Our time-traveling Random Thread visits France in the late 19th century, a period of peace and relative prosperity later known as the “Beautiful Era,” or Belle Epoque.
At that time, a group of rebellious painters called Impressionists were rocking the artistic establishment with new subjects and ways of capturing light. Here, in a tribute to the Impressionist artist Claude Monet, Rebecca shows Muses at leisure in a garden about 50 miles west-northwest of Paris, in a village called Giverny. Noting the shadowy figure lurking under the trees, we suspect that the idyllic scene is about to become more exciting.
(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)
I am travelling to the seacoast tomorrow. It will be interesting, but since it is 1 AM I should go to sleep. ‘night all.
First of all, I’m going to performing arts sleepaway camp today (It’s my first time at this particular camp…my parents let me pick one sleepaway camp per summer, last year it was sports, but this year I thought I’d try something different, so drama it was!) so I’ll have on/off Internet for the rest of the week. I’m allowed to bring a laptop to the camp, but, it sounds like we’ll have a pretty busy schedule so I’m not positive how much I’ll be able to get on. Farewell all!
Oh gosh, way too many run ons and misplaced commas in that….*cringes* Sorry, all. That just really bothers me.
Farewell, starr! Have a fabulous time!
That sounds really fun. Have a good time!
I have a new avatar that displays my two biggest obsessions!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay, August!!!! I love August. The heat isn’t that bad!
Poor, misunderstood August, who nobody likes. *hugs August*
Our garden is doing well. We have not weeded in a while, and it is sort of like a jungle, but the Tomatos and green beans are doing well. So are the Zucchinis. This is not a good thing. We have harvested many zucchini clubs and are going to give them to the food pantry. We will probably have many in the garden that we don’t know about, and when we find them, I just may club the zucchini plant with one of it’s clubs! My mom keeps insisting that they are good, but to tell you the truth, my dad and I would be happy if we never saw a zucchini again.
Zucchini count: 11. Huge. Zucchini. Clubs.
Happy August!
The random generator took me to a NaNoBraSto thread from 2006. Now I can’t wait for NaNo to start… 3 more months. *sigh*
Oh, neither can I… But especially I can’t wait for Screnzy.
Wow. August already. Where did July go?
Hmmm… I wonder what your theme’s going to be this month?
Oh yes, right, Concorde paper. Must work on Concorde paper…
Now the Zucchini count has been expanded. 15 zucchinis total. The newcomers are not huge, thank goodness.
I was just out working in the garden. Picking Green Beans. TONS of green beans. My dad is still out there. We will freeze the green beans. Not too bad; I like green beans. Thank Sniffly Whiskers my mom is not going to freeeze the Zucchinis!!!
…I’m covered in dirt. And sweaty, oily sunblock. Uggg.
Try zucchini bread as a non-zucchini-tasting option. I always tried to pick zucchini and other squash while they were very small. not more than 4-6 inches if I could spot them soon enough. Much tastier than the standard size, even good raw. But a few would always escape my attention. Usually at the end of the summer, when all the greenery died back, I’d discover a massive green club or two. The big ones are about as tasty as wood pulp. Grind them up for compost.
Thanks. I shall try that. I don’t really mind zucchini that much, but we have. so. much. of it!!!!!!
August 8th is “Sneak zucchini onto your neighbors’ porch” night. Just in case..
Excellent… MwaHaHaHa!!!
guys guys guys
i was playing with the random-thread button
and i found the may 2007 welcome thread, along with PP’s post about like traditions of the MB and stuff
and i realized
I INVENTED PIEING
my mind is kind of blown right now
“In February 2006, a possible ancestor of Ebeth the Stalker known as Ebeth the Lurker tossed what proved to be a groundbreaking banana cream pie at visiting author Donna Jackson (thread: “Hello, Donnaâ€). Curiously, in the process, Ebeth noted “in case you’re wondering, yes, that is our traditional method of greeting people,†(emphasis added) although I have yet to discover any prior incidents.”
i had totally forgotten about it (feels internet-famous)
Technically, you invented welcome pieing, a pivotal moment in MuseBlog history. The full story can be found on the 2006 Welcome thread.
right. that’s what i meant. heh. pieing is a whole big thing.
*is internet-famous but not THAT famous*
also love how the post from me is “woah i’d forgotten about that”
i think i might have memory issues xP
Wow. You’ve no idea how interesting I found this.
Woah, you invented welcome pieing?
*Genuflects*
YEAH!!GO AUGUST!W00T!
Oops.
Nice avatar.
Thank you.
I have recently come back from a sleep-away chess camp, where I had a great time. As well as chess, there was swimming and horseback riding and archery. In most previous years I have gone to the day camp version, but this was a totally different experience.
Chess camp? *wants to go to that*
It’s in California. I go there each year when I visit relatives there.
That sounds like a lot of fun… I go to music camp every summer, although not always the same one. This year, it was a Suzuki camp in Chicago. There were a million bazillion cellists, a lot of violinists, three violists, a lot of beginner pianos, and six advanced pianists including me and my sister. It was fun, and reminds me of the first camp that we used to go to, which was in Cleveland, and was very very awesome.
SFTDP
Random Question: When one clicks the “reply” button by a comment, and it brings up the comment box under the comment one is replying to, why does the green button to cancel the reply say “cancelar” instead of just “cancel”?
Because the board’s software was originally designed in Portuguese.
I have a red stripe across my cheekbones and nose from yesterday. A thick, sharp-edged, very red, very straight line. It is not a sunburn, because it doesn’t hurt and I’ve never ever had sunburn. It’s odd. XD
Now I want to learn more Japanese so I can make puns like that. ^_^ And, of course, so I can communicate with my relatives better.
Japanese wordplay is very fun. I’ve been saying “Sori, sori, higasori!” all day. It translates to “Sorry, sorry, shaving beard!” and is a classic Japanese pun.
I hope I can go to the contra group next week….
Happy GAPA Appreciation Day! Thank you a thousand times over for all the work and time you put in for the ‘Blog, most exalted administrators! *gives wish-granting genies to each*
I think I’ll wish for a pair of thick woolen socks.
But, seriously, though, I can’t believe that a) it’s already August (*sob*) and b) that I completely forgot that today was GAPA appreciation Day. Probably because I usually miss GAD for various reasons….
But Happy GAPA Appreciation Day! You four are completely and utterly flamablamablous, and I can’t thank you all enough for the time and dedication that you put into this place–MuseBlog has, at times, been the only thing in my life keeping me sane. *hugs and pies to all* You all are the best.
Aww… *hugs GAPAs and offers cookies*
happy day indeed! give yourselves a thread!
This is officially the start of August. And everything after. (best album EVAR)
School starts in22 days! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s already August? What? And worse, it’s already more or less week 5 of camp? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo….
We did a puzzle hunt today. It was fun. I worked on a puzzle where you had to look up various xkcds and one on holidays and eggs (which we didn’t actually manage to solve) and then some on a cross wordy type thing (which we also never solved) and then a bit on a metapuzzle where the answers turned into music notes. And then we got to dress up as penguins for the runaround. Has anyone else done a puzzle hunt?
No, but it sounds fun. I’d like to try one.
Hi everyone! I’m back! Did you miss me?
I’ve really missed MuseBlog! I basically had no time to get to the ‘Blog the last couple of weeks, and I’m afraid I’ve probably fallen somewhat behind on all the threads. Oh dear. I’ll catch up to the best of my ability over the next few days! (I haven’t forgotten my chess game, either.)
I got back from Switzerland last night, and am still entirely in the grips of jet lag. It’s a six-hour time difference, which means I get completely exhausted at around 5pm. I’m having trouble not falling over onto my keyboard right now; however, I promised myself I’d tell you guys about Switzerland, so I’m going to make myself finish this post before I crash.
Despite struggling with some intermittent homesickness, I had an absolutely fantastic time. I was at a French-language school, where I had classes in the mornings and fun activities like pools, crafts, hikes, and so on in the afternoons. I made some great friends, who I will hopefully be in touch with for a long time yet (and now I’ll have people to visit in Switzerland, Russia, France, etc.)! And apparently my French got better too. I spoke more English than I probably should have, but I still spoke a lot of French and am able to pull together sentences with a lot more fluidity than previously. So yes, I’m very happy about that.
Okay, more tomorrow, probably. I have to go to sleep or bad things are going to start happening. Good night!
I just returned home after seeing Inception. A quite entertaining and intriguing movie. I’m not sure I would have written it in quite the same manner, but it was still good. I’ll watch it a few more times so I can figure out two or three things I’m still unclear about. I’ll not discuss any of it in detail here, even with a spoiler warning–you’d all be too tempted to read it before seeing the movie. We can’t have that.
And picking out a good quote from that movie without spoiling it is dang hard.
I really liked Inception. It wasn’t nearly as confusing as I thought it would be, but it made me think.
I’ve seen it twice now, and both times I was thinking, How can there not be a single plot hole in this entire movie? Watching it the second time only made it more confusing to me, but my friends explained the weirder things to me.
POSSIBLE INCEPTION SPOILERS, SERIOUSLY DON’T KEEP READING IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE YET, OKAY THANKS. NO, FOR REAL, YOU WILL KICK YOURSELF IF YOU READ ANYTHING ABOUT THE MOVIE BEFORE SEEING IT, SO GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO READ FOR THE MOMENT.
The only part that didn’t quite get through to me in one seeing was some of the intricacies of Cobb’s relationship with his wife. The rest of it was much more straightforward than I had anticipated. Maybe I’m just more used to existentialism and fallibalism and realism and other such ontological matters. The questions the movie raises aren’t remotely original ideas–they’re philosophical and metaphysical debates that have been around for ages. The movie’s a step in the right direction, of course–more intelligent writing would be very desirable in Hollywood. But it’s neither game-changing nor mind-blowing, in my opinion (be it humble or conceited).
As for the matter of plot holes, many people have found some. For instance: y’know how the dreamworld sense of gravity changes based on the real-world gravity–for instance, while the van is falling through the air, the hotel experiences a lack of gravity? If this happened, why did it only happen in that level of the dream? Why did it not carry over to the alpine base? And another plothole: Fischer and Saito were both heads (or heirs) of enormous energy conglomerates, right? Such public figures would be recognized by each other, right? Then why did Fischer not recognize Saito as the head of his company’s main source of competition? And in a more general sense, I would have imagined Fischer to have been trained to be a little more wary in his dreams–he accepted Cobb as “head of security” pretty quickly, and didn’t seem to question him at all during the rest of the movie, with the possible exception of seeing him in the airport at the end of the movie.
Of course, any plot hole uncovered can be explained simply by saying, “It was all a dream, so that doesn’t count.”
MORE POSSIBLE INCEPTION SPOILERS, SO YOU REALLY SHOULD SEE IT BEFORE YOU READ THIS
What about the relationship didn’t you understand?
About plot holes, I actually knew about the gravity problem. There are always arguments against plot holes in Inception, though. One could say that they were so far into the dream that they became indifferent to that feeling. Well, that doesn’t make that much sense, because they can still feel the kick.
About Fischer/Saito, do you mean in or out of the dream? Outside of the dream, one could argue that they did see each other out-of-scene. Fischer could have known that it was his airline, so perhaps he didn’t see anything out-of-the ordinary about it. Also, in another argument you could say they didn’t ever see each other. In the dream, he simply may not recognize him (now that I think about it, he doesn’t really interact with Saito in the dream).
And one last thing, I didn’t find Cobb’s Mr. Charles stunt so un-plausible (as if the whole dream-sharing thing is plausible to begin with). While Fischer was trained, he may have not been trained well enough, or perhaps, not for this kind of invasion. I think Cobb’s methods were unprecedented to begin with, and telling someone that they’re in a dream while trying to invade would seem mad to somebody training Fischer, so much that they wouldn’t think of training him for it. And the way that Cobb puts it, it seems as if he really is explaining a real method of protection. In a weary dream state, you could trick yourself into remembering your training differently.
In response to that last line, I would say, “If it was all a dream then I don’t see why it mattered.” But of course Inception would suggest otherwise. I don’t see how one can be satisfies with a story that ends with the protagonist waking up and none of it being real.
POSSIBLE INCEPTION SPOILERS, SERIOUSLY DON’T KEEP READING IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE YET, OKAY THANKS. NO, FOR REAL, YOU WILL KICK YOURSELF IF YOU READ ANYTHING ABOUT THE MOVIE BEFORE SEEING IT, SO GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO READ FOR THE MOMENT.
he only wears his wedding ring when he’s in the dream. at the end of the movie, he’s not wearing it.
also piggy, what about the movie wasn’t enough for you? are you saying because you understood it, it wasn’t complex enough? it’s a movie, for crying out loud, not a dissertation. it’s a game-changer for -hollywood.- stop whining and enjoy it in the spirit it was meant.
as for fischer accepting cobb as his head of security – first off, dreams are tricky and complicated and not a lot of people are really aware of their capabilities. the fact that fischer was trained probably made him -more- likely to accept cobb’s story, because he had been warned of the threats but hadn’t really studied it in-depth. it wasn’t his job. he just learned a bit of what he could to try to protect himself, but he wouldn’t have had a full understanding of it. he was also at a totally vulnerable point in his life – his father had just died, he was young, he was about to take over this massive corporation and there seemed to be very few people he could turn to. add to that the information that his dreams are being invaded, and he’s going to want to have someone to trust. i think his acceptance of cobb is extremely plausible.
as for the fischer/saito thing, random people show up in your dreams aaall the time. i can’t even count how many people have IMed/called/texted me with “omg i just had this dream and you were in it” there’s rarely a -reason- for me to be there, i’m just sort of there. it was probably the same with saito – fischer may have recognized him and not thought anything of it, because our dreams are populated with people we recognize, and when you’re in the dream it honestly doesn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary. with the death of his father, the challenges fischer had to face – such as saito and his company – were probably on his mind, which makes it seem perfectly ordinary for him to show up in a dream.
I never said I didn’t enjoy the movie. I quite enjoyed it. It was very well-made. I’m merely commenting on the discrepancy that exists between the media’s general portrayal of the movie and my own experience with it.
So, say I wanted to buy some material that I might use to construct my own pair of jika-tabi… If this hypothetical scenario was taking place, what kind of material would be optimal, for the soles, and for the surrounding cloth? And what would be the best way to join these into jika-tabi, if I felt so inspired?
Thoughts after reading about the Concorde all day, and cranking out an essay:
1) It was flawed, but many of the failings were things that couldn’t have been foreseen.
2) Nothing that inspires such touching devotion by enthusiasts and keeps their message boards active seven years after retirement can be all bad.
3) The story of the return to service following the Paris crash and 9/11 NEEDS a TV mini-series.
Happy birthday, MB! *lovelovelove*
So, the five-day Kokon is over. It was finished yesterday. Me and Rainbow had lots of fun. We feel old.
I’ll se if I can send random pictures of not us. GAPAs, if the pictures don’t show show my face do I need parental permish?
I think if you and Rainbow both have already received permission at some point or other, you don’t need any further permission.
I LOVE YOU GAPAS <3
A few things happening with Fishy (gosh I don’t know why I seem to think people will read this):
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– The past couple of weeks have been… busy? I wouldn’t call it that, but it does seem like I was constantly doing something. A lot of my time was taken up by the book I was reading, The Passage(see the books and reading thread. No, really, please do, it’s suffocating)
– I’ve now seen two plays this summer, Once On This Island and Grease. I would love to talk about either of them if anyone has any thoughts on them (no matter how trivial).
– I have a new obsession. As you can see from my avatar, I’m falling in love with (*sing~song*Hermione Granger, this could mean daaaaangeeeerrrrr) A Very Potter Musical (And the sequel and Starkid in general). Sorry for the parenthesis. Does anyone else share this obsession? I can’t imagine that the ‘totally-awesomeness’ of AVPM hasn’t been talked about on MB. If not, then I recommend it. A lot. No, seriously, go on youtube now and watch it.
– Some R&R things have been going on, but I don’t think I will be elaborating on that quite yet, especially not on this thread.
– I have missed MB. Not just not being on it, but how I used to post constantly and how I used to be overwhelmed with the RPGs that I insisted to keep up with. One day I will try and come back to MB fully. Not that anyone really misses me necessarily, but I never felt like I got to be a real MBer (an oldbie if you will). Mostly I blame my paranoia that no one likes me.
((Thank you to whoever read this. *crickets* Thank you pies to you!
Reading….
It’s been way too long since I last had time to just settle down and enjoy a good book. I spend way too much time on the net or watching TV when not working…..
Grease:
Only thoughts are those involving the few songs from Grease that John Barrowman has sung on one of the CDs of his I have. And I suppose the other thoughts involving it would be that I remember seeing it quite a few years back, but not much else. 
R&R sucks. That is all.
