The May Random Thread continues to celebrate past predictions for the future by being as random as you please.
In the futures imagined in the 1880s, men traveled to the moon wearing Victorian clothes; the people of our era were portrayed as commuting to and fro in flying machines, watching television, and listening to iPods. But in this remarkable, hitherto unpublished illustration for Jules Verne’s Robur-le-conquérant, we can see that he anticipated something even more important…Muses.
P.S. We apologize for the late arrival of Part 2. Delivery by Vernian helicopter is excruciatingly slow.
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Great illustration! I understand your problems with helicopter delivery; does this imply a two-thread month?
First comment?
274– Thanks! *huggles back*. sorry about the “everyb***y”, though! Gee, my first huggle and nickname in one comment! WooHoo!!!
Wow, first post? probably not, they just probably haven’t been moderated yet.
Wow… it’s beautiful! Did you make it, Rebecca?
That… is one one of the strangest things I have ever seen.
But it’s cool!
I’m in science class and have to do a report on two volcanoes. Any suggestions? Then again, it’ll probably be too late…unless the gapas reply…
I’m almost done with the video!
Well, there’s the big volcano that’s waiting to blow under Yellowstone National Park. And there’s Olympus Mons on Mars, the biggest volcano in the solar system (now extinct), and the ice volcanoes on Saturn’s moon Titan, Neptune’s moon Triton, and probably other moons around big gas-giant planets. Just a thought.
When giving tours at the house museum where I work, I often mention the impact of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 which brought about “the year without a summer” in parts of Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere.
And, because Mary Shelly and her friends were stuck inside that summer, she got bored and wrote Frankenstein.
Tambora was the volcano that created a monster!
Rasputina’s “1816 The Year Without A Summer” is the song to listen to! (Cello win).
Krakatoa is also a best.
Aren’t the Canary Islands over a hot spot that could blow?
“and her friends”
let me tell you a thing or two about lord byron
I believe they all began writing during that period to ease their boredom…?
“Kept indoors at the Villa Diodati by the “incessant rain” of “that wet, ungenial summer” over three days in June, the five turned to reading fantastical stories, including Fantasmagoriana, and then devising their own tales”
I find writing groups very interesting.
I’m sure this is much too late, but volcanoes? Do one on Mt. Redoubt! Y’know, the volcano in AK that just erupted back in March, after 20 years of inactivity…..
Anyway, much too late, I’m sure.
Cromwell, you could do a report on Crater Lake, which was a volcano. Sorry, crazed Oregonian here. You might be interested in Mt. St. Helens.
Eighth post! This is the earliest I’ve ever posted – yay!
Okay, now that I’ve gotten that out of my way… great picture whoever drew it!
I don’t think I ever got around to mentioning it, but Kiga, my birthday’s on August 27th too!
The picture is pretty.
the picture is quite lovely, Rebecca! Victorian dress looks quite lovely on AEIOU, and her sleeves make such a beautiful frame.
But doesn’t everyone commute via helicopter ship? Amazing, explains why I never come across much traffic, and here I thought it was so commonplace. Silly me.
I haven’t actually ever read any of Jules Vern’s books, I’ll have to put that on my to-do list.
The problem is, they’re in French.
Okay. I’m almost done. I just need to export.
Love the picture.
Two SOLs down, two to go, ech. The science one is from both sixth and seventh grade, which is more ech.
What category (random craziness, nonrandom craziness, etc) do kokons fall into?
13 – A category in and of itself for Kokonventions would be convenient. I don’t think they’re categorized right now? Actually, I think they’re Fan Page / MuseBlog business.
Star Trek was excellent, at least so I thought! I loved it.
Robert, what was your opinion? How was it in IMAX? I imagine it was quite thrilling at the least.
COuldn’t quite finish my costume, but in the end I had a long-sleeved blue shirt with gold trim just above the cuffs, a yellow and silver Next Generation design badge (made one for my friends as well), black pants, and combat boots.
Lee brought a communicator and a phaser and we took pictures in front of the theater sign XD It was great.
Spock is mah looooveeeer <3
We all live in a yellow submarine.
Whee! Steampunk future! I love steampunk stuff….
313 (on last thread)- Sounds cool. Thanks. And I’d watch it, but my parents don’t let me watch TV…. *headdesk*
2- ‘S fine. And every MBer should have a nickname, don’t you think? (I don’t have one, though….)
13-Here, have a link. I assume that was what you were looking for, correct?
13~ I’d say they fall into the Kokon category. A search will turn up plenty of threads for planning, discussing and yearning for them.
Hi guys! Haven’t been here in a while… But I wanted you to check out this AAAAAWESOME thingummybobbit called Wolfram|Alpha. Google it, it’s freaking awesome.
I love Jules Verne! I’ve read Around the World in 80 Days (Both full version and graphic novel), From the Earth to the Moon (Full version), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Full version) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (All of it as a graphic novel, and about half of the full version)
So, it’s over. The last spacewalk of the last mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Nobody’s ever going to touch it again. The crew will stay in space for a few more days just to make sure everything’s going well, then come home on the 22nd.
John Grunsfeld, who was on several previous missions to the Hubble, closed with these words:
“This is a really tremendous adventure that we’ve been on, a very challenging mission. Hubble isn’t just a satellite- it’s about humanity’s quest for knowledge.”
Augusta was amazing. No other words for it.
If any other MBers were there, I probably didn’t see you.
Hey, all! I don’t have time to go back and read the rest of the old random thread…… *sniffle* I did think you would all like to know I”m alive, and did not drop off the face of the earth, however.
My flight Friday night went well, until I got to the airport here in AK, and only one of my suitcases showed up. Fortunately I was too tired (it was 3 am, Alaska time, 6 central–I’d been up for nearly 24 hours, as I don’t count the Nyquil induced sleep on the plane as true sleep) to freak out about my missing suitcase, and it arrived on the next plane out of Seattle and was delivered to our house the next morning, within an hour after I had gotten up (in other words, around 12:30). So that worked out, fortunately.
So, yeah, I just got off work about 45 minutes ago, and the parents are gone still, so I figured I’d come ‘blog a bit, while they’re not around……
You know that chem final I thought I dominated? Well, I did! I got 145/150. Let’s just say I was very pleased about that……Almost all final grades for the semester are up, only bioethics is yet to be posted, but all the others I’ve got A’s in, hopefully bioethics will be an A as well……*crosses fingers* *and toes for good measure* Nah, I’m not too worried, really.
Oh, before I keep babbling and totally forget, absolutely totally awesome picture, Lady B!
I’ve read a couple of JV’s books. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I like ’em alright, but I think I’d enjoy ’em more, now. I was a little on the young side for them at the time. Twelve, at oldest, and I think I was probably more like 10.
Anyway, I really don’t ahve all that much to say…..Except that it is absolutely gorgeous weather here. It’s beautifully sunny, around 70 in the sun, midsixties in the shade. A bit cool for many of you, I’m sure, but I think it’s absolutely perfect and wondeful, since the humidity is “normal” (aka, not particularly humid AT ALL, so therefore warm weather is nice, not sticky and muggy and hot), and surprisingly warm for this time of year. I mean, it’s only May. That’s, like, spring time. And we’re having summer temperatures. Maybe that means this’ll be a much nicer summer than last, which was unusually cool (rainy, overcast, and 50s–60s at best–all summer).
Yeah, um, I’ll stop rambling now and hit “comment”.
19- Kiki! Nice to see you here!
Bleagghh…. I think I have the flu. And this is the worst possible week I could be sick in this month…. I hope I’m better by Saturday.
Flu? *shudder* Not the dreaded…..swine flu?
I hope you feel better soon. Being sick is so unpleasant. *is recovering from a cold* *doesn’t even want to imagine how much worse the flu would be* *wonders why she keeps trying to tack an “e” on the end of “flu”*
Get better!
It’s getting better all the time… *ducks pies*
Aeiou looks simply stunning in that pink Victorian dress. It’s a good look for her. She should wear it more often.
I’m back! Love the artwork, Rebecca.
Lovely picture, Lady B.
Is it digital? Or watercolor?
*curious*
It was entirelydigital, even all the drawing, which was fairly extensive, even with the graphics shortcuts I used for the masts and propellers. Then I incorporated a variety of filters and special effects to give it the look of a 19th-century woodcut print. I added the color last. You can see some of the illustrations I used for references at jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul/Robur%20le%20conqu%C3%A9rant/
I’m curious — has anyone spotted the other Muses?
Three at the helm?
I absolutely love the whole image!
26.1~ Are there other muses in the picture? I think I might see Koko, but it’s small and rather fuzzy. I’ll look later and hopefully see more.
Goodnight everyone!
I found Mimi and Koko from the version on your Photobucket, but that image isn’t the full one displayed here, so that’s all I could find. The bottom’s jumbled, so there could be other Muses tucked away there whom I just can’t quite make out. Amazing picture. Could you upload the final version to Photobucket, or is it the same size as here?
Wow, I just emailed that to Photobucket a minute ago. Those are the only two Muses. The jumbledy bit is part of the cityscape. Strange how different it looks magnified, isn’t it? Sure, I’ll put up a large version of the whole thing shortly. I’m glad you all like it!
Sweet! I’m just that good, I guess. And yeah, the magnified image is extremely different (and amazing) from the smaller image. Some of your finest work yet, if I may say so myself, although all your art is spectacular, Space Queen.
Here’s a question- did Jules Verne write a story about a volcanic island? I remember a story from when I was much younger, but I don’t know if it was for children or not. At any rate, it had similar qualities. Synopsis of what I remember: A man is on a balloon ride, but crashes on an uncharted island. It’s filled with people fro mall over the world, who all have built houses representing their respective countries. One family has had children on the island, so they have no nationality, and build a house out of fish tanks, with fish swimming throughout the walls. I think there’s a contraption that washes sheets by pulling them through a machine down below (the sheets are tubular). Finally the island explodes, but the adventurer still has his cuff links.
