For 1001 nights, Scheherazade enthralled King Shahryar with her inexhaustible stream of tales, sagas, myths, and legends. In binary notation, 1001 is nine, the number of the Muses. Coincidence, you say? Well, it is certainly not a coincidence that another chapter of the monthly Random thread is here to enthrall you.
Continued from Chapter 2.
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I love the picture, Rebecca! Especially Mimi
I can’t think of anything else of substance to write…
I love the colors in the picture.
Hi… great picture! Okay, prepare for cluelessness, but what is all that about Schehed (gave up trying to pronounce it) and King Shahryar?
(3) Kokopelli52: It’s the framing story of the collection of tales known in English as the “Thousand and One Nights” or the “Arabian Nights.” Shahryar’s wife betrayed him, so he decided to take revenge against all women by marrying a new one every night and beheading her in the morning.
After this had gone on for a while, Scheherazade (also spelled Shahrazad) volunteered to be one of his victims. She “had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.” (Clearly, a Muser.)
She put her learning to good use: On the night before her scheduled execution, she started telling Shahryar a long story. Just as she was getting to the most exciting part, however, she said she was too sleepy to continue and would have to go to bed. Too bad about that beheading-in-the-morning business… Hooked, the King decided to keep her alive for another night to hear how the story ended. But as soon as Scheherazade finished that story, she said it reminded her of another one and started telling him that story — and again broke off in the middle. Shahryar spared her again, and she pulled the same trick the next night.
Gradually, Shahryar forgot his plan to behead Scheherazade. By the 1001st night, he was utterly smitten with her and made her his permanent queen. Meanwhile, her stories had restored him to sanity and made him a wise, kind king.
(The symphonic suite “Scheherazade” by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff does a perfect job of evoking the story of Scheherazade and some of her tales. You’d probably recognize it if you heard it.)
I adore this pic! *is enthralled*
That’s amazing! If only the picture had come a little bit later, because we’re soon going to be studying Islamic Civilization. I want a rug like the ones everyone’s standing on.
Actually, it is a coincidence that “another chapter of the monthly Random thread is here to enthrall” me.
*pied for being a smart alec*
Oh. My. Gosh.
I come here to check on things, and, like WTF happened?
Why is that jerk AJAR on here?!
I don’t think I’ll stay here if he’s here.
He’s the one who messed up my Web Site by making extra long comments.
Even with the help of Abigail and my boy friend Tony, I had trouble stopping the little twerp.
Pfffft.
I’m outa here.
Wow, that was a stunning first re-post. You can announce your enthusiasm at returning, prove yourself to stupid to click on the Link to find out “WTF happened” and insult another MBer all in one post. I can already see that you’re going to be very popular.
But why am I answering this post anyway? Obviously, you can’t post on the same blog that “the little twerp” has soiled. 10/10 on tolerance.
I’d say welcome back, but, why bother?
Yeah. It’s not nice to do that. AJAR can be a bit annoying, but why insult another MBer?
Hey, love, c’mon. Deep breaths. What’s really bothering you? I mean, morbid’s post was, perhaps, a bit rude/mindless, but not enough to elicit that much irritation on your part without a pre-existing stressor. *hugs&choklit*
Hello, Morbid. It’s good to “see” you. Won’t you at least stick around long enough to tell us what you’re up to and how you’re doing?
(All: Morbid is a veteran MBer from the Gaboomba era. She has a heart of gold beneath a crusty exterior, though she’ll probably squirm at that description.)
No. My personal life is none of your business.
I have changed. I have a heart of Noiâ–’e beneath a Golâ–’ exteriâ–’â–’.
Hehhehhehheh.
I am no lâ–’â–’ngeâ–’ the Morâ–’id yoâ–’ kneâ–’.
I am…
Morbid Diamond!
ATTACK AJAR, NOISE DIAMONDS, MY PRETTIES!
HAHAâ–’Aâ–’â–’Hâ–’HAâ–’â–’â–’â–’â–’â–’HA!
COME MEET ME IN MY BOSS ROOM, AJAR! MWAHAHAHA!
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Five years later, you and AJAR are still locked in mortal combat?! I know it’s been said before, but I’ll say it again: the Internet is a weird place.
Yes, the Internet is weird. Did you see on the last thread where I mentioned that one West Wing fansite has six pages devoted to Josh’s backpack. Yes, SIX PAGES. About his BACKPACK.
Yes, it’s a weird place. And spending time on it leads people to do weird things. Like checking out the six pages on Josh’s backpack. So far I’m resisting temptation but I don’t think it’ll be long before I give in.
Oh, that really doesn’t have too much to do with the internet being weird, just fanatics. I could devote over six pages to probably anything in HP, internet or no. And with collaboration? Watch out.
Locked in mortal combat…uh, do I want to know? Probably not.
Hi Morbid! Good to see you here.
I love the picture!!!!! I remember reading that story, once upon a time…..
Do you notice what’s growing on the trees?
I’m guessing Pies? *checks* Yep, pies!
I LOVE the picture, Lady Bunniful! Although I don’t see Crraw, Feather, or Aeiou. The last one is especially troubling, if grumpy old Chad beheaded a few ladies before Mimi stopped him…
Chad? Ordering people executed? *Shivers*
I see Crraw.
-A
Oh, wow, no, I didn’t, but now that you mention it……
They’re PIES!
Thanks for pointing that out, Robert! I didn’t notice Kokopeli in the trees until you did, or the little cranes in the central part of the rugs. They bear a striking similarity to the one in your avatar…
If you click on the image to enlarge it and look closely, you’ll see all sorts of odd details (including Crraw).
Found him! I also found the symbols of all the other GAPAs, although I think PB got somewhat slighted, as I haven’t actually found his symbol in completion.
Wow! Pies!!!!!!!!
I’ve never heard of pie trees before…do they grow in Hong Kong?
I WANT ONE!!!!
This is to kiwimuncher, Alice, POSOC, THF, Koppar, oxlin, and anyone else who was ever connected with Etheterre.