And of course we like you, and it’s always nice to see familiar names return. *hugs* And pies.
Of course we all like you. I was wondering where you’d gone just the other day.
Of course we all like you! Please don’t let that stop you from posting, because I do miss your regular posting when you’re not here – and I’m not just saying that.
YAY I AM HAPPY
ALSO
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MUSEBLOG
five lovely years! huzzah!
The Random Thread now has a title and an illustration. In my humble opinion, Lady Bunniful has outdone herself again!
I quite agree.
24.1- Yeah, I couldn’t have imagined that it wouldn’t have been mentioned sometime here. And is the limit on the service like how cell phone internet plans work? Either way, that cakes.
*is blinded* This is definitely one of my favorite Random Thread Graphics.
I’m not sure if it’s like cell phone internet plans…..We don’t have an internet plan for our phones, so I don’t really know much about that.
Basically, we’ve got a 10 gig limit on downloading, which goes quite fast with any amount of video streaming (like when I watch Classic Who episodes online). When we get close to the limit, we get an email saying we’ve almost reached the monthly allotment, and the parents get irritated with me. If we went over 10 gigs, I think our provider would charge us zillions of dollars extra, as opposed to cutting off our internet….Hopefully, though, I dont’ find out one way or the other. I can just imagine how thrilled the parents would be.
0- Wow… That’s beautiful. I spy with my little eye a new background…
In other news, I’m going to see my grandparents and some cousins, so I may or may not be around too much in the near future, depending on which cousins are there. I should be back before Friday at the very most.
It is early in the morning, and I am off to the Shakespeare Festival in a few minutes. Thought I’d say a last goodbye to you guys while I’m waiting for my tea water to boil. Love the picture, Lady B. It’s gorgeous.
Au revoir, my friends! I’ll be back before my birthday!
-much fluttering of handkerchiefs, blowing of kisses, and scattering of rose petals-
See you before your birthday, then! Bye!
Oh my… Wow. That is a truly stunning picture. Wonderful work, Lady B.
Impressionism in Monet’s garden… I love it. Every time I go to MoMA, I have to look at the Water Lilies.
That picture is beautiful! I am suddenly reminded why I love the late 19th century so much. Rock that artistic establishment!
I got to visit the Getty Museum yesterday as part of a field trip at arts camp, and I felt so incredibly much like a pretentious artiste who pretends to know a lot about art so they can look smart. There were these beautiful, so clearly defined paintings, and my friends and I were noticing things like that… oh, for example, in one painting called “Imam”, the light wasn’t on the imam calling people to prayer, but on the city itself, with a woman washing clothes and dogs sitting on the roofs. We thought it was interesting that the artist’s focus wasn’t on the imam, who was the closest and most clearly defined, but on the city to which he was calling. I proposed that the artist was trying to say that the imam’s focus was on the city as well, and the whole picture proposed an interesting dichotomy of light of the less defined city, and shade of the more defined invididual…
AARGH! I feel so pretentious!
But the Getty was fantastic. Anyone who has a chance to go, should definitely go. Especially try to wander around the flower garden- it’s beautiful!
Your observations were not pretentious; they were perceptive. “Pretentious” enters the scene when (a) you believe that your interpretation is correct by divine favor and anyone who disagrees has the aesthetic discernment of a nematode or (b) if you’re trying to pass off a meaningless cloud of piffle as something profound.
“…aesthetic discernment of a nematode…..”
Brilliant.
Well, after 3 1/2 weeks of hearing truly pretentious artists blabbing about the inner blackness of their tortured souls and how they express it creatively by buying pre-ripped jeans from expensive department stores, writing deeply unoriginal slam poetry, and dying their hair black, one gets to be a bit paranoid. I’m now wary of a) writing about sad things, b) wearing black, at all, c) drinking coffee, d) calling myself an artist or anything I do art, or e) commenting intelligently on the art of others. It gets to be that way after a while.
Believe me, I completely understand. Been there. Lived there for some time, in fact. The funny thing is that pretentious people were doing the EXACT same things 30 years ago (and for many years before that), so apparently they haven’t progressed much. It also isn’t easy to accept that numerous people will never understand the difference between pretentiousness and insight. Don’t let others define for you what it is to be an artist! It wastes too much time. I’ve noticed over the years that people who really focus on the art worry less and less about the trappings. (Using “art” as a generic here.)
“So what’s going through your head?”
“…Art?”
“As in…”
“Lofty… art-ness.”
(sorry, I couldn’t resist)
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I absolutely love the picture, Lady B! It is by far one of my favorite thread pics of all.
Continuing the sightseeing around Jordan–today I saw the Nymphaeum, a Roman bath dating back to the 2nd century AD. It was at one point decorated with columns and statues of nymphs, but it looks a lot less fancy nowadays. I would have taken a picture, but I only ended up there by accident and didn’t think to bring my camera. Oh well. The lighting was bad anyhow.
Lovely thread picture, by the way.
Lovely picture! I can’t believe that I forgot MB’s birthday; here’s your pies, GAPAs!
I won’t be around much this week, as it’s FAIR WEEK
OF DOOM.HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MUSEBLOG! AND HAPPY GAPA DAY AS WELL!
I didn’t make a song for it this year, alas. I admit I forgot completely. Oops! Was there any reason there wasn’t an MB birthday thread? Just asking, because I remember having them before.
Had a long week which I will post more about later, after I have eaten.
We have gotten rid of 5 Zucchinis!! I am starting to think that zucchinis are related to hbps. they are evil!!
What? It was MBs birthday?!!! …Happy Birthday then! Thank you GAPAs!!!!
Zucchinis… YUM! Have you ever made Zucchini bread? It’s amazing!
My grandparents dropped off some zucchini and squash for us yesterday. We’re going to make zucchini bread sometime!
You can have them!
Ooh purty
That’s a wonderful picture! Impressionist art in general is, really…
Thanks for the compliments, everyone! This was such a fun picture to do; I’m glad you’re enjoying it. I’ve added a link to the full size version.
Yes! It is awesome Rebecca! ^^
I just thought of a weird metaphor 9At least, I think it’s a metaphor.) about the “Preview” button.
The Preview button is like sticking a comment onto MB with a Post-it flag.
I thought of this due to the number of Post-it flags I have been using today.
Aw… my sister is teaching my Dad to text….
Beautiful thread picture! *Admires*
Happy slightly belated birthday, MuseBlog! Five already? They grow up so fast.
Thanks GAPAs, for existing and for causing the blog to exist.
14.1, Robert Coontz: You have undoubtedly made the day of sentient thick woolen socks everywhere. *Applauds*
29, Alice: Farewell! Have fun! Come back soon! *Waves at your disappearing mode of transport*
32, Cat’s Eye: Pretentious? You? Perish the thought! Your comments on the painting strike me as being the result of observation that was interested, thorough, and respectful to the work and artist.
32.1.2, Cat’s Eye: That sounds familiar. Personally, I feel that anyone who tells me that pre-ripped and faux-distressed jeans are a reflection of en’s tortured soul and thus en’s creative genius rather than a mass-produced trendy item has a desperate desire to be an artist without creating art. Truly pitiful.
Ever heard the one about the self-proclaimed thespian whose “talent” is defined by producing disturbingly over-dramatic and/or hysterical auditions, constantly questioning and/or ignoring instructions from the director, telling other cast members how to do en’s part, and snootily ranking people based on en’s role–oh, yes, and wearing the glitziest costume? Trust me, there’s always one…
37, Mikazuki: Try zucchini and cheese casserole and zucchini in lasagna.
Aowh God. Snooty thespians. I hate them so very much. I have a story of my least favorite one of all time, comin’ right up:
It’s the summer of 2008, and Shakespeare Camp is pretty much the coolest place ever right now. I have just made it out of seventh grade, which has been the nadir of my life so far. In Shakespeare Camp, I have made friends easily for pretty much the first time ever. I love all my friends, and they love me, which is also totally new. (Like I said, seventh grade sucked.) We are putting on a production of Julius Caesar, and I am playing Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife. I have one scene. I am thought of as a very talented actor. I am proud.
The only downside to this perfect camp is the boy playing Caesar. He is snooty, pretentious, arrogant, and believes he is the best actor at the entire camp. The unfortunate bit is, he may be right, which is why he received such a big-name role as Caesar.
But that’s the thing. Caesar is a big-name role, but it’s not the starring role. Julius Caesar is the story of Brutus and Cassius, not Caesar himself. Caesar pretty much dies after the first act. Caesar boy doesn’t get this, which is why he swans around camp, acting as if we’re all bowing and scraping to get out of his path. The girl playing Brutus, my best friend, is pretty much thrilled that she gets to stab him.
One wonderful Thursday, Caesar is goofing off with his friends Messenger and Citizen One while the rest of us are trying to rehearse. Director gets mad and tells Caesar to stop goofing off. Caesar agrees, all innocent, and then goes right back to it the instant Director even turns his back. He doesn’t pay attention, or obey instructions, because he’s just so much better than everyone else, ever.
Director gives up on Caesar. He tells him, “If you can’t rehearse, then you can’t be Caesar.” This is logic. Brutus is promoted to Caesar. I am promoted to Brutus. Another friend, who was sharing the role of Casca, is given Calpurnia. Caesar is given the starring role of Citizen Three. We approve. Formerly-Caesar sits with his hood over his head for the rest of rehearsal, sulking. He seems shocked.
The next day at rehearsal, Director comes in looking angry. What the cast pieces together later is that it turns out formerly-Caesar’s parents are regular donors to Shakespeare Camp. They have called the program and threatened to stop donations unless their darling boy has been returned to the role of Caesar. Director has argued with Shakespeare Camp a bit too much about this. He leaves the program next week, and is replaced by a much worse director, who treats us like children instead of actors.
Caesar is given half his role back, the other half being taken up by my friend, the former Brutus. Morale in the cast decreases by about 75%. I retain my role of Brutus. The only part that disappoints me about my role is that I have to attempt to show sympathy to Caesar as I stab him.
So I got home from Europe last night after something like 24 hours of traveling, a lost suitcase, and getting from one terminal to another, going through security, and getting to my gate at the very end of the terminal in under 20 minutes in Newark. I’m still pretty exhausted – I slept for something like fourteen hours once I got home, but my body is all messed up and out of whack with the time zones. The Czech republic was awesome, though – I had a really great time.
40: It’s even better seen up close! It’s much easier to see who the distant shadowy figures are…
41: It’s a simile.
OMG, I adore the picture! I’m kind of obsessive about impressionism. As in I’ll spend 30 minutes starting at a single painting.
Anyways, I went to Boston today. Fun stuff. I saw the science museum in the morning and hung out in bookstores/chocolate and/or other sweets shops in Harvard Square in the afternoon. ‘Twas great fun.
rebecca — the graphic is LOVELY! it is definitely extra motivation for me to get out to our local arboretum (which is what it reminds me of)
in fact, just enough motivation to wake up at7:30 tomorrow! during summer! EGADS
lizzie – oh god the airport bit sounds like a nightmare, glad you’re back home safely though! and i totally remember the jetlag i had coming back from europe last summer…..
i’d love to hear about your trip a bit if you ever feel up for it
I love the picture! Very flammy!
Yaay!!! Cherry Tomatos!!!! So yummy. We have tons. …And another. huge. Zucchini. How did we miss it?!! *hands out virtual Zucchini to anyone who will take them*
The Mosquitos are driving me crazy!!!! Our lawn mower is broken, and the grass is really thick. We think the mosquitos like it. *kills 2 mosquitos in one swipe* yessssss…..
Lovely picture this month Rebecca.
It’s that time of year again…band camp time! Five freshmen this year, who aren’t doing badly at all, plus our crazy assistant director is back…this is going to be a good season.
I officially hate parenthetical citations.
I hate all citations. We had to use parenthetical citations once. I could never get them right.
Parenthetical citations are horrible.
I’m curious, why do you all hate parenthetical citations? I remember thinking they were a huge step forward from the old way.
I don’t know why the old way is, but in-text (parenthetical) citations add like two pages to a ten-page paper!
Well, what’s “the old way?”
The old way was footnotes — which meant you had to figure out in advance exactly how much of the page would be taken up by them so you could leave the right amount of space at the bottom of the page. Mind you, until I went to graduate school, this also meant working it out on a manual typewriter. No automatic formatting for superscript either, so one had to manually adjust the knob a half line to type the footnote number. AND we had to do this while walking 3 miles in the snow….
I practically wept with joy when I got to grad school and discovered the old system had gone the way of the dodo. That is not hyperbole. Though rest assured that many a time I have cursed MLA from here to Andromeda for assorted other reasons.
Ah, well, I suppose having memories of things like that (with the snow and all
) let you appreciate the new methods of citations… but the reason I hate parenthetical citations was because I could never get them right, and my teacher would simply tell me that it was wrong but now how to do them right (hah, see, bad memories).
Plus, I’m lazy, so when I’m writing something for school and have to cite things all I can think is, Nobody’s going to read this… why must I be so thorough?
A major part of the idea is that by being thorough now, by the time you have to write long research papers, citations will be second nature (assuming they haven’t changed all the rules by then). If it helps, you can think of these as muscle-building exercises that will prepare you for the heavy lifting later.
Citations are a pain to do, no way around that, but when you’re on the other side — researching for a publication, for example — you become exceedingly grateful for people who cite properly and predictably and wish for horrible plagues upon those who do not.
But I sympathize (and empathize) with you about teachers (or anyone) who tells you you’re wrong without helping you figure out how to do the job correctly..
I’m just afraid I’ll do the citing wrong. It’s a lot of rules to remember.
OH MUSEBLOG. HOW I LOVE THEE.
. There are a few reasons why I haven’t been around much. I was busy quite a bit throughout most of the summer. I also have given myself the task of watching my way through the entire history of Vlogbrothers. I do think that many musers would appreciate this.
I really appreciate how, despite the fact that I abandoned you for almost the entire summer, I come back and see your pretty picture and can just escape into the minds of all the random strangers who reside here.
EXPLANATION: in 2007, two brothers, Hank and John Green decided to stop communicating with text and so they made videos for each other every other weekday for all of 2007. They developed a cult following and continued making videos. Go hunt them down on youtube. It’s pretty jokes. and addicting. *is listening to Hank’s song “Accio Deathly Hallows” at the moment*
that is all. Bye for now!
Marfy!
MARF!
MARFW!
OH HEY MARF DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
I haven’t seen you for
yearsmonthsweeks!Hello, people. The picture is flammy.
I haven’t posted for about a month, have I? And now my birthday’s coming up. Where has 2010 gone???
Anyway. Not much is happening in my little world. Kitchen remodeling. Vacation Bible School. Got my hair cut yesterday. Oh, and I’m obsessed with Middle-earth again. (Yay!) On that note, this thread needs to be revived: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=808 (Please?)
Love the picture- nice contrast from last month’s.
I admit I’ve given up learning Japanese, mainly due to the outrageous number of characters there are to learn. It’s simply preposterous. However, I am now going to try my hand at Quenya, which seems rather more doable. It’s said to be somewhat similar, gramatically, to Latin or Spanish, both of which I have studied for years.
Man tiruva rácina cirya
ondolissë mornë
nu fanyarë rúcina,
anar púrëa tihta
axor ilcalannar
métim’ auressë?
Man cenuva métim’ andúnë?
Sindarin looks more like Spanish to me. I’ve read that Tolkien modeled Quenya mainly on Finnish.
Sindarin is based on Welsh, and Quenya is based on Finnish.
Finnish, Latin, and Greek. But mainly Finnish. In my opinion Sindarin just looked more difficult to learn–a lot of bizarre mutations and an overcomplicated verb system.
Wow-oh-wow-oh-wow I love the picture!
And, um, I’m back. I don’t remember posting that. So yes, I’m here. Camp was fun, I think.
Um, I finished reading the Sandman, all of it, (yes I know this belongs on the Books and Reading thread but it’s quite dead, and anyway if I didn’t write about this I wouldn’t have anything to write about at all. Did that make sense?) Gosh it is amazing… And now I am attempting to channel Delirium… so forgive me if I am a little odd.
Does anyone else have this problem that when you discover something new that you like you completely immerse yourself in it and obsess over it constantly, and then when you’re done your infatuation just dies away? This happens to me all the time; I fall in love with some series or other, obsess about it nonstop for several weeks and then POOF! I “wake up” and sometimes I don’t even remotely like the series/character/whatever it was anymore…
I feel like I haven’t been on MB enough lately. That will change.
Hah, I have immediate obsessions, but they don’t die away.
Me, too. Mine have been known to last years. And still new ones keep coming…
I really want school to start back up… please.
summer is to long. need work.
