My off-blog schedule has been too complicated for me to come up with more than one graphic a month. I’m hoping that will change soon, but I don’t know when.
184.2.1 on previous thread (Robert Coontz)- Ah, it was Bobby? I’ll have to yell at him. He’s just trolling.
189 on previous thread (Kai)-
1. Digital cameras still feel new to me. I’m much more accustomed to film.
2. I don’t use any sort of phone very often, but landlines aren’t old.
3. Ah, books. They smell so marvelous. I loves them.
4. I have a good sense of direction, so I’m not often lost. But not due to GPS or the likes.
5. Never watched MTV.
6. I never had a Walkman, but I had a portable AM radio.
7. Never liked Nick at Nite.
8. I’m afraid I’ve never had them, or at least I don’t remember having them.
9. I have to consciously correct myself from saying Czechoslovakia instead of the Czech Republic. I don’t know why.
10. The Terminator? Everyone knows Arnie.
1. I remember using film canisters to hold shells, but I’ve never used film.
2. We’ve always had a landline.
3. This is stupid.
4. We always get lost. Even with a GPS.
5. I never watched MTV.
6. Yeah, I don’t remember anything before iPods.
7. I have no idea what they mean by this. I know Full House, but it ended before I was born.
8. They existed?
9. Man, that’s old stuff.
10. I only found out long after I knew he was the Governor of California.
1. Don’t remember using film canisters, though I do remember signs in the airport telling you not to take film canisters through…
2. We’ve always had a landline, and only recently aquired cellular telephones
3. The smell of books can never be matched by the hum of silicon
4. No GPS, and I always get lost.
5. Never watched MTV
6. We had a CD player before there were iPods… My dad’s an early adopter, so we got old iPods early. But I don’t remember walkmans. (But my French book does. :/)
7. Bwuh? Never heard of that show
8. Tan M&Ms I’ve heard of, and I might have seen some when I was very young… And my parents have a fridge magnet with tan M&Ms. I was always angry they discontinued them.
9. Czechoslovakia- I’ve heard of it, seen oldish maps with it on, but then again, I’ve also seen maps with the USSR on…
10. I knew he was the Terminator before I knew he was governer of California. Mainly because my third grade teacher, whenever she left the room said “I’ll be back” and then explained.
Probably intended for my age bracket… but I know about all except that TV show.
A few years in these modern times do a lot! And it was probably intended for my age bracket. At age 14 I am clearly extremely young and unknowing of the good ol’ days. XD
Piggy – No, I’ve never used film and I never knew what a Walkman was until middle school. When I was little in the Philippines, we would go to the beach and I would put little shells in film canisters… I never knew they were actually used for FILM.
Heh. Apparently. For example, my sister (age 8) has never heard of Rugrats and such, and she doesn’t know anything about 9/11 (in fairness, that was before she was born).
Actually, most of the people my age (from what I’ve heard; I don’t know anyone my age, really) don’t remember 9/11. I only remember because I lived in Virginia at the time and was therefore completely freaked out. (“Washington DC? That’s in Virginia! We’re in Virginia! OH NO WE’RE GOING TO DIE”)
My English teacher was freaking out because we were one of the last classes who would remember 9/11. I barely remember it, I was in Kindergarten. I remember coming home, wondering what happened. My parents told me something really terrible happened, and that we came home because we were mourning. Or something like that.
I was in kindergarten as well. I remember going into class and seeing all of my teachers crying, but I had absolutely no idea what happened. A bit later I found out that something in Virginia blew up (or something to that effect ).
Where we live, it’s far enough from the towers that we didn’t see or hear anything from school. All I knew is that some kids were called to the office to go home early. I didn’t think very much of it, because before I’d left for school that day, my mother had showed me that she’d finally bought me a magnetic chess set, something I’d begged her about for months, so I was counting the hours until I could go home and take it out of the box.
I went home at the regular time. We could see a cloud of smoke, but my mom didn’t tell me anything in the car. When we got home, dad was there, home early, and then they told me what had happened and turned on the TV in their room.
I can remember all of this very clearly, right down to the patterns on the cushions on my mom’s bed.
I was in second grade. The assistant principal came into the room and whispered something in the teacher’s ear, and the whole school went to the church to pray the Rosary (Catholic school). I remember my mom half-explaining what happened on the ride home, and I asked her what a terrorist was. We all watched the news on TV for the rest of the night. I wasn’t really able to fathom it or give it too much weight, but I understood it. Then, for the next few weeks, we would all look at the sky during recess since the lack of airplanes was so weird.
1. I’ve used a disposable camera…does that count?
2. Of course I have a landline. I don’t even have a cell yet.
3. This question does not deserve to be dignified by an answer.
4. Well, I’ve never gotten lost, but I don’t use GPS that often…
5. Ditto.
6. I used to have a portable CD player. When I was, like, 5.
7. Uh…no comprende.
8. I wish I’d known about them.
9. What?
10. Huh?
10 – I know, right? He was elected in *Googles* 2003, and my parents were never into politics and such. As a result, I only heard that he was the governor of California in middle school, and I learned what the Terminator was shortly thereafter.
1) Camera Film
i love film, but i mostly use digital (the nice cameras are really big and heavy, hard to carry around. also film is more expensive.)
2) Landline Phones
i was the one who suggested we switch from landline to a fifth cell.
3) Real Books
i read online and want an e-reader for my birthday. it’s great for general reading. but there are some books that i need the physical copy of. i could never replace my copy of ivanhoe, and although i bought my own paperback copy of a tale of two cities, i still use my dad’s red hardcover copy whenever i can get to it.
4) Being Lost
ahaha i get lost so often. although it is true that there are always ways out of this. i’m just too stubborn to use them.
5) Music Videos on MTV
nope, don’t remember it. sadly.
6) Walkmans
i used my mom’s walkman from time to time. i remember her exercising with it. my dad got one of the first iPods though so i used that all the time and then i got my own when i was 14. we still have boxes full of cassette tapes in the basement though – mostly my dad’s mix tapes from high school and college
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
never watched it. this was back when i didn’t watch tv. i still only watch certain shows
Tan M&Ms
i think i remember them but that could be a lie. memory is tricky. i can visualize them but that might just be because you said it.
9) Czechoslovakia
vaclav havel is my brain-love. but i do see it from more of a historical viewpoint
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
oh yeah, i definitely know him. but i mean, that’s classic. he’s iconic. even running for office almost all you heard about him was terminator jokes. i don’t think people will be forgetting about that any time soon.
2) Landline Phones
My brother is the only person in my family who has a cellphone, and it’s just for emergencies.
3) Real Books
Oh, come on.
4) Being Lost
Um, yeah, I’ve done that…
5) Music Videos on MTV
What’s MTV?
6) Walkmans
LIES I actually have never had an MP3 player until Tuesday. Until then, I only listened to CDs, records, and tapes.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
What. Is. That.
8- Tan M&Ms
Sadly, I have never seen those.
9) Czechoslovakia
Erm…
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Um…
See, I know OF most of these, but not really. I think MTV is that really dumb channel with shows about spoiled teenagers and playing pranks on people and whatnot. Apparently it was a revolutionary channel back in its heyday, but now it’s iffy.
1. Film? Of course I remember film. My grandma and my mom both had a film camera in my memory (they don’t now, of course) and I once had a disposable camera which I never developed…
2. Well, I know about landlines- we have one- but I believe that landlines are going to shortly be a thing of the past.
3. WHAT. THE. CAKE.
4. My parents will probably never get a GPS. Or cable. Or Caller ID. Or replace our toaster, dishwasher, or microwave…
5. Never watched MTV. Or that much TV for that matter.
6. Nope, no Walkman.
7. Huh? Whassat?
8. Why do they not have those anymore?!?!?!?!
9. What?
10. I haven’t seen the Terminator.
Speaking of M&Ms, an acquaintance of mine who used to do a lot of backstage tech work at rock concerts once had the job of setting up bowls of M&Ms and removing all the brown ones in order to fulfill the requirements of Van Halen’s contract. According to Brent, one of the band members said, “You know we ask you to do this because we can.”
The M&M rider gained huge notoriety back in the day as the quintessential example of egos gone mad, but according to Snopes the real reason was to make sure that the contracts were read and followed to the letter — a necessity considering the massive amounts of complex technical gear used in the show. Not that band members worried too much about their reputation! And no doubt the incident did inspire others to add riders simply “because they could.”
I had a good day today. I went swimming in the ocean, and I read the first chapter of Freakomonics, and went to the library for a few minutes. (Then, my dad came and got me and told me we had to leave, but on the way out, he saw his friend, and they talked for twice as long as he’d actually let me look around, but I couldn’t go back to what I was doing…)
Today we had an event at our library celebrating the release of Mockingjay. We had a scavenger hunt (which they called the Hunger Games), and MY TEAM (of two) WON! Through some mishap, we only had to go to half the stations that we were supposed to, so we got back the quickest. The people who won legitimately were announced as the winners, but my partner and I still got a free copy of the book…to be picked up on Tuesday. They also had Team Peeta and Team Gale pins, bookmarks, tattoos, and plenty of people to talk to about the books. Overall, I had an AWESOME time.
Continuing the discussion of M&Ms: I’ve heard rumors that they’re bringing back Crispy M&Ms sometime next year. Supposedly. I liked those; I hope the rumor is true.
Beloit College does something like this every year. It is called the mindset list. The newspaper mentioned it the other day
1) Camera Film
My family only got a digital camera when I was 12. When I was a kid, I had my own film camera. My brother and I had a polaroid one too.
2) Landline Phones
I grew up with a landline. I don’t really use my cellphone too much and at college I use my dorm room phone and the lounge phones more often.
3) Real Books
I like books.
4) Being Lost
One time it took my friends and I an hour extra to get somewhere. That was annoying.
5) Music Videos on MTV
When my family took a vacation to Costa Rica MTV music videos kept playing.
6) Walkmans
I had a tape player that I didn’t use and a cd player that I only stopped using when I got to college.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
Never heard of this before. No idea why it is on the list.
8] Tan M&Ms
Probably ate them, don’t remember them.
9) Czechoslovakia
I suppose I was around for it but it never affected my life all too much and I wasn’t old enough to remember it, really.
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
He’s been the Terminator for more of my lifetime than he’s been a politician.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GENE RODENBERRY!
As for that list…
1) Camera Film
I’ve used a film camera, but now I have a digital one.
2) Landline Phones
We almost never use it, but we have one.
3) Real Books
I love them!
4) Being Lost
We don’t have a GPS, and we do get lost occasionally.
5) Music Videos on MTV
The only TV I watch on TV is Doctor Who and the odd documentary my parents like. The online TV I watch online at the moment is Star Trek.
6) Walkmans
I;ve never had one.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
?
8) Tan M&Ms
Never had them.
9) Czechoslovakia
It split? Oh, right. Czech Republic. I still think of it as Czechoslovakia.
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Terminator? What? Still, I’ve heard of him.
For those who were wondering about Nick at Nite — back in the 1980s (maybe later, too, that I couldn’t say) — the cable channel Nickelodeon ran reruns of old TV shows from previous decades during the evening hours, thus “Nick at Nite.” Meh. Wouldn’t say you missed much; most of those shows can be found elsewhere. Can’t think why it would be on this list.
The “M” in MTV used to stand for Music. When it began it was full-time music videos — well, in between ads — with occasional special programming related to music. Critics said it would ruin kids’ imagination and cheapen the music by adding visuals. All the usual Chicken Little stuff.
It doesn’t show music videos anymore? Huh. I thought that it showed both music videos and little short shows or something. That and the Nick at Nite thing both show how little attention I pay to tv as it comes on the actual tv set. I watch tv from DVDs or online.
If by “little short shows” you mean “reality TV”, then yes. But I think it’s just Jersey Shore all day now. I have no clue how anyone can sit through that show. It’s so… vapid? Lame? Inane? That doesn’t even cover it. It’s such a WOMBAT.
I know I might be a little late, but here’s the list…
1) Camera Film:
Meh, I’ve used film and disposable cameras before, just not as much as the digital kind. Now when I take pictures I usually use my family’s digital one, but my mom still prefers disposable cameras because our digital camera is kind of big and heavy – sort of a pain to have to carry around.
2) Landline Phones:
We have one and do use it quite often.
3) Real Books
E-readers are great in many ways, especially for people who travel a lot, but even the best technology can’t replace the feel and smell of a real book. I just love the feeling of physically turning a page as opposed to tapping a button…
4) Being Lost
We have a GPS, and sometimes it’s the reason why we’ve gotten lost…Of course, it has helped us, too, but I still got lost all the time.
5) Music Videos on MTV
Never seen them.
6) Walkmans
I actually have a huge CD player I mostly use for the radio in my room, which has a huge antenna sticking out of the top of it and a very bulky, ugly look, but I don’t really mind. I’ve gotten so used to it being there it would be weird not to have it. I’ve never had a Walkman, though.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
I’ve heard of Full House and shows like that, but never seen them.
8) Tan M&Ms
Never had them either.
9) Czechoslovakia
I still think of the Czech Republic as Czechoslovakia…
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Of course I know the Terminator!
Hm, inspired by the 9/11 tangent, some more “Can You Remember When” events…
1) Death of Princess Diana- 1997
2) Harry Potter is released in the United States- 1997
3) Pokemon- 1998
4) John Glenn goes back into space- 1998
5) Columbine High School shootings- 1999
6) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace- 1999
7) Millennium Celebrations- 2000
8) Sydney Olympics- 2000 (And do you remember any Olympics before that?)
9) Presidential Recount- 2000
10) iPod introduced- 2001
11) The Euro is introduced- 2002
12) Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster- 2003
13) Invasion of Iraq- 2003
14) Northeast Blackout- 2003
15) Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars- 2004
16) Indian Ocean Tsunami- 2004
17) Death of Pope John Paul II- 2005
18) Space shuttles return to flight- 2005
19) Hurricane Katrina hits Gulf Coast- 2005
And just for fun, some obscure ones:
Can you remember Comet Hale-Bopp? (I can’t!)
Can you remember the Game Boy Color?
Can you remember when the Mir space station re-entered?
Can you remember when the Concorde was retired?
Can you remember when SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X-Prize?
Can you remember the first time you used the Internet?
1) Nope.
2) Sadly, Nope.
3) I wish!
4) Nope.
5) Npoe.
6) Strangely, yes. My friends at school had all watched it and I hadn’t.
7) YES! The two things I remember most were the cheerios cereal with little 2s in it and a jingle on the television that went “The twentieth century is almost over, almost over, almost over, the twentieth century is almost over, all around the world!
8 ) I remember being really sad about not being able to see the torch go by. I also remember watching it.
9) I was unaware that there was a recount, but I knew that something fishy was going on.
10) No. At that time I was still using my kids boom box that only played cassette tapes.
11) No, not savy to European goings-on.
12) Oh, goodness, yes. I was shocked at how so many people could die and not even get into space.
13) Yes.
14) No, as I don’t live in the Northeast!
15) Yup. Everyone was really excited!
16) Yes
17) Yes. I liked him!
18) Not really… Haha I don’t really follow NASA very much.
19) Of course.
Obscures:
1) Ummm… no?
2) I reeeeallly wanted one in 1st grade.
3) No.
4) No.
5) No.
6) Hmmm… I think it might have been to go to ty.com and join club beanie baby. I still remember the sounds the dial-up made! NEEEE… BE-OH, BE-OH, EHHHHHH… DOOO *sound of phone dialing* Hahaha, I love dial-up.
And about 9/11, I was in 3rd grade at the time and I remember watching it on television in the morning before school and not understanding it. Our school had an assembly and a minute of silence. Later that day there was an hour of silence at my church which I did not attend.
You’ve got a good range of dates there, Kai! I don’t really have more to add… plus I can’t really think because there’s a really good song on the radio.
1) No.
2) No. D:
3) I remember some of my friends being some of the first to be playing it…
4) No. D:
5) Heard about it
6) Yes, but I didn’t like Star Wars then. D:
7) A little bit.
8 )Not really.
9) Somewhat, I remember being very worried that the candidate I didn’t want would be prez.
10) Yes. My Dad got one of the first gen. normal, I got one of the first gen. nano.
11) Heard about it, somewhat.
12) No, surprisingly.
13) A bit. I remember news about it.
14) No, actually.
15) Of course I remember it. It seems like only a few months ago.
16) Of course, we learned about this in class.
17) Heard a bit about it. (Shows how much I follow religion…)
18) Somewhat, but I didn’t know they had stopped.
19) That was in 2005? NOT POSSIBLE.
Just for laughs, I can’t really remember the first time I used the Internet. XD
Hurricane Katrina was almost exactly five years ago. I got over the shock when I went there a couple of weeks ago… The organization my church group was working with, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, was in the process of moving out because they agreed to stay for five years. Fortunately, a local group called Project Homecoming will continue to build houses at the same rate as they always have.
Seeing it for myself, it is at the same time shocking how much and how little has been done. It’s really hard to describe.
Oddly enough, I don’t remember the first time I used the Internet either. I do know that the first computer I bought didn’t have a modem, so I had to purchase an external one. I had to use AOL because it was the only ISP with a local phone connection available. I also had accounts with CompuServe and MSN, but used them sparingly because they added long-distance charges. The dial-up of those days was incredibly slow and you had to pay by the hour. For that reason, content tended to be text heavy with few graphics.
I first heard of the World Wide Web some time after that, when a friend mentioned this really cool service he’d found. Frankly, the reality was something of a disappointment at first sight: lots of promise but not much actually there. Nowadays it’s very much like what I had hoped to find.
1. No.
2. I first heard of HP when my grandma gave my sister the first four books for Christmas or her birthday or something.
3. The first Pokemon video game I had was Crystal, which came out in 2001.
4. Nope.
5. No.
6. Sorta.
7. Very well. There was much silly string involved.
8. Also fairly well, though that is the first I remember.
9. I remember that one. (I was born an extemper.)
10. Nope.
11. Sorta.
12. For some reason I remember this very well. I heard about it the following morning (Sunday) when I was at Panera’s, where my parents and aunts and uncles and cousins go every week.
13. Yep.
14. Yep.
15. Yep.
16. Quite well.
17. Also very well, since it concerned me, a Catholic.
18. Mm-hm, yeah.
19. Of course.
GB Color: I had one, how could I not remember it? (Mine was lime green; my first game was Croc.)
SpaceShipOne: Of course.
Internet: The first time I remember was when my mom helped me get on the Cartoon Network website. She could only help for a few minutes and closed the window after a bit, but I snuck back and sounded out “Car… toon… net… work…” and went back on.
the only one i don’t remember at all is john glenn going back into space. but i remember everything else. kinda spotty on the northeast powerout i guess cause i’m on the other side of the country but i do remember hearing about it and whatnot
don’t remember any of the obscure space ones, but my first gameboy wasn’t even in color kinda remember using the internet for the first time, not totally sure.
7
8, very vaguely
9
10
11
13
15
16
17–I actually have really specific memories about this one. I was in Switzerland, actually in the same village where I was this summer, and all of a sudden what must have been all the church bells in the entire country started ringing at once. It was deafening.
19–I ran a book drive for libraries there
1) Nope.
2) Not at all. When I started reading the books seriously it was already up to OotP.
3) My first one was Sapphire.
4) Not at all.
5) I only learned what they were in APUSH. And that was only because I asked.
6) That came out that recently? I had no idea.
7) Ah no, I remember that. We had just moved to America, actually. Unless you mean the “millennium” celebrations (the transition from 1999-2000)?
8 ) Nope. I was born during the Atlanta Olympics.
9) The first election I remember was the one with Kerry and Bush.
10) Not at all!
11) The euro was that recent?! I thought it was introduced way before 2002!
12) Nope. Was it that one with a teacher I don’t know anything about it, either.
13) Yes. I remember it being announced.
14) I lived in Tennessee in 2003, so no.
15) Nope.
16) I REMEMBER THAT. I was freaking out because I thought the Philippines would be hit. (My geographical knowledge was sketchy back then. ) It also happened on my sister’s birthday.
17) I remember that. I was in my aunt’s house at the time it was announced!
18) Nope.
19) I remember that too! My mom had friends living in New Orleans at the time, but they happened to be on vacation.
Obscure:
1) What is that?
2) My first video game console was a red GameBoy SP.
3-5) No idea what those are.
6) Not the very first time, but when i was little the only website I ever went on was the Snoopy website.
1. Yup.
2. Not really, since I didn’t get the first book until 98 or 99.
3. I remember Pokemon being new, was never into it, so don’t know if I remember it’s actual beginning.
4. Now that you mention it, yeah, yeah, I do.
5. Yup.
6. Nope, never was in to Star Wars
7. ? Oh, you just mean the Y2K jazz and then parties for the new millenium?
8. I don’t remember them right off, but I’m sure I watched them. They all blur together in my mind.
9. Yup. Definitely remember.
10. Maybe vaguely? I probably didn’t even have a personal CD player yet, we were never all that current on new technologies.
11. Yup.
12. Yuppers, because it occurred on the birthday of the guy I was crushing on at the time….
13. Yes.
14. I vaguely remember hearing about it, but it didn’t affect me, so I dont’ hve strong memories of it.
15. I think so.
16. Definitely.
17. Vaguely.
18. Not really
19. Definitely.
Comet Hale-Bopp: Uh, no, dont’ think so.
Of course!!!! That’s the only GameBoy I ever had, I still have my berry Game Boy Color. How could one not remember them?
Mir space station re-entering? I dont’ think so….
No
No
Well, I remember are computer pre-internet, and I think I remember when we got our first one with internet (painful dial up), but I dont’ know as I actually remember the first time I accessed the internet.
This is weird because I’ve been pretty unplugged my entire life, so there’s a lot of stuff here I should remember and don’t.
1. No. I remember hearing about it after.
2. No. The earliest I was reading Harry Potter was ’99.
3. Like, Pokemon came out? Or was popular? I definitely remember Pokemon.
4. No.
5. No.
6. Yes, actually. Wait, no.
7. Y2K WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE! Wait never mind. Yay, new millenium! This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…
8. No.
9. No. I DO remember getting into the turquoise Belair and driving down the steep rocky roads and having to pull out onto a dangerous ledge to let another car pass on the way to the voting booths.
10. No. Maybe a little.
11. Yes.
12. No.
13. Yes. Very much so.
14. No.
15. Vaguely?
16. Yes. Day after Christmas. I went on a long hike with my BFF at the time. I remember that day clearly.
17. Yes.
18. No.
19. Yes.
As for the questions:
No, but I remember hearing about it.
The what?
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No. I remember when I had never used the internet but I can’t remember the first time I did.
I don’t remember anything 1-6 (I was born in ’95, so…)
7) I vaguely remember this, though I didn’t really see what the big deal was. I mean, what if someone miscounted?
8-10) Nope.
11) Duh. I remember it so well since I had already gotten some money over the years, and for the boring-colored shillings with guys I’d never heard of, I got a shiny pink/red 10 euro bill which I though was really pretty.
12) Nope. I didn’t really hear much about space as a kid.
13) I remember it well since no-one would tell me anything about it (or anything to do with war) because I was just a kid and I wanted to know because hey, I lived in America too for a while and the more people blew me off the more I wanted to know.
14-15) Nada.
16-17) Yep. I went to catholic school, and there were tons of things about sending aid, etc. We mentioned the Pope’s death in class too.
18) See 12)
19) Yeah. It freaked me out because I was about to go back to cruising.
Obsure ones:
1-5) *has no clue*
6) I was researching for a project about the Sahara…
1) Vaguely…
2) No… I was three.
