The event: Part 2 of the July Random Thread.
The scene: A warm, tastefully decorated cave somewhere in western Europe, ca. perhaps 15,000 B.C.
Continued from Part 1.
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The last random thread closed as soon as I wanted to post something! >.<
Re: AP: My high school's very big (2000+ students) so we have a ton of AP classes… but no Latin or AP Biology (that's why I'm taking it online).
I'm legitimately excited for the fall. AP Chem, AP Euro, Multivariable Calculus… it'll be a party.
Here’s your last comment-which I wanted to reply to.
They don’t offer AP Bio; very few people take AP Chem/Physics.
NORMAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM AT MY SCHOOL
9 – (Honors) Earth/Physical Science
10 – (Honors) Biology
11 – (Honors) Chemistry
12 – (AP) Physics B/C (nobody takes C, though)
WHAT I AM TAKING
9 – Honors Biology
10 – Honors Chemistry, CIS* Anatomy Physiology
11 – AP Chemistry, AP Biology
12 – AP Physics B/C (I’m thinking C at this point)
So basically by the end of high school I’ll be taking science with my grademates, but I’ll have crammed more learning in the previous grades.
* – In CIS classes you get college credit without an AP test.
We have several tracks, and I’m not taking any of them. The main one is-
Bio
Chem
Physics
or you get Earth/Space science thrown in there.
Another track-
Bio H
Chem H
Physics H
Chem/Bio/Physics AP
I am doing this-
Bio H (Then I’ll take the AP test)
Chem H (Then I’ll take the AP)
Physics AP
Then maybe some university science, possibly liberal arts or genetics.
If your Honors Bio class is anything like mine was, you will not be ready for the AP test. At all. (I’ve looked at what’s on it.) Just alerting you.
Yeah, I’m going to have to study a little afterward. Or I could take genetics at university and then take it.
AP tests are before the end of the school year. You’ll have to study a LOT of extra material WHILE taking biology and also get ahead on material that you would learn otherwise after the test.
That’s very true. It would actually be extremely difficult… My friend did precisely that, and she got a 4, but not because of biology class, but because of all the work she put into Science Olympiad.
That’s a good thing. Now you got first post.
Do I detect a slight hint of bitterness?
Hey–I’m the last comment on part 1. I hope everyone goes and checks out the Monkey Business illusion on this thread too.
And since I was trying to post a reply on the other thread…
POSOC & Cat’s Eye, regarding sunburn: Most of the time, I live indoors, particularly on hot, sunny days. Michigan does get sun, after all–it’s not Forks. I also use sunscreen when spending a lot of time outside.
I also seem to have gotten a weird genetic combination from my parents so I neither tan nor burn easily.Or so I thought. 7 hours in direct Mediterranean sunlight seems to have done the trick despite the sunscreen, though. Now people keep commentign on the red strip on my face. It’s not peeling, just sensitve, so I guess that’s a good thing.
cromwell, regarding kosher McDonalds: I’m not sure what you mean by kosher McDonalds. There are some in Israel, on the opposite shore of the Dead Sea. The McDonalds I went to had 100% halal signs on the fries, though.
Oh, sorry. I’ve never really considered that, since I’ve never been to Asia outside Israel.
cromwell: FantasyFan is in Jordan.
Ebeth, I liked the Netherlands (besides Van Bommel) before the finals. Before they started karate kicking opposing players. Before they set a record, by themselves, for total yellow cards in a final. The Netherlands played well in their first six games, using possession and finesse to overwhelm their opponents. I mean, they beat Brazil! Then, in the finals, they abandoned their style. They replaced possession with long balls to Arjen Robben, and they replaced all their pretty footwork with fouls. The Netherlands became a different team, and the team they became played ugly, dirty soccer.
And as for defending Uruguay, I have more of a reason to hate Uruguay than most. I haven’t “defended” them.
Other World Cup: Thomas Mueller won the Golden Boot on assists (the tiebreaker) because he had three and everyone else had one. FORLAN WON THE GOLDEN BALL AS THE TOURNAMENT’S BEST PLAYER YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys! I’m leaving for the US of A tomorrow for two weeks.
I’ll be back.
Have fun, bookgirl! Send up a flare if you’re in one of our neighborhoods.
*gasp* A grammar mistake! By a GAPA! What is this world coming to?!
AHA! I caught a GAPA misspell. “Have fun, bookgirl! Send up a flare if your in one of our neighborhoods.” …………..Not to be a jerk, of course.
bookgirl is in Europe?
Yes, I’d say that was a typo rather than a grammatical error. Anyway, I saw it and fixed it before I saw your comments, in case anyone is wondering.
You use emoticons?
Bookgirl_me lives in Austria.
*gasp* Pleeeease Kokon with us in Massachusetts!
Enjoy it here.
Have fun! I’m looking forward to being a (little) closer to you geographically.
Where are you going bookgirl?
Darn it, why does the cafeteria have to serve garlic bread on the day the doctor says I can’t eat anything spicy?
Garlic bread is spicy?
If you have a stomach virus.
Random thought for the Random Thread:
Steve Thomason of Nintendo Power reminds me a lot of Robert.
One of my friends is a near-clone of Robert. Almost identical interests, personality, even physical appearance. It’s quite incredible.
(Do the GAPAs consider the term “Googlewhacking” to be a banned/naughty word? I don’t know, it just sounds…..wrong.)
If not, I DID IT!!! I FOUND A GOOGLEWHACK!
Laestrygonian Tizanidine returns only 1 result! Also, if you click “repeat search with omitted results included”, it brings up two more of the exact same page. So yes, I finally did it.
I just tried that and got two unique results. No longer a googlewhack?
As soon as he posted it here without quotation marks it ceased to be a googlewhack, actually. Keen this in mind, younglings!
MuseBlog is ungooglable, though.
/appears
/looks around furtively
/disappears
Quote from my roommate’s design teacher:
“In this class, we will be spending time in a place in Japan. It is called Taz! T-A-Z! It is called Jozu, and it is in Japan! It is fictional, but it is not. You can go there, but you can never reach it. It is between Heaven and Earth, and in it there is a golden egg! It is a golden egg of acceptance and art! You must reach this golden egg and claim it for your own! I want you to think of each of these classes as clans. You are in a clan. Each clan is vying for the golden egg. But only one of them will reach it! Your clans are in competition for the golden egg! And so we are going to do egg drops, and you can protect your egg with these popsicle sticks and marshmallows. Good luck!”
The entire dorm was in tears of laughter.
alrighty MB i have a question for you all and please don’t thumb your collective noses at me for it.
is it possible to enjoy the perseids in the suburbs? there’s light pollution of course but not so much that I can’t see stars at all…I’m just wondering because i really really really want to see them with my friends but I can’t think of anywhere nearby we can go to that is much better. :/
also, when is optimum viewing time? 2-4am? also I know it’s august 12-14ish but just is there one day that has more usually? D:
any advice/tips relating to this would be greatly appreciated
I’d say you’re right on about the viewing time and peak dates.
1) Sleep a lot the day before, so you CAN wake up before dawn.
2) Bundle up, it can get cold if you’re outside in the early morning for a long time.
3) Wake up as few other people in your house as possible when you go outside to watch.
Hey MuseBlog, I’d like some opinions. I’m thinking of buying an ebook reader, and I’m learning towards the Kindle over the Nook. Does anyone have experience with either? Which is better? Should I even get a reader? I can already read ebooks on my iPod Touch, but the screen’s tiny and the battery life’s deplorable. What do?
if you google “kindle vs nook” the first result has a pretty comprehensive comparison of the two. it seems to depend on what you’re looking for…I’ve used a kindle all of once and it was cool but i’m not at all into e-readers personally (though i see the appeal)
also i’d just like to say that i haven’t gone to bed since posting that last post, it is 4AM here, good morrow piggy oh wisest of pigs
I’ve had a little experience with a Kindle, but only because my uncle has one and when he stayed with us last year he let me use it a few times. Like axa said, it was very cool, but “coolness” doesn’t really count for much in the long term. Everything I can say about it however was very positive – the screen is good, it’s easy to read, and incredibly convenient overall. The only major difference I can think of is that I’m pretty sure you can buy books online through the Kindle, but you can’t do that on a Nook, which might lower the convenience. (Although I’d have to look that up again, because I might be remembering wrong.) All in all, I think that even though the idea of an ebook in general doesn’t really appeal to me, the convenience of it is really amazing. And based on the time I used the Kindle, it’s pretty much everything it’s drummed up to be.
Nook is best.
Got an iPod Touch or iPhone? If so, you’ll be better off with iBooks.
Are they free?
Oops.. New hard drive. Typo.
The app is. And most classics are free.
Sorry! Just saw the last sentence of Piggy’s comment.
No, Kindle!
Err, trust kokpelli? you know that there’s bound to be a bit less confusion in the future if you either a) hit the reply button in the upper right corner of the post you’re replying to or b) begin your reply with the comment number of the post you’re replying to, right? (doing so will mean that your comment is more likely to be included in discussions) I’m just pointing this out cause this is the secound time I’ve seen that you may have wanted to do that, and I haven’t seen you around before, so please forgive me if you knew all of that already. Oh, and if you are a ‘phyte, then welcome! If not please feel free to pie me in the face for not remembering you.
He’s not a ‘phyte.
Thank you piggy. Although a long time ago you said you always thought of me as a ‘phyte. Probably because I don’t get what people are talking about and put up a pointless post.
I’m not a neophyte. I just don’t like using the reply feature. I am not a neo, by the way. I haven’t been on here for like, 6 months though. I originally came on in ’07
My apologies
. Can you please pretty please at least mention who you’re replying to though? I, personally, get confused. Now, I did mention you can pie me if you so choose.
OK…so ebook readers. If you have an ebook reader, you still have to BUY the ebook, right? And there’s a limited number you can buy, right? So why not just buy a book? It saves you the price of the reader and you can buy any book you want if you look hard enough. And it’s an actual physical book, which has character and can be lent out to people and all that. (Lending people books greatly increases the chances of their actually reading them.) And books rarely break, and even if they do paper biodegrades. An ebook reader is bound to break sooner or later, like all technology, and when it does it’ll just become part of the trash island in the Pacific.
Honestly, I don’t really see the point. Unless I’ve got it wrong, and it just comes with several thousand books, in which case it all makes sense.
Well, there are about half a million free ebooks you can get on the Nook.
Oh. OK. Then you should get that one.
Well, they’re useful if you’re going on a trip for which you have a limited amout of suitcase space.
I don’t own a reader, but I can imagine that one would be very handy if you were short on space — in luggage or on bookshelves. For those of us who ride buses and subways, it would also be nice to have a whole library of books available without having to carry them all around.
I’m sure it won’t be long before most textbooks move to electronic editions, to the annoyance of backpack manufacturers everywhere.
I wish my textbooks were electronic… *curses scoliosis*
Oh, you have scoliosis too? I had to wear a back brace for mine for about 4 years….From 11 to 15.
I’ve got to go get x-rayed next week to make sure the curvature hasn’t gotten any worse since last time i had x-rays….Yay, more radiation.
It’s really minor, but they said it could get worse – and if it does, then I’ll be condemned to a backbrace.
I got x-rayed too, but apparently it’s better? I dunno. The doctor said there’s a clear curvature, but the x-ray said it’s normal.
Kokonilly – Same here. I have to be monitored so they can make sure that my spine is straight.
Well, as far as possible things go, having a back brace is relatively minor, although I hope you never get stuck having to wear one. My mom has scoliosis, too–more severe than mine–and when she was about 18, she had to have surgery on it, and had a rod put in. A few years back–probably close to 8, now–she had to have another surgery on her spine, since the original rod has shifted. They put a new rod in, and fused most of her spine….
I think my curve is something like 20-25 degrees, I forget exactly. My sis has a smaller one, around 10ish, she’s not had to do anything for hers, other than the very occasional checkup to make sure it’s not gotten worse. Lucky girl. XD
A few of my textbooks are online, but we can only use them at home for homework, as we’re not allowed to bring laptops to school. (Worst rule ever, in my opinion.) It does, however, serve as a convenience when we don’t need to bring as many heavy books home in our backpack. *sigh*
textbooks should have been electronic YEARS ago. it angers me that they aren’t.
hmm maybe i should ask for a reader for my b-day or something. i am fighting a constant battle between books and bookshelves for space (i have three bookshelves in my room. and another long sort of shelf thing that we took off the dresser and put on the floor for books. and i still have random stacks of books that won’t fit). i really like having the book though :-/
^This. I have a compulsive need to OWN paper copies of books. If I really love a book I have to buy it, even if I can get it form the library whenever I want. I spent all my x-mas money on volume 4 of The Absolute Sandman because of this XD
E-readers… wouldn’t be the same for me. I mean, yes, they’d be nice for on-the-go and I hope to own one someday but I would still go out and buy hard copies of things I’ve already read.
Same for me, actually. I just like the feel of opening a brand-new book and turning the pages. E-books don’t have that, but I like traveling.
For me, if I REALLY like a book, I get the ebook and the paper copy. (Example: Ender’s Game.)
I think the satisfaction of being able to turn actual pages and flip back and forth between the index and the text is why I really don’t want all textbooks to be electronic.
Is it bad that I find it hilarious that the title of a webchat on NASA.gov is “Why Black Holes Suck”?
I find it hilarious as well.
Well, it’s no worse than the Australian lollipops called…wait for it…STARBURST SUCKS.
That could be a rather dangerous name in terms of trademarks and libel…
No, it’s a Starburst product.
Oh, then it’s safe.
Me too.
Please, trust kokopelli, let us know who you’re talking to. You don’t need to use the reply button–just let us know which comment you’re replying to.
Hi, I’m poking my head in again.
Our air conditioner is being fixed as I type, and it should be finished by tonight! Hooray!
My computer still won’t access the internet. We still haven’t gotten around to trying to fix it.
Fine. Wow, I used the reply button!
Hey, I hit the reply button directed toward Piggy. Why didn’t it work?
