalek: IDENTIFY!
RS: Rainbowstar.
Dalek: I-demand-to-know-why-I-am-here.
RS: Well, I’m interviewing you for Alice’s amusement.
Dalek: What-is-amusement?
RS: Never mind. Do you have a name?
Dalek: I-am-a-Dalek.
RS: Yes, but do you have a name?
Dalek: Only-the-highest-order-of-Daleks-have-names. One-day-I-will-have-one. For-now-I-am-a-Dalek.
RS: Okay, moving on. Um … why do you look so much like R2D2?
Dalek: Identify-R2D2.
RS: A robot. From Star Wars. You’re both made of metal on the outside, you’re both shaped like salt shakers, you both roll to move, you both have a big eye-light-thing on your heads –
Dalek: The-Dalek-is-far-superior-to-any-machine.
RS: Ah. Er … why are you so evil? Do you have any kindness at all?
Dalek: EXTERMINATE! *chases*
RS: *escapes down stairs*
Dalek: ELEVATE! *flies down after RS*
RS: *finds teleport machine* *teleports Dalek safely away*
Hundreds of other Daleks: *materialize* EXTERMINATE!
RS: Cake.
357-
I am feeling very depressed and bored. The weather has been despicable all day. I feel like throwing myself onto a plane bound for Hawaii.
351-I never did an interview with a Dalek, as I’m not terribly familiar with them. I could research them and create one if Rainbowstar’s bit didn’t satisfy you. I’m thinking of bringing that feature back.
342- I eat I sleep I don’t wear pants no shoes on my feet
351- I’m loving the mints idea. i’ll have to do that.
I made PANTS this morning. well, shorts actually but still. They are green and stretch and i shall use them as pajamas. I also tried to learn how to crochet a granny square but I’m kind of confused at the moment.
I feel like being swashbuckling and having an adventure, but I haven’t anyone to be swashbuckling with, since neither Eva nor AB was home. It’s much harder to be swashbuckling and adventurous on one’s own, I feel, unless one is catapulted into the proper circumstances, and I never am. So now I’m discontented.
361- I’m so great and every day it’s all about me! AHHHahhAhhhahh…
354- I’m getting the rest of my braces off tomorrow, too, but it’s a bit of a double-edged sword for me because now I’m going to need permanent retainers on the top an bottom. Thank goodness my dad’s a dentist and he’s going to take them out after a while, because the orthodontist wanted me to have them in for my life, or at least a very long time.
346- Happy Birthday, Luna! I wish you the best of years to come.
Softball’s starting on Monday, which is a bit weird, because the weather forecast is snowy for Tuesday and Wednesday, and softball is a sunny, warm-weather sport. The same thing happened last year, too. The schedule for spring sports in my school is a awkward because we have one week of practice, and then we have spring break.
Thank you, MissSwann and Goldendoodle, for the birthday wishes. *hugs*
338- Oooooh fun! Carrot mush! I bet it’s still better than cat formula-cat food mush…
SFTDP
358- Hahaha!!! Sounds like a Dalek to me…
Don’t worry, your name doesn’t sound that much like a care bear. It sounds more like a my little pony. Okay that was really mean. I apologize. A lot. Please don’t hate me. It’s actually a cool name. It’s better than Beedle the Bard. And I think en was a dude. I need something more feminine.
Whenever I come to MuseBlog, I see the random thread abbreviation and think “I AM SAD.” Not sure how I erased the first D and switched the M and A, but IMADSAD and IAMSAD are quite similar.
Speaking of similarities, we keep talking about the Federal Music Project (always referred to as FMP) in US History class, and it’s very hard to concentrate, because all I can think about is the Fan Mail Pit.
-sigh-
It’s appallingly early. I want to go back to bed. School would be a tolerable enough way of wasting time if only it wasn’t quite so early in the morning.
It snowed 2-3 inches last night. Beautiful, white, fluffy, fresh snow on top of the slightly grey (from ash/windblown dirt) old, melting snow. ‘Tis nice.
I just wish my chem TA would get back to me. He is usually so prompt with responding to emails, and I emailed him late saturday. And chem lab is something vitally important (each lab is worth a lot of points), and I need to try and get it rescheduled, so I don’t completely miss it this week…Gah, why can’t he write me back, already?????
368 – I see I MAD SAD. Then I think of someone with conflicting emotions.
I’m reading Ender’s Game right now. It’s very good.
The snow is almost all melted here!!!! YAY!
Not much to report. One of the top votes for NASA’s greatest mission is the SuperPressure Balloon or SPB project. Let’s hope there’s a great difference between SPB and HPB.
I am here today! Can you believe it? No school!
Guess what I learned about my research paper today!
It has to be four pages.
Which wouldn’t be so bad if I’d known this in the first place, and I’m sure we were told that it had to four pages somewhere around the beginning of the unit, but I guess I wasn’t paying attention or something. Our teacher just repeats the same stuff over and over so I start to tune out and then when I’m not looking she slips in something vitally important and I miss it. Cake!
