The August Random Thread continues its celebration of MuseBlog’s anniversary month with more images from threads gone by.
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An assortment of Muses.
Once the Bunny Borg Cube invaded our galaxy, no one was safe. As we learned in October, 2007, HPBs also dabble in interior decorating.
Images from 2007: “September Splash”, Part 2 and Part 3. The Part 2 graphic started out as a watercolor painting of HPBs — seen here for the first time (full painting and detail) — that was digitally transformed. Part 3 also used a watercolor, with only a slight digital touch. It was cropped to fit the space, but here you can see the full painting. Bonus pictures: miscellaneous experiments. Mouseover the tiles to see the full pictures.
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AWESOME!!!!! I love the pictures. Very nice with the zooming-in effects. In other things, I am only allowed to use the Internet 3 days a week, so that’s why I won’t be on so often. (First post?)
Very nice!
Tonight’s the Perseid sleepover with Hannah!
Also, I got to swim in the ocean today and it was very calm, which was good. I love getting away from the City for a few days.
I like those pictures – like Silver Lining said, I like the way they zoom in and out!
By the way, Silver Lining and I found out we know each other on another site. (I hope you don’t mind me saying that!) That was cool.
That’s awesome!!
Only, the HPB’s blindfold is slipping!
Oh, wow. *fail* I didn’t realize the
was walking the plank. *facepalm*
Fourth post? As Silver Lining said, the zooming-in is really cool!
So I’m not actually leaving again until tomorrow morning, so I thought I would share this news with you:
I am freaking out right now. Why? Because apparently, sometime recently, my best friend got engaged. She’s 18 (but in my grade), and she has been dating a guy who graduated in ’08 for six months now. And tonight, during dinner, my brother turned to me and asked “When did Inga get engaged?” I was…a bit surprised, to say the least.
Oh dear, good luck with that! That is a surprise.
that’s…that’s kind of crazy. I echo oxlin’s statements on the matter!
w00t, last post on the previous thread! And 7th here, loverly.
6~ Wow. I’d be surprised as well.
As always, gorgeous work Lady B. I am particularly fond of those bunnies.
You and Robert (and your parentals) are the only MBers who saw the HPB painting. I couldn’t post it because the original scan presented technical difficulties that I was too much of a Photoshop neophyte to solve back in 2007.
At the time, Robert described it as “Hieronymus Bosch with bunnies” and added that “Retrospectives of your work are going to be baffled by this period.”
Of the green ones, he noted “Evidently, deep-sea bunnies who spend their lives in the perpetual blackness below the photic zone have evolved a symbiotic relationship with phosphorescent bacteria.”
Heh. I like Robert’s interpretations of art.
6- Wow. I would be surprised, to say the least, if I was in your situation.
I love the HPB on the plank, Lady B. It’s one of my favorites.
I love Aeiou’s expression in that picture.
This must have been my first freehand attempt at drawing Muses. I remember being so nervous that the artwork wouldn’t pass muster with MBers. Before that I’d used CorelDraw which allowed me to endlessly tweak lines. But I decided it was time to be brave and take the plunge. (Um, no pun intended, I swear.)
They are wonderful pictures! Like everyone else, I love the bunny-walking-the-plank ones!
I had a dream recently. It started out that there was a big group of MBers and we were all sitting and talking somewhere. Robert was there and handing out foam hats to people. After we all left, I drove off in a car filled with people from college.
Uh…foam hats? were they shaped like hpbs? Or pies?
Or wedges of cheese?
Hey, you’re back! Hi!
Welcome back, Robert.
Nope, they were just regular hats but made out of that sort of plastic coated foam. You made a couple clochés and a hat that had a wide brim and a flat top to it.
7.1~ That’s awesome! I love Robert’s comments, they’re always screamingly hilarious yet dignified.
Yup.
12- Ditto.
My addiction to MB is getting worse. I got up at 6 a.m. today just to finally have a turn on the computer…
13- ahaha. I get that. Sometimes I plan my day around when I will go on MB. You know you’re addicted to MB when….
How was your vacation Robert?
It was great fun. I went kayaking, something I had never done before. Now I’m back at my editing job, which is almost the opposite of kayaking except that you do both of them sitting down.
You’ve never been kayaking? :0 Kayaking is awesome! I’m better at paddling to the right because that’s my stronger side. I’ve been kayaking millions of times! My family owns two kayaks. *is rambling*
Ooh, sounds like a great vacation! I’m glad you had fun.
Wow, kayaking! I’ve never done that, but it sounds like fun.
Okay, so I woke up at one in the morning with my friend, and it was a little foggy, but we did see about ten, which is good.
Very cool pictures! I particularly like the bottom middle one.
Bleah. I have been home for the summer and now the friends who hang out with me are not the ones that I get along with super well. There are these three other girls that I think I’d get along with a lot better but then I am not actually one of the people they’d think to call.
16) 10 meteors? I accidently set my alarm for 2 pm instead of am, so I missed the shower.
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Things I hate:
Chain Mail
“send to 0 people, you DIE!!!”
You can probably still see some if you go out and look for a while.
The next scheduled showers are the Draconids and Orionids in October.
Do you know when in October? That’d be cool to see one!
The Draconids will be on October 7 and 8 if they show up this year (they’re unreliable). The Orionids will peak on October 21 but should be visible for a few nights on either side of that date.
It’s been so cloudy that I haven’t seen a single meteor.
Welcome back, Robert!
Re: Meteor shower: I was actually up at one last night, but I didn’t think to look for meteors.
Fiddler Hello all.
HAWK Hi everyone!!! We’re having a wonderful time already!
Fiddler There’s a bonfire going, upon which dinner will be cooked later, right now the Moms are mixing up a cake, yummm. *is hungry*
HAWK It should all be very tasty, as usual! Food cooked out on a bonfire and enjoyed with great friends always is!
Fiddler Indeed. ^.^
That sounds so wonderful! Wish I could be there! Food just tastes better outdoors…especially when kokonvening. Greetings to all!
w00t! The fake email generated a green avatar! WHOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!
bigbrightgreenavatarmakingmachine! Am I good or what?
(that was Fern, by the way….being insane. Pity poor HAWK.)
HAWK Pure brilliance, I tell you! Honestly, who else could have done that?!?!
42Fiddler 23.1~ It does indeed. Maybe next time you can grace our gathering with your presence.
RtH We’d love to see you again–do let us know if there’s any chance of kokonvening!
We’re about to head down to the bonfire now.
I am extremely jealous (envious?) of your frequent Kokonventions. Where are you two located, again?
Envious.
I’d say “have fun,” but it would be redundant. Fiddler and HAWK have more fun than anybody else I know.
Yay! I’m glad you guys are having a blast! I wish I could meet you both.
Hello again MB!
Guess what?!!!
I got my license today! *does happy dance*
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Thanks!
26 – Congratulations!
Can someone find RoseQuartz and tell her that I made a move on our chess game?
Fiddler 25.2~
Wish you were here though.
26~ Congrats! A full driver’s license? *envious*
RtH Hi Robert! Hi everybody! Indeed, we’re having a great time. We were listening to Barred Owls nearby after dessert!! We’re headed back out in a minute to look at stars, and hopefully see Jupiter and a few of its moons. Dinner was great–many thanks to the fiddler family!!
Fiddler Oh. My. Goodness. PWNAGE. You can send text messages with an iPod touch if you have a WiFi connection. I repeat, PWNAGE. I can text HAWK now. (Need I say it again? PWNAGE.)
Methinks ’tis most grand and advantageous to the future of the Kokonspiracy. Yesssssss.
HAWK just left, after we stargazed for a bit. That was most awesome, his iPod touch has an app that shows the constellations, so we looked and identified and oohed and aahed over the sky. Too bad there’s so much more light pollution now, even here in the boonies. *sigh* Oh well.
Hmm…..do I want to wake up really early tomorrow morning to go swimming? Eh, I don’t know.
25.3~ Mutual. If you’re ever in the Washington Dc area be sure to let us know.
*is sneaky and has been in Washington DC many a time without letting anyone know* ahem. Oops. I was even right there either just before or just after the DC Kokon. Ahem. right… You’re probably all angry at me for not telling anyone. I have relatives in the DC area and visit them fairly often though I haven’t been in DC since when I was there around the time of the DC Kokon of 2007.
30.1~ What generic area are you from? *can’t remember*
The midwest.
Woohoo! I am in the keys, and it’s great! Yesterday we went to key west, and watched the sunset. We couldn’t really see it because of clouds, but the street performers and vendors were way cool. On the way down we stopped at No Name Key, to look for Key Deer. When we saw one I stuck my hand out the window, and it came up and licked my fingers! People feed them (which is illegal) so they’re not afraid of people at all. Besides that, there are 3 inch long scorpions in the yard, which sometimes come in the house, and a Tokay gecko living on the front porch. Oh, and a couple days ago we went tubing, with the big rubber thing you tow behind the boat, and we went looking for lobsters, but didn’t find any. Over all, extremely awesome,
So, today at band camp, my director calls me over. He introduces me to a guy, and then proceeds to tell me that he’s a new freshman clarinet. He doesn’t know how to march or any of the formations, and we have three days left to teach him everything he needs to know. Gotta love stress!
THREE DAYS???? I wish you the best of luck.
Ouch, good luck.
We had two freshmen (in a band of 100) miss preband and band camp, and consequently tonight’s entire five-hour rehearsal was dedicated to reviewing half of our first movement, focus on those freshmen. Last year there was the same situation, and the band director’s attitude was basically “figure it out as you go along, we aren’t slowing down.”
I got an extremely creepy email just now:
(\__/)
(O.o )
(> < )
This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination!!
I totally screamed my head off! Yes, this is random. But I am in shock! AAAH!
I’ve gotten that email, too. The bunny thing is actually something that’s been going around the kids in my school for a while, too. I’m REALLY freaked out about it…obviously it’s a plot for the HPBs to rule the email world… *shudder*
Yeah. Now that I think about it, I’ve gotten it before, but that was before I knew what HPBs are. Now it freaks me out.
That’s on YouTube, too… *dies*
Yeah, they have dozens of various “copy and paste so-and-so to help him achieve world domination”. It’s sickening.
Yeah, I saw that on somebody’s profile and I sent them a message telling them off vigorously. It was rather amusing. I won the prize for the strangest message they had ever received.
Niiiice!
Oh. my. GOSH!!!!
Did someone leak to non-MBers? Or was this an actual MBer? The world may never know.
Now we’re competing with Starbucks AND this one!
W00t! I might be getting Muse soon! You see, my grandma always gets me and my sister magazines, and this year I’m asking for Muse! Oh yeah! Which I will LOVE, because usually it’s science magazines. (my sis’s choice.) but this year I might be getting MUSE!!! ok, I am hyper. And I know it.
Congratulations!! I didn’t realize that you didn’t already have a subscription.
No, I get Cricket.
So do I. I just recently started getting Muse. Anyway, I hope you love the mag!!! It’s really cool.
Thing is, it also means that when my current subscription to Cricket ends, I won’t be getting Cricket anymore.
Really?
Yeah. (;_;)
I get both of them, but I might start getting Cicida instead of Cricket. I also love Calliope.
STAY WITH CRICKET!!!!!!
This computer has a virus. Multiple viruses. And I’m afraid it’s my fault.
So I’m staying off the computer. Just in case.
Cause I’m scared.
And the best way is to run.
Good bye until the viruses are gone, friends.
Boy, it’s slow today…
Oh yes, I might come on time to time. Just not as often.
But if McAfee fixes it, I’ll have the same visiting rate.