First of all, I’m really sorry I missed GAPA Appreciation Day and MB’s Birthday! *gaspgaspgasp* *gives GAPAs 100000000 kilos of choklit* Thank you so much for all you do to make MB amazing and special for all of us. I can sincerely say that MB has changed my life in ways that nothing else ever could – it’s helped me through a lot of stuff, even if it’s just a virtual hug or pat on the back. It’s always nice to know someone cares when it feels like the rest of the world doesn’t. Of course, the GAPAs are what pulls MB all together, so they have every thank from me.
And if I haven’t said so already, I absolutely adore the picture, Lady B. It’s beautiful. I love Impressionism.
Camp is really amazing. I’m with nine other bunkmates – or “dormies”, as we’ve started to call them – and everyone is so Muserly and friendly and fun. My basic schedule is that I wake up, clean my bunk area, eat breakfast, free choice (Where I am now), go to an elective (Today it’s Visual Arts, but yesterday it was Creative Writing), lunch, and finally I go to Drama/Theater for the rest of the afternoon, since that’s the main activity I chose. I have Drama/Theater every day, but only rotate through a variety of other extras once during the week. After dinner sometimes we go to the campfire and roast smores and other times I’ll probably just go and hang out at the pool or in my cabin or whatnot. It’s all great fun though, and I’ve already met another Muser! No MBers, though.
Dear Museblog,
Happy birthday! I apologize for missing it. I was in Massachusetts with my family. You should have come! We went on an awesome hike through a place called Purgatory Chasm. There were all of these humongous boulders to climb over and caves to climb in. Simply amazing. Then, we went to an armory and saw armor that was hundreds of years old. Really Museblog, you would’ve loved it. The botanical garden was lovely as well. I know there’s a large part of you that loves nature, even though you *are* on the internet. The next day, we went to an aquarium in CT. Did you know that beluga whales are the cutest animals ever, and definitely the cutest of the cetaceans? No you did not, because you are a blog. Even though you’re just a website, you’ve brought so much joy into my life. I want to thank you for that Museblog. Keep on living. Don’t ever fade away. And stay golden.
Love, ♥
Beedle
SFTDP
Lady B, I love the picture! It’s definitely one of my favorites. Did you do it on the computer? It’s so lovely.
Wow! Sounds like you’re having a great time! Was that Mystic Aquarium you went to? Because if so, I hope you saw the archeology exhibits.
By archaeology, do you mean the deep sea exhibits? They were really cool. We sorta had to rush though, because we were leaving that day and wanted to avoid traffic.
Yes, the ones related to oceanic exploration and shipwrecks. (That part of the aquarium, the Institute for Exploration, is one of the places where my hero, Dr. Robert Ballard, works.)
PROP 8 WAS OVERTURNED!!! YAYAYAYAYAY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
feeling kinda teary about this….a good day for love ♥♥♥
They told me as I was coming back from the bathroom and I screamed and they screamed and everyone was crying and screaming and laughing and hugging each other though not all at once and we couldn’t sit still because I can marry a girl if I want to and my drama teacher can marry her partner finally finally and I was wearing rainbow today and the barrista of the coffee shop is playing the guitar and I found a tire swing on campus and swung on it and we hugged and talked about how everything was finally real.
that is so wonderfully beautiful! i’m so happy that’s the day you had!! i’m so full of love because of this, gaaah!! *hugs for you and everyone* ♥
I didn’t know! w00t!!!!!
I didn’t know, either, but thanks for telling us!
Of course, it’s not remotely over yet. It’s obviously going to get appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. It’s only one judge’s decision that’s been made so far–there’s a long way to go.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
I don’t comprehend the meaning of this row of hearts.
that row of hearts is not spoiled by your bitter cynicism! it is full of love and happiness FOREVAR <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
I think she’s too happy to make any sort of meaningful response.
Vulcan.
Eboo- Moderation in all things, even joy.
Socky- Alas, I am.
((Hm, I haven’t been given any sort of nickname, have I?))
NO MODERATION IN JOY TODAY *dances* Luv, Pig-wa.
True joy is rare enough, savor it when ye may.
Have you just coined a nickname for Piggy? I declare it so. From now on he’s Pig-wa.
I sincerely don’t understand this nickname. I expected something more along the lines of “Piggles”, or thereabouts.
I’ve always called you “Miss Piggy” in the depths of my brain…
Okay, Piggles.
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in…
Fireh– Miss Piggy?
I don’t understand it either, but I don’t care. If I have to be Socky, you have to be Pig-wa.
Piggelicious in my brain when I’m bored……My brain is weird.
Nah, i like Miss Piggy best
SL and Ebeth- Yep, Miss Piggy. Like the Muppets character. XD I think that a little bit before I joined the blog, I had just watched a Muppets movie at a friend’s house, and it kind of stuck.
It means she’s happy. Would you like a cookie?
Awesome! *cheers* *dances*
This makes me so, so happy.
<3
HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY
YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
*dances about ecstatically* SOOOOOOO HAPPYYYYYYYYYY
GUYS I FINISHED MY RESEARCH PROJECT
I MADE A SCIENCEY POSTER AND EVERYTHING
Congrats!
Having JUST finished my Concorde paper, I can understand how great that must feel.
YAAAAY CONGRATS!
*congratulatory science pies*
Hmm… my new gravvie’s not very colorful.
THIS WAS POSTED ON MY SHINEY NEW MACBOOK PROOOOOO ♥
ALSO OH MAN GUYS PROP 8 WOOO! ♥
So, we are in the midst of pre-band camp! We have a new director this year, which is proving to be interesting. I like him a lot, and think he’s going to be great for our concert/symphonic bands, but he doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of marching band experience. There is a clinician whose role it seems to be to do most of what Mr. C (our old director) did relating to marching. I’m not the biggest fan of the clinician, because he doesn’t seem quite as flexible as Dr. C (the new director). However, hopefully he won’t be here the whole season…
Anyway, the first day of precamp was kind of tough. The pace was ridiculously fast and the freshmen were all having a difficult time because of it. After camp, though, the leadership talked to Dr. C and he was very receptive. The second day was much, much better. Today was another rougher day, because we started setting some drill (unheard of for precamp which is pretty cool), but instead of giving us the pages with the pictures on them they just gave us coordinates. This was okay for the freshmen, who’ve never had anything else, but the other 3/4 of us were having a rough time of it. Soon the leaders will get the pictures, which I think will help, but this will certainly take some getting used to.
I’m loving being a captain. We’ve had a lot of marching sectional time (another thing granted at the request of the leadership), where I get to run things for my section. I’m a little afraid of being too pushy, tough, boring, etc., but I think I’m managing to do a good job so far. (Also, uh, it gives me an excuse to talk to the drum major, who I may kind of sort of like. Heh.)
We leave for away camp on Friday, which should be an adventure!
Things are slow today…
YAY!!!! FUNNELCAKE MADE IT ON! YAY!!YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY!* THROWS CONFETTI* *EATS CELEBRATORY SUNDAE*
Today, I watched 3 Troughton serials, The Faceless through Tomb. And made astonishing progress with basket. And played tennis in the rain.
I think Boston does not like me. Earlier this month, it rained torrents and flooded half the streets. Yesterday, immediately after leaving, we were stuck in a 4-lane merge for highway repair that made 15 minutes of highway into 2 hours. Whee!
Funnelcake? What?
Never mind. I understand now.
I can’t believe I’m coming home tomorrow. It feels like my time here at the Summer Session went by so fast.
I bought X-Men: The Ultimate Guide in the bookstore today! Yay! Also, my parents said I deserve some rewards for taking college classes on my summer vacation, so I think I’m going to ask for The Dream is Alive on DVD. Maybe When We Left Earth, too.
My last Science of Modern Technology class was today, and our teacher talked about how New Haven in the late 1800s was a fairly advanced city, and one of the first to be lit with electric arc lights, and I got a really cool idea…
Steampunk Yale!
Seriously, you had the Silliman family doing applied research for commercial clients, a local judge as the consul to Egypt sending back all manner of priceless and possibly cursed artifacts, Professor Marsh and his associates digging up dinosaurs out west in cutthroat rivalry with Dr. Cope and shipping them back to the Peabody, meteorite research and daring expeditions to far-flung regions to photograph solar eclipses, a short train ride away in Boston, Percival Lowell is looking for life on Mars, and another train ride away in the other direction, all manner of mysterious strangers are arriving in New York by tramp steamer…
“Students by day… gadget-wielding avengers among the Gothic arches by night!”
Seriously, somebody needs to do this.
*shudder* I hope the Google-Verizon deal doesn’t go through. This would be an extensively evil thing for Google to do, and I don’t want to see that happen.
(For you who haven’t heard about it yet: Google and Verizon are in negotiations to create “pay tiers” for internet service. Basically, under this system, a website can pay Verizon to have its content available at faster speeds than normal. This means that a website backed by a large corporation will be given fundamental priority over a smaller website. In my opinion, this goes against what was one of the fundamental tenants of the internet: net neutrality, which means, more or less, that anyone can publish things on a level playing field with everyone else. That’s what the internet is supposed to be. Now, I’m sure some of you are saying, “But Piggy, are you advocating an anti-capitalist attitude towards the internet?” To this I would respond: the economy and the internet are two different things. A large corporate website like, for instance, Amazon has entirely different motivations from someone’s personal blog or a school club’s website. Neither website should be artificially given precedence over the other. If Amazon creates a natural precedence due to a better design or more “consumer appeal”, so be it. This new “pay tier” system, on the other hand, is an artificial manipulation of the internet to serve a single company’s goals. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see monopolies develop eventually–anti-trust legislation may sooner or later face off against pay tiers.)
I just came back from my last day of science camp! ( we went home each day after camp and came back in the morning) It was so fun! We have four classes: Environmental science, Food science, Health science, and Engineering. Every year the classes focus on different topics. This year environmental was about water, Food was about meat, Health was about many things because we have a different focus every day, and in engineering we learned about how motors work, how bottle caps work ( which was actually interesting) and many other things.
This camp is for 6th through 12th graders and it is run so well!
All of the classes were interesting. The camp has three groups divided by age. Every group has 20 kids in it and in each class we are usually broken up into smaller groups. Each class has hands on activities. Such as in environmental we all got waders and walked through the rivers to take samples or measure them. We also walked through ponds and caught turtles and frogs. In Food we made sausages (with real intestines!)
Anyway, it was so much fun and I learned a lot!
Ahhh… Science Camp… jealous…
CAMP ENDS TOMORROW
My camp ends Sunday! This is terrible…
And I’m leaving at 2 AM Sunday morning. This is terrible. I’m going to miss most of the all-nighter, although the all-nighter apparently shuts down when the first shuttle (my shuttle) leaves, so I won’t miss too much… I just had my last class. It was a good class (we defined a bijection between my friend and a porcupine), and the penultimate class I had was the best class I’ve had all of camp (Skolem’s paradox is the coolest thing ever), but… they’re all over now. It’s sad. The camp talent show is tonight. I’m in it, singing with the choir and also something else, which I’m not going to say anything about since it’s a big secret. It should be fun; there’s singing, dancing, skits… And it’s all nice and geeky and mathy. But again, as cool as it will be, it means the end of camp. It means that after the end of the talent show, I will never get to sing with this (awesome) choir again. It’s all so sad.
YAY!!YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY!* THROWS CONFETTI* *EATS CELEBRATORY SUNDAE* I JUST ORDERED ATTACK OF THE SMART PIES! AND RENEWED MY MUSE! YAY!yAY!
Ahem.
And on tuesday I’m going to a party. What a great way to kick off my birthday!
I’m home.
NOOOOOOOO I’M HOME AND NOW I DON’T HAVE A ROOMMATE AND I CAN’T JUST GO INTO TOWN WHENEVER.
D: D: D:
Aww… does no one else like MissingNo.?
That sounds really stupid, doesn’t it…. *facepalm*
After a brief Googling, I found out what a missingno is. And I haven’t a clue whether or not I like it. The shift key is sticking today, argh.
Tomorrow is my last day of camp!
It seems like a lot of people are leaving their camps…
Well hello, everyone! I’m back after 4 weeks away at two camps. They were brilliant. I made friends, learned philosophy, spoke (a little) French, played Frisbee, danced, gambled (a bit), leared Mao, watched Doctor Who, sang Bohemian Rhapsody, prepared for the zombie apocalypse, taped people, debated about the use of teleporters in Star Trek, ate bacon, watched videos (search “to be John Weldon”), Drew Steampunk…. Essentially geekery.
So, what have I missed? Any neophytes? Name changes? Random attacks of kittenry?
~Enc
Enc!
Oh, yes. I also dressed in drag, wore a towel all day, spun around and went crazy under the stars, hugged everyone, played cards, ate good food…
How much drag? Pictures???
How much drag? Flowery orange tanktop, skinny jeans, nail polish. (Didn’t do makeup or shave my legs)
No pictures that I have. Sorry.
Smexy. Sounds much more fun than a short pink dress. XP
Mmmm… *drools*
I just realised how disturbing that was. You say you talked about Star Trek, teleportation, Doctor Who, zombies, and lots of other drool-worthy things, yet it’s the fact that you dressed in drag that I pick up on.
But wait! There’s more!
I read (for class): What is it like to be a bat? (Nagel), Meditations 1,2, and 6 (Descartes), The Knowledge Argument (Frank Jackson), and a bunch of other philosophical texts.
I read (on my own): Three Discworld books (Pyramids, Eric, Sourcery), A book on the Science Of Doctor Who, and a really crappy “sequel” to H2G2.
I wrote: A bunch of philosophical stuff, defending many different positions; and the beginnings of a movie script based on a thought experiment (Look up “The Experience Machine).
I watched: I, Robot; An episode of TNG (I forget which, but in it Riker’s duplicate is found), three episodes of Doctor Who (Blink, Impossible Planet, Satan Pit), and some philosophical YouTube videos (Search ‘to be john weldon’ ‘david chalmers the zombie blues’)
I thought: Way too much.
Oh, and random note- why is all the text bold this morning?
And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer? Is that the crappy sequel you read?
By the way, what sort of amazing amazing camp is this?
Yes, that is the crappy sequel. *fumes*
It’s called CTY “Center For Talented Youth”. You have to take the ACT/SAT to get in, and then you take a class on a topic of your choice (I took Philosophy of Mind this year.) You don’t have to be exceptionally smart to get in- everyone on MB would probably make it. It’s fun, and amazing, and great. I really reccomend it, you can find out more about it on their website. (It’s run by Johns Hopkins University.) There are tons of traditions, and everyone there is nice. You should try to get in (And yes, there is a talent show where you can play an instrument).
I’ll email you with more info, if you want.
Please! Maybe we’ll see each other there next year?
Just Google JHU CTY. Then talk to your parents about it. There’s no way they can’t approve. It’s educational, even!
That sounds like an awesome camp. Wish I could go to stuff like that…..
Enc+drag= *cracks up laughing* I’m going to get a flowery orange tanktop, skinny jeans, paint my nails, and laugh at myself now. Orange is a really bad colour for me, which is why I like wearing it, because it makes me look amazingly eccentric.
heh. practically everyone on MB -does- do it, from what i’ve seen (i did not but like everyone and their grandmother does apparently)
true story, i’m friends with someone on the Site That Must Not Be Named because she thought i was from CTY because i was friends with so many of them.
also hurrah discworld! and hurrah asimov even though that was under watched and not read so it should be whoever directed it or starred in it or whatever but i forget who they were!
I’ve not done CTY, either. My sis did, ages upon ages ago, when she was 11 and I was 9, but not me. ’twas in LA, although I forget what her subject was…..It was 12 years ago, after all.
Erm, 11 years. 21 minus does not equal 12. My math skills appear to suck at the moment. It was eleven years ago. Still long, but, yeah….anyway.
For the record, CTD > CTY. And CSSI tops them all (don’t worry, GAPAs, it’s over
).
The Science Of Doctor Who? I have that book too!
Yay! *hug*
I love how it sometimes delves into random topics, like how today plants are acting more and more intelligent. (Though I think he’s anthropomorphising.)
Which edition do you have? Because I have the recent one that covers up to The End Of Time.
I have the same edition as you! Yay! *hugs back*
Giant cheeses from outer space attacked!
Work was interesting today…
We had a dog in to be spayed, the doctor had made the usual two inch or so abdominal incision, and was feeling around for the uterine horns, with more difficulty than one would normally expect. Finally found something, but not the uterus–rather, testes. Non-descended (cryptorchid) testes in the abdomen. Externally, however, the dog is female (but apparently exhibits some masculine behaviors, such as lifting its leg to pee on trees and such, although admittedly there are plenty of female dogs who do this too).
twas interesting. Apparently the only such case the vet had seen, “male pseudohermaphroditism”. Pretty rare….but, yeah, I thought it was interesting. And this is a rather random post. Anyway.
Socky’s Life Lessons #117: When a veterinarian says “Work was interesting today,” cover your ears and run.