3) Yes, but not when it first started.
4) No.
5) No.
6) Vaguely.
7) YES! My mom’s friend gave me a box of stickers relating to it. A humongous box. There were so many… There was one of a chicken in a spacesuit.
8) A little bit.
9) No.
10) Yes.
11) Sorta?
12) Yes.
13) Yes.
14) Yes… It was horrible. But the stars were amazing… I’d never seen them so bright.
15) Don’t think so. Actually, I take it back. Yes.
16) Yes, unfortunately.
17) That was 2005? Wow. I thought it was like, 2008. o.o
18) No…
19) Yes, vividly.
I can remember the the Game Boy Color (it’s still hiding in the closet somewhere…) and when the Concorde was retired. I think the internet was always a part of my life… There was never really a “first time”.
1) I didn’t even know who Princess Di was til I was like eight. (2003.)
2) Nooope. I can remember my brother dressing up as him for Halloween later, though.
3) Vaguely! I made up new Pokemon with my cousin!
4) No.
5) Not in the least. I remember Virgina Tech, though.
6) A little bit! That was the one time I ever watched The Phantom Menace! I’ve never watched it again. Apparently my four-year-old self had a traumatic experience and arranged my future destiny so I would never encounter that movie again. My four-year-old self obviously had psychic powers.
7) Yes! Bubbe’s house! Making a “Happy 2000” sign! Confetti things! Those paper things that you blow and they make a honking noise! The first time I ever stayed up til midnight!
8) (cool face for the win) No Olympics for me til 2002.
9) No. I remember finding out Bush had won, though. My parents were mad.
10) A little bit. I remember the ads. I think my dad got one. Then the Nanos and Minis started coming out, and my mom decided that they were ridiculous and would never catch on. Love her.
11) Definitely not.
12) No.
13) Yes! I went to a peace march with my mom! I made a sign that said “No War in Iraq” and “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was peaceful, we should be peaceful too!” Afterwards, I told my mom, “Now that we did that, there’s no way they can invade Iraq!” I thought it was weird that its name ended with a Q. My second-grade teacher gave a long and detailed explanation of why we were invading Iraq, which took up most of class until recess.
14) I still don’t know what that is.
15) A bit. I don’t remember being very interested.
16) Oh yeah. That was the Era of the Rubber Bracelets. I already had one for Livestrong, one for the sixth Harry Potter book, and one to save the rainforest. I got one, a dark red one, for the tsunami. There was a tsunami, and it was right before Christmas Break, and then I came back to school after New Year’s and I wondered why no one was as frantic as they had been when they first found out.
17) Yeah! I remember Mom explaining the whole white-smoke black-smoke thing at the dinner table.
18) No.
19) Yes. My parents were really mad about that one. Mom was ranting about how President Bush ought to be doing more almost every night.
For the obscures:
None of them except the first time I used the Internet. I first got hooked up to computers by using Microsoft Word. I still have the first story I ever, ever wrote on my laptop, since we transferred all my docs there after I got my laptop last year. I can still remember that dial-up sound too, and since it was so incredibly slow, I never used it. In fourth grade, once, I made a Neopets account. Then nothing until sixth grade, when we got a computer with Internet Explorer. Two years later, I hit MuseBlog when searching for the main Muse site. I commented, briefly, on what we ought to do for the Winter Ball.
1. Camera Film: I’ve used a disposable camera a couple of times, like when I was ten or so, and my mom used to have a big old film camera. I didn’t take very good pictures with it though, and now I and my mother both have digital cameras.
2. Landline Phones: We have one in the house. Really the only phone we have. I wish we all had cell phones, though. It’d be way more convenient.
3. Books: *snort* Like most Musers, it seems, I think this is a load of cake. But I will admit that I read quite a bit online. Since I got my laptop, possibly more than I read real books, just because it’s there and going to the library is inconvenient. I read news articles, fanfiction, and the like. I did find Frankenstein easier to read online than in book format, possibly because the formatting seemed less crowded.
4. Being lost: After a particularly harrowing trip where we got lost downtown in this one city, my dad decided to buy a GPS. And I ‘ll probably need one once I really start driving.
5. Music Videos on MTV: Don’t have a TV, so how could I remember them?
6.Walkmans: I had a cassette player, once upon a time. It broke when I was seven. Didn’t know what a Walkman actually was though because of my technologically lagging family…
7.Nick at Nite: Remember what I said about the TV?
8. Tan M&Ms: They existed?
9. Czechoslovakia: When I was younger, I remember laughing at someone who had done a report on the country Czechoslovakia. Didn’t they know that it didn’t exist anymore?
10. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: When he ran for governor I remember my mom saying something about the Terminator guy but I wasn’t paying attention to either pop culture or politics back then so my mind declared it a non-issue.
I’ve used disposable cameras before, and my mom has many film cameras she uses for her work occasionally, but I really haven’t ever used them myself. Digital’s good enough for me.
2. Landline phones
I use them whenever I need to make a call, seeing as I haven’t got a cell.
3. Real books
Preposterous! I think eReaders and such are nice for traveling (and I kinda want one myself), but I doubt real books will ever truly become obsolete.
4. Getting lost
Psssshhh, I get lost all the time. My sense of direction is horrific.
5. Music videos on MTV
Never seen them either.
6. Walkmans
I know what they are, but I’ve never actually used them.
7. Glory days of Nick at Nite
I don’t like Nick from what I’ve seen of it, but I really haven’t watched it at all.
8. Tan M&M’s
Those existed?!
9. Czechoslovakia (yes, I did copy and paste that)
What’s up everyone….long time no post. i’ve been following a lot but not necessarily posting stuff, i hope everyone is well, especially the GAPAs. and now to make this a relevant post i’ll make a comment about arnold schwarzenegger- the best of his movies was definitely Commando. fantastic dialogue, an AMAZING plot, plus the lead characters name is Col. John Matrix. nuff said
I find Time magazine’s list to be very inaccurate, as far as my experiences go:
1: Camera film: Yes, I have used cameras with film. Actually, I still own a camera that takes film.
2: Landline phones: I have used a cell phone once in my life, only to learn how to use one.
3: Printed books: Do I even need to say it? I am very amazed and irritated that Time put them on this list.
4: Being lost: Yes, I have been lost.
5: Music videos on MTV: I have never, ever watched MTV.
6: Walkmans: Nope, never used one. I have also never used an iPod.
Like Enceladus, a French textbook I recently used remembered them. Actually, they were popular when that textbook was published. (En Bonne Forme, Enceladus?)
7: The “Glory Days” of Nick at Nite: I don’t think I’ve ever watched Nickelodeon. However, I do know of Nick at Nite.
8: Tan M&Ms: I knew they existed, but they had been discontinued by the time I was born.
9: Czechoslovakia: I know that it is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but Czechoslovakia is ever so much more fun to say.
10: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: I know he’s the governor of California, but I also know that he played the Terminator.
Yup. Left home last night at 10pm AK time (1am central & blog time), got to campus at 9pm central, since my friends and I stopped for dinner on the way from the airport.
Summer is always a slow time for me, post-wise, as I’m so busy with other things, like work, and just hanging with family instead of living on my comptuer 24/7. Although, really, this summer I was on much more than I normally am.
I would like to be on 24/7 but parental units make me have “screen free time” from 1:00 to 2:30 in the afternoon. Like I listen to them and don’t go on my ~~*NEW*~~ DSi with Internet.
22~ Cliffeh! Hey there, good to see you around. I’m going to say hello and then vanish again, I’m sailing. But stick around and we’ll tear each other’s throats out again when I get home and post more often.
So, in Milwaukee for a kind of rest and relaxation stop; maintenance and time off is pretty much what we’ve been doing, it’s great.
I got to see Gaelic Storm last night at the Irish Fest! It was great, not a really long set and it was raining, but it was loads of fun nonetheless.
The first day we got here I spent getting utterly lost in the art museum, which is really good. There’s not any sort of organization to it though, so one moment you’re in minimalism, the next you’re looking at Andy Warhol and other pop art, and then all of a sudden you’re in Italian Renaissance, then liturgical silver, then 19th century German and Austrian paintings and furniture, then African folk art, then Georgia O’Keefe. It was flammy. Then I spent a little time with my grandparents (they’ve relented and aren’t stalking me now, but they’re only an hour away from here) and cousin (the Cousin From Hell, but he was actually okay).
Then yesterday we had maintenance. Sanding and painting the outside of the ship, it was okay. Hot and meh. Then Gaelic Storm.
Today we cleaned everything, and then I had the rest of the afternoon off. One of my shipmates and I borrowed bikes (!!) and explored downtown. It was cool, we found a few vintage clothing stores and I seriously considered buying a skirt that looked something along the lines of a leiderhosen skirt thing. It was adorable in a hideous kind of way. But I didn’t get it.
I did, however, get a shirt at another store we went to. I swear, I’m going to get home with so much more clothing than I left with. 0.o But it’s a cool shirt. It’s red and black plaid, but it’s fitted and made to fit a girl’s body, which is fun. It’s also got ruffles in the back. It sounds weird, but it’s cute. I’m looking forward to the fall to wear it.
YAWWWNNNN @ time’s list/beloit’s list/every other “KIDS THESE DAYS!!!” list
i can’t take anything that claims kids don’t know about real books. um? whichever GAPA said this is all very “chicken little” is definitely right :/
college starts on thursday…i should be packing Q____Q
1) You are SO kidding me. I still have some film canisters and cameras floating around my room somewhere, probably… Lots of old disposable cameras. I use my digital camera more, but film’s good too.Â
2) Landline phones? Ha. I have one in my room. My cell phone is older than my eleven-year-old sister, and is rarely used.Â
3) …you’re kidding me. I have six books sitting at the bottom of my backpack at this very moment, that I take everywhere I go.Â
4) I am very good at getting lost. Especially when I try to use the GPS.Â
5) Don’t watch TV.Â
6) I still use my mom’s old (tape/cassete playing) Walkman sometimes.Â
7) My family almost never watches TV, and never did.Â
10)Â Â Having grown up in a lactose intolerant/milk allergy family, I wouldn’t have known the colours of M&Ms anyway.Â
9) Wait…wha? My friend Nick (whom I’ve known since I was three) is half Czech. I still say Czechoslovakia, although I do know that it isn’t Czechoslovakia anymore.Â
10) Puh-leez… You have got to be kidding me. You mean some people don’t know him as the Terminator? 0.o
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I think I saw them once… The Blue Angels are spectacular, too. It’s funny when they come to town; you can always tell when they fly overhead. It’s almost gotten my mother in a car accident more than once.
Went to the ren faire today. I’m beat. But I bought a really pretty waist cincher/underbust corset. It’s light blue with embroidery and black on one side, and on the other it’s dark blue (it’s reversible). I also bought two ear cuffs (silver wire & blue stones).
I have a nice shirt to wear under the corset, and I looked st skirts there but they were all waaay expensive. So I am probably going to just try to make one for next time (probably next summer, but maybe halloween? Who knows) which will be cheaper but easier on my bank account. Then I can add layers and sashes and bells and fun things as well.
Leaving for college in a week. One of my best friends leaves tomorrow. It’s really weird…
Whoof. Hi again from Peru, MuseBlog. Just got out of the cloud forest slash jungle. Legs covered with bug bites. Mother forgot anti-itching cream back in the States. Went four hundred miles in a broken-down old van provided by the tourist agency. Pushed an old boat upstream through rapids. Saw jaguar pawprints. Developed what may or may not be giardia. Lost favorite knit cap. Saw woolly monkeys, parrots, and macaws. Took really long, really hot shower. Wish you were here.
Car’s Eye. I suddenly have a flashback to five years old, when my brother and I pretended the cars behind us on the highway were monsters chasing our car, and their headlights were their eyes. I approve.
I feel like Time’s list of things kids will never experience is kind of focused on a stereotyped impression of the experiences of privileged first-world kids..
Moved into dorm, mostly put away. Might have to switch one of the sections of my class. It’s really tired but it’s also early on a Saturday night.. Will probably sleep anyway.
Hmm, knitting’s pretty fun, I only wish I could do it better…I once knitted a scarf. I probably still have it somewhere in the back of my closet…but I’ve since forgotten how to do it.
I can knit! That’s why my gravatar is a ball of yarn. I learned to knit while in Girl Scouts, and now I knit while watching TV. Just sitting and watching is so boring…I need something for my hands to do.
I make fingerless gloves. And little squares that I’m sewing up into a blanket. What do you want to make, Piggy?
(And incidentally, why would knitting need to learn itself, even if it could? That implies that it doesn’t have intrinsic knowledge of what it is…How terrible it must be, to not know what you are!)
On a random but relevant tangent, I have just taken up crocheting again. Which is fun.
I learned how to knit before I learned to crochet, but it was always a stop on the road to crocheting. My mother said I should learn to knit first. I learned to knit, used this knowledge, as far as I remember, to knit one square about two inches by maybe six inches, and then learned to crochet. I’ve done much more crocheting.
Does anybody else crochet?
Does anyone know anything about kayaks? I think I want to buy one. Is there a kind that’s suited for both the ocean and lakes/rivers?
More likely than not, I’ll just get the cheapest I can find on craigslist. I guess I’m pretty much fine with anything as long as it floats.
My brothers’ friend has a Sea Eagle inflatable one that they use when we come out to LI. I’ve only seen it used in oceans and bays, but I think it could would fine in a river or lake.
I have an inflatable two-person kayak. We don’t really use it that much, but it’s not very easy to pop from what I can tell, although I assume it’s harder to maneuver than regular kayaks.
Kayaks are awesome fun if you don’t mind getting wet. Of course, if you mind getting wet, I would advise avoiding boats altogether. But since you posted this, then that more than likely isn’t a problem for you, so I shall resort to my original statement and say that kayaks are awesome.
I built a kayak! And I genuinely like my hand-made one the best, although I am also fond of Aquanauts. Not sure how they handle on the ocean though…My hand-made one is a Greenlander style kayak, so it was made for the ocean. Dunno if this helps…
I know, myself, that knitting does not know itself and therefore cannot teach itself, nor can it learn itself in order to to teach itself, and in fact it can’t even learn, itself… Or know, itself, so it can’t teach, itself (or teach itself, for that matter), because it can’t teach what it does not know itself (which happens not not to be itself, or any single thing in itself, really). It can’t know itself without knowing, itself…
Although that was extremely fun to write, it was also completely pointless, so I should probably write something else…
1: Camera film: Er, no, I’ve never used one…
2: Landline phones: We used to have one. Now we don’t…
3: Printed books: *snorts* If Time really thinks print books are obsolete nowadays, it’s lost its mind. I’ve never even met anyone with an e-reader, and am the only person I’ve met who ever even reads books online.
4: Being lost: Ha. Just ha. I’ve been lost too man times to remember.
5: Music videos on MTV: I never watched that. Actually, for the longest time, I thought that was just the name for all those channels that play music.
6: Walkmans: What’s a Walkman?…
7: The “Glory Days†of Nick at Nite: I never watched Nick At Nite…
8: Tan M&Ms: I’m allergic to them, and never paid attention to the colors. I don’t even know which they come in now let alone a long time ago.
9: Czechoslovakia: Well, no, I wasn’t around when it was, but I read too much historical fiction, so I read about it long before I knew anything of European history, ending up not learning that it had split. And thus I still accidentally say it now and then…
10: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: What?
As for Kai’s list, I only remember Katrina. Even for a 12-year-old, that’s a bit… Surprising. Oh, well.
Though I think the first website I ever went to was Millsbury. As in, the cereal brand’s website for kids, where you create a person, buy a house, play cereal-related games, and do many, many other things through an extremely transparent attempt at advertising that I noticed even though I was 7 at the time. Not that it made a difference. I didn’t go there because of a particular fondness for the cereal; I went because, for some reason, I really, really enjoyed it…
1: Camera film: Um. Yeah, every time I go to a sleep-away camp, I bring at least one disposable camera. If that doesn’t count, well, I used to play with film canisters all the time, and I’ve definitely seen real film.
2: Landline phones: Sure I know what these are! How could someone not? It hasn’t gotten to the point where nobody owns one, they’re still cheaper than cell phones. (And I also disagree with teenagers being called “dependent” because they sleep with or very near their cell phones. I do this, and I barely ever use my phone. The reason is that my mom makes me carry it everywhere, and I don’t remember to take it out of my pocket at home until I go to bed and it’s uncomfortable when I lie down. Then I take it out and put it on my bedside table, partly because I’m too tired to get up and put it, say, in the kitchen, but partly because it’s just more convenient that way.)
3: Printed books: WHAT. I don’t know what Times is thinking. Really, this is probably one of the dumbest lists I’ve read in a long time, and this is the dumbest item on the list. Even if the list is more about children much younger than me, I’m still sure they already have and will in the future experience real books. In the odd case that there are none at home, how about at school? No school is going to have a kindle in every single classroom for every single kid. That’s ridiculous.
4: Hahaha. Not everyone has GPS, or a smartphone. Especially not kids. I get lost with my parents and on my own.
5: Music videos on MTV: Never watched MTV. I don’t watch much TV at all, really, just Netflix.
6: Walkmans: I’ve seen them before, and probably used one once or twice, but not really enough to say I’ve experienced it.
7: The “Glory Days†of Nick at Nite: As I said, I don’t watch much TV.
8: Tan M&Ms: Yes, I missed them. Although I have read about them in books (yes, real books. ) such as Imponderables. That doesn’t really count, though. (How many smileys can I use in this sentence? )
9: Czechoslovakia: Probably wasn’t around when it was, but I definitely knew about it for a long time. Czechoslovakia? Please. Everybody loves saying Czechoslovakia!
10: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: Oh puh-lease. I knew Arnold as the Terminator before the Governor of California, and was quite shocked when I found out.
In fact, in a safety presentation I attended for work, the police officer recommended that people keep their cell phones near them while they sleep as a security measure.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with your post, but Czechoslovakia is in my opinion one of the funnest (despite the fact that this isn’t a word) words to say.
Oh. My. God. Oh my god. You guys probably haven’t heard yet – it only just happened, but…oh my god.
There was a bus full of tourists from Hong Kong in Manila, Philippines that got hijacked by an ex-policeman. He later released….nine people, I think – but there were still 15 or so on the bus.
Then, we were watching the news at 7:30, and it mentioned how they still were holding that many people hostage, but then after a while they interrupted with live coverage from the bus in Manila. It said that all the remaining people, except for the Filipino bus driver, had been killed by the gunman/ex-policeman. The bus driver escaped. It’s shocking how he could kill so many people like that – just kidnap a whole bus full of people, hold them at gunpoint while the bus is being surrounded by police, and then proceed to kill most of them. It’s absolutely terrifying, and all the more so because the tourists were from Hong Kong.
It’s already been covered on some news sites (BBC, Reuters I think, and Xinhua News).
It makes you think…part of our school orchestra is going to be travelling to Manila in November for APAC (Asia-Pacific Activities Conference). I’m scared.
It’s horrific. It’s absolutely horrific.
And now the policemen have broken into the bus. I must go and find out what has happened.
Gosh, that’s so awful. I’m so sorry. I have no idea what it must be like to go through that, but it sounds absolutely terrifying. *hugs*
I don’t understand why someone would do something like that. It’s horrible… We’re here for you, Lady Sel. *hugs*
The media got it wrong! According to the bus driver, all 15 left on board had been killed, but as I watch the news, at least three people have been helped out alive. The gunman’s dead – I could see him slumped through the door of the bus.
That is… horrific. You’re right. Twenty-four people, just living their lives, going on vacation, taking a break.
And suddenly, their break becomes a nightmare. And many of them don’t make it out alive. Those who do will probably never trust public transport again. They’ll always think of these few days as the worst of their lives.
And not just them. Their families, everybody who’s been worrying about their Hong Kong relatives on vacation in Manila. Everyone who’s been praying that it was somebody else’s bus. Everybody that didn’t get a call assuring them that it was.
I’m sure all of those people aren’t taking their eyes off the television. Hoping now that the driver was wrong, and there are more people alive inside. Hoping that their sister, brother, mother, father, uncle, aunt, cousin… Whoever they know that is still in the bus, they’re hoping that they were spared.
Life is so strange. One moment, your biggest worry is the beginning of the school year, or something else fairly trivial.
And the next, you’re worrying about someone’s survival. Someone you probably weren’t thinking about at all five minutes ago. Someone who was perfectly safe, living their own life off somewhere else while you lived yours. Then Bam! and they’re in mortal peril. And you can’t do anything to help.
I don’t know why I’m thinking through all this. I don’t usually. I just wanted to write a post expressing how terrible I thought this was, and then it grew.
I think I’ll go think about something less depressing. While I still can. While there’s no tragedy taking place in my life.
And that wasn’t depressing at all.
That was beautifully written, Errata. And you are right, it doesn’t happen to everyone, but it could happen to anyone. This incident has made me feel so grateful that nothing serious like that has ever happened to me.
Some of the people being helped out of the bus by the police looked absolutely traumatized – crying, in states of shock, terribly distressed – I wish there was something I could do but there isn’t, really. What they’ve gone through is what they’ve gone through, and it can’t be changed. I only hope they will be able to recover as well as you can recover after these things.
Thanks. I’m glad you thought so.
I think we all wish that we could help whenever someone’s going through a hard time. And we often think we can’t. I have to wonder whether we’re right nearly as often as we think we are.
I think that out of the 25 people on board, there were three Filipinos – the driver, the photographer and tour guide? I’m not too sure. I only know that the four confirmed dead so far are from Hong Kong. The bus driver is definitely alive. And the gunman -who’s Filipino – is dead.
SFTDP – Never mind. I just read an article on National Post, whatever that is, that said the 3 Filipinos were among the 9 originally released. So your people are safe. My people…not so much.
Not only is this a shocking loss of human life, capitalistically speaking it is terrible coverage for the Philippines. Even you, Sel, are scared of going to the Philippines.
Awful for both Hong Kong and the Philippines.
The hostage crisis, as the media have labelled it, is finally over. This is what I think happened:
A tour bus carrying 25 people (including the bus driver) was being followed by a Filipino man (the gunman) who stopped the bus and asked for a ride. The tour guide said no, but he somehow got onto the bus and told the bus driver to lock the doors. Then, he hijacked the bus.
Later that afternoon, he released 9 people – 9 men, 9 women and 9 children – and after that the driver managed to leave the bus. That left 15 hostages still on the bus with the gunman. Police had surrounded the bus at this point, but the gunman threatened to kill everyone if they tried to break down the doors. He was interviewed that afternoon on the radio and he said something along the lines of ‘I know they are trying to kill me but if they try anything I will kill everyone.’
He also wrote a sign and posted it on the window saying that something big was going to happen at 3 pm. Nothing did happen, however.
Finally, at night, I think they managed to shoot the gunman and then broke through the back entrance of the bus. The bus driver had said before that everyone had been shot dead, but this was proven not to be true as I saw on the news at least 4 people being helped out of the bus by police, fully able to walk.
The Xinhua news site says at least 7 of the 15 are alive, while four are confirmed dead.
It’s so tragic. They released all the elderly and children, and there were three children there. Two of them were with their mother, but the other’s parents were still inside. I really hope they’re still alive…I wish none of them had died. It’s so sad.
Oh my god. I missed the original posting, but that’s incredibly frightening. I agree with Errata’s beautiful post- it’s amazing how concerned we can be about people half a world away who we’ve never met, over a situation that will never affect us. A glowing tribute to human empathy, I guess.
Oh my god. Please let those parents be safe. Oh my god.