Please, come back. I’m the only person who’s posted anything since… September seventh. That’s eighteen days. Come back! I’m getting lonely over there!
Etheterre, Part Five
If you weren’t ever connected with Etheterre, you’re welcome anyway, as long as you respect the rules. We don’t want PoPoers messing up the thread, but everyone else is more then welcome.
11- I check up on it every now and then. But I think the people involved has been Swamped by school, and my school experience is a bit turbulent at the moment as well. It should settle down, but I just had to write an essay in like two days, so…
9- Hey, my pies! I sorta had a tenuous part in making this installment’s picture, in a way, kinda!
I love the heron/rose pattern in the background. Are the other GAPAs’ symbols buried in there as well? Ohp, I found the painter-rabbit. I’m guessing the hedgepig’s in there somewhere, but where? Oh, wait, I found one in the corner. A very flamablamablous pic, Lady B!
Well, all, I personally am very glad it’s the weekend. But now I’m off to learn how to change the coolant in a car. Ta ta!
Piggy, your pies indeed provided a critical turn of inspiration. In fact, you provided a double inspiration, since I already had chocolate trees in the back of my mind, courtesy of the H&H, while I was searching through scads of pictures of Persian miniatures, after we decided that would be the approach. I had the background more or less laid out, but I hadn’t yet found the right path to Muserliness. Then I thought, “you know, some of the flowering branches in the thumbnails remind me of something…” I had to redraw them, as the emoticon files were too small to work with, but they are unquestionably your pies.
Oh, I forgot to add: police state in Pittsburgh! Tear gas and riot police everywhere, it seems. Military helicopters dropping canisters down onto protesters. Rubber bullets flying this way and that, people being arrested at every corner. If I can share a video from CNN, http: //www .youtube. com/watch?v=kACUzxtDsVE
I’m not going to say anything.
This is really sad. Our class got in a giant debate about-paper. I mean, of all things to debate abput, we pick-paper. Oh well. It was a good debate. YES! It’s Saturday! i have a chance to recuperate! (goes off to eat chips)
I’m forming a Shakespeare Theatre Troupe! We’re going to dress up and perform scenes from Shakespeare downtown on busy days/on the docks when a cruise ship comes in/at markets and festivals/etc. and then all the money people give us will go to the high school theater fund and the Thespian troupe so that field trips don’t cost as much and stuff like that, and if it works really well maybe I’ll do it next year and it’ll be my senior project! I’m super excited–so much so that I actually want school to start again so I can get back to organizing.
That does sound exciting, Alice! What a wonderful idea. Best of luck!
That sounds awesome!
September 26, 2008
I wrote the history essay today. It wasn’t that hard!
I bought some pens for A.N. yesterday. Mom and dDad wanted me to take some out because they were “inappropriate.” I forgot and dad blew up at me. I hated him as much as I hated him in 6th grade! But now I don’t hate him. I’m just angry and bewildered.
A.S. asked to borrow Brisingr today. I guess I’ll give it to her if she doesn’t buy it first.
-Kyra
I’m going to go to the coast tomorrow for some science thing. I get to miss Monday at school! Yippee! Anyway, I’ll see you Monday evening.
My new goal in life: create a programming language based on MB. Comments would be in ((double parentheses)). There’d be all sorts of MB-based commands and inside jokes. Some actions would be in *asterisks*. Error messages would somehow include Mr. Joe.
That sounds great. The loop command could be SFTDP.
start thread()
post(”First post! Nice Pic Rebecca!”)
reply(0)
That would be awesome…
Yes, do! That wouldbe awesome!
#gaboomba()~Counter_Test
((Initialize program))
:idea:~int counter =0
((create integer “counter” as 0))
SFTDP(while(counter <= 100), ((*add(1)* ~ counter), comment(counter"\n")))
((loop while counter is less than 100: add 1 to the counter and print its value, followed by a break to a new line))
comment("That made a list of the numbers 1 to 100, each on its own line.")
((print "That made a list of the numbers 1 to 100, each on its own line."))
((This language seems to have been influenced by Visual Basic, C++, and BSL (DrScheme)))
#hell(freeze_over)~Counter_Test
Hm. It would be better as:
#gaboomba()~Counter_Test
((Initialize program))
:idea:~counter=int(0)
((create integer “counter” as 0))
SFTDP{&
while(counter<=100),&
(&
(*add(1)*~counter),&
( *comment(counter"\n")*)&
)&
}
((loop while counter is less than 100: add 1 to the counter and print its value, followed by a break to a new line))
*comment("\nThat made a list of the numbers 1 to 100, each on its own line.")*
((print "That made a list of the numbers 1 to 100, each on its own line."))
((This language seems to have been influenced by Visual Basic, C++, and BSL (DrScheme)))
((The ampersands (&s) instruct that, though a section is on multiple lines for clarity, it is all part of the same section. Line breaks otherwise signal an end of an instruction.))
#hell(freeze_over)~Counter_Test
You know you’ve been writing too much LaTeX code when you wonder where all the backslashes are…
Hmm…A MuseBlog version of LaTeX… It would probably be too confusing to be worth it.
What the… I wrote an example of my code. Did it get thrown into the spam bin by mistake? There should be two comments, a “first draft” of it and an improved version. GAPAs?
Scratch that. I’m going insane.
No, you’re not going insane, it did wind up in spam. Guess it looked suspiciously like, um, code.
Imagine that.
Idea for error messages (I don’t know much about coding, so these are just ideas):
(For when a number conflicts):
Error: temp(hell)int(0)
Part of my comment got snipped. I’ll try again:
(When there is an unknown command)
Error: purple(yonder)
&
woven(beyond)
(Anything else)
Error: mrjoe=int(>0)
As in, Mr. Joe has just sabotaged all of my Brit Lit assignments from the past week so that I failed the last quiz miserably?
Yup. That sounds right.
The image is wonderful… I just like to say Scheherazade.
Are we still having a Halloween Masked Ball this year? We haven’t had a planning thread, so I just wondered.
Random Question In My Head: Does anyone else here like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ?
17 (Alice): Oooh, that sounds fun!
