It was great fun! We met at the Bostion Science Museum at “4:30,” although because of rush-hour we didn’t really get started until more like 5:30. Present were RoseQuartz, Armada, MissSwann, Sequoia, Electros, SudoRandom, and myself. We walked around the museum, saw exhibits, ate, etc. I’ll send some pics later once permission is taken.
MissSwann: Not even joking, the bunnies followed us to the museum in the form of optical illusion exhibits and a magnetic drawing board. I sent my pics.
Sequoia: And Armada found a model of a sequoia tree trunk, and we took pics that I’ll send once I’m home. It was lots of fun! Everyone looked a lot different than I thought they would be.
‘Twas absolutely awesome. Not much I can say other than that. I’ll get permission from my parents and send some pics in.
4- (Re:bunnies) True. They’re everywhere. Gods, I had to endure a two-hour-long car ride with electros and my little sister doing improv skits about blowing up HPBs the whole time…. getting to the museum was such a relief.
(Re: people’s looks) Yeah, I know. Actually Bookworm was kind of how I imagined him, but a lot shorter. Electros thought for the whole kokon that he was the only boy there…. Poor guy.
Me too! And with longer hair. And I had imagined you in that shirt–odd. Oh, and MissSwann looked pretty much like I thought she would.
And re:Electros: Apparently gender confusion extends beyond the Blog. You should have heard the dinner conversation–around the same time as the one about soul-stealing? It was hilarious. “Wait, you’re a guy?” was recurrent.
Fast moderation!
Anyway; I do not believe I was bunnified, Bookworm. Is this your petty revenge for my evasive maneuvers on your soul stealing attempts? Or perhaps I do not remember being bunnified. if so, please inform me what exhibit the event happened so I can prepare a counter-argument to blow the pie out your ears.
No, it was real. It said so on the plaque-thing next to it. (And it gets confusing when people are posting about the exact same thing on two different threads, doesn’t it?) I sent in pics, but everyone needs to get their parents to give permission to post them.
I actually have to wait until my dad can fix the red-eye on my photos to send them in, but my mom did email the GAPAs about letting me have my picture posted.
And yes, I was supposed to get home tomorrow. I woke up with a stomach bug.
The “speen” picture deleted from my phone for some reason, but I do have… *runs to check* the plastic skeleton thingy that was under the screen with the animated stuff… you know, in X-rays, right by “touch at your own risk?” *sniggers* I did warn you, you know. I think. Or maybe I didn’t. And I also have the lunchbox X-ray.
My dad has some pix of us reading Muse by the sculpture– I think there was one that got all of us. There sure were a lot of us. He also has some of the dinner table.
Oh, and I have those videos… the one of everyone at the table, and the one of Electros that I actually managed to get. Before he put the popcorn bag over his face.
Awww!!!! No Speen Street picture?
You took a picture of the annoying plastic skeleton thingy? And no, you did not warn SudoRandom. You told him afterwards. Gods, that was funny….
They could have at least put something up that said, “do not touch if you are with a large group of musebloggers who will likely tease you about it the rest of your life if you do.”…
It would have been nicer to let me live my live ignorant. All I read was “feel for the lumps” and we had just played that game about killing brain tumors and I had had a long day the day before and I had gotten up at 5:30 that morning to do homework and I put two and two together and I thought I was searching for brain tumors and I don’t think the sign ever actually said exactly what they were supposed to be and…
There was an exhibit in the X-ray area that said something about breast cancer. There were odd blue things in it. SudoRandom was not warned. (My fault… sorry, SudoRandom!!! We’re really not laughing at you.)
Here’s what happened. At the human body/ways to see inside exhibit, there was this display about cancer, and these blue rubber things you were supposed to feel to see if they had lumps in them. So SudoRandom did, and RoseQuartz neglected to tell him until afterwards that it was a display about breast cancer. ‘Twas hilarious.
Actually, I never got a picture of that one. I don’t know how I missed it. I think I only took three pictures on my phone, and then the two videos at dinner. My dad got a bunch of all of us, though.