Even though I use them, I’m not a fan of the reply button either really. Putting a post number or saying Re:Replies or a name or something at the start of a post can help that but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal, especially if it’s directly after the comment it’s replying to.
Of course, you can’t ever be sure your comment will appear right after the post you’re replying to, as other people may be posting at the same time.
Also if other people use the reply button and then get a bit off-topic (as happens occasionally) then your post is no longer anywhere near the post you were replying to.
but errata wasn’t replying to piggy like I was. (I hit reply)
I don’t like the reply button because it means I can’t just read down through the thread to see what I missed – I have to keep jumping back up.
same here, but I use it anyway because at the same time it feels almost more like a conversation….if I just post something I’m sort of saying something to no-one in particular, but if I use the reply function I’m clearly building off the ideas of the person I’m replying to/ directing my comment more at that person. Also, the whole jumping back up thing was an issue before the reply button because people still list the number of the post they’re refering to such that to understand what they’re talking about it was sometimes neccesary to scan ALL the way back up….
24- Ditto. Plus, if I want to reply to multiple comments, it’s easier to write one big comment than lots of little replies. IMHO.
16.2.1 and replies- I actually HATE electronic textbooks. I had one once. It was awful. It wouldn’t show up on some computers, and it took forever to load, and I couldn’t work on solving problems in the margins, and I could never find the right page. Also, looking at computer screens is really painful after a while. Even if it was a little handheld thing, I would a) not be able to work it or b) put it in my backpack with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and discover later that it had been crushed. I don’t like heavy backpacks, but I like electronics less. After laptops and cell phones, I don’t see the point. iPods are nice, but who needs all this silly extra stuff, like iPhones and iTouches and i-whatever-elses? Of course, it helps that I can’t even work any phone more recent than my early-2000s model. They want to electronify our entire school system. I am adamantly against this. We don’t need more electronics in the world. Eventually they will all break and end up in the North Pacific Gyre, killing seabirds.
16.2.1.2 and replies- I like not having space for books. I mean, I don’t really, and I wish we had more bookshelves, but the stacks of books are cozy. And if I need something to read, there are dozens of books within reach. If they were all electronic, I would have to actually go looking for a book, which is a ridiculous notion. I’ve read a few books online and it is the least enjoyable reading experience I have ever had, however wonderful the books. Ebooks have no character.
I was sitting in the dorm library after finishing my astronomy homework, and I found a novel called “Cyborg IV” on the shelf behind me.
It’s a tie-in to the old TV series The Six Million Dollar Man, and it’s set in the lead-up to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project*, which happens to be 35 years ago on the 17th.
That would be a weird enough coincidence, except that at one point in the book, one character asks the hero, Steve Austin, how he feels about the Apollo Program being over. He tells her that the astronauts felt the same with every transition before, and that the focus must be on what is to come, rather than what will be no more.
Such a mature way of thinking, and so relevant. Colonel Austin, I salute you.
* http: //www. nasa. gov/ topics /history/ features/ astp_35. html
25- Hmm. I on the other hand LOVE technology, even though I love paper books. Each new thing that comes out feels like a little step closer to the future I should have been born into. We’re not there yet, though. But maybe I’ll make it.
I had the same problem with the electronic version of one of my school textbooks as well.
27- Haha. I’m completely dragging my heels against the future. Not quite kicking and screaming, because I like things like computers and cell phones and movable type printing presses. But honestly, I’m just hanging around waiting for the technology to crumble into dust in our hands and I’m going to be awfully disappointed if it doesn’t, eventually.
Yay, we got carpet yesterday! Ok, so maybe you want the whole story. So… oh when was it? The 26th of June possibly. Anyway, a little while ago our basement flooded. My bedroom (which I share with my sister) and my parent’s bedroom is down there. We had to move everything (in the dark because it was late and the power was out) and camp out upstairs until we could put in new doors, woodwork and carpet. Now the carpet is here and I finally get a bedroom again! YAY!!!
Oh yea also I had been cleaning out some shelves of books and they just happened to be on the floor ): so some got ruined but most we got dry by laying them in the sun. All of my magazines were also on the floor and got soaked. Oh well, it is done now and we saved what we could!
I like the description of our cave.
I’ve been so busy even though it’s summer. I suppose it’s better than being bored out of my mind. So if I don’t post for a while, it’s because I’m busy. “A while” might mean a week, or it might end up meaning a month. I have no clue. Also, my mom has finally decided that she’s going to divorce my dad. I’m really glad, actually, that this is happening because the constant fighting really sucks, and my dad is not someone who is really pleasant to be around. There’s a lot more to the divorce than that, but I just really don’t want to get into it. Sorry for any lapses in grammar. I’m really tired.
AND I MADE IT OUT OF THIS POST BEFORE THE BATTERY ON THE LAPTOP DIED! WOOT!
I’m sorry to hear that, but I’m glad that you are glad.
Well, I’ve decided: tomorrow morning I’m going out to buy myself a Nook.
They look great. Hope you enjoy it! Though, my preference is paper like Jadestone.
Enjoy!
Seriously envying people with the iPad. Not so much the iPhone 4. Haha. I am still deciding on whether I want to purchase an iPad, or not. I have the money, but will I regret it?
Wait until they come out with the iPad 2. It’ll be much better.
Yeah, seeing as there is actually a command in the iPad CODE that involves taking a picture with a currently nonexistent camera. Plus it needs a phone.
Wait for a later generation. My mom, my sister, and I jumped on the first generation iPod Touches, and now look- they’re completely obsolete now. XD
I miss you guys. Hopefully I’ll be able to pop in more often next week…
I’m BACK!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness, I missed you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *hugs all around*
Wow, I have a lot to catch up on.
All those RPGs and RPWs and whatnot….
YAY! I AM RESTORED TO MUSEBLOG ACCESS!
Sorry for the extreme hyperness. I really missed this place. A lot.
But I did have great fun on my holiday.
SELENIUM! *glomps*
I missed you!
Welcome back!
SEL! *hugs* I missed you!
SELENI! *glomp hug attack*
*hugs*
Hi, multiple-nicknamed Selenium!!!!!!!
OHMYWUNG DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY
IT RAINED. IT FREAKING RAINED.
OHMYWUNG
Guess what, guys! I’m on my Nook!
Nook has internet?
Awesome! How is it? Do you like it?
You should have gotten kindle. *sulks* Or an iPad. Apple all the way! 
Shudder. The i-word. Don’t even say it. Ugh.
Fun!
I surfed here from the Wii earlier. It didn’t work. Well, it worked, but it was cumbersome and annoying.
.1- It has an experimental web browser, yeah.
.2- I love it. It’s entirely flamablamablous.
.3- It was a tough decision between the Kindle and the Nook. I will never buy an iPad. Apple is cake.
.4- Surfing on the Nook is really slow and difficult as well. But it can be done.
APPLE IS NOT CAKE! Unless, of course, it’s an apple cake.
True, yet the iPad is indeed cake. Yecch. It’s just so clumsy and unnecessary.
Stop Hating on Apple!
I like them!
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…And the name… XD
We have our air conditioner back! It’s all nice and pleasant and COOL in our house now.
Lucky
DuckyErrata.on the grass in the hallin my head. *is ajabbernobjabber…typer?* *has no idea why she’s typing this* *hits “comment” anyway*I’M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And freaking out… we just got a mac (switching from a pc) and i am terribly confused……….
Welcome back! I just got back last night myself. Macs are great, though they take just a little getting used to.
You’ll get used to it.
Aowh god, switching from PCs to Macs. Personally, Macs are so user-friendly they scare me. Being a PC kid who is used to having to figure stuff out in a PC world, the simplicity of using Macs is like thinking there’s an extra step at the top of the stairs and coming down on nothing. You expect a barrier that’s not there. It’s so disorienting…
Don’t worry once you figure things out it is SO WORTH IT and you will never want to go back. 99% of the people I know who don’t like macs have never used one for more than 15 min at a time, and the few who then went and got one changed their minds
I got to see the sun with a solar telescope (A telescope with a special filter on it so you can look at the sun without hurting yourself) today! There weren’t any sunspots, but I saw some flares and prominences along the edges.
Yay, Friday! Yay, watching MST3K episodes! Yay, comedy!
Jealous…
SWEET. Which one? My personal favorite is Cave Dwellers.
“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” and “SST- Death Flight” are pretty good. I’m watching “Hangar 18” now.
Remember we were talking about, overuse of commas? Here’s a really, good example:
I can, barely understand, what that, says.
38- I’m so sorry.
40- Gah. Reading that makes my head feel like it’s being dragged down a highway behind a car. At every comma I hit a large rock in the road.
OK, so what’s the general consensus on Dombey and Son? It looks a lot less full of intrigue and mystery than some Dickens, and a lot more moral. I got the BBC adaptation this afternoon, but I just finished Martin Chuzzlewit and do not know if it can live up to it. I admit I’m terribly disappointed by the apparent lack of murder, which makes me sound awfully bloodthirsty and rather a slave of sensational melodrama, but that’s truly how I feel. I don’t know, I don’t know…
This Nook is so stupefyingly incredible. I love it so much. I have about two dozen free books on there so far, since I don’t exactly have any more money lying around to buy books. I’m reading The Importance of Being Earnest right now–for anyone who hasn’t read it I highly recommend it. It’s hilarious.
Lady Bunniful once played Lady Bracknell. Good times.
Must have been. That play is a riot.
I wish I’d seen that.
Oh, I love that play. Actually, I love practically anything by Oscar Wilde. He’s rather amazing.
One time I saw a production of An Ideal Husband, another of his plays. We were trying to go to a symphony to see James Galway, (Famous flutist. My sister plays flute) but my grandfather mixed up the dates, so we were a week early.
I read that play….’tis excellent. And, Lady Bunniful, that is spectacular.
Yay! We got our new computers yesterday! So now I have my own laptop! (Well, I’ll have to return it when I leave school, but you know what I mean.) The screen’s preetty small so I’ve connected it my dad’s laptop’s extra big screen, and it works pretty well. And yes, it’s a PC. I think. Not to mention it’s set up where I have plenty of privacy. *happy sigh*
Hello, all!
I’m checking in from my Grandfather’s house in PA. I’ve been at music camp, playing Horn in band and orchestra. It’s been awesome! Everyone there is a geek. It’s (still) awesome!
I’ve managed to regain some brief computer acess, just a few hours before a HUGE concert. I’m playing in two groups, band and orchestra. Here’s the list of songs, mostly in order (With added commentary be me)
Band-
Praetorious Suite, movements 1,3. (Brilliant piece. Orchestration of Rennaisance dances. We’re playing the Courante and Gavotte (Now, if Arizaphale was here, he could dance to that…) which are wonderful.)
Dusk (Wonderful modern piece. Musical representation of a sunset. LOOK IT UP. NAO.)
Triumphant Fanfare (Leasy interesting piece. It’s fanfare, though trumpets don’t get all the attention. Horns have the melody often. Insanely fast.
Lincolnshire Posy, by Percy Aldrige Grainger, movements 1,2,6. (Brilliant piece. Orchestration of folksongs from England. Beautiful)
Orchestra-
Unfinished Symphony, No. 8 by Schubert. Movement 1. (Amazing piece. Fast with slow parts. Minor. Now, to make it even better, look it up and imagine a Doctor Who trailer set to it’s music.)
Finlandia (Awesome piece. Finland’s second national anthem. Hard to describe, so look it up.
And the grand finale-
LORD OF THE RINGS MUSIC SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(It’s amazing. The horns have the melody at the part at Isengard with the orks and others preparing for battle Dah duh dah! Dom dom dom. In Dreams is beautiful. As is the theme. We’re essentiall playing almost every piece used in the first movie. And all the cues I’ve writen in are scenes from the movie. One of them is “You’re late!” “A wizard is never late.”)
Well, that’s pretty much what’s been happening. I’ve made crazy friends (though most of our conversations are certainly not blog appropriate) played amazing music, and gotten better at horn. What more could you ask for?
Wow. You are lucky.
What more could you ask for? Almost nothing that could be easily attained without an Infinite Improbability Drive.
LoTR and Finlandia? Lucky. All of those songs are amazing.
What camp is this? It sounds awesome! (Read: Maybe I’ll try to persuade my parents to let me go to something like that next year?)
I played the theme for Finlandia on the clarinet a few years ago… It was fun. (I mistyped fun as finn and spellcheck capitalized it to Finn! XD)
*BAND GEEK ENVY*
*ENVY ENVY ENVY*
*drools* That is so awesome.
I played the Unfinished Symphony last year(first violin). Don’t remember how it goes, though.
*listens*
Wow. That would be awesome as a Doctor Who trailer, especially the beginning. *sings* “dada dudu dada dudu dada dada…”
41 – SHCA-BUMP! BUMPITYBUMPITYthumpathump!
46- Owwww…
Well, this is my last day on the internets for a week. My family’s taking a vacation to Colorado. I might be able to pop back in occasionally (we have to find wifi daily anyway since my sister’s taking an online class for which she has to check in every day). I should probably start packing soon, since we’re leaving bright and early tomorrow.
Who will run the H&H?
The wungs, of course, as they did before I was elected barkeep.
Sorry for not posting in a while. My “b” (I had to paste that there) key isn’t working. And other houses kept using our network, so it was really slow. It took five minutes to load an email message. It’s all the network’s fault!
Ouch. I knitted myself some socks, yet forgot to remove the sewing needle from them, so now I have a very sore ankle. Sigh. Such is life.
So me and some of my friends are starting a D&D club. But we’re playing version 3.5 or 4 and I have only ever played version 1. I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED. It is way too complex. Rogues? Warlocks? Tieflings? WHAT??? What happened to Magic-users, thiefs, and fighters? And what’s with all these weird races? It is clearly no longer remotely based off of Tolkein. Grr. I am displeased.