My AP English class was a fail today. The teacher, talking about hyperbole (why she was explaining something we already knew I cannot say), said, “These things shouldn’t be took literally.” An AP English teacher. Then later, as I was doing the homework (annotating excerpts of a speech by JFK) there was a sentence which read something like: “This is a year where we will not simply choose who will lead us, but where we want to be lead.” And I was under the silly impression that an AP English course would use proper English.
Edit: Bobby Kennedy, not JFK. I think.
In my experience of Honors English, there is no focus on grammar at all. It has been transformed into a literature class. Unfortunately, this means that too many of the students use “your” and “there” in the wrong context. But I wouldn’t know about actual IB English classes because school hasn’t started yet.
My English classes have unfortunately been the exact opposite. Too much emphasis on simple grammar. I mean, in 9th grade, my class was reviewing basic parts of speech. There’s a certain point where if you don’t know the language, you shouldn’t be signing up for the class, because we shouldn’t be reviewing comma rules in junior AP English (which I learned first in 7th grade).
Most people in my 8th grade class, even the smart ones, don’t know what restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses are, so there’s at least some still worth going over.
My gosh.
Well, way back when, in 4th grade, some docent who was showing us around the Art Institute of Chicago, in the context of discussing the objects in a very boring painting, gives us this big, possessed smile and asks:
“Do you guys know what NOUNS are?”
The whole group went mute with shock.
So I’m back at work. It was a slow day. I don’t have much to report.
I feel extremely restless. I hate feeling this way, I can’t concentrate on anything and I’m afraid I make lousy company (as though there’s anyone around anyway). *sigh*
I want to be doing something. Something worthwhile and interesting, not just sitting around in my room. *sigh again*
What I’d really like is to be at a living history event, or sailing, or dancing, or playing music with a group of people.
But instead I’m just wishing I could and driving myself mad by looking up ways that I might be able to do the aforementioned activities.
Oh well.
28-REALLY? You can text with an iTouch (my family’s pet name for it)? Because I have my own iPod Touch and a WiFi Connection, but I didn’t know you can text with the things. How’d you guys do it?
36-NUUUUU! CAKE, I hate viruses. My little brother accidently put a Trojan Horse virus on my mom’s NetBook, and now it randomly does something really horrid with the windows, won’t say unless anyone asks me.
I need to finish my RP entry for a contest that I reallyreallyreally wanna win, but I’m not motivated, even though I need to finish by the 27th. But I wanna do two pages in size 10 font in word, and the file’s only on my mom’s computer, so I need to use hers, so PLEASE motivate meee, I beg of you!
*shrug* Since no one else has asked, what does it do?
and there’s more, but only if you finish the contest. How’s that for motivation???
And for motivation….
28,42- Wait, huh? How do you do it! I have a first generation iTouch. (we call it that too!)
42 (43)~ It says something like “text+” on one of the buttons near the bottom, like where it says “safari” to launch the browser. Well, just launch it, enter the phone number you want to text, write a message and send it. It was pretty cool. It comes through on the receiving end with a note that’s set up “[sender’s name]: [message body] (reply w/ your msg, or reply MENU for options)”
Pretty [expletive deleted] awesome, as Ray might put it.
Sorry, what generation do you have?
Hmm, I can’t find it. Safari’s not at the bottom on mine, so that might be part of the problem…
My dad has an iPod Touch. I downloaded the texting app (it does exist) and it didn’t work…
Why does everyone have cell phones?!
Don’t worry SilverLeopard, I don’t have a cell phone either. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only girl in my grade who doesn’t have one, but the truth is, I don’t mind too much except for when everyone else is texting all around me or showing off their phones 24/7. Luckily that doesn’t happen too much, but when it does I just leave the conversation. I know that having a phone would certainly be fun, but I know I’d probably become addicted to it in minutes and I don’t want to get sucked into that…
Me either.
An iPod Touch is not a cell phone, which probably explains why so many people are excited that you can text on it.
I do have a cell phone, but it’s four years old. Plus, I have Maps Credit Union service, so my texts cost 14 cents each.
OK, fine, but I count an iPod touch as something in the “phone” category whether it is or not. It’s close enough to one in my eyes.
Ooh, my cell phone is older! It’s a hand-me-down from my mom, which when she got it was a hand-me-down from my dad. It is about the size of you average modern house phone. And I’m not allowed to text really. It’s basically an emergency phone, really. But my texts only cost ten cents anyhow! w00t! *is random*
I don’t have a cell phone. I borrow one from my brother that I keep in my bag at work/school for emergencies, but that’s all.
36/42- I cannot ever afford to get viruses on my computer, because it is my mom’s…. and her work is based on it. It crashed twice and she lost her books once (fortunately it was recovered). I sincerely hope the virus doesn’t do anything horrible.
LOVE the art, just plain amazing. Before I found MB, I never thought a pink bunny could be employed as art to the extent it is here.
28- NO WAY. How? I just bought a Touch, and I’ve got the WiFi… is it an app?
32- Sounds awesome! I’ve never been to the Keys, and I live in Florida, so I don’t even have a good excuse.
36- Viruses. Suck. End of story. I once lost all of my files (documents, music, art, etc.) to a virus EXACTLY one year after we got the computer. What are the odds?
39- Well, that’s painfully ironic.
I have to study for Chemistry, read for AP World History, and dissect a passage of Fahrenheit 451 for English. I just want to surf the web and listen to Weezer. *sigh* It’s amazing, I start to act like it’s summer right after school starts.
SFTDP, Fiddler’s post wasn’t up when I wrote that.
Next week I’m off to a sleep away sports camp for sports freaks like me, which I am soooo excited about. As you can probably guess, my ‘major’ at the camp will be soccer, but I’ll also be doing General Fitness, basketball, and free swim. Free swim is a must because everyone does it, I’m only doing general fitness for my parents, and basketball should be nice but I’ve never done their program before so it should be something new.
One of my friends is going, but her ‘major’ is field hockey so I’m guessing I won’t see her too much. Luckily I did request her for my cabin, so my fingers are crossed that I’ll get her. Last year I didn’t and so cabin periods were all a bit of a nightmare. I was with a bunch of annoying tennis freaks that all knew each other, and who pretty much ignored me the whole week. I did have a nice counselor, but apparently she knew the tennis freaks too because they all came from the same town which didn’t exactly help my situation. I’ll be keeping you updated throughout the week, but I probably won’t be able to log on as often.
awesome page….my school starts tomorrow and i am SO not ready, my book reports are done but…..
You must be new? Welcome to museblog!
hi!
Please capitalize properly.
Hi everybody!
Fellow iTouch users: It is indeed an app from the iTunes app store, called Text+. It’s free to download, but you do have to download it; it doesn’t come pre-loaded. Once you download it, you can enter the phone numbers of your friends in your contacts and select who you want to text right in the text+ app. And it claims to be unlimited and totally free. Of course, you can only text when you have WiFi, but hey, it’s free and you can text from your iPod!
Oh,and don’t worry, my Safari app was at the top of the screen when I first got my iTouch. I’ve moved a lot of my apps around into what I feel is a more logical arrangement for me.
Ok, now I just need to try to persuade my mum to get it…… I imagine her responding something like: “Not until you start driving”, though. At the least.
I have…five and a half pages of apps, I just found the app on my app store, and will ask my parents about downloading it tomorrow. Thanks, HAWK!
Oh, and it’s textPlus. Spelled like that. It’s made by GOGII, correct?
Now off to brush my teeth and play Magic Blackboard-good night everyone~!
I’ll be stalking through iTouch, but not posting. Know I’m there!
Sure, glad to help! And yes, it’s name is technically textPlus, and it’s made by GOGII. They just shortened it to text+ for the app icon.
I’m off to brush my teeth, as well. Ack, I need to get in the habit of getting to bed at a decent hour so it’s easier to get up early for school.
Hola, fellow MBers!
I’m sorry for not posting on my various RPGs, RRRs and such. We have marching band (I’m in the colorguard) practice 3+ times a week. This week we have it five times, and later today I have debate and a card-making thing for a friend’s cause. So I’ll be out 9 AM to 9 PM today. I’ve also done a tiny bit of my summer homework. (School starts the day after labor day.) So, again, sorry, but I can’t post any more for now because I need to get ready for that debate summer workshop.
Au revoir!
Helloo MB! What a loverly morning! I don’t have much time to spare because I’m running around like a chicken with its head cut off! I’ve got… 4 essays, a huge scrapbook, and a ton of chores to finish by Monday! Eekers!
Re: iTouch texting: Please field questions about sending and recieving texts on the iPod to HAWK, but I’d be willing to answer any questions about sending and receiving iPod texts on the cell phone end.
An odd thing I’ve noticed, when HAWK texts me it comes through as an eight digit number (if I remember correctly), I am able to reply and we carry on a conversation. However, the other day when he texted me starting afresh, it came with a different number (same amount of digits). So I am assuming that each new conversation that the iTouch user starts comes through as a separate number for the cell phone recipient. That was interesting. Then when, as a text, I responded to the conversation number from the day before, HAWK reported that it did go through, and brought up the rest of that conversation.
Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that the iTouch user may start a conversation with the cell phone user at any time (provided they have the WiFi and the recipient has reception), generating new numbers each time.
However, if the cell phone user wished to initiate a conversation they must be sure to keep at least some of the previous conversation in order to have something to “reply” to. In other words, if the cell phone user has “auto delete” marked in their settings (as I do) so that when the history on the phone gets full it begins to delete the oldest unsaved messages instead of blocking incoming ones, the cell phone user will have to take care that they always keep at least one message from a previous iTouch conversation to reply to to initiate a conversation.
Hopefully that made sense.
The power went out last night.
It was really weird, I was on Facebook, and then the lights went out and I said “Whoa! we’re in the dark!” and then the lights came back on and then went off again. And the only light in the whole house–on the whole street actually–was my computer screen, so I used its light to find a flashlight. And our phone didn’t work either, which is weird since I thought power and phone were separate. And it was so dark outside, ’cause all the streetlights and house lights went off too, and our flashlight beams hardly penetrated the darkness at all. So we brushed our teeth by flashlight and went to bed and I called people across town to see if they had power, and no one did, and no one knew why. So I lay there and thought about reasons why it would have gone out, and thought about the people I was chatting too and what they would think when I just vanished, and wondered whether I should get my book and read it by cell phone light, and how weird it was for it to be so totally dark. Then I fell asleep and woke up later when my mom asked if she could use my cell phone for the alarm, so I sat up and tried to find the alarm but I couldn’t and she said “I’ll do it” and I said “OK, good, ’cause I’m two-thirds asleep” and I fell asleep again. And I woke up again later on because there was a cat fight on the front porch and I went and scared away the strange cat and let Noodle in and went to sleep again. And when I woke up to my cell phone alarm which happens to be the same as my ring tone and said “Hello?” before realizing that Mother had my phone. And I went downstairs and all the lights were on.
There was some flickering at my house last night, so that must have been caused by some of what you were experiencing.
While I was reading your post, I was really confused because your computer was still on. My thought process:
“What? Her computer’s still on? How can that be? Isn’t the power off?”
“Oh, it must be a laptop.”
I have been deluded into thinking that laptops can’t survive without power because my parents ruined all three of theirs, one of which is now mine, by keeping them plugged in all the time instead of unplugging them when they’re fully charged to give the battery a workout. So none of the computers in the house, including the laptops, can survive longer than one minute without a power outlet. Sad.
Luckily, my mom’s thinking about getting me a new computer! (Since mine’s six years old)
54.1- Wow, that’s intense. Why the state-wide power outage?
-unplugs computer-
Well, it was only a little flickering. And it was probably the light bulb in the room that I was in, because it went out the next time I turned it on… yeah, it was probably the light bulb.
We had a power outage too, but this afternoon. I think it was a problem with the company.