Uh, Sequoia? I am extremely confused as to what your email address is. [Snip! Not a huge deal, but we don’t want to encourage further discussions about email.] and then the Failed Mail Delivery thingy yelled at me.
*is confused*
*hopes this doesn’t get snipped*
[Can she email you? Then you’d have the correct address. –Admin.]
I got the pictures on my email once you resent! I’ll connect my camera as soon as I find a power cord, and then I can send the pictures. (It’s hard to believe how messy my house is…)
12.11- Hmm, I’m not really sure. I pop on and off gmail sometimes, or maybe it’s just being a brat. And yes, the pictures were lovely.
13- My mom sent another one just in case.
SudoRandom, Sequoia, Rosequartz, Armada, Electros, Bookworm and myself. There was this really cute little girl who was like 2 years old playing with the magnet board… haha random.
so how do you arrange a kokon? do you just figure out what people live in the same general area and a time that they can all get together or something? *is a bit cunfuzzled*
You hop on over to the kokonventions thread, then see if anyone is planning one near you. If they are, you inform them that you’d like to go, then have one of your parental units email the GAPAs at gapa @ musefanpage . com (without the spaces, obviously). If no-one is doing one near you, then ask if anyone lives in [insert your state here] or anywhere else you’ll be sometime when you might be able to have a kokon. Then cross your fingers and wait.
Oh, and I forgot to tell you this, but when you email the GAPAs they hook you up with the parents of the other Kokonventioneers.
Is anyone going to be in [Snip! We’ve said it before: MuseBlog is not in the business of helping people make contact elsewhere, either by e-mail, on the Internet, or offline. Got that? Not. So please stop making us snip spatiotemporal data. –Admin.]
Enceladus, do you live in/near Boston? If so, you can come to the next Boston Kokon! (I’m sure there will be another one next summer, since my family goes to Boston for a weekend every summer.)
Of course, I don’t know where you’re going to “be in,” but probably a general place would be good enough (*coughBostoncough*).
He was dressed as Slythix. You’ll probably have gathered by now that he’s just as weird in real life as he is on the blog. Maybe weirder.
And I reminded him to ask his mom re:pics today, but he told me that he was “too busy” (too busy to say two sentences to his mom?) and that I could email her. Oh, thanks, electros.
How many people were at the Boston Kokon and who were they? I keep finding out that more and more people went! I don’t think I even know Electros, sad to say….huh. *racks brain* Is he new-ish?
To be perfectly honest, a lot of the newer musers I don’t feel like I know that well, and some of the ones I did have left and only post sporadically.
He´s still electros, even though he sometimes posts under Slythix (his BA:TNG RPG character). He’s been here almost as long as I have, only posting less and taking long breaks. I believe Armada introduced him to the blog, so he neglected to post on the ‘phytes thread, went straight to BA:TNG and stayed there.
Re: electros–He was introduced to the blog by me last November and has never, so far as I know, posted anywhere other than BA:TNG or the Mary Sue RPG–he claims all the other threads are too “boring”. He did take something like a five-month break, from February to just before the kokon, and hadn’t been posting all that much even before that. He posts as ‘electro’ on the Mary Sue thread, for reasons unknown.
And GAPAs, his mom did email you permission yesterday. Can you please post the pics?
Oh, BTW, does anyone here remember Widget45 and wizzy the wise guy? I’m thinking of bugging them back onto the blog, though I’m not sure if I’ll go through with it….
Yeah, I know. It’s just that I remember you from then as LadyG, not RoseQuartz, so I remember LadyG being there, but not RoseQuartz. I have trouble with name changes.
39~ But the main difference is that we’re all waiting here in anticipation instead of going on *in hushed and frightened voice* other sites in the great beyond (not the woven one, though) and stalking each other that way.
Just kidding, just kidding. I won’t stalk the sweet little musers, and no, I’m not a creepy adult. There are enough people with ‘blog cred that can attest to that.