If Tieflings are a base race, it’s 4th edition. I’m not the biggest fan of 4th edition (even though 3rd is more complex and less balanced, it seems to me as though the rules that govern the game world are more consistent), but I do play it,* and what I’ve come to learn is that many of the things in the books are just guidelines. Dragonborn and tieflings bother you? Kick ’em out. Call eladrin “high elves” and plain old elves “wood elves,” if that makes it seem more Tolkienic. Rogues are basically thieves. Warlocks and wizards=different fancy names for magic users. If none of the warlock power sources appeal to you, just say that in this game, they get them from somewhere else.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that the rules are just numbers, and YOU get to choose what words you wrap around them.
*well, I DM it. Mostly because the only other player willing to be DM is no longer allowed behind the screen. He left the last campaign in a complete mess.
49- Alice if you like RPGs you should try Seventh Sea. It is about swashbuckling and sailing.
I’ve never tried Seventh Sea, but swashbuckling intrigues me. Where are the rules available?
It’s out of print, but there’s a link on the Wiki page to a store that sells the books in PDF format. It looks like it’s about twelve dollars per book for the more important books (Player’s Guide, Game Master’s Guide) and cheaper for the minor books.
49- Dungeons and Dragons was never my favorite. Join MY club!
It’s the JR tolkein club. You’d like it.
49.1- Well, yes, I know. If I was DM I would just play it like version 1, or play it similar to version 1. But I’m not DM, and I can’t really argue against all these new weird races because we have a Tiefling and a Goliath in our party (to make these seem more Tolkeinic, I am calling them a balrog and an ent, though they aren’t really). I kind of just have to deal, I think. Version 1 just seems so much simpler. I feel like the actual roleplaying is likely to get lost in all this complication. I don’t care about the fighting part much–that’s boring. I’m a rogue. I want to sneak behind enemy lines and do Rogue-ish stuff.
I didn’t know there was more than one kind of elf. That doesn’t bother me. And of course it’s not going to be like Tolkein really. But it’s just strayed so far from the simple 6-race system. How can I keep it all STRAIGHT?
I think this is probably just one more way in which I’m rebelling against the present… -deep sigh-
50- Oooh. Ahh. Should look into that. We’re not playing only D&D, you know.
4th edition is actually the least complicated system I’ve played. So you may not want to try 3rd.
If you’re playing the game, you don’t really need to keep it all straight- just know the rules that apply to you.
I don’t want to try 3rd…I want to make everyone else play 1st.
You old fogy.
Where did you even find the first edition books? Did you inherit them from a relative?
My dad, yes. He was terribly into it as a teenager…he used to skip PE to go play D&D. And when I was about nine he found all his old stuff, and I became obsessed. Only he was always too busy and I didn’t have any friends so I hardly ever got to play.
And now I have friends but they all play 4th edition. CURSE YOU, PRESENT DAY!
i use my dad’s old books too! he was hardcore into it in high school. when i played, my friends and i just sort of made up our own rules based on a mix of the old books and a sort of squished-together beginner’s book that bill had
we should totally play though and be all old-school at everyone
Someday I’d like to play 1st edition, if only for the nostalgia factor. Unfortunately, I think any rulebooks still available will be expensive, what with being out of print and all.
Also, 4th edition is very combat-focused, so you might not like it much.
A year! As of tomorrow, it was a year ago that I left for Space Academy.
(Also, Tuesday is the 41st anniversary of Apollo 11, but nobody celebrates a 41st anniversary.)
I will not be posting in a couple of weeks, because my family is visiting relatives in South Korea.
Aww.
Have fun, though!
Oh man what an awesome weekend so far.
Friday around 1, my mom drove me and my friend D into the city (I live nearish Chicago) for Pitchfork Music Festival. We went to my uncle’s condo in the city (he doesn’t live there normally and let us borrow it for a few days), then after some slight mishaps (forgetting the tickets and having to go back, etc) me and D made it to the festival. We got there kind of late, so we missed one of the performers we meant to see (The Tallest Man On Earth), but we did see most of Liars (kinda alt-rocky band, they were okay but nothing special), who were playing when we got there.
After Liars was Robyn, a female popish singer. She was pretty upbeat, but we wandered over to the merchandise and looked around while she was on. I got another Modest Mouse shirt because the ones just for Pitchfork had lame designs this year.
After Robyn we went over to the stage she’d just sang on (and where Modest Mouse was going to play (at this point I should mention there were 3 stages, two for music and one farther off for comedians)) and we worked our way and found a spot not TOO far from it but not as close as would’ve been fun. If we’d made it like 20 people up we’d have been at the edge of the dancing/jumping/crazy part which would’ve been fun.
While we waited we watched Broken Social Scene, who were good, and one of the guitarists looked like David Tennant from a distance and at a certain angle, which was fun.
Then Modest Mouse started and everything was awesome and beautiful and I even remembered to write almost all the songs on myself in sharpie so I could remember the setlist. Here’s what I got:
– Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
– ?
– Devil’s Workday
– Education
– Satellite Skin
– Autumn Beds
– Dashboard
– Satin in a Coffin
– Dramamine
– Parting of the Sensory
-The View
– The Whale Song
Then the went off, and we stood aroud and clapped until they came back. I don’t remember the first song they played, but they ended wiht Black Cadillacs, which was fun.
After Dramamine, the lead singer Issac Brock said somethng along the lines of “So I want to give you all a chance to learn from my mistakes. While I was playing, I see this glowstick, that wasn’t there before. And so I wondered what’d happen if I bit it, and could sing with my mouth all glowing and s***. So I put it in my teeth–testing the waters, if you will–and it turns out it was ALREADY broken, and wouldn’t you know it now I can taste all these gnarly chemicals. So I spit… and it glows. And I’m probably never going to get that taste out of my mouth.
And in one song Isaac Brock played with his teeth, woo! I’d hoped he’d do that, it looks cool in pictures but I’d wondered if it actually worked.
Then they left, which was sad, and it took ages to get back to the condo because of the 1800 people but we made it back. And today we walked around the city, which was nice. They’re filming for Transformers 3 on Michigan Avenue, it was cool looking at the set for that. They had cars positioned on the bridge (Which was halfway raised), and at some point they’ll drive a car off the bridge and onto a boat in the river and blow up a different boat. Woo!
Also I saw part of the car that is used for Bumblebee (it was under a tarp, like all the “good” cars for the movie, but you could see the wheels and the yellow) and it was AWESOME
Sounds great!
Not sure if the page refreshed and I didn’t post this or if I just can’t see my comment, so sorry if this goes through twice
Oh man what an awesome weekend so far.
Friday around 1, my mom drove me and my friend D into the city (I live nearish Chicago) for Pitchfork Music Festival. We went to my uncle’s condo in the city (he doesn’t live there normally and let us borrow it for a few days), then after some slight mishaps (forgetting the tickets and having to go back, etc) me and D made it to the festival. We got there kind of late, so we missed one of the performers we meant to see (The Tallest Man On Earth), but we did see most of Liars (kinda alt-rocky band, they were okay but nothing special), who were playing when we got there.
After Liars was Robyn, a female popish singer. She was pretty upbeat, but we wandered over to the merchandise and looked around while she was on. I got another Modest Mouse shirt because the ones just for Pitchfork had lame designs this year.
After Robyn we went over to the stage she’d just sang on (and where Modest Mouse was going to play (at this point I should mention there were 3 stages, two for music and one farther off for comedians)) and we worked our way and found a spot not TOO far from it but not as close as would’ve been fun. If we’d made it like 20 people up we’d have been at the edge of the dancing/jumping/crazy part which would’ve been fun.
While we waited we watched Broken Social Scene, who were good, and one of the guitarists looked like David Tennant from a distance and at a certain angle, which was fun.
Then Modest Mouse started and everything was awesome and beautiful and I even remembered to write almost all the songs on myself in sharpie so I could remember the setlist. Here’s what I got:
– Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
– ?
– Devil’s Workday
– Education
– Satellite Skin
– Autumn Beds
– Dashboard
– Satin in a Coffin
– Dramamine
– Parting of the Sensory
-The View
– The Whale Song
Then the went off, and we stood aroud and clapped until they came back. I don’t remember the first song they played, but they ended wiht Black Cadillacs, which was fun.
After Dramamine, the lead singer Issac Brock said somethng along the lines of “So I want to give you all a chance to learn from my mistakes. While I was playing, I see this glowstick, that wasn’t there before. And so I wondered what’d happen if I bit it, and could sing with my mouth all glowing and s***. So I put it in my teeth–testing the waters, if you will–and it turns out it was ALREADY broken, and wouldn’t you know it now I can taste all these gnarly chemicals. So I spit… and it glows. And I’m probably never going to get that taste out of my mouth.
And in one song Isaac Brock played with his teeth, woo! I’d hoped he’d do that, it looks cool in pictures but I’d wondered if it actually worked.
Then they left, which was sad, and it took ages to get back to the condo because of the 1800 people but we made it back. And today we walked around the city, which was nice. They’re filming for Transformers 3 on Michigan Avenue, it was cool looking at the set for that. They had cars positioned on the bridge (Which was halfway raised), and at some point they’ll drive a car off the bridge and onto a boat in the river and blow up a different boat. Woo!
Also I saw part of the car that is used for Bumblebee (it was under a tarp, like all the “good” cars for the movie, but you could see the wheels and the yellow) and it was AWESOME
Farewell, MuseBlog! Parting is such sweet sorrow.
…Gah! Cannot… resist… Shakespeare… quote…
Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
So, we (my family minus dad) are currently looking into getting new cell phones. We had the LG Shine 1. LG Shine 2 is not in stock, otherwise I think I’d consider it.
I rather like slider phones, myself, and of the 5 or so phones Dad seemed willing to upgrade us to, only two were sliders. Samsung a777 and LG CU360.
Do any of you have either of these? If so….What are your thoughts?
The Samusung apparently has volume issues, according to several customer reviews I’ve seen. LG apparently has horrid battery life, plus I’m not too keen on it’s small memory (10 mb).
Oh, should probably add….We don’t have a texting or data plan, so….Not really going to be using any texting/internet features they might ahve.
Yeah, anyway. Thoughts?
what do you like about slider phones? if you don’t have a texting plan i would think a flip phone would be a better option. unless you’re planning on getting texting at some point
my old phone was an LG and the battery was terrible. towards the end i was having to charge it once or twice every day. i did get it refurb though. my new phone is also LG, the cosmos, and it is working pretty well. i don’t know much about samsungs, i think my friends who have them say they work fine :-/
On the subject of LG phones, (not sure if this would directly help Luna at all, but hey, I’ll put my two cents in) I have the LG Neon (I’ve had it since last November) and it’s a slider, but the back/lock button on the front is already broken. I’m not sure if it’s my fault – I did use it a lot before, but it’s not like I was abusing my phone or anything…. :/ But otherwise it works well, and I do text quite a bit. (The keyboard on the LG Neon is a full one and it’s been very quick and easy) As far as battery life goes, it’s fine. I don’t use it all that often – mostly to contact my parents and to talk to babysitting clients – (Occasionally text friends) but it’s been good. I usually only have to charge it every few days.
Sliders are usually better for people who use texting a lot…like ebeth said, if you’re not going to be using a texting plan, a flip phone might be better. (And probably less expensive I would guess, although that could depend…)
As far as the Samsung goes, my parents both have the same model of a Samsung phone (I think it’s called the Impression maybe? Can’t remember for sure.) which they like. I’ve played around with both of theirs a bit, and they seem to work well. It’s a touchscreen, which is very good. And they both have data and texting plans, and as far as that goes the memory’s been fine.
ebeth and starr: Oh, the slider type I”m thinking of isn’t any more geared toward texting than a flip phone. The one I have, and the couple I’ve looked at, don’t have full QWERTY keyboards, just slight open vertically to reveal the number keys.
I guess I like the slider for one, because it’s the only kiind I’ve ever ahd, and also, I feel like it’s a lot easier to open to answer calls, than a flip phone….Plus I feel I’d break the hinge on the flip pretty quickly. :/
All of the phones Dad is currently looking at for us to choose from, be they slider or flip, are completely free for us to upgrade to, so….Cost really isn’t a factor.
Thanks.
Oh, I see. I think my friend has a phone that slides but only to see more numbers, and hers is pretty good. And it’s good they’re all free. I think mine was free, but only with the “mail in rebate” or whatever. The thing with most phones is that they go on and off sale pretty quickly, so I think in general it seems like if you wait awhile for it to get on sale it’s likely it will in the near future.
I have neither, and in fact have never owned a cell phone. However, through USE of cell phones, I can recommend a Samsung phone. It is owned by a friend, and I unfortunately do not know the name. I’m going to see him today and I’ll get the exact model. Also, it may be a good idea to buy an internet/texting enabled phone, in case you ever switch to a different data plan. I’d recommend the Motorola Droid (the old one) or the iPhone 3GS. HTC also has a very nice touchscreen called the Aria (AT&T, primarily) and the Evo (Verizon, primarily). Good luck choosing, and I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon with the model for that Samsung. It’s about iPhone size, maybe a little wider, and has a full QWERTY that slides out of the bottom (upright, not sideways) No touchscreen, not designed for web browsing.
WHY is no one online.
Hey, I’m off to go meet a friend and then check out the Peabody Museum again.
Summer Session is funny. Either I’m too busy to write about what I’m doing, or I have lots of computer time, but I don’t do anything interesting.
I’m posting from my grandfather’s shiny new iPhone G4.
The mobile theme is very different.
I’m at camp! *waves*
…so I won’t be on much.
But I’m at camp!
Have fun!
Hello all. I am having a personality crisis and various therapists have said that fantasy books, and websites of any enjoyment to me (i.e. museblog) have caused me to lose sight of the real world. So I am forbidden from reading, or going online for an indefinite period. I apologile that I will not be able to finish my chess game with Ducky, or ever enjoy my life again. That was rather depressed sounding. I’m off to ‘reground’ myself.
Stupid therapists. They have to be EVIL to do that to you. *hugs*
You’re kidding me. Forbidden from reading? That’s just… Well, bye Paxy, and hopefully everything will come to its senses soon.