(joking. seriously, that is interesting… thought it must have been surprising to find out mid-operation)
lol, I’m not a vet yet. But, yeah, if I say something at work was interesting…
Yuppers. It was definitely unexpected and surprising, considering that, externally, it appeared very much female.
i read a book about that once, but it was a person. but then en decided to be male because en liked girls. i can’t remember the title now…we read it for book club a while back. all i remember is that’s what happened and it was this big greek family and the girl/boy went to a private girl’s school which got interesting. and en’s grandfather (grandmother? don’t remember…a grandparent) died
just looked it up (you don’t even want to know the google keyword combination that went into that). it was middlesex by jeffrey eugenides. and i remember it better now, it was because a couple of her ancestors were brother and sister and got married…they were from this super-small town and then went to america. and there was all this intermarriage and they ended up in detroit and lots more went down that i remember now but i don’t want to spoil more than i already have (which is lots :P)
OH i totally read the first chapter of the book! it used to be prominently displayed at bookstores all the time, i can picture the typeface for the title exactly
/useless post
The newest episode of Futurama confirms what I’ve been saying for a while now: kitties are the HPBs of the nonmusiverse. Their ship was even hot pink.
Back from arts camp.
On the upside, I am now a certified California arts scholar!
On the downside, well, I don’t get to see these people again.
Oh, and I didn’t do any exercise, and now my family is going hiking in Peru. So I’m screwed.
GAPAs, is it just me or is the whole blog in bold letters?
The preview box is normal, and this typing box is normal, but everywhere else, everything is bold.
All the text on MuseBlog is now bold. Is this an update or is there something else?
Man, I hate writing papers/essays.
On a side note, almost all the text on MuseBlog has mysteriously been converted into boldface print.
*yawns* Just got back from camp (I got up at 6 this morning to leave!)….miss the counselors and other kids already. Yesterday we (well, all the drama/theater kids) actually went and did this flammy performance for the whole camp. Twas awesome. I got to bring back everything I wrote as well as the drawings/sketches we made on the nature trail. Now I just want to go to sleep.
I finally finished it! I finished the song I’ve been working on for “The Naming Of Names” (For those who don’t know, it’s Sudo, P_M, AM, Keiffer, Nym, and I). I’ll be sending individual parts out to all… soon.
Dear GAPAs,
This picture is not me. It is the doktah, in a hat that i wish i had.
Hearts and bunnies, ebeth
Aaaand it didn’t work. Possibly because i wasn’t logged in? Testing testing random post alert testing.
It’s there. On some browsers it may not show up immediately. And I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t mistake the image for you.
haha you never know! i could be a super-old time lord with an awesome hat! maybe the kokon pictures were just from a different regeneration.
IT COULD HAPPEN OKAY *sulk*
i would be a way better companion than barbara anyway.
ooh update since only like two of you actually know where i am – i’ve made it to season 2! (yeah i had a long stretch of not watching it). I just finished The Rescue so i’m on to The Romans in a bit which is quite exciting. Romans are fun. I really like the historical ones! i’m kind of sad they slowed off on those. although they’ve been showing up more in the new series
I’ve finished all of the First Doctor’s episodes. I’ve yet to start on the Second Doctor, however…..
I have a newfound fondness for text based adventures now. Of the sort they had before computers had graphics.
Unfortunately, I’ve only found one so far, and I already finished it. A google search didn’t really help much either. I wonder if we have any of those still… I doubt it, but maybe.
Was it “zork?”
No, it wasn’t. It was actually one I found on Christopher Paolini’s website; I’ve been rereading Eragon.
I might try Zork next though. Thanks!
There’s also a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy one – I think it’s on the BBC website, but I’m not sure. You can probably find it through google.
Ooh, cool. I’ll go see about that.
Found it, and I’m stuck a very short way in.
I’ve heard of a few of those from an old King’s Quest guidebook my cousins have lying around. (They have a lot of weird old 80s stuff in their house, like She-Ra napkins and party plates and old, yellowed copies of the original Eyewitness books.) Mystery House sounds like fun, as does this one time-travel one that I’ve forgotten the name of…
hooooboy i’m having some fun with the random thread function
i never get tired of how much everyone hated/hates eragon. also i may or may not be screencapping Moments of High Hilarity by GAPAs just for my own amusement…
i’m anxiously awaiting mr postman hopefully with my roommate info for college….sigh
it sounds like you all went to some amazing camps. geeze that makes me feel kinda old, treasure yo’ experiences youngins, i know i wish i could go back to camp……blargh
Yay! Home again! Back from Yale!
The first thing I thought when I walked into my room was “My room is small.”, followed by “Why do I have so much stuff?”, because my room at home is smaller than my dorm room was at Yale. I’ve got my printer re-hooked-up, and my notebooks and things unpacked, so now I just have to find my Concorde model and put it back on my dresser. Then, I can find my stickdrive with all of my stories on it, and pick up writing like I never left.
Hello, everyone! I’m back! Sorry I haven’t been on lately, I’ve been away from WiFi most of the summer. Anyways, lovely picture as always.
Welcome back, Kai!
Randomosity…*hugs* Gengar is an awesome pokemon. But what’s the sillouhete (apology for misspelling) of the guy?
Thank you, LBK.
You’re welcome.
…Kai, you’ve had that avatar forever. Do you think you’re ever going to change it?
Maybe. I don’t know. Its simpler to leave it the same.
Don’t change it! I always think of you as a blue triangle, and you having a different avatar would be extremely confusing for me.
LBK- The silhouette in R101’s avatar is a ZOMBIE!
Uh-oh, here comes a Simpsons quote!
Willie- *pats shovel over dirt* “There, pretty as a picture!”
*zombies pop up and lurch away*
Willie- “Ach! Zombies!” *turns back* *stops* *pats shovel over dirt* “There, pretty as a picture!”
Hello! I’m back from New Orleans! It was a blast, but sad, too.
I went to New Orleans last March. Did you go to the Insectarium and eat crickets? Were there a lot of shiny things? Is Ducky asking annoying questions?
Hey guys!
Does anyone know how hard/easy AP comp sci is?
Also, how hard is it to self study AP comparative gov?
In other stuff, Only 12 days until school, and 5 until registration and textbook getting!
Really, really just want school to start.
I’m with you on the last part – I love summer, but miss a lot of things from school, too. Personally, I think that we should get shorter summers and longer breaks during the year instead of the usual three month summer thing.
So, today I went swimming AND running! I also went to the library, but only for a few minutes getting a book for my father. I’ve emptied my suitcases, so it really feels like I am home. Also, Erin is e-mailing me, and she said she wants to meet up later this month at the Intrepid or the Museum of Natural History, and then maybe show her my room! Woo!
Urgh. I really, really, really, really need to finish by dratted vet school application. Sure, it’s not due until the first of November, but who (myself included) is actually fooled into thinking I’d work on it once school starts?
And packing. I need to start packing, as well, since I leave for school on the 21st Very, very early on the 21st. I’ll actually be leaving home for the airport in the later hours of the 20th, and then not arriving back on campus until around 8pm central time on the 21st. Oh, dear, that’s about 19 or so hours from the time I get in the car at home to the time I get to campus. *headdesk* I blame the layover in LAX, it’s quite a few hours.
This, of course, reminds me of two more things I must do. I need to let Alan know if I will accept his offer of a ride from the airport to school (the airport is about an hour and a half to two hour drive from campus), or if I will take the shuttle service, as I have always done previously. If I take the shuttle, I need to make reservations. And then, I need to email my second cousin (or whatever exactly she is) and let her know that I’ll be getting in on the 21st, and could she possibly bring all the stuff I’m storing with her by sometime the 22nd?
Summer vacation is coming to an end, and as such, the number of responsibilities I have, the number of things I must do is increasing daily. It doesn’t help that most days I have work, and even when I often don’t start until noon, I don’t get up early enough before to get anything done but a long leisurely breakfast consisting of half of a frozen pizza….And then days, such as today, when I don’t work, I sleep in to ridiculously late hours (1pm today. whoops).
*headdeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddesk*
That’s not so bad. I have to read the Aeniad, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Major Barbara (and fill out detailed study guides for each) by Thursday. Yes, yes, I know, I’ve had two months to do so. But eh. I’ll probably do the Aeniad last since I think I’ll be able to turn it in somewhat later without making the teacher mad.
Urgh, I read a fair bit of the Aeneid for mythology last semester. It was rather boring, in my opinion, and took forever to get through, and I wasn’t even reading the whole thing….
BLASPHEMY.
I mean, okay, the Aeneid is better in Latin, but even in English he paints such nice word pictures, such fantastic metaphors, etc. And how can it be boring when it’s so gory?
Maybe I wasn’t assigned the gory bits….I just remember them going to the underworld.
I LOVE The Great Gatsby so much.
Oh, I need to read for school too, and I need to pick from these lists…
Brunelleschi’s Dome; Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling; Longitude; History of the World in 6 Glasses; or Copernicus’ Secret for AP Euro.
Guns, Germs and Steel; Collapse; An Omnivore’s Dilemma; Assassination Vacation; The World is Flat; Fast Food Nation; Mountains beyond Mountains; Nickel and Dimed; Undaunted Courage; Three Cups of Tea; Founding Mothers; or What is the What for AP Lang.
Please help me; I haven’t heard of half of these and I’m extremely indecisive.
Kokonilly:
How many books do you have to pick?
Ah yes, I forgot to mention that. 1 from the top list and 2 from the bottom.
Three Cups of Tea is very interesting, plus anything that has to do with Renaissance Italy i.e. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling would be the way to go.
I still recommend The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I’ve heard that Undaunted Courage is really good.
I’ve only read two of them – Three Cups of Tea and The World is Flat, and both were very good. Three Cups of Tea in particular was just really interesting and a great, thoughtful book to read. And Michaelangelo is always a good bet – you can’t really go wrong there. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about any of the others to give recommendations.
(This year the Young Reader’s edition of Three Cups of Tea is one of our summer reading options, but I don’t know if I’ll pick it as my final choice. (We have about five options – one of the books is mandatory, and we have to pick two from the remaining four to read, but I usually end up reading all of them and deciding which is best.) I’ve read both the younger version and the “real” version of the book. There’s not much of a difference between the two, the story line is basically the same anyway. The real one is just longer and more complex and a little more mature, but otherwise they’re similar.)
I have read History of the World in 6 Glasses. I thought it was very good and extremely interesting. I recommend it without hesitation. I have not read the other books on either list, but I have seen the A&E four-part film adaptation of Longitude and enjoyed it quite much. Hope this helps!
Longitude is a great book. Dava Sobel has such interesting metaphors and descriptions of things and she can make really exotic connections between topics that feel seamless.
Camp is over. My world has ended.
Well, you still have us, right? *hugs*
THE CLASS LIST IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! YIPPEE!!!!!!!!
Oops, SFTDP. But all fanfic readers, read Fangs Journal. And review.
MY CLASS LIST IS THE LIVING HECK!!!! NOOOOOOOO! *bursts into tears. I only have 1 friend. IN .THE. WHOLE.FREAKING. CLASS.
Awwww…
*hugs*
*hugs back there’s 14 days left of summer vacation, and school come along just to ennnddd it!
But you’re still on vacation! So get out to somewhere dark on the night of the eleventh, watch the Perseids and feel better! That’s an order!
It can’t be just me. School starts at ridiculous times these days. I mean, I remember when it only started after Labor Day! My ex-roommate Calliope’s school starts next week! And now I feel like a cranky old grandma shouting from her lawn, but I’m fifteen years old, and fifteen-year-olds are not cranky old grandmas!
Humph. *waves cane*
School for me has always started after Labor Day (and I’ve moved around quite a bit).
school for me has never started after Labor Day. It was usually mid-August, and now it’s late August. I think it just depends on what part of the country you’re in. On the other hand, we always got out before Memorial day, also.
Oh my goodness.
I love Carl Sagan so much. Have you guys heard “A Glorious Dawn”? (I’m sure this has been discussed before; it’s just so wonderfully nerdy.)
Symphony of Science is the BEST.
It is, isn’t it? I was just listening to it for such a long time.
Have you heard “The Case for Mars”? It’s really good (And Autotuned Robert Zubrin sounds like a girl.)
I finally watched that one last night!
Mars is a world of wonders…
“… wonders
… wonders
It has can-yons, river valleys,
and giant- ice- sheets”
He does, though, right? It’s not just me?
You know Kai is influental when your brother mentions Nasaur from Fossil Fighters and you hear it as NASA.
Really? Sorry.
I didn’t say it was a bad influence! I think you’re really cool, and that’s probably why you appear to have rubbed a little off on me.
Ahh! I’m using my brother’s computer and I forgot to change the psudonym and email!
SFTDP And that should be a reply to mhy previous reply! I can’t do anything right today!
And of course this would come outright after camp ends and I have a community of people who would be fascinated by this… Okay, so I’ll admit that this pretty much means nothing to most of you, but it really is world-changing.
So… proof that P doesn’t equal NP anyone?
And yes, I realize nobody cares about this, but it’s a big deal, so I refuse to shut up about it.
Anyways, it looks like we haven’t proved P != NP yet. I mean, I still believe that P != NP (as do most people, I think), but this proof appears not to work. Too bad.
Hmm, I’ve decided I just can’t get used to having an extremely large hole in our side yard. (We’re having an addition put onto the house.) Today I managed to forget that it actually exists, so I walked out out of the side door and nearly fell into the fifteen-foot-deep ditch. Skillage.
Sorry.
Quick question for everyone, inspired by AVPS.
What would you see if you looked into the Mirror of Erised?
I don’t know what it would look like to be free from obligations, but that’s what the desire would be. Maybe me relaxing on a tropical beach, drinking lemonade.
Me surrounded by real life pokemon or pokemon games and my brother distinctly NOT there.
Okay, I now think I should stop saying nice things about semi-famous old guys to my dad at the dinner table, because it seems to be very bad luck for the old guys involved.
Last summer-
Me: “I love that video of the moon landing coverage when Walter Cronkite just sighs, takes off his glasses and goes ‘Oh boy!’ right after they hear ‘The Eagle has landed!’ He said he wanted to say something historic and profound, but he got caught up in the moment and just went ‘Oh boy!’ I cannot honestly say that I would have done anything different.”
The next week: Cronkite dies.
This February-
Me: “I really like Robert McCall’s art, if I could name one space artist I really admire…”
A few weeks later: McCall dies.
Sunday-
Me: “Considering he had no previous experience in aerospace whatsoever, I think Sean O’Keefe did about as good as he could have as NASA Administrator. I really think he did as good as he could have, given that he had no experience.”
Today: O’Keefe is in a plane crash.
Oh dear. That’s creepy…
Do me a favor, KaiYves: Please don’t tell your father how much you like the GAPAs.
Don’t worry, I haven’t.
Please say something nice about Kim Jong-Il.
Note: I’m not sure if this is even possible.
He’s been successful at achieving his goal of running North Korea. That indicates proper planning and organization.
Very well! I will use my powers for good!
Kim Jong-Il has been very successful at achieving his goal of running North Korea and brought his nation international attention, all of which indicates proper planning and organization.
*Twilight Zone theme music*
Creepy…
Guys… Sean O’Keefe and his son survived! They’re wounded, but they made it!
So, if I’m a jinx, at least I’m not an always-fatal jinx…
“Well, at least I’m not always fatal.” Best. Defense. EVER.
Yup, I heard…Because former AK senator Ted Stevens died in that same plane crash, so it was all over the radio and news and such today.
So your failed attempt at killing O’Keefe via jinxing killed our former senator…..
When it was on the radio, and one of the techs mentioned something about a NASA person, O’Keefe having been on the plane with Stevens, I was thinking, “Hey, wait, isn’t that who KaiYves mentioned she caused the death of via saying something nice about him to her father over dinner?”
Sorry!
Wow, I jinxed a guy I’d never ever heard of before yesterday…
Funny how that works….
Now I have to hope that Kai doesn’t say anything nice about anybody who’s on the same plane with me. Or boat. Or bus, I suppose. Life has just become considerably more nerve-racking.
The cake? Koyaanisqatsi was made “private” on Youtube. I wanted to finish watching that.
I enjoy how I always hover around the “42” mark in “Who’s Posted How Much.”
In non-PoPo news…
I got back from a four day vacation at my lake house in the Adirondacks. It’s lonely up there… It was a little fun, because we have family friends who came up. They’re funny and I like them, but it seems as if they occasionally want me to just get away from them. They’re nice, so they won’t be serious about it, but I can see it. It makes me a little sad, because that was all I could look forward when I go up there or anywhere else that involves them. Now I have to be wary that I’m not too annoying or weird or clingy. I don’t like having to consciously put this effort in when I’m trying to have fun, so I missed my friends a lot. And there’s no service or wifi up there (for the most part), so I’m cut off.