Yeah, we do. It’s really not likely that anyone who actually participates in the blog is a stalker. I mean, do any of us sound like stalkers? And the GAPAs have a really good privacy policy, so it’s unlikely that a non-participating stalker would choose this blog out of all the others where personal info is actually allowed to stalk people on.
They came sometime in late ’08, maybe early ’09, I don’t remember. They were phytes when I had just gotten over being one (I was LadyGaladriel/LadyG back then).
It was great fun! We met at the Bostion Science Museum at “4:30,” although because of rush-hour we didn’t really get started until more like 5:30. Present were RoseQuartz, Armada, MissSwann, Sequoia, Electros, SudoRandom, and myself. We walked around the museum, saw exhibits, ate, etc. I’ll send some pics later once permission is taken.
Bookworm, did you get any emails from me? I’ve been trying to figure out why the pictures won’t send.
*is rather impatient*
Could you, perhaps, email me? Or wait, you probably don’t have my email… I’m confuzzled.
Bookworm: That’s a relief! We were starting to think the bunnies had got you.
They came dangerously close at one point, but we managed to save SudoRandom from his bunny mode. I’ll send the picture.
That sort of thing happens with appalling regularity.
MissSwann: Not even joking, the bunnies followed us to the museum in the form of optical illusion exhibits and a magnetic drawing board. I sent my pics.
Sequoia: And Armada found a model of a sequoia tree trunk, and we took pics that I’ll send once I’m home. It was lots of fun! Everyone looked a lot different than I thought they would be.
It wasn’t a model.
Yeah, it was an actual slice of a two-thousand-something-year-old sequoia. It was absolutely gigantic, and awesome.
‘Twas absolutely awesome. Not much I can say other than that. I’ll get permission from my parents and send some pics in.
4- (Re:bunnies) True. They’re everywhere.
Gods, I had to endure a two-hour-long car ride with electros and my little sister doing improv skits about blowing up HPBs the whole time…. getting to the museum was such a relief.
Poor guy.
(Re: people’s looks) Yeah, I know. Actually Bookworm was kind of how I imagined him, but a lot shorter. Electros thought for the whole kokon that he was the only boy there….
Me too! And with longer hair. And I had imagined you in that shirt–odd. Oh, and MissSwann looked pretty much like I thought she would.
And re:Electros: Apparently gender confusion extends beyond the Blog. You should have heard the dinner conversation–around the same time as the one about soul-stealing? It was hilarious. “Wait, you’re a guy?” was recurrent.
Oh, really? That’s funny.
Yeh, that’s what I mean. Poor silly electros.
It wasn’t just him. My parents thought he was the only guy at first, too, and I believe Bookworm got a bit confused as well.
Sounds like you had fun! When the bunnies weren’t around, that is… how do you make a bunny, anyway?
Fast moderation!
Anyway; I do not believe I was bunnified, Bookworm. Is this your petty revenge for my evasive maneuvers on your soul stealing attempts? Or perhaps I do not remember being bunnified. if so, please inform me what exhibit the event happened so I can prepare a counter-argument to blow the pie out your ears.
I’m wondering the same thing…. making a bunny out of magnetic bead-things so we could take a picture of it does not mean you were bunnified, correct?
No, It means that I was attempting to capture an HPB soul so that we could study it.
Right.
Re: Sequoia tree model- It looked like a model, but I wasn’t completly sure….I’m going to send in my pictures right now.
No, it was real. It said so on the plaque-thing next to it. (And it gets confusing when people are posting about the exact same thing on two different threads, doesn’t it?) I sent in pics, but everyone needs to get their parents to give permission to post them.
Oh, okay. I guess I’m just not that observant….
I actually have to wait until my dad can fix the red-eye on my photos to send them in, but my mom did email the GAPAs about letting me have my picture posted.
‘Kay, great. I already got permission and sent a couple of mine in.
I just got home, so i’ll get mine sent tomorrow.
And yes, I was supposed to get home tomorrow. I woke up with a stomach bug.