Yes, we still are planning to have a ball.
13.1- Hooray! I’m almost important! The enlarged pies look like what the emoticons would’ve looked like if we were allotted more than a 15 by 15 square.
19.1- Ooh, good idea!
Do it! Do it! Then teach us how to use it!
*snork* Sorry, that just sounded funny for some reason.
Why?
I dunno….I think maybe because it almost rhymes. *shrug*
Maybe. Also maybe because all three sentences in that post ends with “it!”…
Sounds like a single line in a freestyle competition.
-A
To me it sounds like a cheer in a context where one doesn’t expect to find cheerleaders.
Ah. Yes indeed it does.
Almost? Piggy, you are one of the most important people I know.
I love your programing idea! I wish I could think fo some clever command for it… ((Of course, instead of SUDO, it would be SudoRandom, right? Na, just kidding. I have to be a much more prominent MuseBlogger for that to happen.))
22.1-
It would take a looooong time to create an entire language. But I wrote a sample (19.6).
22.2- Aw, thanks, SR. I’m glad I give the illusion of importance. But I’m not making an OS, so I sadly have no use for a SUDORANDOM command. But in the “random” number generator function, I could use sudorandom(type, min, max), or something like that.
Today, I met this cool guy who works on materials design for the European Space Agency, and he did this whole talk about designing nanomaterials for spacesuits and spaceships.
Oh, and if you hadn’t guessed, the new slogan in my name is from one of the posters for the LCROSS impact next week. Let’s Kick Up Some Moon Dust!
Ooh! Beautiful picture Lady B.!! I absolutely adore it.
I haven’t read any previous comment, sorry. I’ll read them later, but I had to say how amazing the new pic is. *choklit*
That. Picture. Is. Amazing. I love it. In other news, it is the spring holidays (for me).
Just a question out of interest: why did you choose Chad to be King Shahryar? None of the Muses seem like the beheading-people-everyday type, so why Chad?
Chad is there mainly because he wasn’t part of the group in the first September graphic, so he has a prime place this time. There’s no one-to-one correspondence here, just a celebration of story-telling tradition. Mimi is addressing the whole group, after all. Even if it were a re-enactment, one needn’t be a wife-beheading king to play one on stage.
G’night, MuseBlog!
Great picture!
Well, homecoming was last night. It was pretty fun. The friend who I was planning to hang out with is a pretty hyper person normally and had had Mountain Dew that afternoon. I did hang out with her, but then we went to get food and she went back to dancing and I talked to some of my friends who weren’t dancing. When I went back to dancing, I was trying to find her, but the seniors who had offered to hang out with me before all but kidnapped me and made me dance with them. I wound up hanging out with them and my friends who were talking for the rest of the night. ‘Twas fun.
I’m glad to hear you had a good time. My homecoming had too much drama for my taste, but it was nice recognizing two of the songs they played (a huge accomplishment for me).
Ha, I feel the same way! I don’t really listen to the pop songs that most of my friends do and those are usually the ones they play at the dance. Half of the time I’m just pretending I know the songs when really I’m trying to figure out if I have any clue where they came from.
I’m more of an alternative/soft rock fan, but it’s rare to hear that at a dance, because they’re not really the dance-y type of song.
Do we still have a religion thread? I have a few newer points to share.
-A
I think we do…
I was right! The line “Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see a total eclipse of the sun” in Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”, MIGHT be about the eclipse that one of my friends at Custer traveled to Canada to see in 1970!
New theory: The reason Ms. Simon hated her lover so much was that he went to see the eclipse and didn’t bring her along.
I’m back! Wow, there’s been a lot happening when I’ve been gone.
Note to self……Eating a foot long subway sandwich, at least 3/4 of a family size bag of BBQ potato chips, and downing a liter of Mt. Dew is not the way to maintain (or achieve) good healthy, and certainly does nothing for losing the 10 pounds I gained on my mother’s delicious cooking this past summer.
*sigh* I like junk food too much. and my pact to cut back on the amount of soda I drink isn’t working out too well, either. That is to say, I’m sticking to my pact, I just left way too many loopholes.
No more than one soda a day [note: no limit on size of the soda, so a 1 L soda is acceptable. 
] and fountain sodas from the cafeteria don’t count towards the daily allotment…..Yeah, like I said, working out real well.
Rebecca: The picture is so pretty! I like the pies in the tree.
Errata (11): Sorry, I highly doubt THF will return. But good luck!
Piggy (14): Grr, I know! The anarchist protest in Oakland was a tear-gas and window-smashing nightmare. It was very sad driving down the street with all of the stores boarded up because they lost their windows. Though, I have to say, the military helicopters were very schmancy-looking. AND Yo-Yo Ma was the BEST.
Alice (17): That sounds like fun! Let us know how it goes.
Didn’t think so, but I can always hope.
Wow!!! A break for 3 days was a long time in MB launguage. 4 new threads I believe. Oh well, time to start catching up.
*numblegrumble* Stupid dad and his stupid thoughts of “Hur hur hur I want something that’s gonna last through college hur hur.” If I’m fine with a ten inch screen, what’s wrong with it? So it appears we’ll be paying 130 bucks (130 bucks my family doesn’t really have at the moment) more for a bigger screen, while taking away most of the features I liked in my aforementioned netbook. No webcam, no Bluetooth, worse battery life. And all because my dad thinks a small screen would somehow diminish the lifespan of a computer. *numblegrumble*
Um, personally I like a decent sized screen, but I don’t see how if you are willing to settle for smaller that is going to affect the lifespan of the computer in any way. I mean, the type of computer (Mac vs. PC), for instance, is a lot more meaningful in terms of lifespan then, say, screensize. I just don’t see how screensize is going to make any difference one way or the other in the lifespan.
But no webcam and no Bluetooth? Yeep. Trying to imagine how I would function.
I mean, webcam is the only way I can take stupid pictures of myself on my computer, as well as stupid videos. And Bluetooth is what allows me to upload pics from my cell phone without incurring any sort of data charges on it, and bluetooth is also what allows me to download free ringtones to my cell. That is, I can create a ringtone on my computer, and bluetooth it to my cell free of any charges…..I now have HP ringtones, instead of the basic stupid ringtones AT&T gives you.