…I hope things will work out for you. *hugs*
*hugs* That sounds terrible, but I hope everything gets sorted out and you’re allowed to read and go online sometime in the not *too* dreadfully distant future…. *more hugs*
Oh noes! They can’t do that. That’s ridiculous. But I’m sorry. Bye!
Sorry. Well, do as they say and come back to us when you can.
*hugs* *more hugs* *also some chocolate*
*hugs* I’m sorry you can’t read (!!!!!!) or go on MuseBlog. (!!!!!!!) That’s awful, but I hope you can return soon and everything goes well.
I thought deprivation-as-cure went out of style sometime in the Middle Ages. Those are terrible therapists. Good luck though.
I’m so sorry to hear that. *hugs* *choklit* But I hope that the therapists know what’s best for you, and that giving up the fantasy books and websites will help you. Good luck.
…WHAT. How could it that Museblog (the best site ever, as I’m sure you know) be BAD for you?????
Goodbye, Pax. We’re sad to see you go but hope that everything will turn out for the best.
64- Therapists said that? Really? Can they get sued??? Anyone who tells someone that they can’t READ should DIE a PAINFUL DEATH.
…I would like to call, once more, for the RPers on the Super heroes and Mary Sues Threads to report back. Thank you for your attention.
So… I have different SOSE(history), PE, and elective(art) classes. My history is teacher is supposed to be really nice, but he’s away this week. So we’re getting my old English teacher, otherwise known as
, instead. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Now, if I was in a class with someone like ilovehpb, my last semester PE buddies, or even a fellow Trekkie(Team Spock, that is), we could have a really fun week, but my group are too well-behaved. Not that I don’t love them, but…
Actually, being in any class with a Team Spock Trekkie would be fun.
My Photoshop class starts today! By the way, does anyone know how different Mac Photoshop is different from
regularPC Photoshop? (or whatever you call it)Rosebud2, I haven’t used the Mac version but from what I can tell from reading books and watching tutorials, there aren’t any substantive differences. The keyboard shortcuts are slightly different and there are a few little background things that are specific to the Mac operating system, but they don’t affect the artistic outcome. The graphics capability is the same for both.
Ah. Thanks. I didn’t think it would be very different, but I was just wondering, because the class is the for Mac version, and I have a PC, so if I ever bought it I would get the PC version.
Pax~ In my opinion those therapists need to get themselves checked out, how is not doing anything enjoyable to you going to make you feel better? I don’t understand that at all.
However, do know that we all will be thinking about and missing you, and waiting for your hopefully speedy return. I hope all goes well for you. *hugs*
58~ I have a Samsung (the Samsung rant, if you want to be specific) and it’s worked for a year and a half for me. When I was going to get a phone I originally wanted to get the LG Rumor, but everyone at the stores told me it was a horrible phone and to never buy one. My friends that had them didn’t seem too unhappy with them, but meh. *shrug*
Samsung apparently has good phones, and I’ve been pretty happy with mine. Only faults I have are that it occasionally freezes up and dies while I’m using it and that it doesn’t have the greatest battery life. I always use the powersave mode, but I still have to charge it all the time and it’s run out on me a few times.I’m also not a huge fan of the styling, to me it just looks kind of awkward, but since it works I guess that doesn’t matter. Other than that I’m pleased with it.
So, after 2 glorious days of doing nothing but lazing around, eating Chinese takeout and pizza, watching copious amounts of TV and cuddling, I’m going back to Niagara to continue working my arse off. Yo-ho yo-ho and all that jazz.
Our animal behavior class is amazing. The teacher is super friendly and enthusiastic, and the kids are really nice too. We’ll be switching classes in a week, but my overall research topic is also behavioral biology.
We don’t have any homework for now! The only thing we have to do is think of a team name; I came up with “People-Watchers United”.
Well, we’re going to the lab now, then outside to observe ducks! But it might storm later. I hope it won’t.
So that’s where I am. I missed an all-day marching band practice, but they’re probably boiling while I sit in a nicely air-conditioned lab room. ^^
Observing ducks? That’s so cool!
It is! And today we observed crickets.
Hmm… what if the GAPAs could be counted? Where it counts MBers, It should count GAPAs!
there are four. robert, roseanne, rebecca, and paul. PB&J doesn’t get on much though, so basically there are three plus one time-traveling visitor
Oh, gosh, are we on part two already? Wow I’ve missed a lot!
Anyways, HI EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! I’m back from camp! And it was really, really fun! There was one day where we went whale watching (alliteration not intended :P) and I saw a whale named Hang Glide! Weird, I know.
Okay, now I have bad boy news and worse boy news. The bad boy news is that there was a “stalker”, for want of a better term, boy who, I think *like* liked me. I have no want of a boyfriend, though, but I didn’t tell him that.
The worse boy news is that there was a really, really obnoxious boy named Sam. He was tall, gangly, and constantly wore his wetsuit whenever we went swimming. I know some people look good and sexy (:D) in a wetsuit, but Sam just looked weird. Also, he always thought he was hilarious, but he was really just annoying.
On the last day we got certificates that said we had completed every thing and blah blah blah. So Sam says something (I can’t remember what it was) that he thought was funny, but it wasn’t. This very quiet, sort of depressing girl speaks up and says “You’re not funny, Sam, so stop trying to be.” Everyone around her said stuff like “Yeah!” and “All right, _______!”
So how is everyone? I hope I haven’t missed too much…
LBK! HELLO!
Whale watching…fun!
HI, Magnolia! Because you’re the *only* on who greeted me (…*sniff*) you get a free cookie!! *gives cookie*
Thank you! *muches*
Wait, that was a cookie and not a kitteh, right?
Oh and it was supposed to be *munches*, not *muches*.
So I went out to see my tutor under a clear blue sky, and while we were in the library, there was a thunderstorm. It passed, and when I finished my work, it was overcast, but not raining anymore, so I went to a Mexican restaurant near the building to get lunch.
The burrito was delicious, and they threw in nachos for free. (For free! They just automatically give you nachos along with whatever else you order.) But by the time I finished eating, it had started pouring again.
I didn’t have my umbrella, because it had been clear when I’d left my dorm that morning, so I grabbed a free newspaper, held it over my head, and ran back to the lab building as fast as I could. Being completely stupid, I ran right by the Peabody Museum, forgetting that:
1) I can get in for free because I’m a student.
2) They would totally stay and let me look around until the rain stops.
3) They probably sell umbrellas in the gift shop. (I went back later, and it turns out they DO)
But the museum is so close to the lab that I decided just to run for it. Unfortunately, the sidewalk around the lab is indented in the middle for some reason, and there were lots of puddles. By the time I got into the lab, the newspaper was wet pulp, my sneakers were full of water, and my pants and sleeves were soaked.
I dried off as best I could, did some reading in the library, and then went to Astronomy class when it was time. I walked back to my dorm, stopping in the museum and then the Barnes & Noble to buy a collapsable umbrella. When I did all of this, it was perfectly clear.
I ate dinner and went to the help session for my Physics class. When I left, it was raining again, so I used my new umbrella to come back to my dorm. Right now, I’m sitting in my dorm and there’s another thunderstorm going on.
The campus is far enough from the harbor for you to forget that this city’s on the water and the weather can change that quickly.
It’s been thundering here… I’ll feel bad for the people doing Interactive Literature outside tonight if it starts raining… They’ll get soaked… *wonders how the characters would react to getting soaked* (I did the IL last night when the weather was lovely. I was a poetry-writing werewolf.) Although if it’s just thundering, honestly, it would be pretty cool and atmospheric. I mean, it already felt like I was actually there and actually battling evil spirits and stuff.
Oooh, that sounds fun? What’s it like, how does it work, and what’s the story you’re doing?
Umm… It’s a lot like a LARP, I think. You get a character and a folder containing all the information your character knows. (Sometimes this is very little. Sometimes, like in my case, this is a huge packet of information.) Then, you and a bunch of other characters are put in some situation, and you’re trying to ultimately defeat evil. (Some characters have more specific goals. Others just have general things they can do to help.) And then you, well, are your character. You act like en, you talk like en, you interact with others like en… We were doing one about werewolves. I’d rather not say more, since they reuse them, and someone reading this may wind up being in this IL someday.
It sounds like fun. I’ve always wanted to play a LARP.
64- In my possibly insane opinion, therapists are WOMBATs who do more harm than good.
Hello, all. I’m checking in from southern Colorado. We’ve seen Royal Gorge and the Great Sand Dunes today. We’ll be heading off to Mesa Verde first thing in the morning. My feet were burnt by the sand today. Ow…
Regarding therapists: I wouldn’t go that far, but it is true that the right fit is very important and that’s not easy to achieve. Among other challenges, the quality varies enormously, almost anyone can call enself a therapist, there are few solid objective measures to tell in advance what you’re getting, and the average person isn’t all that well informed about the measures that do exist or the types of therapy that are available. If all that weren’t problem enough, people are usually looking for a therapist when they’re not likely to be in the best shape for making judgment calls.
Anyone with a business suit and access to Wikipedia could pass enself off as a therapist–and I’m afraid many do. I can only imagine the horrors that would occur if an equivalent position were instigated in physical medicine. *shudder*
I find that if therapists aren’t very good, there usually pretty bad. Also, if therapists aren’t the right fit, they generally aren’t good for you.
I am going to be depressed on Thursday… At the camp I went to, every Thursday was TOWEL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will miss seeing everyone with towels and bath robes….
At the camp I go to, we have more traditions than you can count… Sarongs, nose functions, food tongue… It will be so weird being in the real world again.
At the camp I go to, we are totally isolated (except by really inconsistant postal service) from the real world except in cases of emergency, and thus we collectively go a little crazy. I love it.
What kind of camp is it?
Mine? A math camp. Yes, I’m willingly spending lots of time doing math… It’s *awesome*.
I love your camp and the people that came up with the idea to make every Thursday Towel Day.
76-In my probably insane opinion. listening to Owl City has kept me sane, and will keep everybody sane. But maybe that’s just my fangirl-ism showing. XP
Does this mean I’ve located another Owl City fangirl?! *highfives* And I definitely agree with you.
Does this mean I’VE located another Owl City fangirl!?!?!? Hooray! What’s your fav song? Mine is currently Hot Air Balloon.
Oh man, yes, Hot Air Balloon is a great song.
“We wrote a prelude, to our own fairy tale,
And bought a parachute, at a church rummage sale…”
“And with a mean sewing machine
And miles of thread
We sewed the day above L.A
In navy and red…”
“We wound a race track, through your mom’s kitchen chairs
And fought the shadows back, down the dark basement stairs”
Somehow I see this as a good song to sing on Moon Landing Day.
Yeah!
“I lit a match and let it catch
To light up the room
And then you yelled as we beheld
An old maroon
Hot air balloon!”
“I’ll be out of my mind, and you’ll be out of ideas pretty soon
So let’s spend the afternoon in a cold hot-air balloon”
Hmm, my favourite song by him is Tidal Wave. <3
“We drank the great lakes, like cold lemonade
And both got stomachaches, sprawled out in the shade…”
“So bored to death, you held your breath
And I tried not to yawn
You made my frown turn upside-down
And now my worries are goooone.”
When I read this, I was listening to The Saltwater Room. ^-^
I’m so excited! My mom said I could set up a saltwater aquarium! *squee* I’ve been glued to the computer for the last two days researching fish and coral and live rock. Every thing is really confusing. I plan on going really slow with the set up, because my tank is only 12 gallons, so I want to make sure that everything is good before I start to add stuff. Most sites I went on said that it was a bad idea to start out with a tank that small, because the water quality can degrade very quickly, but that’s what I have, so it’ll have to do. Once it’s up and running, I hope to have a two or three snails, four shrimp, and only one or two fish. But of course, since it’s a reef, most of the color will be provided by the coral and other invertebrates.
Cool! Take pictures!
Agh, dear mother has decided that it’s going to be too much work, especially during the school year. It’s true, I suppose, I just didn’t want to admit it to myself. Oh well. I’m going to compensate with a really kick-butt planted freshwater tank. Really planted. I already have a vision… I’ll post pictures when I get around to setting it up again.
My Photoshop class is very fun. I might send in the pictures sometime.
Glad you made it finally! Enjoy!
I am posting this from my new iPod touch!!!!! It’s very flammy but if not for autocorrect This post would More closely resemble Wunglisj than anything else. It’s a big step up from my nonvideocapable second gen nano .
Pie girl, I approve of your avatar.
Oh, Maximum Ride fangirling, I see? I love that series…
You can’t spell fangirl without Fang.
(And yes, I stole that line.)
Ah… good one.
When I first saw your avatar, pie girl, I immediately thought of my friend because that’s the drawing she has on all her school supplies.
But yes, Maximum Ride is quite amazing. I think they’re coming out with a movie though, to which I am quite hesitant to get excited about, since I’m pretty sure the director is the same person who directed the twilight movie, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch it without thinking “edwardcullenedwardcullenedwardcullen.” *headdesk*
Yeah. We hope that she dosen’t have Robert patterson and Whoever plays bella as Fang and Max. Gosh, that would suck.
DON’TEVENSAYTHAT. NONONONONONONO. That would completely ruin the book and I would definitely refuse to see the film. I’ve heard *rumors* that say that, but I have a really hard time believing it to be perfectly honest, it just doesn’t make sense…but then again, a lot of things don’t make sense.
Speaking of ruining a movie based on a book by casting, I learned recently that one of my favorite books of all time (Annie On My Mind) has been turned into a movie with a disney pop-star cast (Including Miley Cyrus *gags*)….I’m not actually sure if this is true, because the book does not in any way apeal to a disney pop star audiance, but if it is so then I am severly disappointed.
Oh, Clare de Lune, I’m so sorry to hear that. *choklit*
I just had a dreadful mental image…
Plus, you need to do the book justice! I for one, enjoyed the books and would hate for the movie to ruin it for me. I mean, the thing I hate about movies based off books (which about most of them are) is that when I read the book, I picture the characters as the actors who played them in the movies. If I ever re-read Twilight, I’ll picture Edward as Robert Pattinson and Bella as Kristen Stewart. They weren’t what I expected them to be like… you know? I’m probably just rambling but… yeah.