Why? What was his point? I mean, if the guy was “demanding his job back” as Rosebud said, he was obviously not in his right mind. But even if you aren’t quite “all there”, don’t you know that killing people is wrong? It just makes me wonder how he got that way… I feel so bad for the people who were killed and their families… It really makes me appreciate how lucky I am to have a great family.
I am…confused. Confused at this emotion and horror for 25 people. Surely people die in the 25s every day, so why is this special? Not to say that I’m not horrified, but I guess I’m really not, not nearly as much as everyone else seems to be. Frankly, I thought this sort of thing was happening all the time, so hearing the one example isn’t shocking or anything, except that we don’t hear more of them.
Hm. The mind works in mysterious ways. I feel callous, but I can’t help it. Oh well. -wanders off-
I know, I was thinking about that earlier. Feeling almost the same, but then I started thinking about it, and realizing how terrible it was for everybody involved. For some reason I just thought about it this time, when I don’t usually.
I think that you’re right, in a way. Most of us, if we saw it on the news, would have thought, ‘oh, isn’t that sad’, and wandered off to eat an orange, or something. But Selenium saw it, and it hit close to home for her, and she posted about it. And we all took a moment to think.
I forgot what I wanted to say after hearing Selenium talk about the hostage situation on the bus.
The things on my mind seem so small in comparison and so silly…
I got my Learner’s Permit to drive. The written test wasn’t very hard, I only got one question wrong. In my experience, the book work for scuba certification was much harder, although an actual license might be the technical/legal counterpart rather than the permit.
Also, once this thread closes and I know I won’t get more answers, I’d love to do a data analysis of the “Can You Remember When…” list and see what percentage remembers what. Do you think I could get more data if I cross-posted the list in The Polling Place?
I can remember all of 1-19 with the exception of the Olympics. w00t!
When the Northeastern Black happened, I was vacationing in NYC. The subway we were on was pulling out of the station when the lights went out and all the doors locked. People started talking about another terrorist attack, and when the doors opened and we walked out onto the street crowded with confused, electricity-lacking people, Ground Zero was right across the street. One of the eeriest moments of my life!
And honestly, the only gaming system I have is my blocky, purple GameBoy color… with the exception of my dad’s tricked-out gaming computer, =P
That’s terrible about the hostage situation. A really close friend of mine is from Dubai, and she was supposed to be vacationing there when there were bombings at the one she was going to be staying at… I think this was about two years ago. I’m thankful that her vacation was delayed, but I remember her talking about all her friends who lived in the area. She didn’t hear from one of them till a full three days afterwards, and for those three days I’ll never forget how scared and upset she was.
MUSEBLOG! Hello. It feels as if it’s been a long time. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Why don’t I come on here very often anymore? I’ve come to the conclusion that I actually don’t have any threads that I regularly attend anymore except this one, the Hare and Hedgepig, and the Alter ego thread. Most of my old threads have died. That’s sad.
So…. what do you guys recommend? I like writing and being crazy and going on adventures. Thread suggestions?
Greetings, Tippikal! I believe you appeared as Kiara in December 2006 and posted throughout 2007. Then you went inactive for a while and reappeared briefly in April 2008. It’s good to “see” you again.
39- Yeah, but I took a moment to think, and I thought: Um. People die all the time. I thought this kind of thing happened more often. And wandered off to drink some tea. So my “moment to think” didn’t make me think at all, except, for some strange reason, of Galapagos. Probably because of the bus.
Oof. I feel icky and headachy. Need some water maybe. -wanders off (again)-
My mental processes were hijacked by an oreo and a demonic cross-dresser. (Translation, my brain was being random again and decided to pop up with those words.) And I can’t type today!
I haven’t had time to really catch up on what’s going on here (I will, though! I’m working on it!), but I like the random thread picture! It’s really pretty.
I just returned from a month-long backpacking trip in Utah, then moved into college, and classes start tomorrow! It was strange going from no electricity, no outside-world contact, 15-mile-daily-hikes, 50-pound backpacks, quiet simplicity, etc., to busybusybusy college orientation insanity. I signed up for classes this morning, and I’m taking a superawesome class comparing the American Empire to the Roman Empire. I’m excited!
Tip: Don’t read about flying saucers right before you go to bed. Even if you’re completely skeptical. Even if the article you’re reading is also completely skeptical. Because your subconscious loves coming up with nasty things in the dark.
Sometimes when I’m bored I go on creepypasta (a site that has a lot of scary stories on it) just before bed and try to find the most nerve-wracking ones. It’s no fun reading them in the day
OH MY GOD
JADE
ARE YOU KIDDING
SO BASICALLY FOR THE LAST WEEK (OR MORE) EVERY TIME FRIENDS ARE AT MY HOUSE THEY’VE BEEN GOING ON CREEPY PASTA AND RUINING MY LIFE
MY FRIEND WAS JUST ON THAT TONIGHT! FBJKSGkjndv
sorry for the unsightly capslock gapas but rest assured it is only because that is exactly how i feel
I just got home from working at the local food bank. First time I’ve done this, but it was fun. We went through boxes of stuff sorting out what had expired or otherwise unsuitable, and what was okay, and further sorting everything into these gigantic cardboard bins.
I hope we can do that again sometime, I enjoyed it.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooood morning MB! Currently, school is about to start in approximately 45 minutes. GaH! Appropriately, it’s raining today. Who’d of thunk it?
What sort of inconsiderate jerk thinks it’s acceptable to phone someone at 5:45 IN THE MORNING? Or, really, since they had an Alaska number, 2:45 for them. Who thinks phoning at 2:45 is acceptable, either, though? Thanks to them, my already short night of 7 hours of sleep was cut to only 6. Guess who isn’t going to be alert for her morning classes? Yup, that right. Me. Unfortunately, I accidentally hung up whilst trying to answer, so didn’t get to cuss them out thoroughly. Who votes that, at 8:45 here (5:45 back in Alaska), I call ’em and return the favor?
I’m thinking along these lines:
oh, hey, I had a missed call from you on my phone, didnt’ recognize the number, but given the time stamp, I thought for sure it must ahve been something important. Oh, what? It’s 5:50 in Alaska right now, really? I woke you up? Oh, I’m sorry, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I CAKING FELT WHEN YOU CALLED ME THIS MORNING AT 2:45 ALASKA TIME WHICH IS 5:45 WHERE I AM. Oh, a wrong number? Well godbleep verify that you’ve got the correct phone number typed in before you call somebody at such an uncivilized time. bleep.” *snap phone shut*
Wow. I’m back on a computer….
Anyway, I just got back from summer camp, wherein I had much fun, and as part of it biked 125 miles and to the highest point in the archipelago in which the camp is located. I felt on top of the world.
Then I got home and learned that, thanks to a whole lot of luck, my dad had surgery that will prevent him from developing cancer that would have killed him in 6 months. THANK YOU KARMA GODS!!!
Also, I got all my textbooks for my freshman year of high school…my back will break if I have to carry ALL of these at once.
Meanwhile you appear to have gone through many threads and I haven’t the time to catch up, but oh well, the picture for this random thread is beautiful.
I’ve just realized how awesome Netflix is.
Ok, so they don’t have some movies that you might expect them to have, like Fantasia (at least not in my area), but they do have the 2-season ’60s television show that my great-uncle starred in: “Here Come the Brides.” We got the first DVD yesterday and it’s really weird knowing that your family member is that person on the screen.
My aunt or somebody helped write scripts for Gilligan’s Island and apparently in one episode, there’s a piece of wreckage with the first few letters of our last name on it or something. I never saw the episode, though.
There’s a hypothesis that Triceratops is just the juvenile form of a dinosaur called Torosaurus. But if paleontologists eventually decide that the two are the same species, it will be called Triceratops, because that was the first fossil identified. So it’s not true that Triceratops never existed — the truth is that Torosaurus might not have existed as a separate species. But the news didn’t tell the story that way, because nobody cares about Torosaurus.
Yeah, I just read an online article. They did away with the name Brontosaurus for Apatosaurus because it came first, and I assumed that’s the way they’d go with Triceratops, but it seems like since that’s the more popular name they’d keep it over Torosaurus. Which saves my sanity a bit, but still, I keep forgetting how fast science changes how we see things.
I am mostly just surprised I didn’t hear about it before now!
I didn’t realize that Triceratops came first anyway. The article I read first was a little confusing on that point–
“That same line of thinking may yet preserve the Triceratops, though we’re prepared to offer a more modern argument for this Late Cretaceous dilemma. We’re thinking, of course, about search engine optimization. You’ll get a lot more hits on Google if you type in Triceratops instead of Torosaurus, and if you don’t understand why that matters, you’re, well, a dinosaur. So let’s agree: A Triceratops isn’t a baby Torosaurus — a Torosaurus is a grown-up Triceratops.”
was their wording, which made me think that they were going with popularity over which came first.
There was some bad reporting when the story first broke. Our writers were more careful.
What happened with Brontosaurus was similar. Back in the 19th century, paleontologists found a skull without a body and called it Apatosaurus. Soon afterward, other paleontologists found a body without a skull and called it Brontosaurus. Much later, scientists discovered that the skull and body went together. By the rules of paleontological nomenclature, they had to keep the older name and discard the younger one.
Well, the Yale Peabody Museum is the only museum in the world that can say “We have Brontosaurus”, because they have the Apatosaurus specimen that was wrongly called Brontosaurus on display.
It feels so fall-ish today, and I’m loving it. It’s supposed to heat up again tomorrow though, and I feel like I’m cheating on summer with autumn. :p
I just finished making spiced fig jam. I needed to do something with the figs, the tree had so many. Come to think of it, I think it’s the smell of the spices that makes it feel like fall. Is it just me, or do cinnamon and cloves seem very autumnal? My brain works in strange ways.
So, embarrassing experience today. I was cleaning up the kitchen while the kids I babysit for had their ‘reading hour’, while simultaneously listening to Mas Que Nada by the Black Eyed Peas and dancing tango with their kitten. Then, the mom and dad walked in, home early from errands, catching me in mid-dance. I’m not sure if I’ll be asked to babysit again anytime soon.
I’ve been caught mid-dance multiple times… And I have quite a few embarrassing babysitting moments, like when I burnt all the popcorn…or couldn’t figure out how to turn on the d*** tv, which I am convinced hates me…
Unfortunately this wasn’t a universal remote – it was a Comcast one, which my family has…so even more pathetic…I guess I just don’t watch much TV. To my defense, they were using On Demand, which my family has never used.
My first brother: (The one who tried to win at Hangman by using the word “Cowflu”.) “And the boat’s will get swamped, and then the engine will explode!”
My second brother: “Do you really think an engine on a boat wouldn’t be waterproof? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard!”
My first brother: “There’s no oxygen in here!”
My second brother: “Of course there’s oxygen in here.”
My first brother: “There’s TOO MUCH oxygen in here! I need carbon dioxide to breathe!”
Me: “So you’re a plant?”
*Laughter*
My first brother: “I need to do photosynthesis. And then you look and film comes out of my ears…”
*Beat*
My second brother: “I don’t get it.”
Me: “Photosynthesis. Think about it.”
My second brother: “Oh, that’s dumb. That’s really dumb.”
(And right now, my second brother is convinced the Coast Guard is part of the Navy.)
Random: I just realized that the person whom I text most often (more than once a year) is 42nd on my contacts list. Yet another way that 42 is the Ultimate Answer.
The random threads? They’re pretty much just what they sound like – a place where Musers can post about anything on their minds with no direct topic. I like to think of it as the MB Headquarters.
A place to chatter about anything and everything. Just like the name says.
You don’t technically have to follow this thread to be a part of MB, but you’ll miss a lot. I did this for a few months, but it just isn’t the same.
Do you guys think that it would be worth buying a Pokemon Red cartridge for $16 from Amazon? My subconscious seems to think so… well, actually, it wants me to buy Pokemon Blue but they’re pretty much the same…
A while ago I had a dream where I encountered MissingNo. on Pokemon Blue and showed it to my dad. Then, last night, I had a dream where me, my brother and a friend of my brother all got Pokemon Blue and an unidentified modern Pokemon game. Only, I didn’t get Pokemon Blue because I was planning to order it from Ebay. I was playing the modern game, and it was kind of weird, which I noticed in-dream. In a patch of grass, there was a Psyduck running around visibly, and I saw Ho-Oh and Celebi.
I’m not really cheating on summer today. It’s more like flirting with fall behind summer’s back. This mild weather is lovely, but I still miss straight up hot.
Today’s been sorta relaxing, I’m assembling the shed that will be the new chicken coop. I was going to ride my bike to the beach, but I think I’ll go later.
I just got back from a trip on my friend’s boat. (Her parents own a historical schooner that people pay to go out on and sail around and stuff. My friend gets to invite each of her friends on a trip each summer, which is really fun.) We slept in her family’s cabin, since there was a full boat, and although it was a bit cramped it was fun. They have the biggest cabin on the boat, and it’s only for 4 people. In fact the only below deck place bigger than it is the galley(Ship’s kitchen and dining rroom.) . It rained all of yesterday, and we had to anchor just after lunch because it was too rainy and windy. A lot of my clothes are soaking wet… Lobster bake was fun though. I am a vegetarian so I don’t eat lobster, but it was still fun. One of the crew made rice krispie treats with chocolate because there were no grammcrackers, thus no s’mores. My friend, her little sister, and I walked along the beach a ways ans got…rather muddy… Anywayses, it was fun.
Bonjour, tout le monde!
I’m in French Canada right now, and my hotel has free internet! I’ve been to a bunch of museums, explored the under-city, and went to a botanical garden. In my spare time, I watched Mythbusters (though not in French, I don’t know enough) , created some really good original characters, and slept. Montreal is very exhausting (don’t worry, GAPAs, I’m not there now)! Well, I’ll be browsing some other sites and, of course, I’ll be here. Au Revoir, Enceladus
I am, and French Keyboards are hard to do punctuation on. (Due to the fact there are many accents that take up space. They have essentially three shift keys.)
I think we were in Montreal at the same time as you…were you there about three days ago?
Was the botanical garden near an insect museum? Maggie refused to go anywhere near that museum when we went to a garden-thingy near it. XD
What?!? She didn’t want to go to an insect museum? What is wrong with her?
*is weird, and is probably the only female on the face of this planet who is fascinated by insects*
Speaking of, I still need to coerce my mom into getting bees…
Maggie shouldn’t have worried- it was closed due to workers’ strikes.
RANDOM IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
September 9th is Tajikistan day. We must celebrate accordingly.
Beedle- No, my friend Kate/Artemis the Huntress loves insects, and rescued a particularly interesting one in the hall. (And was therefore called a “freak” by a popular semi-aquaintance (sp?) that I actually now hate.)
I forgot to post yesterday that school started up for me. I’m psyched for Biology and Foundations of Geometry (it’s required for us to take before we take actual Geometry), but I don’t share any classes or lunch period with any of my friends, and I’m miffed about it. However, I found out today that one of my math classmates is a Portal fan, so things are kind of looking up.
I’m back from Hershey Park! And guess who didn’t go on Farenheight? ME!! You wanna know why? Because I hadn’t eaten much of a brekky that morning and my blood sugar dropped. I almost fainted! I imagine I looked very comical, my dad leading me to the bathroom and me stumbling around trying to get the stupid door open. But everything turned out all right. I’m just a little nauseous now.
In other news, I got my schedule today. I have two English periods and a homeroom with a teacher I don’t go to for the rest of the day. Also, a bunch of other subjects are messed up. May the fail be with you, *bleep* School District!
Aggie-OHMIGOD, I HAVE A HAT THAT LOOKS LIKE A RACCOON!!!!!! I bought it in Portland. I was so excited. It was either that or a bunny hat with attached mittens.
Watching a Doctor Who ep with cybermen, which reminded me of something….
So, earlier today, I was heading to one of my classes. I’d walked inside the building, and was right at the base of the stairs, about to go up, when something in the hallway to the left must have caught my attention out of the corner of my eye, because I glanced that direction. There was a closed door, one of those wooden types with a very large window in the upper half. Through this, was a gloomy looking hallway, with, somewhere out of sight of the window to the right, was something causing flickering blue lights, in the same fashion as the lights in New Who when someone is undergoing cyber-conversion. Then I took in more of the scene, a sign on my side of the door saying “Under Construction,” and a large construction fan on the otherside of the door, and possibly some plastic (like that construction plastic, the big sheets of clear-ish plastic). It put me very strongly in mind of the scene at Canary Wharf, when the two Torchwood employees, the guy (forget his name–Gareth, maybe?) and the girl played by the same actress as Martha, go off into an under construction area at Torchwood for a quick snog, and instead end up getting converted….The shade of the light, that blue electricity color, and just the way it was flickering….Gave me the chills, the way my brain went “Oh, god, cyber conversion taking place…..”
If any of you are ever inclined to visit Eastern Washington (this doesn’t really give away my location, right? No more than the Kokon did, anyways) for a week during the summer, you should come to this amazing camp that I attended for the first time this year. It’s called Satori Camp, it’s for gifted middle and high schoolers, and it’s simply incredible.
You get to pick three classes (morning, midday, and afternoon) from a list. I did creative writing, Japanese calligraphy/philosophy, and percussion. I’d never done any of the latter two before, and I loved getting to try it. I also learned how to fence during rec time, which has been a dream of mine for years.
More than that, though, the people are just incredible. I know this sounds like a bit like an advertisement, but they reminded me a lot of MuseBloggers, and that’s why I’m mentioning it. Anybody on here would fit right in.
(Besides, one of the evening activities is a medieval feast and ball, in full costume – HOW COOL IS THAT?)
Je suis un pamplemousse? On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose. Vive le France. Le drapeau Francais.
(Just writing random French stuff. I don’t take French.)
I haz a question for museblog: I’m thinking of buying a $10.00 Owl City album and paying my mom back. I can afford it, I’m just not sure my mom would be thrilled that I bought it. Advice?
I strongly suggest NOT using limewire if you want to download things. It’s full of viruses, and the quality can be iffy.
There are lots of better places to download music versus buying it, if that’s what you decide to do.
LBK- Why wouldn’t she like that? As long as you make good on your promise to pay your mom back, it’s your money and you’re old enough to start keeping track of how much you have and what you can afford.
I know I may be stating the obvious and there’s probably some reason you can’t do this, but couldn’t you just ask your mom first? That way you would be know for sure since you seem a bit unsure what she would think.
No, that does make sense. For some reason I, too, get a bit paranoid about asking my parents for stuff, even if it’s just something really small….like when I wanted to get a phone, I put off asking them if I could get one for months and months. Thankfully waiting was good in the end since I didn’t really need one at that point, but now having one is very helpful.
It’s a file sharing thingy. Never used it myself, but I believe basically people upload things like music, software, etc, that others can then proceed to download. Almost certainly illegal, and I’d imagine rather prone to viruses and the like…You’d probably be better off just buying the CD, if it’s something you want.
I mean, if you’re worried you mom would be mad at you for buying it, just ask her if it’s alright for you to get, provided you use your own money. I rather doubt she’d say no, it’s not like you’re wanting to use your own money for a multi-thousand dollar trip somewhere.
I’m going to a Japanese garden today with my friend. She’s Chinese, and she wanted to go because her goal is to meet a ton of Asian people this summer.
(Yeah, she’s a little strange. She screamed “HI!” out the window of the car to this old Asian lady walking down the street.)
I’ve been to this garden before, and it’s absolutely beautiful. Everything is so enchanting, it just feels fake. Lovely, lovely, lovely. It should be a really nice day.
As you may have noticed, today is my birthday. This might be better on the Birthday threads, but I’m not totally certain and I didn’t want to clog that thread.
Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday, by the way.
Anyway, today is my birthday. I didn’t notice it until about nine o’clock last night while I was hanging out at youth group. We talked about it and laughed over how I forgot, et cetera.
This morning, I woke up at six thirty to the creak of my door opening. I glanced to the door, saw people coming in, and closed my eyes again and pretended to be asleep. I figured they were setting up some kind of birthday surprise for me, which I would see when I got up later.
Then they came over to my bed and one of them jumped up onto it. I started to wonder if they were trying to wake me up. I figured out that yes, indeed they were, a moment later when they started shaking me.
So I sat up and looked up through the shadows at a number of people, all wearing ninja face covers.
This was unexpected.
Then one of them told me they were here to kidnap me. I recognized my friend H’s voice, so I wasn’t scared, and they tied a blindfold on and put on my shoes.
They guided me out to a car, (there was some very appropriate dramatic music playing on the stereo) and put me in and we drove off.
Nobody spoke during the car ride, except the previously-mentioned H and I. I heard some whispered discussion at one point, but I couldn’t understand them.
I figured out that Anomylous was sitting beside me just before we got there, which I had suspected for a while.
Then they guided my into a house. I knew where it was from the steps and the scent, and I had already guessed that that was where they were taking me. They escorted me into the kitchen and they took off my blindfold and told me they were giving me eat a sugary breakfast. Still in their ninja hoods. M’s Mom came in without a hood and spoiled the picture, though.
Anyway, we ate delicious strawberry-and-Nutella crepes, and then we sat around and talked.
It was probably the best birthday wake-up-call I’ve ever had.
CAUTION: This textbook has a number of themes that revolve around candy, and this preface is no exception. While this book has a lot of the great accounting ingredients you are used to (and all that you will need), it also “breaks the mold” as it incorporates a number of phrases and terms well known to candy lovers (and we believe that includes accountants). Our intent is that you will get a number of cravings while reading this preface, not the least of which is the desire to devour this book and to share its great tastes with your colleagues and your students.
~The preface to my accounting textbook, followed by a picture of chocolates (the expensive filled kind in boxes).
Oh man that is awesome. It’s like how my crazy math textbook would get so oddly excited. I’d read passages just to see what random things they’d come up with XD
A strategy to make us pay attention, maybe, but one I don’t mine
Unfortunately from what I skimmed of the first chapter or so, the rest of the book is nowhere near that entertaining. Just dreadfully, mind numbingly dull accounting stuff. Too bad….
And now I’m just scared (and obviously taking every opportunity to not read my textbook I can). The first sentence of chapter one: “What are you planning to do when you graduate from college–maybe become an accountant or a veterinarian….”
Why does my caking accounting textbook know I’m going to be a vet? And why does it insist upon having pictures of chocolate splashed all across the preface and other portions of the book?
I’m going to go hide until my book stops being both psychic and sadistic.
I’m (*gasp*) done with all my homework for the weekend! Well, I mean, I should read through my animal phys lab sometime before Tuesday (say, Monday night, so it’s fresh in my mind) and review last week’s lab since there’s going to be a quiz, but that’s really not this weekend’s homework. That’s Monday night homework. So, I’m done with all my homework for the weekend! Only took me ages, been working on it on and off (mainly on, probably) since I got back to my dorm after classes at around 11:30. So, holy crap, really? i’ve been working on my homework on and off for almost nine hours? Yikes.
Anyway, done. That means all I have to do this weekend is veg out on Doctor Who, and get a ride to Walmart to buy a ton of stuff….Yippee! I like being done with homework, I should be productive mroe often.
Okay, so yesterday, I went to the Boston Museum of Science, and had a blast. They had an autokinetic sculpture, a sort of Rube Goldberg machine that dropped balls and carried them back up to the surface with a system of chutes and hammers and things, and the motion of the balls made wheels spin and bells ring.
There was a full-scale filming model of an N-1 Naboo Starfighter from The Phantom Menace hanging from the ceiling in the main atrium, and a computer section where I talked to a chatbot called Tinker that actually was represented as a robot tour guide on a screen. My conversation with Tinker was a lot of fun.
