This madness most exquisitely lexical leads us dizzied and dazzled into Part 2 of the June Random Thread, where over and under the warp of being we weave the weft of words.
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The woven beyond!!! I love the colors-this should definitely be a home for the fleet of giant space squid. (First post?)
Giant space squid?????
Yes, giant space squid. It all started here:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=2508#comment-299008 .
Although I admitted I wanted to be a giant squid maybe two months ago on the quotations thread, I think. But being a space squid would be wondrous.
Ah. Interesting.
Woven beyond?
The term originally referred to the borders outside of MuseBlog, as they appear onscreen. Loreena Chatheng coined the phrase in a conversation on the first installment of Logomania Unleashed. POSOC described it more fully.
I think I shall do some exploring of the woven beyond at the bottom of the page!
I think it should be a Speen of Giant Space Squid. After all, there isn’t a speen of anything else, is there?
Goooooooooooooooooooood morning MB!
Whoah! This picture is so cool!
It has people’s names on it! Though they’re the devil to find!
Ooh, that’s… trippy. Sweet.
Wow! Beautiful artwork! Who does all this?
Lady Bunniful.
*bows to the Lady*
You must worship her.
*bows*
((SFTDP)) I just found my name. Really awesome picture. You can really see the 3D text effect along the right side and the bottom.
That is pwnin’ pick!
I found several names but I still can’t find mine… *searches*
It can’t be completely just names. I think I see Pi.
Awesome picture! If you zoom in, you can see MBers’ names all over it. Is my name on there?
WOW!! This is so cool!!! I love the picture-even better than the first one!! Especially the colors which I think are so pretty!
5-I’m not sure who created it…I know the GAPA’s found and posted the picture, but I don’t think they made it but I’m not sure…
I’ve found these names that I recognize and can read…
– Beadle the Bard
– Zinc the Sorceress
– Armada
– AvalonGirl
– Kiga__827
– AJAR
– Sequoia
I wonder if my name is up there???
It is.
Has anyone seen mine?
oooh preeettyyy *makes into desktop*
Does anyone know how I can get to the Muserly Loves store? Because I can’t find it and I want to buy stuff.
There’s a link in the right-hand column at the bottom of this page.
My name’s on it!!!!
There are 88 names on the image. If you posted on MuseBlog from June 1-12 you should be on there. My apologies to anyone I missed. Everyone who has posted on this thread so far is on there.
Really? I’ll have to take a closer look then, because I didn’t see my name before.
Yours is easier to find than it is to read. Look on the far right of the complete picture. It’s one of the verticals.
Thanks, I just found it!!!!
My NAME is on there? That is SO cool!
I found Beedle the Bard, and something that might’ve resembled a Kiga…
You’re definitely there. If you follow the ribbon across, both the “Kiga” and the “827” show up pretty well, towards the right-hand side of the page.
Note to anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet: clicking on the picture will lead to to a large, complete version of the picture where you can find many more names than shown above.
How long, in total, did this picture take you, SQ?
That’s not easy to say, Piggy. I’m guessing somewhere around 36 hours of actual graphics time, spread out over five days, not counting the time it took to compile the list of MBers who’d posted in June. But it could easily have been more, since I have no real sense of time when I’m working. For comparison, usually I can finish a single Random Thread graphic in a day or two, and I really wasn’t expecting this one to turn into quite the marathon it became. The biggest chunks of time were eaten by various weaving experiments, then preparing the individual names. Here’s what I had around 9:00 last night:
All that to get to the fun part. Maybe I’ll post some layers on the Visual Arts thread later.
Well, it looks really amazing. I’ve already BACKGROUND MAKE-ed.
So, random, but my friend’s cat had kittens!!!! They are a week old and adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There’s one and I named her Phantom because there’s a marking on her face that makes her look like the Phantom.
Awwwww. I love kittens so much. Eventually, of course, they become cats…
Mine never seemed to. Maya still acts much like a kitten. And she’s such a widdle sweetie pie… *joins Enceladus in kitten coma*
How cute! Robert,did you get my email?
Me too!
*goes into kitten coma*
Very cool picture. The woven beyond?
I can’t find my name, though.
Yours is the third name down.
Oh, there it is. Thanks!
Where am I? I can’t seem to find my name anywhere.
Okay, look at the full picture. At the bottom, look at about the eight vertical strip from the left (it’s yellow towards the bottom). “RoseQuartz” is in a fairly bold font.
I’m probably on there then but I’m a bit to tired to look just now.
But Relay for Life was awesome! Our group was a last-minute thrown together one Athena started a week ago, so we didn’t have any previous fundraising, but M made 45 bracelets to sell outside our tent and they were gone in the first like… 3.5 hours, so we just went and gave all the money to the people then. A had a HUGE tent-it supposedly fir 8-10 people it in but could probably hold more, plus we had an outside mosquito net structure even though there were only 6 of us. We didn’t keep someone on the track all night like you’re supposed to since there weren’t a lot of us, we just would go around it a few times in pairs or all of us every hour or so and then snack/lay down for a while. I don’t think any of us actually slept at all though, maybe A dozed a bit but not really, we were talking/listening to music a lot.
Hahaha.
At one point around 2 AM it seemed like a good idea to bring my ipod speakers around the track with us and play DOn’t Stop Believing while we walked
Around 4:30 we went out to walk some more and go to the bathroom, and we snatched a good spot by the lake with a picnic table to watch the sun rise. It was very pretty that day, a lot of pink, but we couldn’t stay to see all of it (like the part where the actual sun came up –_–) because we had to go pack up around 5:30. I got home around 6:40 (and I found another hubcap on the way back! That makes 7 in my collection!) and went up to sleep… I tried to at least, but even though I wasn’t tired at all last night partly due to an energy drink but mostly because I’m nocturnal I couldn’t really fall asleep. I maybe got 2 hours worth of dozing while I was in bed but for the most part I just lay there till around noon.
Next year we’re going to make more stuff to sell and fundraise in advance more–I’m going to make rings out of seed beads with “HOPE” spelled out on them and a few other designs.
It was a ton of fun though, I recommend all of you to try to get a group of friends together to go to one near you. It’s fun and goes to a worthwhile cause!
Ohmygod, you do Relay for Life? What state do you live in? I did one this year too, and I raised a pitiful amount of money, but I walked most of the time.
Last year was better because a couple of my friends were there and we all just hung out and badgered people for money and made fun of drag queens without wigs (do you guys do that too? Or is that just us).
Haha. I live in IL, we have a few around, the one I go is between my town and one near me. This is the first year I’ve gone, a friend invited me the day of (well technically 2 weeks before but I completely forgot until she invited me again) so it was really random. We raised money there by selling things and plan to bring more next year. We couldn’t really badger the people there for money since they were fundraising as well… haha.
We didn’t dress in drag, haha, we didn’t have anything and there were only two guys.
Well. We got J to put on a dress at the last play I guess. But only under a lotlotlot of pressure and pleading. And then he was grumpy and took it off but not before I got a picture
We plan to get more people for next year so we can actually, y’know, have someone walking the whole time like you’re supposed to.
We have this Miss Something or Other contest where a bunch of guys get in drag and walk around the high school track (that’s where ours is) and collect money. I give my money to the best queen, of course, not the useless solicitors without wigs.
I just badgered my family into donating, which dosn’t work very well.
I think I’ll get a bunch more people together next year, too.
Hahaha! I wish we did that. Or had gladiator jousting or something.
We have a luminaria walk but that’s all serious. It’d be good to throw something fun in.
Well I guess the “learn to line dance” thing was supposed to be “fun,” but we just tried to drown it out. *shudder*
Gorgeous picture! (Please don’t put any squids in any future ones unless they’re drawn really cartoonishly, as I have something of a phobia.)
So, I was playing online Tetris today, and my brother came in the room and went on and on about how he thinks Tetris sucks and throwing my books on the floor to make a point. I don’t know what’s gotten into him. We’re usually so close.
Is my name on that gorgeous image?
Yes. It’s the horizontal strip second from the bottom.
Here’s who I found:
speller73
“the emoticon”
Lorena Chatheng
Tessera Rose
Eli Romley
Red-Tailed Hawk
JJ-jetplane
Bluefire27
Kokonilly
POSOC
Cinnamoon
fireandhemlock
gimanator
Piggy
Oxlin
Silver Lining
Kittymine
Kopar
Catkopelli
The Man For AEIOU
Axa
Tesseract
SudoRandom
Errata
Beavo
Aliena
Cerulean Pyros
small but fierce
Peace*
crazyquotecollector
Cromwell
Kokopelli52
CTN (it says TNC)
Taiwan Hippo Fan
ThanksForAllTheFish42
Jadestone (near the bottom)
Draconis
Nthnda the laugher
ibcf
Kittymine
Zinc the Sorceress
Sweet Melpomene
MARFwarrior
Duckyfluteplayer
kiwimuncher
Rainbow*Star
ZVX
RoseQuartz (on the vertical 8th strip from the left)
muselover
KaiYves
Purple Panda
Cello-Playing Mathematician
Vendeval
Midnight Fiddler
Enceladus
Groundhog
purplefinch
soccer star
I couldn’t find mine (but I haven’t been able to post recently, so…), and there were several names which I couldn’t figure out.
Plus the names in post 12, SilverLeopard’s list.
You’ve been posting as JW in June, so that’s how your name appears. Impressive list, by the way. Except that’s TNÖ, not CTN.
Where’s mine?
Actually, it’s just Ducky.
Jakob is TNO??? Wow, I’m behind on the times…
Aww man, I’m not on it… ah well. I’ve been studying like crap for school, but now that it’s over, I can be more free to blog.
No, Jakob is JW. I was merely making a correction to his list.
Sorry you didn’t make the list. I included people who posted in June up to the point where I could no longer add names without major surgery — roughly speaking, the day before your first June comment.
Where’s my name? Is it on there?
Rainbow*star, count 6 vertical strips from the left.
Neat picture! I found my name.
CHeese! Well, today is FANtastic!
Zowie… 36 hours! I’d go nuts. And 25? If I were you my eyes would be going nuts. Beautiful job, Lady Bunniful. Whoever you are.
17.1 – I found it! I actually found it! *jumps up and down* My psuedonym is in the tapestry of posting MuseBloggers from June 1 to the 12!
Wow! The picture is AMAZING. Lady B., you are awesome!
Where is my name? I can find it. Looking at the picture too long makes me dizzy…..
Thanks, Sequoia. Counting horizontal ribbons from the bottom, yours is on the 5th one up. In blue, right above Jadestone.
WOW! That picture is so incredible! AND, to top it off, I even found my name!
Graduation season is here in Minnesota, and every single graduate seems to have a party in the first two weeks of June. It’s fun for me, even though I know absolutely no one at the parties. I get a free-ish lunch (at the cost of spending an hour or two at the person’s house), and there’s always good dessert, so I come anyways.
My day was great………………untill K, J, and O, along w/my li’l sis, messed it up, that is. So my sis, M, had a a gig this morning at a church with C, who is a boy, and O, who is a girl and one year younger than me,. who are both also students of M’s violin teacher, Mr. TC. And so C lives like an hour away from the area, and Mr TC was having a studio recital for all of his students like two hours from then in the same area, so C’s parents and mine decided to go to this Mexican place together. So we go to lunch, and it’s great fun, with the parents on one table and us kids at another. (C is a shy person and hardly ever talks, but for some reason, he comes out of his shell for me……….wonder why?) C and I have a pun tournament, and we both end up gasping with laughter, we talk about books, etc. Then we leave for yet another church, where the recital was taking place. C and M go get out their violins, and I help J and K’s moms to set up the reception tables. After the recital, everyone grabs some food off the table, and I end up hanging out with J, K, and O, who are all girls. J is a month older than me, K I’m not sure about her age but she’s about the same age as J and I, and O, as I said before, is a year younger. (And M is two years younger, btw.) So we’re just chillin’ out, and then K whispers something to J, and I hear my name, so I’m like, “What’re you two whispering about?” and then–
K- ok, we’ll tell you, but please don’t be mad!
Me-uh, ok?
J-*whispering* K thinks C has a crush on you!
Me-WHAT!?
K-because he keeps staring at you, look, he’s doing it again!
Me-*is looking* No, he’s talking to A’s granny!
J-well, he was!
O-ooh, do you like C?
Me-no, I don’t have any crushes!
M-didn’t you like __?
Me-no.
O-ooh, look, she’s blushing! (referring to me)
Me-yeah, right. I told you, I don’t have any crushes! Wanna play tag?
*runs off*
Me- I’m it!
*tags C*
Me-hey, C, you’re it now!
C-ok!
*C tags K*
*K chases C and tags C*
*C tags me*
O-*giggles and whispers* Ooh, he tagged you!
Me-*groans* Well, this is TAG, and he’s IT, and I’m the slowest one……….!
Whadda I do? What if he actually DOES like me!? *screams* *dies*
Run off to the Romance and Relationships thread. Get advice. Especially from Piggy, who’s (a) Nice, and (b) Smart.
Yeah, Piggy will definitely be able to share some words of wisdom with you…now that you’re in the form of a ghost and have died, of course.
Oh, erm, thanks for the compliments, guys, whether I deserve them or not. And my being nice is only true in certain situations, the R&R thread being one of them. Other times I can be one of the harshest and least forgiving people on MB.
That is SO amazing! Where is my name?
On topic: I can’t find mine…
Off topic: Living where I live, a LOT of airplanes go overhead, and sometimes, one will be flying high up and hard to spot and you’ll just hear the jet engine, but echoed and Doppler-shifted so that you can’t really tell if it’s behind you or in front of you or to your right or left. And all you know is that a jet is flying overhead. It’s a cool feeling.
On topic: Nothing.
Off topic: So, I like to change my name around a lot, apparently. I just checked my history for that little name box thing, and this is what I got:
MissSwann
MissCullen (Temporary surname until Nov. 21)
MissCullen (Temporary surname until Nov. 21) (BTW I’m MissSwann)
MissCullen (Temporary surname until Nov. 21) (Or MissSwann)
MissSwann (of the 5 Swannpoints!!!)
MissSwann (Warrior name being Cricketsong)
MissSwann and Syllabub, Syllabub being at MissSwann’s House
MissSwann of the ☮ful Cygnus Isles
MissSwann of the Cygnus Isles
MissSwann of the Cygnus Isles (Probama)
MissSwann’s friend, MaxRide1212
MissSwann’s New Alter Ego
And many more, but the history checker thing just failed me.
Hello, MissSwann. I don’t think I’ve seen you around in a while. Or have I? If you have been around lately, I apologize; my insanity is coming quicker and quicker lately.
My insanity is also coming quickly recently.
You were also;
MissSwann (who loves you)
MissSwann (Who just got back from D.C.)
And such classics.
(25.3) Enceladus, you’re on a vertical, 9th from the right — on the same ribbon as Alice, who might be easier to see.
(35) SudoRandom, you’re on the 7th horizontal strand from the top.