Bluetooth also allows me to use my wireless mouse and keyboard my dad got me, that I actually almost never use. Although, I am using my wireless keyboard right now…..Cuz then I can prop my feet up on my desk where my computer is, and be sitting three feet away from it with the keyboard in my lap, while typing……Yes, I’m weird.
As for battery life…..I think mine in theory is supposed to be 3 hrs, but I almost never use it anywhere when it’s not plugged into the wall, so….. Of course, I totally understand wanting a long battery life if you are envisioning using it in the car/airplanes/other places with no electric outlet.
Hello! You’re lucky you have your own laptops. I’m using my mom’s, which is actually a very nice one. I wonder why your ad thinks a smaller screen = smaller battery life?
I only have my own laptop because I’m in college. Prior to college, our parents saw no purpose in my sister and I ahving our own computers, and we just used the two desktops we ahd at home.
No school today! Yayness!
I guess the blog will be pretty slow though with most MBers in school I’m guessing…
I am at school! and on Museblog! Because I finished my work early! Yay for being nerdy!
oops. Typed the wrong email. That’s a really ugly avatar.
You are very lucky, at my school we’re only allowed to go onto the school-approved websites. (That means no blogs, e-mails, or basically anything anyone would want to go online for.)
That’s pretty much my school too. But the teacher was nice today, and let us go on gaming sites.
So, I haven’t been on recently because I’ve been sick. Don’t worry, I’m not abandoning the blog again.
D: I hope you get well soon! I feel like there’s going to be a cold going around school pretty soon…ugh
I shall not abandon the blog either… I’ve just been horribly busy with homework and confirmation stuff. And being an anime addict.
But yeah, no school today, my school actually respects Jewish holidays…
We’re off because of Yom Kippur as well. (Excuse me if I spelled that wrong.) I think this is the first year we’ve been off today, though.
We’re off too. Generally we get either Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur off, and the other a delayed opening. One was on a weekend this year, though.
I’m taking the day off of school because I’m sick…my school isn’t lucky enought to get Jewish holidays off.
I’m sorry.
*choklit and hugs*
Neither is mine, but I’m not sick. *Chocklit and cough drops for Fio*
Lucky. I took the day off for Yom Kippur, but my school didn’t. So now I have make-up work galore, and I didn’t get anything done because I was fasting.
Hey, I just got a gravatar account! Do you like my new avatar?
(It’s the fourth Percy Jackson book, by the way.)
Cool! *Choklit*
Yeah. It’s cool. I can still see your green smiley face in your other comments though… Did you get it with a different email?
Yeah, I have two e-mail addresses, and I forgot and used the one I don’t usually input on MB. I guess I could try to change it, but oh well.
I’m changing back my gravatar, I’m getting tired of blue. Hope everyone got the message before it was too late.
And I’m changing my avatar too.
It’s kind of funny, because I was around/on a computer pretty much all day so I was basically posting from this morning till now, and it’s kind of interesting to see all of the Musers log on at around the same time and start posting once they get home from school…there was like one big rush just a little while ago where the blog became really full again!
SFTDP
I’ve got to get going now, I’ve got soccer later on tonight. Early g’night MB. I’ve spent the whole day with you.
This weekend coming up is going to be so wicked. I’m so stoked for it. Okay, it’s my friend’s sixteenth birthday so we’re going LAZOR QUESTING!!! I’m painting my head for the occasion. (I’m mostly bald for anyone who doesn’t know) It’s going to be a face with big yellow eyes and sharp teeth with “Happy Birthday Person” written at the base of my neck. (Person is ofcourse the filler for her name). I’m so so so excited and I just need to vent my excitedness.
Is Lazor Questing like Laser Tag?
I think so. It’s called Laser Quest around where we live, at least.
oh man make sure you get a crazy name. there’s always someone with the name “spiderman” or something when I go laser tagging and they ALWAYS get me 900000 times and I’m like SPIDERMAAAAAAAAN
omg painting your head that is amazing
I’ve only done laser tag once. I think I used the name “Everest”.
I wasn’t gone, I was just not posting. Sahhrry.
So I got a part in the Suessified version of Romeo and Juliet! It’s sickening, and hilarious at the same time to see Shakespeare ripped apart so. But anyways, I’m Tybalt, or whatever his name is. Woo.
Also, it’s a no on the homecoming dress from both ‘rents. Sexists. I’m having a bout of teenage
rebellionopen mindedness and kind of ignoring them.Also, Halloween woooooo everything I love is on sale :))))
That sounds like me (the not posting thing, that is).
Aw.
I hate homecoming. It’s so stupid. No one’s going to ask me, of COURSE…. *sniff* Everyone at school hates me.
You know that’s not true, RQ. Someone will ask you. If it turns out that no one does ask you, it could only be because they’re too overwhelmed by your splendor to approach you.
Seriously, guys, everyone at school DOES hate me. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s because I was rather a B-word in seventh grade (when I first started at my school) and that’s their only impression of me now. But seriously…. Gradster or…. I forget who else I told…. could tell you about a certain little conversation in the student lounge.
But thanks anyway. I don’t know why everyone hates me, either.
And I’m sure no one besides SR will ask me.
SR– I accept, and thank you for the rose! (Friends? As friends? Why not as siblings?
)
*hugs* I’m sure that’s not true! How is it possible that anybody could hate you? Okay, so it’s possible to hate anyone, but I still say there must be somebody that doesn’t!
Haha, splendor, haha. (Sorry, it’s a sibling thing.)
Seriously, RoseQuartz, will you go to homecoming with me?
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((Don’t get jealous, AvalonGirl, we’d be going as friends.
This is an act of pity.))*hugs and choklit* I’m sure that there’s plenty of people that like you, and at least one person who wants to ask you but is worried to because of the reason Piggy gave.