The “speen” picture deleted from my phone for some reason, but I do have… *runs to check* the plastic skeleton thingy that was under the screen with the animated stuff… you know, in X-rays, right by “touch at your own risk?” *sniggers* I did warn you, you know. I think. Or maybe I didn’t.
And I also have the lunchbox X-ray.
My dad has some pix of us reading Muse by the sculpture– I think there was one that got all of us. There sure were a lot of us. He also has some of the dinner table.
Oh, and I have those videos… the one of everyone at the table, and the one of Electros that I actually managed to get. Before he put the popcorn bag over his face.
Awww!!!! No Speen Street picture?
And no, you did not warn SudoRandom. You told him afterwards. 
Gods, that was funny….
You took a picture of the annoying plastic skeleton thingy?
They could have at least put something up that said, “do not touch if you are with a large group of musebloggers who will likely tease you about it the rest of your life if you do.”…
Or “Touch gently at your own risk.” That works too.
I won’t tease you! I’m laughing at the incident, not at you. You do have to admit it was funny. (Well, okay, you don’t have to. But it was.)
*evil laugh* Yes, I did, didn’t I?
Sorry, SudoRandom. I figured you’d read the sign.
And neither a Speen Street hotel picture or a spleen/speen picture from the skeleton model.
It would have been nicer to let me live my live ignorant. All I read was “feel for the lumps” and we had just played that game about killing brain tumors and I had had a long day the day before and I had gotten up at 5:30 that morning to do homework and I put two and two together and I thought I was searching for brain tumors and I don’t think the sign ever actually said exactly what they were supposed to be and…
Wow, you’re really embarrassed about that, aren’t you?
But yeah, they didn’t really say too much. And the things were BLUE.
Poor you, first that and then being bunnified…
By the way, are you un-confused about emails? I believe I’ve got everything cleared up.
When was I bunnified?
I must be confused again. I left before whatever Bookworm said happened, so I’m not sure if you were… oh, never mind.
The rest of us would love to know what this is about.
There was an exhibit in the X-ray area that said something about breast cancer. There were odd blue things in it. SudoRandom was not warned. (My fault… sorry, SudoRandom!!! We’re really not laughing at you.)
Here’s what happened. At the human body/ways to see inside exhibit, there was this display about cancer, and these blue rubber things you were supposed to feel to see if they had lumps in them. So SudoRandom did, and RoseQuartz neglected to tell him until afterwards that it was a display about breast cancer. ‘Twas hilarious.
AHHH, I forgot the 42 sighting!!!! That color chart thingy had a 42 in the bottom left corner!!
And I’m about to add you guys to my email contacts.
I sent that pic too, I think….
Actually, I never got a picture of that one. I don’t know how I missed it. I think I only took three pictures on my phone, and then the two videos at dinner. My dad got a bunch of all of us, though.
Uh, Sequoia? I am extremely confused as to what your email address is. [Snip! Not a huge deal, but we don’t want to encourage further discussions about email.] and then the Failed Mail Delivery thingy yelled at me.
*is confused*
*hopes this doesn’t get snipped*
[Can she email you? Then you’d have the correct address. –Admin.]
OK, yeah. Sequoia, email me please!!!
And Bookworm, did you get the pictures I sent? I think I cc’d everyone, but it gave me the Mail Delivery thingy again for your email.
I shall resend them to Sequoia and Bookworm and hope it works this time.
I got the pictures on my email once you resent! I’ll connect my camera as soon as I find a power cord, and then I can send the pictures. (It’s hard to believe how messy my house is…)
Did you get the forwarded ones from Sequoia and Armada? I think I stopped trying after getting that same message about 5 more times.
Sequoia, Armada, maybe you should try to resize the pictures?
When are the pictures going to be posted??? I am very anxious to see other people’s, and my own for that matter.
5.1- Gender, shmender. As long as they’re nice (which they were :D) So, I looked as you imagined me? Is this good or bad?
I sent mine to your Gmail. Did you get them?
Yup! It’s a good thing, don’t worry.
Wait, MissSwann, are you signed in as invisible? Because your name went from “invited” to “offline.” In about two seconds.