I just realized that I’ve been misspelling my name. The scientific name for the spotted salamander is Ambystoma maculatum , not Amblystoma maculatum.
Poor Kokonilly. All I’ve got to do is an Introduction To Online Learning lesson, since I’m doing Florida Virtual School this year, and don’t have school for…-counts on fingers- five days.
50.1, 53-I do have a phone, which I use…half of the time…
Virtual School? I’m doing Laurel Springs Online! I am playing with my new iBook! √° yaya!
Yesterday, I was talking with my mom and brothers about when we went to Disney World back in December of 2002 and how great it was. I really would like to go back.
Now that I’ve read more about Walt Disney and I understand more of what he was “about”, I feel I could appreciated the park on another level. (Plus, I could look for Hidden Mickeys! I had no idea those even existed until last year.)
It would be really great to have some non-park days when we could visit Cape Canaveral, too. Even if there wasn’t a launch or anything.
Wait, Hidden Mickeys? Please inform me of this mystery! I want to look for them, too, whatever they are!
Hidden throughout the decor of Walt Disney World is the profile of Mickey Mouse’s head in various sizes, colors, and degrees of hidden-ness.
I’ll be sure to look at them if I ever do go to Walt Disney World. I’m kind of afraid to go, though, because Disney Land has always been my favorite. Plus, Walt Disney World is so huge!
I think Disneyland has them, too.
They’re at every Disney park, and they’re not just restricted to Mickey- there are hidden silhouettes of virtually every Disney character somewhere. Since I live fairly close to Disney World, I’ve found a lot, and I know where even more are.
Yes, it’s more like “Hidden Characters”, but “Hidden Mickeys” is the term they use in guidebooks and on Wikipedia.
I. Hate. Science. I don’t really see the use of it. i think my sister got all the interest in science and I didn’t get any. She loves science.
How could you possibly hate science?
It. Is. Boring. And. Pointless. And. It. Gives. Me. A. Headache.
Science or science class? There’s a difference.
Not for me, I’m using an online curriculum this year. And usually my mom’s explanations don’t make sense as she has to transalate from Japanese in her head. And my dad is out of town for business most of the time. And so I have to figure it out by myself with the textbook, or get even more cunfuzzled by my mum, or wait untill the end of the week to have my dad explain it, and then do it over the weekend. I’m going with trying to figure it out by myself at the moment. I could ask my “teacher”, of course, through email, but that usually doesn’t help me, as he always thinks I’m saying something other than my intention. Is anyone here good at science?
I HATED my science teacher for the past two years. Freshman year the teacher lectured the class more on his track team than on Biology. Sophomore year the teacher treated everyone like they were idiots (which most of them were, sad to say).
I pity you in your situation. I also HATE online curriculums, mostly because of the horrible experience I had last year with Health II. I barely passed with a 92 percent and I cried over it at least twice a month. The teacher never understood what I was saying and the poorly written material and tests made it very hard to perform well. But that’s all in the past.
I believe that you need a real lab and a hands-on science experience from a teacher that’s actually there to truly appreciate the scientific method and all the wonders of looking at the world with a scientific perspective. No matter how hard you try, it’s practically impossible to learn science from a book.
I hoped you read my little speech…
I agree. I guess I’m ok at science but not great, and ever since middle school when we started to actually do real hands on labs and experiments, it’s been so much more fun. I’m definitely a visual learner, so seeing things is much easier than listening to someone go on and on and on about different theories for me.
Fireandhelmlock1996-If I were in your position, I know I would hate science too. But trust me, once you get into hands on things such as experiments, science becomes a lot more fun, and in my case, a lot easier to understand than reading from a textbook. I know it might not be possible for you to do any hands on experiments or things like that, but if you can, I’d give it a try and see.
Hey, I’m a visual learner too! I can understand a textbook better than a talking person, but I still like hands-on too. Which i don’t get with the online curiculum. Bah!
Yeah, that’s one definite down side to online curriculum. I don’t think I’d be able to stand it…
I am good at science, and I LOVE it.
I am good at math, and I HATE it.
Hm.
What level of science are you doing? Almost everyone here is older than me, and I am extremely envious that you have some choice in the type of science, I like science in general, but I am not particularly fond of geology, so maybe you just don’t like one kind of science, so what kind (biology, astronomy, epidemiology, ichthyology, etc.) are you doing?
A very large difference. I love science, and yet this past year I hated science class. That is, until the tail end of the year, where the unintentional humor made it sometimes funny enough to be worth the suffering.
POINTLESS?????
Uh-huh. Why?
f&h: What type of science are you studying right now, and what are you confused about?
Life science. Mostly my problem is I can’t get the terms+definitions to stay in my brain, and so nothing makes sense because half of the terms I’ve forgotten what they mean.
Biology does have a huge vocabulary, because living things are complicated. When you have a lot of different parts working together in a lot of different ways, you need words to describe them. I think teachers could help by making sure students always understand the big picture of what’s going on. My teachers never did that, though, and I wound up specializing in non-life science. I’m still learning how living things (including me) work, and I wish I’d studied the subject more systematically at some point.
Rosanne knows a lot about biology, and I know she’s not crazy about memorizing things. Maybe she can help explain how to make the long slog more tolerable and why it’s worthwhile.
Re: huge vocabulary: indeed! I’d be very happy to
hearread Rosanne’s thoughts on the matter! And yes, I agree that it’s important to keep the big picture in mind when learning about the details.You like biology, HAWK. How do you deal with the problem of memorizing terminology?
I’m good at memorizing things, but only when I find them interesting, which for me science is not. If I could find some way of making it interesting………..
What area of life science are you studying now?
Light. But soon I will be starting on Cell Structure and Function. (I’m looking it up in my textbook) The Light kinda-maybe is starting to make some sense, but some stuff I still have to look up every time there is a question with that word in it.
On a similar subject, my this week’s “PE” assignment is suspiciously like science………
Re: science classes: I think being successful and happy in a science class (or almost any class, actually) depends upon having a good teacher who works well with you and a good text that fits your personal learning style enough to make the material understandable. While it surely helps if you are learning about something that really interests you, I think having an open mind and a strong interest in learning can help a lot. And yes, for science courses a lab can help solidify what you’re learning by making it visual and providing hands-on experience.
Also, when learning independently, a good text is particularly important. Having a friend to talk to might be helpful if the text alone is still confusing.
*/mini lecture* I hope that made some sense/ was mildy helpful…
Ooops, sorry for my other post, questioning you about sciences. I’m so easily distracted, I should have just read on down the list to see what kind of science you were taking, but anyway. I luuuurve life science. What I do to remember the stuff is think of silly little comparisons or make acronyms, or else just stare at the material until I can’t possibly forget it. Or flashcards.
Hey, I’m going to be taking Life Science next year! Maybe (OK, fine, this is a really huge maybe) if we’re studying similar things I could help you understand some of it if you’re having trouble. Just give me a shout here and I’ll try the best I can, IF I understand it too, of course.
power outages: oh, how I Ioathe them. We sometimes have rolling blackouts, which are basically the electric company saying “rofl let’s turn the power off right in the middle of your viewing of this sappy korean movie”
The worst part is the air conditioning going out…85 in the house is no fun at all
I’m glad your power is back, though! I too have a laptop so it stays on for a bit even if the power is off.
59– without science there would be no museblog!
Ugh… power outages are so annoying. We had one of those a few or so weeks ago.
We get them quite frequently, but almost NEVER when my dad is at home! It’s unfair!
fireandhemlock, I have similar troubles memorizing terminology, especially when I don’t understand it very well to begin with. One key to retaining information is to learn it as many ways as possible, building a web of associations, connecting as many threads as you can, so they reinforce each other. Interact with the information, don’t simply try to memorize meaningless words. It’s easier to learn and remember concrete information — stuff we can see, smell, touch.
For instance, if you can draw it, draw it, even if it’s just symbols or stick figures. Act it out. Make up a song about it. (Oh, those mighty mitochondria…) Get a pack of non-drying clay in different colors and sculpt some cell formations. Write a story: “once upon a time there was a cell…” What does the word feel like? Is there a way to relate the feeling of the word to the meaning?
Sometimes you can break a word down into meaningful parts, then figure out how to attach the other bits. (Oh, that vacuous vacuole.) Sometimes you have to resort to mnemonic* devices — tricks, in other words — to keep words straight. My biggest trouble is keeping track of words that come in pairs, such as the rods and cones in the retina of the eye. To this day I have to think “COnes for COlor” to know which is which.
The specific technique isn’t important. The process of trying to come up with something will in itself deepen your understanding.
*Mnemonics are memory aids, often little verses or phrases, that help with recall (such as “30 days hath September”). The word is derived from Greek, and is related to the Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, who also happens to be the mother of the Muses.
(Sorry if my explanations are rather sketchy. A major thunderstorm is interfering with my Internet connection, so I figured I’d better post while I can.)
I used to do things like that for small vocabulary tests in Spanish. Our teacher would give us a list in class, and the very next day, we were required to have them completely memorized. If I was having particular trouble with a word, my mom would come up with a way to remember it. My favorite was “estremecia,” which means “to tremble.” Esther and Mecia were two trembling mice. It was really terrible and silly, but really helped me remember the word.
I learn things well when I’m quizzed on them because I remember the words/ideas by recalling comments the person quizzing me made. When I quiz my sister, I try to give her amusing associations to help… but then it gets late and we end up with dialogues like this.
Me: Okay, who was Gregor Mendel?
Her: Oh! That was the, the thing with the peas, and the plants, and the panda child, and the [her name], and the panda ears which makes 1800, and the little baby [her name].
Or
Me: How many chromosomes are in a cell?
Her: UP THE THREE FEET! Wait, what?
Hahahahaha! I feel special. I ust gave a definition of flamablamablous to Wordnik (online dictionary). Hopefully they’ll use it. Bahahaha.
Awesome! What exactly is the definition of flamablamablous? I’ve seen it spelled as flamafabulous, at that point I just assumed it was a higher and more extreme form of fabulous, or was I reading things incorrectly?
I’m thinking of changing my name to Umbramew. I’ve been using AvalonGirl for years now-does anyone have an opinion?
NO ONE SHOULD CHANGE ENS NAME FOR ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER.
uh… Why the sudden outburst?
Name-changing is one of my MB pet peeves.
I will remember that!
Piggy, is it entirely necessary to get all excited over someone doing something (or in this case, just considering to do something) that is one of your pet peeves? I don’t have anything against saying that something annoys you, or giving a few good reasons why it shouldn’t be done, (for example, changing your screen name can be confusing to other people.) But simply screaming that something shouldn’t be done done because you dislike it is not only rude, but definitely comes across as bossy. For example, I dislike hot dogs, I even dislike the smell of hot dogs, but I do not scream at people when they buy or cook hot dogs. I too, would prefer in most cases if people didn’t change their screen names, or eat hot dogs, but I think it’s perfectly acceptable if they think that their screen name no longer accurately portrays their personality, or that they simply must eat something that is obviously made from shredded legumes, even though it claims to be meat.
-Kaiser
Oh, sorry. It can be rather hard to convey sarcasm when you’re only communicating with text.
I like Umbramew. I think it suits you.
Thanks, RoseQuartz! I’m sortakindamostly going through a Pokemon obsession/phase, and I love Umbreon and Mew. I’ll just do it in two phases, so as not to annoy anyone.
Don’t change your name! I’m not going to be able to remember who you are if you’re not AvalonGirl anymore. P*ease!
Awww, Armada, I’m not gonna do it THAT fast. I’ll just stay as AvalonGirl / Umbramew for a little while longer, change to Umbramew / AvalonGirl, and eventually change to Umbramew in six months or so.