That’s the Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pene du Bois.
That’s it, thanks!
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That’s Twenty-One Balloons! All of these exclamation points are necessary because that was one of my favorite books when I was younger…well actually I found it a little frightening for some reason but I did quite like it. Wiki tells me it was in fact by William Pène du Bois. At least I think it must be the same book…DId everyone got by names like “Mrs. A, Mr B, Mrs C” etc?
Wow, I had forgotten all about that…I wonder if I have it anymore? I was always intrigued by the cover, a elderly gentleman holding a very large diamond. Something about the whole thing was very impressive. I wonder what my impression of it would be now…
Oh, yes 21 balloons. I was combining 101 Dalmations and 21 balloons. Whoops.
I’m almost starting to wonder if I read AtWi80D, or if I somehow read this other books that you all are talking about, but got it confused with AtW…….Huh. *is confuzzled*
Mysterious Island is a Verne book in which people become trapped on a deserted island and create all these machines from scratch to help them survive. You might be thinking of that.
Ah yes, wasn’t there an article in Muse about that? I think they killed a dugong.
No, that’s 21 Balloons!
DuckyFlutePlayer: Another Oregonian??? *hyperventalates* I thought Alice and I were the only ones!!!!
29- I don’t know who it’s by, but The 101 Balloons pretty much matches your description exactly. It was my favorite Newbary Award book. I don’t know why, I just love it. But yeah, the “uncharted island” is actually Krakatoa and everyone freaks out about how the adventurer went around the world in less than eighty days.
For volcanoes, I was going to suggest Mt. St. Helens because it’s just wicked awesome. I’m mad that it’s in Washington, though. At least we have Crater Lake!
oh! oh! I love the picture Lady Bunniful!
Wow, the flag says MuseBlog? I didn’t know that. Supreme pic, Rebecca. *makes background*
Well, it’s not exactly easy to see. I love to tuck in little details like that even when they don’t show up.
Here’s a detail that shows the other Muses:
Or you can now click through the title image to get to an enlarged version of the whole picture. (That’s not quite half the size of the original.)
Piggy, you’re…amazing. You got there almost before I posted it.
Mwahahahaha… I appreciate the compliment. It’s sort of a compliment party here, isn’t it? Let’s see… C-PM: I like your avatar. Actually, I like a lot of people’s avatars, including, but not limited to, POSOC, Axa, Vendaval (yours is especially memorable), Tesseract, and pretty much everyone else. *distributes personalized compliments*
Hm. This picture made me think of something. AEIOU has a yin and yang symbol on her shirt/dress, right? (asked to no one in particular) Well, that symbol and its underlying meaning is one of the main symbols/ideas of Daoism/Taoism, depending on how you want to mispronounce the Chinese. Another key teaching of Laozi (founder) was that nature closely followed the Dao, or basically the path of least resistance, and people should be close to and observe nature in order to distinguish the Dao in their own lives. However, AEIOU is the Muse of technology. This contradiction is either A. an ignorant but common stereotype by the Muse editors or Larry Gonick, whoever thought of it; or B. an ironic and subtle message expressed by its creator to tell a deeper message than meets the eye. I’m guessing it’s B, but it’s interesting if you really think about it.
Just watched two episodes of Doctor Who. I miss Rose, honestly. Donna and Martha are all very well, but I can’t help but feel that they’re replacing Rose, the Doctor’s just moving on and forgetting and he’ll have other companions and they’ll be nearly the same–oh, different personalities, but the same relationship with the Doctor, and it’s sad, because I always felt that Rose and the Doctor were, I dunno, closer than most, but there’s really no reason to assume that since I haven’t seen any companions but the Doctor, and anyway the Doctor’s bound to be close to his companions because he’s lonely, but you would hope that the relationships have a bit of variety in them–some are love and some are friendship and it’s not all the same bam bam bam one after another.
Of course, I could be completely and totally misinterpreting this and maybe the Doctor still does love Rose even though they’re separated and naturally he needs a companion and Martha isn’t replacing her, just…well, never mind, I’m rambling.
Alice, I felt the same way about Rose, but I did warm up to Martha and ended up quite fond of her. The companions really do play quite different roles, I think.
I think that’s what’ll happen. I’ve only seen one episode with Martha, so I imagine I’ll grow to like her (though not perhaps quite as well as Rose).
I actually like Martha best and Donna second best and Rose third out of the new companions. I don’t like the romance tone that Rose and the Doctor have.
Re: volcanoes, just in case I’m early enough:
Try Mt Ruapehu or Ngaruhoe, one of which (I’m not sure which) erupted in 1998 and spewed rocks and hot mud all over the ski fields.
*jumps up and down excitedly* All my grades are posted now……I’ve successfully got one year of college under my belt, with all A’s. *is very, very happy* That will be very helpful in future years with harder classes where I might not quite be able to manage that. That is, lower grades won’t swing my GPA quite so much…….Anyway, I need to go eat some breakfast so that I can be ready for work, as I need to be there at 8. *grumble*
38- Congrats!
Important notice:
I will hardly be able to get online at all, starting Friday.End of school: my brother’s coming home: I will have to get online without alerting THREE people, with annoying dial-up alert sign on downstairs phone that is easily noticeable. WE NEED WIRELESS HIGH-SPEED. Until then, I’m sad to say, I won’t really be able to post.
Yellow submarine……………
*screams* Do you like the Beatles?!
Zombies are exciting!!!!!!!
Victory! Our schools chess club team got a shiny medal
(The results are on the internet, so I can’t say which place we got. Suffice to say the we’re one of the three best school chess teams in Vienna).
I’m worried about Exams…
GAPAs, are you the same people as the Admin. on the Chatterbox? (For all of you who don’t know what the Chatterbox is, go to cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox )
No. Museblog is not officially affiliated with Carus Publishing, Cricket, or Chatterbox.
We’re their heroes.
Hey Robert, what did you think of Star Trek? How was it in IMAX?
hee.
17- YES! THANK YOU! YOU RULE! YOU ARE DA KING! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO! How about… Ar-man? maybe?
SFTDP- You are a boy, right? If not, sorry. I get people mixed up all the time.
Armada is a girl. (RIGHT???!!!!!)
Correct.
34 – Why thank you!
I don’t believe I’ve yet said how much I like the picture. Lady B, it’s incredible! It reminds me very slightly of Airborn/Skybreaker/Starclimber, what with the flying ship. Although the airships aren’t exactly ships, they way they operate has always very much reminded me of their oceanic brethren.
Mwahaha…changed avatar!
Heheheh.
*slaps* Change it back to your email address, missy!
Silver Lining and Peace* appear to have the same avatar (a peace sign on a rainbow background). Am I seeing things? *obediently goes to clear cache*
STDP They still have the same avatar, though now it’s a yellow submarine (methinks). Most interesting.
THey’re cousins, or some such thing. Who use the same email, at least for MB purposes…….Or so I seem to recall one of them mentioning a while back.
Yes, we are cousins. For a while Peace* used my email address, because she didn’t have her own, but now she’s got her own email address, but her parents won’t let her get a Gravatar account. (Her parents are very strict.) But, unfortunately, she liked my Yellow Submarine (yes, that’s what it is) avatar, so she switched back to using my avatar. *grr*
I also think airships are very cool. Right up there with spaceships, submarines and supersonic aircraft.
Yay! ‘Tis here! Great pic, although at first I didn’t notice the muses that are not Aeiou.
Also, did you guys know that Muse Academy is also a comic about this one person who gets invited to some random school? It’s kind of a cool thing… the website is [You can probably guess. –Admin] , or, if the GAPAs block the link, then it is just one of the first things that pop up when you Google “Muse Academy”.
Yes, the people who run that site seem to have thought up their Muse Academy about the same time we were coming up with ours. They’re very different sorts of places, though.
50.1~ Ah, I see.
Wow. That’s all I can really say. My family is completely nuts. My uncle just called, apparently they’ve finally fixed my cousin’s birth certificate, and that was reason enough to call. I haven’t talked to him in, what, over a year probably.
Random much? Oh well. We talked about contra dancing, colleges and train sets. 
Whatever, I’ve accomplished some social interaction with family members, stacking up “brownie points” (no kidding, my grandma’s actually said that).
I’d rather just stupid weirdness than nasty and destructive weirdness though, but there’s plenty of both.
I’m rambling. I think I’ll haul my rear off the computer and do some homework like I should have a few hours ago. Expletive.
Oh man so I totally forgot to tell my exciting story!
So, I am in AP US History first hour, as you may have gleaned from my previous moaning. Our teacher is pretty good, doesn’t put up with nonsense but has a sense of humor (though learning is first he is not exactly in league with “the gods on leave from Mount Olympus currently residing in [my school]’s administration office”).
Every morning for about two weeks before we took the AP test he would limp into the classroom on his golf club (he has it with him in the hallways for some reason), pretending to be in great pain and grievously wounded. One of us would be like “oh my gosh Mr. Kbach (not name) are you okay” and he’d suddenly straighten up and smile and say “Just fakin’!”
Then one day he came in with an arm sling as well, and then a walking boot, then crutches, then he got one of the dean’s to push him in in a wheelchair XD
So me and my two friends decided to play a rank on him and his 5th hour psych class. Lee during 4th hour went to talk to the choir teacher and get a pass to 5th hour so she could be late, me and JB were supposed to ask our 5th hour physics teacher for bathroom passes and meet her by his room, in the nearby bathroom. JB got the pass, but when I got up a minute later to ask for the other one he refused and told me to wait until JB returned, though he couldn’t possibly have known we were planning anything.
But then he asked if anyone wanted to go to the computer lab to work on something and so I said I did but then instead of going there with everyone I just met up in the bathroom where Lee and JB were waiting. We were getting ready to play our trick, which was going to be going into his class one at a time with different afflictions about 10 seconds apart.
But then my physics teacher actually sent someone to come get JB and took her away! It was very sad, we had to do it with two people rather than three and it was not a cool.