Attention all y’all who live in or have visited Washington, D.C. (which obviously includes RoCoo): I am visiting DC next Tuesday for my AP U.S. History class. As a group of thirty students we will go to Arlington and all the war/presidential memorials. During the afternoon we will be able to break into smaller groups of about five students and go anywhere we want on the National Mall for several hours. I am wondering which museum/place people find the most interesting. I’ve been to DC before, so I know I don’t want to go to the Natural History Museum, the Archives, or the Holocaust Museum again. I think I might want to go to the Air & Space Museum, the American History Museum, or the National Art Gallery, but I’m not sure. Where would any of you suggest as a good museum for a group of five high school students to explore for four-ish hours next Tuesday?
Oooh, I went to DC when i was little! We stayed in a hotel with a pool on the roof. Of course, we never got to use it, we got back too late after exploring……
Ah, yes, anyway. Ummm, let’s see, what did we do? Uh, we went to see the Lincoln Memorial (not a museum, I know), Washington Monument (’twas fun), toured the Capitol building (they had lots of stuff to see, there, rather museumish, if I remember rightly), and of course, we went to some, at least, of the Smithsonian museums/exhibits. Natural History Museum, me thinks, Air & space, whichever one’s got all the rocks (dad used to be a geologist, he finds rocks fascinating.
), and probably elsewhere I’ve forgotten. hehe, sorry, ’twas a LONG time ago. Over 10 years, y’know.
I do remember sitting outside the Smithsonian watching a squirrel digging up bulbs in the flower garden, and then he walked over to the road–and I kid you not–he very deliberately looked both ways before proceeding to cross the street. it was quite amusing.
Yes, you should definitely go to the Air and Space Museum. The Museum of the American Indian is also worth a visit, especially on a sunny day to see- and stand under- the rainbow window in the lobby.
47.1- The Natural History Museum has a lot of rocks, that might be what you’re thinking of.
I think my 8th grade class stayed in that same hotel when we went for our trip. Holiday Inn Capitol?
Quite possible–probable, even.
Near the Air and Space Museum? With ballrooms named for space stuff?
I’m pretty sure it was near the Air and Space Museum, but I don’t remember any ballrooms “named for space stuff”. Like I said, it was long time ago……
The cafeteria at the Museum of the American Indian is my favorite place to eat on the Mall. It’s a food court with different regional styles of (more or less) traditional American Indian foods. Best of all (when they have it), is the pumpkin soup with puffed wild rice.
It’s worth checking online to see what current exhibits are, even for those museums you’ve visited before. The National Gallery’s permanent collection also has some wonderful pieces. (I’ve been revisiting some of them since I was six years old.) Then there’s the Freer Gallery, which has Asian, Middle Eastern, and 19th-century American art.
oh that sounds delicious. (The soup.) I’ve been to that food court and it is indeed really good.
I had something with venison that was great.
The Native American one has a flamabulous resteraunt that serves Native American food…. I also liked the Air and Space one too though.
I’d hit the Air and Space Museum first, then go to the American Indian museum for something to eat, then cross Third Street and visit the Botanic Garden. It’s got all sorts of odd plants, including part of a rain forest and, until November, an exhibit about chocolate. I’m not sure whether they give samples, but it’s worth investigating.
If I can manage all that in four hours (assuming I find a group that would agree to that), that sounds like a plan. Do you know the average price range for the American Indian museum restaurant? I want to know how much money I should bring along.
Although we’d probably eat first, as we’re splitting into groups sometime around noon (assuming all goes according to plan).
It’s not cheap. I’d take at least $15 — probably $20 to be safe.
I figured it’d be around there somewhere. Hopefully I’ll find some people who want to try some good food as well, but I may end up having to find a hot dog vendor or similar.
There’s a McDonald’s in the Air and Space Museum, but the cafeteria at the National Museum of the American Indian is unique. It doesn’t serve Native American dishes for the most part, but the ingredients all are native to the Western Hemisphere and represent different geographic regions.
If I could travel in time back to the year 1400 and wanted to eat well, I’d definitely pick North or Central American instead of Europe. Think of all the great ingredients they had here: corn, tomatoes, potatoes, chili peppers, squashes, chocolate…
Don’t get me wrong, I would really love to go there. It’s just a matter of finding a good group of people who would want to do so as well (and be willing to pay for it). I’m betting I’ll have to make a few compromises.
I think I’d pick somewhere in the Americas as well if I had to go back then. Although somewhere in eastern Asia could be good as well.
I’m just here to voice my envy over your visit to DC and related museums D:
I am interested in humorous or meaningful anecdotes that result form said trip! I will live vicariously through all of you goshdarnit!
AH MY GAWD MY PRINTER HAS BEEN BUNNIFIED
It keeps printing anything blue as hot pink. I’m scared.
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Try changing the ink cartridge.
Well, yes, you could do that, Rq, or you could sit here and freak out with the rest of us instead. Which sounds more fun?
AHHHH MY PRINTER IS EVILLLLLL
XD
*debunnifies printer*
Hopefully, It won’t leak on to you…
So I had a nice day off. I woke up naturally (7:30) and read a mystery book for an hour before going into the kitchen to breakfast, then I went out to buy office supplies with my dad. I got home and tried to draw cartoon versions of the Columbia astronauts with reference photos from my old Scholastic News, but I didn’t do too well. (Kalpana Chawla came out passably, though.) I can’t draw picture that actually look like real people.
Then my brother went to practice at the gym, so I went with my other brother and did some running/jogging.
I want to make one of those bunny shirts that says “FEAR ME”!!!!!!!!
Also, just to make sure no one thinks Pseudo is dead, she won’t be on for a week. Punishment.
ALSO…I LIKE MUFFINS!!!!!!
AND….I LIKE ICE CREAM!!!!
and I drew a blue person today. After freaking out about not being able to draw an apple because the chalk I thought was red was pink.\But it’s a cool blue person. haha get it?
OOO, I have a joke. So there are 2 penguins sitting in a bathtub. one of them says to the other, “Hey, can you hand me the soap?” The other one says, “What, do I look like a typewriter to you?”
HAHAHA
I don’t get it.
Me neither.
I love those. I’ve got one too!