(Plus, you’re really going to make me change your name in BA: The Edit? Aagh!
)
…Why would I make you do that? I’ll just become Umbramew / AvalonGirl permanently, so I keep my old name.
So I went to the dentist today. And she said I have really good teeth, but I need to brush closer to my gums. (And since I went to the dentist, I don’t have to brush my teeth tonight!)
Do you think I’m stupid for not knowing what EPCOT is? Or Balloo? or other Disney things? I know mostly nothing about Disney and it makes me feel a bit stupid sometimes when the rest of the room knows what is going on and I’m lost.
No, not really. What’s Balloo, anyway? I know what EPCOT is, since I’ve been there. Oh, and supposedly Disney has Walt Disney’s head frozen somewhere? Something like that. Other than that, though…
Sorry I haven’t been on as much! I’ve been in acting camp, but today is the final day, so I’ll probably be able to come on more after that.
Re: good at science: I don’t like science, and I’m good at it(if you’re studying for a science test you can put off worse h/w, right?). I think Mr Joe invented history, and I’m bad at it. I’m bad at RE, and I like it. I love French and maths, and am also good at them. ‘Tis odd.
66- No, you’re not stupid. EPCOT is one of the parks at Disney World. Half the park is dedicated to scientific inventions, the other half to world cultures. (Orignally, Walt Disney wanted it to be a city for his employees completely planned from scratch by the company using the latest technologies from their sponsors. EPCOT was an acronym for ‘Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow’. Which would have been totally beast, but Walt’s heirs didn’t think it was practical.)
Balloo is the bear in the movie The Jungle Book.
all right, thanks. I just hear references to things and the rest of the room knows what is going on but I’m lost.
Ooh, right. I read The Jungle Book too… I feel stupid now. Ironic, isn’t it.
Hello again MB! Must get to all my threads! *runs away like a maniac*
So, the good news is that they made an animated series about Captain Cousteau’s adventures a few years ago and some of it’s on the web. The bad news is that not all of the episodes are in English. C’est la vie.*
*(Yes, I am aware of how ironic that is, because it’s French.)
I know this is probably old news by now, but did anyone not here about the the Cookie Monster turning into the Vegetable Monster. I looked it up, and its true. It’s such a tragedy
What was your source? According to Snopes.com, the story is false. See w w w. snopes.com/radiotv/tv/veggie.asp
What exactly is Snopes? I’ve seen many GAPAs make references to it. Is it an omniscient, super reliable website or something like that? Hm, if that is so, I must use it for research projects!
Snopes.com is a site devoted to checking the truth of rumors, urban legends, and Internet-abetted myths. It’s not omniscient and isn’t a general resource for research projects, but the people there seem to work diligently and in good faith. I’ve added it to the “Essential Links” column in MuseBlog’s sidebar.
*is slightly wilted because of not having found a good research site*
However, it seems like an interesting website.
I wonder where the name comes from…
In William Faulkner’s series of novels about a mythical county in Mississippi, “Snopes” was the surname of a family of good-for-nothings who took over Yoknapatawpha County after the Civil War. Apparently one of the site’s co-founders used to use “snopes” as an e-mail pseudonym.
As for research sites, what’s wrong with Wikipedia? It’s not infallible, but it’s a good first stop for general information.
That rumor has been cropping up on the blog for almost a year and a half now:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-196397
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1502#comment-246201
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1502#comment-246292
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1579#comment-267762
I’m sure we’ll see it again.
Yeth. I believe I started one of those.
I’m glad you set me straight! I was devastated!
Hi! I’m back from Hawaii!
72- I heard about that! Wasn’t it supposed to be because they thought kids would eat unhealthy?
Did anyone hear about hurricane/tropical storm/tropical depression?
Oops! SFTDP, but it was supposed to be hurricane/tropical storm/tropical depression Felica. Did anyone hear about that?
Yes, yes I did.
You went to Hawai??? *stomps foot* Why does everyone get great vacations except for me??? Ahh well….. anyway I did hear something about that- *googles it* Wow, 59,6000 results. Ahem. This is copied off a weather report or something- Felicia is now a dissippitating tropical deppresion, but it could still bring heavy rainfall to parts of the islands, blah, blah, blah, basically saying that the only result of it will be very heavy rain, and that you should go surfing there the next few days.
If the librarians weren’t my friends, I wonder what they’d think of me for taking out books on such unrelated topics…
Howdy do everyone?!
I’m happily about to go and read a fun book! I’m celebrating for finishing my next to last essay for my US History summer reading! Just one left! (I’ve already done 7 you know 
)
*has spaz attack* *must leave*
Just checking in for a bit.
Very sincere apologies, but I haven’t the time (ok, maybe more like the brain power–splitting headache, haven’t had any real food all day) to read all the posts……
Anyway, today is a very bittersweet day. Bitter for the obvious reason: School starts Monday, I spent all day on the plane from AK to the super secret location (
) of my college…..Of course, it’s “sweet” because this means I can now find the time to easily keep up with MB again. Honestly, I don’t know how you GAPAs do it. Speaking of which, I missed GAPA appreciation day again, I’m afraid. Ah, well, there’s nothing that says GAPAs can only be appreciated on that day, as opposed to on another! 
Seriously, though, you guys are incredible. I barely managed to do anything other than work this summer. A full-time job had me knocked off my feet, struggling to even have the brain power to be sociable come evenings, much less keep up with MB. And you flamablamablously awesome GAPAs not only work, but you keep up with MB, moderating posts, AND you still find the time to create awesome graphics, cool thread ideas, and awesome April Fools Day celebrations (Studge Academy, anyone?). You GAPAs are truly amazing individuals. *hugs*
Speaking of which, Lady Bunniful, the graphics for the page rock! I must try to find the time to visit the pages they first appeared on……I really like the zoom feature on ’em, too.
Well, I suppose I should try to get some stuff done before our floor meeting at 9. Like make my bed, for instance. Not that I have pillows or comforter, those are in storage with a distant relative, and I won’t be getting them until tomorrow morning.
Alright, this post is getting long enough, I think.
*hugs to everyone* *and pies to all the new faces*
Aww, thanks, Luna, for all your kind words. Welcome back! I know a lot of MBers will be glad to see you as many have been asking about you over the summer.
As I am glad to see all of you again.
I tried to keep up with the ‘blog for awhile over the summer, but combining the difference in time zone and the numerous hours of work, I’m afraid I gave it up as hopeless….But now that I’m back at college where I basically live in front of my computer day in and day out, well, you can expect to be seeing a lot of me in the coming months, for better or for worse.
Luna!
Welcome back!
Thanks, Armada! Mmmmm, delicious pie. *wipes whip cream off face with back of hand and licks* Absolutely scrumptious.
I like your new avatar, by the way!
Thanks!
Yumm- apple pie I think. My favorite! I’m Luna the 2nd.
I noticed…..I’m already getting confused, seeing your comments in the recent posts bar, and just catching the “Luna” part and thinking, wait, I don’t remember posting anything on that thread…..
I take it you’re an HP fan, as well?
Yes- I love fantasy like HP and Tolkien
Hi Luna! Welcome back!
Welcome back, Luna! We missed you a lot!
Thanks, Tesseract, Silver Lining–I’ve missed you guys too!!!!
LUNA!!!!!!!! *tackles in a huge bear hug* I wondered where you’d been! I missed you! Welcome back.
Whew, picnic today. It went pretty well, I was only partial kiddie control, which was good. The kids were okay, but had some serious listening problems. “Hey guys, please stop that, okay?” [no response] “Did you hear me? Stop.” [still nothing] “STOP THAT RIGHT NOW OR ELSE.” [slight improvement]. *yanks out hair*
Anyway. Other than that and a few other sticky spots it went quite well.
*slowly regains footing and checks self for injuries* *finds none* *returns hug*
I missed you, too, Fiddler!
LUNALUNALUNALUNALUNA!!!!!!!! (the Lovely, not Lovegood; though, Lovegood, pleasure to meet you, I’m MissSwann!!!) It’s amazing, m’dear. Whenever come back from taking a break I seem to as well. I got an iTouch with an engraving on the back. The engraving is a quote from Dumbledore concerning music. Can you guess which quote?
(it’s been too long)
Let’s see….What Dumbledore said in PS before they sang the Hogwarts School Song? Now, if only I could remember the exact words. Something about music being a wonderful thing, I believe. *cheats*
Hmmm, what I was thinking of was after the song….Is it “Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”? Or a completely different quote? (That’s the only one that immediately jumps to mind concerning Dumbledore and music….I need to reread the books.)
Yeah, music above all we do here!
‘Ah, music! A magic beyond all we do here!’ Correct! I think the only other time Dumbledore and music are connected is when his chocolate frog card mentions he enjoys chamber music.
Just for fun, I fed that into Translation Party. I got the “doubtful” message, but here’s the final one:
Ah, music! What all the other magic! Correct! Please Danburudoachokoretokadokaeru, another time in my room, my music please. Please connect to me. Please please. Please please. Please please. Please enjoy the news to please.
That’s what I thought, but, y’know, I wasn’t certain….
I had birthday party. It was fun. I had cake and spaghetti and lots of my friends were there and I got a journal and two necklaces and a dress+jacket pattern and a bird (not a real bird, a stuffed bird, not a taxidermy stuffed bird, a fabric stuffed bird). And Mother is going to buy my the hat of my choice *coughregencystovepipebonnetcough* and we had a long argument about indigo and sapphire and other shades of blue. And I thought we might watch Pan’s Labyrinth tonight, but Mother went to bed directly after the guests left and I think I may follow her example pretty soon.
And my bicycle has a flat tire, I must fix that tomorrow. As well as cleaning up after the party.
Wait, there are two Lunas???
My head hurts. Literally. Not from the Lunas though.
Yes, apparently. There’s me (the “old” Luna), and then another Luna who had popped up sometime during my absence.
Hmmm… Luna the Lovely, Luna Lovegood. Silver Lining, SilverLeopard. I wonder how that happened.
Not to mention Cat’s Meow, Cat’s Eye.
Yes. Ahem. No offense, SilverLeopard, but it kind of bothered me for a long time that our names are so similar. (But do not fear! I’m over it now.)
This reminds me… has anyone seen Tessera Rose recently?
I’m still the only Swann
Not anymore!
*smacks* Twerp.
just kidding….
I like your avatar, by the way–Kokopelli, right? Made out of streams?
Hey! Violence is not the answer!
Yes, you’re right about my avatar.
H’m, that’s ironic and funny!
Like I said above, Silver Lining and I found out we know each other on another site. That was cool.
LUNA!!! *bear hugs*
Fun facts:
1. If you want to make your own chili powder, make it outside or else your nose will be smelling peppers for an hour. And make sure not to take the lid off for a minute or two or else you’ll mace yourself.
2. Slack-lining is fun
I-MAN!!!!! *bear hugs back*
Home-made chili powder? Sounds interesting…….to make, anyway.
I’m not big on anything spicy, though.
*waves* Welcome back!
Hey, snopes.com is now on the links bar. When did that happen?
Yesterday.
LUNALUNALUNA! HI! *hugs* *wildly waves arms around*
*dodges waving arms and returns hug*
74.2 Yes, we went to Hawaii for 15 days!!! All we got was overnight rain.
Hello Luna the Lovely! May we call you LtL since another Luna is online?
<— Me being happy fo no reason.
Hawaii? *sigh* I want to go to Hawaii! Not as much as I want to go to Australia, though. I’m not sure if she was serious, or not, but my mom said we could go there when I graduate from college (including my vet med, so that’s still another 6 years away, minimum).
Yes, you may call me LtL, if you’d like.
Luna! You’re back! I’m back too, although I frequently take long absences from the blog, for no particular reason, and therefore my return is not nearly as exciting.