WHile me and Lee got ready without her, a teacher came in. She was like “…what are you doing?”
“Playing a trick on Mr Kbach?”
“Oh, okay! He always does that to us.”
SO she just let us be XD Same with the teacher in the room next to his who was on break. She wanted to watch.
So I put on her arm sling, Lee waited hidden around a corner, and I kind of burst into his classroom, stumbling and grasping against the wall, moaning in pain. Everyone stopped and stared, and I was like “Mr Kbach… I need… multi vitamins!” (he had made us take the stuff he didn’t want in his desk anymore that morning; me and JB got multivitamins). He started cracking up as I grabbed his golf club and limped around on it.
He was laughing and started asking things like, “Who’s out there in the hall betting you money you wouldn’t do this? Is it JB? I thought I saw her!”
Then Lee makes her entrance, hacking and coughing, wearing a big sign that says “SWINE FLU” on it and a face mask. Everyone started laughing as we collapsed and moaned until Mr. K was like “oh my gosh are you okay???”
Then he wen outside where the dean was walking by and protested that we were harassing him, to which the dean responded, “Good for them.”
Then we went back to physics and I made up an excuse for not being in the computer lab XD
Yay, I finally woke up on time today! YAAAAAY!
that’s amazing! I can’t imagine busting into a class full on wheezing but then again, if it was for a prank….:lol:
I think the week after APs is official “play a prank on your ap teacher” week, cause our bio class pulled one too, lol
We have no school tomorrow & the day after !!! *is happy*
43) Don’t worry. I’m sure you’ll do well…My next (difficult) exams are in october, when I officially to my new class/skip the grade. I don’t need to take a test about 9th grade, but when I enter 10th grade next I have to have at least a C- in every subject/on every exam. Which sounds easy, but considering that I’m in class with new kids (all a year older), new teachers (and I thought my current ones were scary!) and that all subjects (except maybe art) have 1-2 tests per semester min. . But I still have several months before I’ll start to flip out over that, so no worries for now…
I still have another week or so of work to do…
And, math’s getting worse, it’s switched back to financial problems, which I DETEST. Why couldn’t I just skip those again… Other then that, though, it’s been pretty good, schoolwork-wise.
Yet math still casts a looming shadow on all the rest.It still stinks, though. Anyway, I think I’ll either take this over to the ‘Rants and Complains’ thread, or stop talking. Probably the latter.54~ That is amazing. You did something along the same lines in December, pretending one of you was pregnant, right? (No, I’m not a stalker, I thought it was hilarious then, too.)
I wish I could convince my friends to do stuff like that…..
Poor Gamespot lad…WINK!
Also for the play recently my one friend had to wear a pregnant suit, and we wanted to steal it and go back to visit him ^^
My friends are like that too…. They never want to do anything fun that might render them weird.
Hey.
My teacher is making everyone in the class play an instrument for the last hour of the day every tuesday, and our homework is to think of a name for the band. Does anyone have any ideas? I have a few, but no great ones. To give you an idea, the songs we are playing are “Wild Thing” by the Troggs, and “The 12 Bar Blues” (a basic blues song.) I can’t tell you the name of my school or teacher or it’ll get snipped, but our room number is #305. Thanks in advance.
How about “CCCV,” the Roman numeral for 305? Or “The Froggs”? Or Pahoehoe and the Sea Stars?
Okay, so I’m off on Friday, so I’ll get to watch Atlantis land at 10:01 AM.
23.1- Thanks. It was just a two- or three-day thing, luckily, but I would have been more worried if all of my family hadn’t had a milder version of the same thing a couple days ago.
30- ZVX also lives in Oregon, I think…
45.1- I’m a girl. ‘S okay, though, my name is kind of ambiguous.
54-
You think up the best pranks, JS. I’m so jealous that you can actually do that kind of stuff.
57.1- You, on the other hand, are a stalker…
Or possibly just an old-thread-reader.
I’m
stalking you right nowan old-thread-reader. I was looking at Rebecca’s cat, which was on the Christmas page, and I just happened to see your postand write down all your personal info.I was sitting sideways in my chair in Modern Food Production (best class EVER!) and I fell backwards and hit my head on the desk.
So of course, all of my friends start LAUGHING THEIR HEADS OFF!
No, they don’t ask, “Oh my God Isabella, are you having a concussion?”. No. They laugh.
(It’s a big joke that I’m a klutz.)
Tomorrow we’re getting our newspaper club shirts. They have a paper airplane and say “our paper is fly”. Cuz we’re fly like that.
Then, on Friday, my friends and I are riding our bikes to the beach, because it’s going to be 80 degrees! Yay!
Our school paper has shirts like that too.
That’s so cool! The catalog that we got them from has the coolest stuff.
(15) Jadestone,
Star Trek in IMAX was confusing and exciting. Fight scenes: confusing. Scenes in which somebody was hanging on by his fingers over a deep, deep drop: exciting. Space scenes: cosmic. IMAX was made to show space.
Oh, yes. Space scenes of any sort are wonderful in IMAX. That’s one of the things I loved about going to OMSI in Portland (the destination my sister favored, I on the other hand always wished to visit the zoo. As a result, visits were never complete without a visit to one of each). Of course, my mom and sister never faired too well with the space scenes, or any scene that gave the illusion that you were moving. They tended to get nauseous from the “motion”. I positively loved it when I felt the illusion of movement……Of course, I also love the crazy rides at fairs/amusement parks.
“Magnificent Desolation” made me cry (Both times I watched it), “Space Station” was also very good, and even “The Dream Is Alive” still holds up well.
I think some of the fight scenes were just confusing in general XD But oh man space in IMAX must be great. I kind of remember seeing something about Black Holes in IMAX I really loved but that was before all these newfangled realistic animation tricks.
Well my friends, I fear I must bid you all adieu for a week. I’m headed to Williamsburg again, to spend some time on the ships talking to floods of visitors.
Until then, I remain your faithful servant,
Midnight Fiddler, etc.
(Infinitely more prolix when tired, might I add. Goodnight!)
Live long and prosper.
Au revoir, mademoiselle, et bon voyage! Have mercy on the tourists.
That sounds like incredible fun. *furrows brow* I do believe I visited there once, quite a few years back, when we toured historical sites up and down the East Coast. We started in Florida, and went up to DC. ’twas such incredible fun.
have a wonderful time!
54- That is so funny !
Oh, wow. Moderation is incredibly fast tonight. I would’ve thought more GAPAs would have been in bed. ’tis rather late in the rest of the US, afterall.
Well, don’t expect it to continue beyond the next five minutes, as I am heading for the crash.
Can’t say I blame you. You’re on the East Coast, right? North Carolina, or something like that? So it’d be nearly three…..At least it’s only almost 11, here.
President Obama called the Atlantis crew!
Okay, so he collects Spider-Man comics, he likes hanging out with astronauts and he was a college professor. It’s official- we have a nerd president at last.
hooray!
60.1- Heh. I like reading old threads too, so you’re not alone there.
*sigh* *headdesk* Yay for me. I’m the only one on again. *goes off to edit BA*
ACT results back from when I took it in APril. I got a 34, which isn’t bad, but it would have been better if I hadn’t managed to go down in English and Reading (from a 35 to a 33 and a 36 to a 35 respectively)since february. Ironically, between those two tests is when our english teacher literally crammed as much ACT prep as he could down our throats. Hmmmm.
Robert, I believe I am about to turn 7,000 days old (well. in 40 days or so.) Will you start adding 7k days to the birthday thread?
Sorry… I haven’t been here in a little while because I was sick, and then I forgot… SO! Tomorrow I’m going to go to all of my RPGs and stuff, so please DONT PANIC!
*is sure no one is caring or listening*
*cares & listens*
Welcome back!
71-Don’t worry. I care.
I’m so used to being ignored on the random thread that I ignore the ignoring and post anyway.
Ugh! I can’t wait until next year when towel day will be on an actual school day!!! This year I’m just going to wrap it around my shoulders as I type up my project.
The end of the school year is IN SIGHT!!! It’s so close…
Summer I love you! The good thing I get out of this is that I have orchestra 7th and 8th period and the last two finals (7th and 8th) are on a Monday so essentially I get three extra days of summer. I bet we’re going to have an orchestra party. Last year it was at the local children’s amusement park because everyone was shocked that the teacher hadn’t been there yet (he had just moved). I wonder where it will be this year… I really want to say the name of the amusement park because almost everyone in the entire city knows what it is!!! I can’t imagine anyone not knowing about it, but I guess you guys don’t.
I have an abnormally late school year because of the snow week (the infamous three-week winter break). My school officially gets out… June 15th! Huzzah! But as I stated earlier, I get out on the 12th.
OK, I’m finally done on this thread. Good night!
67) *is a stalker* No, I was looking up some really old threads because I think I know “home-schooled in austria”. ‘Cause if en is a girl and doesn’t live in Austria anymore, then en was one of my best friends when I was 12. She struck me as a muserly person… I should probably get over embarrassment and just e-mail and ask her.
I’m stuck in school ’til July 3rd
!
That’s my birthday! I feel sorry for you… staying in school until July!
Thats really late in the year! *is surprised*
SFTDP:
I just found this really cool thread: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1012 (I forgot how to linkify).
It’s about a group of MBers in the future, after the GAPAs were kidnapped and MBer was closed, who are trying to save MB/the GAPAs/the world (maybe).
72(Kyra)- Sometimes I post so much random stuff that I’m almost rather glad noone reads it…
Okay, news from my crazy school:
A boy band of four played in my school hall one lunchtime(gold coin donation to get in and the money goes to one of the house’s charities) and OMG they were hot! I spend the time dancing with my friends, attempting to eat my lunch, and trying to take a photo of the hottest guy of all. (hurrah for my new camera phone!)