Never happened to me. I still picture Legolas as short and brown-haired.
Hello again, MuseBlog. I’m still quite insure of what I’m going to do with my life, but I’m going to try as hard as I can to live somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, maybe near Silverton or Ouray. It’s always so beautiful in the mountains.
Piggy:
Good plan!
I was driving through that part of Colorado once and pulled off to the side of the road to admire the scenery. A tanned-as-leather cowboy type was already there, getting something out of the back of his pickup truck. Noticing my Virginia license plate, he remarked that I had come a long way. “That’s right,” I said. “Nice state you’ve got here.” He nodded and replied solemnly, “It’s God’s country, son.”
(That was a while ago — nobody under 75 would be likely to call me “son” nowadays — but I’m sure Colorado is still just as pretty.)
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GREs tomorrow…Starting to get nervous, which is stupid, because I’ve been doing quite well on the practice tests….
On a more positive note, three years ago today, at this time I was having a flammy time at B&N, counting down the final hour and a half before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was finally released. That was a great time…I won the trivia contest and second place in line.
And, yes, I did intentionally choose tomorrow, as opposed to next Wednesday, to take the GRE because of the last HP book having been released on July 21st. Seemed to make it a good (lucky) date, in my mind…..
You mean, lucky, aside from all the people who died?
“I came with the Order of the Phoenix. You know: Lupin, Tonks, Mad-Eye, and your brother Fred.”
“Oh great, where are they?”
“They’re all dead.”
I’m watching the sequel right now! He’s HARRY FREAKING POTTER!
I haven’t had anything of import to say for a while, unless you want to hear about all the b-grade films I’ve been watching on mbc2 and the Foxmovies channel.
40– I, in fact, didn’t find the comma overuse that detrimental, at least to my understanding of the piece.
64–It’s ok. Get around the rules. Build an imaginary world in your head to exercise your creative skills during the ban. Nothign can make you be ‘re-grounded’ if you don’t want to be.
Of course, I was only ever banned from reading one week in my life. And I broke it repeatedly.
John Conway… He’s brilliant. He’s at my camp at the moment. (He comes every summer.) And… he’s brilliant. He gave us a lecture that he gave to the International Congress of Mathematicians (I think) today about lexicode… It was amazing. He gave a simplified version at the camp I went to two years ago, but this time it all made sense. And it was so cool! I get why 1+1=0! (That’s not a factorial.) And 2*2=3, and 2+3 = 1, and… Awesomeness.
So anyone else even know who Conway is?
The Sciences, a magazine I used to work for, published a profile of Conway in 1994. We called it “Mathemagician.” I think you can find it on the Web, as well as a longer unedited version called “Impressions of Conway.”
He was featured in a couple of chapters in Marcus du Sautoy’s mathematical memoir, “Symmetry,” among other places I’ve read about him recently.
The computer people called us back and said they couldn’t get any data form our computer, which crashed for some weird reason with the hard drive.
Oh, no! Was there anything special on there? *gives choklit*
All the photos I’ve taken in the last 3 years. And I do a lot of photography, so it’s a blow.
Thankfully, I have most of my writing stored online, and my NaNo on several USB drives and the other computer (I made SURE I’d never lose that, at least).
I’m so sorry, Jadestone. That’s a tough blow. I was just about to ask whether you’d heard anything.
You emailed us at least 13 pictures — that’s not many, but they are nice ones. If it helps we can send them to you. They’re not high enough resolution for large prints but they’re plenty big for onscreen viewing or postcards.
I might ask for them back at some point, but I’m going to wait a bit. We’re going to take the computer to another place and see what they have to say…
It sounds like the hard-drive meltdown in which I lost the files for the Muse Fan Page. The part of the drive that is supposed to float above the disk and read its magnetic domains had become misaligned and gouged grooves into it instead. “You could probably get some of the data back, if you were the National Security Agency or could spend tens of thousands of dollars to do it,” the technician said. But I wasn’t and couldn’t. Nowadays, I have everything backed up automatically.
Actually… the place we are sending the hard drive to is apparently one that works for the CIA and who worked on getting stuff from the computers that got submerged in Katrina
So maybe they can do somethign for ours?
They said it could be from $700-2400, and after they give us the estimate we’ll decide if what data they can get is worth paying for it. That computer had all our tax stuff, mom’s graduate work, etc x_x
That’s horrible! I hope things work out. >.<
*MAJOR hugs*
I’m trying out the mobile theme. Shiny. I brought my iPod to class and entertained myself on the Internet while my pics were uploading to Gmail, which took a really long time for some reason. (I could not figure out how to open a new tab in Safari) Today we went outside for about an hour and took a bunch of pictures on the campus. Back inside we learned about the Liquefy filter.
I am planning to get some apps today. Should I get iBooks or Kindle?
One of the annoying things about Photoshop is that the name of the filter is actually “Liquify” with an “i” — don’t know whether that was a deliberate attempt to make it possible to trademark or if someone simply couldn’t spell.
Oh yeah, it was spelled like that. Thought it looked weird.
Points to you for spelling the word right, though. Most people don’t.
I just finished watching But I’m A Cheerleader….I laughed SO hard (the main character is impressively nieve) and now I have to actually do something productive with my day….okay. That was random.
Another thunderstorm’s blown up, I just hope it clears by 5:30 so I can go to the help session for my Physics class.
I have homework at the moment, but I’ll tell you guys about how much fun I had at the observatory last night when I’m free.
Meeting my dad’s girlfriend tonight.
What?
My parents got divorced semi kinda recently. She’ll be here soon… *excitement*
You’re EXCITED? Man, if my parents divorced and I was about to meet my dad’s girlfriend, I would probably feel very angry/resentful. Sad, at the very least.
She was very nice.
Well… that’s some comfort, I suppose. It would be terrible to have a wicked stepmother.
*pictures Sudo as Cinderella*
Not again…
Okay, so yesterday was FUN! It was pretty cloudy at the Observatory, but we were still able to see the moon through the telescopes, and I told everybody it was the anniversary of the moon landing and got them really pumped.
“41 years ago today. They say nobody cares about a 41st anniversary, but we care, right?”
And then, resoundingly, there was this wonderful combination of “YEAH”s and cheers and clapping. It was great.
Ahhh… I just ate the best burger I’ve ever eaten. It was an open-faced buffalo burger with cheddar and red chili on it. Fantastic chili. I bought a t-shirt to commemorate this momentous event. I’m positive that I will now mentally divide my life into two halves: pre-burger and post-burger. Now I’m sitting on the deck of my hotel room watching a creek rush past. *sighs contentedly*
88- Ow. Ow ow ow. *gives time machine to help prevent the crash in the first place*
89- Why not both?
Well it just seems a bit unecessary to buy two apps with the same function…
I have four bookreading apps, just for good measure. Kindle, B&N eReader, iBooks, and Stanza. Besides, they’re free, so you won’t’ve lost any money.
Well, I survived the GRE. I got more than what I required on the multiple choice verbal & math sections for the vet school I plan to attend, although I didn’t really do as well as I’d like on the verbal. I won’t learn my score on the essay section for another few weeks or so, but….
Verbal: 610. Considering the practice exams (which aren’t like the real test, because the real one determines the next question, based upon whether you answered the previous one correctly or not) for which the lowest I got was 700 something….730, I think, I was really hoping for better.
Not to mention, historically, on the SATs (at least when I took it in highschool, maybe not 7th and 8th grade) and the PSAT, I did better on verbal….So for me ot do worse on the verbal than math….Not normal for me. Whatever. Somebody remind me why on earth I would be complaining about a 610 out of 800?
Math: 740. I’m quite happy with this, it’s better than I did on the SATs (700). And more on the order of what I was hoping for from the GREs. And better than I did on most of the practice exams….
Jsut gotta wait a few weeks, and I’ll know if my essay score was high enough, although I’m sure it will be….
Mugh. I can’t sleep. It’s 12:30 here.
THREE DUCKLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll send pictures!
Ducky – please do.
I’m number 25 on the Who’s Posted How Much list. Somehow this makes me feel kind of guilty. Why do I post so much? Shouldn’t I be doing this less? If I do post less, will I feel like I’m abandoning MuseBlog? *facepalm*
Please keep posting as usual…we’d miss you otherwise. And besides, it’s not like you posting is getting in the way of anyone else posting.
^^ Agreed.
Awww. Thanks. *hugs*
Is it a bad thing when—dispite being a bit of an insomniac—you wish you could just sleep forever because your dreams (even some of your nightmares) are so much better than your life at present? Actually my life isn’t the worst…it’s just that I’m way more of myself in my dreams…I feel like in my life I don’t exactly know me any more…like I’m waiting for something to truely be myself and I don’t know what.
For some reason, that reminds me of the movie Inception. o.O
SFTDP
I know what your saying though. I just needed to clarify that fact ^-^
As NSwat says it does remind me a bit of Inception, but i must say that I understand you completely. It can be awkward to look at yourself in the mirror and perhaps talk how you do to your friends and see how they must perceive you. A lot of the time (at least, for me it is), how you think in your head and how you think they perceive you are different from how you think they do and how you picture yourself. My thoughts are so much different than how I act at times. I think of myself in two parts, one part I show and one part I partly show. The part I show completely is the wacky person who can be a bit of a jerk, and the one I partly show is the logically thinking and extremely curious side of me. I find that if I totally show myself, it either offends people or makes them surprised, because it’s so different.
In dreams I think you don’t have anything to hide, so you’re your true self. But most of my dreams are too wild for me to make sense of that.
I think it was good to hear someone else say something like that…
Lady Bunniful, you weren’t in Estes Park, Colorado today, were you? If not, I’ve located your doppelgänger.
No, as far as I know, I was still in North Carolina.
You’re positive you weren’t wearing a hat and carrying a large box out of a rock-and-fossil store looking very happy? Hm.
Well, I’m beginning to be less positive. That certainly sounds like something I could be doing.
It’s obviously down to time travel. Either a past memory you’ve erased or something that hasn’t happened to you yet (your personal timestream, of course.)
Or she’s become a companion of the Doctor. Which also sounds like something Rebecca would be doing.
Something has to be inspiring all these Random Thread pictures of hers.
Yes!
*goes off to scribble something to that effect* That would be awesome.
And another random thought. What if those frequent alien invasions in Britain have inspired the HPBs?
I’m supposed to be meeting a girl I haven’t seen in a year for pizza tomorrow, but I’m really nervous for some reason. I guess I’m just shy. And nervous about what we’ll talk about. And so on. We’ve kept in touch throughout the year via e-mail, and we spent most of last summer together because of a camp we were both in, but I’m not doing the camp anymore and she is and she’s bringing some of her (new) camp friends from this year and just arghhhhh…. *is shy*
you’ll be okay, starr! *encouragement pies*
though i totally understand the feeling! but there’s stuff to catch up on right, so you could talk about that, and ask about the camp (i’m assuming you didn’t go this year?)
anyway, i hope you have fun
Thanks, axa. I know it sounds like a sort of petty thing to worry about, but I guess I’m just nervous…
Yeah, I know the feeling. But I hope it goes okay!
I just spent three and a half hours nonstop on my presentation for my Physics class and cranked out 16 well-researched slides! Wooo!
Nonabelian, you’re breaking my heart. You’re wrecking my multiplication….
Wow, I love camp. Having a choir sing a song about math in 4-part harmony to the tune of a Simon and Garfunkel song is indescribable. Plus, solving puzzles, attempting to square dance, randomly pressing people’s noses to activate their nose functions…
Oh, yeah. And classes! Conway is a genius. We learned that a variant of the Collatz Conjecture can compute stuff and thus reduces to the halting problem. (As I take theoretical computer science, I realize that that’s true of a lot of stuff.) Oh, and then we watched him eat part of a paper towel as he played G + 0. (He was playing the G part, since 0 is essentially the game. Yes, that game.) So… come to math camp, everyone. You can see one of the world’s best mathematicians eat paper towels! (Two years ago, at a camp for middle schoolers, he showed us how to cheat vending machines. Love the fellow.)
Math. Cecelia. Win.
“Randomly pressing people’s noses to active their nose functions”? That sounds like a very fun camp.
How do you cheat vending machines?
I sometimes get a soda and more money than I put in out of the vending machines at the CAC, but I have no idea why. XD
It only works with some vending machines, and I’ve actually never tried it, but according to John Conway, you grab the bottle as it’s coming out. Then, the machine will think you didn’t get your soda.
there’s also a code you can punch in sometimes if you know it
Depending on what “model” of vending machine it is, there are different ways to get free pop.
XD XD XD I’m watching A Very Potter Sequel as soon as I get up tomorrow!
YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHH
Just watched the first eight parts. SO AMAZING <3
Hang on….Is it up then? Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Curse my slow internet and the fact I have to work tomorrow. Must start buffering a zillion parts before I leave for work….. XD
Then again, unfortunately, because our internet plan is painfully stupid…..Let’s just say that, somehow, our so-called “data transfer/download allotment/whatever” is almost gone for the month. And YouTube vids (and any vids online, for that matter) count….And I swear I’ve not watched that much Who (or other stuff) that much, not compared to last month, but, oh, no, caking thing is almost used up…..So, I guess what I’m whinging on about is it’ll probably be August before I feel it all that safe or advisable for me to stream 3 hrs of stuff…..And even then, it’s going to be painfully irritating, what with the slow speed of YouTube here at home…..Wonder if I can force myself to wait until August 21, which’ll be the day I arrive back at school (admittedly late on the 21st, but still…..) Hmmmm…..
I’m rambling. Feel free to ignore me.
That’ll be hard.
Thank you for reminding me that it is up! Awesome!