*is reminded by all the fun we had on Harry Potter Trivia-Off and scuttles away to see if it is still going*
So yesterday, I got to meet a friend I hadn’t seen for YEARS, since fourth grade or thereabouts. We went to his house to eat oven-cooked hamburgers and have our parents sit on the balcony and talk about grown-up stuff. (That’s how you have a barbecue in the City)
He showed me his Spore creatures, and an episode of Doctor Who that was on some website or something. What intrigued me was how the main character was eager to jump into the Doctor’s spaceship and leave. She had lost her job, and her boyfriend was (presumably) going to explain where she’d gone to her mother, so it made sense for HER.
But would I have done the same? Sure, like everyone else, sometimes I want to disappear and run away from everything, but I feel different later. I think about my obligations and the ties I have to people, including the people here.
In the case of the show, I would be HELPING people/aliens on the voyage, so I wouldn’t be running away simply for selfish reasons, and if I could somehow communicate with my friends and family on Earth, it would probably be okay, though. (And from what I’ve heard of the show, they do come back to Earth quite a lot.)
Oh I love Doctor Who!
Sometimes I wonder what I would do if the Doctor appeared on the corner and asked me to come with him. Most days I would, simply because ordinary life is so boring, but the companions usually end up sad and dejected, so maybe I shouldn’t. You can’t just stop having that kind of adventure; ordinary life would seem even more boring after that. Even so…
By the way, Mickey doesn’t explain, and a great deal of drama unfolds several episodes later when she appears twelve hours after she vanished and it accidentally becomes twelve months.
He doesn’t? I mean, yeah, it probably would have sounded weird, but considering what her mother had been though earlier that day, not THAT weird. (Unless she got her memory of the attack wiped or something.)
I guess I’d ask him if I could have some super-duper alien laptop so I could still post on MB and communicate with my parents. I mean, to look at the OTHER tech he has, that seems reasonable…
Well, he fixes her phone so that she can call anyone from anywhere in the second episode, The End of the World, and she calls her mom from the satellite and doesn’t confess that she was involved in the whole drama. And then she comes back a couple of episodes later, thinking it’s only been twelve hours but really it’s been twelve months and everyone thought Mickey had murdered her or something. I guess he didn’t explain because he would have sounded totally insane or something. …I don’t know. But yes, I would go and then I would call Mother from my superphone and say “Hi, Mother! I met the Doctor and he asked me if I wanted to go with him and be his companion…No, seriously! I’m in the TARDIS right now!…REALLY!…Yes!…I’m not joking!…Honest!…Look, you can talk to the Doctor!….There, satisfied?…No? Well, it’s true!…I’ll come back, I promise…Well, hopefully I’ll come back…I’ll call you if I’m still alive…OK, we’ve got to go save the Universe now!…Bye!”
I don’t think she would believe me. But that’s OK, because it’s not going to happen.
I think my mother would say “Wait, doctor? What doctor?” at some point in there.
My mom watches Doctor Who as well, so she would get it. I just don’t think she would believe me.
Welcome back Luna!
*gives cheese*
81) I love Pan’s Labryinth! That is the most awesome movie, though also sad.
Mmm, cheese. Thanks, Kiwi! I was needing a snack, having just come back from the cafeteria. (Yes, one requires food after eating on campus. My fried chicken was cold in the middle. COLD. *shudder*)
Pan’s Labyrinth=YES. Except the ending is kind of sad…
The ending wasn’t sad. She lived on in the other world!
I know, but I wanted her to live mortally and be with that maid lady.
SPOILER PAN’S LABYRINTH SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER. Does she really live on in the other world, or is that just what she imagines as she dies? Does the the other world exist outside her imagination, or is it a fantasy she created to make her life bearable?
SPOLIERSPOLIERPAN’SLABYRINTHSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERALERT
My brother told me(I don’t know if he was telling me the truth or not….) that the director said that she had, in fact, lived on. Yes, I have also found another source… *Yahoo UK* It says the director’s intentions were for her to live on with her father and mother, who have also died in the human world. I just feel bad for Ofelia’s friend… I can’t remember her name! The woman who helps the rebels… You know who I’m talking about!
Mercedes.
*head-desk* I remember now! She wuz such a nise ladie…
*woozy from head-desk*
POILER PAN’S LABYRINTH SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
Does it matter? I think that the world was real, and that she really lived on. But however you interpret it, she was happier than she otherwise would have been.
SPOILER PAN’S LABYRINTH SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
It always seemed like a happy ending to me somehow. Well, bittersweet. It was bad for Mercedes but Ophelia is now where she ought to be.
Pan’s Labyrinth/El Laberinto del Fauno is my favorite movie.
Luna!
Good to see..er…type at (?) you again! 
I have been missing your screaming avatar!
I wonder if we’re having weird weather as a result of tropical depression Felicia? Probably not…it’s just so muggy. ugh
It’s muggy here, too (at college), but not near as hot as I expected it to be, I guess they’re having a “cold” spell. It’s about mid-70s, which is quite pleasant, except for the humidity.
Same here. Though humid is your regular summer weather here in CT.
oh man I remember what i was going to say! today in the paper there was a picture of a unhappy bird being restrained by a bird handler of some sort and the caption said A red-tailed hawk captured at Los Angeles International, where it is potentially dangerous, is placed in a fabric sleeve for its protection. Many large birds caught at the airport are taken to South Bay Wildlife Rehab.
This is actually a good thing then! I hope you don’t mind, RtH
RtH should be flattered, he’s considered potentially dangerous!
Hi Luna!
89- You know, you should probably respect that she was here first, and call the other one Luna2, or something, rather than changing Luna’s.
*sigh* This is confusing. I suppose I’m also slightly bitter, because when I first came here, I was going to be Luna, until I saw Luna the Lovely. Actually not inspired by Luna Lovegood, if you’ll believe it. I’m happy being Errata though. I’d forgotten I was going to be Luna. Interesting.
“Errata” is certainly distinctive. You made a good decision.
It certainly is.
Mom was asking why I chose to be Errata, and I honestly couldn’t remember. So long ago, you know. As in, six months.
It goes with your avatar.
Hi, Errata! *hugs* Sorry I beat you to the name choice, but Errata is a very nice sounding name….even if you don’t know why you chose it. I think you explained it on the current ‘phyte thread at the time, though, something about errors/mistakes. I forget exactly.
We could call Luna Lovegood, “Lovegood”. Still her name, just not the “Luna” part….Whatever, I really don’t care!
Or she could change her name to “Evanna.”
Except that has movie connotations, and if she doesn’t like the movies (which she may, I just know I don’t), she may not want to have a name affiliated with the movie aspect of HP.
*shrug*
Or we could call her LL.
L Squared?
How about “Lovie Lunegood”?
Oh, Robert, you never cease to amuse.
Hey, you retroedited your post! That last line was there a moment ago….
Or “Loony Lovegood”
“Nalu Goodlove” has a sort of ring to it.
It does, actually. Nalu. Hm.
So does “Bertro Ontzco”….sort of. Not really.
(Unless your spelling was intentional, it’s spelled “lovely”.)
Yeah. I (hopefully) do know how to spell lovely, but it’s 12:00 AM Not that late, but I start miss spelling at about 11:00.
And that should ahve ben wasn’t there……
Wow, jeez, maybe I need to go to bed–that post is unbelievably riddled with typos. Honest, I can type (and spell) better than that…..
And Lovely Lunegood, just so you know, you didn’t have to change your name on my account–I would’ve gotten unconfused eventually….
But then there’s the rest of us who don’t unconfuse that easily….
I happen to be one of those people, so I’ll stick with Lovely Lunegood.
I like it. It goes with your avatar, too, somehow. Maybe in part because a friend of mine has a grey cat named Luna.
I like it, too. The name (and the kitty) have a certain charm to it. Come to think of it, the avatar makes me think of my kitty.
*sniffle* I miss my Gandalf!!!!!!
When I graduate from college (and have the money), I plan to get a black lab (not necessarily purebred, I don’t go in for breeding dogs, puppymills, etc, but a cute black lab looking dog from the pound) and naming it Luna.
Nice!
I like it.
Eventually doesn’t necessarily mean easily.
Errata, I like your name. It has a nice ring to it.
Hello all! I write this from fear the muffins’s iPod. Tis most awesome.
Hi, Fiddler! What does MuseBlog look like on an iPod?
*has an iPod Touch* It looks small…. Very… small. The same, but… smaller. It would be amazing if there was a Mobile MuseBlog.
A Mobile MuseBlog is beyond my technical capabilities, but maybe the Wizards of WordPress will come up with something.
I wasn’t suggesting that I thought that you could make one………… I only see those on Yahoo! and WIkipedia (<-sometimes) and Disney. Ya’ know, those large websites that make lots o’ cash.
Yes, those greedy websites that exist to make money…
Unlike MB! :3
Making money also seems to be beyond the abilities of any GAPA. It’s a good thing we have simple tastes.
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
At dinner tonight, I saw a kid wearing a Kokopelli t-shirt. (One of the ones that Muse magazine makes.)
The bad news: I was talking with my friend, and he was talking with his friend, so I didn’t get a chance to talk to him.
The good news: He’s in band, so I can probably talk to him tomorrow. (I hope I don’t sound too creepy.)
I WANT A KOKOPELLI T-SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry.
You don’t sound too creepy. Just a little, a healthy amount for any human being, if you get what I’m saying.
Wait, I didn’t understand that myself. Oh well.
I moved the kitten to the basement. Now she’s not as cramped as she was in my bathroom!
Hmmm. I do believe that I have nothing to do. Fortunately, I’m going to hang out with my friends after *gasp* SCHOOL REGISTRATION on Tuesday.
Oh, the humanity. I still need to finish my summer reading book.
I’m finally getting some inspiration on a story I’m writing independent of MB, and I got an Anime drawing guide at the library, so I’m going to try that out later.
(I don’t really have the knack for Anime, I can draw isolated pictures in the style if I try really hard, but I can’t keep it up to draw whole comic strips or anything. My personal style’s a lot simpler and I lapse into it.)
The thread image reminds me of jello. The way it moves and wiggles when you poke at it.
Ha! Yes, it does. That seems apropriate for the pictures, actually.
*sigh* I’m bored, I’ve got school tomorrow, I don’t know what to write about… I know! I’ll write about not knowing what to write about!
*sigh* That didn’t help…
My writing teacher quite encourages that kind of behavior, writing about not knowing what to write about. Honestly, I really don’t know what to write about right now, I feel so lost, like dandelion fluff on the wind. I mean really, what is there in this world to write about that hasn’t already been covered? It’s like you’re last in line or something and everything is taken. Not knowing what to write about is beautiful, in its own quirky little way, because there’s just this big blank spot.
Like that! And you can fill it with anything you like, instead of having a vague idea, when there are spots and splotches all over the page that restrict you from stretching out, because once you have an idea, you feel obligated to do something with it. Interesting.
See? I just wrote part of your assignment, while writing about absolutely nothing at all! Beautiful!
My friend and I have shared custody over a stuffed rabbit from Build-a-Bear. His name used to be Oliver (we wanted a Harry Potter name that sounds nice with Todd and Lily, his siblings). Then we decided he needed a middle name. Consequently, his full name is now
Oliver Wood Severus Albus James Sirius Lily Potter Granger Luna Lovegood Weasley Ron Fred George Pigfarts Wulfric Brain Rumbleroar Hugo Rose Scoripus Cedric Ollivader [my last name] [her last name]. Flows beautifully, doesn’t it?
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That should be “Brian” and “Ollivander,” by the way, although I’m sure everyone figured it out.