In another part of the computer section, there were two computerized characters who you could talk to directly using a headset, as long as you asked a question that was on the list. Their names were Ada and Grace, so when the docent asked “Does anybody have any questions?” I said “Are the names references? Because I know about Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.” He said that I was right, but he was amazed, because very few people knew that.
I drove a model Mars rover around a pit with rocks and sand, and then we saw a show about electricity that featured a GIANT Van De Graaf generator. The host and two guests went up inside of a giant metal birdcage that got electrified, but because they didn’t touch the outside of the cage, they were safe.
On the third floor, there’s a reading room decorated with models of humanoid skulls throughout our evolutionary history. There’s a big window with a beautiful view of the Charles River, and they even have binoculars right there on the sill so you can watch the duck boats. Also, I found a small, easily-missed display about the Alvin submersible on a stairway landing, and it had Robert Ballard’s name in it!
We didn’t go to MIT, but apparently it was the first day of classes there, and some students put a phone booth painted to look like a TARDIS on the roof of a building there as a prank.
Have I mentioned that I knew Dr. Hopper? My father was her boss at the Pentagon (nominally, at any rate; actually, she was her own boss), and I got to know her when I worked there one summer. Her office had a clock that ran counterclockwise, a red wagon she used to appropriate loose supplies people left in the corridor, and a huge Jolly Roger flag on one wall. She came up to Pennsylvania once and gave a talk at my college. She was a remarkable person.
I am going to the Tall Ships festival todaaaay! (I can say that right? There are going to be SO MANY PEOPLE there, kidnapping me would be quite difficult!)
I’ll get to see Fiddler’s ship, and Fiddler! And Kiki the Great (and her mother)!
Oh, of course. MILDLY, THAT IS, EXTREMELY MILDLY SPOILERISH FOR CLASSIC WHO AND SEASON 3 NEW WHO EPISODE GRIDLOCK
Last night, I finished watching “Moonbase”, which ended with the TARDIS taking off from the moon, and then seeing a giant lobster claw on the scanner. My brain supplied for me that, “Oh, Macra!” Sure enough, the next serial, when I consulted wikipedia, was “Macra Terror”. But only just now, 4 minutes into the serial, did my brain suddenly realize, that, “Hey, wait a minute. Lobster claws. Macra. What were those creatures in Gridlock called.” Sure enough, Macra. Guess I’ll finally get to “see” the Macra in their full, dangerous glory, as recalled by the Doctor in Gridlock….Too bad it’s a recon, and a rather poor quality one so far, at that. The stills are terrible.
Ah, well. I do love it, though, when I come across an ep that ties right into New Who, be it because it has the same monsters, or because it was referenced in some manner….
Recon. It’s short for reconstruction. Since BBC destryoed so many episodes (around a hundred) from Hartnell and Troughton’s era, there are quite a few eps for which only the soundtrack and stills exist, and fans have taken these stills and put them together in a sort of slideshow with audio. Thus, a recon. Some are better quality than others….The recon for Macra Terror was rather poor, because all the pictures were more white blobs and streaks than distinguishable characters…..
Oh, I thought you meant retcon, like the writers of the show changing some fact about the history of the characters that had been previously understood to be true.
Hey everyone! You know what’s awesome about being a sailor (well, besides sailing and all the other epic things that that entails)? Going places. Going places where Musers reside. Chicago, as you are probably aware, is kind of a big deal for Muse, seeing as their main offices are here. There are also some Musers that live here, namely Jade and Kiki (and, for the week, me). So, obviously, something had to be arranged. That’s why we’re kokonvening right now.
~Fiddler
GREETINGS MORTALS! We are sitting on the ground outside the entrance to the CHildren’s Museum now. And stealing WiFi. Because the internet is SRS BSNS and all.
But yeah, it’s been a lot of fun! We saw Fiddler’s ship and one other and walked around. WOOOOOO. We also left rambling messages on Rebecca and Robert’s phones. I recited poems.
– Jade
Wow, I haven’t been on the MB in forevvvvvs. This is a serious problem, I think. However the situation has now been rectified, as I am on the MuseBlog at this very moment (obviously!) We have had fun eating Dippin’ Dots and roasted cashews and Twizzlers (because they didn’t have Red Vines) and touring Fiddler’s ship, which was FANTASTIC! Right now, as Jade said, we’re stealing Internet :O and just hanging out. We were thinking about going to the Muse offices but it’s too far away So yeah! Kokonventions! FUN FUN FUN!
Hey, thanks! Sorry I missed the call! I’m indulging in late-afternoon Peter O’Toole movies and didn’t hear the phone over the gunfire and explosions. Sounds like you’re having an awesome time, to quote the message. And now I have this lovely recording of Jabberwocky!
I think this is the real Kiki, judging by comment 88…apparently she hasn’t been on since the advent of accounts on MuseBlog–longer than I’ve been away from the ‘Blog!
Aww, thanks! I totally remembered/was reminded about the MB at the Kokonvention today. When did this whole accounts thing come in? Because I remember the switch to new, log-in WordPress stuff but not “registering” per se.
You can register for a chess account with which to play games of blog chess, or, if one is over six months old on the blog, like you are, he or she can get a paleo account and gain access to slower paced threads that only paleophytes can post on.
Nice to have you back, by the way. I remember you, but I doubt you recognize me.
Welcome back! Have you been here in the last 20 months? I can’t remember if you were around when I started posting, posted on some old threads I’ve looked at, or just have a memorable name.
Hi everyone! *Pies* I was about to post on MuseBlog’s birthday, somehow became distracted, and here it is the 28th already, argh!! Happy belated birthday!!!
I’m pretty sure I just had a panic attack. It was terrifying, and it doesn’t help that I’m home alone when my mom should have been here over three hours ago. I think I may be having the beginnings of another one…
Oh god I feel like such a baby. I’m sitting here eating stale Mint Milanos and listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me in an attempt to calm down… I feel like I’m going to cry.
These things are terrifying.
THanks. My mom’s home now, she thought I was supposed to be over at my dad’s house so she and my sister went to their friends’ house after the beach… I’m pretending I was perfectly fine the whole time.
Noooo, don’t pretend. My friend had panic attacks for years, until she eventually got help outside her family. She’s doing much better right now – the last attack she had was months ago.
This is the first time I’ve had a panic attack in a looong time. I’m not sure if I’ve ever had one before, although looking back on it I may have had one or two without knowing what they were. Anyway, it’s not bad enough to worry my parents with, (my mom already felt so bad about the communication mixup that had led to my being home alone) but if it gets worse and more frequent (which I doubt it will) then I’ll tell them.
The official DSM criteria:
A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort, in which four (or more) of the following symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 minutes:
Palpitations, or accelerated heart rate
Sweating
Trembling or shaking
Muscle tension
Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering
Feeling of choking
Chest pain or discomfort
Nausea or abdominal distress
Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint
Derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself)
Fear of losing control or going insane
Fear of dying
Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)
Chills or hot flashes
Weakness in the knees
Confusion
Tunnel vision
Blank mind
Sensing time going by very slowly
Feeling the need to escape
Evil of the Daleks…..It’s like Evolution of the Daleks, except so much better done–none of the painfully cheesey/fakey special effects, and no pig slaves.
I mean, same basic premise (Daleks want the human factor), but done so much more realistically. (I mean, no pig slaves. That helps a ton.)
Oh….Oh, dear. I have mixed feeling on this. Yes, less wait time, but essentially instead of showing one (already short, by US standards) season, showing us two half as long seasons….I dunno. i like the shorter wait, don’t like the idea of a huge cliff hanger at the end of the first half where we are in painful suspense until the start of the next, and…I dunno.
but to hve a common theme between all the episodes of each half, is something of a return to Classic Who with its long serial arcs, which is both a plus and a minus, but with Classic Who it worked, because there were so caking many episodes in a season (like, around 40). With only 13 eps i a season….doesn’t work so well. :/
Kiki! HAWK! Long time no see! Good to see you back. I recently rose from the dead a month or two ago, but I think I’ll leave the Internet again when school starts.
You know what’s rather sad? I’ve watched more TV since starting college than I had my entire life before college. And I don’t just mean more TV on average per week, I think I have quite literally spent a greater number of hours watching TV (even if it is on my computer, rather than a television set) at college than I had before I started.
I mean, I’ve watched all the back episodes of numerous TV shows, and today, for instance, I watched an entire 17 Classic Who eps. Seventeen. Even taking into account that Classic Who eps are only 23 minutes, that is still a caking lot of television… I think college is bad for my health, on so many levels.
Back home again after a longer train ride than expected out of the city. The Kokon was a blast. Details later when I’m not so exhausted, although it may take a few days to send in photos because tomorrow is PACKING FOR COLLEGE day and monday is DRIVING TO COLLEGE day. Unless I pull everything together early enough to send them tomorrow XD
Also I am going to need to memorize two more poems in case I ever get ahold of the other two GAPA(s) numbers at a kokon, I can only really do Jabberwocky and The Garden of Proserpine off the top of my head XD
…also I thought I submitted this 20 min ago. OH WELL. BEDTIME.
I found out that the Challenger Centers are releasing a series of young adult science fiction books written by the guy who wrote the Young Jedi Knights series. A lot of space tie-ins aren’t that good, but I think this has the potential to be really cool.
MY BANGS ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!!! I have side bangaThey keep falling in my eyes, and generally looking unbangish. And being annoying. And preventing me from seeing. GRAHHHHHHHHHHHH
That’s why I hate my little side-bang-type things. If you brush them back, then put your hair in a pony and bobby pin them, they’ll stay up. Or, if you want to keep your hair down, let them fall naturally, then pull them back gently from the bottom and pin them into the rest of your hair. It’ll look sorta swoopy if you don’t pull it tightly. Or, you can pull them back in a headband. The last two generally don’t work for me because they stick up and look all weird, but give it a shot. Good luck!
I just had a wonderful thought: Even thought I’ve watched 176 episodes of Classic Who so far, I still have 520 more episodes left, plus the Doctor Who movie…..And only 32 of the remaining episodes are reconstructions.
I have entered the Realm Of Color. I finished Troughton’s Doctor last night ( ), and today I watched Pertwee’s pilot episode. Yay! The Silurians are next…
I’m rather looking forward to hitting the color episodes (the black and white ones are good, but I am rather fond of color), although I think I shall miss Troughton–I’ve greatly enjoyed his episodes, with the exception of soem recons that I had difficulty following.
i have watched 104 episodes. and that doesn’t make me feel like a sad, sad person. not at all…
*twiddles thumbs*
no seriously though, i love you guys and we are the awesomest and everyone who doesn’t spend days of their lives watching classic who is just MISSING OUT
(so at 25min per ep that is just over 43 hours of solid who. w00t w00t!)
aww, lucky! i am in the middle of RECONSTRUCTIONLAND (towards the end of first doctor, second doctor looming ahead). such a shame. still great stuff though.
i just finished The Daleks’ Master Plan (and by just, i mean before i left for the weekend) so i will probably watch the next serial or two today (the next one is only one episode i think?)
also luna re: college teevee-watching. oh. my god. i know. i didn’t really watch tv at all until the summer before college started. but it’s such a convenient way to relax between classes, is the thing. i mean you have these chunks of time where your friends have stuff going on and you’ve just finished a class and you have another one coming up in a while so you don’t have time to go out so you just hang out and think “hmm…television.”
I know….I don’t know if it’s me, or the quality of the reconostructions, but I’m having an increasingly difficult time following the recons. I think it’s a combination of poor audio and poor video, plus an increasingly poor attention span on my part, but…..Yup, it’s a very nice thought that I’ve only got about 29 more recons to go, now.
“Reconstructionland”? That sounds like a terrible theme park. Reconstruction wasn’t a fun time for the South, much to what would have been Lincoln’s dismay.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME from Peru.
Hiked the Inca Trail; did half of it with a raging sore throat slash cold. Looked around at all the British/French/American/Canadian/Peruvian tourists who had taken the train up instead of hiking and felt superior. Still do, as a matter of fact.
Mmm. Purring cat. I look nice and don’t smell disgusting. This is a nice change.
ahhh that brings back memories. Did you hike up to the Sun Gate at dawn for awesomeness? Did you go to the Temple of the Moon? Did you stay in that hostel? It was too crowded when I was there so I camped outside of it, in the rain. After hiking in the rain. :/
Actually there was some horseback riding in the rain too. and sickness. Hmmm, looking back it’s amazing we had such a good time. Aaand that guide who deserted us. And the train fiasco. whew!
by the way do they still have the water channels running at Machu Picchu? I heard they were going to shut off the flow but it’s SO COOL I hope they didn’t
IN OTHER NEWS
I am in college now, which has been awesome and scary and emotionally confused, and has much potential but the new-friends thing is daunting. :~|
I went to an airshow today. SO COOL. I haven’t been to one since 2002-ish, even though there’s one every year. They did a few reenactments of WWII dogfights (surprise surprise, the US always been the Japanese planes), a bunch of aerobatics, a wingwalker, all sorts of awesome stuff. There was an F-18 Superhornet and an F-22 Raptor as well. Absolutely mindblowing. The Thunderbirds were the “grand finale”, though I was much more impressed by the F-18 and the F-22. I must have applied sunscreen unevenly, though, because my knees are sunburned while the rest of my legs are not. Still, I’m sure I was more comfortable than all the Air Force members in their bodysuits. That would be miserable.
And there was something else I wanted to say. Eh, I’ll think of it eventually.
But anyway, the F-22 was incredible. Over 35,000 pounds of thrust with afterburner. At one point it did a loop much smaller than I would ever have thought possible for any plane, much less such a powerful one. It and the F-18 sounded incredible too–well, felt incredible. It was more than sound.
I don’t care whether it was a good picture or a bad picture. I don’t want any picture of me transmitted around the internet without my permission. In any case, this conversation is entirely against the Rules.
SudoRandom bought himself a drum set! Do any other MuseBloggers play drums? (SudoRandom doesn’t really, actually. But they will certainly be useful for the Naming of Names! Either Keiffer or Maggie will drum. Hurrah!)
*cough talented? cough* <3 instrumentalist jokes.
That's what the Naming of Names is, actually. A Muse-based rock band. (the Naming of Names is the name of a recent muse article.) It's got all Massachusetts MBers in it.
The Naming of Names! I am now a groupie. When people ask me to list my favorite bands, I will drum my fingers on my leg and then say, “Um… the Beatles, Green Day, the Ramones, and then a few you probably haven’t heard of, like the Decemberists, Flogging Molly, the Naming of Names, y’know. I recommend the Naming of Names, though. And the Decemberists, if you can handle weirdness and lots of drowning. And Flogging Molly, if you like Celtopunk.”
The Naming of Names? Cool!
Maybe eventually, once you do properly exist, you could actually post a recording here of the band performing, or something. I mean, you don’t have to, obviously, and you may not actually even be able to (I don’t know what your computer can do), but it would be great if you did. Though it’s a bit early to even suggest it…
Yay! Hello MB! ^^ I love today. Today is good. Unfortunately, I should be practicing piano right now, so I’ll just mosey on around and glance at various threads and then skidaddle!
I’m trying on all of my clothes right now, before school starts, so that I can donate the ones that are too small or that I don’t wear anymore.
However, I’m finding it really astounding that my Hot Pink Bunny T-Shirt is still right on the edge of being too large for me! You’d think that I would have grown into it by now!
I have it on good information that butterbeer is a must have, (pumpkin juice not so), Olivander’s is delightful, and the astronomy tower is visible, which contains the Ravenclaw dorm!
I’ll hate you enough for me and Luna… I don’t think I’ll get around there, like, ever. I have to save up and go by myself or with a friend. I’m hoping to get there for LeakyCon 2011, but it doesn’t seem very likely…
Anyway, enough about me, have fun! Take a picture of your wand, if you get one!
Ahhhh LUCKY…there are no plans for Florida in my future unfortunately… *sigh* However I would love to go to Disney World (at least, my family wants to) so perhaps we could do both in one trip, probably sometime next summer or over spring break.
Argh, so envious.
Maybe once the crowds die down I can convince my family that we need to go see it, and they all pretty much like HP immensely, and I bet we could convince them eventually…
Ohhh, I am so jealous. I was in Florida over Spring Break, but it wasn’t open yet. One of my friends gets to go for Christmas, which will probably be amazing.
Did you know that, when squirted out of its container while opening said container, strawberry sauce can travel almost three feet in under half a second?
Neither did I!
Did you know that fresh, warm strawberry sauce is almost indistinguishable from fresh, warm blood except for the smell and taste??
Neither did I!!
Ah, the joys of trying to get ready for cross-country practice!!!
That looked really random in the recent comments bar.
Of course, it was really random. I was thinking that that had to make sense in context… Then it didn’t.
Ah, the joys of randomness.
Based on an unfortunately true story. Stupid new shoes. Also, now the strawberry sauce container smells like onion bagels ‘cuz our microwave smells like said bagels ‘cuz that’s mainly what we microwave in there.
Oh cake. I forgot to say last Friday that I finally got to talk to one of my friernds at length (I don’t share classes or the same lunch period wth any of them) and I found out HE LIED! At the end of last schoolyear, he said he would crossdress over the summer. I asked, and he hadn’t! And it isn’t just me who’s dissapointed, I’m sure. I was one of at least six people who demanded he send us pictures.
I wanna blue streak. Or I could spike my hair acid green.
Anyway, help needed in aisle Zack. I picked up a bag of Sour Skittles yesterday. I adore sour candies and have never had problems with it before. The same thing happened to me last year, but I forgot and so did not remember NOT to buy them.
Anyway, after about forty Skittles my tongue started to feel like it was burning, but the feeling went away. I had maybe ten more and after I got home, the mirror showed sores on the inside of my cheeks and my tongue looked as if I had burned it (quite badly). It not only LOOKS it, it feels it, and I can’t really enjoy food. I’m sure it’ll heal by itself, but has this happened to any of you? I think it may be the powdery coating.
We moved all my stuff into the dorm room. There was a lot of it XD It is mostly all set up now.
Roommate isn’t here, if she’s coming at all (long story short: through my stalking skills it seems she may be going to a different college now). So I may end up having a single? Not sure.
Going to a picnic thing now, then orientation speech/concert. After that my parents (who have been helping me move stuff/etc) will go back to hotel until tomorrow (there’s a few more parent things, then they go home), and we’ll have a dorm/floor meeting with the RAs and stuff. Not sure if anything’s happening after that.
Stalking, you? Never. As for the roomie, even if the one you’re currently assigned to doesn’t show, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you still ended up getting another roommate withing short order, but perhaps you’ll luck out and get it all to yourself.
Whee, that sounds ridiculously like my first day at arts camp! I really hope your roommate ends up coming, it’s absolutely fantastic in terms of social interactions to have a roommate. Also, I met the girl who was going to become my best friend by putting up a little notecard saying:
We’re bored,
come in and say hi!
God, I’m so envious that you get to be in college already. (CORRECT WORD USAGE FTW.) Have fun!
Oh my gosh. The chickies came today! My mom went to the post office to pick them up, and the lady just complained how annoying they were, then asked if they were snake food. SNAKE FOOD?
That’s insulting.
Nobody insults my chicks.
NOBODY! *hulk smash*
Anyway, there’s six of them. We have a buff Orpington, a buff laced Polish, a white Cochin, an Easter Egger (not a real breed, but a mix that lays brilliantly colored eggs), a blue Silkie, and a buff Brahma. Oh my god, they’re so cute! I can’t wait for them to get older. I love them so much. Absolutely adorable. ♥
XD When we’ve raised orphaned wild ducks/geese in the past (which were released back into the wild once they were matured enough), I gave all of them HP related names….
My friend’s family just adopted two orange kittens and named them Fred and George.
Of course, that might be slightly hazardous to their health. My brother tells a story of two turtles that were in our school’s Aquaculture center that were named the same way. (SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER.) Fred died.
How cute! <3 That lady needs to be fed to snakes. Now. Easter Eggers' eggs are amazing and so, so cool. My friend has chickens and they have some of those. Are the Brahmas the ones with the feathers on their legs? What are you going to name them? Are you going to name them? Chicks are pretty adorable. Are any of them roosters? Do you know?
Yay, fellow chicken-owner! And six of them? So many! You should name the white one Albus Dumbledore. Also, you should name the Easter Egger Luna Lovegood. If Luna Lovegood was a chicken, that is what brand she would be.
Or you could name one Colonel Sanders.
jade — yay i’m glad everything worked out! roommate mia is kinda weird but a single would be cool!
vendy — totally agree about everything college related. have you started classes yet?
i just had my first two classes, japanese and a core humanities class. japanese is early in the morning (well, relatively…8:10 or 9 depending on the day) and i’m feelin somewhat sleepy…. downtime between classes is kinda weird. i think i’ll go read.
Beedle the bard- Sorry, I don’t keep up with this thread, but what you were saying about having chicks was really interesting. What are you doing with them? raising them for their eggs? Eventually going to eat them? Just curious.
They’re pets, and we eat their eggs too. If we have purebreds, we usually enter them in chicken shows, too. We usually keep up a flock of six, but through and series of unfortunate events, our little flock has dwindled to one (and two ducks). They’re really sweet and quirky pets, especially if you handle them a lot. We used to have one that would peck at the door to come in the house, eat some cat food, then hover by the door to let us know she wanted to go back outside. I’m really excited about having them this young (they’re only a day old!) because we’ll really be able to socialize them well. And, well, they’re adorable little balls of fluff.
So… my friend is in the hospital. Again. He was in for about a week in January for a spontaneous pneumothorax, and when I was talking to him online last night he said something about it hurting: “The place where I got the pneumothorax is throbbing a little bit… quite a bit actually.” So I’m guessing it’s related to that.
But in January, there were decent chances that he was going to have to get this surgery and then not be able to play clarinet for a long time. I’m not sure how long. Music is his life, and it’s marching band season and he’s clarinet section leader.
And he isn’t replying to texts or calls and he isn’t online and so I don’t know how he is and I’m really worried.
Crud. He gets a massive get-well-soon from me, although you may not want to tell him this, as that would be kinda creepy. So… luck, sympathy, my condolences!
“Got out of surgery about 3 hours. It was a VATS procedure [..] . Plus another chest tube. I’m in for a pneumothorax again. Right now, I’m on morphene and sleeping…well I was and I will be after this. Theoretically, this surgery should remove the 50% recurrence rate of a 3rd pneumothorax in my left lung. […] I’m not due for any more surgeries, am recovering, and expect to be back in school by Tuesday.”
NOTE: I do note hate facebook. I even have an account. I just had the urge to attack-I meant, CRITIQUE, the site. Plus, my sister made me do this.(shhhh, don’t tell her I said-crap. Oh nooooooo…)
Facebooks top ten flaws:
10. You can only put tiny URL’s on there
9. Farmville
8.Many apps that are useless yet people still find ways to spam you with them
7.Beacon
6. Getting messages by ex’s you hoped to never or hear from again
5.No music player.
4.I don’t care how much you “like” eating or that you “like” breathing.
3.Blue,blue, blue. What about GREEN.
2.Using real name.
1. People who post every single tning that pops into their head, and you are forced to read about how they are, for one minute, “sad” and the next minute, “single”
Have you guys heard the next series of Doctor Who is getting split in two? I’m not sure how to feel about this. I know everyone says “TRUST THE MOFF”, but I really don’t like the idea of shorter seasons! BLERGH.