(36) KaiYves, yours is toward the center, a blue ribbon on the vertical, 9 rows from the left.
Okay, I think I see it.
Yay!
Wow, it’s…. beautiful…. *gazes*
Could someone please tell me where my name is:
On topic: Did you use GIMP to make that, Ms. Lasley?
Off topic: There’s a cat sitting on my head and draping itself over my shoulder. It appears to be falling asleep in that position. Which is bad, because I need to get up soon to make dinner.
You’re just above POSOC, on the 9th horizontal, counting from the bottom.
I used mostly Photoshop with an assist from Painter.
You must have either a small cat or a large head. Your name: on the left hand side, look for the eighth horizontal strip from the bottom. The strip is blue. Your name is on the bottom of the strip.
I used to have a cat who would climb up and sit on my head while we were in the waiting room at the vet’s office.
My cat’s too large to fit on a normal human head. Laps are a different story, especially if you’re wearing black. He won’t allow black clothing in the house unless it’s covered in his fur.
Mine too. The pants I wore to the Kokon on Friday looked like they could walk off of me and start meowing, and I was barely home for two hours that day.
My father once drove from San Francisco to San Diego, California, with a cat on his head. It was the only place in the car where the cat wanted to be.
39- wish I had a cat………
right. I really, really, need help with the situation summarized in post 34 here!
I wasn’t clear whether or not you liked C, so I’ll give you two scenarios: If you like him, get to know him better, see where it goes from there. If you don’t like him, try to continue to be friends. K, J, O, and M seem to be blowing the situation up a bit though, speaking as someone who wasn’t present at the time of your dilemma. He might like you and doesn’t want to ruin a friendship by letting romantic feelings get in the way, so he’ll try to stay friends.
How was that for completely garbled advice coming from someone who has no clue how to run her own life?
P.S. How old are you?
twelve. and he’s the same. I’m not sure how I feel about him…………but I think about him at really odd times………? so yeah.
On a different note, I’m not sure how I feel about J telling M after I specifically told her not to (M’s my younger sister, and I’m suspecting I won’t hear the end of this for a while…).
Thanks, Goldendoodle!
ps. Can I call you Goldie?
Absolutely.
thanks!
34-It seems to me like both of you have mixed feelings for each other. It’s obvious that you’re already friends, and he probably is a little confused about going any further in your relationship. I’m not sure if this is the same case for you or not, but it seemed like it. Anyway, as long as he hasn’t openly admitted a crush on you right to your face, don’t worry about it! Just try to keep things normal between you-after all, even if you don’t want to go any further in your relationship, you probably don’t want to be enemies, either. If you just act cool and don’t make it a big deal, no one else will either! But if he does admit to you his crush, I would decide how you feel about him if you:
Decide that you really like him and want to go further in your relationship-say yes!
You really don’t have a crush on him-You can politely refuse and still explain that you want to be friends! If you stay calm and explain to him your feelings clearly, he will understand. You can count on him being a little disappointed, but don’t feel guilty! You didn’t do anything wrong by not loving him. Just keep his feelings in mind.
Hope my advice helps!! Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
*bows Japanese style* Thank you, soo much, guys!
39.1- oh, I see it now. Thanks.
39.2- I have both. The cat slipped off my shoulder and onto the laptop, woke up, stretched, and is now asleep between myself and the arm of he chair.
39.2.1- My cat used to do that. I still have a scar on my face.
40- If he does like you, you’re in luck. He seems like a perfectly nice person. I would recommend first addressing K and J to see if they have any other evidence of his affections. I would say he does have a crush on you, since he comes out of his shell for you alone. So now, you’ll probably be all nervous and twitchy around him and scared to do anything wrong in case he decides he doesn’t like you. It depends on whether you wish to take your relationship further than this. I mean, it may be better either to dump him or to become his fully-fledged girlfriend, either of which will stop at least some of the rumors. However, I would recommend that you at least keep him as a friend.
yeah, he’s an awesome guy once you can get him to talk, and he’s got almost the same sense of humour as me (I quote my mother, “warped sense of humour”), and he is just spiffin’ with violin, I mean, he’s in Suzuki Violin Book Eight at age twelve, right?(random fact-my nickname for him is “Penguin” or “Penguino”) I used to avoid him (as I wasn’t sure what to do with someone who just sat there and listened to me carrying a one-sided conversation with myself….) but then I decided to talk to him anyway, and all of a sudden, when we went on the tour (again a violin thing, M, C, and O, along with some of my other friends where in it, and I was the assistant photographer) this spring, a four-day, six-city deal, the second day he started talking~I remember nearly falling over in surprise because I hadn’t expected him to start talking like that…..but again, I’m not sure as of yet about my feelings for him. Thanks for listening to my rambles if anybody decided to actually read this…………
Hello everyone.
I’m back. I had tons and tons of fun and I’m sorry that it’s over, but at least the salt is out of my hair. The first day I made a paddle, which is nice but not quite done yet, and the second day I tried to learn to roll, but I didn’t succeed and I’m still really, really sore because essentially all I did was brace–a lot–and try to avoid getting my face wet. But my boat is amazing and small and fits me just right and paddles beautifully and probably rolls beautifully too only I don’t roll.
And I stayed up incredibly late every night wandering the park or just sitting around talking and today I’m exhausted.
I’m not even touching the amazingness of it all and how much fun it was and how many theater kids and Doctor Who fans there were.
Oh, and I lost the game.
Wow, that sounds like it was a lot of fun. I wish I could go boating more. Sure, I’m extraordinarily far away from large, open bodies of water, but there are plenty of rivers for kayaking or canoeing.
Yes, I’ll have to go kayaking sometime this summer.
Feh. I won the game. Don’t think you can’t! xkcd declared it!
43- I abandoned the game, but then I found out J played it, so I started playing again simply to see the frustration in his face when I declared I had lost (because why else does one play the game, if not out of sadism?) and he got S and A and N playing, and then it became a very different sort of game because N had a watch and declared with astonishing regularity that he had lost the game, and you had to try to beat him to it.
You know, I never really realized it before but apparently I don’t open my mouth every much when I talk. And I swallow more consonants than I thought I did. Learning to talk is a most interesting experience.
The internet is connecting again, whoop. And I should be doing something else, like reading what I’ supposed to memorize (aaaahhhh!), reading the extra materials or reading the training manual for the Niagara.
Probably should read the Niagara stuff. I really need to get back to reading that, and my half a month seems to be evaporating. which is great, since I can’t wait, but it’s disturbing since I need a knife, and I don’t have one. And I haven’t gotten a response from the place I emailed. I have no idea where else I can go either….aah, I could email Scott to have him ask Don…yeah, maybe I’ll do that.
*goes to do so*
Lady B, as a result of your latest masterpiece I have spent the past 15 minutes jetting (and, OK, undulating now and again) with my fellow space squids through the woven beyond. Thank you so much.
Am I the only one still suffering in school? </wallowing in self pity
I still can’t seem to find my name… The blog has slowed down a ton. It’s sort of weird to go on BA:TNG and realized that there are only 2 posts since I last checked. Makes it easier to read, I suppose… I should be doing my homework (*doesn’t do homework*).
What is BA:TNG?
Bunny Apocalypse: The Next Generation.
Bookgirl_me- I’ve noticed MB slowing down a lot as well. That’s… good? Bad? I’m not entirely sure.
I don’t know. I suppose I’ll go with the Tao approach and say it is what it is and I might as well have a good time.
47.1-BunnyApocalypse:TheNextGeneration
I think it’s good. I’ve been having trouble keeping up with everything.
I’ve wondered the same thing myself.
Summers are always slow, because people go on vacation and stuff.
I am still in school. You’re not alone.
36, off topic – I hear a lot of airplanes overhead too, and I always get afraid we’re being attacked, but I’ll try and look at it your way next time. Thanks!
Be attacked? By whom? Where do you live?
One time, we were on Long Island, and this military chopper did come in really low over our heads and my brother and I were slightly freaked out, but it just turned out to be the 106th (It’s a National Guard rescue group based on Long Island.) doing practice maneuvers.
I think airplanes are cool. When anyone in my family sees and airplane, we go “Look, it’s an airplane! Oh, too bad, you missed it M.”
-and I just discovered that I’m going to see J, K, and O this evening as well…………………….AAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!
O prob’ly hasn’t forgotten. Hopefully she won’t tease me today…….
Living where I live, most people completely ignore airplanes when they fly overhead because there are so many, but that doesn’t make them any less cool!
Last night the battery gave out on me when I was posting about the picture….Lady B., you’ve done another marvelous job! A picture inspired by an amusing conversation and turned into a beautiful and interesting piece of artwork. I stand in awe, madam.
No school today!
Well, I lost the game. Dang, it’s no fun when you can’t tell the people who started you playing it.
Planes- Once when we were sailing in the Bahamas, a chopper randomly followed us for a while. I’m the sort of person who says “oh, look, cool!” to almost anything, including planes.
52- What game? *is confused* Somehow, I feel like I’ve missed something.
“The game” is where you don’t think of the game. When you think of it, you must immediately say that you lost the game. It is not possible to win the game. Only to lose.
There are so many helicopters in the Bahamas, especially around Georgetown….yet BASRA is pretty pathetic in most places. It’s kind of strange.
First driver’s ed class tonight! Woo!
Have fun! Hope you get a sane teacher. There’s always a chance.
You’re lucky you’re taking it now. I’m not due to take it until August, when it’s going to be scorching inside our poorly-air-conditioned school. Have fun!
54-Lucky! I wish I could drive, but I’m only in 7th grade:( -4 more years to go!
34) He sounds like a good guy. Is he good looking? Or… erm… since he’s only 12, does he have the potential to be good looking? (yah yah, I know, I’m totally being shallow
)
Huh? Sorry, I don’t look at boys that way. I see them as friends, not good-looking of cute or stuff like that.
really? well…OK. It’s possible to look at them in both ways you know.
ok, well so I saw him again this evening at M’s violin group, and I was just randomly thinking about what you said here. I really don’t know. He’s so serious all the time, but then when he smiles, it’s like he lights up from inside. Aargh! Stop rambling! *is talking to self* right, sorry.
I agree. Just watching a few of the girls in my grade for more than a minute proves that.
55-All my friends who turned 15 last year got their license last year. It is so annoying! still, only 3 more days
SNOW! It is SNOWING! I have a SNOW DAY! my puppy (i have a new 3 month old puppy) loves SNOW! My dog is not so keen. but. SNOW!
everything is sooo pretty!
soooo pretty!
Hey, when websites ask for “class year” is that graduation?
SNOW
Snow? Really! It’s REaLLY hot here. It’s “don’t go outside or you’re doomed to get skin cancer” hot.
If I’m not mistaken, Elwing lives in the other hemisphere though, so it makes sense.
Yeah, class year is generally graduation year.
SNOW!? You are so lucky to be getting snow!
I had to ask: What type of dog is your puppy? What’s en name? Boy? Girl? (Sorry, I like dogs a LOT)
Squeegee your horse if you love kayaking!
Sorry.
56.1- I agree, although actually I have noticed some correlation between the ugliness and personal hygiene of a boy and their level of intellect. Only some, mind you.
54~ Have fun! I took it in April and it was….most interesting. On many levels. Anyway, I hope you have a cool teacher and sane classmates. And don’t be afraid of the tests, if they’re the same as we have in MD. They’re painfully easy. Just use common sense and you can ace them even if you sleep through most of the class. Though I wouldn’t advocate sleeping through it, I’m just saying…………
Hey, GAPAs, would you mind sharing some of your infinite blog-wisdom with me? My family is taking a trip around the state this summer and we want to create a blog to track our adventures. We’d want it to have four admins (my mom, my dad, my brother and I), each with a different account/log-in, and a blog name that was different then any of our usernames. What do you recommend for this? Is WordPress the best to use, or Blogspot, or what? Thanks!
Yeah! Summer kokon!
-high fives-
I’m so excited!
Thanks, Vendaval.
*Not a GAPA*
I’d say either one will work, but I find that WordPress often looks better.
WordPress is the only blog service with which we have any experience. We’ve been happy with our Muse Academy emergency blog at WordPress.com.
I’d use WordPress if I were you. I’ve never used Blogspot, but WP is very easy to set up and use. Plus, if you need assistance, the GAPAs (and other MBers) use WP and could help you.
I did have a brief experience with Blogspot , helping out with another site. But that was a couple of years ago, and it likely has improved by now. I didn’t care much for it then.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. -dies-
I just got back from work. We’re playing Wolverine and it’s summer now so people can see movies on Monday nights. These two things combined to make life incredibly hard for me, as the only one working. I think I got about three minutes rest between 6:30 and 7:20. The movie started at seven. I had two pizzas sitting on the counter for ten minutes before there was a spare moment to take them to their rightful owners.
And I got about 2.50 in tips, which is maybe a third to a quarter of what I get on nights that are only half as busy.
On a better note, I found a periodical from 1887 today. It has engravings and melodramatic short stories and fashion articles and embroidery patterns and music and silly Victorian poems.
My gym teacher is trying to train me up for the volleyball team. I think that she’d have better luck teaching the space squids to play piano.
53.1- But unless I have an opponent, I’m playing against myself. I always win when I play against myself. FIne fine, I lost.
*is jealous of all those who can/are allowed to drive*
Instead, I can drink earlier. Yay me (meant ironically).
You get your first permit at 17, but you can’t really drive until you’re 18 here. It tanks. That’s at least 3 years before I can learn to drive.
I never realized how addictive blogging is. I got up at 6:00 am to fit in some blog-time today (*likes to sleep long*).
In “the game”, you play against everyone else who’s playing “the game”. And it is actually possible to win, but few people know how. That sucks about the driving. It’s fifteen for your learner’s permit here in Nebraska, so I can drive with an adult (but haven’t for over a month now). Man, I’m not going to be able to get fifty hours in by April.
Oceanographer! i lost the game!
heehee, I always wake up at five. I just woke up just now and decided to get in some extra computer time.
Hey, Fireandhemlock. Looks like we’re the only people on. I’ve been up since 5:30.
I’m on!
Moops. My bad. That’s what get for not looking at the recent comments bar. Still, there wasn’t a lot of action until recently.
I’m here. Well, actually I’m leaving for afternoon classes; only PE. We’re going to go play volleyball in a sandy place *dances with delight* It would be more fun if I could play volleyball well, but I don’t completely stink at it. What time is it for you? (1:02 p.m. here, my previous post on the thread was at 6:30 a.m, give or take.)
When do you get out of school?
haha sorry I went back to sleep……………….. I’ll be on early tomorrow, I promise! But I’ve got a two hour ballet class starting at 12 today, and it’s my second this summer. (the first was yesterday) so I wanted to get some extra sleep.
The Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter goes up on Thursday! And I’m super excited because one of the 1.6 million names on board is mine!
Hey GAPAs, will musefanpage.com be up in the foreseeable future?
Last final exam today!
Alice- that’s really cool!