Actually, my friend D with whom I share custody of Oliver was the one who showed me the musical. I then showed it to another couple friends, who mostly loved it. As for fellow fans on MuseBlog, I know that Aggie and Gradster have seen it.
My favorite songs are probably the opening song and “Voldemort is Going Down.” What’re yours?
Oh and of course my favorite quote. Currently, it’s “Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!”
I enjoy Malfoy’s cavorting near ground level. And the scene where he “rates” Hermione.
Yeah, that scene was funny…….
“Not everyone can be perfect like me. So I’m holding out for a ten, because I’m worth it.”
102.1- I like Voldy’s dance scene.
Oh, that was good, too! I thought the guy playing Harry did an excellent job acting like he was Imperiused. Very impressive.
Good morning, MB! Off to bed!
I’m finding everything very funny right now, so I almost died laughing when I read the Wall of Shame on Mugglenet (Is that too much, GAPAs?) A Very Potter Musical will probably kill me.
I listened to “Going Back to Hogwarts” while reading a Twilight parody and I almost died of laughter.
Good morning, MuseBlog and fellow MBers!
I know I need to visit multiple threads, and I thank you for your patience. I will get to them this afternoon/evening, but now class calls!
Have a great morning! *Flies off*
Wow, somebody’s chipper for this early (especially seeing the time stamp–6:42 where you’re at, right Hawk?)……
My roommate already destroyed any chance of me having an enjoyable morning. Not that I find any morning all that pleasant, though!
105.1- Getting blood drawn ruined any chance of an enjoyable morning for me. Rawr. Fio is not happy about that.
96.1~ Very small. Except for the picture not showing up, it looks pretty much like a perfect microscopic version of MB.
Yesterday was fun, muffy and her little brother came over (thus my stealing of her iPod) and we went tubing in the creek, lazing in the hammocks on my porch and cooked dinner on the fire. Yumm.
Anyway, ’twas most enjoyable.
Tonight I have choir rehearsal, oh my goodness! I can’t wait. Well, actual,y, I can, since I haven’t even opened my music folder, and we’re doing some difficult pieces…whoo boy. I’m still looking forward to it though, I can’t wait to see everyone and sing again! Wheee! I love it.
77- HI!!!!!!! :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow* :arrow* *arrow*
Ooops.
That was meant to be 
106- *shudders* I. Hate. Needles.
I do too. I almost passed out after getting three shots in a very short space of time!
I hate needles, too, although I’ve never passed out (or even come close, I don’t think) when getting shots–and I had to get 5 at once prior to college. (Not all of them were required, some most kids probably had already gotten–for instance, the chicken pox booster. When I was little and got my initial chicken pox shot, they weren’t yet advising a booster, so I had no idea I was supposed to get a second one…..)
At least they shots weren’t all that painful–well, except for the HPV one. Cake, that one hurts. I could feel the liquid spreading out into my arm. *shudder*
That one never bothered me. Neither did the tetanus booster. For some reason, I get a lot more freaked out by people taking stuff out of me than injecting stuff into me.
The tetanus one left my arm sore for a couple days. I blame it for my dismal failure on the AP Calc exam (a 2), as I got it the day prior.
Nice to have excuses. I don’t remember if the shot hurt when they gave it, though.
I just don’t like needles entering my body, regardless of whether they’re taking or injecting. Although, come to think of it, I’ve never had my blood drawn in my memory (something I think I’d remember), so maybe I would react worse if it were to occur.
I still remember how one of my kindergarten shots actually burned! I think I screamed for that one.
108.1.1.1.1: I had blood drawn, and it barely hurt, but the nurse kept squeezing my finger and rubbing the somewhat rough plastic top opening of a little vial on my finger for a minute or something, and I looked to see what the mysterious sensation was, and I was horrified by my finger dripping blood into a nearly full vial of more blood! Urine samples are always fun: “Please _____ into this cup”
NEVER!? I have to do it every time I get a physical! In fact, I had to do it last week (I got a chicken pox booster).
Never. Yup. And I’ve only had one physical…..And she didn’t even do a “complete” physical, because she felt that there was no point in putting me through the more invasive part of a female physical, as I’m not sexually active. Which was more than fine with me…..
I had the blood drawn out of my arm, which surprisingly hurt less than the time I had it drawn out of my finger (that was a few years ago), but I freaked out the whole time.
(105) Hi, RtH. How’s your garden this year?
109~ Well, the tomato and cucumber salad that HAWK’s mom made from his garden was absolutely delicious. Mmmmmm.
Woah, hey, the picture changed! Total awesomeness–I love that picture of Robert.
*shudders*
I guess it depends on which picture you’re talking about. But still… *shudders*
Wait, is the dude with the creepy headset ROBERT?!
Yes.
You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
I liked the old message better…..Even if I don’t remember what exactly it was.
Yikes.
Yes. It was a close call. The pink office building is where I work (no longer pink, thank the Muses). The helical banister down which Kokopelli is sliding is in an atrium outside my office.
The bunnified woman, of course, is Rebecca. She earned the name “Lady Bunniful” the hard way, as you can see. We’re lucky that she was debunnified in time to remain a primate. *shudders again*
Well, I was thinking of the one with the headset–’tis very awesome looking, even if it means you’ve been taken by the pink side. Although, the one with the muses looking into your office is very cool as well!
HEllo MB!
I’m typing from school, where I am helping my mother to set up her classroom before *shudder* tomorrow, the day of doom.
We start tomorrow too. Starting on a Tuesday is weird, isn’t it? For some reason my district always tries to start on the 25th of August and end on the 10th of June.
Do you rarely get snow days then?
The new thing at the top is indeed awesome.
*is mesmerized*
Alaska rarely gets snowdays……Because unlike states lacking studded tires (pretty much all, I think, except us) and southern states that are just total wimps when it comes to a millimeter of snow, we just drive, and unless there’s over a foot at once and the snow plows can’t get it taken care of, everybody still had class…..Of course, I was homeschooled, so it didn’t make any difference to me, regardless.
Pretty rarely. This was the first year we got more than half an inch in four or five years. This being the South, though, sometimes the district will freak out and give us a delayed opening if there’s a forecast of a bit of snow, and actually cancel school if there’s half an inch and ice.
However, they schedule in something called “inclement weather days.” If we miss school, we have to go on these days; otherwise they’re just teacher workdays.
Yeah! We are wimps, but, hey, we have to take what we can get! It hardly ever snows! Though, it certainly used to snow more then is does now.
For the past few years we haven’t gotten hardly any, but before that we almost always had a large snow every year, even a few blizzards! One time, it snowed so hard for days and days that we were cooped up in our house for a week with no electricity! But… that was then.
We always start around August 27th (an available Wednesday around that date), and end around June 18th.
((72.1))
I found a youtube video from sesame street that had the cookie monster dancing around eating vegetables and saying “cookies are a sometimes food” I thought that was from the sesame people themselves, but maybe not. It’s all over the internet, and word of mouth.
I start school late, september ninth, but i end really late too, last year it was june 25th. i sometimes get snowdays, but it is quite rare, so when I do, it is practically christmas to the entire district. We’ve only got a delayed opening once in all the time i’ve been at my school, and even that was only a one hour delay.
*sigh* I saw that. It’s very sad…..
The “Sometimes Food” message is true. But the Cookie Monster has not become the Veggie Monster. He still likes cookies; he just no longer eats them exclusively.
THEN HE ISN’T COOKIE MONSTER ANYMORE, IS HE? THE MIGHT AS WELL CALL HIM WELL-BALANCED MONSTER! OR DIET MONSTER! *pant, pant, pant* Sorry, I’m just a little over-protective of Jim Henson’s cookie obsessed puppets.
I used to love to watch him smother his face with cookies… NOW THEY’VE RUINED IT! Well, let’s just be happy that they didn’t turn him green and call him the “veggie monster.”
I thought that Cookie Monster was supposed to eat lots of cookies, though. Isn’t that the point of the Cookie Monster?
That’s true. Balance and self-restraint aren’t funny. I hope the Sesame Street people have found a way to solve that problem. Not every character has to be a role model.
So I found a variety store that sells model rockets, but the body kit is 20 dollars, the engine and igniter are 10 dollars, the recovery wadding is 4 dollars (I don’t know if I’d have a payload, though, so maybe I wouldn’t need that), and the store doesn’t even sell the launching stands, so rocketry is too expensive for me.
113- My school starts on September 11th. I wonder how it will work out…
106- You know what’s really weird? A skin test for TB.
School was…..interesting today. (not as in material, we didn’t hardly cover anything, just informational).
Organic chem: Dunno, too soon to tell. The teacher speaks english, so that’s a plus. I know a few people in the class, as well. My roomie from last year, a guy who was on our floor last year that I was friends, well not really friends, I didn’t know him that well, just enough that we make small talk or whatever….. um, and a guy who was in my bioethics class last semester.
Genetics: Well, the material may be interesting, but I dislike the teacher already. He’s Oriental of some sort (I”m not trying to say all Oriental people are the same, I just honestly can’t tell by looking at someone if they’re Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever), and while his accent is not impossibly thick like geography first semester freshman year, he is still a bit difficult to understand.
Spanish: Well, other thant he fact that I am going to be lost most of the time, as she intends to speak Spanish almost exclusively, fine. She, unlike my genetics prof (and despite the fact she’s Cuban/Venezuelan), has basically no accent whatsoever. grrrrr. Creepily enough, I knew somebody in this class….The same guy from bioethics I saw in chem. And when he said hi to me because he recognized me, I commented that I’d seen him in chem. He gave me this weird look, so I thought, oh, he must not be in that, it must ahve been genetics, so I said, “Or maybe it was Genetics…..” And he’s like, “Wait, you’re in both those?” “Yeah” “Me, too!”
So, anyway, we were making small talk, and I didn’t think about it at the time, but this guy (Tom) would actually make a decent Muser (not that I’m recruiting him–that would jsut be weird). He was telling me how last night he got out his org chem model set we had to get, and was making molecules, and he didn’t ahve enough oxygen for whatever mdoel he wnted to make, so he ran over ot his roommate and asked “Can I have some oxygen?” ’twas amusing…..And scarily museish. Creepy. I never pegged him for a nerdy person……
My classes have been good too.
I, on the other hand, go to school with Penty (on the subject of muser-ly school mates).
Oh wow. I watched the Princess Bride tonight, that was awesome. Completely hilarious.
Inconceivable!
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. Prepare to die.
I might get a shirt that has one of those “Hello, my name is” stickers on it, and under that, it says “Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” It is soooo awesome. There’s also a killer rabbit shirt I want from there too.
Yes. It’s awesome. Espeically the oversized rats! And the preacher at the end! And Miracle Max!
*giggle*
I watched that movie too! A while ago. I loved it.
One of my favorite movies!
“No good. I’ve known too many Spaniards.”
Miracle Max is the best!
Good morning again, MuseBlog!
105.1/Luna: yeah, I’m trying to get up by 6:00 to get some studying done before class. At least I get to see the sunrise at this hour, which looks quite spectacular out my bedroom window this morning. Welcome back, if I didn’t say so, before!
And now I must continue with my studying. I hope to be able to visit this afternoon!
Thank for the welcome and the pies!
I wish I had the self discipline to kick my self out of bed early enough to get some studying done. And the discipline to actually study when I am out of bed.
I just got my gravatar, seeing if it works.
Hello MB!
I’m technically at my online class right now, but nothing really up yet, so I’m illegally messing around! 
Aren’t you proud of me?
I can’t begin to tell you how proud I am.
Ditto. I’m all choked up.
Hey, guys: Quick question. I’m pretty sure I saw a spider on my backpack this morning, but then I got distracted before I had a chance to do something about it and it has now disappeared. *tries to get rid of tingly itch feeling all over body*
It was small and brown (maybe 5 mm or so big, include legs, which were not out straight, but sorta in a ^ shape around it.