So now I’m home and happy to be here. It’s my mother’s birthday. Yeah. I’m actually kind of bored, but maybe I can see my friends tomorrow.
Okay, so today I am going to make myself really tired so I can go to bed early and then wake up early to watch the Perseids…
I totally forgot about the Perseids, thanks for mentioning them! This is great, because I’m having a sleepover thursday night so I’ll be up all night anyway.
Hopefully it’ll stay clear here for them… I wasn’t able to see the planets earlier this week, sadly, because of all the clouds. This hasn’t been a good stargazing summer for me, oops.
I wish I could watch them. But NOOOO. School just HAS to start tomorrow. *grumbles and swears*
Yeqah, but you don’t have the class of terror. At least i don’t have Jacob Schwartz.
So… Wikipedia and MuseBlog both say that the Perseids are most active tonight, and National Geographic is disagreeing, and says that they’ll be best tomorrow…
I suppose they’ll be fine either time, and I won’t really notice that they’re not quite as spectacular tonight. Assuming those clouds clear up, I’m in a good spot for watching them tonight, and won’t be tomorrow. So, sounds like a plan. Get up really early, go watch the Perseids, watch the sun rise… I could even brew some tea.
I like this plan. Assuming those clouds clear up. *glares at clouds*
Sky and Telescope says both nights are good.
Okay, cool. I’m setting an alarm clock for 5:00 tomorrow morning… The sun is apparently supposed to rise at about seven, do you think that’ll be long enough before that the sky will still be dark?
I’m not sure, I usually go to bed at 11 and wake up at 9.
Please merge this with the previous post:
(As, in I have the past few days, so I wouldn’t know when it gets light. Not as in that’s what I do to see the Perseids.)
Okay. My sleep schedule is about the same.
Hm… From past experiences getting up early-ish, I don’t think it takes anywhere near two hours for the sun to rise.
Ah well. Worst-case scenario, I get more time gazing peacefully up at the stars/talking to my sister. My sister is waking up with me.
In other news, the clouds to the west have cleared up completely. I’m reasonably hopeful that the clouds to east will do the same. We shall have to see.
Tonight is WAY too cloudy to see anything, but the night before last I was lucky enough to be far away from civilization and saw two meteor(ite)s!
Hahaha, I tried to see them, but I live in suburbia, HAHAHA! Get it? Because trying to see any celestial bodies other than the sun and moon is a total joke…
Whatever. I’ll try tonight, I suppose.
I just did a ton of oil pastel splatter painting! Now me, my room, the pastels(Cuz they were some old ones my dad had in college, and I lockpicked them out of their box, because my dad had lost the key, and he said that I could keep them, but since they’ve been rolling around in thier box for 20 years, so they are coated in a layer of pastel dust, and…sorry, I’m rambling.) and this keyboard are covered in pastel dust in a rainbow of colors. Off to get a rag.
Okay, here is how to oil patel splatter paint:
1.Siphon off pastel dust off your pastels by rubbing your fingers up and down it and make sure it lands on the paper.
2.Do this in variety of colors, all over the paper.
3.Swirl around the dust in pretty patterns.
4.Shake off extra dust.
I do not take any responsibility for any messes.
Hello again!
I’ve been gone, busy being a camp counselor though now that is over. My family is currently dropping my brother off at college and soon I will return to school too.
I have a question. Will there eventually be a post on museums?
Please?
There will be; I didn’t want to put it up while you weren’t on the blog (which was just as well; July is my most hectic month at work, and it got crazy well beyond the usual; I’m still catching up with what I had to put aside. Point number one about museums: it’s easier when you don’t have to fly solo). Also, did you see my last comment on the subject?
Yes I did! I think I’d like to know how you portray things to the audience, what sort of things go into working at a museum, how you interpret artifacts, how you use materials to see what is going on, what sort of tasks it involves. I’ll probably have more questions but those are some starters!
Thanks! That helps.
So, I wanted a reference to draw the manuvering thingy used on the Gemini spacewalks, which I had always heard called “a zip gun”, even in museums, so I typed “zip gun” into Google and found out that apparently that’s a kind of weapon…
So, uh, yeah…
okay, so tonight I went outside around one to see if I could see any meteors and i saw one within less than a minute of sitting down!! so now that i know it’s possible i’m really getting into planning for friday night
(that’s the only time all my friends can come over, i know it’s a bit past the peak but it that’s okay)
we’re all going to lay in a pile of blankets and i will make cookies and hot chocolate and it will be glorious!
but now it’s almost 4 and i better get to bed…:)
The Perseids are beautiful… I’ve been watching them for the past hour.
Sun rising now. I came inside to make tea.
So my mom was supposed to set her alarm clock for one, but she forgot and slept in. My dad randomly woke up at three, saw the time, and woke me up, so we went outside and laid down on beach towels. I was kind of hurrying to get outside, so I grabbed my brother’s bomber jacket, which is about two sizes too big for me, and wrapped it up around me.
It was a perfect moonless dark Long Island sky. Jupiter (I think) was up in the south, and we could see Taurus in the east, which felt really weird, because that’s a summer constellation. I saw about 20 meteors, including two bright ones that left smoke trails. Then my dad had to go to work, so he went inside and turned all the lights on, ruining my night vision, so I went in and went back to sleep.
We got up at five, went out to the porch and lay down. We watched until it started getting light in the east, (I didn’t count meteors, though. Twenty’s not too far off.) then I went inside to make tea, and then we watched the sky lighten and drank tea. Then my sister convinced me to change into my swimsuit and we went out on a sailboard with paddles, and rowed around on the lake until the sun was well up.
It was amazing.
I’m sure I’ll start feeling sleep deprived in about three hours.
My sleep cycle was all messed up yesterday, I know what you mean.
As some of you may have noticed, I was away from MuseBlog (yet again) these past few days. I went with my cousins to the Expo in Shanghai and to Beijing, unexpectedly, so I was once again away from a computer and Internet for a long while. *sigh* I haven’t been on MuseBlog much this summer, and school starts on Monday. (Eeek! High school!) Well, anyway, I welcome myself (is that possible?) back to MB, this time for longer, hopefully.
How was the Expo?
Yes, you HAVE to tell us about the Expo. I’ve heard great things.
I was going to go see them tonight, but there were clouds.
Alas.
(I meant to reply to Errata.
)
Somebody please explain to me why I’m reading articles pertaining to the 1st half of the 7th Potter movie (or to the 2nd half, for that matter, as I guess the item I’m ranting about presumably occurs in that half)? Because all it’s managing to accomplish is getting me royally pissed off as it becomes increasingly apparent that Yates is going to manage to bugger up this one just as bad as he did the last two.
I mean, take, for instance, the following: (SPOILERISH FOR DEATHLY HALLOWS HARRY POTTER MOVIE IF ANYONE REALLY ACTUALLY CARES)
“Watson and Grint were both sopping wet. (In the film, Ron and Hermione have recently destroyed another horcrux in water and were pursued by a Voldemort-shaped tsunami.)”
Uh, what the cake? Okay, yeah, Ron and Hermione destroyed Hufflepuff’s cup horcrux down in the Chamber of Secrets. I can accept them being a bit damp, even though no indication of this is made in the very, very brief blurb pertaining to this in the book. But a bloody caking Voldemort-shaped tsunami? Seriously, what the bleeding cake? Are you caking kidding me? That’s completely, utterly, caking ridiculous. Why the caking bleep to they insist upon adding caking scenes that weren’t in the caking books, instead of keeping the caking stuff that is in the caking book.
And I still wnat to know how the cake it’s going to be learned that the diadem is in the Room of Requirements, when they cake up the Room of Requirement scene where he saw the diadem for the first time in the HBP movie. Because the caked up version of HBP? Not only was that caked up ridiculously with the whole stupid as cake Ginny/Harry snog occurring their, instead of the Ginny/Harry snog occurring spontaneously and awesomely as it did in the book, there was no caking Diadem to be seen anywhere in the background–believe me, I looked. No caking diadem. Int he book, Harry took the caking diadem, put it on the caking bust, to mark where his caking Potions book was. In the movie? Of course not.
Yes, Luna is pissed. yes, Luna’s friends are going to murder her when she is getting royally pissed and muttering under her breathd uring the movie at the midnight showing she is planning to go to. And they’re really going to probably murder her when she is ranting about it all (at a rather elevated volume of speech, and most likely with a few to many non-bloggified versions of the word “caking” thrown in.)
There are times I really question why the bleeding cake I go to these caked up pieces of wung buttons marketed as movies. All they ever do with them, especially once Yates came on board with OotP, is royally cake ’em up.
POSSIBLE 7TH HARRY POTTER SPOILER POSSIBLE 7TH HARRY POTTER SPOILER
*tries to count the number of cakes in your paragraphs* *fails*
Just the sentence of a “Voldemort shaped tsunami” makes me shudder to think about what the rest of the movie/s will be like. I mean, c’mon now…is is really necessary to put in ridiculous, absurd things like that instead of just sticking to the book’s perfectly wonderful plot lines? Maybe Ron and Hermione will be a bit wet, but no need to have some Voldemort-tsunami crossover with them. Blegh.
POSSIBLE HARRY POTTER ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE MOVIES SPOILER!
How horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know that movies sometimes have to cut out scenes. It’s sad, but if they didn’t every movie would be 5 hours long. STILL, WHY THE CAKING SNIFFLY WHISKERS WOULD THEY ADD SCENES? THAT JUST DOESN”T EVEN MAKE SENSE!!!!!!!
I mean, I can even understand their tendency to draw out romantic, heroic, etc. scenes. STILL. ADDING IN STUPID, ANNOYING SCENES THAT DON’T EVEN MAKE SENSE IS JUST NOT SMART. In HBP movie, they had a ring of fire surrounding the house, and Bellatrix came. I mean, what the CAKE? Does anybody actually think that Dumbledore would let Harry go to a house for most of the summer that wasn’t given the highest level of protection? If death Eaters could get that close, they could also murder Harry while he slept, and no one could notice. Also, a “VOLDEMORT SHAPED TSUNAMI”?!?!?!?!
WHAT THE GIANT FROG LIVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT MESSES UP THE WHOLE STORYLINE!!!!!
SO DOES NOT HAVING THE DIADEM BE PUT IN THE ROOM OF REQUIREMENT. I AM STARTING TO THINK THAT THESE PEOPLE DON’T EVEN READ THE SNIFF WHISKERIN’ BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, glad to get that little rant out.
Well, it’s very possible that they decided that that particular section of the movie wasn’t exciting enough, and increased the excitement.
(By the way, I counted twenty ‘cake’s in Luna’s post. Might have missed a couple.)
I counted 24. Luna, you may have set a record!
Sponsored by: The Bakery of Our Discontent.
I copied the whole post into word, deleted everything that wasn’t some form or another of “cake”, and got 24 as well via word count.
24 indeed. I highlighted her post, did a control+f on ‘cak’, and did a lot less work than you guys for the same result. Huzzah!
You can highlight things for control f? Wish I had known that.
I really liked that section of the book, possibly because I don’t think they made enough mention of Ravenclaw in the book.
Me too. Probably because I’ve always been convinced that Ravenclaw would be my house.
And I have to admit, though I do consider myself a Harry Potter fan, I didn’t bother wathcing the 6th movie. This news has only solidified my desire to not bother with the rest of them.
For some reason I imagine a Voldemort-shaped tsunami to look sort of like the scene in Prince Caspian with the River King, except more…snakey.
It is COMPLETELY stupid when they cut out the nice stuff and insert random crap in. Why not preserve the original plot as much as possible and not upset so many fans?
-_-
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS POSSIBLE
SPOILER SPOILER SSPPPOOOIIIILLLLEEERR.
A Voldemort-shaped tsunami???? What the cake!? How the wung button does that even work? Seriously, would it kill moviemakers to follow the books they’re adapting? Instead of using the original idea, they have to waste their time on an absurdly cakeful scene that’s apparently supposed to make it more “exciting.” There’s a WAR going on in that bit, as they’d know if they read the books, and I don’t think anyone would care if they didn’t show that destruction of a horcrux. They didn’t show it in the book, and jk Rowling knows what she’s doing. And destryed it with water? How the cake could water destroy a Horcrux?
Destroyed in water, not destroyed with water. Not that that makes the idea of a Voldemort shaped tsunami any more palatable, mind you.
Your last two paragraphs will probably apply to me if they keep making new Star Trek movies. Not that I can see what’s worse than DESTROYING VULCAN.
Well, if they make more Star
WarsTrek movies going off of the recent one, they’ll have the excuse that it’s an alternate universe and things don’t necessarily have to be EXACTLY like they were in the old show…IDIOT! IDIOT! IDIOT! Star TREK, not Star WARS! I usually only ever talk about Star Wars, that’s probably why I screwed it up. Can a GAPA please fix that so I don’t have to feel like a dummy every time I look at it?
Amended. Though no need to feel like an idiot. Just some crossed wires. Happens to all of us, more often than we’d like.
Thank you. Thank you immensely.
I wish the new star wars movies were AU…
I feel for you, Luna. I truly do. I’m probably going to do just what you are: go to a
midnightopening day screening and rant about it the whole time. The caking movie is going to be SO CAKING CAKED UP! I caking hate David Caking Yates. (I love venting out all my caking anger…)Hey all!
We got into Green Bay yesterday, and I was woken up first of all by an all hands call, then by Judy yelling “FERN!!! There’s a sign onshore for you, get up NOW!”
I had totally forgotten that my parents were coming to this port. >.< I mean really, who forgets that their parents are coming? Me, apparently. DUMB MOMENT. Intarwebz have been so spotty and whenever I get a chance to check my email I've pretty much been scanning them all and sorting them, sometimes replying if I need to. So the novels mom's been sending me are great, but with SO MUCH information and barely any time to comprehend it, certain details got overlooked. Like the fact that they actually were going to come, instead of it just being a possibility.
So hanging out with them today, no idea what all we'll do, but whatever. It'll be fun.
Have fun, Fiddler! Say hi to your parents from the GAPAs, and convey our regards.
I found this very funny blog post by this guy who really likes anime and comes across a lot of funny translations. He wrote about seeing ads for “Baddy Holly” albums and warnings about “Poisonous Gus”.
Does anybody know of a good free music composing software downloadable on Mac? So far I’ve just been using the various instruments I own, but I’d prefer to be able to hear what it sounds like all together.
Well, I know Garage Band is on Mac already…
Finale Notepad’s only ten dollars. I don’t know, off the top of my head, any free ones.
At one point there was a version of Finale Notepad that was free. My old computer has it. Maybe they started charging for that.
That’s true, Enc, although I’m not sure if you can create your own music with that or if you have to give the tracks they provide.
Thanks, Piggy, I’ll look into that.
You can record your own music.
I’m not totally certain you can take a sod file from somewhere else and put it in, but I know you can record stuff with your computer’s microphone.
But can you compose music on Garage Band and have it play that? Like, write the sheet music right on there?
Hmm… As far as I know, GB is just for editing music that you’ve already recorded.
I’m in Chicago!! To audition for Teen Jeopardy!! And I get to go see the Shedd Aquarium tomorrow, which I have wanted to see since I was supposed to in 8th grade on a school trip, but a ‘group decision’ made us go shopping instead. (I am still What the caking this moment to this day.)
Good luck!
Pax! *glomps* Good luck!
Good luck! The Shedd is FANTASTIC, I always love visiting it.
FunnelCake and a friend of mine had my B-Day in the city! WE went bowling and had french pastries, and I am posting today from my BRAND NEW LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYYAAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAY! * happy dance* and I got a new.. CAMERA!
Wow that sounds awesome! Happy Birthday!
Congrats on the new laptop!
I just saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Oh. My. God. That was amazing. Please, if anybody else sees it, TELL ME. I know, this is on the random thread, but the movie thread is DEAD. Just like those seven evil exes. *takes out fire sword and swings*
I am typing this on my new shiny MacBook Pro! I collected it from school this morning, after listening to a two-hour lecture about not doing anything illegal on it, but luckily MuseBlog isn’t illegal. Anyway, we finally won’t have to share computers at home since we now have 4, instead of 2! And Macs are way prettier!
You’re lucky. We’re not allowed to do anything but schoolwork on ours, when we get them.
Ours are strictly for doing schoolwork at school, but at home we can do whatever we like. Well, we’re not supposed to do anything illegal or dangerous etc., but other than that…
Lucky. Our computer technitian at our school can watch us through her computer. *spooky music plays*
The Demon Barber of Fleet! Street!
I saw it last night- MIT college production. Wonderful. (And pretty bloody too!)
There was a barber and his wife…
Yesterday was pretty awesome, mom and dad came by and we all sat around and talked. Then we slowly migrated to a super awesome veggie restaurant and talked for a few hours, then got around to ordering food, then talked as we ate it (slowly) then sat around and talked more. Then went to an antique store and then talked and visited more and then exchanged many hugs and they left. In all a pretty good day. My parents are pretty cool, on the whole.