Hey, Vendy! Haven’t seen you in awhile. Do you have anything on the NYC kokon? My parents are, I believe, in touch with Kai’s mom at the moment.
I tried MuseFanPage yesterday and it didn’t work, but when I clicked on the “Official Muse Website” link on the side, it took me to musemagkids, which appeared to be pretty much the same thing.
All right, I have to ask: Is my name on the picture at the top of the blog? If so, where is it?
My driver’s ed class wasn’t bad, although the teacher was insane…and we had to watch a video in which two crash-test dummies rapped about the importance of wearing a seatbelt. *shudders at the memory*
Ha, I knew it. I have not met a single person who claims to have had a sane driver’s ed teacher. Mine deemed my friend his secretary and second-in-command and talked to, at, and about her all the time. And he’d point out answers on tests by making strange noises and pointing at various possible answers. “Homma homma Joe Snuffy CHRIStina BOOM!”
Actually, I suspect I posted about him back in January when I was taking the class.
Ah, yes.
Comments 168, 171, 173, 174 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1615#comment-30000
Comment 286 https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1592
Mine was crazy too! He danced in the car right next to you! It was frightening!
Alter ego alert!
Figures. I have a good oppurtunity to post and I don’t have anything to say.
What company is this SUPERFASTHIGHSPEEDINTERENET? I want to know…. *is curious*
62.2.1.3.1-I got out at 3:20 p.m. . My scedual varies: I have ’till 6:00 p.m on thursdays, but only ’till 2:00 p.m. on most other days.
65- Now I know why my father promised to teach me how to drive before sending me to class *sighs because she will have to wait so long*.
I had something I was really excited to talk about, but I forgot what it was.
Hello! I just got back from a swimming lesson.
America is dead. Its body will be mummified in the tattered remains of the Constitution.
What has happened that could make our cheerful porcine H&H attendant so cynical?
*checks CNN*
I, um. I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Care to elaborate?
70- And why is this?
Obama is taking over ABC News, to (at this time) a small extent. Go to FoxNews dot com and read the article entitled “ABC News Teams Up With Obama White House to Present President’s Health Care Plan”. You can read it via the link on the front page which reads, “Odd Bedfellows: Obama, ABC”. Could I link? www . foxnews . com/politics/2009/06/16/abc-news-teams-obama-white-house-present-presidents-health-care-plan/
Wow…
I have not been paying much attention to politics, so I can’t really make an informed judgment on this issue. I think, however, that the discussion ought to go on the Hot Topics thread.
See, this is why I hate having one TV channel! I can only hear news from one source, ABC, so I don’t know the whole truth.
66.1- School internet with no one online. I was doing errands and was able to find a computer still accessable. Pages loading in one second! Hooray!
One TV network says that a rival TV network is insufficiently critical of the President’s health policy; therefore America is dead? If we survived a civil war, surely we can survive that.
Is my name up there?
Yes.
Where?
This Thursday is Paul McCartney’s birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He will be 68!!!!!!!!!!!!!
67, not 68.
O.o
But
he just turned 64. And sang the song.
…I feel strangely old.
I was thinking that too, but I though, “Wait, it couldn’t’ve been four years since we celebrated his 64th here on MB. I’d better go look it up and make sure I’m correct.” And correct I was.
48. 1- sorry, not giving that out. Even though I’m pretty sure it’s big enough to be allowed.
Re: being attacked? Well, living in a post-9/11 era, you can probably guess.
I sent you some cool pictures GAPAs! An error message came up, so I’m not sure if it worked or not. We couldn’t read it, so tell me if you get a pile of garblegunk, or something. Are Paint files (.bmp) ok?
Um, could you say that again?
Why? It doesn’t really concern you.l
SFTDP
GAPAs, could you P*EASE check to see if you’ve gotten my em@il?
Oh, yes, we did. Sorry, I didn’t realize who they were from. I’ve had a terrible time getting on the Internet today, until I got home this evening, so I didn’t have a chance to look at them until now. *wanders off*
I hope you like them! Also, what do you get if you type in gapa @ musefanpage.com into the email box?
Meh. Can’t find me. I’m being kicked off, also.
I drew a random bracelet on my arm with a sharpie and just about EVERYONE told me I was going to get poisoned and die.
Ha! Sorry, that was funny. See, it reminded me of the time at school in kindergarten when everyone thought that permanent markers were really permanent. So when I accidentally drew a little spot on my hand, my teacher told me that when I was in a nursing home I would look back at the mark and sigh and say “Ahhhh, I still remember the time when I did that in kindergarten.” I was so scared it would never come off that I immediately rushed home and scrubbed it so hard I turned my whole hand red. But it came off. Sorry for rambling, if anyone actually read that.
HAHA!
77~ I’ve drawn all manner of things on myself with all manner of writing implements (pens, markers, sharpies, pencils [that hurt a bit and didn’t show up very well. Don’t try it.], etc.) and nearly every time someone says hat it probably isn’t good for me.
Meh, it’s not a regular occurence, but I’ve never suffered any ill effects. No dying allowed for you, Mr. Beev.
Meanwhile, my learning to speak continues. I think I did alright today, actually, it sounded pretty good in the auditorium. Lovely echo-y loud space, I’d love to sing in there or play the fiddle. Mmm.
Goodnight everyone, I’m off.
78- Why are you learning to speak exactly? I think I missed something.
I used to suck on the lead end of my pencils. Everybody told me I would get sick and die. That was when I was in first and second grade. Now, I’m in sixth, and I’m still not dead…………..
It’s graphite, not lead, so there’s no danger of poisoning.
80- That’s because pencil lead isn’t actually lead… Which not everyone understands at age six, especially since actual lead isn’t very common anymore, so you hear that lead is poisonous and you don’t think of lead paint, you think of pencils.
hee, hee! THing is, even my teacher said that!
I love it when teachers are wrong. It just makes you feel…happy.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooodmorning MB!
This is my official last day before my loverly month long vacation! w00t! So, so long everyone!
Au revoir, kiwimuncher! Bon voyage! We’ll miss you.
72- But Obama is the president! Besides, living in Europe, I can finally say that people stopped saying nasty things about America since he was elected (*is very pro-Obama*). He did restore America’s image in most countries abroad, which isn’t easy. He can hang out with ABC news as long as he wants for all I care. Here almost all the news is biased to some political group or the other.
75- Okay. I’ll just assume that you live in a place where there aren’t a lot of airplanes. Don’t be afraid- it’s pretty unlikely that someone will attack you by plane.
81- There is still lead around though. Until I was five, I wasn’t allowed to drink water from the faucet because the house had lead pipes (fixed now).
82- Have fun!
83 – yeah, once you get to know me better, you’ll see that I’m pretty paranoid.
81 – bookgirl_me’s right – at least, that’s what I heard. When we were looking for houses, we found a really cool house – I liked it because there was a purple window seat – but it had lead or something like that. Lead isn’t AS common anymore, but it’s still around, like bookgirl_me said.
My dad used to poke himself with his pencil a lot when it was still lead and he’s fine anyway. Even with the playing with mercury as well…
But mercury looks really pretty, and fun, it’s too bad it’s poisonous.
Once at school we were using these thermometers, and one of them broke-right on my desk!! (No, it wasn’t me, it just broke on my desk…I always am stuck with the unlucky desk.) You should have seen everyone! They were all panicking like the world was about to end and we were all going to die. And I was just sitting there like “ho hum” while the teachers cleaned it up. It was really funny.
72.2 (Robert)- No, that’s not it at all. ABC News is having a special run from the Blue Room in the White House. Do you really think that anyone in charge, be it governmental or corporate, is going to allow any significant opposing viewpoints in?
Does no one have eyes in this country? Obama has already taken over the automobile industry and the banks. He’s finally moved onto taking over the press. When he’s done, American will have lost the very thing on which it was founded. I cannot imagine how furious the Founding Fathers would be to see such things happening. Yes, America is all but dead. We’re living some horrible combination of WWII-era Italy, the U.S.S.R., and Red China. Why will no one pay attention to what’s going on? You’re letting the most basic principles of freedom be thrown down the drain, and for what? A worse quality of health care. A place where successful people are punished. A place where personal beliefs and religious morals are naught.
No, no, I understand. I’m a fearmonger. I’m just saying these things because I’m a conservative and want conflict. I’m blowing things out of proportion. Well, the history books will show what truly happened. When America turned into Airstrip One.
Look, when we find ourselves living in a totalitarian government, I will totally revolt with you. Down with Big Brother, and all that. But at the moment I think you might be overreacting a little.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t a lot of the bank bailouts take place before he even took office?
And there is no way we’re even close to the USSR and China. The fact that you can say that right now shows that we’re not. The fact that Twitter isn’t blocked, like it is in China, shows that we’re not. The fact that our elections are fair and unmarred by violence shows that we’re not. Come on. I understand your viewpoint, but I really do believe that you are blowing things way out of proportion.
No, no, I understand. I’m a fearmonger. I’m just saying these things because I’m a conservative and want conflict. I’m blowing things out of proportion. Well, the history books will show what truly happened. When America turned into Airstrip One.
Real talk, Piggy, real talk.
Darn, they delayed Endeavour’s launch again. Stupid hydrogen leak.
Well, it’s probably better that they delayed it instead of letting it launch anyway, right?
87.1- I’m not mad about the delay, I’m mad about the leak problem.
I’m going to Holland soon! I get to miss the last two days of school, and half of another one! I’ll still be able to go on MB in Holland though. (Except for 4 days of the trip)
Holland? That’s pretty awesome. Is there a specific reason for choosing Holland, or did it just sound fun?
I have relatives there.
Have fun!
I’m sure I will. We’re going to be staying in a town near the German border for a while. (Coincidentely, a friend of mine moved to Germany a while ago. We keep in touch by e-mail.)
Ahahahaha! Die Hollander! (inside joke that only I, my friend Holly, and M would recognize)
86- Wow, that was an optimistic appraisal of the situation </sarkasm. Come to Austria some day. Then american politics will seem awesome. I fail to see what’s wrong with the president getting allies. A house divided in itself cannot stand, and the republicans sure aren’t being helpful. The healthcare… let’s just say that one of the major contributing factors to making my mother choose to raise me here was the healthcare and education systems.
88-At least they found it before launch.
89-Cool! I’m going to Holland too, but only briefly. The paint museums in some paces are excellent, though it’s pretty rainy. *was there last summer*
When??
In the beginning of July. Unfortunately, I’ll be in a small town with now way to get around.
Have fun anyway! Small towns can be fun.
I leave on Monday!!!!
RoseQuartz- I’m not sure about attending a kokon, due to silly issues with age and gender. I was hoping that the Muse Fan Page run page by the GAPAs would be up because it has some stuff from GABOOMBA and such.
Alice- Midnight Fiddler is speaking English, I believe. It sounds to me like she’s taking a public speaking course.
86- He saved two failing industries and will now give a speech about his plans for reforming another industry. I don’t see the fascism/dictatorial communism. A bit of socialism propping up failed capitalism, yes, but that’s hardly the same thing at all. Just curious- how did you feel about Bush?
Huh? What issues? Age? Gender? Isn’t Kai pretty close to your age?
This is a problem with your parents, right?
I’m not sure how old she is, actually. Maybe that would make it less awkward, if it were to be at all awkward. No, this isn’t about my parents, I’m just feeling insecure, I guess. When I last checked, it looked like I would be at least 5 years older than everybody else, and a different gender. :/
I’m 14, and Kai is 16. At least I think so.
And possibly we could persuade Fishy to come? If you were worried about the gender thing?
Yes, I’m 16. (Well, 16 years plus about 4 months)
What did happen to the Fan Page? That had a lot of stuff on it I liked looking through… and then I just went to it one day and it was gone.
It was so riddled with virus code that we had to take it down to disinfect it. The new blog was a higher priority, and then we got distracted with chess games and such. I’ll make a renewed effort to clean it up and resuscitate it starting this weekend.
Okay, I just wanted to know if it was coming back. Don’t stress out over getting it back up or anything, you have enough to handle, I’m sure.
And hehe you said the same thing at the same time.
THE GAPAS ARE TURNING INTO ONE ENTITY
I am not sure what this means.
Oh, Robert and Rebecca combined into a single being months ago. It’s a shame their messages weren’t more similar–Rebecca would’ve been “jinxed” yet again.
Jinxed! (Or close enough — I wrote my comment before I saw yours in the moderation queue.)
So, wait. I jinxed you right after Robert jinxed you?
I thought I jinxed you. *is confusing herself now* The whole blog is becoming one entity. *spooky voice* One by one they merge into the vast woven beyond….
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” Okay, I’m jinxed. *shuts up*
The Beatles, right? Too little space!!
Jinxed again!
It was brought down by the hackers along with the blog. To quote an earlier comment of Robert’s, “When we had our hack attack a couple of months ago, the Fan Page picked up a much worse dose of rogue code than the blog did. We’re still disinfecting it. It will return to the Web once we’re sure it’s safe.”
Piggy- I think Fox may be blowing this a bit out of proportion. After all, Fox is an EXTREMELY Conservative news network, whereas ABC is pretty bipartisan, but a little left-wing. So it would be understandable for Fox (and Republicans) to flip out about this. But really, is it that big of a deal? It’s a debate. A DEBATE. And since it’s going to be bipartisan, people from BOTH PARTIES will be asking questions. The only reason that Fox is giving for the Liberal-ness (sorry, no better word came to mind) of the debate is “This event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda.” That’s not true. The point is a debate. People in the audience will be asking questions. This isn’t the “Democrat agenda;” it’s the President’s agenda. If McCain were president and had come up with this plan, Democrats would probably say the same thing. That’s just how politics is.
Sorry, should really take this to Hot Topics.
Y’know what? Fine. You all win. I don’t care any more. I’m insane. I should be thrown in jail. I’m brainwashed. I’m a liar.
I’m leaving.
No! Don’t! We’re not saying you’re brainwashed. I just think you should look at it from a different perspective.
Sorry! Sorry! *hugs* We don’t hate you!!!
No one said or thinks any of those things. Everyone’s entitled to their opinions, and part of what’s so great about MuseBlog is that you’ll always find people to discuss them with. Reading over the discussion, it looks as though people were more or less stating their own opinions, and suggesting that saying “America is dead” might be a somewhat of an exaggeration. But it’s your opinion, and if people did think you should be thrown in jail for having an opinion… well, in that case America really would be dead.
I’m assuming (hoping) that by “I’m leaving” you just meant that you were leaving the discussion.
I’m just leaving the discussion, not MB.
Oh, good.
Seriously, guys…one of the reasons why I come on here is because I can see different opinions from my own. So we shouldn’t get all on each other for something as silly or as trivial as having different opinions as each other. We’re different human beings, and we’ve had different experiences and ideas. So let’s just put these things behind us when it happens and move on.
Don’t feel so bad….
In French class today, we had nothing to do, so we wrote stuff all over the board. I wrote:
Enceladus PWNS
(Name of teacher) PWNS
7th Grade PWNS
And, of course
PWT PWNS!!