Yeah, someone (Jakob, maybe?) mentioned earlier on this thread. I’ve kinda got mixed feelings on it, myself, too. Post 93.2 is where it was mentioned, and 93.2.1 on this page.
I know it’s too much to hope for, but…First post?
Anyway, I just got my hair cut WAY short. I don’t like it as long as it was getting, but I think this is an all-time low.
I love short hair! I wish I could have short hair but, alas, my mother won’t let me.
RAWR! SECOND POST!
In other news, I got a DSi yesterday!!!!!!! And a new Action Replay!!!
SFTDP, but is there going to be a new picture soon, GAPAs?
My off-blog schedule has been too complicated for me to come up with more than one graphic a month. I’m hoping that will change soon, but I don’t know when.
184.2.1 on previous thread (Robert Coontz)- Ah, it was Bobby? I’ll have to yell at him. He’s just trolling.
189 on previous thread (Kai)-
1. Digital cameras still feel new to me. I’m much more accustomed to film.
2. I don’t use any sort of phone very often, but landlines aren’t old.
3. Ah, books. They smell so marvelous. I loves them.
4. I have a good sense of direction, so I’m not often lost. But not due to GPS or the likes.
5. Never watched MTV.
6. I never had a Walkman, but I had a portable AM radio.
7. Never liked Nick at Nite.
8. I’m afraid I’ve never had them, or at least I don’t remember having them.
9. I have to consciously correct myself from saying Czechoslovakia instead of the Czech Republic. I don’t know why.
10. The Terminator? Everyone knows Arnie.
1. I remember using film canisters to hold shells, but I’ve never used film.
2. We’ve always had a landline.
3. This is stupid.
4. We always get lost. Even with a GPS.
5. I never watched MTV.
6. Yeah, I don’t remember anything before iPods.
7. I have no idea what they mean by this. I know Full House, but it ended before I was born.
8. They existed?
9. Man, that’s old stuff.
10. I only found out long after I knew he was the Governor of California.
You’ve never used film and you can’t remember music before iPods? Get thee away from me, young’un!
1. Don’t remember using film canisters, though I do remember signs in the airport telling you not to take film canisters through…
2. We’ve always had a landline, and only recently aquired cellular telephones
3. The smell of books can never be matched by the hum of silicon
4. No GPS, and I always get lost.
5. Never watched MTV
6. We had a CD player before there were iPods… My dad’s an early adopter, so we got old iPods early. But I don’t remember walkmans. (But my French book does. :/)
7. Bwuh? Never heard of that show
8. Tan M&Ms I’ve heard of, and I might have seen some when I was very young… And my parents have a fridge magnet with tan M&Ms. I was always angry they discontinued them.
9. Czechoslovakia- I’ve heard of it, seen oldish maps with it on, but then again, I’ve also seen maps with the USSR on…
10. I knew he was the Terminator before I knew he was governer of California. Mainly because my third grade teacher, whenever she left the room said “I’ll be back” and then explained.
Probably intended for my age bracket… but I know about all except that TV show.
Jeez, it is surprising how much a few years can do. Maybe your age bracket is what the creators of this were talking about, Kokonilly!
A few years in these modern times do a lot! And it was probably intended for my age bracket. At age 14 I am clearly extremely young and unknowing of the good ol’ days. XD
Piggy – No, I’ve never used film and I never knew what a Walkman was until middle school. When I was little in the Philippines, we would go to the beach and I would put little shells in film canisters… I never knew they were actually used for FILM.
Yeah, only three years makes a whole lot of difference!
Heh. Apparently. For example, my sister (age 8) has never heard of Rugrats and such, and she doesn’t know anything about 9/11 (in fairness, that was before she was born).
Actually, most of the people my age (from what I’ve heard; I don’t know anyone my age, really) don’t remember 9/11. I only remember because I lived in Virginia at the time and was therefore completely freaked out. (“Washington DC? That’s in Virginia! We’re in Virginia! OH NO WE’RE GOING TO DIE”)
I was in 6th grade during 9/11 and some of my friends were in 9th.
My English teacher was freaking out because we were one of the last classes who would remember 9/11. I barely remember it, I was in Kindergarten. I remember coming home, wondering what happened. My parents told me something really terrible happened, and that we came home because we were mourning. Or something like that.
I was in kindergarten as well. I remember going into class and seeing all of my teachers crying, but I had absolutely no idea what happened. A bit later I found out that something in Virginia blew up (or something to that effect
).
I was in 3rd grade.
(Stop me if I’ve told this story before)
Where we live, it’s far enough from the towers that we didn’t see or hear anything from school. All I knew is that some kids were called to the office to go home early. I didn’t think very much of it, because before I’d left for school that day, my mother had showed me that she’d finally bought me a magnetic chess set, something I’d begged her about for months, so I was counting the hours until I could go home and take it out of the box.
I went home at the regular time. We could see a cloud of smoke, but my mom didn’t tell me anything in the car. When we got home, dad was there, home early, and then they told me what had happened and turned on the TV in their room.
I can remember all of this very clearly, right down to the patterns on the cushions on my mom’s bed.
I didn’t feel like playing chess that afternoon.
I was in second grade. The assistant principal came into the room and whispered something in the teacher’s ear, and the whole school went to the church to pray the Rosary (Catholic school). I remember my mom half-explaining what happened on the ride home, and I asked her what a terrorist was. We all watched the news on TV for the rest of the night. I wasn’t really able to fathom it or give it too much weight, but I understood it. Then, for the next few weeks, we would all look at the sky during recess since the lack of airplanes was so weird.
My parents didn’t tell me. I wasn’t clear on what happened until sixth grade.
Mm. I’m six years older than you so a lot of these things are different.
1. I’ve used a disposable camera…does that count?
2. Of course I have a landline. I don’t even have a cell yet.
3. This question does not deserve to be dignified by an answer.
4. Well, I’ve never gotten lost, but I don’t use GPS that often…
5. Ditto.
6. I used to have a portable CD player. When I was, like, 5.
7. Uh…no comprende.
8. I wish I’d known about them.
9. What?
10. Huh?
10 – I know, right? He was elected in *Googles* 2003, and my parents were never into politics and such. As a result, I only heard that he was the governor of California in middle school, and I learned what the Terminator was shortly thereafter.
1) Camera Film
i love film, but i mostly use digital (the nice cameras are really big and heavy, hard to carry around. also film is more expensive.)
2) Landline Phones
i was the one who suggested we switch from landline to a fifth cell.
3) Real Books
i read online and want an e-reader for my birthday. it’s great for general reading. but there are some books that i need the physical copy of. i could never replace my copy of ivanhoe, and although i bought my own paperback copy of a tale of two cities, i still use my dad’s red hardcover copy whenever i can get to it.
4) Being Lost
ahaha i get lost so often. although it is true that there are always ways out of this. i’m just too stubborn to use them.
5) Music Videos on MTV
nope, don’t remember it. sadly.
6) Walkmans
i used my mom’s walkman from time to time. i remember her exercising with it. my dad got one of the first iPods though so i used that all the time and then i got my own when i was 14. we still have boxes full of cassette tapes in the basement though – mostly my dad’s mix tapes from high school and college
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
never watched it. this was back when i didn’t watch tv. i still only watch certain shows
Tan M&Ms
i think i remember them but that could be a lie. memory is tricky. i can visualize them but that might just be because you said it.
9) Czechoslovakia
vaclav havel is my brain-love. but i do see it from more of a historical viewpoint
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
oh yeah, i definitely know him. but i mean, that’s classic. he’s iconic. even running for office almost all you heard about him was terminator jokes. i don’t think people will be forgetting about that any time soon.
1) Camera Film
I have used a film camera.
2) Landline Phones
My brother is the only person in my family who has a cellphone, and it’s just for emergencies.
3) Real Books
Oh, come on.
4) Being Lost
Um, yeah, I’ve done that…
5) Music Videos on MTV
What’s MTV?
6) Walkmans
LIES I actually have never had an MP3 player until Tuesday. Until then, I only listened to CDs, records, and tapes.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
What. Is. That.
8- Tan M&Ms
Sadly, I have never seen those.
9) Czechoslovakia
Erm…
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Um…
See, I know OF most of these, but not really. I think MTV is that really dumb channel with shows about spoiled teenagers and playing pranks on people and whatnot. Apparently it was a revolutionary channel back in its heyday, but now it’s iffy.
1. Film? Of course I remember film. My grandma and my mom both had a film camera in my memory (they don’t now, of course) and I once had a disposable camera which I never developed…
2. Well, I know about landlines- we have one- but I believe that landlines are going to shortly be a thing of the past.
3. WHAT. THE. CAKE.
4. My parents will probably never get a GPS. Or cable. Or Caller ID. Or replace our toaster, dishwasher, or microwave…
5. Never watched MTV. Or that much TV for that matter.
6. Nope, no Walkman.
7. Huh? Whassat?
8. Why do they not have those anymore?!?!?!?!
9. What?
10. I haven’t seen the Terminator.
Oh my goodness I have a lot to do. Not really. Wait, I do. Not really.
That’s how my mood goes. Up and down. I should start writing my essay now. But first, lunch! And then a grocery store trip for candy!
OHMYGOSH. I just head about HPB vaccine.
Um. Are you entirely certain that you don’t mean HPV vaccine?
Sigh. I HATE static.
Haha, that would be pretty nifty.
Ohhhhh. I was really confused, and that’s why I didn’t comment. I thought it was some MB thing that I didn’t know about and should have.
Speaking of M&Ms, an acquaintance of mine who used to do a lot of backstage tech work at rock concerts once had the job of setting up bowls of M&Ms and removing all the brown ones in order to fulfill the requirements of Van Halen’s contract. According to Brent, one of the band members said, “You know we ask you to do this because we can.”
The M&M rider gained huge notoriety back in the day as the quintessential example of egos gone mad, but according to Snopes the real reason was to make sure that the contracts were read and followed to the letter — a necessity considering the massive amounts of complex technical gear used in the show. Not that band members worried too much about their reputation! And no doubt the incident did inspire others to add riders simply “because they could.”
The brown AND tan, or just the brown ones?
I had a good day today. I went swimming in the ocean, and I read the first chapter of Freakomonics, and went to the library for a few minutes. (Then, my dad came and got me and told me we had to leave, but on the way out, he saw his friend, and they talked for twice as long as he’d actually let me look around, but I couldn’t go back to what I was doing…)
I read that as “I went swimming in the first chapter of Freakonomics”. XD
I wouldn’t want to go swimming in the first chapter, it’s about corruption, cheating, and Sumo wrestlers.
Today we had an event at our library celebrating the release of Mockingjay. We had a scavenger hunt (which they called the Hunger Games), and MY TEAM (of two) WON! Through some mishap, we only had to go to half the stations that we were supposed to, so we got back the quickest. The people who won legitimately were announced as the winners, but my partner and I still got a free copy of the book…to be picked up on Tuesday. They also had Team Peeta and Team Gale pins, bookmarks, tattoos, and plenty of people to talk to about the books. Overall, I had an AWESOME time.
Continuing the discussion of M&Ms: I’ve heard rumors that they’re bringing back Crispy M&Ms sometime next year. Supposedly. I liked those; I hope the rumor is true.
Beloit College does something like this every year. It is called the mindset list. The newspaper mentioned it the other day
1) Camera Film
My family only got a digital camera when I was 12. When I was a kid, I had my own film camera. My brother and I had a polaroid one too.
2) Landline Phones
I grew up with a landline. I don’t really use my cellphone too much and at college I use my dorm room phone and the lounge phones more often.
3) Real Books
I like books.
4) Being Lost
One time it took my friends and I an hour extra to get somewhere. That was annoying.
5) Music Videos on MTV
When my family took a vacation to Costa Rica MTV music videos kept playing.
6) Walkmans
I had a tape player that I didn’t use and a cd player that I only stopped using when I got to college.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
Never heard of this before. No idea why it is on the list.
8] Tan M&Ms
Probably ate them, don’t remember them.
9) Czechoslovakia
I suppose I was around for it but it never affected my life all too much and I wasn’t old enough to remember it, really.
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
He’s been the Terminator for more of my lifetime than he’s been a politician.
This is in fact Beloit’s Mindset list, as it appeared in “Time.”
Mm. It isn’t a direct copy, though. When I googled the mindset list the Beloit version gave more details.
Oops, correction, I misread the introduction: Time’s list was inspired by Beloit’s.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GENE RODENBERRY!
As for that list…
1) Camera Film
I’ve used a film camera, but now I have a digital one.
2) Landline Phones
We almost never use it, but we have one.
3) Real Books
I love them!
4) Being Lost
We don’t have a GPS, and we do get lost occasionally.
5) Music Videos on MTV
The only TV I watch on TV is Doctor Who and the odd documentary my parents like. The online TV I watch online at the moment is Star Trek.
6) Walkmans
I;ve never had one.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
?
8) Tan M&Ms
Never had them.
9) Czechoslovakia
It split? Oh, right. Czech Republic. I still think of it as Czechoslovakia.
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Terminator? What? Still, I’ve heard of him.
For those who were wondering about Nick at Nite — back in the 1980s (maybe later, too, that I couldn’t say) — the cable channel Nickelodeon ran reruns of old TV shows from previous decades during the evening hours, thus “Nick at Nite.” Meh. Wouldn’t say you missed much; most of those shows can be found elsewhere. Can’t think why it would be on this list.
The “M” in MTV used to stand for Music. When it began it was full-time music videos — well, in between ads — with occasional special programming related to music. Critics said it would ruin kids’ imagination and cheapen the music by adding visuals. All the usual Chicken Little stuff.
Oh, really? How on earth did it transform into what it is today?
It doesn’t show music videos anymore? Huh. I thought that it showed both music videos and little short shows or something. That and the Nick at Nite thing both show how little attention I pay to tv as it comes on the actual tv set. I watch tv from DVDs or online.
If by “little short shows” you mean “reality TV”, then yes. But I think it’s just Jersey Shore all day now. I have no clue how anyone can sit through that show. It’s so… vapid? Lame? Inane? That doesn’t even cover it. It’s such a WOMBAT.
I watched it in Canada, but it was dubbed in French, so I still need to watch an English version to get the gist of it.
I can verify that they showed re-runs of Full House up until about 2007, and Home Improvement until very recently, maybe they still do.
I’m on my way to an airshow in Massachusetts…anyone else going? I’ll check my wifi and try to blog remotely, but I’ll be there until 4:00pm or so.
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I know I might be a little late, but here’s the list…
1) Camera Film:
Meh, I’ve used film and disposable cameras before, just not as much as the digital kind. Now when I take pictures I usually use my family’s digital one, but my mom still prefers disposable cameras because our digital camera is kind of big and heavy – sort of a pain to have to carry around.
2) Landline Phones:
We have one and do use it quite often.
3) Real Books
E-readers are great in many ways, especially for people who travel a lot, but even the best technology can’t replace the feel and smell of a real book. I just love the feeling of physically turning a page as opposed to tapping a button…
4) Being Lost
We have a GPS, and sometimes it’s the reason why we’ve gotten lost…Of course, it has helped us, too, but I still got lost all the time.
5) Music Videos on MTV
Never seen them.
6) Walkmans
I actually have a huge CD player I mostly use for the radio in my room, which has a huge antenna sticking out of the top of it and a very bulky, ugly look, but I don’t really mind. I’ve gotten so used to it being there it would be weird not to have it. I’ve never had a Walkman, though.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
I’ve heard of Full House and shows like that, but never seen them.
8) Tan M&Ms
Never had them either.
9) Czechoslovakia
I still think of the Czech Republic as Czechoslovakia…
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Of course I know the Terminator!
1) Camera Film:
Have yet to own a digital camera
2) Landline Phones:
Didn’t have cell phones until last year
3) Real Books
Kindle broke a week after I got it. Never again
4) Being Lost
Often. and no GPS.
5) Music Videos on MTV
Nope.
6) Walkmans
Agree. Walkman is dead.
7) The Glory Days of Nick at Nite
Hate it.
8. Tan M&Ms
Never had them either.
9) Czechoslovakia
Sometimes calls Czech Republic as Czecho Republic
10) Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
I know about the terminator and still think of him as an actor.
And i’m not even 15.
Hm, inspired by the 9/11 tangent, some more “Can You Remember When” events…
1) Death of Princess Diana- 1997
2) Harry Potter is released in the United States- 1997
3) Pokemon- 1998
4) John Glenn goes back into space- 1998
5) Columbine High School shootings- 1999
6) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace- 1999
7) Millennium Celebrations- 2000
8) Sydney Olympics- 2000 (And do you remember any Olympics before that?)
9) Presidential Recount- 2000
10) iPod introduced- 2001
11) The Euro is introduced- 2002
12) Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster- 2003
13) Invasion of Iraq- 2003
14) Northeast Blackout- 2003
15) Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars- 2004
16) Indian Ocean Tsunami- 2004
17) Death of Pope John Paul II- 2005
18) Space shuttles return to flight- 2005
19) Hurricane Katrina hits Gulf Coast- 2005
And just for fun, some obscure ones:
Can you remember Comet Hale-Bopp? (I can’t!)
Can you remember the Game Boy Color?
Can you remember when the Mir space station re-entered?
Can you remember when the Concorde was retired?
Can you remember when SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X-Prize?
Can you remember the first time you used the Internet?
1) Nope.
2) Sadly, Nope.
3) I wish!
4) Nope.
5) Npoe.
6) Strangely, yes. My friends at school had all watched it and I hadn’t.
7) YES! The two things I remember most were the cheerios cereal with little 2s in it and a jingle on the television that went “The twentieth century is almost over, almost over, almost over, the twentieth century is almost over, all around the world!
8 ) I remember being really sad about not being able to see the torch go by. I also remember watching it.
9) I was unaware that there was a recount, but I knew that something fishy was going on.
10) No. At that time I was still using my kids boom box that only played cassette tapes.
11) No, not savy to European goings-on.
12) Oh, goodness, yes. I was shocked at how so many people could die and not even get into space.
13) Yes.
14) No, as I don’t live in the Northeast!
15) Yup. Everyone was really excited!
16) Yes
17) Yes. I liked him!
18) Not really… Haha I don’t really follow NASA very much.
19) Of course.
Obscures:
I still remember the sounds the dial-up made! NEEEE… BE-OH, BE-OH, EHHHHHH… DOOO *sound of phone dialing* Hahaha, I love dial-up.
1) Ummm… no?
2) I reeeeallly wanted one in 1st grade.
3) No.
4) No.
5) No.
6) Hmmm… I think it might have been to go to ty.com and join club beanie baby.
And about 9/11, I was in 3rd grade at the time and I remember watching it on television in the morning before school and not understanding it. Our school had an assembly and a minute of silence. Later that day there was an hour of silence at my church which I did not attend.
You’ve got a good range of dates there, Kai! I don’t really have more to add… plus I can’t really think because there’s a really good song on the radio.
1) No.
2) No. D:
3) I remember some of my friends being some of the first to be playing it…
4) No. D:
5) Heard about it
6) Yes, but I didn’t like Star Wars then. D:
7) A little bit.
8 )Not really.
9) Somewhat, I remember being very worried that the candidate I didn’t want would be prez.
10) Yes. My Dad got one of the first gen. normal, I got one of the first gen. nano.
11) Heard about it, somewhat.
12) No, surprisingly.
13) A bit. I remember news about it.
14) No, actually.
15) Of course I remember it. It seems like only a few months ago.
16) Of course, we learned about this in class.
17) Heard a bit about it. (Shows how much I follow religion…)
18) Somewhat, but I didn’t know they had stopped.
19) That was in 2005? NOT POSSIBLE.
Just for laughs, I can’t really remember the first time I used the Internet. XD
Hurricane Katrina was almost exactly five years ago. I got over the shock when I went there a couple of weeks ago… The organization my church group was working with, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, was in the process of moving out because they agreed to stay for five years. Fortunately, a local group called Project Homecoming will continue to build houses at the same rate as they always have.
Seeing it for myself, it is at the same time shocking how much and how little has been done. It’s really hard to describe.
Oddly enough, I don’t remember the first time I used the Internet either. I do know that the first computer I bought didn’t have a modem, so I had to purchase an external one. I had to use AOL because it was the only ISP with a local phone connection available. I also had accounts with CompuServe and MSN, but used them sparingly because they added long-distance charges. The dial-up of those days was incredibly slow and you had to pay by the hour. For that reason, content tended to be text heavy with few graphics.
I first heard of the World Wide Web some time after that, when a friend mentioned this really cool service he’d found. Frankly, the reality was something of a disappointment at first sight: lots of promise but not much actually there. Nowadays it’s very much like what I had hoped to find.
Yes, they stopped after the Columbia disaster to fix the problems.
And no, I can’t really believe Katrina was five years ago, either.
1. No.
2. I first heard of HP when my grandma gave my sister the first four books for Christmas or her birthday or something.
3. The first Pokemon video game I had was Crystal, which came out in 2001.
4. Nope.
5. No.
6. Sorta.
7. Very well. There was much silly string involved.
8. Also fairly well, though that is the first I remember.
9. I remember that one. (I was born an extemper.)
10. Nope.
11. Sorta.
12. For some reason I remember this very well. I heard about it the following morning (Sunday) when I was at Panera’s, where my parents and aunts and uncles and cousins go every week.
13. Yep.
14. Yep.
15. Yep.
16. Quite well.
17. Also very well, since it concerned me, a Catholic.
18. Mm-hm, yeah.
19. Of course.
GB Color: I had one, how could I not remember it? (Mine was lime green; my first game was Croc.)
SpaceShipOne: Of course.
Internet: The first time I remember was when my mom helped me get on the Cartoon Network website. She could only help for a few minutes and closed the window after a bit, but I snuck back and sounded out “Car… toon… net… work…” and went back on.
the only one i don’t remember at all is john glenn going back into space. but i remember everything else. kinda spotty on the northeast powerout i guess cause i’m on the other side of the country but i do remember hearing about it and whatnot
don’t remember any of the obscure space ones, but my first gameboy wasn’t even in color
kinda remember using the internet for the first time, not totally sure.
I can only remember 12 and 19. Surprised?
I remember 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, the comet, and first time I used Internet.
You don’t remember the comet. You were not yet born for most of the time it was visible.
7
8, very vaguely
9
10
11
13
15
16
17–I actually have really specific memories about this one. I was in Switzerland, actually in the same village where I was this summer, and all of a sudden what must have been all the church bells in the entire country started ringing at once. It was deafening.
19–I ran a book drive for libraries there
1) Nope.
) It also happened on my sister’s birthday. 
2) Not at all. When I started reading the books seriously it was already up to OotP.
3) My first one was Sapphire.
4) Not at all.
5) I only learned what they were in APUSH. And that was only because I asked.
6) That came out that recently? I had no idea.
7) Ah no, I remember that. We had just moved to America, actually. Unless you mean the “millennium” celebrations (the transition from 1999-2000)?
8 ) Nope. I was born during the Atlanta Olympics.
9) The first election I remember was the one with Kerry and Bush.
10) Not at all!
11) The euro was that recent?! I thought it was introduced way before 2002!
12) Nope.
Was it that one with a teacherI don’t know anything about it, either.13) Yes. I remember it being announced.
14) I lived in Tennessee in 2003, so no.
15) Nope.
16) I REMEMBER THAT. I was freaking out because I thought the Philippines would be hit. (My geographical knowledge was sketchy back then.
17) I remember that. I was in my aunt’s house at the time it was announced!
18) Nope.