(12) We’re still waiting for some parental permissions.
(12.1) So far we have pictures from MissSwann, Armada, and RoseQuartz.
Sequoia, Bookworm, could you possibly email me? My mail program is being obnoxious again.
12.11- Hmm, I’m not really sure. I pop on and off gmail sometimes, or maybe it’s just being a brat. And yes, the pictures were lovely.
13- My mom sent another one just in case.
My mom gave permission.
Who all was there again?
See the first post.
SudoRandom, Sequoia, Rosequartz, Armada, Electros, Bookworm and myself.
There was this really cute little girl who was like 2 years old playing with the magnet board… haha random.
RoseQuartz-I just emailed you pictures that I sent, so you can get my email off of that.
GAPAs-Some of my pictures have red-eye and I can’t get it off. If I send them to you, do you think you can fix it?
Shouldn’t be a problem.
Okay, I’ll send them now! Thanks.
19- Shoot ’em on over, I’ll shop them.
Not really. I just figured that would attract his attention so he’ll come over here and tell me WHEN I was bunnified!
Oh, dear. Not that again.
And I believe he was referring to the HPB bead-thing, but I’m not sure, because at that point I was sitting in a theater.
Theater?
Yeah. I went to a Gilbert and Sullivan, remember?
You did?
Don’t you remember? I left early. Right after dinner. And I went to “Pirates!” at the Huntington.
Oh yeah. Right.
I saw Pirates!!!
When? Were you there on the 12th??? *would be scared if you were*
No, May 22.
*is still scared* THAT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
so how do you arrange a kokon? do you just figure out what people live in the same general area and a time that they can all get together or something? *is a bit cunfuzzled*
You hop on over to the kokonventions thread, then see if anyone is planning one near you. If they are, you inform them that you’d like to go, then have one of your parental units email the GAPAs at gapa @ musefanpage . com (without the spaces, obviously). If no-one is doing one near you, then ask if anyone lives in [insert your state here] or anywhere else you’ll be sometime when you might be able to have a kokon. Then cross your fingers and wait.
Oh, and I forgot to tell you this, but when you email the GAPAs they hook you up with the parents of the other Kokonventioneers.
Slight correction: we hook your parents up with the parents of other Kokonventioneers.
SFTDP, but;
Are you going to post the pictures soon, or are you still waiting for permission?
SudoRandom, you DO notice that you have my avatar still, right?
Yeah, yeah. That’s what I meant.
Is anyone going to be in [Snip! We’ve said it before: MuseBlog is not in the business of helping people make contact elsewhere, either by e-mail, on the Internet, or offline. Got that? Not. So please stop making us snip spatiotemporal data. –Admin.]
Enceladus, do you live in/near Boston? If so, you can come to the next Boston Kokon! (I’m sure there will be another one next summer, since my family goes to Boston for a weekend every summer.)
Of course, I don’t know where you’re going to “be in,” but probably a general place would be good enough (*coughBostoncough*).
Also if you’re in the [Snip! Population area with fewer than a million residents. –Admin.]
When are the pictures going to be posted? I sent mine in and my mom emailed the GAPAs and said I could have my picture posted.
Me too, to both of them.
Whenwhenwhen???
I’m really curious to see the pictures…post them up soon please GAPAS!!!!!!!
((I wanna’ see too!))
Spatiotemporal? What does THAT mean?
Space and time.
We have most of the permissions but not quite all.
We’re still waiting to hear from electros’s parents.
Maybe you can (muhaha) erase him from the pic.
If we knew which one he is….
ELECTROS!! (ARMADA!) *coughArmadacanyouremindhim?cough*
I could always email and give his description. There are only three boys in the pictures, and I dno’t think electros is in many of them.
Yeah, I’ll remind him. Next Monday, I guess. I’d email him, but he hasn’t been answering my emails lately….
Electros is the one with the glasses in all black.
Aww, rosequartz, is your avatar your kitten? Awwwwww!
Yup! It’s a picture taken at about the same time as the one I sent you. The orange one is the gigantic one, remember?