So there’s a group of penguins on the ice. Suddenly, a section of ice with two penguins on it breaks off. As they drift away, one of them yells; “Chocolate miiiilk!”
I don’t get it…… *sniffle*
The point is that it’s so random it makes people laugh.
But it’s so random I don’t get it so I don’t laugh. Y’know?
Eh, whatever.
Geez, moderation is getting slower…
You east coasters and your weird time!
I was washing dishes. The dishwasher is broken, so I’m doing them by hand. Not exactly conducive to moderating.
I was at my tai chi class.
what do you think of it? my mom used to take tai chi and I occasionally think I should too (or something like it) because I always feel sort of stiff…and it seems relaxing
It’s relaxing, but I think it’s probably too slow for anybody under 40. I have a very good teacher who knows all the martial-arts applications of the moves — how all those the poetically named, graceful, flowing motions were originally used to crush windpipes and break arms. It puts a different perspective on things.
heh, I thought of that… I’ve occasionally seen tai chi classes at the park in the morning and there’s never a single teenager in sight!
Around here the Chinese think is weird to exercise before 6am, but if you get up early enough (say, 5) you can see them almost everywhere waving their arms in slow motion (yes, I do know that’s not what they’re really doing. But it sure looks like it). There are also some ladies who do a tai-chi-fan-dance, which is basically tai chi but holding large red fans.
I just found one of the most amusing pieces of internet-meme satire I’ve seen in a while: AverageCats dot com. Finally, an anti-LOLcat site to help fight the legions of LOLcat ones. I have noticed that it makes one’s speech more average. I, for instance, am speaking less enthusiastically than I do at other times, in part due to the fact that I have been reading similar statements on aforementioned site. “Cats are unable to form committees. The average litter size of a cat is three to five kittens. These cats are most likely siblings. Also, note that cats have no concept of organizational structure.”
Laugh. Laugh.
That was so cynically hilarious!
there is no life without cat macros.
although I will admit very few make me laff
Sweetness: I did some digging and uncovered the old Gaboomba. 261 posts from ABK, Ohio, to Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Grant O. No dates, it seems, but a history of the pre-MB era nonetheless. I didn’t know that Master Baker was the second poster on the Gaboomba. I’ve saved the pages to my computer for browsing at a later date. Ah, long gone are the days of orange text for the Webmaster. Granted, I was never part of the Gaboomba, but I’ve heard tell many times. It’s even uncovered Koko’s political party: Demokokopublican.
*is giddy with excitement*
okay, so today I had more coke (lol…COLLAAAA) than normal and I feel kind of crazy! haha it’s midnight!
I also worked on math homework for two hours straight which is unusal so maybe caffeine helps me concentrate a little but I don’t think it’s good to have too much…i’m all jittery…BUT MY EYES ARE SO TIRED
gapas this is why I’m replying to so many posts sorry!
I like Punnett Squares!
*random* but we did them in Science today and they are fun! ((Then again, I also enjoy taking notes….I think I generally enjoy orderly and systematic things e.g. Punnett Squares!))
And right now it is approximately 8 pm! On Tuesday! I think I am ahead of most other people here. This is NOT a good thing because when I am doing my homework most everyone else has to gone to bed already – and as soon as I wake up I go to school (UNLESS I wake up early to finish my homework – which is often)
So the chances of me being able to carry a running discussion with anyone for a period of time are very, very slim.
46.1- *hugs* Don’t worry. This sounds stupid, but classmates are temporary. Last year, I was either teased/insulted or ignored, an outcast and a loser. In my new class I’m in a cool clique and need two hands to count all my friends. Either I got brainwashed by aliens or the ringleaders in my old homeroom were jerks. I’m inclined to think the latter. Besides, Piggy is seldom wrong
Wheee… Life is fun when you have (insane) friends.
I finished making my signature. I’d email it, but I forget if the address is gapa or gapas @ musefanpage dot com.
Well, anyways, a week ago one of my friends and I got somehow roped into a beach clean-up on the Cape and we ended up fishing 53 golf balls out of a very small section of the water.
I mean, really, 53 golf balls out of an approximately 15-foot radius?! There isn’t even golf course nearby.
57– Life IS fun when you have insane friends!
There’s a Museblog signatures thingy going on? *makes no sense*
First one. gapa @ musefanpage dot com.
I need to get started on my signature (Which will, of course, be wearing an orange hat.)
(“gapas” also works, however.)
Does? Never knew that. Speaking of email, did you get my Kokon pics? Or did it bounce for some reason?
Okay, thanks. I will send it veryvery soon.
58.2– Fabulous!
Signatures? Can someone please explain this to me? *is puzzled and feels stupid for not knowing*
In the past, the GAPAs have done “signature” T-shirts that they offer for sale on Musery Loves Company. Usually around Christmas time, I think, they post an announcement to collect signatures from MBers–that is, a signature of their on-blog persona. You can see examples of past signatures at MLC. I think there’s a link on the sidebar, not sure.
Hmm. LCROSS crashes into the moon on John Lennon’s birthday. Just noticed that. Interesting.
I’m also entering a creative writing contest. The winner gets her/his story published in the newspaper and a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card. The prompt is wicked dumb though: Write an original story about someone or something who faces their biggest fear or phobia.
Oh, well. 750 words can’t be that difficult. I really want that gift card!
Oooh, thanks for pointing that out. We should all sing “Across the Universe”!
Rant of the Day:
“What is it w/ NASA and the moon? I mean, yeah, it has water, but that’sonly useful if we got there, and WHY would we go? It’s a big rock, people. Mars is much more important. It might of had life.”
Ok, I’m done. Sorry. There was a serious issue at our school. Uh oh.
We would go because:
1) We have explored less of its surface in depth, cumulatively, than the area of one soccer field.
2) It is only a few days away from Earth and thus is a useful place to practice living off-planet. (With a quick evacuation in case something goes wrong) If the hardware has problems, better to find them there than on Mars, where home is six months away.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally want to go to Mars, but we have to walk before we can run.
I knew you’d reply to that.