19) I remember that too! My mom had friends living in New Orleans at the time, but they happened to be on vacation.
Obscure:
1) What is that?
2) My first video game console was a red GameBoy SP.
3-5) No idea what those are.
6) Not the very first time, but when i was little the only website I ever went on was the Snoopy website.
I can only remember 16 to 19, I think.
1. Yup.
2. Not really, since I didn’t get the first book until 98 or 99.
3. I remember Pokemon being new, was never into it, so don’t know if I remember it’s actual beginning.
4. Now that you mention it, yeah, yeah, I do.
5. Yup.
6. Nope, never was in to Star Wars
7. ? Oh, you just mean the Y2K jazz and then parties for the new millenium?
8. I don’t remember them right off, but I’m sure I watched them. They all blur together in my mind.
9. Yup. Definitely remember.
10. Maybe vaguely? I probably didn’t even have a personal CD player yet, we were never all that current on new technologies.
11. Yup.
12. Yuppers, because it occurred on the birthday of the guy I was crushing on at the time….
13. Yes.
14. I vaguely remember hearing about it, but it didn’t affect me, so I dont’ hve strong memories of it.
15. I think so.
16. Definitely.
17. Vaguely.
18. Not really
19. Definitely.
Comet Hale-Bopp: Uh, no, dont’ think so.
Of course!!!! That’s the only GameBoy I ever had, I still have my berry Game Boy Color. How could one not remember them?
Mir space station re-entering? I dont’ think so….
No
No
Well, I remember are computer pre-internet, and I think I remember when we got our first one with internet (painful dial up), but I dont’ know as I actually remember the first time I accessed the internet.
This is weird because I’ve been pretty unplugged my entire life, so there’s a lot of stuff here I should remember and don’t.
1. No. I remember hearing about it after.
2. No. The earliest I was reading Harry Potter was ’99.
3. Like, Pokemon came out? Or was popular? I definitely remember Pokemon.
4. No.
5. No.
6. Yes, actually. Wait, no.
7. Y2K WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE! Wait never mind. Yay, new millenium! This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…
8. No.
9. No. I DO remember getting into the turquoise Belair and driving down the steep rocky roads and having to pull out onto a dangerous ledge to let another car pass on the way to the voting booths.
10. No. Maybe a little.
11. Yes.
12. No.
13. Yes. Very much so.
14. No.
15. Vaguely?
16. Yes. Day after Christmas. I went on a long hike with my BFF at the time. I remember that day clearly.
17. Yes.
18. No.
19. Yes.
As for the questions:
No, but I remember hearing about it.
The what?
???
???
???
No. I remember when I had never used the internet but I can’t remember the first time I did.
I don’t remember anything 1-6 (I was born in ’95, so…)
7) I vaguely remember this, though I didn’t really see what the big deal was. I mean, what if someone miscounted?
8-10) Nope.
11) Duh. I remember it so well since I had already gotten some money over the years, and for the boring-colored shillings with guys I’d never heard of, I got a shiny pink/red 10 euro bill which I though was really pretty.
12) Nope. I didn’t really hear much about space as a kid.
13) I remember it well since no-one would tell me anything about it (or anything to do with war) because I was just a kid and I wanted to know because hey, I lived in America too for a while and the more people blew me off the more I wanted to know.
14-15) Nada.
16-17) Yep. I went to catholic school, and there were tons of things about sending aid, etc. We mentioned the Pope’s death in class too.
18) See 12)
19) Yeah. It freaked me out because I was about to go back to cruising.
Obsure ones:
1-5) *has no clue*
6) I was researching for a project about the Sahara…
1) Nope.
2) Sadly, no.
3) Nope.
4) No.
5) No.
6) No.
7) Possibly a tiny bit, but barely…
8) No.
9) No.
10) Yes, but it’s not a very clear memory.
11) Sort of.
12) No.
13) Yes.
14) No.
15) Yes.
16) Yes.
17) Clearly.
18) Yes.
19) Yes.
1) Vaguely…
I was three.
2) No…
3) Yes, but not when it first started.
4) No.
5) No.
6) Vaguely.
7) YES! My mom’s friend gave me a box of stickers relating to it. A humongous box. There were so many… There was one of a chicken in a spacesuit.
8) A little bit.
9) No.
10) Yes.
11) Sorta?
12) Yes.
13) Yes.
14) Yes… It was horrible. But the stars were amazing… I’d never seen them so bright.
15) Don’t think so. Actually, I take it back. Yes.
16) Yes, unfortunately.
17) That was 2005? Wow. I thought it was like, 2008. o.o
18) No…
19) Yes, vividly.
I can remember the the Game Boy Color (it’s still hiding in the closet somewhere…) and when the Concorde was retired. I think the internet was always a part of my life… There was never really a “first time”.
These are fun!
Yay! Somebody OTHER than me remembers the Concorde!
1) I didn’t even know who Princess Di was til I was like eight. (2003.)
2) Nooope. I can remember my brother dressing up as him for Halloween later, though.
3) Vaguely! I made up new Pokemon with my cousin!
4) No.
5) Not in the least. I remember Virgina Tech, though.
6) A little bit! That was the one time I ever watched The Phantom Menace! I’ve never watched it again. Apparently my four-year-old self had a traumatic experience and arranged my future destiny so I would never encounter that movie again. My four-year-old self obviously had psychic powers.
7) Yes! Bubbe’s house! Making a “Happy 2000” sign! Confetti things! Those paper things that you blow and they make a honking noise! The first time I ever stayed up til midnight!
8) (cool face for the win) No Olympics for me til 2002.
9) No. I remember finding out Bush had won, though. My parents were mad.
10) A little bit. I remember the ads. I think my dad got one. Then the Nanos and Minis started coming out, and my mom decided that they were ridiculous and would never catch on. Love her.
11) Definitely not.
12) No.
13) Yes! I went to a peace march with my mom! I made a sign that said “No War in Iraq” and “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was peaceful, we should be peaceful too!” Afterwards, I told my mom, “Now that we did that, there’s no way they can invade Iraq!” I thought it was weird that its name ended with a Q. My second-grade teacher gave a long and detailed explanation of why we were invading Iraq, which took up most of class until recess.
14) I still don’t know what that is.
15) A bit. I don’t remember being very interested.
16) Oh yeah. That was the Era of the Rubber Bracelets. I already had one for Livestrong, one for the sixth Harry Potter book, and one to save the rainforest. I got one, a dark red one, for the tsunami. There was a tsunami, and it was right before Christmas Break, and then I came back to school after New Year’s and I wondered why no one was as frantic as they had been when they first found out.
17) Yeah! I remember Mom explaining the whole white-smoke black-smoke thing at the dinner table.
18) No.
19) Yes. My parents were really mad about that one. Mom was ranting about how President Bush ought to be doing more almost every night.
For the obscures:
None of them except the first time I used the Internet. I first got hooked up to computers by using Microsoft Word. I still have the first story I ever, ever wrote on my laptop, since we transferred all my docs there after I got my laptop last year. I can still remember that dial-up sound too, and since it was so incredibly slow, I never used it. In fourth grade, once, I made a Neopets account. Then nothing until sixth grade, when we got a computer with Internet Explorer. Two years later, I hit MuseBlog when searching for the main Muse site. I commented, briefly, on what we ought to do for the Winter Ball.
I’m 14. I remember numbers 8) , 13, 15, 16, 17, and 19 ( my fourth-grade class sent them toothpaste ).
I JUST GOT MY MUSE!
Since everyone else is doing it….
1. Camera Film: I’ve used a disposable camera a couple of times, like when I was ten or so, and my mom used to have a big old film camera. I didn’t take very good pictures with it though, and now I and my mother both have digital cameras.
2. Landline Phones: We have one in the house. Really the only phone we have. I wish we all had cell phones, though. It’d be way more convenient.
3. Books: *snort* Like most Musers, it seems, I think this is a load of cake. But I will admit that I read quite a bit online. Since I got my laptop, possibly more than I read real books, just because it’s there and going to the library is inconvenient. I read news articles, fanfiction, and the like. I did find Frankenstein easier to read online than in book format, possibly because the formatting seemed less crowded.
4. Being lost: After a particularly harrowing trip where we got lost downtown in this one city, my dad decided to buy a GPS. And I ‘ll probably need one once I really start driving.
5. Music Videos on MTV: Don’t have a TV, so how could I remember them?
6.Walkmans: I had a cassette player, once upon a time. It broke when I was seven. Didn’t know what a Walkman actually was though because of my technologically lagging family…
7.Nick at Nite: Remember what I said about the TV?
8. Tan M&Ms: They existed?
9. Czechoslovakia: When I was younger, I remember laughing at someone who had done a report on the country Czechoslovakia. Didn’t they know that it didn’t exist anymore?
10. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: When he ran for governor I remember my mom saying something about the Terminator guy but I wasn’t paying attention to either pop culture or politics back then so my mind declared it a non-issue.
hahahahahha. So much my mine…
dang. The video didn’t show.
Continuing with the list…
1. Camera film
I’ve used disposable cameras before, and my mom has many film cameras she uses for her work occasionally, but I really haven’t ever used them myself. Digital’s good enough for me.
2. Landline phones
I use them whenever I need to make a call, seeing as I haven’t got a cell.
3. Real books
Preposterous! I think eReaders and such are nice for traveling (and I kinda want one myself), but I doubt real books will ever truly become obsolete.
4. Getting lost
Psssshhh, I get lost all the time. My sense of direction is horrific.
5. Music videos on MTV
Never seen them either.
6. Walkmans
I know what they are, but I’ve never actually used them.
7. Glory days of Nick at Nite
I don’t like Nick from what I’ve seen of it, but I really haven’t watched it at all.
8. Tan M&M’s
Those existed?!
9. Czechoslovakia (yes, I did copy and paste that)
I’ve always called it that.
10. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator
Definitely heard of it.
What’s up everyone….long time no post. i’ve been following a lot but not necessarily posting stuff, i hope everyone is well, especially the GAPAs. and now to make this a relevant post i’ll make a comment about arnold schwarzenegger- the best of his movies was definitely Commando. fantastic dialogue, an AMAZING plot, plus the lead characters name is Col. John Matrix. nuff said
Welcome back, Cliffy!
Hey, welcome back!
I find Time magazine’s list to be very inaccurate, as far as my experiences go:
1: Camera film: Yes, I have used cameras with film. Actually, I still own a camera that takes film.
2: Landline phones: I have used a cell phone once in my life, only to learn how to use one.
3: Printed books: Do I even need to say it? I am very amazed and irritated that Time put them on this list.
4: Being lost: Yes, I have been lost.
5: Music videos on MTV: I have never, ever watched MTV.
6: Walkmans: Nope, never used one. I have also never used an iPod.
Like Enceladus, a French textbook I recently used remembered them. Actually, they were popular when that textbook was published. (En Bonne Forme, Enceladus?)
7: The “Glory Days” of Nick at Nite: I don’t think I’ve ever watched Nickelodeon. However, I do know of Nick at Nite.
8: Tan M&Ms: I knew they existed, but they had been discontinued by the time I was born.
9: Czechoslovakia: I know that it is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but Czechoslovakia is ever so much more fun to say.
10: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: I know he’s the governor of California, but I also know that he played the Terminator.
Has anyone seen Luna the Lovely recently?
Oh, wait, never mind. She was on yesterday. HI LUNA!!!! *falls to worship*
She’s heading back to college–I think she was expecting to arrive there sometime this evening.
Yup. Left home last night at 10pm AK time (1am central & blog time), got to campus at 9pm central, since my friends and I stopped for dinner on the way from the airport.
Summer is always a slow time for me, post-wise, as I’m so busy with other things, like work, and just hanging with family instead of living on my comptuer 24/7. Although, really, this summer I was on much more than I normally am.
I would like to be on 24/7 but parental units make me have “screen free time” from 1:00 to 2:30 in the afternoon. Like I listen to them and don’t go on my ~~*NEW*~~ DSi with Internet.
22~ Cliffeh! Hey there, good to see you around. I’m going to say hello and then vanish again, I’m sailing. But stick around and we’ll tear each other’s throats out again when I get home and post more often.
So, in Milwaukee for a kind of rest and relaxation stop; maintenance and time off is pretty much what we’ve been doing, it’s great.
I got to see Gaelic Storm last night at the Irish Fest! It was great, not a really long set and it was raining, but it was loads of fun nonetheless.
The first day we got here I spent getting utterly lost in the art museum, which is really good. There’s not any sort of organization to it though, so one moment you’re in minimalism, the next you’re looking at Andy Warhol and other pop art, and then all of a sudden you’re in Italian Renaissance, then liturgical silver, then 19th century German and Austrian paintings and furniture, then African folk art, then Georgia O’Keefe. It was flammy. Then I spent a little time with my grandparents (they’ve relented and aren’t stalking me now, but they’re only an hour away from here) and cousin (the Cousin From Hell, but he was actually okay).
Then yesterday we had maintenance. Sanding and painting the outside of the ship, it was okay. Hot and meh. Then Gaelic Storm.
Today we cleaned everything, and then I had the rest of the afternoon off. One of my shipmates and I borrowed bikes (!!) and explored downtown. It was cool, we found a few vintage clothing stores and I seriously considered buying a skirt that looked something along the lines of a leiderhosen skirt thing. It was adorable in a hideous kind of way. But I didn’t get it.
I did, however, get a shirt at another store we went to. I swear, I’m going to get home with so much more clothing than I left with. 0.o But it’s a cool shirt. It’s red and black plaid, but it’s fitted and made to fit a girl’s body, which is fun. It’s also got ruffles in the back. It sounds weird, but it’s cute. I’m looking forward to the fall to wear it.
Whoa, long post.
That’s pretty much my news…..
so casual. “museum….sanding and painting…then gaelic storm. y’know. no big.”
*shakes fist*
your shirt sounds ruffly. PICS PLZ
YAWWWNNNN @ time’s list/beloit’s list/every other “KIDS THESE DAYS!!!” list
i can’t take anything that claims kids don’t know about real books. um? whichever GAPA said this is all very “chicken little” is definitely right :/
college starts on thursday…i should be packing Q____Q
1) You are SO kidding me. I still have some film canisters and cameras floating around my room somewhere, probably… Lots of old disposable cameras. I use my digital camera more, but film’s good too.Â
2) Landline phones? Ha. I have one in my room. My cell phone is older than my eleven-year-old sister, and is rarely used.Â
3) …you’re kidding me. I have six books sitting at the bottom of my backpack at this very moment, that I take everywhere I go.Â
4) I am very good at getting lost. Especially when I try to use the GPS.Â
5) Don’t watch TV.Â
6) I still use my mom’s old (tape/cassete playing) Walkman sometimes.Â
7) My family almost never watches TV, and never did.Â
10)Â Â Having grown up in a lactose intolerant/milk allergy family, I wouldn’t have known the colours of M&Ms anyway.Â
9) Wait…wha? My friend Nick (whom I’ve known since I was three) is half Czech. I still say Czechoslovakia, although I do know that it isn’t Czechoslovakia anymore.Â
10) Puh-leez… You have got to be kidding me. You mean some people don’t know him as the Terminator? 0.o
Hello Cliff! What’s up?
HOLY
CRAPCAKE!! I JUST SAY THE THUNDERBIRDS!!Yeah, it was freaking awesome. I took 4GB worth of video and picture, as soon as I sort them I’ll send them to you guys! gapa@what.what?
thegapas@gmail.com
I think I saw them once… The Blue Angels are spectacular, too. It’s funny when they come to town; you can always tell when they fly overhead. It’s almost gotten my mother in a car accident more than once.
You. Saw. The. Thunderbirds.
Wow wow wowie zowie.
Went to the ren faire today. I’m beat. But I bought a really pretty waist cincher/underbust corset. It’s light blue with embroidery and black on one side, and on the other it’s dark blue (it’s reversible). I also bought two ear cuffs (silver wire & blue stones).
I have a nice shirt to wear under the corset, and I looked st skirts there but they were all waaay expensive. So I am probably going to just try to make one for next time (probably next summer, but maybe halloween? Who knows) which will be cheaper but easier on my bank account. Then I can add layers and sashes and bells and fun things as well.
Leaving for college in a week. One of my best friends leaves tomorrow. It’s really weird…
Whoof. Hi again from Peru, MuseBlog. Just got out of the cloud forest slash jungle. Legs covered with bug bites. Mother forgot anti-itching cream back in the States. Went four hundred miles in a broken-down old van provided by the tourist agency. Pushed an old boat upstream through rapids. Saw jaguar pawprints. Developed what may or may not be giardia. Lost favorite knit cap. Saw woolly monkeys, parrots, and macaws. Took really long, really hot shower. Wish you were here.
Hi,
Car’sCat’s Eye! Thanks for bringing us up to date on your big adventure!Car’s Eye?
Teehee, I just realized what “Car’s Eye” sounds like when you say it fast… yes, I’m slow…
Karzai? The president of Afghanistan? Or something less political?
*Cat’s Eye
OHMIGOD! A Gapa made a mistake! We have to record this!
The new autofill feature on my cellphone has a mind of its own. I’m sure many more anomalies are on the way.
Actually, they do learn from what you type. It’s in their programming. They’re connectionist networks.
I had to rereading this four times because I thought you were saying GAPAs learn from what you type (like Cleverbot).
Awesome *rubs hands together and grins*
Car’s Eye. I suddenly have a flashback to five years old, when my brother and I pretended the cars behind us on the highway were monsters chasing our car, and their headlights were their eyes. I approve.
I did something like that once, too!
Oh, it sounds wonderful! So incredibly exotic!
Ohh! That’s so cool! (Except for the giardia and old van part.)
*hugs* Welcome back!
Cat’s Eye – Peru sounds awesome. Wish I were there.
I feel like Time’s list of things kids will never experience is kind of focused on a stereotyped impression of the experiences of privileged first-world kids..
Moved into dorm, mostly put away. Might have to switch one of the sections of my class. It’s really tired but it’s also early on a Saturday night.. Will probably sleep anyway.
Well, I’m off to Canada until September 2nd! Bye, probably no Internet. (Unless I can find Wi-Fi on my iPod *hopes* )
Bye!
Piggy needs to buy knitting needles. Knitting doesn’t learn itself.
Incidentally, Dvorak is going well. Still a tad slow, but getting better.
I tried knitting once… Didn’t work out so well. :/ I ended up with a huge knot.
Hmm, knitting’s pretty fun, I only wish I could do it better…I once knitted a scarf.
I probably still have it somewhere in the back of my closet…but I’ve since forgotten how to do it.
I can knit! That’s why my gravatar is a ball of yarn. I learned to knit while in Girl Scouts, and now I knit while watching TV. Just sitting and watching is so boring…I need something for my hands to do.
I make fingerless gloves. And little squares that I’m sewing up into a blanket. What do you want to make, Piggy?
(And incidentally, why would knitting need to learn itself, even if it could? That implies that it doesn’t have intrinsic knowledge of what it is…How terrible it must be, to not know what you are!)
Your own fingerless gloves? In whatever color you want? Lucky!
I don’t want to make anything particular. I just want to knit.
(Knitting has no self-awareness. It’s not an octopus.)
that’s what i do. sometimes i think “hmm maybe i will turn this into something” but then i don’t. i knit for the sheer knittery joy.
actually it’s mostly just something to do with my hands while i’m reading or watching teevees. i am addicted to multitasking.
I tried knitting once, as well… I always ended up accidentally stabbing myself, so eventually I decided to stop…
On a random but relevant tangent, I have just taken up crocheting again. Which is fun.
I learned how to knit before I learned to crochet, but it was always a stop on the road to crocheting. My mother said I should learn to knit first. I learned to knit, used this knowledge, as far as I remember, to knit one square about two inches by maybe six inches, and then learned to crochet. I’ve done much more crocheting.
Does anybody else crochet?
I learned to crochet and knit in school and ended up with two scarves and a bunch of crochet junk for my dolls plus some doilies.
Does anyone know anything about kayaks? I think I want to buy one. Is there a kind that’s suited for both the ocean and lakes/rivers?
More likely than not, I’ll just get the cheapest I can find on craigslist. I guess I’m pretty much fine with anything as long as it floats.
My brothers’ friend has a Sea Eagle inflatable one that they use when we come out to LI. I’ve only seen it used in oceans and bays, but I think it could would fine in a river or lake.
I wanted to stay away from the inflatable ones because although they’re light and inexpensive, I’d probably be popping it all the time. :p
Oh, no, Sea Eagle’s model is very durable from what I’ve seen. This is the one my brothers use:
[I snipped the link, but it’s easy to find by searching for Sea Eagle 330 — Rosanne]
I have an inflatable two-person kayak. We don’t really use it that much, but it’s not very easy to pop from what I can tell, although I assume it’s harder to maneuver than regular kayaks.
Kayaks are awesome fun if you don’t mind getting wet. Of course, if you mind getting wet, I would advise avoiding boats altogether. But since you posted this, then that more than likely isn’t a problem for you, so I shall resort to my original statement and say that kayaks are awesome.
I built a kayak! And I genuinely like my hand-made one the best, although I am also fond of Aquanauts. Not sure how they handle on the ocean though…My hand-made one is a Greenlander style kayak, so it was made for the ocean. Dunno if this helps…
My fortune cookie says: “There’s no such thing as an ordinary cat” Words to live by.
I know, myself, that knitting does not know itself and therefore cannot teach itself, nor can it learn itself in order to to teach itself, and in fact it can’t even learn, itself… Or know, itself, so it can’t teach, itself (or teach itself, for that matter), because it can’t teach what it does not know itself (which happens not not to be itself, or any single thing in itself, really). It can’t know itself without knowing, itself…
Although that was extremely fun to write, it was also completely pointless, so I should probably write something else…
1: Camera film: Er, no, I’ve never used one…
2: Landline phones: We used to have one. Now we don’t…
3: Printed books: *snorts* If Time really thinks print books are obsolete nowadays, it’s lost its mind. I’ve never even met anyone with an e-reader, and am the only person I’ve met who ever even reads books online.
4: Being lost: Ha. Just ha. I’ve been lost too man times to remember.
5: Music videos on MTV: I never watched that. Actually, for the longest time, I thought that was just the name for all those channels that play music.
6: Walkmans: What’s a Walkman?…
7: The “Glory Days†of Nick at Nite: I never watched Nick At Nite…
8: Tan M&Ms: I’m allergic to them, and never paid attention to the colors. I don’t even know which they come in now let alone a long time ago.
9: Czechoslovakia: Well, no, I wasn’t around when it was, but I read too much historical fiction, so I read about it long before I knew anything of European history, ending up not learning that it had split. And thus I still accidentally say it now and then…
10: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: What?
As for Kai’s list, I only remember Katrina. Even for a 12-year-old, that’s a bit… Surprising. Oh, well.
Though I think the first website I ever went to was Millsbury. As in, the cereal brand’s website for kids, where you create a person, buy a house, play cereal-related games, and do many, many other things through an extremely transparent attempt at advertising that I noticed even though I was 7 at the time. Not that it made a difference. I didn’t go there because of a particular fondness for the cereal; I went because, for some reason, I really, really enjoyed it…
1: Camera film: Um. Yeah, every time I go to a sleep-away camp, I bring at least one disposable camera. If that doesn’t count, well, I used to play with film canisters all the time, and I’ve definitely seen real film.