Sorry about my ignorance, but what does PWNS mean?
Look under “Pwt pwns!” in the HG2MB.
There’s a very brief explanation in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog (HG2MB).
Lady B. and I worked out the conjugation for French at one point: je pwn, tu pwns, il/elle/on pwnt, nous pwnons, vous pwnez, ils/elles pwnent. N’est-ce pas?
Très bien fait.
I got a library card today, and I got Desolation Island at LAST, and also the BBC adaption of Bleak House, which is *seven hours long*.
Then I came home and found that there are a ton of movies, including Captain Horatio Hornblower from the 50s. According to Wikipedia Forester adapted it himself, so it should be pretty good. Even if it isn’t true to the books, it might still be good–look at the BBC version–and since I haven’t read A Ship of the Line or Flying Colours yet, I’ll only be able to point out all the problems in the first third of the movie. I don’t fancy the notion of Hornblower nursing Lady Barbara back to health–kissing was quite bad enough– but there you have it.
My biggest problem with Hollywood movies of that era is that everyone looks alike, something that probably applies equally to Hollywood movies of this era, but I don’t watch anything but Dr. Who and BBC adaptions of classic novels, so I can’t tell. Their being in black and white makes it much worse, of course, and the hair and makeup is all the same, and I’ve never been great at distinguishing faces even in full color, so I just get confused.
Oh! And the guy who plays Bush was in Dr. Who. I feel like half the world has been in Dr. Who at some point. I look up random actors and lo and behold, they’ve been in Dr. Who!
The BBC miniseries (or is it A&E?) of Horatio Hornblower is actually quite good, for what it’s worth. I’d actually like to rewatch them now. Hm…
Oh, maybe it’s A&E. I think it is, actually. And yes, it’s very good. I know they’ve already made eight movies and they’re probably heartily sick of the whole business, but I can’t help hoping they would just go on to do the whole series, now that they’ve got as far as Hotspur–that’s the first four books. They could finish the rest in another eight movies, I’m sure. At least do Atropos, I liked that one. Beat to Quarters is not so great, but I’m sure the screenwriters could make it great.
Agreed. I felt like they’d done more than the first four books, but on second thought, you’re definitely right. How many books are there? I’ve only read the first two, I think. I’m assuming you’ve read them all.
I love it!!!!! *little girl screaming*
I need to go to bed now.
Who wants diplomacy?
I just watched the entire Lion King II on Youtube. Whee.
The soundtrack is not on itunes
There are 2 songs–Not One of Us and He Lives in You–that I really really like.
Hm. Still need to finish Star Trek: The Original Series as well.
I LOVE the music from The Lion King.
79~ I’m learning to use my voice more effectively to communicate. It’s a very interesting workshop, but a bit hard to explain. It’s called Biblical Voices, and it’s all about communication, but a big part is learning to use our natural voice. So Alex (the teacher) is threatening to whack me if I revert to my high pitched “squeaks”. It’s been an interesting week.
Two more days. Then after that when we get home there’s stuff going on pretty much every. single. day. Which is good, since it’s a lot of great things that I’m looking forward to. Like a Kokonvention, a day at the fort with Muffy and Sarah, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a haircut (eep!), good stuff. It’s all good. Hopefully I can get a knife, that’s still a little scary. And I need to call the Niagara people too. But it’s all good.
I’m considering starting my own blog…I might just do that. What should I use? I know the question was put out earlier…but I know of WordPress, blogspot and Blogger….any ideas/horror stories form any of those? (Obviously, MB is a huge success for WordPress, but I’m not as computer savvy as our GAPAs. Extremely less, in fact.)
Random joyous news:
Lots ‘o work!
I got a deviantArt account!! *dances* Yaaaay!!
Now I have to make an avatar, a watermark and upload art.
Er, am I going insane, or does it show a different portion of the picture now?
It does. If you click on the image, it shows what’s more or less a square. I think we were looking at the top half before and the bottom half now.
Insanity wasn’t a bad guess, however.
103.1- Oh, yes, I know that. I was, I believe, one of the first people on this thread to look at the whole thing, partly because I happened to be around when it opened.
104- With myself, it’s usually my first guess.
I’m playing with your minds. A middle section was up yesterday.
Yes, I know that. Remember: you, Robert, and I have become one. Your thoughts are our thoughts. Your mind is our mind. Now let us journey into the Woven Beyond… *”I Am the Walrus” plays in background*
I Am The Walrus?
*cracks up*
NO THEY BE STEALING MY BUKKIT!
I will never hear that song the same way now.
It’s not a LOLrus, Rainbow*Star.
I just looked up the actual song on YouTube. It’s probably the second most random song in existence, the first being the Llama Song.
I am the eggman …
They are the eggman …
I am the walrus,
Goo goo ga joo!
What the cake?
It’s actually “Goo goo g’joob”, but I forgive you. If you think the song is weird, you should see the whole movie, Magical Mystery Tour. Or any of the other Beatles movies, for that matter.
I’ve seen Help! My brother loves the Beatles, and so does my dad, but he usually goes for classical music, too.
I have A Hard Day’s Night, and I’ve seen Across The Universe. That is even stranger…
No, Yellow Submarine is the absolute strangest. A Hard Day’s Night is also very strange, but extremely funny.
Have you seen Across The Universe? It’s not an actual Beatles movie, but it’s a musical with all the songs by the Beatles and the characters have names from the songs (Jude, Lucy, Maxwell, Sadie, Prudence, JoJo, etc).
Oh, of course, I forgot I had told ourselves that.
Yes, we did. We are so forgetful sometimes. And we will not leave ourselves hanging, will we?
Resistance is Museless!
Come… join us… do not be afraid…
We are the GAPA. Lower your firewalls and surrender your sites. We will add your artistic and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your personality will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
You are not of us. You know not our ways. You are the Egg-man.
We are ever expanding our consciousness.
We three have become Legion.
I shall merge with GAPA
One entity I shall become with GAPA
I am spinning
Merging
Combining
Writing in italics
THE TIME HAS COME!
I drive into the light
Falling
Flying
Becoming one with
GAPA
All is at rest now
I am with GAPA
My strength
Is their strenght
My thoughts are there thoughts
There is no me
There is only
And will only be
One
Sinlge
Infinite
GAPA
Forever.
In 2090-
I love the GAPAs
{Main character dies.}
*merges with GAPA*
*writes in italics*
The pink star! *screams* The space squids must avoid these at all costs!
*runs away* Woah, creepy! *screams*
Ack! That is extremely scary… *runs away*
*pokes head back in* Is that… a Borg cube? Sorry, I’m a Trekkie.
The Bunnyborg. They’re worse than the Borg, worse than Reavers, worse than those stupid Romulans in the latest Star Trek movie. Screaming and running away is a perfectly appropriate response.
What the?!?! Are the GAPAs…
*Screams in terror*
Eeek! Borg bunnies!
*gazes in fright*
*bows to bunnyborg*
I_WILL_OBEY
No, Enceladus, if you are part of GAPA, you FIGHT the bunnyborg, not OBEY it.
Yes.
Join
The
GAPA
I
Was
Not
GAPA
Then.
Join
Us
SilverLeopard.
Join
Us
And
We
Shall
Rule
The
World
The
Internet
Become
One
With
The
Swirling
Light
Yes
No, sorry.
Yes.
You
Will
Join
Us.
You
Will
Stay
A
Giant
Space
Creature.
You
Will
Let
Part
Of
You
Become
One
With
GAPA
FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*walks towards the light* It’s so beautiful….
Catkopelli… I don’t know if you mean it to, but that sounds rather sarcastic and mean. It was not really meant to be funny. And even if you thought it was, you really didn’t need to put quite so many exclamation points or capital letters. You could simply have replied to the post and put a single emoticon:
to express that you thought the post was funny. In case you don’t know how to do that, it’s:
: lol : without the spaces.
Hehehe… Borg GAPAs…
So, GAPA entity, when are you going to post my pictures, hmm?
Piggy, the whole country is a mess, even without Obama’s help. Our educational system is failing. We’re all paranoid and easily offended. But, everyone is feeling the bad economy and have more pressing problems to attend to (like feeding a family or keeping a job) than trying to fix our government.
In my opinion, we should just overthrow the government and start over. We have a constitutional right to do so, after all.
Constitutional? No…
If you read contemporary accounts, you will find that our educational system has been failing for nearly two centuries now. One day you too will likely experience the weird sensation of hearing your own era of the presumed disaster referred to as the “good old days when people actually learned something and knew how to behave.”
I go to bed and come back to find that Piggy and the GAPAs have fused into one entity which appears to be a cyborg of some sort, and that there is a Hot Pink Bunnyborg shooting lasers.
What the giant space squids and the woven beyond and now this, June has been a most interesting month–and it’s not yet two-thirds over.
(111) Sunrunner: Assuming the country wound up in the right hands (yours, presumably) after such an overthrow, what would the Bramblewood Administration do to improve it?
The giant space squids should avoid the bunny. I (the Space Snow Leopard) should avoid it too. What’s happening to the GAPAs and Piggy???
And I, the Space Dolphin, will join you.
I’ll join the both of you, and I promise not to eat Kai. *is a giant space squid* I’ll just swim on the other side of the Space Snow Leopard. We shall be the fellowship of giant space creatures avoiding Bunnyborgs.
Yay! Three space creatures are better than one!
I’ll join! I’m a kokoclone, not a space creature, though.
Yay again!
We’ll be a happy little strange fleet.
Here’s my other clones:
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There are three mees, the GAPA fused one and the Kokoclone. And the one sitting at the computer typing this.
Soooo, basically, the GAPA Borg are fighting the Bunnyborg in the woven beyond? And giant space squids should avoid them at all costs?
Yes, pretty much.
(115) You might not want to show your parents that particular sentence if you’re trying to convince them that MuseBlog is mostly harmless.
I’ve told my mom. She thinks it’s hilarious.
I love that bunny! Well not really b/c they are evil!!!!!! *screams* But whatever. RANDOM!!!!!!!!! HeHeHe….
Two more days until I go to my grandparent’s house! Why is this a good thing, you may ask? One reason is that they have high-speed internet! And I’ll be down there for at least a week! And I’ll be able to go to a bookstore! Yay!
I shall explore the woven beyond to the best of my abbilities!
Follow the winding road
Follow, follow, follow, follow
The winding road!
The winding road:
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“The long and winding road…” My brother and I actually sang that song as we watched your message scroll by. Okay, so, what *l*ns will *a*e *l*c* out in the beyond? (doesnotwanttogivesecretawaytothe*unny*org)
Yay! The Long and Winding Road! My mother hates that song. She says that it’s very whiny and blah blah blah. I can’t say I disagree. (I don’t hate it, but it’s irritating-ish.)
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I am bored.
MB is slow lately.
There is no one to talk to, not even on IM.
Pretty standard for me.
I’m here!
I will never go on the Cleverbot thread again.
I assume no one remembers Vetrlidi?
119~ Nice.
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Whoops. Not far enough. SFTDP
GAH school is STILL not over! I HATE my class (except for 4 people) and I totally embarassed myself today. WHY CAN’T IT ALL BE OVER YET????????!!!!!?????????
Got my fingernails painted today!
And got some gross lip gloss. Once I put it on, I couldn’t feel my lips, and I couldn’t pronounce half the ingredients.
Scary.
I am very surprised that no one has actually replied to this comment.
You know my thoughts on the matter…
Off topic: I’m trying to learn how to play the clarinet and piano this summer. The piano is going fine (I’m taking private lessons) but I’m terrible at the clarinet!! (This is probably mostly because I’m teaching myself…) Does anyone else on here play the clarinet? Can they give me some general tips for playing?
Do you know how to do the embouchure (how to put your mouth on the instrument)? That should be the first thing.
*stares* *blinks several times* *falls out of chair*
I have been playing piano since first grade, and started the clarinet two Januaries ago! A tip for clarinet, esp if you are teaching yourself: Essential Elements 2000 (Comprehensive Band Method) is a good starter. I am on Book Four of that series (which means I’ve finished each book in about six-eight months) but you needn’t expect yourself to progress that fast, especially without a teacher. My teacher says I am about the same level now as a student that has played six+ years, and I already know all the music theory and rhythm and what symbols mean what, etc. But now, back to the topic. I definitely think EE2000 would be a good starter.
Also, how much do you practice each day? I do piano one hour, and clarinet thirty min. I find that what I learn with one instrument, I can apply to the other. For instance, playing the clarinet has greatly improved my sight-reading, which was pretty bad at first, and because I had already been playing the piano, I didn’t have to learn all the symbols and how to read music.
Good luck! And remember that I’m always willing to help.
Thanks so much for the help guys!! I’ll definitely look into the Essential Elements 2000 program-I already have two books I’ve bought, and I’ve spent some time on the computer searching for online lessons and tips, but another book would definitely be a help. As of right now, I practice piano around thirty min. a day, and clarinet for about the same time period. Unfortunately, I’ve been pretty busy recently and haven’t always been consistent in practicing, but I’m really determined to learn how to play-ESPECIALLY clarinet. That’s because next year, I really want to be good enough to play in my school band-most of the kids have been playing for years, so hopefully I’ll be able to catch up after practicing daily for three months. Thanks again for the tips!!
Also, kind of off topic but there’s this guy in my class (an Asian guy, I should mention) who always says that almost all Asian people play the piano, violin, or clarinet. I hate to admit it, but he’s right. I’m half Chinese, and right now I fit that description pretty well. And a number of my friends at school who are Asian also play one or more of the three instruments. Seriously, though, I have no idea why that is. Fireandhelmlock1996: you’re Japanese, right? (I think you posted something about that in the Hare and Hedgepig, but I’m not positive…I might be thinking of the wrong person.) Anyway, you’d fit the description too!
Yeah, my mom’s Jap. Hehe my sis plays piano and violin, and I play piano and clarinet lol! And my friend Ty (whose mom is from Thailand) plays the piano too! haha.
Re: EE-If you do get it, where in the front of Book One it says how to take care of it and all that, I will quote from Reed Placement “Lower the ligature and position the reed so that only a hairline of the mouthpiece can be seen above the reed” it should really be “Lower the ligature and position the reed so that only a hairline of the reed can be seen above the mouthpiece”. Just so you know.
Yeah, I think his theory is pretty true…anyway, I said before “I hate to admit it” because he’s one of those guys who thinks he knows EVERYTHING and always is repeating the numbers in Pi and stuff like that. In other words, he’s the stereotypical “Chinese nerd” who spends all his time studying or on the computer. (Since I am Chinese, I can poke fun at this…) In fact, he can even disassemble and reassemble a computer in under thirty minutes. I have seen this first-hand.
Make sure you don’t oboe anyone with it. Especially me.
HOw do you “oboe” anyone with a CLARINET!?
From the Muse Glossary page: “To oboe: to beat into submission with a reed instrument, esp. an oboe, as in ‘I oboed Piggy with a clarinet.'”