I’m on a MacBook, running Leopard 10.4.11. Very fast, but the problem is, I’m on the slooooowest wi-fi network in the world. My aunt’s house, up in the woods in NH. It’s beautiful up here, and the have a computer (a good one) they’re donating to me. That’ll save me a lot of money, as I was going to build my own for gaming. Now I can just swap out the RAM, processor (incoming Quad Core! Whoop whoop!) and graphics card (soon to be an nvidia GeForce 9800). In other news, I’m going to camp here in NH (directed by my uncle) for a week, leaving on Sunday. I’ll be back Saturday or Sunday night, so expect an torrent of posts from me. I’ll post again tomorrow and the next day before I leave.
I got a typewriter for my birthday, among other things! My experience with actually attempting to type on it had an…interesting result.
Also, I find this avatar disturbing. (I’m at camp so I’m using a made-up address.)
To get a new avatar, make up another new address — unless, of course, you enjoy having a disturbing avatar. Many people would.
It’s interesting because since we got avatars I find myself recognising people more by their avatars than their names…actually, that’s not quite right…more, I see the avatars first and then the names, so I recognise people first by thier avatars and then by their names…any one else do this?
Oh, and Silver Lining, I too find your current avatar disturbing.
Oh, half the time I don’t even bother to read their name.
I don’t think I like being dependent on something that changes without comment. But to a large extent, I am.
I feel unloved…. My birthday is not on the “Coming Soon!” thingy….
Happy Upcoming Birthday!
When is your birthday, Adeia? I don’t think we know.
Adeia:
I see what happened: When we added your birthday to the calendar last year, the software didn’t offer a “repeat every year” option. Now it does. I’ve entered it again, this time in perpetuity. (When I investigated your complaint, I discovered that Alice’s entry had the same problem, so thanks for calling my attention to it.)
Could you add mine to the software? Its on august 13th. Friday. * creepy music*
Should I post a year with that?
Sure. Sorry. 2000.
Are you going to change it? I am not 1!
Helloo??
I’m fairly certain I’m going mad. I have no idea whether I’ve posted here since I returned home earlier this evening. I’ve also had a hard time deciding what is real and what is imaginary lately. *ponders*
I’ve always had trouble with that.
With which part?
All of that, but mostly telling apart reality and fiction.
did you see inception? because
[Snipped some stuff here that was borderline snip-worthy or possibly actually snip-worthy. Suffice to say, the film boggled ebeth’s mind — Rosanne]
No, I didn’t see Inception.
i’m not sure if i should say you should or you shouldn’t. it relates to that whole thing.
(you totally should it was fantastic)
What’s happened that you don’t think is real?
Various things I’ve been very uncertain about.
Same. This once resulted in me yelling “YAY! I’M HAVING DELUSIONS AGAIN!” at Keiffer in the middle of a rather crowded theater.
Yay! It’s Friday!
I have been given a Galileoscope, but without instructions to assemble it, so I can’t use it right away…
If it’s an “official” Galileoscope, they have downloadable instructions on their website.
Today is my Swedish name day!
How are you celebrating?
Umm… I’m not. I only found out like an hour ago. I did have a popsicle. That’s a…
Wait.
Ha.
Today’s not my Swedish name day…It’s July, isn’t it?
Yeeeeesss. Yes, it’s not June anymore.
-facepalm-
Oh, well, now you’ll be prepared for next year.
What is a Swedish Name Day?
5:36 am, time for bed
it’s great that some of you are just waking up
i love summer
Sweet dreams, Axa!
For my Applied Physics homework, we have to “Name our favorite automaker, and browse their website to find the make and performance of their most fuel-efficient car”.
Picking Tesla Motors would be cheating, right?
It says to pick your your “favorite automaker”, so it would be cheating to do something other than that.
What I mean is, would picking a relatively-small start-up that only makes electric cars be cheating?
You’re following the letter of the law, if not the spirit. If you felt guilty about it, you could calculate roughly how much coal or whatever it actually would take to power the car.
I’m going to do Ford, to be safe. They’re my dad’s favorite.
Well…tomorrow morning at eight AM Nym and I are leaving on the drive to Canada! We’ll be spending a month at a camp about an hour north of Montreal, where there is no Internet access. At all. So, we’ll be back on MuseBlog around the twenty-fourth of August. I bet you’ll all miss me so much, right?
Just kidding. But I’ll miss you.
Awww… :'( I’ll miss you guys!
I shall, of course, miss you both. Do have fun at camp.
Have fun!
Have fun! I’ll miss you!
I shall miss you both! Have fun!
Museblog! Hello!
I’m back from Governor’s school now. It’s kind of happy and sad at the same time. How have you all been? I haven’t come here in forever!
Eek. It seems like since I got back I haven’t been on MB much…and now I’m about to leave again. This afternoon I’m leaving for music camp – so no computer for a week, just 8 hours of rehearsing a day and horrible Chinese food. I’ll be back either the 1st or the 2nd…our concert’s on the 1st, so I’ll have to see.
Bye! I’ll miss you!
Bye! Have lots and lots of fun!
Have fun, Sel!
Hey guys! I canoed today! And we capsized.
But I canoed today! *waves*
Ooh, fun! I used to go sailing/sailing camp a lot, but I haven’t been in a really long time…
3:27 time for bed! earlier today!
Hello! Just dropping in to say that I’ll be at sleep-away camp for the next week, so I probably won’t be posting. (Not that I post that much anyway… :neutral:)
I’m kind of nervous; this is my first time going… Has anyone here been to sleep-away camp before? Any suggestions?
I’ve been going to a month long sleep-away camp every summer since I was 11 (I actually leave on wensday…) It’s not as scary as it seems, talking to people allows you to make friends, bringing books is always good, and if you’re worried about homesickness bring a photo album and a stuffy. It’ll be over before you know it and I’m sure you’ll have a great time.
(smiles!)
I’ve been to a sleep-away camp for two weeks up in Maine! Of course, I did throw up the first day because of homesickness, but I was fine the rest of the time. But like Clare said, the best thing to do is to make friends and bring stuff from home. I had a pillow that I made and my Totoro and Eevee.
You shall be missed! Have loads of fun!
Yeah. Bring lots of bug stuff!
I I just got back from a “camping” trip with my parents and my best friend. We went to Baxter State Park and stayed in a cabin.(My mom hates sleeping on the floor.) Baxter is so awesome…sigh…the frogs were so cute!
Wow, MB is quiet lately.
It is. I’ve been on very spottily, and yet I still miss so very little.
I saw HMS Pinafore yesterday, and shall never get the songs out of my head.
Went to the Renaissance Faire yesterday which was a lot of fun. I took a lot of pictures, but I gave up editing halfway through, for now at least.
I bought a little wooden piccolo, which I’m going to try to learn to play although it’s odd that it has 6 holes instead of 8+ like a normal flute. Oh well! It’ll be fun.
Hey guys~ Just popping in to say hi; I’m in NYC for the next week and a day (or so), and I’ll be wearing a MB Signature ’09 t-shirt a few days.
My computer is accessing the internet! I am now posting from my beloved iBook! Yippee!
The internet hasn’t been working at all. It’s now working, at least over ethernet. I haven’t tried wireless yet.
I may be on a lot more of the time in the near future. We’ll see.
I am very happy about these developments.
Has anyone else heard about what Wikileaks did today? They released almost 92,000 classified documents to the NY Times, the Guardian, and Der Spiegel about the war in Afghanistan from January 2004 to December 2009. It’s absolutely incredible–I’ve been reading through a lot of them. The Guardian has the best coverage of it all, and you can read all the reports directly. Reading through these, my opinions on the war definitely have changed. I don’t think we can win this war at any cost. If we were to send our entire military to Afghanistan, we couldn’t win. I just… my mind’s blown. The CIA’s been expanding its paramilitary operations while reporting that successes that it’s had were actually carried out by Afghan forces–to raise support for the war and paint a better picture. Unmanned drones are very uncertain and put our troops in a lot of danger. The Pakistani government is assisting the Taliban. Just… stupefying.
Wow. The Internet is changing the world faster than ever. *mind blown as well*
GAPAs, can I post the link to the Wikileaks page on which anyone can browse the 77,000 reports that they’ve released today?
wardiary dot wikileaks dot org
We’re stuck in a war we can’t win with a government that’s hiding things from us. As soon as I saw the report, I began getting very strong echoes of Vietnam.
That’s mind-shaking. I feel like my world just shifted a degree on its axis. The government was actually genuinely lying to us? That’s mind-blowing, and I’m suddenly very grateful that the Internet exists.
The government’s always lied to us. This is nothing new. Study the Vietnam War in its entirety if you want your mind to really be blown. There’s a good documentary about the Pentagon Papers that I saw a few months ago–The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers. If you can find a screening of that I highly recommend it.
Well, they didn’t tell us the Taliban had heat-seeking missiles, and they gave Afghan soldiers credit for some things that American soldiers actually did. So far, though, I haven’t heard that the Wikileaks documents have exposed any major deceptions by the government. Anyone who has been paying attention probably already had a good general idea of what is going on over there. Is there something important that I’m missing?
Well, the documents show a rather less optimistic view of the war as a whole than the government and media have been reporting. The Taliban’s attacks–especially through IEDs–are escalating, Pakistan and maybe even Iran have been aiding the Taliban, paramilitary operations are more common and (arguably) irresponsible than we thought, there’s a lot of infighting between Afghani forces, dozens of civilian deaths have been reported as something they’re not, drug lords have been given places in the government, unmanned planes have a fairly high failure rate–the list goes on. It’s not so much that the government has been lying so much as keeping the truth quiet. Lots of half-lies.
…Am I honestly bad for not caring about this at all? I just get strains of And Then There Were None‘s last verse repeating in my head. My idea is the U.S. fails at every war: even if they say they don’t. Because everyone loses, everyone dies, and no war is ever won by missiles. ‘Cause the government has never said a word of pure truth.
Now now, skepticism and moderate cynicism can be positive qualities, but such a write-off of the entire history of the country is shortsighted and inaccurate. A good Muser can examine all the sides of an issue.
In this case, the other side of the issue is that the reports end right before the Obama administration’s recent policy changes. Meaning that the government should be fixing some the issues present in the reports now. (Of course, my own cynical view is that such change will be slow and extremely hard to implement, and we’ll never have a straight, 100% win in the region–at most, a slightly better outcome for the US, which doesn’t necessarily factor in if the Afghans are actually better off or not.Not that we’ll ever know unless some more recent documents are leaked… I’m rambling. Sorry)
What I don’t get is that if the reports mostly contained information we already know, why are all the politicians condemning it as endangering national security? The new stuff Robert mentioned, you’d think the insurgents already know.
By those standards, the biggest damage will be to PR, and to all those mindblown constituents. Drawing new attention to old issues, and whatnot. As for myself, I am…not mindblown, just less than pleased with the government. Upset. Angry. A little betrayed. But not surprised. Yay cynicism.
Wait! I know! May be it’s not the Taliban, but other countries that will cause the problem. Refusal to cooperate with American goals because of supposed war crimes. I can see countries like Russia and China refusing to change their behavior at US pressure and instead bringing up Afghanistan. “Well, look at what you did there, you hypocrite, why should we do what you say” kind of thing.
Everyone: This looks as if it could broaden into a big topic. Is there any interest in starting a “War and Wars” thread?
I don’t know if it would fill an entire thread. Perhaps we could just move to Hot Topics?
Or leave it here? It hasn’t shown any signs of boiling over.
This leak was, in fact, why I asked for a new hot topics thread. Then I found Piggy’s post here instead and decided to just reply to that, rather than start a whole new conversation that people may not join.
“War and Wars” sounds like it would be about military history and tactics, though.
FantasyFan:
I think your point about allies is astute, and it’s one I haven’t seen elsewhere.
The leaked documents might also help the U.S. in some ways, however. They’re pretty embarrassing for Pakistan. Maybe now the U.S. government will be able to pressure the Pakistanis into being more cooperative.
And, of course, anything that encourages ordinary Americans to pay more attention to what’s going on in the rest of world can’t be all bad.
So I did some research because I wanted to know just how far behind Ohio my home state ranks, and I found out… there are THIRTY astronauts from New York! Rock on New York!
Should I feel bad telling jokes about New Jersey now that I know Buzz Aldrin is from New Jersey?
Also, completely random: Am I the only one who really had trouble pronouncing French-style names when I was a kid? I insisted you had to pronounce “Chevrolet” with a “t” at the end.
One should never feel bad about telling jokes about New Jersey. (No offense, Jerseyans.) I’m sure Buzz Aldrin finds them hilarious.
And I think most people still have trouble pronouncing French-style names, even when they leave childhood. I am unable to say “Versailles”, “tourniquet”, and similar words.
Piggy’s back to teaching himself Dvorak. He switched the keys on his keyboard around in assistance. He thought it was a good opportunity to learn since he won’t have to type for school for another few weeks.
Dvorak rocks!
Guess what I type in.
Forgive me for being a complete noob, but…what’s Dvorak?
It’s another keyboard arrangement, instead of the qwertyuiop most computers use. It was invented by a psychologist named August Dvorak and places the most often used keys in the easiest to reach places, (such as directly under the fingers) and is supposed to increase typing speed. I don’t think it’s been proven to have a real effect, though.
Don’t feel bad, I thought it was something with music until I read Sudo’s explanation.
(Edit: Apparently, I was thinking of the guy who composed The New World Symphony, whose name is spelled almost the same…)
Exactly the same, except it has two extra diacritical marks.
That’s why I said “almost”.
Has anyone else been ridiculously busy? I mean, it’s summer, and I’ve hardly had a day to just do nothing.
What’s new….?
Well, I can see the floor of my room! It’s clean after… God knows how long… I might be getting new flooring. The carpet is as old as the mountains.
Oh, and has anyone seen A Very Potter Sequel yet? Brilliant. Simply brilliant. I’m on act 1 part 5.
I saw it. It was totally awesome, but sadly, none of the songs really stuck out to me.
But… But… It’s Harry freaking Potter!
Nah, I see what you’re getting at. In AVPM, I could easily memorize every song, especially Get Back to Hogwarts. But in AVPS… I dunno. It’s not as catchy. Or maybe I just need to listen to the soundtrack a million times.
beedle– i’ve been busy alright, busy doing NOTHING
also bed tyme at 2AM, highly irregular….