I am currently in a region of the US with a high population of brown recluses: Is there any chance this is a brown recluse and I should be deathly afraid and freak out? (I am arachnophobic, so freaking out is already high on my list).
Thanks, whomever. Gah, I don’t want to put my backpack on…..
Well, Wikipedia has told me that bites usually only happen when the spider is smushed against your skin. That usually happens when it hides in your clothing, and you put a shirt on with the spider inside. Though, it might not be that spider. Wikipedia says that it is 6-20mm long, so… It might’ve not even been one. They do look rather creepy… I know that Wikipedia isn’t always reliable, but it always helps me! You should look at a picture and see if it looks similar. It’s a very distinct look.
I didn’t get a very good look at the spider, though. I did do a google image search, and the spiders they show as brown recluses look a lot larger, so……
As for them only biting when smushed againt you, that doesn’t comfort much–since they are also said to like cool dark places like clothes and between bedsheets. And my backpack was on the floor in my dorm, from which a spider could easily crawl to my bed, my dresser, or the clothes in my closet. *shudder*
Sorry for the discomfort… Perhaps you’ll have to live in a bubble for the next few days until the spider is tracked down and terminated.
The tingly, itchy feeling is you imagination. It happens to me whenever I see a mosquito.
Spiders will not bite anything too big to eat unless provoked.
Ducky–I know it’s my imagination, but….It’s still most unpleasant. And logically I know the spider is very unlikely to bite me, but that’s why it’s arachnophobia: an unfounded fear of spiders.
Ugh- Brown Recluse spiders are in the same leauge as Black Widow, y’know.
Last year at camp there was a black widow in one of the bathrooms.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
As you all know, my computer has been hitten heavily by viruses for the past week or so. I am on another computer right now.
And the viruses, I’m pretty sure, came from…
DEVIANTART!
Pleeeaase, don’t go on dA anymore, for anyone who has. It’s bad.
Siiiigh. People get so paranoid about spiders and they always want to kill them, which is hardly fair, since there are so many things more likely to hurt you and you don’t go around killing automobiles, do you?
I can’t help it–they just freak me out.
My mother has a tendency to overreact whenever my sister or I are injured, and always thinks we’ll need a tetanus shot (we never do). Plus my sister needs a tetanus shot for school, so guess what? We’re all getting them! Urgh. I’m not freaking out about it or anything (I had one before, and I don’t recall a great deal of pain. Of course, that was the day I smashed my forehead into the concrete, and I don’t recall that being painful either, so maybe my memory is just faulty), but I’m really not looking forward to it. I don’t know if they do local anesthetic or just plunge it into your arm, but I guess either way it’ll be over quickly, right?
Alice: They don’t do a local anesthetic. For (most, at least, there could be exceptions) shots, that would be rather counterproductive, as the local would hurt worse than the shot itself. (Locals, such as lidocaine, sting very bad and are painful. Or so I’ve been told. And dogs/cats certainly seem to find them painful–not like when you give ’em their vaccinations and they don’t even notice)
I got a tetanus shot 3 yrs ago. The actual shot itself, that is, when they stuck the needle in really didn’t hurt all that bad, as I remember. The only thing I disliked about it (other than the psychological bit of needles) was that it left my arm feeling sore and achey for a couple days.
And if somebody’s been giving you horror stories about how tetanus is given with a giant “horse needle” dont’ believe ’em. It’s no bigger than any other. (My dad was going on about how painful they were when I had to go get mine)
Ah. How odd, it never hurt much at the dentist.
I dunno–I, personally, have never gotten a local. Perhaps novocaine (what I believe is primarily used as a local in dentistry) stings less than lidocaine (what we primarily use at word on the rare occasions we do something with a local as opposed to full anesthesia). Or perhaps they mix it with bicarb to neutralize some of the sting.
Well, whatever. It doesn’t seem like anesthetic would be necessary– It’s just a needle, it’s not like I’m getting my whole arm amputated or something.
There are some creams that can numb the surface of the skin so you don’t feel shots (when I needed about 6 (local anesthetics) around a place in my back before I had stitches there, I put it on about an hour before hand, left it there, and when it was wiped off just before the shots I didn’t feel a thing).
I don’t remember my last tetanus shot being that bad. My sister has a phobia of needles though…
Tetanus shots aren’t really that painful.
So, they scrubbed the shuttle launch last night, but I only just found out now because I didn’t get to a computer for a while.
I. HATE. THE. DENTIST. More than life itself.
On a random note, I got my doggie a new toy today. It’s a purple octopus, and in each leg there is a squeaker. She’s been carrying it around since noon, and when she went to get a drink, she plunged her head into the water bowl with it still in her mouth. She looked very confused.
I absolutely positively definitely surely totally utterly categorically unconditionally unreservedly unequivocally certainly unconditionally perfectly decisively manifestly thoroughly HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE the dentist and orthodontist without a doubt, without question 100% to the hilt.
Is that clear enough?
Do you hate them as people, or just the whole idea of them? I can’t say that I like them, but they don’t induce hatred…
Agh! This jerk has been sitting on the teen library computer for two hours, and I finally am ready to go to the other one when I find out that it’s “reserved.” What the heck does that mean!? No one’s there! I’ve never seen that on the library computers before… So anyway, he leaves, and I think, Ok, I’ll just use his! So I scoot over to his, and it says that it’s on hold. If you’re not on the computer, then let other people use it!!! And he still isn’t back!!! And to top it all off a mean sub from my school works here… Daisy*Chain and I hate him.
Oh my god… I think the jerk left!
SFTDP
Lalalalalaaaa… changed my gravatar… :3
I like it.
HuHA! I have succeeded in my conquest for a library computer! His hold expired or something…. but he’s still a jerk.
Oh, it changed for you? Hasn’t changed for me yet… but I did change it… (I think) I’ll go look at WordPress again. *wanders off*
It’s still Mr. Joe for me.
It’s L for me! XD
….Okay, I am giving in to temptation and copying Zinc by making my AIM buddy icon my avatar. *goes to Gravatar*
Meh, it’s fuzzy… *waits for it to show up*
I now have internet explorer 8… Luna? RQ? What do you have?
Internet explorer sucks……Oh, wait, sorry, that’s not what you asked.
I have both Safari and Firefox. In Firefox, I can see your new avatar, in Safari, I can’t, though I’ve not cleared my cache (but Robert says he tried that in Safari, and he STILL can’t see it, so….)
Firefox. Hmm, let me try Safari… yup, I can see yours and mine. I don’t have internet explorer for some reason.
w00t.
My new pants came today, two pairs of Carhartts, whee. The light brown ones fit pretty well, and the dark brown ones are gorgeous but a bit long. Alas. Eh, it’s a common problem for me, and one I’m well used to remedying.
And DL got a haircut recently, it’s short! Not as short as mine, but still. Hmm…I wonder if my decision to go to short hair had any impact on hers? I think so, which is wildly hilarious, since she’s the fashion queen and I don’t really care about following the latest styles. Teehee.
It’s a loverly day out, and I should go do homework. *sigh* I haven’t really gotten much done today at all.
I just realized that I wasn’t even looking at the keyboard as I type this. Hmm, I hadn’t really noticed that before. Good thing about MB: makes you learn how to type. Even if not well (I have no idea how one is actually supposed to go about it formally), certainly quickly. *gives over bonus choklit to GAPAs*
Now I’m just stalling.
YAY!!!!!!!!! I just found a very important Sharpie pen that was lost. (Don’t ask why it’s important, but it is.)
In other things, on Thursday I’m finally going to visit my baby 2nd cousin, Jonathan. I still haven’t met him.
Today I’m going to the doctor to get a shot.
Everyone is getting shots. Weird.
Update: I am now back. I’m fine.
Good.
Well, a lot of people need shots for school, especially people starting a new school (eg 6th graders, freshmen).
131- I don’t know how you do Qwerty, since I type Dvorak. (I don’t really know why, unless it’s because everyone else in my family does it. It cripples me on other computers though, and annoys my friend to no end.) I learned when Mom made me a chart showing where all the letters are, and put it near the computer. Worked well.
132- Congratulations on finding your important-but-lost Sharpie. Have fun with it.
Thanks, Errata. Now I’ve become obsessed with learning the Dvorak layout. Which could be difficult, as I may be forced to use QWERTY at school. Back to my exercises!
(This message was sloooowly typed in Dvorak.)
I want to try! How do I rebind my keyboard? (I have a mac, in case that matters)
It does, because I have no clue how to change it on a Windows machine. Alright, go to System Preferences, click on International, go to Input Menu, and scroll down to Dvorak, click the box next to it, (There should be two Dvorak options. One is Dvorak – Qwerty, which means that when you press command, the keys will revert back to Qwerty, so you don’t have to know where every key is without your fingers there. If that makes sense. That’s what I use. The other is just Dvorak.) scroll down to the bottom and check the box next to U.S. (Qwerty), and check the box at the bottom, which will cause a new thing to pop up in the bar at the top of your screen, which will allow you to switch back and forth easily. If that doesn’t work for you, I can’t help you.
Thanks, Errata! I forgot how hard it was to learn to type! I like how all the vowels are grouped together, though!
Welcome. I need to learn Qwerty… Or how to switch to Dvorak on Windows-type machines.
Do you have Vista? If so, go to the Control Panel –> Clock, Language, and Region –> Change keyboards or other input methods –> Keyboards and Languages –> Change keyboards… –> Add… –> English (United States) –> Dvorak –> Apply. If you don’t see a language bar on your desktop or taskbar, go to the “Language Bar” tab and change the options. If you’re on XP, it’ll probably be something similar–Google it. And changing it isn’t really as difficult as that list makes it seem. You could add other languages there as well (I, for example, can also switch to Spanish so I don’t have to manually insert the various tildes and inverted punctuation marks).
I am now officially tetanusified. It was very long and arduous, because they wanted to give us Tdap with the whooping cough immunization, and we looked at the side effects and were like “Uh…no” and they finally had to give us the Td with just tetanus and diptheria because otherwise we weren’t going to get anything. So there were discussions and conferences and then we got the shot and the lady gave us stickers despite having in her hand the papers which said we were 16 and 13.
I’m pretty sure I got the Tdap…… *checks shot records* Yup, I did. What were the potential side effects that were worrying? Just curious….
135.1- I don’t even remember, I just know that this list was like three times as long as the Td list.
So…random question I probably should know the answer to (maybe). What’s with Google’s current logo? I mean, I know they change the Google icon to reflect holidays/events/etc, but what’s this one for????
*is confuzzled* (a very familiar feeling, really)
It’s a google doodle. Click on it.
Ah…….
Interesting, how the pictures at the top keep changing. I saw a girl wearing a shirt with a hot pink bunny on it, and I almost took a picture, but that would have been weird.
What was she doing?
Was it from Musery Loves Company, or what it a different style of HPB?
We interrupt this thread for a shamless commercial message. If you haven’t seen Musery Loves Company, you really should.
Three cheers for capitalism!
A quote from my “lovely” genetics textbook (quoted, because it is just yet another example of textbook errors. they need better editors for ’em, really, they do):
The in which a phage infects a bacterial cell and produces progeny phages that are released from the broken-open bacterium is known as the lytic cycle.
Quite seriously, I had to send an email to my sis/parents (mainly to point out how idiotic the text was) to figure out what they were trying to say. My sis cleared it up, saying the probably left out “cycle” or “process” prior to the “in”. Sadly, I read it fifty zillion times without figuring that out for myself. *headdesk*
Typos happen. You might consider e-mailing that one to the publisher so it can be corrected in the next edition.