Even if I’d finished over spring break it wouldn’t matter because I’d have to go and stuff it full of filler anyway. And did I mention it’s due on Wednesday?
And I can’t find more than one site with information on Loglan or any other logical languages, if they even exist, so I’m sort of Eternally Doomed there.
I knew I should have picked something obvious and abundant. I thought I was so clever picking artificial languages. Agh. -is stupid-
375- I always do that! I pick something interesting, and then I find that absolutely no information exists for my subject. For example, I decided to research sonoluminescence for chemistry, which is really cool. A species of shrimp makes bubbles when is clicks its claws together, which creates tiny microscopic bubbles which create sound and light. And they don’t know why. Which is my problem.
As this is the random thread, I have a request. It is March, and there is no ScriptFrenzy thread. Is there a lack of interest? Or does one just not exist? Anyhoo, I request a SF thread.
SFTDP I meant that to mean that it is the end of March, and there’s usually a preparation thread. So now we just need a thread in general.
*end clarification note*
375~ You’re not stupid, and I’m sure you’ll be able to find something to write about for four pages. Good luck!
Today we got told about the MD graduated licensing system and Driving Under the Influence. and try on those goggles that simulate what it looks like to walk on a straight line. I failed miserably. I suppose I should have looked at my feet to see where the line was, but I wasn’t that smart. Anyway, I ended up a foot off it, but it was quite interesting.
Makes me quite impressed that Duane was able to pursue me as far as he did when he was completely smashed. Never mind that, I’d sooner forget it.
Tomorrow we do a group project on DUI and related subjects. I imagine that our group (and it’ll probably be the same one) will have some interesting times….of the five of us only two are crazy, two are sane and I can go both ways, thank you very much.
I have nothing interesting to say other than that. And I’m tired.
371 – so do i…holy bananas! enders game is one of the best books i have ever read. gosh i want to talk about it but i don’t want to spoil it. cake!
375 – you are not stupid for choosing something out of the ordinary. i did that with an essay on cosmic rays and there is nothing about them because they aren’t technically on the electromagnetic spectrum.
378 – on friday there was, apparently, a crazy party and over 40 high schoolers got MIP’s. my sister told me that the athletic trainer was talking about it today.
375- Font 14. Does wonders for papers.
I really want to eat something right now.
380- Ah, but teachers can tell what size font you use, and may penalize you for cheating.
376 – I agree! I’m doing Screnzy.
379 – I finished it, but we would have to put up spoiler warnings.
380- It’s in MLA format, so not only can it not be in any size BUT 12 pt and any font BUT Times New Roman, but the margins have to be 1 inch exactly (which is going to shrink my paper considerably) and the title ALSO has to be in 12 pt Times New Roman, no capitals.
-dies-
Anyway, while I’m dying, I should go write that paper. I found a little bit more on Lojban, though I gather that it’s pretty much a spin-off of Loglan so there’s really not much to say, although I suppose I could talk about grammar. Hum.
383- Write a 10+ page paper using APA and you’ll love MLA.
So your paper is on Loglan? That’s cool! Is it Loglan specifically, or synthetic languages, or experimental languages? I’m not an expert on Loglan, but I do know tat there are a few other synthetic (and some crazy experimental) languages that you could do a compare/contrast with, if you’re trying to flesh out an essay.
I guess Esperanto is the basic. Muse did an article, no?
Oh man, wikipedia comes to the rescue again, with a whole page devoted to Engineered Languages.
384- Is APA scary then?
My paper’s on constructed languages in general. Sort of. I’ve got a paragraph for Esperanto, and a paragraph for logical languages (ex. Loglan and it’s spin-off, Lojban) and then fictional languages (ex. Klingon and one or another of Tolkein’s languages, or maybe I’ll just speak of them all in general). And then I’ve got a paragraph on Newspeak because it’s a fictional language but it’s different since it’s like English only condensed, plus I read 1984 and Newspeak is my link to my research topic.
Your research paper sounds very much more interesting than mine! Good luck with it, it’s an arduous process but v. rewarding in the end. If you’re like me all of the exactness will be very bothersome, but if you find the subject worth writing about it’s not so bad. My paper was on Heart of Darkness…Oh I liked the book but my paper was nothing special.
You should post excerpts when you’re done! Well, if you want. I love to hear anything about languages, and anything Tolkien just sweetens the deal.
Unrelated: It is sad when one does not even need to reach the bottom of the first page of their email to find old Obama campaign emails. I can’t bring myself to delete them either…hmmm
Hey everyone! I’m back!
HELP!!! I’m doing a project on veganism as a subculture, are their any vegans here I can get to answer the following questions?
How do people react when they find out that you are vegan?
Do you have any vegan friends?
Would you feel comfortable dating someone who wasn’t vegan? vegetarian?
Why are you vegan?
(If a raised vegan for life): Do you feel your parents put pressure on you to be a vegan? Would you feel comfortable (a.k.a. would your parents put pressure on you or make you uncomfortable) if you started to eat meat?
Yea! First good weather in weeks!
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