2: Landline phones: Sure I know what these are! How could someone not? It hasn’t gotten to the point where nobody owns one, they’re still cheaper than cell phones. (And I also disagree with teenagers being called “dependent” because they sleep with or very near their cell phones. I do this, and I barely ever use my phone. The reason is that my mom makes me carry it everywhere, and I don’t remember to take it out of my pocket at home until I go to bed and it’s uncomfortable when I lie down. Then I take it out and put it on my bedside table, partly because I’m too tired to get up and put it, say, in the kitchen, but partly because it’s just more convenient that way.)
3: Printed books: WHAT. I don’t know what Times is thinking. Really, this is probably one of the dumbest lists I’ve read in a long time, and this is the dumbest item on the list. Even if the list is more about children much younger than me, I’m still sure they already have and will in the future experience real books. In the odd case that there are none at home, how about at school? No school is going to have a kindle in every single classroom for every single kid. That’s ridiculous.
4: Hahaha. Not everyone has GPS, or a smartphone. Especially not kids. I get lost with my parents and on my own.
5: Music videos on MTV: Never watched MTV. I don’t watch much TV at all, really, just Netflix.
6: Walkmans: I’ve seen them before, and probably used one once or twice, but not really enough to say I’ve experienced it.
7: The “Glory Days†of Nick at Nite: As I said, I don’t watch much TV.
8: Tan M&Ms: Yes, I missed them. Although I have read about them in books (yes, real books.
) such as Imponderables. That doesn’t really count, though. 
(How many smileys can I use in this sentence? 
)
9: Czechoslovakia: Probably wasn’t around when it was, but I definitely knew about it for a long time. Czechoslovakia? Please. Everybody loves saying Czechoslovakia!
10: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator: Oh puh-lease. I knew Arnold as the Terminator before the Governor of California, and was quite shocked when I found out.
In fact, in a safety presentation I attended for work, the police officer recommended that people keep their cell phones near them while they sleep as a security measure.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with your post, but Czechoslovakia is in my opinion one of the funnest (despite the fact that this isn’t a word) words to say.
Oh. My. God. Oh my god. You guys probably haven’t heard yet – it only just happened, but…oh my god.
There was a bus full of tourists from Hong Kong in Manila, Philippines that got hijacked by an ex-policeman. He later released….nine people, I think – but there were still 15 or so on the bus.
Then, we were watching the news at 7:30, and it mentioned how they still were holding that many people hostage, but then after a while they interrupted with live coverage from the bus in Manila. It said that all the remaining people, except for the Filipino bus driver, had been killed by the gunman/ex-policeman. The bus driver escaped. It’s shocking how he could kill so many people like that – just kidnap a whole bus full of people, hold them at gunpoint while the bus is being surrounded by police, and then proceed to kill most of them. It’s absolutely terrifying, and all the more so because the tourists were from Hong Kong.
It’s already been covered on some news sites (BBC, Reuters I think, and Xinhua News).
It makes you think…part of our school orchestra is going to be travelling to Manila in November for APAC (Asia-Pacific Activities Conference). I’m scared.
It’s horrific. It’s absolutely horrific.
And now the policemen have broken into the bus. I must go and find out what has happened.
Gosh, that’s so awful. I’m so sorry. I have no idea what it must be like to go through that, but it sounds absolutely terrifying.
*hugs*
I don’t understand why someone would do something like that. It’s horrible… We’re here for you, Lady Sel. *hugs*
Thank you, Sudo. It is very scary. I think the whole of Hong Kong is watching the news right now… *hugs back*
The media got it wrong! According to the bus driver, all 15 left on board had been killed, but as I watch the news, at least three people have been helped out alive. The gunman’s dead – I could see him slumped through the door of the bus.
That is… horrific. You’re right. Twenty-four people, just living their lives, going on vacation, taking a break.
And suddenly, their break becomes a nightmare. And many of them don’t make it out alive. Those who do will probably never trust public transport again. They’ll always think of these few days as the worst of their lives.
And not just them. Their families, everybody who’s been worrying about their Hong Kong relatives on vacation in Manila. Everyone who’s been praying that it was somebody else’s bus. Everybody that didn’t get a call assuring them that it was.
I’m sure all of those people aren’t taking their eyes off the television. Hoping now that the driver was wrong, and there are more people alive inside. Hoping that their sister, brother, mother, father, uncle, aunt, cousin… Whoever they know that is still in the bus, they’re hoping that they were spared.
Life is so strange. One moment, your biggest worry is the beginning of the school year, or something else fairly trivial.
And the next, you’re worrying about someone’s survival. Someone you probably weren’t thinking about at all five minutes ago. Someone who was perfectly safe, living their own life off somewhere else while you lived yours. Then Bam! and they’re in mortal peril. And you can’t do anything to help.
I don’t know why I’m thinking through all this. I don’t usually. I just wanted to write a post expressing how terrible I thought this was, and then it grew.
I think I’ll go think about something less depressing. While I still can. While there’s no tragedy taking place in my life.
And that wasn’t depressing at all.
That was beautifully written, Errata. And you are right, it doesn’t happen to everyone, but it could happen to anyone. This incident has made me feel so grateful that nothing serious like that has ever happened to me.
Some of the people being helped out of the bus by the police looked absolutely traumatized – crying, in states of shock, terribly distressed – I wish there was something I could do but there isn’t, really. What they’ve gone through is what they’ve gone through, and it can’t be changed. I only hope they will be able to recover as well as you can recover after these things.
Thanks. I’m glad you thought so.
I think we all wish that we could help whenever someone’s going through a hard time. And we often think we can’t. I have to wonder whether we’re right nearly as often as we think we are.
WAIT WHAT WERE THERE ANY FILIPINOS INSIDE WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS
OH NO OH NO OH NO
I think that out of the 25 people on board, there were three Filipinos – the driver, the photographer and tour guide? I’m not too sure. I only know that the four confirmed dead so far are from Hong Kong. The bus driver is definitely alive. And the gunman -who’s Filipino – is dead.
SFTDP – Never mind. I just read an article on National Post, whatever that is, that said the 3 Filipinos were among the 9 originally released. So your people are safe. My people…not so much.
Thank you. I hate to sound selfish, but that makes me feel a lot better.
Not only is this a shocking loss of human life, capitalistically speaking it is terrible coverage for the Philippines. Even you, Sel, are scared of going to the Philippines.
Awful for both Hong Kong and the Philippines.
Yahoo News says the ex-policeman was demanding his job back… and I agree with everyone, this is terrible.
The hostage crisis, as the media have labelled it, is finally over. This is what I think happened:
A tour bus carrying 25 people (including the bus driver) was being followed by a Filipino man (the gunman) who stopped the bus and asked for a ride. The tour guide said no, but he somehow got onto the bus and told the bus driver to lock the doors. Then, he hijacked the bus.
Later that afternoon, he released 9 people – 9 men, 9 women and 9 children – and after that the driver managed to leave the bus. That left 15 hostages still on the bus with the gunman. Police had surrounded the bus at this point, but the gunman threatened to kill everyone if they tried to break down the doors. He was interviewed that afternoon on the radio and he said something along the lines of ‘I know they are trying to kill me but if they try anything I will kill everyone.’
He also wrote a sign and posted it on the window saying that something big was going to happen at 3 pm. Nothing did happen, however.
Finally, at night, I think they managed to shoot the gunman and then broke through the back entrance of the bus. The bus driver had said before that everyone had been shot dead, but this was proven not to be true as I saw on the news at least 4 people being helped out of the bus by police, fully able to walk.
The Xinhua news site says at least 7 of the 15 are alive, while four are confirmed dead.
It’s so tragic. They released all the elderly and children, and there were three children there. Two of them were with their mother, but the other’s parents were still inside. I really hope they’re still alive…I wish none of them had died. It’s so sad.
Oh my god. I missed the original posting, but that’s incredibly frightening. I agree with Errata’s beautiful post- it’s amazing how concerned we can be about people half a world away who we’ve never met, over a situation that will never affect us. A glowing tribute to human empathy, I guess.
Oh my god. Please let those parents be safe. Oh my god.
Oh my god, I’m so sorry. I can understand that you’re terrified.
*Gives chocolate*
*Gives personal force field (Yes, it can be used offensively, if you run at the bad guy hamster-ball style.)*
That is just so terrible. I can’t believe someone could do that. I feel so bad for those children, and their parents, and their families…
Was there any reason for this? Or just, I hate to say it, a random killing?
I guess no reason could possibly be enough to kill innocent tourists.
:O Oh no!
Why? What was his point? I mean, if the guy was “demanding his job back” as Rosebud said, he was obviously not in his right mind. But even if you aren’t quite “all there”, don’t you know that killing people is wrong? It just makes me wonder how he got that way… I feel so bad for the people who were killed and their families… It really makes me appreciate how lucky I am to have a great family.
I am…confused. Confused at this emotion and horror for 25 people. Surely people die in the 25s every day, so why is this special? Not to say that I’m not horrified, but I guess I’m really not, not nearly as much as everyone else seems to be. Frankly, I thought this sort of thing was happening all the time, so hearing the one example isn’t shocking or anything, except that we don’t hear more of them.
Hm. The mind works in mysterious ways. I feel callous, but I can’t help it. Oh well. -wanders off-
I know, I was thinking about that earlier. Feeling almost the same, but then I started thinking about it, and realizing how terrible it was for everybody involved. For some reason I just thought about it this time, when I don’t usually.
I think that you’re right, in a way. Most of us, if we saw it on the news, would have thought, ‘oh, isn’t that sad’, and wandered off to eat an orange, or something. But Selenium saw it, and it hit close to home for her, and she posted about it. And we all took a moment to think.
That is exactly how I feel about these things.
I forgot what I wanted to say after hearing Selenium talk about the hostage situation on the bus.
The things on my mind seem so small in comparison and so silly…
I got my Learner’s Permit to drive. The written test wasn’t very hard, I only got one question wrong. In my experience, the book work for scuba certification was much harder, although an actual license might be the technical/legal counterpart rather than the permit.
Also, once this thread closes and I know I won’t get more answers, I’d love to do a data analysis of the “Can You Remember When…” list and see what percentage remembers what. Do you think I could get more data if I cross-posted the list in The Polling Place?
I can remember all of 1-19 with the exception of the Olympics. w00t!
When the Northeastern Black happened, I was vacationing in NYC. The subway we were on was pulling out of the station when the lights went out and all the doors locked. People started talking about another terrorist attack, and when the doors opened and we walked out onto the street crowded with confused, electricity-lacking people, Ground Zero was right across the street. One of the eeriest moments of my life!
And honestly, the only gaming system I have is my blocky, purple GameBoy color… with the exception of my dad’s tricked-out gaming computer, =P
That’s terrible about the hostage situation. A really close friend of mine is from Dubai, and she was supposed to be vacationing there when there were bombings at the one she was going to be staying at… I think this was about two years ago. I’m thankful that her vacation was delayed, but I remember her talking about all her friends who lived in the area. She didn’t hear from one of them till a full three days afterwards, and for those three days I’ll never forget how scared and upset she was.
MUSEBLOG!
Hello. It feels as if it’s been a long time. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Why don’t I come on here very often anymore? I’ve come to the conclusion that I actually don’t have any threads that I regularly attend anymore except this one, the Hare and Hedgepig, and the Alter ego thread. Most of my old threads have died. 
That’s sad.
So…. what do you guys recommend? I like writing and being crazy and going on adventures. Thread suggestions?
I remember you from forever ago! I haven’t been on in years. It’s Kiara… you probably don’t remember me. =P
Kiara? It rings a bell for me. Welcome back!
Greetings, Tippikal! I believe you appeared as Kiara in December 2006 and posted throughout 2007. Then you went inactive for a while and reappeared briefly in April 2008. It’s good to “see” you again.
Thank you! And thank you to Piggy, too. =D
Yeah Kiara! I remember you! ^^
Awesome! It’s good to know that I wasn’t -completely- filed away. =]
I think I recognize the name Kiara, but I don’t remember anything specific.
In any case, I’m comparatively new, so you don’t remember me at all.
The Embi Family project, if you haven’t seen it already? It combines writing and being crazy. We could also attempt to revive the Alchemy thread.
The Alchemy thread… I thought it had died. It made me sad.
I feel your pain, kiwi! I don’t have any threads that I’ve really dedicated myself to anymore.
I haunt the random thread and Romance & Relationships. I’m not really sure why, but that’s what I do.
-A
Mockingjay comes out tomorrow! I’m leaving early in the morning to get it when barnes and noble opens up. Hope someboyd else is just as excited.
SO EXCITED.
Did you hear that Megan Fox is being considered to play Katniss in the movie version? Can you think of a worse idea? ( Rhetorical question. )
39- Yeah, but I took a moment to think, and I thought: Um. People die all the time. I thought this kind of thing happened more often. And wandered off to drink some tea. So my “moment to think” didn’t make me think at all, except, for some strange reason, of Galapagos. Probably because of the bus.
Oof. I feel icky and headachy. Need some water maybe. -wanders off (again)-
MuseBlog, I will be gone till Saturday. New Jersey! Miss you!
Goodbye, Sudo! We’ll miss you!
Bye, Sudo!
Whee, I am in New Jersey, and Surprise, wireless Internet!
New Jersey is unexpectedly civilized, in places.
And yet in the same place, I heard a little girl saying “s***! s***! What the f*** is going on here?!”
And now her (slightly) older sister just told me “excuse me, my dear.”. Oh, NJ.
I am IN NJ right now.
Me too! Maybe we are next door! Quick, step outside of your house and look down the street!
*looks* Sorry, no such luck…
My mental processes were hijacked by an oreo and a demonic cross-dresser. (Translation, my brain was being random again and decided to pop up with those words.) And I can’t type today!
Was the demonic cross-dresser me?
School tomorrow! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I shall now grasp onto the last day of summer.
Hello, MuseBlog!
I haven’t had time to really catch up on what’s going on here (I will, though! I’m working on it!), but I like the random thread picture! It’s really pretty.
I just returned from a month-long backpacking trip in Utah, then moved into college, and classes start tomorrow! It was strange going from no electricity, no outside-world contact, 15-mile-daily-hikes, 50-pound backpacks, quiet simplicity, etc., to busybusybusy college orientation insanity. I signed up for classes this morning, and I’m taking a superawesome class comparing the American Empire to the Roman Empire. I’m excited!
Anyway, hello MuseBlog world! Nice to see you!
Woah. Sounds like quite the adventure you had!
Awesome! Good luck with your classes! where are you going?
Tip: Don’t read about flying saucers right before you go to bed. Even if you’re completely skeptical. Even if the article you’re reading is also completely skeptical. Because your subconscious loves coming up with nasty things in the dark.
Same with episodes of The X-Files.
Sometimes when I’m bored I go on creepypasta (a site that has a lot of scary stories on it) just before bed and try to find the most nerve-wracking ones. It’s no fun reading them in the day
OH MY GOD
JADE
ARE YOU KIDDING
SO BASICALLY FOR THE LAST WEEK (OR MORE) EVERY TIME FRIENDS ARE AT MY HOUSE THEY’VE BEEN GOING ON CREEPY PASTA AND RUINING MY LIFE
MY FRIEND WAS JUST ON THAT TONIGHT! FBJKSGkjndv
sorry for the unsightly capslock gapas but rest assured it is only because that is exactly how i feel
I AM SORRY AXA
I LIKE TO TORMENT MYSELF D8
IT IS TO MAKE ME STRONGER. MUCH THE SAME AS HOW EATING ROCKS IMBUES YOU WITH THEIR POWER.
…
YEEEEP.
I’m pretty sure that eating rocks just imbues you with broken teeth…
Hey, TARDIS lovers! Look at what I found!
http:// images. cheezburger . com/completestore/2010/7/8/6caf821e-dab6-49ee-8c89-4d9aeeb82a52.gif
My brothers are watching National Treasure in the other room. I love that movie. Even hearing the music makes me feel good.
I will read this thread tomorrow. For now, I would just like to say: Hello again!
HEY YOU!
How’s it going? You were in Canada watching Jersey Shore in French?
I just got home from working at the local food bank. First time I’ve done this, but it was fun. We went through boxes of stuff sorting out what had expired or otherwise unsuitable, and what was okay, and further sorting everything into these gigantic cardboard bins.
I hope we can do that again sometime, I enjoyed it.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooood morning MB! Currently, school is about to start in approximately 45 minutes. GaH! Appropriately, it’s raining today. Who’d of thunk it?
What sort of inconsiderate jerk thinks it’s acceptable to phone someone at 5:45 IN THE MORNING? Or, really, since they had an Alaska number, 2:45 for them. Who thinks phoning at 2:45 is acceptable, either, though? Thanks to them, my already short night of 7 hours of sleep was cut to only 6. Guess who isn’t going to be alert for her morning classes? Yup, that right. Me. Unfortunately, I accidentally hung up whilst trying to answer, so didn’t get to cuss them out thoroughly. Who votes that, at 8:45 here (5:45 back in Alaska), I call ’em and return the favor?
I’m thinking along these lines:
oh, hey, I had a missed call from you on my phone, didnt’ recognize the number, but given the time stamp, I thought for sure it must ahve been something important. Oh, what? It’s 5:50 in Alaska right now, really? I woke you up? Oh, I’m sorry, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I CAKING FELT WHEN YOU CALLED ME THIS MORNING AT 2:45 ALASKA TIME WHICH IS 5:45 WHERE I AM. Oh, a wrong number? Well godbleep verify that you’ve got the correct phone number typed in before you call somebody at such an uncivilized time. bleep.” *snap phone shut*
Sounds like a great idea to me.
((Since I am getting absolutely NO attention or anything on Writer’s Notebook or Books in Progress, I’ll post my gory story here.))
[Let’s make this a link instead. The story is very long for the Random Thread. https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5785#comment-383850 –Admin.]
Oh, I’m sorry. I saw your story, but I didn’t really have any critiques to make. It was good though.
Wow. I’m back on a computer….
Anyway, I just got back from summer camp, wherein I had much fun, and as part of it biked 125 miles and to the highest point in the archipelago in which the camp is located. I felt on top of the world.
Then I got home and learned that, thanks to a whole lot of luck, my dad had surgery that will prevent him from developing cancer that would have killed him in 6 months. THANK YOU KARMA GODS!!!
Also, I got all my textbooks for my freshman year of high school…my back will break if I have to carry ALL of these at once.
Meanwhile you appear to have gone through many threads and I haven’t the time to catch up, but oh well, the picture for this random thread is beautiful.
And I was there too.
Oh my god, that’s so great about your dad! Wonderful wonderful wonderful! And I’m glad camp was good too!
Glad summer camp was great, and that’s excellent news about your Dad, and, of course, good to see you back.
So I’m visiting my relatives in Massachusetts, and mostly doing nothing. Hopefully, we’ll get to go over my cousins’ soon and see them.
I completely forgot that tomorrow is my half birthday!
I’ve just realized how awesome Netflix is.
Ok, so they don’t have some movies that you might expect them to have, like Fantasia (at least not in my area), but they do have the 2-season ’60s television show that my great-uncle starred in: “Here Come the Brides.” We got the first DVD yesterday and it’s really weird knowing that your family member is that person on the screen.
My aunt or somebody helped write scripts for Gilligan’s Island and apparently in one episode, there’s a piece of wreckage with the first few letters of our last name on it or something. I never saw the episode, though.
How is it that I am only just NOW discovering that brontosauruses and triceratops never existed?! O.o
I AM BEHIIIND
I refuse to disbelieve their existence.
There’s a hypothesis that Triceratops is just the juvenile form of a dinosaur called Torosaurus. But if paleontologists eventually decide that the two are the same species, it will be called Triceratops, because that was the first fossil identified. So it’s not true that Triceratops never existed — the truth is that Torosaurus might not have existed as a separate species. But the news didn’t tell the story that way, because nobody cares about Torosaurus.
Yeah, I just read an online article. They did away with the name Brontosaurus for Apatosaurus because it came first, and I assumed that’s the way they’d go with Triceratops, but it seems like since that’s the more popular name they’d keep it over Torosaurus. Which saves my sanity a bit, but still, I keep forgetting how fast science changes how we see things.
No, popularity doesn’t matter in cases like this; priority is all that counts. Fortunately, Triceratops has both.
I miss Brontosaurus, but that’s the breaks. If you never want to change your mind or learn new ways of doing things, don’t go into science.
I am mostly just surprised I didn’t hear about it before now!
I didn’t realize that Triceratops came first anyway. The article I read first was a little confusing on that point–
“That same line of thinking may yet preserve the Triceratops, though we’re prepared to offer a more modern argument for this Late Cretaceous dilemma. We’re thinking, of course, about search engine optimization. You’ll get a lot more hits on Google if you type in Triceratops instead of Torosaurus, and if you don’t understand why that matters, you’re, well, a dinosaur. So let’s agree: A Triceratops isn’t a baby Torosaurus — a Torosaurus is a grown-up Triceratops.”
was their wording, which made me think that they were going with popularity over which came first.
There was some bad reporting when the story first broke. Our writers were more careful.
What happened with Brontosaurus was similar. Back in the 19th century, paleontologists found a skull without a body and called it Apatosaurus. Soon afterward, other paleontologists found a body without a skull and called it Brontosaurus. Much later, scientists discovered that the skull and body went together. By the rules of paleontological nomenclature, they had to keep the older name and discard the younger one.
Well, the Yale Peabody Museum is the only museum in the world that can say “We have Brontosaurus”, because they have the Apatosaurus specimen that was wrongly called Brontosaurus on display.
What……………………………. Impossible notions! :O
It feels so fall-ish today, and I’m loving it. It’s supposed to heat up again tomorrow though, and I feel like I’m cheating on summer with autumn. :p
I just finished making spiced fig jam. I needed to do something with the figs, the tree had so many. Come to think of it, I think it’s the smell of the spices that makes it feel like fall. Is it just me, or do cinnamon and cloves seem very autumnal? My brain works in strange ways.
They definitely do.
So, embarrassing experience today. I was cleaning up the kitchen while the kids I babysit for had their ‘reading hour’, while simultaneously listening to Mas Que Nada by the Black Eyed Peas and dancing tango with their kitten. Then, the mom and dad walked in, home early from errands, catching me in mid-dance. I’m not sure if I’ll be asked to babysit again anytime soon.
Oh, BOTH of those things have happened to me too! Televisions are the most confusing to turn on when they have universal remotes, or so I find.
Unfortunately this wasn’t a universal remote – it was a Comcast one, which my family has…so even more pathetic…I guess I just don’t watch much TV. To my defense, they were using On Demand, which my family has never used.
While traveling to Massachusetts…
My first brother: (The one who tried to win at Hangman by using the word “Cowflu”.) “And the boat’s will get swamped, and then the engine will explode!”
My second brother: “Do you really think an engine on a boat wouldn’t be waterproof? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard!”
My first brother: “There’s no oxygen in here!”
My second brother: “Of course there’s oxygen in here.”
My first brother: “There’s TOO MUCH oxygen in here! I need carbon dioxide to breathe!”
Me: “So you’re a plant?”
*Laughter*
My first brother: “I need to do photosynthesis. And then you look and film comes out of my ears…”
*Beat*
My second brother: “I don’t get it.”
Me: “Photosynthesis. Think about it.”
My second brother: “Oh, that’s dumb. That’s really dumb.”
(And right now, my second brother is convinced the Coast Guard is part of the Navy.)
My little brother’s reading Macbeth.
Random: I just realized that the person whom I text most often (more than once a year) is 42nd on my contacts list. Yet another way that 42 is the Ultimate Answer.
What is the point of these threads?
The random threads? They’re pretty much just what they sound like – a place where Musers can post about anything on their minds with no direct topic. I like to think of it as the MB Headquarters.