I just might do that. The sad thing, though? It’s already made it to the 3rd edition without it getting noticed. But then, I suppose editors probably have just as much difficulty falling asleep over the text as i do, so….
If you think sentences like that are boring to read, just imagine what they’re like to write.
Who are the authors? They might be friends of mine.
*shudder* I don’t think I want to think about that.
Friends of yours? Now that’s a scary thought.
The author (yup, singular) is Peter J. Russell.
No, I don’t know him. Some friends of mine do write biology textbooks, though.
Hmmmmm. Maybe you know one of the numerous people who wrote the Bio textbook I had to get for bio last year (got, but never really read….
)
Neil A. Campbell
Jane B. Reece
Lisa A. Urry
Michael L. Cain
Steven A. Wasserman
Peter V. Minorsky
Robert B. Jackson
RoCoo is actually all of those people, via living an octuple life.
*shudder* *hides under bed* *remembers there’s a spider on the loose somewhere and decides she’d rather face RoCoo’s multiple personalities*
Oh mannn. Not happy. For whatever possessed reason my iPod decided it’s not going to be recognized by the computer, and thus, will not be updated with all the new music I’ve put into iTunes. *glowers ferociously at offending machine* At least my ancient, battered gen. 1 nano still works, but it’s only 4 gig, not 8 like my “new” one. Ugh. So now I have to take half the stuff off so I can use it. *grumbles and complains* It would be okay if I had a CD player, but I don’t. The iPod is really the only music player I have.
Dang. I just hope it’ll get over it’s funk and work properly again. *is not pleased*
Anyone else have any idea of what’s going on here? My old one hooked up just fine and synced (as soon as I pared down the selection) without a hassle.
Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes, and perhaps try restarting your computer. This happens to me from time to time, and it usually clears itself up.
First day of school was today. I’ll probably post about it tomorrow when I don’t have band and last-minute supply shopping. I’m going to hate not having as much time to spend on MuseBlog…
Re: Musery Loves Company
It took me so long to figure out that that was based on the phrase “misery loves company.” I read it as [Musery Loves] Company, with the first two words as their own phrase.
Well I have had an interesting past few days.
On … I think it might have been Sunday, I was very ill. I was sneezing every few seconds, usually with only one functioning nostril and I ate nothing but a bit of watermelon, some cucumber and four mugs of tea all day, which is odd for be because despite my smallish size I tend to eat a LOT on average. But you probably don’t care about my eating habits anyway.
Then on Monday I was not quite as ill and we went to the Humane Society and the pet store and… No, that was Sunday and I was Very ill on Saturday. Well we went to the humane society and looked at cats on Sunday. There were two that we were thinking about getting. There was Buddy, an old, fattish quite cuddly boy and a Girl named Bella that was energetic, liked to play with bouncy balls and had no ears. Not NO ears, as in a perfectly smooth head, but she had normal ears that had been frostbitten to very short, stumpy things. It actually is rather cute. My mom likes Buddy and my sister likes Bella and I like both, but my mom doesn’t want 3 cats and we already have Laser so we can’t adopt both
After that we went to Petsmart to buy hamsters for my sister and I but there were only dwarf hamsters and we wanted the regular size ones, so we left for Petco. When we got to Petco, there were no large hamsters there either. Apparently they have stopped carrying them due to “shipping issues”. I don’t see what’s so hard about shipping them like dwarf hamsters or breeding them in the store *fumes*. I am now debating about weather to get a dwarf hamster or a small rat or waiting until Petco overcomes their “shipping issues”.
Now Father is yelling for me to get off the compy and go to bed. See you in the morning.
*reads over post*
*notices length*
*notices time*
*goes to bed*
Ooooooh, rats are cute. (Seriously, the are.) If you get a rat, you should name it Scabbers!
My cat has one shorter ear, too–presumably from frostbite, although I suppose it could have just as easily been the result of a catfight.
Bella sounds like a sweet little cat, but, if you guys do adopt her (as opposed to, say, Buddy), do me a HUGE favor and expand her name to Bellatrix. Bella just….reminds me of a certain two dimensional very irritating character in love with a stalker/pedophile. I think we can all figure out who THAT is.
Wouldn’t that be kind of bad luck? Naming it Scabbers, I mean?
Oh, I s’pose it could be, but look on the bright side–Scabbers lived an unusually long life, even if he did turn out to be Pettigrew.
Yeah, I guess.
I hope you feel better soon!
You’re back!
Ugh, I’m stuck at the car repair shop all day! I plan on hogging the only computer here. Which is a PC I am almost incapable of using.
143: I hope you feel better!
115 (Wonkychair): Tuberculosis tests are funny. I have to get one today, actually–I volunteer at the Children’s Hospital, and we have to get tested every year.
re: Tetanus shots–I’ve never found them to be particularly painful. However, I usually have them in combination, and the shot I have with it usually hurt more. The most painful vaccine I’ve ever received was Typhoid. -shudder-
134 (Eratta&others): I’ve always thought learning Dvorak would be so much easier, but then I realized that I type really quickly with the Qwerty keyboard as it is (80+ wpm), so it won’t be worth it in the end.
139 (Robert): Shamless, eh?
(145) Pan: Yes, shamless. Devoid of sham, fraud, smoke, mirrors, hocus-pocus, and jiggery-pokery. At Musery Loves Company, what you see is exactly what you get. And you should all get lots of it.
(Now I’m being shameless.)
Wow, yet another instance of my inability to read. Both in your original post and in Pan’s post, I failed to note the absent “e”…..
146: I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! MY EXISTENCE IS SO SHAMELESS AND NOW I SHALL APOLOGIZE TO THE WORLD FOR MY SHAMELESSNESS! I’M SOOOOOORRYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone?
The farmers market is today. I want some honey…
Would you happen to be emulating Ritchan?
Not emulating dear Ritsu, but merely imitating him.
My arm hurts. And I feel like I should be wearing a huge biohazard sticker or something which is silly but that’s what it feel like. Like if you touch my arm you’ll get tetanus and diphtheria or something.
-hates vaccines-
Also I drank a latte this morning so I’m all weird and dizzy and my ears feel they’re underwater which is totally unreasonable and I’m going to blame it on the coffee and drink tea for the rest of my life.
But vaccines are flamablamablous! And the flu-like post-vaccine-feeling is way better than the actual thing.
Well, I don’t want tetanus EVER, but for most things I think I’d rather run the risk of getting sick and either surviving or not. Vaccines are just like…weird. I don’t know. I don’t like the thought of injecting a disease into one’s bloodstream even if it is dead. I don’t trust them. At least with the sickness you know what it is. Vaccines could be anything.
OK. Typing slowly in Dvorak. How is this simpler?
There’s no proof it is.
Now everyone’s learning Dvorak… I didn’t know I’d spark off this much discussion… Anyway, there’s a long story behind both Dvorak and Qwerty, so I’ll tell it, ’cause I can.
Once upon a time, when you had to use a typewriter to type, there were people who got so good at typing, that they started hitting the next key before the first was finished, if that makes sense. It was a problem on a typewriter, because the arms flying up and down would get caught on each other. So they redesigned the keyboard so the more frequently used keys were farther apart, and didn’t get caught on each other so much. Great!
Then, people invented computers, and you could type on said computers. People put the same keyboard on the new computers, because people were used to typing like that. But the reasons for that computer didn’t make sense anymore, because these computers didn’t have arms flying up and down to get caught on each other. So some guy named Dvorak redesigned the keyboard so that all the most frequently used letters were right under your fingers, and the harder ones were in logically hard places. But most people were still used to Qwerty, so they just continued using it, even though there was an arguably better way.
Anyway, I’m not sure if it’s simpler, but it works, and I use it. I don’t question it much.
Concerning the myth of QWERTY vs. Dvorak.:
“The Fable of the Keys,” by S. J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Journal of Law & Economics vol. XXXIII (April 1990)
Abstract: This paper examines the history of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, often put forward as the archetypical case of markets choosing the wrong standard. Contrary to the claims made by Paul David and Brian Arthur, we find virtually no evidence to support a view that QWERTY is inferior to DVORAK. Instead, using records of typing experiments, studies by ergonomicists, and examining the historical record of competition among different keyboard designs back when QWERTY first became dominant, we conclude that QWERTY is about as good a design as any alternative.
Excerpt from the paper’s conclusion:
“…But the evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak is flawed and incomplete. First, the claims for the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard are suspect. The most dramatic claims are traceable to Dvorak himself, and the best-documented experiments, as well as recent ergonomic studies, suggest little or no advantage for the Dvorak keyboard.
“Second, by ignoring the vitality and variety of the rivals to the Remington machine with its Qwerty keyboard, the received history implies that Sholes’s and McGurrin’s choices, made largely as matters of immediate expediency, established the standard without ever being tested. More careful reading of historical accounts and checks of original sources reveal a different picture: there were touch-typists other than McGurrin: there were competing claims of speed records: and Remington was not so well established that a keyboard offering significant advantages could not have gained a foothold.”
But you know what else Dvorak is good for?
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Whoops. I forgot that MB invisiblises everything between angle brackets. I meant:
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still stuck at the car dealership. Waiting for the car to be done so I can have dinner. I’m going to raid the mini fridge filled with coplimentary juice cans. Mmmm, orange pineapple!
I just finished off an iffy tomato juice. I feel a bit sick. Pardon me, but what exactly is Dvorak?
(SFTDP)
It’s a keyboard layout. The most common layout is, of course, QWERTY, but some people like to use Dvorak instead. Supporters say it’s more comfortable, faster, and more accurate than QWERTY, while opponents say it’s no better at all. Google it to see the layout.
Oog, I had a rather iffy tomato juice. I feel sick.
Whoops, I posted about the same subject twice because I thought my previous comment had gotten zapped.
Luna, did you miss this announcement while away for the summer? We’d love to have you at the Student Lounge.
Piggy–Yes, indeed, I did miss the announcement. I just signed up now, though, so as soon as the GAPAs approve me….
Approved.
Cool. That was quick. Thanks!
151, 152 – Translation please?
School. Well. It seems like my teachers are better this year than they were last year. My civics teacher especially seems very nice–kind of like a cross between two of my all-time nicest/best teachers. Her husband was a student of my dad’s, and they got together to play music once, apparently. (My dad is a law teacher.)
I don’t appear to have any nutcase teachers like last year, which is always a good thing. My Chemistry teacher is pretty strict, but I think that’ll be okay; anyway, strict is by no measure psycho.
Oh, and my English teacher is a hippie. Yesterday (the first day of school) we started class with a ten-minute nap while he talked to us. He might’ve been reading a poem, I’m not sure. Then he had us open our eyes and sit up and without warning launched into a very theatrically performed poem about living with a tree (?). Apparently we aren’t going to get to going over rules until next week.
Oooooooh, the pictures, the pictures! Very awesome, Lady B!
On the right side, the second from the top, the blue pic, is that Kokopelli? If so *screams* then my grandparents have candle-holders in their living room with Kokopelli on them! I swear, it’s exactly the same as those candle holders! Even the horn-thingy! AAAAH! And they’ve had those candle holders forever, as far as I know.
Yup, that’s Koko. Although, I’m pretty sure those are supposed to be semi-melted ice cubes, not candle holders. Still, that would be a disturbing coincidence…..
Speaking of Kokopelli sightings, one of my coworkers whom I house sat for this summer, had Kokopelli shower curtain hooks. Y’know, how they make fancy rings to hold the shower curtains on? His had diamond shapes with Kokopelli…..Come to think of it, I think I took a picture on my phone. Maybe if I think about, it I’ll bluetooth it to my computer sometime and send it to the GAPAs.
I like the one where the Muses are hidning behind those smiley mask things.