Yesterday… I sneaking around the corridors (it’s not the first time we’ve done this) before school with my WindClan friends, and we talked to other Year 8s, jumped out from behind the lockers and hat each other, saw Mr Blank (my French teacher), and got apprehended by another teacher. She was not impressed, and told us to go outside, we weren’t allowed in here before the bell went, and we were disturbing the senior classes. What we actually did was retreat down the corridor, and when Onewhisker checked later the teacher was gone.
(me) Oh, there you are. Where’s Onewhisker?
She’s not here.
I thought you’d be jumping out at each other…
Let’s go and do that now.
talktalktalk
(I’m one of those people who either bursts into tears or bursts out laughing at really minor things) 
*turns away quickly because en is laughing uncontrollably*
Face me please.
*wipes smile off face with great effort and faces :mad:*
I’ve told you before, go outside. If you do this again there will be trouble.
Well, this morning I saw some of WindClan outside.
(we go in and find some other girls wandering around)
And we’re just heading down the stairs to the canteen when we’re once again apprehended by
And this time we really do go.
Then in English, we found the desks in test formation. At first Mrs Blank explained we weren’t having a test, some other class had left them that way. Then she decided to pull a prank and said that if someone else came in, we were to tell them there was a test and mutter “I don’t know why Mrs Blank didn’t tell us”.
(me) *threatens to turn into 
* *buries head on desk*
We’re having a test.
(Mrs Blank) Now this is going to be a very hard test, and I hope you all studied.
I told you last lesson; you were asleep and you missed it. There’s no books allowed. You’re going to analyse a poem, so I hope you all remember the different things. And you have to list the 51 types of poetry on the handout and define 20 of them.
Yeah, well, that’s all lies.
*slumps in chair*
(enter :confusedl: )
smile: *groans*
:confused: But I didn’t know about it!
:confused: You’re not allowed to give a test in 6th period!
We did fill :confued: in eventually. But Mrs Blank did give us an excuse to say “I didn’t do my homework because I was studying for the ‘test'”.
As further proof that New York and Florida have inverse weather, today is gorgeous here, but the weather at the Kennedy Space Center forced them to delay Atlantis’ landing to tomorrow.
My sister just got her hands on a science fiction book written some twenty years ago about how the future would be in 2041. Mom’s reading it now, but as soon as she’s done, I’ll read it and report.
Now I wish I had teachers like that. My teacher just gets angry when we don’t take at least two pages of extensive notes on our reading, and is rather happy when we anticipate what she’s going to say, strangely. She’s the most interesting of my three teachers, *refers confused people to earlier post announcing I’m homeschooled* I had one until Christmas or so that was really the best, but she didn’t think she was good at it. I disagreed, but whatever. Anyway, I’m going to stop my long pointless ramble, and go check on other threads.
75-
I’m going to SC as of tomorrow! And staying the entire week! Yay! And tomorrow we’re going to our favourite resteraunt that we always go to with my bf’s family, a Japanese resteraunt! And then we will go to the docks like we do whenever we go there, which we always do! And then- we’ve got a whole routine that we do whenever we go there, for some reason………hehe! But I can’t wait to see my bff again! Yayayayayaya!
That’s a freakishly awesome picture!
Anywho, I’m back again! And I can’t believe American Idol! It’s preposterous! I onlylearned Chris’ name like 3 weeks ago! He’s that forgettable! Adam and Dani should have been the top 2! Chris is just so….. so….. ugh.
Erg. Y’all should be glad that Im almost ranted out about this already. since I’ve had several days, or this blog would be flooded.
I won’t be on the ‘blog till Monday. Bye, everybody!!!
:wave:
80 – probably me neither. My older sister’s bat mitzvah is TOMORROW – yikes – and we have lots of family in town and stuff like that.
Hi Peoples! i am back! (probably nobody noticed i was gone. whatevs) I could not get on the internet for like a month. i bet the teachers think that giving tons of homework is a cure for two-weeks-left-itis. what is with the avatars? haven’t been on in forever. sorry this is so longish, i feel like talking to someone. (i’m home alone)
You can read all about it if you click on the link on the top of the page that says “What’s new on MuseBlog 2?”.
ARGH! I’m sorry I’ve been so busy.
At any rate, I’ve joined Colorguard (sort of marching band without the band and flags instead) so I shall be terribly busy over the summer.
Got our English exams back! I got 60/60, so I can take honors courses next year!!!! *brags*
That’s great! Congratulations!
73- Wow, really? Cool. That would be awesome, to know another MBer by coincidence….
Sorry you’re stuck in school for a long time. When does your school start in the fall? It had better be at the end of September…..
74- *starts chant* VISIT THE MB FANFIC THREAD! VISIT THE MB FANFIC THREAD! VISIT THE MB FANFIC THREAD! VISIT THE MB FANFIC THREAD! VISIT THE MB FANFIC THREAD!
Museblog was down! I started to panic. Don’t mind my two posts at Muse Academy.
-A
I posted twice too. I imagine we’re all a bit paranoid after what happened to the blog last time it was down.
Oh… I resolved to yell at the downstairs neighbors for hogging the wifi, since I only got a “sever is busy” message and it was loading slowly. Good thing I didn’t.
I just got home from dinner at the neighbors *shudder* Am I the only person on this planet who eats their salad without any sort of dressing, and only occasionally with salt? Salad dressing is overrated.
I got Mostly Harmless and So long, and Thanks for all the fish from my library. It’s nice, but sometimes I wonder about the sanity of a place which has 3 different copies of MH, 2 of SLaTFATF and none of the other books. I guess you just get used to it…
86) Actually, it starts the first monday in september… But we still have a lot of holidays. I had thursday and friday off, some old christian holiday which I’ve long forgotten. Most of them are on thursdays, which means we get the day after (friday) off too. I’d still prefer more summer vacation, though.
It’s almost 11 p.m. here. I think I’ll turn in soon.
On the very rare occasions when I actually eat salad, I don’t put salad dressing on it, either. So don’t worry–you’re not alone.
Okay, so Atlantis’ landing got delayed again, so I’ve really got my fingers crossed for tomorrow. They’ve got enough consumables to stay up for a very long time, but I just feel like the crew must be anxious to get back to their families.
In other news, it’s Fleet Week! I only wish some of the people here who like ships so much could be here in NYC.
Okay, I just finished the book. It was really good, although some of them were depressing, and I didn’t really understand others. The first was the best. It was called, ‘Much Ado About [censored]. It was about this girl who convinced her teacher to do Shakespeare in literature class, and then they had to go through all the objections to everything to edit into a play that was ‘acceptable’. I highly recommend that one. The rest were okay, I guess. The book’s called 2041, in case you want to look it up.
8.7.1.1- Oh. That’s sucky.
Um, GAPAs? I think there’s a mistake on the Comiong Soon sidebar…you replaced Syllabub with Sierra, not Sequioa……..
Jeez, it’s going to be really confusing at the Kokon, eh? I think we should just call each other Hannah. Makes things simpler.
91.1- No, that would be more confusing.
I’m probably still going to be calling Sequoia Syllabub, but hopefully she can live with that. (And I’ll try not to, Sequoia. Honestly.)
Woah! I’m in SC, using my friend’s pc, which uses IE, and all the avatars are cut off at the top! Creepy! *pies* hehe yeah!
I’m a friend of fireandhemlock1996, and she told me about this site/ is typing for me at the moment. (yes, this is firehemlock typing lol but he wants to type now) *gives keyboard to the ceiling fan man*
OK it’s me now, I have a hobby/obsession of collecting ceiling fans. I have about 20 so far. Firehemlock just gave me a lighting fixture that matches my latest fan PERFECTLY!!! It’s late tonight but I will have to see how it looks on my fan tomorrow. The fan I have for it works really nicely but it buzzes a little, but that’s OK.
goodbye…
You might be shocked to hear this, but I have no ceiling fans in my house.
Do you live up north? I live in South Carolina, so having 20 fans really helps in the summer.
haha and how many of those 20 fans are hanging up in your garage? like you use them all-I doubt it!
I live in Oregon. All of my neigbors have ceiling fans. Not me!
Dude, love your avatar!
haha I can tease him like that because I’ve known him since kindergarten. 
light fixtures!!!
Hi Nick! Nice ta see ya! (like I didn’t know you had posted lol) Is it a possibility that you like the light fixture that I gave you?
Wait, 20 fans!? :8 I knew that because during the four hours that we’ve been hanging around you’ve told me that about, what, five or ten times? Or was it a hundered times?Did I spell hundered right? haha!
Does this spelling of my name look okay? See, I’ve pretty much gotten over my Warriors phase, and I’ve decided I don’t want a Warriors name anymore. My anonymous e-mail pen pal suggested that I keep “rainbow” in my name, otherwise people would get confused. So I capitalized the S and added an asterisk. Like it? Or should I keep it the way it was?
95) I like the change…
fans) I don’t have any, but when it gets hot here I’m either long gone, celebrating, or in the cellar, which is always cold.
95- I like it. The new one, that is.
Everything has been SO hectic lately around here… And a toddler has been screaming all day and is causing continuos maroon lines to appear in front of me. ARRGGHH! sorry, I should probably save that for complaints and rants. What happened to the Incredible Morphing Chameleon thread?
Okay, the de-orbit burn just occurred, and Atlantis is set to land at 11:39 AM, EST.
97- I think the GAPAs decided there was no more need for them, and stopped making them. If you feel a great need for one, ask. Although it is the twenty-fourth, so there wouldn’t be much point…
Anyway, what is up with people and changing their names? Cyndi, Rainbowstar, Syllabub, and I-don’t-know-who-else! *Ahem* Back on topic… Yes, Rainbow*Star, I like the name change. I will probably decide it’s too long shortly, and it will become Rainbow, or, since it’s even shorter, Star. It’s actually exactly the same name as before, but the asterisk lengthens it immeasurably. (Yes, that’s a joke.)
I have re-discovered the H2G2 text RPG.