So now I’m sitting in that super awesome restaurant again, since I missed breakfast on the ship (I slept through it). I have a delicious vegan breakfast wrap thing, a to die for smoothie and WiFi! Life is so good. I have things to do today. Like write out some music for a friend, get myself some razors, AA batteries and iPod headphones, since mine died a grisly death. *sigh*
I’m also debating getting a haircut. I’m getting rather shaggy, but I don’t know if I should just give it a trim (and in so doing mess up whatever shape from how it was cut last time) or let it go until I get home. I’ll probably end up being lazy and running out of time and doing the former though, to be entirely honest.
Yay for veggie wraps and smoothies for breakfast!
Last night, I went out around nine-thirty at night just because I wanted to and laid down to look at the stars. It was really clear, and even though it was nowhere near the prime viewing time, I saw 5-7 stray Perseids, including THREE really bright ones that left trails, one of which streaked across about half the sky.
The Milky Way was also really great, and the summer triangle. My mom asked me why I would still want to take astronomy after I had so much trouble in my class at Yale and needed a tutor, but if she could only have seen that, I’m sure she’d understand.
I am sitting in a friggin’ awesome blanket fort right now. I have been basically living inside it for nearly 2 days now. It is AWESOME.
I had some friends over on thursday to build it with me, and we finished in the evening. It’s got 6 covered rooms that are on average about 10 feet by 5 feet, stretching out from a pool table that’s sitting in the middle. On otp of the pool table is also a covered room. I’m calling it the Upper Balcony. The other sections are the Foyer, the Master Bedroom, the Main Hall, the Sitting Room, and the Lounge. There’s also a Courtyard/Kitchenette that’s not quite covered, and it’s where the basement mini-fridge is.
I’ve slept in it the past two nights
I spent yesterday fixing up the inside a bit, mostly the Foyer and Master Bedroom. I have blanket rugs, and 3 sets of paper lanterns in those rooms. Also an air mattress and a lot of pillows! I also have an oscillating fan for when it gets too warm, and speakers for my ipod.
I’m going to a sleepover at someone else’s house in about an hour so I can’t really do much more with it right now but I plan on spending the week in it before I take it down. Gonna try to add more chairs/cushins to the inside, and on sunday I’m hopefully going to take video of the interior since pictures of the inside aren’t working too well.
I do have a good picture of the outside though, which I might send in to the GAPAs if people are interested
It’s huuuge!
SO MUCH FUN. BE ENVIOUS.
OH MY GOD.
That’s so cool! I am soooo envious! Mine always fall down, or my mom makes me take them down.
SO INTENSELY ENVIOUS, WAAAAA
I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT.
That’s awesome. I love making blanket/pillow forts, but they never get very big at all; due to an acute lack of chairs and pillows.
SEND IN A PICTURE. DO IT.
I really need to make a blanket fort again sometime. My brothers made a trench/artillery thingy out of old lawn chairs and cushions at one of their friend’s houses to play WWII, but that wasn’t a proper fort with a roof or anything, just a wall to take cover behind.
Jade, I may have told you this already, but you cannot fathom the depths of my love for you.
I am watching the Matrix.
THE WORLD ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello all! Some family friends are supposed to be arriving in the very near future and will be staying with us for the next few days, so not sure how often I’ll be able to escape away to the computer – of course, I’ll certainly try my best.
And, I’ve finally written 23 pages on Microsoft Word of the “novel” that I’ve been writing. The best part is that I’ve planned out a good portion of it, which (hopefully) means that this idea will actually last longer than my previous ones have. (which has never been too long.) But here’s to hoping this one will!
Good luck, starr! Mine is pretty much in the same state, so…hopefully it works out for both of us.
The Expo was great, though a bit crowded. We didn’t go in any of the ones that required queueing for more than half an hour – Bangladesh, Mongolia, Maldives, Iran, North Korea (my personal favourite), South Africa, and the Joint Africa Pavilion.
I thought it more interesting to look at the outsides of the pavilions than the insides, since most of them had great architectural design. I especially liked the UK Pavilion, but unfortunately we only got to the Europe side at night, so it was dark and since for some reason it wasn’t lit up like it was supposed to be, it just looked like a gray blob.
I also really wanted to go into the France Pavilion to practice my French, but there was too long of a queue, and again, it was getting late by that tie and my five-year-old cousin was tired.
We did also go in the China Pavilion, which is one of the five structures they aren’t going to take down (I think they should keep all of them up, though) and queued for an hour for that, but that was the only one we queued up for. The inside was very big – there were several floors for the exhibits.
Something crazy about the crowds – the day we went, there was a nine-hour queue for the Oil Pavilion. I mean, there isn’t even anything to see in the Oil Pavilion…so NINE HOURS? I find that strange. We passed by the queue on the way to the other pavilions and the line wasn’t moving at all. Japan’s was six hours and South Korea’s was five, and Italy’s was three – those are the ones that I remember.
North Korea’s was interesting – they were showing the Mass Games on television, and there was an orchestra and choir performing. They were all wearing military uniforms, and it was a bit incongruous.
Anyway, that’s about it. If you get the chance (which is unlikely), you should visit, but it was very hot, scorching, and walking around the whole area is quite tiring on the feet.
I wonder if the North Korean people were actually South Koreans or Chinese hired to pretend to be North Koreans. They did that for the World Cup.
Really? I didn’t know that. I heard that there are rumours going around that the North Korean coach was tortured since they didn’t win any of their games. I don’t know if it’s true, though.
Hm, I said things a bit unclearly: Norh Korea paid for a group of Chinese students, actors, and the like to go to the Cup and be DPRK fans. Airfare, tickets, team merchandise, the works.
Ah, I see. I had assumed that you meant the actual players.
Sounds like a blast! I’ve always wanted to go to a World’s Fair/Expo, but the closest I think I’ll come for a long time is visiting the old fairgrounds at Corona Park…
Help me decide. Max Ride or Movie? Help Help Help!
Well, today was interesting.
The interestingness started where my dad told me (and my brother and sister) that he and his girlfriend are engaged. (I’m not upset by this, though. Really. She’s really nice.) Then we went to the bookstore where I found a book called Tyrannosaur Canyon, which basically sounds like the best worst book ever, to the extent that the only compliments people could give it were saying it was better than Jurassic Park. Here’s the blurb:
A moon rock missing for thirty years…
Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon…
A scientist with ambition enough to kill…
A monk who will redeem the world…
A dark agency with a deadly mission…
The greatest scientific discovery of all time…
What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as…
TYRANNOSAUR CANYON?
If you are somehow still not convinced of its utter amazingness, the opening scene is on the moon.
Aaaaugh. I am having so many italicizing problems today. That last sentence should not be italicized. HTML Gnome? *offers cookies*
0.o *is literally laughing out loud*
We need to make a parody of that…
A kitten, stolen away from it’s home for thirty years…
6 copies of a video game, found in the same store…
A grapefruit with the ambition to taste good…
A pencil who will redraw the world…
An obvious angency with a not that harmful mission…
A parrot, pining for the fjords for all time…
What relation can these unrelated things have? The answer will surprise you, considering they’re all in the same book: NONE AT ALL.
Everyone else try!
A bar of gold, that was being melted for 30 years…
7 pencils, that keep on breaking…
A party, with the ambition to eat people alive…
A box, that will store the world….
A bright agency, that helps little kittens and puppies…
The loudest clarinet in the world….
Why do we like these things?
I DON’T KNOW!
My clarinet, has yet be appear. I need it on the 23rd.
Speaking of clarinets, I got switched to trumpet!
How’s this?
An old cheese aging for thirty years…
Five hundred rabid elephant skeletons found in rural Canada…
A hat with carnivorous tendences…
A diaper company trying for world domination…
A dark alley with no secrets…
The greatest robotic brainwashing of all time…
What name will bring all of these improbabilities and imposibilities together?
THE HUGGIES CONSPIRACY
A garden hidden away for thirty years…
Five carrots found in a dark hole…
A farmer crazed to the point of murder…
A rabbit who must save his family…
A mysterious company creating weapons of horror…
The most impossible caper of all time…
What hero, born of unknown origin and living a double life in the English countryside, known as…
PETER RABBIT?
A shadow that is not rabbit…
Chocolate bars that are larger that your head…
A guy who is cursed with being second…
Fourteen flavors of “square meat in a can” in one grocery store…
Two monkeys riding one unicycle…
And fourteen little goggle wearing minions…
All in a locker-sized universe we might not know…
CRIMSON ALPHA ALPHA: THE MOVIE
Coming
soonnever to a “dark room with red velvet seats and a hole in the wall” near you.That does sound interesting, I’ll have to check it out.
OMG.
MUST READ.
My turn, my turn!
Someone who’s been dead for thirty years…
Ten houses painted different colors all on the same block…
A rabbit that is not a herbivore…
A light bright enough to blind the world…
Cookie with minds of their own…
What ever you need at the touch of a button…
Will this parody ever end?
NO IT WON’T!
Wait, now, a moon rock missing for THIRTY years? So it was nice and safe and snuggled up tight in the lab in Houston for ten years and THEN somebody took it?
(Yes, I know the book could very well have been written when the moon landings were only thirty years in the past, but it’s funnier to assume it wasn’t.)
Hm. I just reread the magazine with Milton Rupines in it, and he does know that Lord of the Rings was originally a book series, doesn’t he? All he talks about are the movies.
I believe he clarifies in a later letter that he loved the books and thought they were brilliant.
SFTD(T?)P, I just wanted to let MuseBlog know I won’t be online for the rest of the week, until the weekend, and not next week either. I’ll miss you!
Last night, I went to an event sponsored by (a local astronomy club) at (a fancy private school in this part of LI). The last time I’d been at that school was for summer camp years and years ago, so everything looked much smaller to me now.
First, there was a lecture by the curator of meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History that was really cool. My dad usually gets bored very easily with scientific lectures, but he stayed interested the whole time and actually told me afterwards how cool he thought it was, which I liked.
On the back of the curator’s computer, he had the following decals:
Stardust probe
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Mars (Various JPL projects on one sticker)
Greenpeace
Amnesty International
I told him it was like he took the inside of my mind and put it on the back of his computer.
After the lecture, we went to see a planetarium show in one of those blow-up planetariums that was set up in the gym. My dad got claustrophobic and hated it.
Then, we went to the athletic field, where they had some telescopes set up, and I looked at Andromeda and the Ring Nebula. I cannot get over how dark it is on LI compared to the Yale observatory in New Haven. I talked to a lot of people and did some explaining and generally had fun. Also, it was kind of cold, so I had an excuse to wear my fingerless gloves again.
Ooh, that sounds like it was fun! What was the lecture about?
It was about how meteorites are the “leftovers” of the solar system and how they can be used to find out about the early solar system.
Hello! I am back in my fort. I was at a party/sleepover last night so I didn’t add anything to it, but I’m going to work on it more today.
Going to hopefully take a video of the inside and edit it into a “tour” of the place for my friends. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to show you all because I’ll be in it and stuff, but maybe I’ll do pictures too.
Also, at the sleepover last night we stayed up until 4 trying to learn the dance from “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” video by Shikira. I know the steps now but oh god my hips simply don’t do that.
Hello MuseBlog! Guess where I am? Peru!!
This is the first time I’ve had wifi for about four days now. It’s kind of awesome here. All the Incan ladies carry their babies on their backs in cloths, and there are ridiculous amounts of churches, and my Spanish is really improving, and I rode a mule up the Andes. Which was fantastic. Because I mean, hey, if I have a mule and there are Andes nearby, I must ride a mule up the Andes. It was actually kind of heart-wobbling, because the mule was getting really tired and I kept being afraid that it would fall over the edge, but, well, it didn’t.
Peru! It’s cool here. I went to Ecuador about two years ago and had a similar experience. South America gets a big thumbs-up from me!!
Lucky!
five years on museblog as of today!
five years well spent i think
i feel so behind in commenting, i read everyone’s posts but never say anything…it looks like everyone’s had a great summer though! hurrah!
Congratumacations!
Huh. My five years on MB day was August 2nd, I suppose. And then there was slightly less than two years before that on the Gaboomba.
Yay for Axa
Riddle me this: if a dog barks, and a cat meows, then what sound does a hot pink bunny make?
This isn’t necessarily a reliable source of information, but in at least one Stupid Senseless Smiley Story, they squeaked.
I believe they also squeaked in a MuseCast.
Of course, other authorities say they sing.
But then again, if you take this source literally, you have to figure out what a ‘snoot’ is, and I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to venture that far down the rabbit hold, no pun intended. XD
Oops. I entered my email wrong.
I’m tired.
But then again, if you trust this particular source, you’d have to figure out with a snoot is. And I’m not sure I’m ready to venture that far down the rabbit hole yet.
((Did this post go through?)
Ugh, Piggy have migraine, ugh ugh ugh
My new obsession? Origami. I made an elephant bookmark, a demented eagle, an owl, a few boxes, a lot of simple stars, and a stingray for my cousin’s girlfriend. (She found a stingray egg case and is raising it.) I haven’t tried any that just give you the fold patterns. Though, I came across Robert Lang’s website. (He made the origami that was on the front of a Muse from a while back.) It’s definitely worth checking out. Just google his name.
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Replies: (Because I’m too lazy to do it individually.)
Kai- That sounds reeeeeally interesting!
Cat’s Eye- Awesome! Did you see any llamas? Did you know that their scientific name is Lama glama? I want a scientific name like that…
Axa- Yay!
Agrrrfishi- Have you ever seen the kid’s book that’s about bunnies not making noise? I forget what it’s called… It’ll come to me.
Piggy- *gives Advil*
Origami is awesome! My math teacher loved origami(she had lived in Japan for a while) and she had us set aside 15 minutes at the end of class to fold. Ahhh, sigh, I have so much origami and origami paper. And origami books. Which were all dominating my rooom, so I packed them under my bed. I know how to make a lot of geometric figures.
The scientific name of the American Plains Bison is Bison bison bison. Yes, really.
Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla, the scientific name of a type of Gorilla.
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a sentence that both makes sense and is grammatically correct.
Furthermore, “wung” can be used as any part of speech. Its divers definitions are varied and unknown.
For instance:
Wung wung, wung wung wung wung, wung wung, wung wung? Wung wung wung, wung, wung wung wung wung!
I love that joke.
It’s such a brilliant double entendre.
I don’t know how Wilde came up with it.
Uhm… I’m sorta confused. What does it mean?
If you don’t get the double entendre, explaining it really wouldn’t help. Some people just aren’t naturally tuned to Oscar Wilde.
“One should always be a little improbable.” (1894, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young)
Fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish. It’s a sentence!
I STILL CANNOT UNDERSTAND THAT SENTENCE >.<
i get Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
that is as many buffalos as i can handle
Buffalo buffalo (bison from NY) Buffalo buffalo buffalo (who other NY bison intimidate) buffalo Buffalo buffalo (intimidate NY bison).
yes I know a buffalo and a bison aren’t the same thing.
OH
MY GOD
I GET IT NOW
i’ve had that explained to me so many times but for some reason it never clicked. maybe i had to be half-asleep.
but i get it now. and i get how it could keep going too. yaaay!
No I haven’t, but that sound flam.
I just read the whole ‘bison bison bison’ blabber and I laughed.
Just thought you’d want to know.
Yes! We have seen llamas! We have also seen alpacas, and a nice lady taught us how to tell the difference between a sweater made out of alpaca wool and one made out of llama wool just by feeling! Alpaca wool is incredibly soft.
I think “alpaca” is my new favorite word. Alpaca. Alpaca. Alpaca.
*goes off to pack for the Amazon Rainforest*
Llama wool is very soft, too, compared to most other wools, and it spins wonderfully. I imagine alpaca does as well. But by far the softest wool I’ve ever felt — much to my surprise — was yak.
Ohh, have fun in the Amazon! It must be so beautiful!
I’ve changed my gravatar! I made the picture; it’s a somewhat obscure MissingNo. reference- you can teach MissingNo. Fly, and it evolves into Kangaskhan, so it’s possible to get a flying Kangaskhan in Red/Blue. (I really want to get one of those games sometime…)
I wish everybody read as much as my brothers and I, so the teachers wouldn’t need to make us do reports to prove we actually read over the summer.
I don’t look at it as a problem, I look at it as an advantage. Readers get better grades on these projects. ^.^
Yes, but I’d much rather read the books I chose and not have to do reports.
And this year, we don’t have ANY sort of choice, as I looked up today. “The Road” and “Freakonomics”, no substitutions, no choices, nothing. Just read both of those and then report.