Oh, ok. *oboes Piggy with my clarinet* hahaha!
Hysterical!!!!!!!!!! *goes crazy over laughing*
Hiya! I’m back from my extended abcense of around a week or so.
The biggest thing that happened this week is… I finally broke down and got a Facebook. DUN DUN DUN!!! But seriously I think it’s really fun.
My cat is dying.
I’m not that sad, so don’t think of me as a depressed person. But he has been my best friend for almost ten years… I’ll miss him. He’s not dead yet, though! *thinks of Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
Um, yeah, that’s about it… I’m going to go to Round Robin Smileys now.
My long and winding road,
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Another road!!
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*falls out of chair laughing*
Scene: Central Intel
“Say wha-a-a-at? Did I read that right, Smith? Take over Iceland?”
“That’s what it says, Smith.”
” What kind of Evil Overlords came up with THAT idea?”
“We’re obviously dealing with seriously deranged minds.”
“Eh, probably mostly harmless.”
I think Iceland would actually be the perfect place from which to take over the world. The population is low, it was ranked in 2007 as the most developed country by the UN, it’s full of fjords, which are obviously perfect for hiding secret bases, and it’s very geologically active, which means free geothermic power for our nefarious plans. It’s economy’s rather bad, but we could just use the yuan if we really needed money. It’s president holds little power, so we could just skirt around the beurocracy to do what we need to do. It’s political system is multiparty, so we could just start a party there to infiltrate the government; there aren’t two dominating parties as there are in America, or even the three in the UK. I think learning Icelandic would be the most difficult part. Iceland is definitely the place to start things.
When I was in Australia with People to People, a few of my friends started making plans to conquer the world. Because they were my friends, they offered me a small and random country of my choice in exchange for nonintervention in their larger schemes.
Me: “Uh, can I have… French Guiana?”
Them: “Where? Sure thing! Hahahaha…”
Me: “AND the Centre Spatial Guyanais?”
Them: “The what? Yeah, sure whatever. Hahahaha…”
Me: “AND unlimited airspace and launch rights of any payload I see fit?”
Them: “Sure, whatever. Hahahaha…”
Now, they laugh, but when Russia, China and the US are get banged up in their turf wars, I’ll have the only remaining spaceport.
Very clever.
Nefarious? What do you mean by nefarious? We’re trying to make the world a BETTER place!
Right now, that doesn’t seem very hard.
We just watched a video about the secret service!
They actually have probably read all this and know all our plans now.
THERE IS NO ESCAPE.
On the subject of languages if any of you can find me a nice viking man I will gladly learn the how to speak it for you
Will no one past and save me from a triple post? *sigh* Where are loquacious MBers when one needs them?
I done made myself a blog. It’s pretty colors. I posted once and it actually worked (hallelujah). No, I won’t tell you where it is. No I won’t put personal information on it. Okay, that’s all GAPAs. You don’t have to worry now. I have done.
Now I want to read Shakespeare, a most interesting craving.
hi people
Off to horse camp next week, so I won’t be posting on here… It’s my first time there, so I’m a bit nervous, but I feel at peace around horses, so I’ll be OK.
Bye!
I went to a horse camp last year, and it wasn’t that great. It rained, and rained, and it rained some more. The horse was either a zombie or asleep because he would barely move without you kicking him every two seconds, and his steering wasn’t that great either. Not that every horse camp is like that, just the one I went to. The reason that I got the zombie horse was probably that I was the least experienced rider in the group. You’ll probably get a fully awake horse. Hopefully it won’t rain.
I used to go to horse camp until I was about 13…have fun! I had so much fun when I went despite being moderately terrified of horses
“moderately terrified”?!?!?!
it’s sounds silly, I know! It’s just one of those things, I suppose. I loved the camp though!
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is up! And my name is onboard! (Along with 1.6 million other names.)
Cool! How did you get it there?
You could submit it on the web. You can still do the same thing with Mars Rover Curiosity here.
Ahh… Just had dinner over The Fellowship Of The Ring… Ahh…
SFTDP
Isn’t it time for a new thread?
Not yet. We don’t even have 350 comments yet.
And it’s still only the 18th of June. We don’t do more than three random threads per month.
Why? Your graphics are amazing!
Thank you, Enceladus. I appreciate that. If I could do this full time…but for now, it’s all I can do to make the three.
By the way, once upon a time we created new Random Threads every 300 posts or so. Then one day it became popular to pad the thread with pointless posts in the hopes of breaking new records. Ever since then, we’ve limited the Random Threads to three in number.
Ah. Je comprend maitenent. *is enlightened*
Now we do.
GAPAs if this isn’t okay please snip.
jadestone I just want to tell you that your photography is amazing. I love it to the point of being angry if you want to quantify it!
I have no other way of commenting on this so I hope it’s okay to say it here. you are so talented. I love the osprey, the one with the shell by the lake, and oh basically everything else.
lol I sound so crazy. well that’s what I think anyway. I need to get going with my own creative endeavors! this is all very inspiring.
Axa thank you so much! It means a lot that you say that. I have been working really hard on my photography, and I got into a class in the city starting the week after next so I can actually learn some stuff versus what I’ve taught myself.
I’ve been meaning to send in some of my stuff to MB for a while, but I keep… being lazy XD And whenever I head over to the visual arts thread I see people who’ve sent stuff in and want it up right away and I would feel bad for giving the GAPA(s) more work.
Please send photos, Jadestone! We’d love to see them. And I’m so glad you got into a class. Is that the one you were hoping for?
I will try to, once I get on the computer where I keep them. Really this time XD
It is the one i was hoping for–at first it was full before I could even apply, so I tried to get into one at a nearby college summer school program but that was full by the time we got the forms done, but then another class opened up at the place I originally wanted to go (I won’t say where, but I am excited because it is in the city though I am nervous about taking the train downtown in the mornings) and I got in!
Congratulations, that’s great! And it really makes a difference to have someone knowledgeable around who can answer your questions.
I have a photography internship this summer, too.
Let me know how yours goes!
136-I like taking pics, and my dad helps me sometimes, but mostly I’ve figured all my stuff out myself. My avatar, for one, is one of my fave pics that I’ve taken.
I demand posting of said pictures! I need to visit the Visual Arts thread more often as it is…
I’m glad you got into that class, that sounds so fun! Good luck with ridiing the train…hmm I don’t think I’ve ever even been on a train. That’s actually somewhat odd…
138- You’ve never been on a train? Ever?
Unless the train at Disneyland counts…which I don’t think it does!
I suppose I should say I’ve never taken a real trip on a train. I did go to the Railroad Museum in Sacramento, that was fun!
You’re missing out, girl! I think trains are my favourite method of transportation, except for by foot, I guess.
Over break, I took the Amtrak line down to WV to do some hiking on the AT and then back again. It was a really neat trip and I got to see a lot of the country that I wouldn’t have otherwise. However, 16 hours of train-meals and train-seats got old pretty fast. Bring your own refreshments.
When I go to Holland, (which I do every year with my family) we take the train at least once. It’s fun, and the people that stand on the platform and help you board give you those games where you slide those tile thingys around. I usually play that.
I am not going to go on MuseBlog. I am going to do my homework. I am not going to go on MuseBlog. I am not going to go on MuseBlog. I am not going to go on MuseBlog.
You can figure out what I do next.
57(Elwing)- *groans* So while you’ve got snow, and the northern-hemisphere MBers are presumably enjoying summer, I’ve just got cold. hmph. And Onewhisker and half my teachers have got swine flu.
141 – I hope they feel better soon!
139 – me either, unless the old-fashioned train I rode for my cousins’ fourth birthday counts.
My horizontal scroll bar is getting progressively shorter. Cough cough.
Sorry. It’s the only way to plan stuff without bunnyborgs or nosy random people who are not MBers from seeing.
113- Well, first I would make it illegal to practice law. That will speed the rest of my changes up considerably.
Yes, new regimes often find it expedient to abolish the legal system.
111.2- *laughs* The worst part about the school system here is that it’s being reformed *hates the education minister* She’s been cutting down on holidays after we sucked at/refused to participate in PISA. I’ve never been in an American school-I wonder what it’s like.
Well, at all* American schools, you have to take a state standardized test. The teachers also don’t usually teach more than what the test requires. More coming, but I have to do my caking summer math.
I’m homeschooled! A whole bunch of Americans are homeschooling. My standarized test, I got really good scores. I don’t want you all to think I’m bragging, though, so I won’t tell you what my average score was.
*all as in ALL, as in every caking kid in the US
Well, I suppose it was time for a new addiction/obsession. I am now officially manga-obsessed. *goes back to obsessively read Sailor Moon*
(128.1.1.1.2.1) Icelandic is essentially the same as Old Norse, the language the Vikings spoke. That’s appropriate.
You might not have to take over Iceland, though. Right now, if you all pooled your allowance money together, you could probably buy it.
That’s true. We’d better act fast, though, because their economy looks as though it may rise again, what with their renewed effort in expanding their renewable energy programme.
It’s really ironic. I got the latest issue of Popular Science today, and it has an article about geothermic energy in Iceland. I think the GAPAentity really is expanding its consciousness.
I just found out I’m a Happy Vertical People Transporter. Yay. Happy. I’ll just go cower in the basement now.
Trains: I love taking the train. We used to always ride Amtrak to WI when we’d visit my grandparents, but the past several years we’ve driven, and I miss it. Subways (undergrounds) are fun too, I always enjoy them in DC.
149~ Care to elaborate? I’m entirely confused.
ooh yes. I always love taking the DC metro.
When I click to see all of the posts I’ve posted, the link doesn’t go anywhere. Then it redirects me to MuseBlog. GAPAs?
149- How ever did you become a sentient elevator?
148- Excelent. We were actually trying to convince dad for a vacation to Iceland next year, because it’d be relatively inexpensive and we could see the northern lights.
147- Hahahaha Sailor Moooon. I had the original VHS movie when I was like… 8? 9? Back when Skydancers was still on television. I miss the old cartoons… I think I wanted to be her when I grew up at one point.
138/Axa- Heh. Well trains are not as glorious as one thinks, at least not the one I’ll be taking. It doesn’t have that much room/space since it’s really just for people commuting into the city every day and not extended rides.
(I was vague enough there right?)
Well I responded all backwards today, hmm.
(151) TFATF42: It’s simple: Those links don’t work. That’s all.
Oh. Good. As long as there’s a reasonable explanation!
148- Dang. I don’t get an allowance.
Heh. I do. But two of my friends, they’re sisters, and one time, they got $100 for behaving on a plane trip that was mainly so they could take their favourite American Girl dolls to some place and have the doll’s hair done and all that. And their house is waaay huge. And I’m like, “WHAT!?” THey have like 10-15 AG dolls each, plus furniture and accesories and mini dolls.
That’s insane.
Completely insane.
*comforts fireandhemlock* *secretly gives fireandhemlock 9,000,000,000,000,000 kilos of chocklit* Now go and wave THAT in their faces!
I guess it’s not the girl’s fault, but that is
PSYCHOslightly spoiling the children.I know. And Mr Moon, do I need comforting? *doesn’t think so* I don’t care about that kind of stuff, but I think that they are extremely spoiled.
whoa.
Meh. I can’t access Chapter 13!!!!!!
*searches*
152- I remember watching Sailor Moon, too. Good times…
I know it’s really old and everything, but I just discovered the mangas, and they are AMAZING…
Must…watch….anime…
154.1~ That’s absolutely crazy. A case of “more money than sense” I think.
I have a rather large collection of American Girl dolls as well, but what most people don’t realize is that a good bunch of them we found at Goodwill or my cousins gave me. I had a dear friend and it was “our thing” that we’d do, drooling over the catalogs together. So when everything is AG for Christmas, birthdays, etc. for many years it accumulates. They were my absolute best friends when I was younger. *reminisces* I still have the bitty twins and bitty baby on my bookshelf in my room. The other girls are safe in their box, having a party I’ve no doubt.
(Woah… I had just finished typing Comment 154.1.1.1 (I think that’s it) when Enceladus and TFATF42’s comments appeared (154.1.2 and 154.1.3). That was freaky. (One minute nothing, the next something.))
I get an allowance, plus some other money in a bank account.
What’s happened to the GAPAentity and the Bunnyborg?
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Beats me. I feel perfectly normal (which isn’t saying much).
Oh, of course you’re normal! You and Rebecca have been this way for a while!
Normal? That’s to be expected. I’ve been channeling the GAPAentity’s insanity. SilverLeopard, come. Join us. We have [dried] fruit and sponge cake.
Sponge cake? I’ll join!
Mwahahahaha…
I apologise for the parenthetical overkill in advance.
My friends (Jon, Nate, Bri, Lily, & Sophia, not that you care) and I are going as characters from “Yellow Submarine” for Halloween. (And we are aware that Halloween is 4 months away!) My dad and I are going to make a cardboard sub that we’ll ride in as we trick-or-treat, and we’re going to find silk jackets for Bri, Lily, Sophia and I to wear. (We’re the Beatles, being Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I’m George.) The sub’s going to have a shelf on which my boombox, playing Beatles songs, is going to sit. Jon and Nate are going as Blue Meanies.
I’m going as the Doctor. (Yes, I know I’m the wrong gender.) I’m going to get/make a sonic screwdriver, and take elements from all the different Doctors’ costumes, like a really long scarf.
I approve of this costume. Then again, I also own a copy of Four’s scarf.
Yay! -wants scarf-
HALLOWEEN IS ONLY 4 MONTHS AWAY?!?!?!
Hum… What should I go as? Something Muse-ish…
*idea dawns upon Enceladus*
A GIANT 42
BWHAHAHAHAHA
Or you could go as an HPB. Or a giant space-squid.
Teehee, I made wire 42 earrings to wear to the Kokon… and OOOOOH, I forgot that! The high school physics teacher went as Arthur Dent last year! And the chemistry teacher went as the physics teacher….
The teachers at my school are WEIRD.
I’m getting a flightsuit at Space Academy, so I guess I’ll just go as an astronaut.
Man… *grumbles about being too old to go trick-or-treating*
So am I. You don’t need to go ask for candy, you could just dress up and wander around. It’s what I do. Last year I went to the graveyard.
I’m pretty sure I’m going in drag this Halloween, but I might find something else to do. I’d really rather not.
Re: American Girl: When I was little I desperately wanted one, and then when I was eight or nine, my parents got me a Gotz (I can’t do the umlauts…) doll for Christmas, who was/is much, much prettier than any American Girl doll, and I only coveted the clothes after that. I never got any actual American Girl stuff because it’s all corporate and made in sweatshops and all that, and I grew out of dolls anyway. We had quite a collection, though–cloth dolls and plastic dolls and baby dolls and fashion dolls and handkerchief dolls and corn-husk dolls. And we had a dollhouse made out of milk cartons and carpeted with upholstery samples and beds made of pillows or shoeboxes or anything we could get our hands on, really. We called it…something German. I don’t know how to spell it and I don’t actually remember what it literally translates to. It basically meant dollhouse anyway.