I should really be studying for finals
But that thing is a trap
Plus I am waiting to see if I made the hockey team or not x_x
But I’ll post about that drama later when I can handle talking about it.
91.1- I’m good with calling each other Hannah. People always ask me if it’s weird calling someone by the same name as me, but I really don’t think it is. (There’s six Hannahs in my grade.)
92- I don’t mind if you call me Syllabub. I’d do the same thing if you changed your name!
Hello again MB!
Yay! I got my piano tuned!
Good Idea!
Combine Toynbee tiles and augmented reality to make digital statues in streets. Then it could be viewed with a cellphone!
I guess the hardest part would be putting the flash application on the phone.
I am new here.
Greetings! Might I suggest the ‘Welcome, Neophytes!’ thread?
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when…you’re packing your groceries at Costco and deliberately choose the box that says “CUCUMBERS” to pack your stuff in.
[For those of you who don’t remember the Cucumber Incident. Once upon a time we had a one-day hit-and-run wonder of a blogger who called enself OMYGODMYPANTSAREONFIRE!!!!!!!!!! The most famous of ens potshots said something like OMG I LOVE CUCUMBERZZZ!!!!!! The post itself was incinerated by the GAPA Zap of Doom, but it has since become the stuff of legend (or infamy) as the grandfather/mother of all pointless posts.]
I think the blogger “the chikens r drowning” topped even “OMYGODMYPANTSAREONFIRE!!!!!!!!!!” when it came to pointlessness.
Come to think of it, I think I was even worse, once upon a time… but let’s not dwell on that, shall we?
There have no doubt been worse examples. Cliff Eagle’s going up in smoke over the post in question probably contributed to its reputation. Plus the utter silliness prompted attempts to have an actual conversation about cucumbers. It’s the convergence of factors that turns a random incident into folklore.
And, if it makes you feel better, I will swear an oath by my beloved old piano at the H&H that you were never anywhere near that bad.
Thank you… although you weren’t a moderator until after I’d learned the ropes, so some of my more atrocious posts may have slipped past you.
Ah, but I was lurking from the beginning. I well remember the arrival of…Captain Cynomys.
Yeah… I’ve tried to forget him. There’s a reason I’m not POSOCCC.
Well, as I’ve said before and will remind anyone who finds enself in a similar situation, you were much younger then. Furthermore, you have the unusual opportunity of being able to witness your very own character development. Potentially quite useful for a writer.
105.1- I am guilty of PoPoing occasionally, but not on purpose. That’s just the way my mind works. I read the end of the conversation, and my mind jumps to something completely different, but sort-of related (in my head). I just expect everyone to think the way I do. For example, I read “cucumber,” and I immediately thought “I hate Lima beans.” However, I have sort-of trained myself NOT to write on a stream of consciousness.
Ice cream is yummy…
105- No, you know you’re addicted to MB when you begin to seriously consider throwing pies on random occasions. GUILTY!
Ah, lurkers, what would we do without them?
Haven’t a clue. Some help, please?
I actually think of balsamic vinegar (is that spelled correctly?). Mmmmmmmm . . .
Sorry. That was a really bad, random post.
HA! I love streams of conciousness. My friend once did one, and it was over 5 pages long and extremely funny. We should have a thread for PoPoing/SOC.
Wait now, speaking of pointless posts, some of the most random ones are the funniest things I’ve ever read. It was not long after my arrival on Museblog that we witnessed one such post– I don’t remember all of it but it started out “HELLO I AM [SOMETHING] CEO OF THE MEN’S WAREHOUSE” and continued. I don’t think the person ever posted again that I know of.
Oh man.
I can’t believe tomorrow makes it one year since Phoenix landed on Mars.
99-Wait, Cyndi changed her name? To what?
105.1.1.1.1.1-
Heh. That would be strange… maybe I’ll begin calling you POSOCCC, just to annoy you. 
And I think we all want to forget about our neophyte blogselves (except for maybe a few perfect people like 
). Anyone remember my first month or two? *wince*
SyllabubSequoia who were Muserly from the beginning106- You don’t know Widget45 and wizzy the wise guy, but they came on for maybe two days in October, and have been lurking ever since. Wizzy keeps asking me things like “Are you part of Pie War?” or “Have you ever played Paker?” and I’m like, “Noo…. not really. Jeez, Wizzy, if you know that much about the ‘Blog, why don’t you post something once in a while?”
)) )
(And yes, wizzy and Widget are my friends in real life–I introduced them to MB, I’m not an extremely good stalker. ((Or am I?
109-Aw, I’m glad that I’ve been Muserly from the beginning. I actually thought I was weird as a neophyte……
My first post (comment 75) was….well……yeah. Embarassing.
Oh, so that’s where your former name came from! I always wondered.
110- You’re kidding me. Have you seen my first post? It (comment#18 on the same thread as yours) was infinitely worse. Well, actually that was my second post–my first post was on the random thread and something along the lines of i was wondering the same thing [[about the signatures–someone asked what they were]]. by the way, yes i am new’ Argh.
~BlogAds~
The year is 2020. The heroes: a few dozen young men and women, most in their late 20s. Fifteen years earlier, four friendly-seeming but mysterious people gathered them on what was then known as the World Wide Web, dropped hints about an important destiny or mission they were to fulfill, and then vanished. Over the years, some of the group kept in touch; others drifted apart. Now a great danger has brought them all back together again…
Long, long ago, waaaay back in A.D. 2007, on this very blog, there was a story. It was a bit like an RRR, a bit like an RPG, but mostly like a fanfiction, which was what it said at the top of the thread–MuseBlog Fanfiction. This story went amazingly for something like three months, encompassed three threads, and attracted at least twenty-five MBers.
And then, in September ’07, it died suddenly, for reasons unknown. Now a group of concerned MuseBloggers (a.k.a me and bookgirl_me) are trying to revive it, and WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you like RRRs, RPGs, and/or fanfictions, or are just an enthusiastic MuseBlogger, come to the MuseBlog Fanfiction thread! We need you desperately!
GAPAs, I think some people must’ve missed the notice about not using recognizable human faces as avatars. Do they need a reminder?
111) I think I rather took the cake, since at first I thought that the MBers were fighting with the HPBs instead of against them…
, 
My first post… I dunno, not awful. I think it was a short story on the corresponding thread. It took me a while to find the -phytes thread, since I a) couldn’t spell and b) targeted the threads where I actually knew something about it (writing, chess…).
Another blog add…
Most of you were here when the blog went down last april. What if-suddenly- it disappeared? What if the GAPAs were kidnapped and the blog closed.
You would stay in touch, but slowly break apart when you realize that it isn’t coming back. But in 2020, fate brings them back together again.
Before their mysterious disappearance, they hinted about the future. Someone captured them to stop them from telling all. In 2020, it all happens…
We need YOU!
MuseBlog fanfiction thread- before it’s too late.
Haloooo! It’s towel day! Yay yay yay! I’m wearing mine across the shoulder right now, but that will change.
Okay, so it’s the last day of this mini-vacation. But I already did my homework and I just have a few finishing details for my Global History project to put on, so I’m feeling okay.
Pointless posts? Those are fun.
112- Are you referring to me? I don’t think any of my avatars include a recognizable human face….
113- I remember that! You posted on the BA-editing thread, and I was annoyed with you!
And you need to come to the MB fanfic thread yourself again…
My iPod kind of went insane, so I had to restore it. This is such a pain. I have to redo my Calander, which will take for-fricking-ever.
My dad was stomping around in the attic this morning, so now I have a headache. And I haven’t eaten anything. I’m in a bad mood.
117- No, not you.
Hello again, MuseBlog!
I just cut my hair. Well, my mother did. But my hair was cut all the same. Sixteen inches! My head feels so light…
And Happy Towel Day, everyone!!
ceiling fan (94): That’s really cool! I wish I had a ceiling fan in my room, but unfortunately, we only have one in the entire house. Do you ever turn them all on at the same time?
kiwi (102): Congratulations! I love it when our piano is tuned. It is currently mildly out of tune–I blame it on the weather, because it was tuned recently.
Yeah! Happy towel day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone know where TNÖ is? I’m from the Chatterbox.
Not me! How ’bout we can ask her on the Chatterbox itself? (Nick is staring over my shoulder right now)
oh it’s dinner time! We’re having a party at Alyssa’s house!
My model probes are finally done, and they look gorgeous! Tomorrow, I’m taking them to school and they’ll be on display on Wednesday night!
120) I know. It always gives a person a happy feeling when they ahve a freshly tuned instrument.
123) Awesomenessness!
Model probes? Like space probes?
Yup. And the only money I spent was on the foam bases, the wire, the sewing bobbins, and the paint. Everything else in them was stuff I had lying around the house.
Apologies, because I know this isn’t the right thread for it, but HOW THE HECK DO I CHANGE MY AVATAR?????
Thank you.
119- Beavo’s is Harry Potter…. I can’t think of anyone else. Who were you referring to?
125- Go to gravatar dot com, get an account, and download a picture from your computer or the internet. It’s really simple.
HAPPY TOWEL DAY!!!
Yay, awesomely fast moderation! I swear I didn’t even have time to scroll back to the top of the page before my last comment was moderated….
Okay. So. The biggest event of my capoeira-related year starts tomorrow, and I AM TERRIFIED. See, every year we have a big event-thing called a batizado, where new people get initiated and other people get promoted, along with a few other things, and the capoeira workshops with our mestres to get us warmed up for the batizado start on Tuesday. Every day, for three hours, until Saturday. Aagh. And Mestre P. (full capoeira name not given to avoid snippage/stalkerage–these guys are actually pretty famous in certain circles) scares me–he’s a little guy, but he’s extremely tough, and his workshops are really hard… luckily he’s not arriving until Wednesday, so Profesor I. is teaching on Tuesday, and Mestre D. is teaching on Thursday and maybe on Friday too (I like his workshops–they’re fun), but still. And then I still have the batizado to worry about—what if I get a promotion? What if I don’t get a promotion? At least I’m not being initiated this year–that was not fun, it involves getting taken down by a mestre or instructor, sometimes painfully (mine wasn’t, but it was still scary)…. but….yeah. I’m scared.