Freakonomics sounds cool, but I really don’t want to read depressing fiction on summer vacation. Couldn’t I read something really big and thick and literary that was happier for my fiction choice, like Lord of the Rings? (Which I haven’t read in full prose format, although I have read The Hobbit.)
But The Road is a great book. That’s weird, because I just saw the movie a few days ago.
Oh, I’ll read it, that’s not in doubt. I just wish they’d let us pick the books, or at least have more choices.
Freakonomics is amazing. READ IT READ IT READ IT
I will tomorrow! I read The Road today. Not as depressing as I thought it would be, as the style is sort of detached.
Oh my goodness. A girl from my school died. Pick-up truck accident. (A pick-up truck that she was in went out of control and hit a telephone pole and then a house. Police don’t know why.) I mean, we weren’t best friends or anything, but I knew her. She was one of the (9 including me) sophomores in my wing last year, which leads to a certain level of knowing. I don’t even know what to say… It definitely makes one think.
Oh god. My thoughts are with you, speller. I’ve been in a somewhat similar situation before and it really throws your world on its axis to realize that something like that can actually happen, not to even mention how sad it is when someone you know dies. -hugs-
That’s so sad…I hope her family can find peace. And you and the student body, too… *hugs*
Yes, I have had almost the same experience. A girl from CTD died February 22, 2009 – almost precisely eight months since I met her. She was fourteen, and she had brain cancer.
I’m so sorry. I’ve always felt so guilty that I had never gotten to know her better, or talked to her on Facebook or something after camp ended… She was the first person I’ve met who has died.
Gosh dang it, I’ve turned it into some sentimental thing about me. But I really am sorry. *hugs*
I’m so sorry. If you ever need to talk about it, remember that we’re all here. *hugs*
I AM NOW A LICENSED DRIVER IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
*lives in North Carolina* Thanks for the alert.
(My apologies for the cheap shot. I tried to resist, just couldn’t help myself.)
*also lives in North Carolina* When I read that, I said “North Carolina? Her Lady Bunniful lives in North Carolina?” Earning a weird look from my stepmother.
GASP! I imagine Lady B in Boston. * me three lives in north carolina,*
Gee thanks Lady B, I appreciate that. xD
Also, Randomosity–you do? Think you’d be able to attend our next Kokon whenever it may be?
Yes! (If I could convince my parents, but I’m sure I could).
You can show her pictures from the last one: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6463
YAY!
Don’t drink and drive. You might spill your drink. 
No, but in all seriousness, don’t do anything stupid, like texting and driving. We wouldn’t want you to get hurt. Congrats!
Oh! Oh! I just remembered something dreadful (now this is a post you want to read now, isn’t it?
)
While we were in Croatia recently, we were driving with our relatives. I was staring idly out the window and then, a chill went through my body as I glanced at a sign over a building. Looking again, I realized what it meant and stared at it in horror until it disappeared into the distance. Displayed above a nondescript building, above a bright red logo were the letters H…P…B.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are literally taking over the world. They have extended to Croatia! Musers, unite against this force of evil! Unite! Unite!
HPBs in Croatia… could it have something to do with Tesla, I wonder?
*screams**with joy*
Good reading day! Got to spend some time reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” and John Glenn’s autobiography, both at the library. Such a shame that Feynman died before MA was founded, he’d probably have been a great professor…
Of course now I have to print out all of the necessary sheets and articles to start my Science Research homework, but at least I can ease into it and only do the printing today.
There’s always time travel…
Shall we, then?
HELLO, MUSEBLOG!!!
I have been gone so long that I do not know which threads I used to read.
Hi Alice! It has been quite a while for me too. We should work on the Imaginary City, perhaps?
We definitely should.
OH MY GOSH. BUFFY CONTINUES TO AMAZE ME.
Anya caught onto the HPBs. Lyrics to I’ve Got a Theory…
I’ve got a theory
It could be bunnies…
Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what’s with all the carrots
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies!
Bunnies!
It must be BUNNIESSS!
I KNOW RITE
Joss Whedon must be one of us in DISGUISE.
I just had fresh kiwi for the first time since school let out. That is far too long to go without fresh kiwi!
Piggy’s organ keeps breaking. Without prior warning, all of the notes just start freaking out and making weird noises. It must be a loose connection somewhere, but it’s so jumbled inside I can’t tell where. *sighs and grumbles* I suppose it is about forty years old by now. Hopefully it can be fixed.
I thought you meant an internal organ. O.o Heh heh heh.
Me too.
Very odd-sounding if you interpret it like that…
Me three.
Piggy: My organ is broken. It-
Me: Which organ is broken? Your spleen? Your intestines? YOUR HEART!?
YOUR ORGANS ARE $) YEARS OLD???!!??
I mean 40!
Same here.
MINOR DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS AHEAD, BOTH BOOK AND MOVIE
And now there’s a promo picture for Deathly Hallows, from the movie, which shows Harry holding a backpack outside of 4 Privet Drive, his arm raised, Hedwig flying off into the air. l;awsgh;faisglkshglsekfhlskghlksfj That just caking pisses me the heck off. Because as anybody who read the books knows, Hedwig was in a cage, with Harry, when he left Privet Drive int he sidecar of Sirius’ old motorbike, that was being driven by Hedwig. And changing that, while seemingly minor to someone who did not read the book, is definitely, definitely not minor to anyone who read the book. I mean, hello, Hedwig was tragically killed on that flight from the Dursleys, by a stray Avada Kedavra from one of the Death Eaters. And, horrible and cruel as it may sound to hear me say it, cake it all, I want them to kill Hedwig in the movie. Because it was in the book. Because it was heart-wrenching, and while did not send me into full-fledged tears like most of the other deaths, in definitely made me sad and made my eyes start to tear up, and i think it was an important thing to keep in. I mean, it takes all of 5 seconds for her to be hit by an AK, nothing more needs to be made of it, as nothing more was amde of it in the book. Why get rid of that? And maybe they won’t have gotten rid of it, maybe the picture is misleading, but….If it’s not, and if she doesn’t die, cake it, I’ll be really, really mad.
Gah.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
But… But… Hedwig has to die…
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER DH MOVIE/BOOK SPOILERRR
WHAT?!?! I too will be very mad if Hedwig doesn’t die! It would take like 1 minute to show it, if that! I mean I don’t want innocent owls to die, but it was a very sad, dramatic part which they pretty much have to have. It’s almost as if they left out Dobby’s death. sfghaetywjuasrthjtyjwaffle.
OH NO WHAT IF THEY DO?! ………………….Okay, seriously, movie makers, COME ON GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF AND LEARN HOW TO READ YOU CAKEY WUNG BUTTONS
If.
You.
Want.
To.
Drama.
It.
Up.
THEN HERE IS A CAKING OPPORTUNITY!!!!
…who here is going to watch this movie and thow tomatos at it?
luna you are definitely making yourself too upset over these things.
Second.
No she most certainly isn’t.
MINOR DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS AHEAD, BOTH BOOK AND MOVIE.
Let’s wait and see what the filmmakers do. Hedwig doesn’t have to be in a cage to be hit by the spell. She could be hit on the wing. It might be even more heart-wrenching if she looked as if she might have a chance — if she managed to dodge a spell or two before finally succumbing.
In or out of the cage, I’m pretty sure that’s how I would have written the scene. In the book as written, by the time you realize Hedwig is in danger, it’s all over. You’re stunned and saddened, because you’ve known Hedwig for a long time and everybody likes her, but you’re not utterly devasted. If JKR had paced it a little better (Hedwig’s in danger! Oh, no! But maybe she’ll– OH… NO!…), there wouldn’t have been a dry eye in the house. You’d have been bawling. That’s how it should have been, in my opinion.
MINOR DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS AHEAD, BOTH BOOK AND MOVIE.
Alright, well, I suppose you’ve got a point. The picture doesn’t necessarily mean she won’t get killed during the flight from the Dursleys. Of course, I’d prefer it to be done just as in the book (I do hate it when things get changed from the book), but….If they at least keep her death in, even with slight modifications, I suppose i will be somewhat mollified. maybe. :/
Well, of course, Luna. You’re a Potter fundamentalist, like many other MBers. (Remember that the next time you tell someone that you don’t understand fundamentalists.)
MORE HARRY POTTER SPOILERS STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN’T READ DEATHLY HALLOWS.
Maybe Hedwig will even save Harry by flinging herself in the path of an Avada Kedavra aimed directly at him. That would be heroic and poignant — untrue to the book, but very cinematic.
Personally, I don’t think I’d like that… it’d just seem odd… But maybe it’s only because I think that the movies should follow the books 100%. Even if the Hedwig death scene exists and is technically amazing, a large part of me will be disappointed they didn’t make it like the book, though I do agree that it was too sudden in the book. If they did it the way you suggested earlier, I’d mind much less.
The thing I like about the book is it’s a quick shock, Harry yells “No! Hedqig” or something like that, and then he realizes “Oh, wait, we’re being chased by death eaters. No time to mourn, will do it later!” and gets on with the story.
I think you meant to type “Being driven by Hagrid”. Because Hedwig can’t really drive…
But that’s awful. I’m probably just going to see the movie for laughing at all the fails and cliches the director makes.
Agreed. HEDWIG HAS TO DIEEEEE! If she doesn’t everything will be messed up.
I think it’s safe to predict that every character who dies in the book will die in the movie. In fact, I’ll go further and bet that some deaths that occur off-stage in the book will be shown on screen. Who could resist filming (or, as an actor, performing) SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Mad-Eye Moody’s last stand?
And that’ll bug me, too, if they take all the off-stage deaths from the book (which, really, is the vast majority of the deaths) and then film all of their deaths on-stage, because all the time spent doing that, is time that could have been spent on scenes actually played out in the books. And that’s one of the many things that bothers me, when they delete scenes for time and expense, but then throw in nonexistent stints of CG that is presumably equally costly as whatever they didn’t film. Like the Hippogriff ride in PoA, they took ages to do that, when it was just a brief 5 second jaunt in the book. Or the sequence with the Hungarian Horntail chasing Harry in GoF, that they took about 5 minutes on, instead of keeping some stuff that was in the book.
And even if they keep all the actual characters, does Hedwig really fall into such? Or will they not consider her death important, and thus not keep it? Or how about SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER little Colin Creevey? Only die-hard book fans are going to remember who the cake he is, are they going to keep his death? After all, it was off-stage.
And what about George losing an ear? To me, that was highly important, it’s what made me doubt Snape’s loyalties for all of DH until the very end, even though I maintained my trust in him through the murder of Dumbledore.
I really hope they keep everything you mentioned, rather than deleting it and replacing it with other stupid stuff that only serves to add more action and no depth whatsoever.
The moral is DON’T FIX WHAT’S NOT BROKEN.
Like it or not, big-budget movie producers tend to think of “more action” as a good thing. When you think about it, the most amazing aspect of the HP movies as a whole is that the filmmakers have maintained very high production standards for what could have been a quick-and-dirty knock off made purely to sell bazillions of tickets and action figures. Instead they made a series of finely crafted entertainments that multitudes of people enjoy whether or not they’re fans of the books. This is a rare achievement.
The filmmakers know going in they can’t please the purists. It would actually be impossible even if money were no object and they made an 800-hour scene-by-scene documentary. Movies and books are completely different entities. It’s something like reading a Russian novel translated into Gaelic songs, or using architecture to illustrate a painting, or dance to interpret mathematical theorems.
I actually have a friend who’s actually originated a couple of, um, dances, that are supposed to communicate various math topics.
I’ve seen some amazing math dances out there. I think it’s a wonderful thing to do. But you have to expect limits to their mathematical rigor.
True, true. This same friend thinks we should do a marching band show on functions, which would actually be pretty awesome.
Erm, yes, driven by Hagrid. Whoops.
Well, I wouldn’t trust any pictures. They usually end up just being fake. Case in point:
This scene was never shown in HTTYD, so it’s just a promo. There’s another, better one, but I can’t find it. It was my avatar for a few days.
And there’s all the New Moon posters…The idea of seeing Edward’s face as the moon is VERY CREEPY and I’m glad that didn’t happen.
156–You scared me for a moment. When I read your first sentence, my first thought was that you’d somehow ‘broken’ one of your internal organs.
157–They’d better kill her. I agree with you. If they don’t I will be very, very, very angry.
I’m guessing this will look very odd in the recent comments column…
Wait, by the way, how can ‘buffalo’ and ‘gorilla’ be verbs? *does not understand, and is curious*
158- To buffalo is to intimidate someone. e.g.- The thug buffaloed her into… doing something? (I stink at examples.)
I don’t know how you would use gorilla as a verb.
The air conditioning in our place is broken. I can’t really be sure I slept at all last night.
Awwww…
*gives Kai lots of cold things*
It’s okay, we’ve fixed it now. But I’m still tired…
You think you have it bad? Try having no air conditioning AND a deranged cat who wakes you up every hour and won’t take a hint to leave!!!!!!!
And I’m on Portland time so it’s, like, 6 in the morning for me. *sigh* *grumble*
Anyone else sleep-deprived by reason of deranged cat(s)?
*raises hand*
Sometimes; although that’s more because they barfed on my floor or hid behind my window curtain.
Nope. Gandalf rarely sleeps with me, and when he does, other than hogging my foot space, he doesn’t disrupt my sleep particularly. unless, of course, he’s still there when Dad gets up in the mornings and shuts my door without realizing Gandalf is in my room. Then Gandalf will scratch out of the door until I wake up and shove him out.
Portland… Oregon?
Yup.
Sorry. I can imagine it must be awful!
*Gives lots of my own cold things, plus the ones Beedle gave me*
*sends you the weather we’ve been having* That is, the 6th coldest summer on record in this part of Alaska, with yesterday having been the 31st day of rain in a row (new record, 27 days was the former, in 1951). Not sure if today hit a 32nd, it’s not rained that I’ve seen, but it really only counts if it’s rained actually in Anchorage, not just outlying towns and such in the area.
I’m rather sick of the chilly weather, although not looking forward to the heat at school….
All of my friends got their schedules already, but no, my mailman has to come at like, four, and growl at my dog when he finally gets here. I’m so anxious, and I never get anxious because I just don’t think. Do you see what thinking does to you? It makes your write humongous, ranty, complainy notes on MuseBlog. It also makes you feel like every minute is an hour. Oh wizard god…
Lucky you. My schedule goes online on Friday, and even then it’s just the first quarter!
Ugh. I just want to know if I will have any classes with people I like in my grade. >.<
We got our schedules in August… and they were 2 months late. And even, then they were riddled with problems. (I wish programming and number theory were at different times.)
Since I’m a bit bored, I will post the electives I signed up for, in the prioritized order I put on my form. Well, if I’d had a say, I wouldn’t have signed up for orchestra again at all, much less in top priority, but…
1. Orchestra
2. Computer Programming and Animation
3. Yearbook
4. Theater
Elective Alternatives
1. Video Production
2. Studio Art
3. Foods
4. Ole (in which you learn about Spanish culture and language)
I’m not sure when I’ll do real Spanish. I don’t want to have to do that and orchestra in the same year, but I’m sure my mom will never let me quit orchestra.
Have I mentioned before how much I love T.S. Eliot? If not: I really love T.S. Eliot. Prufrock == incredible. I love that poem. Everyone should read and analyze it.
I love that poem too.
Do I dare/ Disturb the universe?
I grow old…I grow old…
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
’till human voices wake us, and we drown.
You skipped some.
Continuing from Selenium and into Jadestone:
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
I had the whole poem memorized last year, but I’ve forgotten parts of it. *scurries off to rememorize*
I wasn’t trying to continue; that’s just some of my favourite lines (oxlin mentioned the other favourite, and then also the first three lines).
I memorized a lot of The Hollow Men, and did a report on a lot of Eliot’s other work last year.
Today today today I love thrift stores.
I found the best jacket ever today. I’ve been wanting one with one of those non foldy over collars and lots of buttons for ages and now I have one and it has the gold braid type things on it and pockets and it looks like a uniform and I love it. I also now have nice grey wool pants, a greek fisherman’s cap, and some cool boots. From the used bookstore I have Lawrence of Arabia (movie), The Breakfast Club (movie), Midnight Never Come, Best Fantasy of the Year 2008 edition edited by Rich Horton, and Sumerian Mythology.
Yay yay yay used bookstores and thrift stores.
You’re so lucky! In Phill, we have no thrift stores that I know of.
When I’m older, I’m moving to Maine, to a little town where you can walk everywhere. My mom says I have to move somewhere near water or I’ll shrivel up and die.
My brother is going to move to Portland Oregon (where we just got back from a road, feel free to ask me how it went!) because it’s so skateboard-friendly.
SFTDP but I just realized Rosebud2’s username…RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, EVERYONE!!!!! IT’S A MISSINGNO!!!!!!!
BTW, I found this story about Missingno. It’s short but sad, and it’s on deviantArt, so I don’t think you need to worry, GAPAs.