Oh, and apparently my group of friends are now EMO. Since when was I EMO??? Grrrrrr…
Tomorrow. Google Wave limited release. Maybe.
I am too excited for words.
What’s so special?
-A
really!!!!!!!
Hmmm… is it worth changing my name for Expedition 21, since they’re going up tomorrow? Probably not, so I’ll just wish them good luck here.
I have to do a comedy presentation for public speaking class tomorrow. I just hope the other kids laugh.
Mrawr. I’m a cat today.
I had a kind of sucky day at school so I came home and danced around in the back yard and watched the sunset and pretended I was making the winds blow. Best afternoon like, ever. Not really, but it was pretty cool. I feel all warm and fuzzy now. Plus I’ve been reading MLIA, which is always good for the soul.
I was reading this pamphlet when I went to get my flu shot. According to the pamphlet, “Is Your Teen Smoking?”, signs your child is smoking include denying any use of cigarettes, leaving windows open, going outside for no apparent reason, having friends who smoke, and coughing sometimes.
Guess that means I’ve been smoking for quite a while now. Hope my mom doesn’t see that, she’ll be on to me.
“Denying” implies you’ve been asked if you smoke. Have you?
62.1- It looks incredibly awesome and fantastic: http: //wave.google. com/help/wave/about.html.
I really hope I get an invitation. I probably won’t, as only 100,000 people will, but I might, because Google may invite, among some developers and Google Apps customers, “the first users who signed up and offered to give feedback on wave.google. com.” I signed up fairly early, so there’s an uber-thin chance of getting an invitation. *jiggles with anticipation*
64- Coughing? Oh no, I must smoke too!
It was windy and chilly today and I wore a sweater for all of it, lovely!
Piggy~ All the Smithsonians are good, I’m partial to the American History one, but then, I’m partial to American history as well. I’d also highly recommend the National Art Galleries, there’s always interesting and enticing things to be discovered there. (If you go, be sure to go on the moving walkway near the cafeteria–it’s got amazing LED lights that move around. It’s also special because it’s the Walk-Through Bunnifier, so be sure to hold your copy of Muse over your head as a shield and you’ll be perfectly fine. (It’s called that because of a picture I took while with Rebecca there one time that looked rather alarming. I’ll have to send it in sometime.)
I’m tired. Make that quite tired, as I was tired several hours ago. *sigh*
Gooooooooooooood morning again MB! I’m back again, with not a lot of time once more.
I’m gonna try to get to all my favorite threads super quickly. So… bye! 
Ok, at the end of spanish today we were supposed to compose a paragraph in spanish describing a famous person, using our limited vocabulary/grammar/etc. The other students were supposed to guess who you were describing.
So, is the following really so hard that it’s not surprising that only one kid out of about 20 had a clue? I thought it was pretty obvious, most of it was extraneous info, and the first two sentences I thought were a dead giveaway.
¿QuÃen es?
Es un escritor muy famoso. Ella es inglesa. Tiene tres hijos (dos hijas y un hijo). Ella es rubia y muy inteligente. Sus cumpleaños es treinta y undo de julio.
Only one person guessed it, and he butchered the pronunciation…..The prof then went, “——- ———-? I don’t know who that is….”
I gave her a look of utter disbelief (yes, I’m afraid I probably did), and went (in a tone of utter disbelief), “The ——- ——– series?”
Prof: “Oh, —— ——-, I’ve heard of that/those. [she even may have said she read ’em]’ She also said something along the lines of not realizing that was the name of the author.
I mean, really, I thought everybody upon hearing the name of the author of aforementioned series automatically knew the series for which she is famous.
J.K Rowling? Luna, I don’t find it so surprising that not everyone got it, but only one is unexpected. And if I’m right about who it is, then I’m very surprised with the teacher’s reaction.
Yes, you’re right, of course, SR. It’s JKR.
*gives choklit*
Luna-Well, I always hated Spanish and never paid any attention to anything, so I suspect that the kids in your class are the same.
I did Tidy Up Tredyffirn today. It was fun, because you’re out there with your friends and yu’re helping the enviroment, which i’m sure all Musers who have half a brain care about. But my friend fell down a hill and hit a rock, so that was kind of a bummer.
WE FOUND AN ANIMAL SKULL!!!!!! Oh my gosh, I’m still freaking out about it (in a good way, of course)!!!!!!!!!! It deserves 10 “!” marks!!! I’ll see you later!
Well, true, most of them probably either don’t know the vocab or just don’t give a cake, but….Still. Only one?
Cool! Have you taken it to your Biology teacher to ask what kind of animal it is?
Wasn’t hard for me, especially since it was you writing it.
But I probably could have guessed, even if I didn’t have a pretty good idea before even starting to read.
Yeah, you all do have an advantage over my spanish classmates, as you know how I think (and what I think about) a heck of a lot better than any of them. That is, y’all know I”m madly obsessed with all things HP, and nobody in spanish knows that at all.
It wasn’t hard for me, and I speak no Spanish. Sigh… we’re so illiterate. (I speak Latin and French, though, so I understood 75% of it.)
I guessed it but only because I know her birthday. Knowing she’s a famous, blonde, smart british author is rather vague and I didn’t know anything about her kids.
Yeah, it is a bit vague, I s’pose–my current vocab is rather limited.
For me, though, famous (female) british author sorta seems a dead giveaway, but that might just be because I eat, sleep, and breathe HP. I almost listed the names of the kids, but I figured I was already going to sound geeky (obsessed) enough, as it was…..
I want to change my name, even though I know it would probably make things a little confusing around here for a while, I really want something that would be more permanent – I mean, soccer starr is ok but now I think it’s pretty stupid (I’ve always thought it was, actually). I guess I really hope that I’ll be on MB for a while so I want a name that will always fit…any suggestions? I’m trying to think of something original and funny!!
How bout something from Percy Jackson and the Olympians? Your avatar gives it away. *wink wink*
Yeah…I was thinking about that, I mean my user name at school is Thalia, so I guess I could do that or something even though it’s not exactly the most original…oooh how about something related to Greek mythology?! I’m practically obsessed with it right now!!