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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S TOWEL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
((Sorry, I just realized that and REALLY had to say it. All better!))
128 – I LOVE the moderation on here. You blink and your comment is posted, but you know everything is safe. It’s great.
Happy Towel Day! *wraps up pie in towel and pies*
I noticed on Wikipedia a long time ago that there is a Towel Day, and I was sooooooo excited. I was not as excited when I saw it on MuseBlog, because I wanted to be the person to put it on the calendar.
*is not as awesome as he thought he was*
I had a kinda embarrassing neophyte-hood too. I think it involved being very hyper every time I posted. Found Here, and it’s even more humilliating once I see it. Starting at post 125, by the way.
Purple Panda (120): Wow, that was a lot of hair. How many inches are left?
I did a radical hair-cutting once and remember I felt very strange for a few days afterwards — like my face was suddenly so much more “out there.” I didn’t have enough hair to hide behind anymore.
Happy Towel Day, peoples!!
Too bad there’s no school today. I would’ve brought a towel with me.
I’m confused. I thought Towel day was several months ago.
Okay, after reading his Wikipedia article, I have realized that Richard Garriott is REALLY awesome. The guy makes a fortune designing video games, becomes an amateur magician, pays the Russians to fly to the space station, AND he lives in a mansion full of secret passages that he designed himself.
We should all only be so lucky.
Towel day! I made my mom take a towel with her in the car, and she got her hands dirty when she was looking at plants, and she saw this fountain, so she washed her hands in the fountain and dried them on the……………….
TOWEL!!!!!!!!!!!!133) One time I made the mistake of trying to cut my own hair. When I went to get it fixed they had to do a serious hair chop to make it normal. It’s longer now, but not long enough. I will never do that again, that’s for sure.
Towel Day! I was in a car for much of today, and I sat on my folded towel, and I was much comfier!
128–thanks!
I just remembered something pertaining to MB. On our stint at MA, I suggested adding a hits counter to MuseBlog. Is it too late to do so? Would it even work? There’s only one way to find out.
A hits counter?
Isn’t the Who’s Posted How Much page like a super hits counter?
I meant a view counter, like on MA.
Re: Hair: my hair is WAAAAYYY too long. I can sit on it. It’s a matter of some teasing at school, since it’s easily pulled/ caught on stuff. I probably ought to cut it- I look really odd, and have since Preschool- but I want to know how long I can grow it without getting in trouble. If I fold it double twice it looks fairly normal. So I do that and then tie it back like a ponytail. In fact, it completely fooled the PE teacher until the scrunchie snagged on someone’s shoe (while they were kicking me) and came out. He wasn’t terribly pleased but I got off since he was busy lecturing the other guy about fighting.
I see. The usefulness of that information being…?
Well… what’s the point of any of the information on MuseBlog? It’s interesting. If it’s too difficult or you’re too busy, that’s fine. I just happened to think of it.
Oops, that didn’t work. https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1626 Great. That worked.
So GAPAs, any thoughts on 7k days?
Yours is already on the Calendar. June 27.
ooh, cool. Thanks! I didn’t really know how to look at the whole calendar at once. Will you start putting the general month for 7k days on monthly birthday threads?
wait, actually now I see that calendar has been added to the top bar. Apparently I’m just not observant…
139-???
I think she meant comment 126 and was thanking you for the gravatar information.
148.1- Mm, probably. You’re welcome, Nthanda.
All right, everybody, wish me luck. My first capoeira workshop starts in an hour, and we’re going to head over now…
Good luck!
Thanks.
Meh, I’m not going to this workshop, I got a bad cold and am currently in bed… but hey, that means no workshop with Mestre P.!
Rosanne (133): Anywhere from 2-13 cm, depending on where you measure. It’s longer on the top/front than in the back. It’s so strange!
Ahhh. The crazy cool Panda look!
They’re hatching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
((I rather enjoy just Ducky!))
Yes, I modified my name again, because the Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the crew of Expedition 20 to the station takes off tomorrow. This will be the first six-person crew and the first time all full partners (Canada, Japan, Russia, the USA and the multiple nations of the European Space Agency) will have an astronaut on board.
So Steampunk. But that’s great, I love steam.
Good luck Armada! tell us how it goes, mmkay?
We hava a gala party, kind of like prom at the end of term. And I am going stag. Mostly because I don’t have anyone to go with.
It went…. okay. My legs are killing me now, but Profesor I.’s a pretty good teacher, and all in all it could have been much worse. We had about half an hour to practice songs at the end, and then a roda (which is basically the part of capoeira where you actually play capoeira–people stand in a circle, some play instruments, and two people at a time play capoeira in the middle)–I went in once, because I was scared I would have to play Profesor I., but it turned out I didn’t. That was kind of fun.
I found this really cool tshirt. The design is one of those “Hello my name is” stickers. The blank space says: Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. I want that shirt now.
wait, is the “I want that shirt now.” part of the shirt? *is confused*
No, it’s not. That shirt’s been on my wish list for a while now. Of course, you could always just get a shirt and a sticker, and write it yourself.
I saw that shirt once! It was flamablamablous.
My friend’s mom once found a shirt that said, in white lettering against black fabric, “HUMPTY-DUMPTY WAS PUSHED.“
155- HA!! I think that’s from The Princess Bride.
156- HA!! That’s from the Nursery Crimes Detection series by Jasper Fforde.
155- I LOVE THE PRINCESS BRIDE! My friend occasionally walks around school “fencing” with a pencil and saying that.
156- I love it! He must have been. Why else would he fall off? Wait, that’s right. HE WAS ROUND!
Hey, Kokopelli52, we agree on something!
*runs off on sugar-high*
Our house has wooden floors (and walls and ceilings, depending on the room) and in the living room it doesn’t have much varnish at all, so I was bending down to pick something up and got a half-inch splinter under my fingernail. It took me twenty minutes to get it out (though a great deal of that time was spent screwing up the courage to just pull on it, once I had a grip on it with the tweezers.
So now my left index finger is throbbing and uncomfortably warm and I have lost all urge to clean the house. This always happens.
Oh, I really really REALLY want to see the next two Doctor Who episodes (Human Nature and The Family of Blood) but it’s far too late to start another right now, even if it was only a one-part episode. But I’ve been wanting to watch it for ages, and tomorrow I’ve got a Thespian Dessert Banquet and Thursday I’ve got a concert, so I don’t know when I’ll fit it in. -dies of suspense-
Anyway, I just saw 42, which was a rather disappointing episode, having no H2G2 references at all (
), and being unpleasantly similar to The Impossible Planet/Satan’s Pit, only not as good. Oh well.
I’m eating my way through Season 3 at a great rate, which means that soon I shall have to spend more of my hard-earned money on Season 4, which means that I shall die because then I won’t have any more Doctor Who at all!
158- Whoa! A VERY unprecedented circumstance!
I’m spending all my pocket money in America. At convenience stores. On chocolate.
according to unnamed filthy internet gossip sites, there is a supposed doctor who movie and or spin off including david tennant being considered. I myself have seen nothing of doctor who beyond half of an episode on bbc and it’s inclusion on “Extras” (v. funny series with ricky gervais) but I know that every other sentient being is a fan o I thought I would relate that.
158) Have you tried fencing with pretzels (the straight kind)? The person who’s pretzel breaks winds up eating half a pretzel, and the other person gets to eat a whole one. There was a semi-disorganized tournament one day when the latin teacher was late…
I have a french test on Friday, and since I’m going on the obligatory 8th grade field trip to Mauthausen (an old concentration camp which is now a museum) tomorrow and won’t be back ’til 6 p.m., I won’t have much time to study and should be studying now, but I’ll get a B+ even if I don’t so I’m thinking “what’s the point?”. I’m not crazed about going tomorrow, since I’ll be stuck in a stuffy bus for hours with people yakking in my ear and giving me a headache. I think it’s interesting, but the heat and the noise always make my head want to explode and I can’t concentrate on my book… *goes to C & R*
159~ Oh my, blog twins strike again, the other day I smashed my left index fingernail with a piece of extending bar shot, so it’s a lovely shade of purple.
Re: Hair: I’m planning to get a short haircut for the summer. As in, short. Something akin to a longish pixie sort of a thing. I hope. I also really hope it works…..I’ve had some sort of hair framing my face since forever started, and the last time I had short hair I hated it with a bloody passion. (Everyone thought I was a boy. Hopefully that won’t happen now.
) Anyway, I don’t want to spend a month without running water trying to wash my hair, even though it’s just above mid-back length, not near as long as I’ve had it before.
Oh, and I’m back from Jamestown! Happy memories in tow (like Brian and Greg pretending to beat up Scott at lunch
), and sorrow at not going back until the fall. *sigh* I love it there.
Williamsburg is such a lovely town around the historic district…I adore being there, and it’s such a pleasure to get to see all the friends we’ve made there.
I believe I shall finish this comment up and go check on some other threads, since I don’t have much time–violin lesson today and I haven’t practiced since the last one, gah!
There is a new prompt up on the Writing Challenge: Theme with Variations thread and people should go and write things!
Alice, yay Doctor Who! Have you seen the specials? If you haven’t then you can watch them and have more Doctor Who after season 4. Or you could always go watch the old Doctor Who.
here’s a llama there’s a llama and another little llama fuzzy llama funny llama llama llama duck llama llama cheesecake llama palette brick potato llama llama llama mushroom llama llama llama cuck I was once a treehouse I lived in a cake but I never saw the way the orange slayed the rake I was only 3 days dead but I told a tale and now listen little child to the saftey rail have you ever seen a llama kissed a llama on a llama llama’s llama taste of llama llama llama duck half a llama twice a llama not a llama farmer llama llama in a car alarm a llama llama duck is that how it’s told now? Is it quite so old? Is it made of lemon juice? doorknob ankle cold Now my song is getting thin I’ve run out of luck Time for mem to retire now andm becoem a duck!