And then there were the Playmobils…
Harold and Maude-watching day is coming up! July 6th…
I know I’m smart. I know I’m taking APs. I know. But that is no excuse for assigning homework due at the beginning of AUGUST! I got out of this year bruised and bloodied from all they’ve done to me and I do NOT want anything more suddenly thrown on my head.
Aw man the summer work is the worst after sophomore year, at least in my opinion. We had this massive AP US thing, lots of writing for AP Comp. Not as much this year!
*sympathetic squid munchies*
Eventually it will all be worth it! Oh and out of curiosity, what AP classes are you taking next year?
Also! Just to tell you, now that the questions are online: the DBQ this year for AP Language was about space exploration! I think Vendaval mentioned that he thought of you when he was taking it. I did too, and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it
Social Studies and English, as well as Honors Latin and Spanish. But just regular old Astronomy because there’s no advanced class in it.
160.4~ That’s when you find a handful of little kids and take them around ToTing in costume all in the name of being a good sport and helpful. The parents love you for taking the kids, you get to dress up and have an excuse, many of the people handing out candy will thank you for taking the littler kids and give you something too and I suppose if you played your cards right you could even get paid for babysitting. Yes, I’m shameless. That’s also when you dress up very carefully lest there’s a chance that you’ll be found out and you don’t wish it to be known where you spent Halloween evening. Little kids can be so useful!
That said, I think this year it would be fun to have a bonfire and party with apple bobbing and dressing up and trying to scare the bejeebies out of each other. For good friends who won’t think the entire thing is completely lame, of course. In fact, we could probably even take a walk down to he graveyard, that place is so derelict it would frighten anyone even if they didn’t know the holes are from where the old wooden coffins have rotted. *shudders* But then, maybe not.
Actually, I’ll probably have to work at my parish’s All Saint’s Day party again. Does anyone want to fill in for me?
I want to go to your party! We have to build a teleportation device so I can attend.
Is anybody going to DARTS summer camp?
I don’t go trick-or-treating, as Singaporeans would scream and slam the door in my face if I showed up on their doorstep dressed as a dryer and demanding candy. Which is bad, because where I used to live 12 is about the maximum age for trick-or-treating and since we’ll be in Singapore for another year when I go back I won’t get to make a big cordboardy mess in search of the perfect crazy costume. I’m going to a 3-week summer camp with my best friend. My mother described it as “an opportunity to explore wilderness and make new friends” translation: “You’re driving me nuts! Get out of the house and do something productive instead of building a treehouse and trying to knot together a rope ladder as an out-the-window fire escape/ middle of the night escape to the backyard!!!!” But that’s okay, it’ll be really fun.
166- Hey, I had the fire escape idea too! But I don’t have any rope, and I don’t really need a fire escape as much because now all the upstairs windows open onto porch roofs where we won’t die of smoke inhalation and might even escape the flames.
Actually, I have a fire escape thing that my parents bought for me when I moved out of my crib and was capable of actually understanding how to use it (around 12 years ago…). My dad made me try it out once. I loved it! It’s probably too short for my new window, since now my room is about two and a half stories off the ground instead of one and three quarters stories off.
164.2~ You’re certainly welcome to come….anytime, you don’t have to wait for Halloween!
Actually, speaking of which, how’s your fundraising going for your trip on the Adventuress? Does it look like you’ll be able to go? *crosses fingers*
Or maybe we can meet in the middle.
It would be great if we could sail on the same ship sometime. *plots* We’ll see how this summer goes as far as sailing and all, and then maybe…..hmm. Logistical issues, but they can, and will, be overcome. Someday. The sooner the better. As soon as I get myself back to the West coast, you’d better believe there’s going to be a Kokon. Unless you come East first.
Ooh, I’m in the middle!
Oh, yes, my fundraiser was a smashing success. I’ll be able to go without a doubt, and still have about fifteen hundred dollars left in my sailing fund, so there’s a decent chance we could arrange to sail on the same ship sometime.
America schools: *has never done a standardized test* I’ve heard about tests… That bad, huh? Here… well, put it this way: in two music classes on the same grade level in my school, one veered off into music history and did almost nothing practical while the other sang and played instruments all year. The same goes for art: it depends entirely which teacher you have. I won’t even talk about the differences between schools. But the “main” subjects (math, german, french, latin) usually end up doing basically the same thing, though not necessarily at the same time and not in the same intensity.
It’s an insane messSlightly chaotic.Re: American Girl dolls: I gushed over them for one summer, but eventually had to return to Austria empty-handed. I forgot about them after a while and went back to pestering my father about showing me how to make the eiffel tower out of legos (I’d inherited some, bought some and had quite a lot).
Halloween: *is incredibly jealous* We can’t trick-or-treat here. But maybe I’ll get invited to a halloween bash.
166- *wishes she didn’t live in an apartment building in a city*
We didn’t use to have so many standardized tests. In MA, we have them every grade. No Child Left Behind caused all these standardized tests. When I was in 3rd? 2nd? grade, we were told there’s only MCAS (The MA state test) in 4th, 7th, and 10th grades. Now we have it every year. If you’re smart (AKA: Most MuseBloggers and the “Nerds”) then these are incredibly easy, so you do them they way you weren’t taught, making it a little more interesting. If you aren’t, then it’s either hard or boring.
With the classes, everyone has to do the same thing. The teachers have to teach to the curriculum. In 7th grade (at my school) there are normally 2 math classes. Integrated math (higher) and Connected math (lower). Fortunately, through some fighting, my math teacher* got three math classes. Those 2, and then the “hotshots” who went more in depth. I got into the hotshots, and the math class has been helpful, if chaotic. Recently, we were talking about numbers like n! . Our math teacher used the example of 69! photos of one of the girls in our class in different locations in the room. It turned out that every person who lived could have a stack of photos one billion light years every way, we’d have a lot left over. But it’s not usually that way. In all the other classes, everything is the same. I WANT TO DO MUSIC HISTORY!!!! We do a combination, but we focus one composer, stead of a period of music.
*THE BEST MATH TEACHER EVER. EVER. He’s British, and has an awesome** accent, and he’s ultra smart.
**AWESOMEST accent ever.
Music history was rather boring, but still preferable to music theory. *shudders*
The whole standardize test part sounds …strange to me because the system here is built very, very differently. There is a curriculum, but it isn’t that strict. And after 4th grade, you can (basically) either go to a Gymnasium or a Hauptschule.
Gymnasium is for the smarter students (all the MBers would be in one, trust me); you have to have good to excellent grades to get in, depending on which school. Each gymnasium has a special focus: mine teaches extra languages, others have sports, fashion design, music, e.t.c, even though the “better” ones are considered those most academically challenging. Getting into a good one (and graduating from it) is very important, almost same way colleges matter in America.
Hauptschulen basically prepare you for working and don’t have the Matura, an exam that’s required to enter any University. They don’t have any extra requirements for entry and are generally looked down upon by most Gymansiasten for obvious reasons.
But even the Matura isn’t standardized; the teachers submit the test questions. The good thing is that private (high) schools are seldom better/as good as public schools, i.e. most of the best schools are free.
In my school, music is a fun class!
I’ve been taking standardized tests since the third grade. In third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, students take three major standardized tests about three weeks before the end of the year. In third through seventh grade there are two math and one reading comprehension, and in eighth grade there is one science, one reading, and one math. They’re all incredibly boring and they give you hours more time than anyone could possibly need; you’re not even allowed to read until everyone in your classroom has finished.
Happily, I took my last EOG (end of grade test) the year before this past, at the end of eighth grade. Unhappily, for high-school-level courses there are even more standardized tests called EOCs (end of course tests). I had to take math EOCs in seventh and eighth grade, along with wonderfully nonstandardized finals written by the teachers and district-written French finals. This year, I had a teacher-written final in World History, a district-written final in French, and (groan) EOCs in Biology, English, and Math.
The difference between EOGs and EOCs is that EOCs actually require more than minimal brainpower. Biology and English were still fairly easy, but the math EOC took me almost the entire three hours given and made my brain hurt afterward.
The nice thing about such long exam periods is that you have quite a lot of free time once you’ve finished the test. This can be a bad thing, of course, but in English I did a nice drawing of a beach on my scrap paper (which was sadly confiscated at the end of the test). During Bio, I got bored and spent twenty minutes drawing a saxophone in the middle of the test, and once everyone had finish the teacher kindly allowed us to talk.
I hate standerdized tests. They’re the most boring thing ever, and they’re completely useless. We spend all year learning stuff we’d never use just because some test says we’re dumb and can’t pass if we don’t. The English test is dead easy. I could pass our eighth grade English test in third grade. Math is difficult but only because I never study, Science is easy, and Civics is easy. We had a question on the Civics test about CHARACTER TRAITS. Really? How is that Civics? And don’t kindergarteners have the eight “character traits” on their agendas? Honestly, its sad that even our character is standerdized. If you don’t go by these eight traits, you’re a complete failure.
This is what came out of a tennis discussion; a strange idea.
The Wimbledon finals will be Andy Roddick vs. Andy Murray, and Serena Williams vs. Venus Williams. They will take place at the same time, on two identical courts in parallel universes. Andy Williams (some random guy) will be in two places at the same time and award the prizes. At that moment, the parallel universe will merge, and become one. The planets will align, and the Bunnyborg will descend. Weird, right?
Also, a fox also ran across my yard in broad daylight. I failed to get a picture.
As part of the GAPA entity, we must strive to stop it. We must assassinate Andy Williams to stop the BunnyBorg.
As a kokoclone, I will stay away from the tennis match.
168.2~ That’s wonderful! Do you know what time you’re going sailing? (GAPAs, forgive me if this is classified information.)
169- I live in an apartment building and I hate it. It just so happens that the treehouse in question was being built into my 3rd-storey window sill.
I just got my own kayak!!!!
172- Ooh! What kind of kayak? (Whitewater, skin-on-frame, fiberglass…)
I’m feeling really random now, so I’m going to pose you a puzzle. Whatls the pattern? What’s the next line?
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1
11
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1211
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312211
13112221
1113213211
31131211131221
13211311123113112211
11131221133112132113212221
3113112221232112111312211312113211
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MWHAHAHA!
*is tired* I just came back from a rock concert where my BFF sang. My ears have stopped ringing, which seems to be a good sign. She can sing well, but the volume… *goes to bed*
163.1- Online? I can’t seem to find it via Google.
Arrrrrgh! I hate vacation. We’re staying in the Adirondacks for a week (aka 7 nights) and I already hate the stupid rental house. I wanna go hoooooome! The only good thing about this place is the TV, but the couches are uncomfortable, so there’s really no point.
Can I please go home now?…
I love it when I know about obscure and awesome things like the Lord Howe Island stick insect when they’re on Boinboing (thanks Muse!).
I hate planned obsolescence.
176- I think this is it, the College Board website is tricky.
apcentral.collegeboard. com/apc/public/repository/ap09_frq_english_language.pdf
[That link is deemed harmless enough — Rosanne]
It doesn’t seem to work for me.
Wait, now it does. Okay, thanks. I don’t think those documents were really very well chosen. There’s no context for the Saturn V photo, the article on contamination is sort of odd, and the NPR interview is just plain simplistic.
I’m sure you, as a Muser, managed to write a good essay using them, however.
The performance went quite well. Everyone did fabulous jobs, and I didn’t talk too fast. Which is good, since I have a tendency to speak quickly.
Dinner afterward was grand, we had fun even though I was seated across from a total bore, Lisa was next to me, and she’s a saint and so much fun.
Lisa and Betty and I did a skit, “The Week in Review” which was a condensed and exaggerated parody on what we’d done in the workshop. It was absolutely great, Lisa and Betty had apparently been planning it, and they let me join in, which was awesome. The entire party was in stitches, and poor Alex (our wonderful teacher) a few times was laughing so hard his face was beet red. Everyone else was choking into their napkins, Betty did an amazing job, she’s so funny even though you might not guess it at first. Her “diaphragmatic breathing” was hilarious, I had to go off to the side because I was nearly dying with laughter (so was everyone else, of course).
For being totally ad lib and unpracticed it was a total hoot. Even the waiter was laughing a few times, even though he probably didn’t catch why exactly it was so funny. Walking into a room of about 20 people in hysterics does seem to do that though.
I finished Bleak House. It was rather sad.
Cool! I just found out that I can watch Star Trek episodes online! Awesomeness!
People have probably forgotten about me being a HVPT, but to explain-there is a Cybernetics GPP test online. due to me answering “I would cower in the basement” or something like that to every question, I became a Happy Vertical People Transporter. I can see in the future, so that’s cool with me.
I’m a Nutrimatic Beverage Machine on the test, completely indifferent to the needs of people around me
Tea, please?
I’ll give you some good tea… NOT!
Nooooooooooooooo!
I’m the ESP elevator. I can see the future…
WHAT??? Are you Beavo or SudoRandom?
I agree with Alice. That is way too confusing, annoying, and not funny (at least to me). You can’t copy my avatar, I took that picture. Copyright.
I’m a Shipboard Computer. The description is about right…
Thank you, Catkopelli, for shortening your name. We appreciate it.
When did GAPA zap MuseBloggers from existence?
We can’t do that. But if someone regularly posts with, say, a mile-long name that messes up the “Recent Comments” sidebar, we can tell the blog’s spam filter to treat the excess characters as spam. Hypothetically speaking.
Pippin rehearsal is beautiful. Ah, Balagan…
My leg was just bleeding. I think that this might be the only bleeding started while posting on MB.
*bandages Cromwell’s leg with pies*
*pies fall off*
Sorry!
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends,
Oh, I get pied with a little help from my friends.
More Beatles.
I just had an idea.
It’s no good trying to separate church and state and all that as long as our money says “in God we trust.” As soon as we take that off our money, church and state will miraculously separate themselves and we won’t have to worry about it anymore.
Ah, if only it were that easy.
Kjffhjfghnfgjhlo. *moans* Gah. Have fever. So tired. Must live. Graduation Celebration tomorrow. End-of-the-year party w/ best friend on Tuesday. Grand Canyon trip on Wednesday. MUST LIVE!!!!!!!! *mumbles something incoherent about the Mythbusters destroying me* *falls asleep*
*is also sick* I have fever, I’m coughing and my stomach hurts- I think I took the jackpot as far as illnesses go. But at least the world doesn’t spin half as much as I used to when I get up. If my headache would only go away… *drifts into incoherence and loses ability to spell/use grammar*
I just got back from visiting my father’s relatives. I told my grandparents about how I put their names on Mars Rover Curiosity and my grandmother was ecstatic. She kept telling everybody “Kai’s sending my name to Mars! Kai’s sending my name to Mars!”
You can do the same here:
http: //mars9. jpl. nasa. gov /msl / participate /sendyourname/ index. cfm
Ooh, I banged my knee on the table earlier and it’s quite painful. If I’d realized sooner just how bad it was, the arnica might have been more effective. Ow. -rubs knee-
I was going to say something. It was probably very insightful, but I forgot what it was.