He was dressed as Slythix.
You’ll probably have gathered by now that he’s just as weird in real life as he is on the blog. Maybe weirder.
And I reminded him to ask his mom re:pics today, but he told me that he was “too busy” (too busy to say two sentences to his mom?) and that I could email her. Oh, thanks, electros.
Aww yea, I love kittens. :3
Couldn’t the GAPAs just post the pictures that don’t have electros, now that they know which one he is?
But all the good ones have him…. but he is on the end, they could just crop him out for the time being… 0.o
ELECTROS! Please? Don’t make me say it, electros…
How many people were at the Boston Kokon and who were they? I keep finding out that more and more people went! I don’t think I even know Electros, sad to say….huh. *racks brain* Is he new-ish?
To be perfectly honest, a lot of the newer musers I don’t feel like I know that well, and some of the ones I did have left and only post sporadically.
There were seven. They’re listed in comment 18.
Electros has been around for a while, but as far as I can tell he posts almost only on BA:TNG and the Superheros and Mary Sues RPG.
I haven’t seen him either. I think he changed his name, although to be honest, I haven’t seen any posts by electros ever, either.
He´s still electros, even though he sometimes posts under Slythix (his BA:TNG RPG character). He’s been here almost as long as I have, only posting less and taking long breaks. I believe Armada introduced him to the blog, so he neglected to post on the ‘phytes thread, went straight to BA:TNG and stayed there.
Re: electros–He was introduced to the blog by me last November and has never, so far as I know, posted anywhere other than BA:TNG or the Mary Sue RPG–he claims all the other threads are too “boring”. He did take something like a five-month break, from February to just before the kokon, and hadn’t been posting all that much even before that. He posts as ‘electro’ on the Mary Sue thread, for reasons unknown.
And GAPAs, his mom did email you permission yesterday. Can you please post the pics?
Oh, BTW, does anyone here remember Widget45 and wizzy the wise guy? I’m thinking of bugging them back onto the blog, though I’m not sure if I’ll go through with it….
Oh, I remember them!
You were there then? Yeah, I guess you were. Wow.
I only came a few weeks after you, you know.
Yeah, I know. It’s just that I remember you from then as LadyG, not RoseQuartz, so I remember LadyG being there, but not RoseQuartz. I have trouble with name changes.
We received the permission today. We’ll get photos up some time tomorrow.
Yaaaaaaaay!
36.2~ Awesome!
YESSSS FINALLY!
We really sound like a bunch of stalkers. It’s just a couple pictures.
I don’t see any pictures… *stalks*
Sorry, RoseQuartz. Yesterday I had to rest my eyes from graphical interactions. I should have them up today, probably after work this evening.
39~ But the main difference is that we’re all waiting here in anticipation instead of going on *in hushed and frightened voice* other sites in the great beyond (not the woven one, though) and stalking each other that way.
Just kidding, just kidding. I won’t stalk the sweet little musers, and no, I’m not a creepy adult. There are enough people with ‘blog cred that can attest to that.
You guys joke about this a lot.
Yup, pretty much.
But it’s funny!I can’t explain it either.41- I was joking, I hope no-one was offended.
Yeah, we do. It’s really not likely that anyone who actually participates in the blog is a stalker. I mean, do any of us sound like stalkers?
And the GAPAs have a really good privacy policy, so it’s unlikely that a non-participating stalker would choose this blog out of all the others where personal info is actually allowed to stalk people on.
36-I was here in 2006, but I don’t remember people by that name.
-stalks the photos- Photos…photos…photos…
-throws bunny at Kiga- Of COURSE we do! We’re so enthusiastic and excited…and stalker-like…
They came sometime in late ’08, maybe early ’09, I don’t remember. They were phytes when I had just gotten over being one (I was LadyGaladriel/LadyG back then).
They were on in October ’08, but only for a couple days, so you might have missed them. They’re my friends in non-internet life.
Photos…photos…photos…soon?
Pictures? It’s been 2 weeks since the kokon itself?
They’re on their own thread.