Re: Splinters: I once got a splinter under my nail when I accidentally scraped the unfinished bunkhouse floor while picking something up. I left it, but then it started to hurt A LOT, so I went to the camp nurse and she had to cut the splinter (tiny thing it was, too) out of my finger with a tiny little knife. NOT FUN AT ALL.
161- It is a very strange thing. Chocolate is a wonderful thing to spend all your money on, though. Save some of it. (the chocolate, that is)
163- No, I have never tried that. What wonderful ideas people give me here.
I take Ivrit (Hebrew, but we have to call it Ivrit) and I am terrible with all languages except English. American English. I have a B average. That is not good for this teacher. She’s (supposedly) super-easy. Hmph.
166- ?????????
166- I hereby fine you eighteen kilos of the finest European chokolit.
166- Um. Are you really Kiwimuncher?
I just got two attacks on my computer in the past five minutes, and all I’ve done is send an email and get on Museblog. Hmm. Weird.
169- Yes. Kiwi is a llama song fan.
I got back from Museum Night at my school, and there were some truly stunning presentations. Some of my friends painted a cardboard box to look like The Yellow Submarine and had a presentation about the Beatles playing next to it. (They had a lot of Apollo coverage in their “Other Events of [Year]” part, which was good.)
Here’s a llama there’s a llama… *snorts*
CQC: I hereby give you a bunch of virtual chocolate, as a sort of treaty-thing since we agree on something.
171- Night at the museum?? Wow. I’m going to see HP6 in July- I already have tickets. It probably won’t be good, but…
I am in Baltimore, after having just gone to WV. I went whitewater rafting(Class 5 and below) there.
172- No, nothing to do with Night at the Museum. Our school has a night every year where we make “artifacts” and bring them in to display in a “museum” hallway. That’s what the space probe models I’ haven’t shut about about lately were for.
I survived the flied trip! It feels so good to be alive!!!!
(yes, I’m feeling slightly insane. 6 hours in a bus (with the girls in front of me high on something and singing very bad renditions of Männer sind Schweine, Pokerface and songs I didn’t recognize. Then visiting Mauthausen… it feels good to be alive after.)
Tomorrow I have a french test- I really, really should study… *is too lazy*
79 (Kiwimuncher): I absolutely agree. Adam should definitely have won. He was way better.
166 (Kiwimuncher): Llamas! Aaaaahh! *Flees*
I’m going to volunteer at my local library this summer. Has anyone else ever done that?
I think oxlin did. A few of my friends do too.
I’ll be volunteering at the Maritime Museum!
So I just took the practice Chemistry regents and now I’m waiting to get home so I can do all my homework.
Oh no.
So remember how I was talking about getting a splinter under my fingernail? Well, it closed up, right. Only it’s infected. UNDER my fingernail! So I’m going to have to get a tetanus shot and have my wound lanced or something and I’m scared (of the lancing, not the shot).
Eueuueahghaga!!
That sounds almost as bad as Grant’s experiences with dentistry.
Eek, poor Alice!
I wouldn’t worry too much about the lancing, though. I had an infection under a nail once, and it wasn’t quite that bad. Either that, or it was so bad I blocked the event from my memory…. *ponders*
Well, it didn’t get lanced at all in the end, and I didn’t get a tetanus shot either (though I think I will in the near future, since I haven’t had one in eleven years or so. My mother freaked out and overreacted and spent like half an hour on the phone with various people, then she arranged a tetanus shot, but when we got in the car, we realized the battery was dead, so that was the end of that. Mother was going to lance the wound through the fingernail (infinitely preferably to reopening the wound in the quick), but I argued that since I had a concert, that would be a problem, so we didn’t lance it and it started draining on its own anyway.
How was that for too much information?
I hope it feels better! Good luck with your concert!
Once Upon A Mattress opened last weekend, it went beautifully. The choreographer, Susan, is known to be harsh, but she said I was amazing and complimented me.
I had SO much homework last night that it wasn’t even funny. But at least today is Friday.
166- Yay! The llama song!!!!
O sweet, sweet freedom! Finals have finished, and I have the entire summer to myself! No, wait. I’ve got summer school that starts in less than two weeks. Dang. Well, I have a bit of time to myself. Let’s see… I know that on two of my finals I received a 100 percent, so that’s good. My math final is the one about which I am the most worried. As long as I got a 67 percent or higher, I keep my 2. My chemistry grade is a low 1, so hopefully I won’t have flubbed that final up too badly. In any case, I’m technically a junior now. Sweet!
That’s great! I’m glad you think finals went well. And I know from college, that even before you have your grades, it’s just a huge relief to be done. Of course, getting good grades on ’em is a huge bonus.
Schooooooooool’s out, for summer (da da da da, da da da da, da da da da, da, da) Schoooooooool’s out, for, ever!
Ehehe. We played that in band my freshman year but school is OVER and it is SUMMER and I am a SENIOR and more importantly NO LONGER A JUNIOR and it is great. OF course I have a week till summer school starts but that is okay as I should be with people I know this time and the teachers are apparently okay.
Also, I get to take a photography class in Chicago on certain days of the week! I won’t say where/specifically when, but I will take the drain down to the city (I even found someone to ride down with) and learn about photography and photoediting, and finally learn how to use photoshop. The program is aimed at high school students so it should be a blast.
WHAT! I am exceedingly jealous. That program sounds cool too. I’ve (surreptitiously) seen some of the pictures you’ve taken and thought they were fabulous…hmm I think the one with the clouds and moon really reminded me of ansel adams and I (being easily confused) was convinced that’s what it was until I realized it was BY YOU at which point I fell out of my chair and mourned the fact that the only pictures I can take are of my dog rolling around etc
UGH I don’t get out until june 11. garble garble dsakhdgsjt
Darn, all you guys have already graduated and I’m still here for three more weeks.
Urgh. Two weeks and two days of pure torture before I am free for the summer vacation.
has anyone read the Trixie Belden mystery stories? They were a big part of my childhood, I guess. I am re-reading the ones I own. It’s hilarious to me when american books or movies reference Canada. It’s sort of like the “you die in Canada, you die in real life” idea. I mean, take Jumanji: the parents die in a car accident in Canada. *chucle* Anyways, back to my point about Trixie Belden. Whenever someone is away (such as Honey’s parents) they are “in Canada”. Tom and Celia go on their honey moon “in Canada” (in the middle of November too, what ever would posess them to?) and the company draining the swamp is “from Canada”. I don’t know why it’s hilarious. I guess it’s because it’s almost like Canada is an exotic country that holds the place the USofA does to us Canadians. I doubt I’m making any sense. I really like those books, even if some of the thinking is a bit out dated, although it’s better than Nancy Drew.
I have my flute recital, I’d better go practice. (nine years now! I can’t believe it. It feels like less than ahlf that)
Oh, I remember those books! I read some of them when I was younger. They were good, I like them. I never noticed all the Canada references, but then, I don’t live there, either.
I’ve got to agree with Fiddler, though. Canada isn’t some mysterious foreign country.
I hope your flute recital goes (went?) well!
185~ What? Canada isn’t some mysterious foreign country where reside all manner of strange things, like dragons and sea monsters?! (Not to mention many gorgeous teenage boys…) What a disappointment. Though I must say I’m not too surprised. I’ve met a handful or Canadian people, and they all seemed quite normal and nice.
I’ll actually be going to Canada this summer, and I’m quite excited. Montreal, in case you’re near there and want to arrange a Kokonvention. *shrugs* A possibility perhaps, though I won’t have my parents with me, that might make a problem. Who knows, it’s a possibility perhaps.
178) Eekers!
That’s simmilar to what happened to my Dad this week! He cut his finger making an apple pie and it got infected so he had to get a tentanus shot too! He just woke up a few days ago to having a purple thumb. *shudder*
OMG! My piano recital is tomorrow!
I just graduated from high school.
Hopefully my next four years will be better than these four have been.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! I can’t honestly say whether you will like it better than highschool, having been home schooled, but…..College has it’s ups and downs, much like anything. The freedom of it is nice, but it also has it’s drawback–that is, you’re away from friends and family (unless you go to college in-state and relatively near home). The food sucks, but they also have all the junk food you can eat, whenever you want (even if it is crappy food).
Honestly, I think it can be either good or bad, depending on how you treat it. I’m sure you’ll like it fine, though.
Congratulations, Lizzie! I think I can safely predict that they will be much better, starting this very minute.
Congrats Lizzie! That is very exciting.
That’s awesome Lizzie! ConGRADlations!
You’ll love college, I know my sister does.
Expedition 20 is at the station, which means we’re at full crew capacity- hurrah!
I had a very nice day today. I got half my homework done, ran three miles, did a lot of reading and went outside a lot.
At a certain time during Manhattenhenge, you can look along 42nd street to see the sun perfectly aligned…
July 12, it looks to be about.
I’ll try to catch that. I’ve read about it in the papers, but I’ve never happened to be on 42nd street at the time.
W00t! Armada is back, post-batizado, and she is now a YELLOW-WHITE CORD! I really didn’t expect to be promoted, and I was so surprised when our teacher called my name, like,
….. And my mom and sister also got promoted, though my sister not as high (though, OK, white-yellow isn’t high, it’s the next step after total beginner–my sister got something between white and white-yellow, the tip of one half of her cord yellow)… Yeh. I’m happy! And afterwards we had a post-batizado party, which was great, and which I just got home from. So I’m tired, but it was worth it. *yawn*
Congratulations!
Thank you very much, POSOC….
Sorry. I said that stupidly. Thanks, ‘SOC. I’m just weird today. Post-big-event letdown, or something.
Shavuot is over! I stayed up until 3 a.m. the first night, but I didn’t now when Hatzot (midnight) was, so I didn’t go outside.