[Why would deviantArt be exempt from the Rules? Besides, we’d much rather post original work by MBers than links to random non-Muse fanfiction. –Admin.]
No, no, no! Don’t run from MissingNo. MissingNo. is your friend!
Got this wonderful 12-hour plane trip ahead of me. Tonight (around 12:30) I will be leaving for the US.
I’m leaving already and it seems like barely any time passed at all….
GAPAs? Could you check your inbox? I send a picture I drew in Latin Class today.
Either you meant sent or your caveman side is beginning to show. ‘I send picture I draw in Latin Class’.
EYME BOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEDDD!!!!!!!!!
All I’m doing is going back and forth from Museblog to another forum I go on.
I’m back! Miss me?
Greetings, cromwell!
Welcome back!
My antisocial side is suddenly beginning to regret that I accepted a friend’s offer of a ride to school from the airport, instead of just taking the door-to-door shuttle service as I’ve done every other previous time. *sigh*
Whatever. I’ll get over it, it’s not like we couldn’t easily carry on a conversation for the hour and a half drive, given that we’ve talked for a caking lot longer than that in the past….
Meh. I think I”m in one of those “Gotta push away everyone who is close to me and can’t let anyone get too emotionally close” moods. One of those moods where I try to slowly start to sever ties to those I’m close to.
And now I feel like crying, suddenly, thinking about going back to school. Maybe I”m just homesick, even though I’ve not even left for school yet, and am sitting at home as I type this.
Gah. Just ignore me.
*hugs*
I just found the best job requirement I’ve ever seen for a grocery store: “May engage in suggestive selling methods.”
;D
Hey, GAPAs, is there any way you could find the suggestion thread?
Witchneko: The most recent Suggestion Box thread is here: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6955 .
I read a great book published by the mental_floss website today called “Be Amazing”. It tells you how to do all kinds of incredible things… except that it doesn’t REALLY tell you how to do them.
Question, you guys: who else is a junior in high school this year? I can’t remember off the top of my head and I was thinking about it.
Also:
It really bothers me when people don’t understand that marching band is a commitment. People will decide they can skip band camp because they don’t feel like trying to schedule their family’s weekend trip to the beach around it, and then we all have to spend a couple extra days of practice catching them up. Or people (freshmen usually) will join and then decide right after the season starts that they don’t want to do band, and then we end up with a bunch of holes in the drill. There are two freshmen in my section; one is exemplary and one didn’t show up to band camp and has now quit band. Rrrgh.
Me!
Come on, I missed band camp… but admittedly that was for something far more important (science).
Okay, now Quitter Freshman has decided to rejoin band and I have to teach him everything he missed. Even more rrrgh.
FANG JUST PWNED TWILIGHT FANS!
okay. Bye.
I’m leaving on vacation today, and will be back on Sunday or Monday, not sure. I probably won’t ever have internet, so see you guys later!
Bye, Rosebud! We’ll miss you – though you won’t be gone for too long. Have fun on vacation!
Bye, have a good vacation!
ahhh lots of posts…but I’m back! The family visiting us had an extremely annoying, spoiled 4 year old, so I’m quite tired and afraid I might go deaf. *headdesk* They left late yesterday though, so finally getting a chance to actually sit down and go on the Internet as opposed to wishing I could escape into a bathroom with a computer….
Also, wrong thread, I know, but: I had a dream that I was in Disney World, dodging bullets and being forced to spray people who were half naked wolves (probably because of eclipse, unfortunately, which I didn’t even see but am getting entirely tired of hearing people talk about…) with these Revolutionary War-like guns, and then holding a shield over my head to protect myself from the wolves’ arrows. :O It was very odd, I’m starting to wonder if it’s a sign: I must be some violent, deranged psycho.
And apparently this was a class trip to Disney World, because the “scene” before was me and some of my friends (some friends who went to my old school, some from my current one) discussing whether or not we had been to Disney World, and only one of us had been in the dream. I haven’t even been in Disney World in real life. *sigh*
Well… there is a Revolutionary War-themed section of Disney World called Liberty Square…
my glasses are broken and my new batch of contacts aren’t in yet and i dropped one of them down the sink. so i made an eyepatch and declared it pirate day.
YARRR
Now, that’s the spirit! Yarggghh….*raises hook menacingly*
All of the concern about my schedule wasn’t worth it. Most of my teachers are great (but oh, there’s a few exceptions… :/ ) and I have a friend in every class, except possibly P.E., which is going to majorly suck. I got my bio teacher from last year for AP bio, which is excellent.
And other than that… not much going on lately. I dragged my mom to this humongous aquarium store the other day and dropped $15 on fish and plants (they were all forty percent off), so there goes my entertainment money for the rest of the summer. Whatever. Fish last for two years, a movie lasts for two hours.
Sorta upset that the summer is almost over. I didn’t get to go to the beach as much as I wanted to, and I’m not going now with all of the jelly fish. I’m so scared of them. Ugh.
I don’t like jellyfish either, so don’t feel bad.
Jellyfish freak me out too. They’re just so weird. And potentially painful. *shudder*
My dad stepped on a jellyfish once… He said it hurts a lot. I’ve never actually seen one at the beach (and I’ve been to the beach a lot).
I was stung once, too. Not fun. You definitely want to stay away from them.
So, my mom is in this thing that’s called an art market, and it happens every thursday, and she couldn’t be there today, so I watched her booth for her. I even made a sale! (My mom weaves and sews bags, blankets, shawls, and various other fabricstuff. She uses expensive yarn to weave with though, so her stuff is pretty expensive and only rich tourists buy it.) And I think the woman didn’t trust me with her credit card… My allergies were acting up, and I didn’t have a tissue, so I was sniffing about every 5 seconds, and my eyes were watering so much it looked like I was crying, which was embarassing. Oh well, at least I got some mint jelly!
HAPPY 89TH BIRTHDAY, GENE RODDENBERRY!
Seconded! To a visionary and an artist!
(Belatedly) thirded!
None of you will BELIEVE what I did today!!!!! Actually, you probably will, but that’s unimportant.
At this camp that I’ve been going to for the past few weeks, there’s a ropes course that you do in this program called Challenge, and on the ropes course is this thing called the Leap of Faith. It’s a platform about 30 ft. or more in a tree, and and trapeze farther out in a tree. You’re supposed to climb up the tree using the metal things they put in, climb on the platform, and jump for the trapeze (with a harness on and lots of people belaying you, of course).
The thing is, I’m really scared of falling. Like, scared to ice-skate scared of falling. I almost didn’t do this, because if I have a fear like that, do I really think jumping off a platform high in the air is the thing I’d do regularly? I climbed up anyway, and freaked out when I got to the top (hyperventilated, felt dizzyish, that sort of thing), but when I did go through the commands and counted down, I jumped, and it was really awesome. It felt like flying, almost. I was so scared the whole time climbing up, especially when I finally said 1, but it was total worth that exhilarating feeling. And now I can hardly believe I did that, but I’m really glad that I did.
Congrats! I can imagine how much courage that must have taken.
My parents were arguing before… I hate it when they do that.
I prefer literary art to visual art.
I don’t understand this. Are you trying to say you’re being held hostage in a library, blindfolded? WE’LL SAVE YOU, ROBERT!
Are you really Robert?
It’s not GAPA Robert, but Bobbyjkl.
Musical art! No I’m kidding. But avant-garde audio art…
Is anybody else not seeing a gravatar there? My computer has reloaded the page three times without any gravy appearing. It’s rather strange…
Why does your post have no gravatar, just blankness the color of the peach background of your post? It’s freaking me out.
Me too, and it doesn’t help that I’m listening to Frou Frou… O____o
That’s not peach, it’s light spring-greenish-tan.
I just came back from a friend’s sweet sixteen, and I really had quite a bit of fun. Her mom is always trying to hook me up with guys. Every time I see her it’s, “Oh, you should meet XXX, he’s so good looking. You guys would be great together.” Except this time she went a little further. Her distant cousin by marriage was there. He’s my age, and quite good looking. Let’s call him Y. I’ve met him before, but we never really talked. So I’m on the dance floor, minding my own business and dancing with a friend, and she comes over with Y, and tells me to dance with him. Of course, I, being horribly clueless, laughed and turned away. And then she started to push him and me closer to each other. And I’m just so stupid. I ran away to the bathroom! Really. What kind of girl runs away when a hot guy is pushed to her? Why? Why would I do something so stupid? Ugh. This should be on R&R. *headdesk*
Anyway, the rest of the party was really fun. Apparently I’m not as bad as dancing as I think I am, though I did almost fall over a few times. It was so funny, my brother was dancing too. He only knew one guy at the party. Their dancing was hysterical, and then a girl started to dance with them.
I saw a person that works from the local animal shelter at the party and who also goes to my church. He told me that I’ll be old enough to work at the shelter next summer! I’m so excited! Except I’ll come home with a million animals…
I think I’m going to the beach tomorrow. I’ve decided that I’m going to take advantage of the rest of the summer instead of sitting around all day.
Rocky road fudge to whoever reads the whole thing. It was excessively long.
Hey fireh, have you read Enchanted Glass? I’m midway through, so no spoilers, just curious if you’ve read it. I really like it so far.
ONE IN THE MORNING AND GRAVITY IS BEGINNING TO MAKE SENSE
‎”When a mass is present in the above space-time it distorts it so that whilst it remains true that travelling through space causes you to travel through time, travelling through time now causes you to move (accelerate) through space.”
I AM UNDERSTANDING BETTER NOW
Also I should stop looking up articles because I can never get to sleep when I start thinking about quantum mechanics, but the fact I don’t get how gravity works/why has been bothering me for AGES. I mean it’s not really “known” but I’ve never been thought any basics or anything. Just that “large amounts of mass have it” which is NOT SATISFACTORY AT ALL. College physics will hopefully be so much better than high school right?
OKAY SLEEP TIME NOW
I AM NOW AT 111 ON ‘WHO’S POSTED HOW MUCH’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* Make a wish, self!
*not including AEs and my previous blog name
Congrats!
Time Magazine’s “Top 10 Things Today’s Kids Will Never Experience”, with my own comments about wether or not these apply to me:
1) Camera Film
I’m perfectly comfortable using both film and digital. Just as long as I can take photographs, I don’t care!
2) Landline Phones
I can’t imagine not having one. As soon as I get home, I leave my mobile to charge and don’t think about it. If I’m at home, and somebody’s calling me, I expect it on the landline.
3) Real Books
I think all of you know why this is completely bogus… I can’t stand to read long things on screens, and just in my room, I have more print books than I can count.
4) Being Lost
Oh, ask my mother, I have a lot of experience with being lost.
5) Music Videos on MTV
I never watched MTV, so I can’t say.
6) Walkmans
I never had a Walkman that played tapes, but I had one that played CDs for a few years, starting when I was about nine. Does that count?
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
Shows from the 50s, like they mention? No, I never saw those, but I have very fond memories of watching Full House and Home Improvement with my family on Nick at Nite.
8) Tan M&Ms
You got me, I can’t ever remember pale brown M&Ms.
9) Czechoslovakia
This one’s true. It split the year I was born, so I can honestly say I’ve never owned an atlas that included Czechoslovakia.
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
C’mon, he didn’t go into politics until I was 10! How could I not know Ahnold as the Terminator?
1) I don’t use camera film, but my mom had a non-digital camera until about three years ago.
2) Still have one…
3) That’s ridiculous. I don’t think real books will ever become obsolete, in our life time at least. eReaders have their perks, but they’re expensive, and libraries are free. I think we will always have the frugal people reading normal books (including me).
4) Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! They’re kidding, right? I, personally, have gotten lost so many times, I cannot even count. My mother, while driving, has gotten us lost so much, but it’s always fun. We always like to “explore”. She refuses to get a GPS because she doesn’t like people telling her where to go. And that’s good, because people are forgetting how to do simple things now, like read a map, or memorize the route to a friend’s house. We’re having everything done for us by computers.
5) I think I’ve watched MTV, like, once. All of the music is too rap-y for my taste.
6) I still have mine! Of course, I use my iPod more often now. But when it dies, I use it.
7) Uhm… I never really watched Nick as a child, unless my brother forced me to. Which was very often, him being the older sibling. I preferred Animal Planet.
8) Tan? o.O
9) HEY! My forefathers hail from the great country of Czechoslovakia. I’ll never really experience it, but I know about it.
10) Please, we heard about him every. single. day. from my eighth grade earth science teacher. Ahhhhnnnnoooolllddddddddd.
Tan M&Ms were my favorites. They were subdued in a classy way. They dared not to be colorful. I was heartbroken (or at least extremely vexed) when Mars replaced them with blue in 1995.
They were my favorite, too! Mostly because no one else liked them, and therefore I had to be contrary. But they were indeed a pretty shade of light brown.
Also, orange M&Ms didn’t exist when we were children, so there was no competition for that part of the palette.
1) But camera film is so fascinating! *is determined to buy some and put it through american airport security to see what happens*
2) I used to call my friends on one all the time!
3) Yeah, that definitely bogus.
4) I think nearly ending up in Slovakia when I was just trying to get to camp on time trumps all
5) Not really into that sort of music, so sorry.
6) I had one that I loved dearly to listen to my french tapes
7) Okay… never heard of that, but not big on tv as a kid.
8 ) They existed? That’s so cool!
9) Considering that most wall maps at school still have the soviet union on them, I’d say yes.
10) Every second time I mention Austria, people start to talk about Arnold.
1) If digital cameras get so cheap that they replace disposables, I’ll be astounded. As it is, I’ve actually *owned* only one camera that used film; the one that came with the Klutz crazy picture book thingy. It broke after two years of use.
2) Yeah, I use my landline when I’m at home. I also use it becuase I’m somewhat afraid of brain cancer.
Not that afraid, but a little bit. I think the waves connecting the wireless phone to the router are less dangerous than the cell phone’s waves. A little bit silly, but not overly.
3) …No. I could stand for a Kindle, but it’s worse than an actual book where I can easily flip between pages.
4) I’ve never been lost. I follow directions too carefully to become lost. But I think what this one is implying is that kids today will have handheld GPSs wherever they go, and I don’t think they’ll become cheap enough in the near future.
5) I also have never watched MTV. When I had satellite at my old house my parents wouldn’t let me watch it. My new house has too many trees for satellite, and my parents didn’t like it anyway, so now we have cable with the minimum amount of channels. Essentially broadcast networks and a few goodies, like discovery channel.
6) I got a CD Walkman when I moved in 3rd grade. My dad has a tape one that I listen to occasionally. They do mean the tape one, though, because Walkmans (Or should it be Walkmen?) still exist as MP3 players.
7) I never watched Nick at Nite, for the same reasons as above. Also, I was too busy watching Standard Deviants.
8 ) Nope. According to wikipedia, the tan M&Ms went out of production in 1995 and were replaced by blue. I wouldn’t even eat M&Ms until about 5th grade, and I still don’t really like them, so yeah.
9) I always called the Czech Republic Czechoslovakia. I don’t even know how that word got into my head. I was corrected in 5th grade by one of my friends who was going to the Czech Republic to visit their relatives. Even then, I thought until 9th grade that Czechoslovakia had just gone through a name change and that it didn’t actually split. I thought it was really cool how there’s a country named Slovakia and how it’s right next to the Czech Republic… Wait a minute… Czecho-…Slovakia??? My mind is funny. Anyway, Czechoslovakia existed for me, if not for the rest of the world.
10) He’s always the Terminator! But this thing is probably referring to children younger than us, since I am almost seventeen and you are also seventeen, I think, Kai. I’ve never actually seen The Terminator.
Relating to Arnold Schwarzenegger, have any of you ever reffered to him as “The Governator”? My cousins who live in California had never heard that term used until I told it to them. Funny!
And that’s an insanely long post. I guess I had a lot to say about this.
The Economist magazine, showing off its editors’ superior acquaintance with Latin roots, sometimes calls Governor Schwarzenegger “the Gubernator.”
1. Camera film? I’ve used it before. Not that often, but still.
2. Come on, I don’t even have a cell phone.
3. Don’t have an eReader either.
4. Of course I’ve been lost.
5. We just get broadcast, nothing else.
6. I have one that plays tapes which I use regularly, and a CD player that I have actually used fairly recently.
7. Still don’t watch TV.
8. Okay, so I don’t remember those at all.
9. Well, I know that it existed, though it did not exist when I was born…
10. Sure I know about him. Doesn’t everyone?
Hello all. Got back from a horrible 13 hour plane trip yesterday. Have to go fix my room because when I was gone we came down with bedbugs and the exterminators moved everything. And my sister stole my mirror from my room.
Also, the thread is getting a bit long at more than 600 posts. How come we don’t have a part 2 yet?
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Sorry! The Administrators fell asleep. Part Two is up and running now.