Aww… That stinks…
*yawns* I got 6 hours of sleep last night…down from my usual 9 or 8…
You normally get 9 or 8 hours?
Lately I’ve been getting 5 at the most… But that’s mostly because I usually get back from babysitting at around midnight, and by that point it takes me awhile to go to sleep, so I’m normally up until 1:00/2:00am when (sometimes) I’ll finally fall asleep.
Yeah…when school was still going on, I went to bed at 9:00 and woke up around 6:00.
Lucky. I fall asleep at 9:00 and wake up at 5:45. >:(
ha, i fall asleep at whenever (1, 2, 3, 4 AM) and wake up at…uhh…sometime (9, 10, 11 AM). it varies. by about four hours. as you can see.
next quarter though i’m working opening shift tuesdays and thursdays which means i’ll be up at like 6 AM every day (i tend to wake up at the same time every morning when it’s not summer and i’m actually doing things). which means i should probs try to get to bed before 12 or so :-/
i generally don’t go to sleep before 11 PM and i usually don’t sleep later than 11 AM. so yeah.
w00t! Sleep is for the weak! *highfive*
XD I get the same amount of sleep as LBK most of the time. *is glared at*
Actually, I think that I should be the one who should be glared at, since I’m probably shaving years off my life by being awake so much of the time…and you’ll be the one laughing then.
*glares at starr*
New hobby: listening to two songs at once.
How is that? I’d think it would be confusing.
It’s quite fun. A bit discordant, but often beautiful and always interesting. I found if you play Do You Realize and A Spoonful Weighs A Ton (both by the Flaming Lips) starting A Spoonful Weighs A Ton after the 1-2-3-4 part of Do You Realize, they line up almost perfectly.
I synched up a video of the Ares I-X launch with a music video for the song “Man in Motion (St Elmo’s Fire) so that “Trying to break FREE!” came right when the rocket ignited. It actually did synch up pretty well, the sonic boom came at one of the loud parts, and the rocket burnout happened at another one. It was pretty epic, really.
*listens to two owl city songs* Wow, cool. Maybe I should record some on my iPod…
Busy day, busy, busy, busy…
My Physics class went on a tour of City Hall, then I went to see my Astronomy tutor, then ate lunch at the Mexican place again, then I went to Astronomy class, and now I’m back in my dorm.
Later, I have dinner, then the study group for my Physics class, then my Astronomy class is going to the Observatory at 8 and staying until 10… and then I come back here.
And sleep.
Today I learned that I can click the random button roughly 50 times and only find one or two threads I ever had any particular fondness for.
A two-to-four-percent fondness rate isn’t bad. Nobody could post on every thread; it’s hard enough to read them all.
I was just watching Portal 2 gameplay detais. Wow.
A question for the GAPA…
Please excuse me for pulling up obscure issues from the past- Do you remember when we were having some trouble with replies and how there was a reply limit of only so many? Something specific that might help recall: One of you said that you reply from the dashboard, so you didn’t see this, but if you forced WordPress to go beyond the limit, it showed up at the bottom of the comment feed and without a number.
My question being, after all that: How do you change the limit? Can you make it unlimited, for that matter?
Thanks,
-A
The limit is ten levels, which is where we ended up setting it in fairly short order.
And how did you change that?
-A
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Och, stress has invaded my life again. I need to figure out why my memory has decreased since 3 weeks ago, and talk with my advisor somehow. There is too much stuff I need to do! Aargh!
My computer is accessing the internet wirelessly! And I don’t have parental controls anymore!
This is exciting. I think my life is finally returning to normalcy after a series of upheavals. Computer crash and then the air conditioner…
Reminds me. I told you that my neighbor was in the hospital, a while back. She ended up having a tumor, which was removed. She’s recovering now, and doing fairly well.
Okay, MuseBlog, does anyone have any ideas about how I can avoid senior pictures? My wonderful mother just signed me up for an hour-long session this Friday after I had made it exceptionally clear that I refuse to have such pictures taken. It costs a lot of money and I despise from the bottom of my soul having pictures taken of me. It’s almost physically painful, and I never gave any sort of consent. So how can I get out of this horrid WOMBAT?
I had a flammy time doing senior pictures. It got me out of at least an hour of schoolwork that day, it was fun, and I actually got some pictures out of it in which I did not look horrible (I tend to look bad in photos).
As for getting out of it, I’m afraid I don’t have any suggestions. Sorry…
if your mom’s already paying for it, man up and do it. just because you don’t want the pictures doesn’t mean other people won’t.
And think of the entertainment value when you reach GAPA age.
if only we had access to the gapa’s senior pictures, perhaps piggy would be convinced…. *nonchalant whistling*
Why is this post blank?
Blank? I don’t see anything blank here.
…And now I can see it. *suspects that it is because of her computer*
138- Senior pictures don’t have to be professional, I swear. My friend Eva just had a friend take photos of her and picked the one she liked best. I think. ‘Course, her pictures were of her in a fur coat and sunglasses in the cemetery… Not exactly conventional.
My group nailed our aviation presentation, and I even brought in my Concorde model and passed it around! It was great!
Yay!
Wah.
I’m out of Blackadder. I finished season two this morning, and forgot to get season three this afternoon.
I shall have to do things like…housework…and…stuff. Instead of watching TV. Oh cruel world!
I am currently taking a class called Finding Hay in a Haystack that is quite literally about randomness. I feel very muserly. I also discovered today that I can sing all of soprano, alto, and tenor parts.
I’m leaving for camp tomarrow, and shall be gone for a month. But fear not (or perhaps celebrate not, depending) I shall return come late August/early september. I’m posting this now in case I don’t end up having time….anyway, shall miss you all, hugs, have a good four weeks.
Have fun!
I am now in love with the Rasputin Song. The original and also the Turisas cover ♥
Also, this week I am working tech for a youth production of Guys & Dolls and also getting paid for it, woo! It’s enjoyable but time consuming and tiring. I’m working spotlight for it.
Sending the hard drive off tomorrow. In the meantime, importing a lot of cds into iTunes, *sigh*.
I really want ice cream but I have a headache and the choklit’d make it worse
That song always makes me chuckle.
RA RA RASPUTIN
RUSSIA’S GREATEST LOVE MACHINE
IT WAS A SHAME HOW HE CARRIED ON
I just spent two hours on TVTropes, thinking every five minutes or so “Oh, I’ll get off as soon as I finish all my tabs.” Trouble is, each tab leads to two or three other tabs…
Going to watch Red Dwarf tonight, if I can find it.
TVTropes will indeed eat your spare time. And ruin your vocabulary.
It hasn’t ruined my vocabulary so far. What it has ruined is my resolve not to submit to modern slang and pop culture.
One of these days, I’m going to get around to actually registering on TVTropes. And then I will start editing it, because I have a sheet of paper on my desk that has all the tropes that I’ve noticed in any given show I’ve seen.
TV Tropes is a Deconstruction of the Theory of Narrative Causality! It’s a cross between Archive Binge and Just One More Level with all the tabs it makes you open. But don’t forget: Tropes Are Not Bad, although Tropes Are Not Good. And come on, dude, MST3K Mantra! Also, it turns pretty much any show that’s So Cool It’s Awesome into Awesomeness by Analysis.
And yes, I just ruined y’all’s lives for the next fifteen minutes, at least. But what can I say? TV Tropes Is A Gateway Drug!
TVTropes is sorta neat, but extremely annoying. Even though I was reminded of it by a group of people ranting about how it ate all their time, I still couldn’t resist going and reading several pages. *sigh*
And it’s not as though I didn’t have something better to do. I’m watching Doctor Who and writing a novel, and yet I’m still tempted to go spend way too much time on TVTropes. Bad Errata.
Hey guys! Shall we make a MuseBlog page on TVTropes? Remember, There Is No Such Thing As Notability…
I thought about doing that at one point… Care to?
Only on TVTropes. Both MB and the Other Wiki practice notability, in our case determined by the GAPAs. But my goodness, it does seem like we’re all Tropers here…
There’s a space for it. Try googling “museblog tv tropes”. Also, we get a mention on “You Put The X In XY”… at least, if we do put the ‘piracy’ in ‘conspiracy’.
I’d love to see a MuseBlog page on TV Tropes.
I wrote something about HPBs on the Killer Rabbit page, but it’s probably been deleted.
It’s still there. I came across it at one point and then fount it again today.
Why did I think that we were talking about creating a thread on MB instead of an article on TVtropes? One Dialogue, Two Conversations, I’m afraid.
I still have reservations about it, though, bc MB is supposed to isolated form the greater web. No Google or not, it will be a lot easier to find us if we have an actual TVtropes page.
We do prefer to keep a low profile. For various reasons, we think the best place to talk about MuseBlog is right here on MuseBlog.
So who recognizes my new avatar? If you don’t its Tsutaja, the grass starter for Pokemon Black & White. It’s the one I’m totally getting because it’s so arrogant. Just look at it.
(It’s from Arkeis . com, by the way)
I actually recognized it! No idea on what I want.
heh. I kinda is!
Whee! Yesterday was fun. A friend from last week’s art camp, A, invited me to an English Folk Dancing class/group she is part of. It was fun, and I got several remarks on the fact that I was a good dancer, especially as it was my first time doing English Folk Dancing. (I knew most of the steps and picked up the ones that I didn’t very quickly- ballet helps a lot) I made new friends, and met an enigma. He is an enigma in the fact that he doesn’t even come up to my shoulder, and at first glance would seem to be a little kid, but he doesn’t act like a little kid. I wish I had seen my face when he walked up and said “May I have this dance?”, I was pretty surprised. Even more surprised when, after the dance was over, he asked me if I had done English folk dancing, and when I said that I hadn’t, looked faintly surprised and commented that I was very good. XD And he’s a very good dancer himself, so that is another thing. Note to self: Next time, ask him how old he is.
But it’s true, I do useless calculations in my head when I’m bored. Because math is good.
Another fun thing: At 7:00pm yesterday, we were having a break between dances, so I told A very solemnly that we had known each other for exactly one week, two days, and ten hours at that exact moment. A and her older sister found it very amusing that I like doing math and do useless calculations like that in my head when I’m bored.
And then, after that was over, the car wouldn’t start. So we were stuck in the parking lot for ages until we finally got someone to fix the battery, and didn’t get home until about two hours after the dance thing had ended, even though we didn’t actually go anywhere. *tired*
Your post… It sounds like something from math camp. Anyways, English folk dancing sounds amazing… I don’t think I’ve ever done English folk dancing except maybe once sort of informally at a folk festival. But some contra moves are taken from English folk dancing. You should try contra some time. Also, math is awesome.
How does it sound like something from math camp? And what, exactly, is contra?
f&h:
Speller is talking about contradancing, a dance style that evolved in New England out of English country dancing. It’s like square dancing in long lines. Several MBers love it, including at least two of your Administrators.
*would like to try that*The problem is, there’s probably no contra group of any sort around here, and I just can’t dance. I trip over my own feet and fall down at random times.
*looks up contradancing on Wikipedia*
….That’s what I did yesterday. XD
Yup, it’s fun. Very much so.
I haven’t done English Folk Dancing, but there’s a group that does English Country dancing once a month not far from where I live. I really enjoy it.
(By the way, I didn’t know what exactly contradancing was until now. But from what you said, I might possibly have actually done it. Sometimes people from our English Country Dancing group go up to New England and bring back new dances. Possibly some of them are contradances.)
Does anyone know what happened after the 1259 Treaty of Paris was signed? Did France take back the duchy of Aquitaine? My textbook is so confusing.
The past three days have been really hectic for me, but now we’re in the downhill part of the week, so it should be better.
Must…read…AP… I actually enjoy my AP US HIstory reading for the summer, but it’s not something I would chose to do if it was an option. I am rewarding myself for reading sections with listening to songs, MB, and, if I read enough, Harry Potter movies. I would read the books, but my head just can’t take any more words.
I saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream Monday night, and it was AMAZING! They made the play very humorous and easy to grasp, even though Shakespearean language is difficult to understand. And the guy who plays Puck is cute. That doesn’t ever hurt. The group that did it was from a local high school that has a really nice arts department. They were chosen from a thousand or so high schools who were eligible and applied to go to the Fringe Festival in Scotland. There are 51 high schools going from the US and there will also be adult theatre companies from around the world attending. That is SO AMAZING! Oh, and they totally deserve to go.
OK, I must read more AP if I ever want to delve into the magical world of Harry Potter.
It can be a very funny play if its preformed well. Puck and the Rude Mechanicals are always a riot.
Not to mention the whole twisted love square of Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius. It’s all so screwed-over and familiarly soap operatic, in an awesome way.
Yes, it is. Oh, what fools these mortals be!
Re: Folk Dancing/Contra Dancing: Never done either of those, the closest I’ve come was our third grade square dancing unit in gym, and all I remember was that I was paired up with a guy that apparently “grossed me out”, because, naturally, guys have cooties and should be avoided at all costs.
Meh… We did squares and hexes one night. Wasn’t nearly as fun as contra. Plus, when they teach it in school, they get the swings all wrong. Linking elbows and walking around is NOT swinging. When you swing, you’re in a closed frame, and you’re rotating around your right foot. And if you’re good, you go really, really fast! Anyways, I learned tonight that I cannot cross-step waltz.
I know this is (sort of) unrelated, but have you ever tried ballroom dancing? I took ballroom dancing classes for a few years, and it was actually quite fun.
Ooh. Ballroom dancing. I’ve always wanted to do that.
Not much, although I’d like to try. We’ve been doing salsa here, which is fun. (All I have to do is spin a lot and follow my partner. It’s awesome.) And we’re doing swing tonight. *excitement* We had some form of dance every day this week!
Sounds fun!
Ballroom is a lot of fun, especially when you’re with a group of really Muserly people the way I was. We had lots of fun, then we all got too busy after 6th grade to continue it, but it’s a lot harder than it looks once you get into the more complicated dances – especially the more complicated waltzes. Nice challenge, though.