I have a great idea for a thread. Someone posts a topic. People reply with a nested opinion that is two to three paragraphs. People respond to that with a slightly shorter opinion, and the pattern continues.
Sounds like an experiment for Triangular Sentences.
Um…not really.
Yes, actually. While it doesn’t fit the well known triangular sentence structure, it still involves an experimental posing format that uses sentences to make triangles.
I Hear By, By the power invested in me by the Government Revitalization Plan and the Constitution of Museica, I hear-by declare an EMERGENCY ELECTION!
ITEMS ON THE BALLOT:
PMs
GMs
Bill 13.
PLEASE VOTE SOON!
cromwell– I stayed up all night! It’s the first time I’ve done so! I went to one of the synagogues near me because one of my friends was speaking at 4 AM there, so I had to stay up for it, and then it was only a little while until Shacharis. And it wasn’t too hard to stay up because there were lots of things to keep my short attention span occupied with. I read The Science of Torah for a while, and then I studied for my Chumash (Bible) final, and then I learned the laws of Shema with a couple of friends, and then I learned Mishna with some random person who my friend sort of knew from two years ago. Plus I was eating and talking and laughing (anything’s funny at 3 in the morning). And my friend spoke about greeting people B’shem Hashem (in God’s Name) (Ha, that’s funny, in the name of the Name), and then davening (praying) was at 5 AM, and we were out of there by 7. And then I went home and slept from 7:40 to 12:30. It was fun. (And then I got more sleep after lunch, from 3-ish to 7 PM)
And Chatzot was 1-ish. I think.
It depends where you are for Chatzot. I know in Indiana it’s about 2:45. I had to stay at someone’s house, and all they had was a Tikkun and Rambam’s 613 Mitzvot.
Ah, well, I was in a shul, so I had just about everything handy, and I wasn’t going anywhere, I got there at midnight as it was.
Funny quote (from 3:15 AM): “Stop talking! It’s Bitul Torah!” “It doesn’t matter! We aren’t guys!” It wouldn’t have been so funny if it hadn’t been said over and over. You’d think people could figure these things out on their own, but…
The only thing funny that happened to me was finding out that Maimonides included settling in Egypt as a negative commandment (R. Moshe ben Maimon lived in Egypt for a large part of his life.
I must say, I haven’t felt freedom like this in an incredibly long time.
I turned in my history project on Monday this week. This weekend, I have almost nothing to do! It’s amazing! I eat lunch and then think: “okay, what do I have to do?” and the answer is “sit around and read!” I’m actually bored! And it feels like summer because it was 90 degrees today! Next weekend won’t be quite as relaxing, but almost as much. Yippe kay yay!
I have to write an English essay later, but I’m just relaxing for about an hour first. It is indeed very beautiful, and I wish I didn’t have any homework at all.
I have three mosquito bites and they’re really annoying.
This might sound strange, but I cant reply to a specific comment.
I’ve found something Musers might enjoy–classifying galaxies. I’ve finished reading about how to differentiate the traits between them and it’s really cool. Here’s the site’s description:
“The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer.
More than 200,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. Zoo 2 focuses on the nearest, brightest and most beautiful galaxies, so to begin exploring the Universe, click the ‘How To Take Part’ link above, or read ‘The Story So Far’ to find out what Galaxy Zoo has achieved to date.
Thanks for your help, and happy classifying.
The Galaxy Zoo team.”
Help provide information to science while gazing at galaxies no one else has laid eyes on before!
199- Oh man that is like this afternoon for me and I am so looking forward to it. I love summer. TO bad I have to start summer school in a week x_x
Congratulations on graduating/college Lizzie!
Actually there goes the relaxing afternoon I was finally going to have, mom was just like “We are going to have a talk.” “ABout what?” “Your summer activities, schedule, and college.”
x_x I’m going to go hide out now and maybe she will fall asleep and forget.
Oh I completely neglected to give a link to the galaxy site: If it’s deemed Mostly Harmless you can find it at galaxyzoo. org
That’s cool, the Galaxy Zoo. Reminds me of Foldit.
I use Foldit once in a while, although I’ve never really gotten the hang of it.
Whee. How nice it is to be totally ignored….
Don’t feel bad. I’m used to it. *eats choklit*
Today is a good day. What do y’all think?
204~ *does not ignore* Congratulations, even though I’m not entirely sure what I’m congratulating you about. *congratulatory, non-ignoring pies*
It’s a lovely day, a lovely lovely day, and I’ve been inside for most of it. Tonight I’m going to a youth group meeting to hear some friends play music.
I want to dance. Just go outside and dance around for the fun of it, like the dappled light that’s coming through the leaves outside my window and making my room feel like it’s underwater. I’d like to stand on the deck of a ship, or a high mountain, to feel the wind go past and reach out to try to hold onto it, even though I know I never could.
Maybe I’ll go to the field and make a chain from the clover, roll in the grass, ride my bike up and down the driveway with my bare toes hanging onto the pedals.
But first I have to drag myself back to my math homework, and my reading. I need to somehow get through that book on the Renaissance.
Then I can go read what I want to, Hornblower and Jamestown Narratives, I’m so odd.
I’ll off now, to go explore reducing fractions with multiple variables, such excitement!
206- See comment 194. ‘Sokay, though. Have fun with whatever you decide to do!
How fun. I get home, come log on to check MB and email and any other site I currently follow, when out of the corner of my eye, I notice a dark “spot” on the wall near the ceiling. AKA, a bat. The second one this year (the first having been May 22). It would seem “bat season” has started. To explain: We have bats in our house, living in the walls/attic. I think they’ve been there quite a few years, but in recent years, more and more have managed to get into the house, rather than outside. This means during the summer, we typically get around a bat a night, if not a couple. Which is such lovely great fun. NOT. As they tend to roost up near the ceiling (like this one), where they are completely unreachable. Which makes them VERY hard to catch, and only my cat seems to have no difficulty managing to catch them. Which brings up the other issue: I don’t want Gandalf getting hurt (or hurting the bats), which was why last summer, of all the bat summers, was especially bad: It was the first summer we had him, during which he demonstrated his bat-catching proficiency.
Anyway, my dad/sis are home from car shopping, I think, so I better go…..
I WENT TO SEE JOEL MCHALE!
LIKE, LIVE!
LIKE, WE WAS ACTUALLY IN FRONT OF ME! (Well, more like on a stage 50 ft in front of me, but you get the idea.)
My friend bought tickets for me and her and a bunch of other friends to see him do stand up comedy for her birthday party.
It. Was. Awesome.
How can one person possibly be that funny?
God, he is amazing.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Joel is a comedian who has a talk show, The Soup, on E!.
Oh, I wish I could see him, but I doubt he’ll be coming to my city soon. In my opinion, he, Chris Ferguson, and Stephen Colbert are probably the three funniest people on television.
It’s been more than ten minutes, and my gravatar isn’t there…
It’s there. Clear the cache.
How?
Oh, I see how. But I can’t. Too bad.
It’s there for me. Try your refresh button.
cromwell–I can see your gravatar on my computer. Your new one, that is–And I’ve been able to see it for, well, a while. Ten or fifteen minutes, maybe?
Oh, drat. The bat just took flight. I’d best go try and catch it in the (holey) butterfly net, before my cat gets to it first……
Success! The bat made the mistake of landing and hanging off the ceiling where I could quite easily manage leaning over the “loft” railing on our upper floor (the upper floor is only like a half floor) and scooping him up in the net. It is now outside, and I have a disappointed cat who wanted me to let him catch it…..
That reminds me of when I used to rescue mice from one of my cats. She inadvertently made it easier for me, because she’d carry them into the bathtub and chase them there.
GAPAs, this is kind of random, but I just thought of it and I’d like to know: What was April supposed to be the International Month of? Because I don’t think you ever got around to posting a real random thread, and I like knowing all the random things we’re supposed to celebrate….
I hope this works.
I went exploring in the woods! It was very fun, blundering through chest-high plants and climbing up slopes and over logs and there was one huge fallen tree that was quite easy to walk on. And it was sort of spontaneous, so I was wearing cute little shoes that slip on and off, and a skirt (over pants, but still inconvenient, since all the excess fabric got caught on stuff). I think I’m going to try again sometime, but I’ll start earlier in the day and dress more appropriately.
I still haven’t finished my Spanish homework–I need to get to a color printer directly.
My sis got a new car today! Her first car of her own, actually. It’s a Versa (if that means anything to anyone). We just drove it around the “block”, and she let me drive it around once, too. It drives nicely, for a midget car (my previous experience: I learned to drive on a minivan, have also driven a fullsize pick up). The accelerator is a touch to sensitive, in my opinion…….I suppose one would adjust to that.
For entertainment purposes, I tested out the size of the trunk. That is, I climbed inside, and made her shut me in (y’know, to test out the release from inside). The release lever inside the trunk glows in the dark…..Actually, the trunk is incredibly roomy, I could curl up on my side and sleep in there. Seriously. Yes, I’m weird. That’s why I’m a Muser.
Hey, I guess your sister got a new house as well as a car. All she needs is a pillow or two, and she can say goodbye to paying for housing.
My maths teacher is weird. This is what my friend said happened today:
*do maths*
HAHAHAHA!
Mr B: *writes stuff on board* mumblemumblemumblemutter
Mr B: *turns round* If you want to continue doing that you will get a reward at recess (ie detention). *turns back to whiteboard* *stops muttering*
We had an in-class RE assignment today, and one question asked us to write about a person who was, um, socially just. I had no idea who to pick, so I said… Mr B. Another ThunderClan friend practically died laughing when I told her about it. Although I’m not sure giving out detentions when people graffiti desks is what the RE teacher had in mind…
I never knew you could still post on old Random Threads.
Apparently, you can.
I think I remember discovering that, but I don’t remember quite.
That’s interesting. We usually close the random threads, though we’re pretty casual about other kinds of threads.