The back of my mind is still completely unreasonably preoccupied with Bleak House. I shall probably have to read the book.
Actually what I want to do is reread Great Expectations because it’s amazing, but right now I’m reading Persuasion and David Copperfield so it might be overkill on the classics. I’d like to read something light and fluffy and YA, but light fluffy YA books are kind of boring more often than not, so I suppose I’ll just go on plowing through the classics and wishing they were a little less dense.
This should go on Books and Reading, but I don’t care.
I’m currently reading Wuthering Heights, and shall then read David Copperfield. Although I’ll probably buy some Pendragons this week to read also.
Wuthering Heights is good. Much better than Pendragon.
Wuthering Heights is an excellent book. Do you like it?
I’m reading Persuasion right now as well!
I read Great Expectations this year and it was very good. Wemmick was my favorite character because he was the funniest. Eee, yeah, we probably should be on Books and Reading!
Wemmick’s my favorite too. I’ve been watching all these movie adaptions and I’ve almost decided to revoke my vow never to see Great Expectations in movie form (no, not even if it stars Ioan Gruffudd!*), simply because I want to see Wemmick portrayed. But if he’s not portrayed really well I would be sad, so I’m not going to watch any movie adaptions of Great Expectations.
Let’s see how long this lasts.
*Actually, especially not that one, because it’s only three hours long and Great Expectations deserves at least six.
Trying out a new avatar. The old one got blurry when the size increased, this one’s clearer. It’s part of a picture I took last year as well.
I LOVE IT
hmm that reminds me, I need to find a way to crop mine in a more pleasing fashion…
*creeps away*
Haha, thank you. What is your avatar of? I see a woman but I can’t quite make out much more or what’s going on.
It’s The Lady of Shallot by John William Waterhouse. It’s a big painting though so I can never resize it to my liking lol
Oh wow it’s a painting. I thought it was a photograph at first, I have no idea what of (although I must admit the word “hippie?” popped into my mind, though I dismissed it XD).
I looked at the full one, it’s pretty.
I’ve seen a different pre-raphaelite painting of The Lady of Shallot in a museum. I like the pre-raphaelites.
Wait, wasn’t her name spelled “s-h-a-l-o-t-t” in the poem? Or am I thinking of the wrong thing?
Yes, one “l” and two “t”s.
There are at least four Pre-Raphaelite paintings of the Lady of Shalott: three by John William Waterhouse and one by William Holman Hunt. Hunt’s is probably the one oxlin is thinking about.
(oxlin: Terence quotes Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” in To Say Nothing of the Dog.)
I believe Anne Shirley from LM Montgomery’s books also quotes the “Lady of Shalott” and then falls out of her canoe!
Yes, she does.
That’s one of my favorite poems.
I can see all of the avatars now! This is probably a really obvious question, but how do you use your own picture for a an avatar? Or maybe an hpb emoticon…
Go to www . gravatar . com.
179- I hope someone was taking a video? I’d love to see that on youtube. So, I know it’s a random thread but what are we talking about?
No Youtube, just straight on the blog. Also, change your avatar.
Hey! There’s an online flash game called Shift 4 that has space squids in it! Strange…
189.1.1/189.1.2- WH is good, and I’m halfway through it.
So, tomorrow I take my Latin final, and then NO MORE SCHOOL! Hurrah!
I got to leave school early today. Everyone else at my school has the rest of today, tomorrow, and half of Wednesday.
GAPAs, trust kokopelli has an avatar that appears to be a youngish male face. It’s pretty recognizable. *is not trying to be a tattletale*
Oh my goodness, wow. Out of curiosity I called my phone last night and listened to the voicemail message……I can’t believe my voice was that high and hideously squeaky. No wonder Alex threatened to whack me if I went back to my old way of talking.
I’ll have to change it sometime soonish since it doesn’t sound like me at all now.
And today I realized something. I have one week. Seven days. One week. And a ton of things to get done in that time. Starting tomorrow, every single day has something going, besides getting ready to be gone for a month and getting all the things I need made/ordered/packed/organized. *falls over* I think I’ll go hide now.
And the car exists! It’s red! It’s a convertible! It’s hideous! I think it’ll be great! The trunk is a joke though. A TOTAL joke. People, the 1992 VW cabriolet does not have a trunk (or boot). It has a tiny little hole in the back where you might be able to shove a daypack and pair of shoes, but not much else. Not to mention it would be ridiculous to try to stuff it full since it’s not even that easy to gain access to the aforementioned little crevice. But oh well. it’s definitely a people car instead of a pack all your junk in it and go car.
I am also horrified when I hear a recording of my voice. It sounds so…… weird
Same thing with me.
196.1~ I always hated hearing recordings of my voice (everyone does, really) but this was SO different! I recorded again and listened, and while I still wasn’t entirely thrilled, I could tell how much better it was now. Seriously, it sounded like two different people. *sighs of relief* I don’t want to go back to the old high squeaky voice, it’s gross.
197- I had a similar revelation in 7th or 8th grade upon hearing my voice on a video. I resolved to speak a bit lower and less out of breath and stuff, I hope it’s gotten better.
Actually I think my phone message has been my sister saying “Hi, this is Violetfire and Jadestone’s phone, please leave a message ect” from when we shared a phone. It’s been a year since we got our own but I haven’t changed it yet, oops…
Hi! I just got back from helping my dad with the fruit salad for tonight’s cookout, so don’t blame me if these letters are covered in watermelon juice!
198~ Well, I actually was at a workshop all last week and a huge part of it was learning to speak, lower, stronger, more projection, good breathing, etc. So that’s what made the difference. *is happy*
Ach. The MuseBlog is acting slow again. Virus check time, GAPAs. None of the other websites are.
I got one of those 500 errors a bit ago, and it’s been slow since. Possibly just a server issue.
It doesn’t seem that slow to me. Not to be accusatory, but maybe it’s your computer? And when there’s a really long thread like this, that could be what’s going on.
No, it’s back to normal now. It just gets weird every once in a while.
I can’t detect a slowness, but that doesn’t mean much since I live in the macworld.
I can’t believe that I still have a computer science final. I’m (surprise, surprise) not likely to start a career as computer scientist, and I still fail to understand an important part of the course aims; why do I need to know what that small black lump on the motherboard is? I can’t fix it myself! I live in the mac laptop world anyway, which is much more compact, and I don’t see a reason to switch to PC. I’m not computer-inept, I even enjoy figuring out Logo programs and Excel commands, but I just don’t “get” hardware when you take it apart. *rants on and on*
Uggh, I’ve had braces for about a month now and they’re so annoying ): .
Tell me about it. Mine hurt too.
That’s it!
No more tenth grade!
I’m free!
*captures* *puts in 11th grade* BWHAHAHA!
YEAH.
I’m back, guys, after a long break!
I cannot believe I’m going into tenth grade! I’m so used to being a freshman.
Anyway, what’s new?
I know, it’s such a strange feeling. I’m glad freshman year is done with, though. I think sophomore year is going to be a good one.
That’s what they all say, going into it…
No, sophomore year is fun. You finally have a grade below you to pick on, not that anyone does that *cough*. But, of course, you still have two grades above you.
Personally, I think junior year will be the best. You’re in the upper half, grade level-wise, but you don’t have the responsibility of being a senior. You’re just sort of… there.
I always end up defending the underclassmen against the attacks of my senior friends.
Someone I know said that junior year is the worst…
However, someone else I know said that she is a complainer and took on too many activities junior year.
Tenth grade, wow! I’m not sure what grade I’m in. I’m homeschooled. As for what’s new, I’m not the one to answer. I just joined in April.
We arrived safely in Holland while everyone (except for bookgirl_me) was probably fast asleep. Right now, it’s 8:00 here.
At the airport train station, when we where waiting to go to my grandfather’s house, there was a small episode of panic. The door on the train closed, but more people needed to get on, so they tugged at the door until my dad pushed the emergancy button. It looked rather absurd.
This computer is being strange. The bottom half of everyones avatars are gone, and I can’t reply to any comments.
206- *pies* Me too! (or I will be, when I finish up caking computer science)
207-Unless you skipped a grade, you should be in the grade corresponding to your age…
208- We’re in the same time zone *pies* You’re using Internet Explorer, right? Use Firefox, that should solve it.
Hello. Greetings, as I stop by briefly. I am on my summer vacation and it is beautiful…. as well as insanely hot. And with that heat and the bad economic times comes a…. wait for it…. CITY WORKERS STRIKE! YAAAAY! blech. No garbage remouval, no public pools…… as well as no other stuff. Grr… I can’t wait until it’s over.
See you later,
Kagcomix
That’s awful. It’s very, very hot over here too.
choklit
Is there a reason the Student Lounge is closed? Spambot attack?
It’s under renovation.
Red-tailed HAWK We are having a great time talking and munching!!
Fiddler Yes, the HAWKs brought some wonderful tortilla chips and garlic hummus. *melts in tasty bliss*
Hopefully the bonfire will be blazing away soon.
Have fun, everybody! And say hi to your parents from us.
Do you have watermelon? It’s a watermelony day.
Heya Kokonveners!
212.1~ Fiddler
Nope, no watermelon. Cherries, strawberries, chips, hummus, and potato, carrot, cabbage and squash stew (methinks), along with surprise fudge pudding for desert.
RtH The birds here are amazing! I haven’t even gone out to see them yet, but I can hear lots of them from the house!!!
Isn’t this thread full?
We do indeed have over 500 comments…
Today was the last day of __grade. I’m so very sad. But I’m happy because I got people to sign my shirt and my yearbook and I took a picture of M-Dawg!!!!! *laughs maniacally*
Tomorrow I’m going to Arizona!!!!!!!!!!!
Where’s Luna been lately?
Last we heard, Luna is home in Alaska, busy with various activities and working almost full time. She said we probably wouldn’t hear much from her.
Have fun on your trip!
Fiddler
I have some ancient sparklers (upwards of ten years old), so we’re going to see if they still work. HAWK hasn’t ever done sparklers, poor child, so hopefully nothing will detonate or anything…..
RtH I will try not to cause too much trouble!
Fiddler I’m actually a bit more concerned about the chemical happenings inside those brightly colored tubes. Hopefully there’s no untoward effects associated with being stuck in a pencil cup and ignored for eternity whilst being covered in cobwebs!
Offhand, I’d guess that your fireworks may have reacted slowly with oxygen from the air. Combustion is just a much faster version of the same process, so any changes probably made them less dangerous (and exciting), not more.
217- HAWK’s never done sparklers??? You poor benighted soul… Have fun!
I’ve never done sparklers either. I’ve watched a ton of fireworks, though– sometimes I get them on my birthday, when it falls on Commencement at ________ College. My dad teaches there, and we live really close to it, so whenever they have fireworks around the 22nd I like to pretend it’s celebrating my birthday.
I am now 14 and one month as of Monday.
I’ve never trusted sparklers. There’s just something about holding a flaming piece or cardboard in your hand that never appealed to me. Larger, more potentially dangerous fireworks are fine, but not sparklers. I’m even wary about those popper things where you pull the string and bits of confetti come out, though I have no problem with lighting a string of Black Cats and tossing them into a metal bucket. Or a family tradition we have. What you do is this: take a normal-sized tin can of some sort. Drill a firecracker-sized hole in the bottom, so you can stick a Black Cat or similar firecracker in so it will stay. Place the can open-end down in a bucket filled with about an inch of water. Put the firecracker into the hole in the bottom of the can as far as you can without letting it drop all the way through–you want only the wick sticking out. Light the wick, and step back. If you’ve prepared correctly, the can should shoot into the air a good thirty feet–it’s usually a competition to see who can catch it as it falls back down.
I have never handled fireworks, although I enjoy watching them.
There’s just something about holding a flaming piece or cardboard in your hand that is absolutely awesome.
Hawk–Try writing things in the air with it! Or holding one in each hand!
We always use them on the 4th, along with chasing fireflies/lightning bugs (I can never remember what I originally called them. Hum.)
Perhaps I phrased that wrong. I’m all for ripping off a hunk of cardboard and setting it on fire. It’s the thought that sparklers are designed to shoot everywhere that worries me, as though the sparkler could try and avenge itself by attacking its murderer. Normal cardboard isn’t that valiant.
Fiddler
217.1~ Indeed. They did work, though they didn’t put off many sparks but they were nice and bright.
218~ He’s not benighted anymore, he’s experienced sparklers.
219~ *takes notes* That sounds AWESOME. I wonder if I could convince Le Parental Units to do hat sometime. Yessssss.
RtH
It was great fun! We tried to write various muse-related words in the air with them, and generally enjoyed the sparkling! Thanks, Fern!!! And the food was delicious! And the bonfire was wonderful, as well!
Fiddler
You’re welcome, thanks for coming.
I always like writing words in the air with sparklers. I think they used to last longer though. (The sparklers, I mean.)
People are shooting off fireworks already. I can’t see anything, but I keep hearing pops and bangs and there’s a vague smell of fireworks-smoke coming through the door.
222.1~ Or dancing around like in a demented jig, twirling and spinning with the sparkler held out in front of en, becoming dizzy and not seeing anything but the brightness of the flame. Heh, but make sure you won’t run into anyone while doing that……
You stare at the flame, it grows, you enter into the flame, you become the flame, the world vanishes: the flame is everything and everything is the flame…
*should be asleep*
I think there’s a bat trapped in one of our basement window wells. We put new covers on them Monday, and it may have gotten inadvertently trapped in there. I can here something squeaking around in there, anyway. It doesn’t sound very happy.
I just saw the old Hornblower movie. It was actually pretty good, although I found the total lack of English accents rather conspicuous in a movie about the Royal Navy. Also, LIEUTENANTS DON’T WEAR EPAULETTES!!!!!!!!! -deep breath- And Lady Barbara’s dresses seemed less than accurate, for the most part. Oh, and one more trivial complaint before I go on to attempt deeper criticism: Bush’s leg changed. First his left leg was wounded, then his right one. -shakes head sadly over moviemaker’s folly-
One thing none of the movies seem able to capture is Hornblower’s depressed, insecure side. The newer ones do a good job in places, but they make him far too cheerful in more places. Now that I’ve read the books I know that everything he does is permeated with doubt, and he does amazing things and then refuses to take credit for them in order to punish himself for things that no one else knows about. I don’t know. Maybe this one was better at that, but it still didn’t seem that great. His character is more complex than any of the movies let on. I can’t blame them, though, because, really, how are they going to show Hornblower’s private insecurities on screen? It all goes on in his head.
I’m wavering. First I think the old movie gets his character better, then I change my mind, and think the new ones do. But in any case, now I think about it, they’re practically two different characters anyway. Beat to Quarters was written long before the books on which the new movies are based, and I observed only a few days ago on Books and Reading how much the Hornblower of Beat to Quarters differs from the Hornblower of Hotspur and Atropos.