Hmmm… *ponders*
The blog sure is slow today. Are you all incredibly busy with school, or something?
*is bored*
Incredibly busy with school, yep.
Is there anyone who can explain derivatives (Precal) to me in a way that makes more sense than a textbook, please?
Aren’t derivatives calculus?
As I recall, precalculus classes introduce the general concept of a derivative as a limit of { ( f(a) – f(b) ) over (a – b) } as (a – b) gets smaller and smaller. That’s as far as they go with it.
I learned how to do derivatives of polynomials for Scholastic Bowl, but I’m not doing calculus until next semester (long story). I never really took precalc, because my school’s precalc class was 80% review and 20% trig that I could learn more of in an online class.
Yes, they are calculus, but as my teacher keeps reminding us, “This is HONORS precalculus! Don’t whine! I’m not a hand-holder!”
We’ve gotten to calculating derivatives and using them to find local maxiumums.
Oh, dear, I just did that a year ago, and I’ve already forgotten…..
Finding maximums… Isn’t that why graphing calculators were invented? (In general, I find that math teamers will believe whatever their TI-89s say, regardless of accuracy.)
That depends….In my calc class last year, we weren’t allowed calculators, we had to do it all with pencil and paper and in our heads.
Yes, I know. I just find it amusing how much people who are perfectly capable of doing problems on their own rely on calculators. Today during a math meet, there was a controversy over the answer to a problem because one person’s TI-84 gave a different answer than another person’s TI-89. I did the problem in my head and got the same answer as one of the calculators. I’m not sure which answer was right. (The problem was actually pretty simple, but it was formatted really badly leading to order of operations confusion. The people doing writing the tests need to stop using Word to typeset them. LaTeX exists for a reason.)
Oh, I didn’t see your comment before I posted.
A derivative is a measure of how a function is changing at a specific point. Let’s say you ride a bike down and back up a hill. Your speed will change depending on where you are along your route, right? When you’ve finished though, your average speed won’t give a good description of your ride (you could’ve been riding along a flat surface at a constant speed). Plugging an X (say, 2 seconds) value into your equation will yield a Y value. This is your speed at X (2 seconds). Finding the derivative of that point, (X,Y), will also tell you how your speed was changing at that exact time.
The derivative is the rate of change of a function at a single point. Does that make sense?
You’ve been using it to find local maxima and minima because these places will have a rate of change of zero.
Is that helpful? Should I explain how tangent lines are involved too?
That makes… a lot of sense. Thanks so much!
Robert’s explanation works very well for Precalc, if that’s as far as you need to go. If you don’t understand, please ask again- I’ve had trouble with math (Although dropping from AP to honors isn’t really big trouble), so I’m usually happy to help explain things!
Today was a good day. I got all my homework done at school, and on the way home I remembered that there were Fudgsicles in the freezer!
Woo, Messenger did its last Mercury flyby yesterday and the pix are awesome!
I did my comedy routine today and the teacher said it was nearly perfect. The kids laughed for every single joke.
Here’s how it went:
“I wish I knew more cool people. A lot of my online friends know cool people. Some of them even get E-MAILS from exiled foreign ROYALTY asking for MONEY! I wish that could happen to ME!
“Another one of my online friends knows a guy who builds missiles for the Air Force. Since his friend is so smart, he invited him over to help him set his VCR. Well, the friend spent two hours working on it, and finally came out and said ‘Darn, I’m a rocket scientist and I can’t figure out how to set this VCR!’
“I guess the coolest people I know are my family. Once, I went to this summer camp with my little brother J, and we all got Native American names. J’s name was ‘Boy With Eyes The Color Of Sky In Summer’. My name was ‘Girl With Eyes The Color Of Raging Infected Toenail’.
“My other brother, P (They’re twins), is pretty cool, too. When we had to turn all our power off for Earth Hour, my dad was complaining ‘But I wanted to watch *John Adams*!’ So P told him ‘Well, Dad, now you can LIVE like John Adams!’
“My dad’s pretty cool himself. When my mom was in the hospital because my brothers were going to be born, he took me sightseeing all over the City. One day, we went to the Bronx Zoo and we decided to visit the Bat House. So we went in, and my dad walked right into a wall. ‘Cause, you know, it’s the Bat House. My dad dragged me out of the Bat House and up to this security guard who was outside, and he went ‘I can’t see a thing in there, it’s too dark!’. So the guard looked at my dad and said ‘That’s the way the bats like it, sir.’
“So that’s my dad, one of the few cool people who I do know. All of those stories were true except for one.”
GAPAs, we needs the October Muse threads, por favor.
And quickly they are done.
less then 3 hours until new threads.
September 30, 2008
It’s 12:00, and we just got back from Yo-Yo Ma. It was O.K. I wish we had had better seats. In the mezzanine, the concert just looked like it was on T.V.
I’m terribly jealous of A.P. He’s good at everything. Better than me at everything, I should say. Plus he got to sit in the second row at Yo-Yo Ma. We sat right behind his parents. I think I’ll always be jealouse of him, which is a shame. Nobody else seems to be.
I came home from school early today because I had a terrible sinus headache. Bleh. I got to take a nap, though!
-Kyra
I’ve got Barber Adagio stuck in my head.
I know these are old, but
1. I’ve seen Yo-Yo Ma live too, and it was amazing.
2. It’s envy, not jealousy. (Except for the seat bit, maybe?)
3. Sinus trouble here, now. Neti pot and tea.
Today was interesting. Gettysburg has moved up on my list of places to explore……yesss, I like this plan.
Anyway, we went to visit a friend of Mom’s who we haven’t seen in ages. It was quite fun. Of course, I instantly got kidnapped by the her two daughters, ages 7 and 10. Why do I always fall prey to young children who want to run footraces, climb trees, pick apples, play Magical-Talking-Ponies-And-Princesses and step on mushrooms? Ah well. Perhaps it’s because I don’t resist very much and always have fun.
Tomorrow: violin lesson. Good thing I did SO much practicing this week……… *hides*