I got the 3rd Season of Doctor Who and two Doctor Who magazines today! I love my mother. I should arrange to have doctor’s appointments in Anchorage more often, and see if I can convince her to always take me to the bookstore after and get awesome stuff…..
So, since I was rewatching season 3 currently–and had watched the first two, Smith and Jones and Shakespeare Code already–I’d been thinking, hey, start on ep 3, make the family watch. Mom wanted to start from the top of Season 3, so we just finished watching the first three episodes of Season 3, Smith & Jones, Shakespeare Code and Gridlock….So I’ve now seen the first 2 of those 3 times, since I just saw Shakespeare Code for the second time MOnday, but that’s okay.
Unfortunately, I dont’ think my sis and parents grasp the utter flamablamablous nature of DW. Dad said it’s alright, but certainly not something worth getting addicted to ( big hint at how the cake are you addicted to something that’s this mediocre). Mom made the comment that it appeared to be supposed to be a comedy, and my sis was more whinging about how stupid it all was, at least in part due to the British humor….
*sigh* I’m stuck with a family who doesn’t understand the sheer brilliance of Doctor Who. I’m going to see if we can’t watch another couple episodes or more tomorrow….But for now I might go read some of my DW mags I got….
Oh, the other thing. I made the comment that there’s a Torchwood magazine, and that I’d totally love to get it (very unsubtle hint at “Hey, mom, I want you to pay for a subscription for TW mag). She wasn’t entirely against the idea, but…..Basically said TW mag or Muse, that she doubted she’d get me both. So now I have to decide if I want to stop getting Muse, in favor of Torchwood magazine…..
I want both……
May I kindly remind people that the “Our Reclusive Gardens” thread, does exist? Thank you for your attention. *vanishes in a poof*
H’lo, everyone…. *yawns* I’ve been insanely busy (read: OD’ing on theatre totally and completely), sorry I haven’t come on lately. How is everyone?
My birthday is not on the Coming Soon! list. This saddens me. Am I not an MBer anymore?….
You are always an MBer. The problem is probably on account of the calendar plug-in. It doesn’t work as nicely as the one we used to have which remembered everything automatically. This one is really clunky to use, especially as it is not designed for what we want it to do.
Oh, okay. XD Thanks.
*stops being bemused/slightly hurt*
Cake, now Amazon’s come out with a new Kindle which seems rather superior to my Nook. Maybe I’ll sell my Nook on Craigslist so I can buy the Kindle? *grumbles*
I WANT IT
New kindle: only slightly less money, still has buttons instead of touchscreen
i’ll be getting a nook
Take my word for it, the Nook is really slow. It takes about a second and a half just to turn a page, the touchscreen isn’t remotely responsive, the software is extremely laggy. Not to mention the fact that the Nook has about a 4-day battery life while the new Kindle has a 4-week battery life. I’d get the Kindle.
152- Well, you’re starting them on series three. What do you expect?
No, sorry. Series three is just…possibly my least favorite. And the first few episodes of it aren’t great either.
Re: Contra Dancing: INSANELY JEALOUS. ‘Course, my complete lack of rhythm makes it difficult for me to dance, but it’s FUN. I’ve only been to one or two of the local country dances, and they aren’t contra dancing so much. Like, there are definitely line dances, but there are square and circle dances too and a caller. And there’s hardly ever anyone under 30.
Oh, I know. When I came to the decision that, having an actual DVD of one of the seasons in hand, that I was going to introduce my family….Even as I was walking out of the store chattering away to Mom, I was running over the episodes in my mind, with the increasingly obvious realization, that most of the eps this season we re sub-par, especially toward the beginning.
But series 3 seemed the best one for me to get, as far as where I currently am in rewatching them (a concept my mother doesn’t get–that is, she doesn’t dislike the episodes thus far, she doesn’t understand how they could be so addicting I’d wish to rewatch them all….)
But, yeah, series 3 isn’t the best, especially at the beginning, but such is life.
The Seventh Sanctum “History Scrambler” is officially the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. It randomly pairs the name of a historical figure with a job or archetype to, um, inspire writing…
These are the best ones I’ve gotten so far:
Ghandi- Paranormal Investigator
Thomas Edison- Fighter Pilot
Nikola Tesla- Punk Rocker
Orville Wright- Biker
William Penn- Werewolf
Agatha Christie- Demon Slayer
Harriet Tubman- Pirate Captain
Jules Verne – Black Ops Agent
Jane Austen- Alien Abductee
Going to go find that now.
Beethoven – Gothboy (That is too accurate to be pure chance.)
Ghengis Khan – Disco Sensation (Oh, the mental imagery!)
Sappho – Superheroine (Definitely yes.)
Marie Curie – Cyborg (It’s so obvious now!)
Saint Francis – Starship Captain (Oh, the irony!)
Nietzsche – Vigilante (YES YES)
Imhotep – Street Fighter (I get the feeling this would actually be done in some video game.)
Eleanor Roosevelt – Supermodel (OH GOD NO)
I got Beethoven – Supermodel. Interesting mental image. (And George Washington- Sexy Bishounen….)
Out of the ones that I got, I liked Emily Dickinson, high priestess. But I just looked at Seventh Sanctum, and it is awesome. And I totally know how they did that (especially for the generators that produce results that are a few sentences long). I started writing a program to make that sort of generator before I got busy and stopped programming. Context-free grammars!
Charles Dickens – Glam Rocker (NOOOOOO!)
Arthur Conan Doyle – Werewolf (o.O)
Joan of Arc – Black Ops Agent (XD)
Cleopatra – Super-soldier (I can see that…)
Anne Hutchinson – Psychic (XD)
Harriet Tubman – Unrepentant Redneck (o.O)
Hypatia – Skatepunk
Eleanor of Aquataine – Computer Simulation
Marco Polo – Fallen Angel (Possibly…)
Leif Ericson – Singing Sensation
Harriet Tubman – Heavy Metal Musician (mind if I run away screaming from that concept?)
Abraham Lincoln – Movie Mogul (o.O)
Marie Antoinette – Goofy Sidekick (o.O)
Buddha – Alchemist (WHAT?!)
George Orwell – Racing Legend (…)
Queen Victoria – Space Marine (It’s the Space Queen!)
Alexander the Great – Dark Lord (VOLDEMORT)
Ptolemy – Demon Slayer (That made me think of the Bartimaeus trilogy.)
Jane Austen – Vampire Hunter (o.O)
The Envisioner (re-imagined myths and classics) is almost as good.
JRR Tolkien – Anime Magical Knight (Woo!)
Henry Ford – Biker (He. Traitor.)
Charles Dickens – Game Show Host
Agatha Christie – Ninja (Hehe.)
Leif Ericson – Punk Rocker
Ulysses S. Grant – Unrepentant Redneck
Madame De Pompadour – Martial Artist (He.)
Harriet Tubman–Dragon-slayer
Eleanor Roosevelt–Pro Wrestler
Benjamin Franklin–Singing Sensation
Cleopatra–Steampunk Heroine
Gandhi–Swashbuckling hero
Marilyn Monroe–Jungle Queen
Virginia Woolf–Anime Magical Girl
Beatrix Potter – Gunslinger
Van Gogh – Demon Slayer
Isaac Newton – Gothboy
Much giggling ensued.
Orville Wright was a biker. He and his brother ran a bicycle shop.
(For future reference, KaiYves, the Mahatma’s name is spelled “Gandhi,” not “Ghandi.” A blog search turns up 32 instances of the correct spelling and 21 instances of the misspelling, or about 1.5 right spellings for every wrong one. A Google search turns up about 23.7 million correct spellings and 6.2 misspellings, for a ratio of 3.8. So MBers are substantially behind the rest of the Internet when it comes to spelling Gandhi’s name.)
MuseBlog is… behind… the rest of the Internet? Dear God, and here I’ve been telling all of my friends that MuseBlog is the most calmly intelligent, troll-free, place on the Internet I know. (Prob’ly thanks to you, dear GAPAs, seeing as you probably keep out the unsavoury types. *gives a bow of thanks, because I feel like it*) Gah! Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi!
Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi!
Hellooooo. Kyra has returned! Granted, she was posting while she was in Germany and has been back for a week, but that still counts, right?
Kyra needs to play her cello now… Bleh. I would much rather post on MB and listen to Tchaikovsky’s 5th. I’ll do that for a little longer. Until this movement’s over.
Cake. I’m going to be a senior next year. I’m going to have to apply for college. I still have a month. Phew. The school year is really long, no matter what anyone else says.
Oh, and the movement ended. See ya.
My right hand is cramped from playing too much Pac-Man. i didn’t know that was possible…
‘Allo, everyone!
Sorry for not posting in a while. I was kidnapped by groundhogs.
Karma is a real jerk.
I’m in southern California! Yeehaw!
Yesterday we drove up and saw some of the flames form the forest fires. It’s awful.
On an unrelated note, does anyone know how to partition a hard drive and install Ubuntu on a separate partition on an HP mini laptop? Kind of an obscure question, I know, but I really do need to finish soon.
Curse Windows!
On the RC bar, I read that as “I was kidnapped by groundhogs. Karma is a real jerk.” as in one paragraph, and I cracked up for nearly five minutes. Thank you!
Oh, same here. I thought “Well, what’d she do to the groundhogs then?” and couldn’t stop laughing for ages.
The HP Mini doesn’t have a CD tray, does it? That’s very problematic. Unless you have an external CD drive, you won’t be able to actually install Ubuntu on a separate partition. However, you can still double-boot: Google “Wubi”. If you need any help, ask me–I double-boot with Ubuntu and have installed it several times using several methods.
You know what we should do some time? Get as many people to go on at once as they can…maybe we can beat the record of 91. …Sorry, was that weird?
I’ve thought that was a good idea for awhile. The problem is, I don’t think there’s 91 currently active MuseBloggers. The record was set by spambots.
Oh. Never mind.
We could still try to get a bunch of people on at once, could be fun with constant refreshing.
That would be, I imagine, rather hectic for the poor, overworked GAPAs.
*shudders*
Oh. My. Wung. That was the best pastry ever. Amile’s is heaven. A french cafe.Oh….And-no hot pink!
Dyed my hair! Dyed my hair! It’s dark when I’m inside and purple in the sun! Dyed my hair! *dances*
Great! It must be fun having purple hair.
LUCKY. If I could dye my hair, that’s what I’d do.
Fun!
Lucky! I can’t dye my hair till I get my cell phone. ( Collage. Ask my parents.
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Fun! Maybe I’ll dye my hair orange… Thoughts?
Just make sure it doesn’t clash with your hat.
Nothing can clash with Sudo’s hat. Its natural awesomeness exudes from its very threads. Clashage is impossible.
Yay! That’s what my friend did, with the same colour and everything. I bet it looks flammy!
Sudo– I agree with Errata.
Awesome!!! I’ve always wanted purple hair…
Would you say “You know what, I’m going to spend Friday afternoon with the dinosaurs.” is a very Muserly train of thought?
I think defining ‘Muserly’ defeats the point of muserliness.
That’s not defining “Muserly”, though. That’s classifying an example thereof.
Okay, so tomorrow I will be at the Mall of America [The remainder snipped. Detailed descriptions how you will be dressed at a particular time and location falls outside the rules. –Admin.]
I was surfing the web, and I came across a few mentions of…a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, called The Legend of Korra. From what I’ve found, it looks and sounds amazing–set 70 years in the future, in a steampunk city, following the next Avatar’s adventures.. I think my heart skipped a beat when I first read the news. As a matter of fact, it sounds so amazing I’m not entirely sure it’s real. Does anyone else know anything about this?
For future reference- searching for “Concorde” in a library catalog that has lots of old materials in French is not very helpful.
I am now going to comment in Ble everywhere but rpgs.!
Imea, ianogointocommeibleeveryeheburpgs!
Pie girl, please don’t spam. It’s intensely aggravating for everyone else.
It’s technically not spamming. Its so you understand whats at the bottom of my comments.
( ittechnilynospaminitsyocaundetanwhaatattebottmomycomnt.)
Spam: “To post irrelevant or inappropriate messages to one or more Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, or other messaging system in deliberate or accidental violation of netiquette.” A slightly outdated definition, but not incorrect.
(You’re still in your AE, by the way.)
Umm… pie girl, there’s a thread for ble. I’m only going to read what I understand, so whatever. Sorry if it sounds harsh.
Whee! Just got back from a very fun day at the water park with gingerkid and her dad!
First we did mini-golf, which I was epic at. Ginger cheated a lot, picking up the ball and putting it in the hole, kicking the ball into the hole with her feet, and hitting my ball away from the hole. Sometimes, if I took too long, she would pick up my ball and drop it in the hole as well. After mini-golfing we had lunch, which was yummy. I taught Ginger a hand-clapping game that my sister and I do very often, and we decided that we must have nose functions. Mine is a toggle, making me speak French, and Ginger’s makes her say “I come from the planet Gallifrey.”. After lunch we went on one of the slides, but when we were halfway through the line to another slide all the rides were closed down because of the storms that were passing through. Oh! I just remembered the interesting and slightly scary thing that happened in the line for the second slide! There was this girl who was like hurt or something, maybe on the landing above us, and they rushed her down to the ground and then she collapsed and was lying there on the ground, motionless, with her eyes closed, for a minute or so then she opened her eyes and got up again. (The sad thing was, the first thing I thought about upon seeing this event was “Jack Harkness!”, which Ginger found both amusing and slightly morbid.) Then we waited for the storm to pass and the rides to be re-opened. When everything was clear, we swam around for a while, then went to go look for the Lazy River. Of course, when we got to the Lazy River, another storm got there. XD So we went back and waited for the storm to pass, then went back to the Lazy River. Ginger and I went around the LR about four times. Then we had to leave. Ginger will probably also be posting about this, and I may have missed some things or gotten some things wrong. Ginger, feel free to yell at me or whatever, or just correct me.
…and now I have the hiccups. WHY?