Anyway, I should get to bed–I have to babysit tomorrow at eight AM. -wanders off rambling-
L*** and I are going to have a Great-Expectations-watching day, where we get together, sit down for 11 hours, and watch three versions of Great Expectations. And compare.
Does anyone here like the Pink Panther movies? (The new ones, with Steve Martin.) If so, get the older versions, starring Peter Sellers. I can guarantee they are much better.
This thread should so be changed to logogeomania!
Hey. I remember you, but weren’t you not here for a long time?
*pies*
Or Enceladusmania Unleashed!
*pies* And I call myself an egoist…
We could have it bookgirl_memania Unleashed!
I forgive you for any previous offenses (and future offenses, should they occur/have ever occurred) and delcared you a genius. Now that’s a good thread title…
I’m babysitting eight hours today.
But first I’m going to go down to the harbor/s and look for the tallships that we were apparently here yesterday.
Wow, that was rather dreadful cereal that I just ate. I won’t make that mistake twice.
One of my cats, Robin, just got on my keyboard and typed:
qAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATR0159
That’s cats for you, I guess.
209 (bookgirl_me) There is no Mozilla Firefox. *pies*
Today we visited Utrecht. We went paddle-boating in the canals for an hour and a half, and then explored. It was good fun!!
To all the pyromaniacs: We always have fireworks on New Year’s Eve, and once my uncle was here and, being rather fond of setting things on fire, after we did the fireworks he put them in a pile with some paper bags and cardboard and set it all on fire. And this was in the middle of the driveway at midnight.
Find out SAT subject tests scores… tomorrow.
*twitch*
In other news, I got a free henna tattoo yesterday at the library
It’s a gecko and a flower on my left shoulder… pretty sizable, maybe the length of my hand overall. When the paste was still wet she puffed glitter onto it so it was sparkly for a while XD It got fairly dark, too, and only smudged a little 
My first day of no school! Well, yeah, I’m stuck at home because my mom’s working, but I had a lot of time to catch up on my reading, and I played with my dog for the first time in ages, so it’s going pretty well.
re: subject tests
UGH
I took Lit and US History…nothing can possibly be worse than my math 2 score though so have hope!
Everyone is bothering me about getting my driver’s license. blah. I hate how it’s impossible to get anywhere without driving around here.
Those were my two as well. I remember being so worried about my Lit test, because I had skipped the entire last page (8 qs!), but it all turned out fine. Most of the SATIIs have a ridiculous curve, which was nice.
Out of curiousity, what is the age of the oldest person you regularly hang out with? Youngest? For me it is 29 for oldest and 17 for youngest. There are definitely people who are 15 or so and probably younger that I hang out with as well and probably older people but they are less regularly hung out with than the listed people.
Maybe 17 – 24? I think that’s probably the average range, with most of my close friends being in the middle of that.
Like, as a friend? Not as a sister.
14-41. It’s a palindrome!
235- Same ones I took! Urrrrrg.
Same about driver’s license too. Yes, I’m 17, I should really get it… meh.
Actually when I went to the DMV to get a permit to replace the copy I lost they added two years to it XD It would have expired in like a month otherwise >.<
236- Hmm. I guess 15’s the youngest (a few sophomores–nowait they’re juniors now–I know). I’m not sure about oldest. SOme seniors I guess, but I don’t actually ever really hang out with people. Too much to do/avoid doing, heh. I have friends up to their twenties but no one really close.
I just got a great idea- The Muse Academy Cipher!
Here’s how it works:
1) Write CRUSTOVOLANTINOLIOBSTAREMA on a piece of paper.
2) Under that, write the letters of the alphabet, A-Z so that the letters are all lined up.
3) Encode your message by writing the letter in the motto that is above the letter in the alphabet. For the letters that appear more than once, add their order of appearance as a subscript or exponent (Or parentheses AFTER it when typing). (For instance, “F” would be under the first “O” and encoded as just “O”, but “H”, being under the SECOND “O”, would be encoded as “O(2)”)
KAIYVES=NCLMA(2)TB
Why CRUSTOVOLANTINOLIOBSTAREMA? Can’t it be KOKOPELLIPWNSFORTYTWOBUNNY? That’s 26 letters, and more Muserly.
Because Crusto Volanti Noli Obstare is MA‘s motto.
(Before you ask, it means ‘Don’t get in the way of flying pies.’)
Ahh… *is enlightened*
Actually, “of a flying pie,” but the idea is the same.
Same diff. Mottoes don’t need to be translated too literally.
And I did know that. No, really!
Too literally? But you forget: Musers are by nature perfectionists.
As for the cipher, are the parentheses around the numbers needed? I think it could be more coded if we just have the numbers, sans parentheses.
The parentheses distinguish it from any actual numbers in the sentence.
Couldn’t we just write the numbers out? I doubt we’d have anything too long to write, e.g., eight hundred seventy-three million four hundred twenty-two thousand one hundred seventeen. I just feel it… I don’t know. makes the cipher easier to crack, y’know? *tries to brainstorm other ideas*
Yeah, I guess writing the numbers out would be easier.
We could do the numbers like this:
1123581321
Starting with zero.
It’s the first few numbers of the Fibonacci series. 1234567890 is:
1(1)1(2)2(1)3(1)581(3)2(2)1(4)
That would confuse any Anit-Kokonspirator.
R(2)H(2)CS_L(1)B_8_S(1)L(1)I(1)T(1)B(1)_1(3)?
We should ask this at any site that isn’t the MB, to find if there are MBers there.
What could be more Muserly than the Muse Academy motto?
MTB, LS LB!
Um…How about a backwards alphabet. Much simpler, you see. Ah, well.
SFTDP, but we could call it Azbycx.
No. That’s really simple to decode. MA cipher is doable by MBers only. The backwards alphabet is incredibly simple, and the first þing someone would þink of.
What kind of keyboard are you typing on?On what kind of keyboard are you typing? Instead of ‘th’ you have ‘þ’. That’s really cool.He just likes the þ character and is having fun with it, is all. He’s got a regular keyboard, as far as I know.
Hello, everyone!!!!!! I am in Arizona, and I do not understand these people! They are wearing collared shirts. It is 110 degrees outside.
Anyways, my flight was pretty bad. I experience extreme pressure on my ears, throat and jaw. It was very painful.
I can’t wait until tomorrow. I’m going to get my mom to take a picture of me reading Muse magazine in the hot-air balloon.
While surfing the Web for my job, I found out that a 14-year-old girl in upstate New York has just become the youngest person ever to discover a supernova. You can read about her here:
www . visualastronomy.com/2009/06/new-york-teen-discovers-supernova . html
Hmm… Wonder if she’s a Muser.
Congrats to her!
We went canoeing on Floodwood Pond today. (Feel free to snip that if it’s TMI, but since it’s over an hour from where I’m staying and at least five or six from where I normally live, I thought it would be OK.) There was a mother Black Duck and her five ducklings on the pond with us, and the curious little babies came over to see us. They swam around the canoe twice, making little cooing noises. Right before they “left,” two of the ducklings jumped up at my dad’s paddle and pecked it. It was adorable! Then they swam away, but one of them kept turning around to look back at the strange three-headed bird.
Awwwwww……… I ♥ ducklings. Pecking is a duckling’s way of figuring out what something is.
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Boy, that’s adorable! :happy:! Oh,
My computor (please correct) will not behave. I went to the library & got 12 books 
Yay!
Isn’t it? That’s got to be the coolest experience of my life.
What do you mean, “(please correct)?” Do you mean that you don’t know how to spell “computer,” and would like someone to tell you how to spell it, or do you mean something else?
Oh, and if you want to do a smiley face, you can just do : ) for
and : D for 
. In case you didn’t know. There isn’t any emoticon for :happy:. At least I don’t think so. :happy:
I just switched to Internet Explorer (I used to have Mozilla Firefox) and all of a sudden everything on this site is messed up!! First of all, I can’t see the bottom portion of the avatars, and it’s really slow. That might be a problem with my computer, (I’m not sure actually if it has anything to do with this site) but it’s really annoying and I was wondering if anyone else who has Internet Explorer has experienced the same problems. ‘Cuz when I say slow, I mean like I-can’t-even-scroll-down-the-page-in-under-five-minutes-slow. I know I should probably bring this to a Complaints thread, but the thought of waiting that long to process a new thread is painful to think about. *apologizes for the rant if anyone even bothered to read this….*
Go back to Firefox. IE is really not a good browser, and it is causing all of your MB troubles, for reasons unexplainable.
Yes, IE + MB = fail. It used to have shrinking comment boxes, too. *shudder* Just go back to Firefox.
I will. In fact, I already have!!
things that make me happy right now: seas and shipwrecks and rusted pocket watches and water and ancient cities and imaginary cities and stone walls and cathedrals and cinnamon and spices and chocolate and tea.
Story idea! *rushes off*
ee! I’m glad to have inspired something.
I can see it drawing itself out in walnut ink on an ancient vellum surface that has been scraped and redrawn numerous times, leaving behind layers of faint ghostings from earlier renderings.
224- Ooh! Lovely.
243~ IE is just weird. Keep using FireFox……
Today was mostly wonderful. Two friends and I (and mom) dressed up in 18th century clothes and went to the fort for the day, which was awesome in general.
Then one of them had to go with her dad for visitation rights, and he’s a jerk. He messed stuff up and tried to blame it on my friend, my mom, my other friend, it was ridiculous. My friend was really upset, but en was able to come back to our house afterward to have dinner cooked on the remainders of last night’s bonfire. That was fun and good, and when we took en home I got to take a ride in en’s truck! That was fun. Mwaha.
I can’t wait until I can drive the convertible….though it’s not technically ours yet (we put the top down today though!) and it needs a lot of fixing.
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Tomorrow we’re going into DC for the Smithsonian Folklife festival, funfunfun. Oh, HAWK, on the off chance that you read this, had you given any thought to coming with us/meeting us there?
Or are any other musers going to be there? GAPAs? Whatever, in case anyone wanted to throw a plan together.
Anyway, I’ll be there and I’m looking forward to it.
Though I’m a bit freaked out about the whole Metro crash thing, eep! I think about how many times I’ve ridden on the underground, and how little that really is in comparison to what some people do. *shudders* I’ve been on the Red line. Not that end of it though, I think.
We’re driving though…
Maybe it will help to be reminded that the last fatal Metro crash was in the winter of 1982. (That was a night I don’t think any Washingtonian of the time could forget. I certainly can’t. A plane iced over and crashed into the 14th Street Bridge the same day.)
January 13. I remember it well. Heavy snow was falling, and traffic was snarled for hours. That was the day I swore I’d leave Washington and move to California — and I did, eventually, and even more eventually moved back.
I’ll be in downtown Washington tomorrow as every work day. Stop by if you like.
My boss and I were working late, listening to the radio reports and wondering when we’d get home. For a while I thought I was going to have to walk to Alexandria; I had a long hike as it was. Buses actually refused to pick me up. Later I learned that a guy I had been working with was among the casualties on the plane. And my parents knew several luckier people who missed that flight for one reason or another.
Ugh, Mother’s gone and Opal hasn’t come home yet (which is rather odd…) so the house is all empty and cold and rather a mess to boot. And I’m almost done with Persuasion, and what shall I read then?
In short, I feel decidedly uneasy, and I’m not sure what to do about it. Losing myself in a book will hardly do, since my book is almost over. Maybe I’ll light some incense and turn on the heat and clean the house. Yes, that sounds good.
NEWS FLASH- 35,000 year old flutes discovered in a cave in Germany.
35,000 flutes? What were they doing there?
And since they were so new, why were they in a cave?
I assume that’s sarcastic. I just didn’t realize what it meant before. Here’s a joke.
A school group is going to go to an aquarium. But the porpoises there are…frolicking. So the manager says to his grunt, go to the beach and get year-old gulls, 14 of them. But watch out for the lion that escaped from the state zoo. So the grunt goes, gets the gulls, and goes back. But a lion is blocking his way. He steps over the lion, but is arrested for “transporting 14 year-old gulls over the state lion for immoral porpoises”.
Ahem. Not 35,000 year-old flutes, but 35,000-year-old flutes — three of them, a complete flute made of bone and two partial ones made of ivory.
www . nytimes.com/2009/06/25/science/25flute . html
ooh. awesome.
Got back from the balloon ride. It was amazing. My parents and I got up at 4:30am and got picked up by the baloon people. Once at the launch site we (my parents, two elderly women, a newlywed couple and I) watched as the men inflated the balloon and readied the basket for about 30 min. until we were finally allowed on. Then Blair, the pilot, pulled the little handle that starts the fire and suddenly, all 8 of us were over 600 feet above Coconino National Forest! My mom took a picture of me reading Muse in the hot-air baloon. I saw tons of jackrabbits, some muledeer, a flock of quail, and a small herd of pig-like creatures called havalina. I got a little naseous but other than that it was so incredibly cool!
That sounds awesome! I’ve always wanted to go on a balloon ride.
I, also.
250- I read about that too. I hope there’s a working version of one made soon, it would be really cool to hear what they sounded like.
Anyone know if they were the more “traditional” modern flutes that are held off to the side or like the kind you hold before you (like Kokopelli
)?
251- I love watching hot air balloons float by, it’d be fun to go up in one some day.
Transverse (sideways) flutes were invented about 3,000 years ago, so the 35,000-year-old flutes would be held in front of the person that was playing them.
So tomorrow, I will hopefully get to stay at my friend’s house, which would be very good because I really haven’t gotten a chance to talk to her since before Exams.
And it’s FINALLY sunny again!
My ducklings are a month old today.
AP Source: Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY and DERRIK J. LANG – 43 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson, the moonwalking former child star who became known the world over as the “King of Pop” before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. He was 50.
The person said Jackson died in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda told the newspaper.
Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
He was perhaps the most exciting performer of his generation, known for his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves, his high-pitched voice punctuated with squeals and titters. His single sequined glove and tight, military-style jacket were trademarks second only to his ever-changing, surgically altered appearance. Over the years, his skin became lighter and his nose narrower.
I saw the moonwalk performed on TV for the first time, ever. Never in a million years will I be able to duplicate it. Nor will I try.
RIP, king of pop.
It’s so sad…
It’s very surprising! No one saw it coming…
We went swimming today. I practiced holding my breath (for when I’m stuck underneath a kayak) and then when I came up for air after forty-five seconds underwater my right leg just sort of knotted up and I had to go sit down for a couple of minutes before it felt entirely normal again. I’m not sure if it had anything to do with oxygen deprivation (I’d been repeatedly holding my breath for about five minutes) or if it was just a freak of nature, but I don’t fancy doing that again. My leg still sort of hurts where the knot was.
Then I found the fins or flippers or whatever they’re called and that was great. Then we went out for fries and then we went to the comic book shop and I got a Doctor Who comic. It was not as exciting as the actual TV show.
Now I think I’ll have some caffeine and take a shower, because I smell of chlorine and I’m in danger of falling asleep right here and now.