A place to chatter about anything and everything. Just like the name says.
You don’t technically have to follow this thread to be a part of MB, but you’ll miss a lot. I did this for a few months, but it just isn’t the same.
Do you guys think that it would be worth buying a Pokemon Red cartridge for $16 from Amazon? My subconscious seems to think so… well, actually, it wants me to buy Pokemon Blue but they’re pretty much the same…
A while ago I had a dream where I encountered MissingNo. on Pokemon Blue and showed it to my dad. Then, last night, I had a dream where me, my brother and a friend of my brother all got Pokemon Blue and an unidentified modern Pokemon game. Only, I didn’t get Pokemon Blue because I was planning to order it from Ebay. I was playing the modern game, and it was kind of weird, which I noticed in-dream. In a patch of grass, there was a Psyduck running around visibly, and I saw Ho-Oh and Celebi.
I’m not really cheating on summer today. It’s more like flirting with fall behind summer’s back. This mild weather is lovely, but I still miss straight up hot.
Today’s been sorta relaxing, I’m assembling the shed that will be the new chicken coop. I was going to ride my bike to the beach, but I think I’ll go later.
I just got back from a trip on my friend’s boat. (Her parents own a historical schooner that people pay to go out on and sail around and stuff. My friend gets to invite each of her friends on a trip each summer, which is really fun.) We slept in her family’s cabin, since there was a full boat, and although it was a bit cramped it was fun. They have the biggest cabin on the boat, and it’s only for 4 people. In fact the only below deck place bigger than it is the galley(Ship’s kitchen and dining rroom.) . It rained all of yesterday, and we had to anchor just after lunch because it was too rainy and windy. A lot of my clothes are soaking wet… Lobster bake was fun though. I am a vegetarian so I don’t eat lobster, but it was still fun. One of the crew made rice krispie treats with chocolate because there were no grammcrackers, thus no s’mores. My friend, her little sister, and I walked along the beach a ways ans got…rather muddy… Anywayses, it was fun.
/end ramble
Bonjour, tout le monde!
I’m in French Canada right now, and my hotel has free internet! I’ve been to a bunch of museums, explored the under-city, and went to a botanical garden. In my spare time, I watched Mythbusters (though not in French, I don’t know enough) , created some really good original characters, and slept. Montreal is very exhausting (don’t worry, GAPAs, I’m not there now)! Well, I’ll be browsing some other sites and, of course, I’ll be here. Au Revoir, Enceladus
Bonjour, Enceladus! It sounds like you’re having fun, and we’re glad you’re back (even temporarily)!
I am, and French Keyboards are hard to do punctuation on. (Due to the fact there are many accents that take up space. They have essentially three shift keys.)
Three shift-like keys? Wow.
I hate French keyboards.
I couldn’t find the apostrophe. Or the question mark.
I think we were in Montreal at the same time as you…were you there about three days ago?
Was the botanical garden near an insect museum? Maggie refused to go anywhere near that museum when we went to a garden-thingy near it. XD
What?!? She didn’t want to go to an insect museum? What is wrong with her?
*is weird, and is probably the only female on the face of this planet who is fascinated by insects*
Speaking of, I still need to coerce my mom into getting bees…
I’m NOT afraid of bees! I LIKE bees! And butterflies! And ladybugs! And I even let all of those sit on me!
Maggie shouldn’t have worried- it was closed due to workers’ strikes.
RANDOM IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
September 9th is Tajikistan day. We must celebrate accordingly.
Beedle- No, my friend Kate/Artemis the Huntress loves insects, and rescued a particularly interesting one in the hall. (And was therefore called a “freak” by a popular semi-aquaintance (sp?) that I actually now hate.)
Today, I bought a hat that looks like a panda. Money well spent.
*envy*
There was a boy at school last year who always (and I mean always) wore a hat that looked like a pig.
Ooh, piggies!
I forgot to post yesterday that school started up for me. I’m psyched for Biology and Foundations of Geometry (it’s required for us to take before we take actual Geometry), but I don’t share any classes or lunch period with any of my friends, and I’m miffed about it. However, I found out today that one of my math classmates is a Portal fan, so things are kind of looking up.
HELOOOOOOOOOOOO MUSEBLOG!!
I’m back from Hershey Park! And guess who didn’t go on Farenheight? ME!! You wanna know why? Because I hadn’t eaten much of a brekky that morning and my blood sugar dropped. I almost fainted! I imagine I looked very comical, my dad leading me to the bathroom and me stumbling around trying to get the stupid door open. But everything turned out all right. I’m just a little nauseous now.
In other news, I got my schedule today. I have two English periods and a homeroom with a teacher I don’t go to for the rest of the day. Also, a bunch of other subjects are messed up. May the fail be with you, *bleep* School District!
Aggie-OHMIGOD, I HAVE A HAT THAT LOOKS LIKE A RACCOON!!!!!! I bought it in Portland. I was so excited. It was either that or a bunny hat with attached mittens.
How does one attach mittens to a hat? I’ve seen hats with really long ear flaps that turn into scarves, but not mittens. Interesting…
They have really long ear flaps (and I mean LONG) that have mittens at the end. It was pretty cool.
Watching a Doctor Who ep with cybermen, which reminded me of something….
So, earlier today, I was heading to one of my classes. I’d walked inside the building, and was right at the base of the stairs, about to go up, when something in the hallway to the left must have caught my attention out of the corner of my eye, because I glanced that direction. There was a closed door, one of those wooden types with a very large window in the upper half. Through this, was a gloomy looking hallway, with, somewhere out of sight of the window to the right, was something causing flickering blue lights, in the same fashion as the lights in New Who when someone is undergoing cyber-conversion. Then I took in more of the scene, a sign on my side of the door saying “Under Construction,” and a large construction fan on the otherside of the door, and possibly some plastic (like that construction plastic, the big sheets of clear-ish plastic). It put me very strongly in mind of the scene at Canary Wharf, when the two Torchwood employees, the guy (forget his name–Gareth, maybe?) and the girl played by the same actress as Martha, go off into an under construction area at Torchwood for a quick snog, and instead end up getting converted….The shade of the light, that blue electricity color, and just the way it was flickering….Gave me the chills, the way my brain went “Oh, god, cyber conversion taking place…..”
NO! THAT’S SO WEIRD. I just watched that episode yesterday, at about the time you wrote that post. Oh my god. Creepy. Very. Creepy.
If any of you are ever inclined to visit Eastern Washington (this doesn’t really give away my location, right? No more than the Kokon did, anyways) for a week during the summer, you should come to this amazing camp that I attended for the first time this year. It’s called Satori Camp, it’s for gifted middle and high schoolers, and it’s simply incredible.
You get to pick three classes (morning, midday, and afternoon) from a list. I did creative writing, Japanese calligraphy/philosophy, and percussion. I’d never done any of the latter two before, and I loved getting to try it. I also learned how to fence during rec time, which has been a dream of mine for years.
More than that, though, the people are just incredible. I know this sounds like a bit like an advertisement, but they reminded me a lot of MuseBloggers, and that’s why I’m mentioning it. Anybody on here would fit right in.
(Besides, one of the evening activities is a medieval feast and ball, in full costume – HOW COOL IS THAT?)
Oooh! I just looked it up, and it sounds amazing! I don’t live anywhere near Washington state, but it’s a residence camp…. *plotting*
I had a lot of fun today, and I’ll write about it tomorrow, but right now I have to go to bed.
J’ai ton nez.
Le nez de qui?
Je suis un pamplemousse? On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose. Vive le France. Le drapeau Francais.
(Just writing random French stuff. I don’t take French.)
“Je suis un pamplemousse” est une phrase sacrée ici.
That link reminds me how much fun we had on the Coy Woodnesse threads.
I want to revive that thread now – it was so much fun!
Est-ce qu’il y a des gens qui sont d’accord avec moi?
I haz a question for museblog: I’m thinking of buying a $10.00 Owl City album and paying my mom back. I can afford it, I’m just not sure my mom would be thrilled that I bought it. Advice?
*coughcough*limewireit*coughcough*
I mean… Why wouldn’t she be thrilled that you bought it?
I strongly suggest NOT using limewire if you want to download things. It’s full of viruses, and the quality can be iffy.
There are lots of better places to download music versus buying it, if that’s what you decide to do.
LBK- Why wouldn’t she like that? As long as you make good on your promise to pay your mom back, it’s your money and you’re old enough to start keeping track of how much you have and what you can afford.
Well…I dunno. Just my suspicions. Should I buy it?
I know I may be stating the obvious and there’s probably some reason you can’t do this, but couldn’t you just ask your mom first? That way you would be know for sure since you seem a bit unsure what she would think.
Ell…I just hate asking for stuff. I don’t know why. I suppose I’m “socially insecure,” or maybe just weird. But I suppose I can ask her.
No, that does make sense. For some reason I, too, get a bit paranoid about asking my parents for stuff, even if it’s just something really small….like when I wanted to get a phone, I put off asking them if I could get one for months and months. Thankfully waiting was good in the end since I didn’t really need one at that point, but now having one is very helpful.
SFTDP, but what’s limewire?
It’s a file sharing thingy. Never used it myself, but I believe basically people upload things like music, software, etc, that others can then proceed to download. Almost certainly illegal, and I’d imagine rather prone to viruses and the like…You’d probably be better off just buying the CD, if it’s something you want.
I mean, if you’re worried you mom would be mad at you for buying it, just ask her if it’s alright for you to get, provided you use your own money. I rather doubt she’d say no, it’s not like you’re wanting to use your own money for a multi-thousand dollar trip somewhere.
I’m going to a Japanese garden today with my friend. She’s Chinese, and she wanted to go because her goal is to meet a ton of Asian people this summer.
(Yeah, she’s a little strange. She screamed “HI!” out the window of the car to this old Asian lady walking down the street.)
I’ve been to this garden before, and it’s absolutely beautiful. Everything is so enchanting, it just feels fake. Lovely, lovely, lovely. It should be a really nice day.
As you may have noticed, today is my birthday. This might be better on the Birthday threads, but I’m not totally certain and I didn’t want to clog that thread.
Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday, by the way.
Anyway, today is my birthday. I didn’t notice it until about nine o’clock last night while I was hanging out at youth group. We talked about it and laughed over how I forgot, et cetera.
This morning, I woke up at six thirty to the creak of my door opening. I glanced to the door, saw people coming in, and closed my eyes again and pretended to be asleep. I figured they were setting up some kind of birthday surprise for me, which I would see when I got up later.
Then they came over to my bed and one of them jumped up onto it. I started to wonder if they were trying to wake me up. I figured out that yes, indeed they were, a moment later when they started shaking me.
So I sat up and looked up through the shadows at a number of people, all wearing ninja face covers.
This was unexpected.
Then one of them told me they were here to kidnap me. I recognized my friend H’s voice, so I wasn’t scared, and they tied a blindfold on and put on my shoes.
They guided me out to a car, (there was some very appropriate dramatic music playing on the stereo) and put me in and we drove off.
Nobody spoke during the car ride, except the previously-mentioned H and I. I heard some whispered discussion at one point, but I couldn’t understand them.
I figured out that Anomylous was sitting beside me just before we got there, which I had suspected for a while.
Then they guided my into a house. I knew where it was from the steps and the scent, and I had already guessed that that was where they were taking me. They escorted me into the kitchen and they took off my blindfold and told me they were giving me eat a sugary breakfast. Still in their ninja hoods. M’s Mom came in without a hood and spoiled the picture, though.
Anyway, we ate delicious strawberry-and-Nutella crepes, and then we sat around and talked.
It was probably the best birthday wake-up-call I’ve ever had.
That. Is. Epic.
happy birthday, by the way!
EPIC!
CAUTION: This textbook has a number of themes that revolve around candy, and this preface is no exception. While this book has a lot of the great accounting ingredients you are used to (and all that you will need), it also “breaks the mold” as it incorporates a number of phrases and terms well known to candy lovers (and we believe that includes accountants). Our intent is that you will get a number of cravings while reading this preface, not the least of which is the desire to devour this book and to share its great tastes with your colleagues and your students.
~The preface to my accounting textbook, followed by a picture of chocolates (the expensive filled kind in boxes).
Oh man that is awesome. It’s like how my crazy math textbook would get so oddly excited. I’d read passages just to see what random things they’d come up with XD
A strategy to make us pay attention, maybe, but one I don’t mine
Unfortunately from what I skimmed of the first chapter or so, the rest of the book is nowhere near that entertaining. Just dreadfully, mind numbingly dull accounting stuff. Too bad….
And now I’m just scared (and obviously taking every opportunity to not read my textbook I can). The first sentence of chapter one: “What are you planning to do when you graduate from college–maybe become an accountant or a veterinarian….”
Why does my caking accounting textbook know I’m going to be a vet? And why does it insist upon having pictures of chocolate splashed all across the preface and other portions of the book?
I’m going to go hide until my book stops being both psychic and sadistic.
Piggy just had an awesome idea: Pokémon, but in the Wild West!
PIGGY used ULTRA LASSO
1…
2…
3…
Gotcha! TAUROS’s data was added to the Pokédex.
I’m (*gasp*) done with all my homework for the weekend! Well, I mean, I should read through my animal phys lab sometime before Tuesday (say, Monday night, so it’s fresh in my mind) and review last week’s lab since there’s going to be a quiz, but that’s really not this weekend’s homework. That’s Monday night homework. So, I’m done with all my homework for the weekend! Only took me ages, been working on it on and off (mainly on, probably) since I got back to my dorm after classes at around 11:30. So, holy crap, really? i’ve been working on my homework on and off for almost nine hours? Yikes.
Anyway, done. That means all I have to do this weekend is veg out on Doctor Who, and get a ride to Walmart to buy a ton of stuff….Yippee! I like being done with homework, I should be productive mroe often.
Okay, so yesterday, I went to the Boston Museum of Science, and had a blast. They had an autokinetic sculpture, a sort of Rube Goldberg machine that dropped balls and carried them back up to the surface with a system of chutes and hammers and things, and the motion of the balls made wheels spin and bells ring.
There was a full-scale filming model of an N-1 Naboo Starfighter from The Phantom Menace hanging from the ceiling in the main atrium, and a computer section where I talked to a chatbot called Tinker that actually was represented as a robot tour guide on a screen. My conversation with Tinker was a lot of fun.
In another part of the computer section, there were two computerized characters who you could talk to directly using a headset, as long as you asked a question that was on the list. Their names were Ada and Grace, so when the docent asked “Does anybody have any questions?” I said “Are the names references? Because I know about Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.” He said that I was right, but he was amazed, because very few people knew that.
I drove a model Mars rover around a pit with rocks and sand, and then we saw a show about electricity that featured a GIANT Van De Graaf generator. The host and two guests went up inside of a giant metal birdcage that got electrified, but because they didn’t touch the outside of the cage, they were safe.
On the third floor, there’s a reading room decorated with models of humanoid skulls throughout our evolutionary history. There’s a big window with a beautiful view of the Charles River, and they even have binoculars right there on the sill so you can watch the duck boats. Also, I found a small, easily-missed display about the Alvin submersible on a stairway landing, and it had Robert Ballard’s name in it!
We didn’t go to MIT, but apparently it was the first day of classes there, and some students put a phone booth painted to look like a TARDIS on the roof of a building there as a prank.
Oh, yeah, I heard about that MIT prank. Came across it via a link from someone off-blog. It looked pretty cool….
Kai:
It sounds like a great museum.
Have I mentioned that I knew Dr. Hopper? My father was her boss at the Pentagon (nominally, at any rate; actually, she was her own boss), and I got to know her when I worked there one summer. Her office had a clock that ran counterclockwise, a red wagon she used to appropriate loose supplies people left in the corridor, and a huge Jolly Roger flag on one wall. She came up to Pennsylvania once and gave a talk at my college. She was a remarkable person.
No, I don’t think you’ve ever mentioned that before, but it was great to hear!
I’ve been to that museum probably over twenty times, and I’ve never heard of the model Mars rover. What floor was it on?
But yes, I enjoy the Charles River and the Rube Goldberg machine. I stared at it for hours when I was little. Did you see the little chicks??
It’s in the Computer Place. No, I did not see the little chicks.
85- Sounds like a blast!
I am going to the Tall Ships festival todaaaay! (I can say that right? There are going to be SO MANY PEOPLE there, kidnapping me would be quite difficult!)
I’ll get to see Fiddler’s ship, and Fiddler! And Kiki the Great (and her mother)!
SO EXCITED
*jots down on notebook*
*smiles sweetly*
Seriously though, what is a Tall Ships festival?
We’re excited, too. Somebody had better take pictures.
Oh, of course. MILDLY, THAT IS, EXTREMELY MILDLY SPOILERISH FOR CLASSIC WHO AND SEASON 3 NEW WHO EPISODE GRIDLOCK
Last night, I finished watching “Moonbase”, which ended with the TARDIS taking off from the moon, and then seeing a giant lobster claw on the scanner. My brain supplied for me that, “Oh, Macra!” Sure enough, the next serial, when I consulted wikipedia, was “Macra Terror”. But only just now, 4 minutes into the serial, did my brain suddenly realize, that, “Hey, wait a minute. Lobster claws. Macra. What were those creatures in Gridlock called.” Sure enough, Macra. Guess I’ll finally get to “see” the Macra in their full, dangerous glory, as recalled by the Doctor in Gridlock….Too bad it’s a recon, and a rather poor quality one so far, at that. The stills are terrible.
Ah, well. I do love it, though, when I come across an ep that ties right into New Who, be it because it has the same monsters, or because it was referenced in some manner….
Recon or retcon?
Recon. It’s short for reconstruction. Since BBC destryoed so many episodes (around a hundred) from Hartnell and Troughton’s era, there are quite a few eps for which only the soundtrack and stills exist, and fans have taken these stills and put them together in a sort of slideshow with audio. Thus, a recon. Some are better quality than others….The recon for Macra Terror was rather poor, because all the pictures were more white blobs and streaks than distinguishable characters…..
Oh, I thought you meant retcon, like the writers of the show changing some fact about the history of the characters that had been previously understood to be true.
Nope. Actually, that would be worse, I think.
Yes, very few things are worse than retcons. *Glares at certain comics writers who will not be named*
Hey everyone! You know what’s awesome about being a sailor (well, besides sailing and all the other epic things that that entails)? Going places. Going places where Musers reside. Chicago, as you are probably aware, is kind of a big deal for Muse, seeing as their main offices are here. There are also some Musers that live here, namely Jade and Kiki (and, for the week, me). So, obviously, something had to be arranged. That’s why we’re kokonvening right now.
~Fiddler
GREETINGS MORTALS! We are sitting on the ground outside the entrance to the CHildren’s Museum now. And stealing WiFi. Because the internet is SRS BSNS and all.
But yeah, it’s been a lot of fun! We saw Fiddler’s ship and one other and walked around. WOOOOOO. We also left rambling messages on Rebecca and Robert’s phones. I recited poems.
– Jade
Wow, I haven’t been on the MB in forevvvvvs. This is a serious problem, I think. However the situation has now been rectified, as I am on the MuseBlog at this very moment (obviously!) We have had fun eating Dippin’ Dots and roasted cashews and Twizzlers (because they didn’t have Red Vines) and touring Fiddler’s ship, which was FANTASTIC! Right now, as Jade said, we’re stealing Internet :O and just hanging out. We were thinking about going to the Muse offices but it’s too far away
So yeah! Kokonventions! FUN FUN FUN!
-Kiki
Hi, guys. Good to “hear” from you!
Did you get our phone call/message?
I’m listening to it now.
Hey, thanks! Sorry I missed the call! I’m indulging in late-afternoon Peter O’Toole movies and didn’t hear the phone over the gunfire and explosions. Sounds like you’re having an awesome time, to quote the message. And now I have this lovely recording of Jabberwocky!
HELP! I NEED A NAME FOR A BOY!
For my FF, not for what some might think.
Hmm…Adam?
LOL Pregnancy joke.
Alderick
Benjamin
Erin
Perchik
Sancho
Tanner
Zevran
Zevran! I like that name! And Alderick! I like that too!
Jason. One of my favorite boy’s names. (It’s not mine.)
But if you’re looking for something strange, try Ezekiel. (sp?)
Okay. Thanks. Chappies finished! Now I have to write on for Flock Makeovers, and Fang was never here! Holy wung, I’m over worked. Z.z
Yo, it’s Kiki… just made an account. I totally missed this whole “registering” business, so I guess now’s time to sign up! Hehe.
Uh.. isn’t there already a Kiki the great?
pies for newness! May I direct you to Welcome Neophytes!
She’s not new, pie girl. She’s the same Kiki the Great that you reference as already existing.
I think this is the real Kiki, judging by comment 88…apparently she hasn’t been on since the advent of accounts on MuseBlog–longer than I’ve been away from the ‘Blog!
Okay. Sorry!
Good to see you around again, Kiki!
Aww, thanks! I totally remembered/was reminded about the MB at the Kokonvention today. When did this whole accounts thing come in? Because I remember the switch to new, log-in WordPress stuff but not “registering” per se.
LOVE YOU ALL, BTW <3
You can register for a chess account with which to play games of blog chess, or, if one is over six months old on the blog, like you are, he or she can get a paleo account and gain access to slower paced threads that only paleophytes can post on.
Nice to have you back, by the way. I remember you, but I doubt you recognize me.
I totally remember you, don’t worry! I just want to know how to get a paleo account :/ derp derp
See the fourth paragraph on this announcement thread.
Welcome back!
Welcome back! Have you been here in the last 20 months? I can’t remember if you were around when I started posting, posted on some old threads I’ve looked at, or just have a memorable name.
Hi everyone! *Pies* I was about to post on MuseBlog’s birthday, somehow became distracted, and here it is the 28th already, argh!! Happy belated birthday!!!
How have you all been?
RtH! Haven’t seen you around in awhile, or else I’m just dreadfully oblivious (which is a definite possibility, mind you).
It’s always great to see an “old” face come ’round the ‘blog.
I’m pretty sure I just had a panic attack. It was terrifying, and it doesn’t help that I’m home alone when my mom should have been here over three hours ago. I think I may be having the beginnings of another one…
Oh god I feel like such a baby. I’m sitting here eating stale Mint Milanos and listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me in an attempt to calm down… I feel like I’m going to cry.
These things are terrifying.
/hug
Sudo, just think of the fact that everyone wants you to be okay. We all do.
Just…be okay…for us?
THanks. My mom’s home now, she thought I was supposed to be over at my dad’s house so she and my sister went to their friends’ house after the beach… I’m pretending I was perfectly fine the whole time.
Noooo, don’t pretend. My friend had panic attacks for years, until she eventually got help outside her family. She’s doing much better right now – the last attack she had was months ago.
This is the first time I’ve had a panic attack in a looong time. I’m not sure if I’ve ever had one before, although looking back on it I may have had one or two without knowing what they were. Anyway, it’s not bad enough to worry my parents with, (my mom already felt so bad about the communication mixup that had led to my being home alone) but if it gets worse and more frequent (which I doubt it will) then I’ll tell them.
How strange. I had what I believe was a baby panic attack earlier this evening as well. Not a full-fledged one, though, I don’t think.
I’m pretty sure mine wasn’t full fledged.
What’s a panic attack? Is it where you get all paranoid at every sound that you hear?
The official DSM criteria:
A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort, in which four (or more) of the following symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 minutes:
Palpitations, or accelerated heart rate
Sweating
Trembling or shaking
Muscle tension
Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering
Feeling of choking
Chest pain or discomfort
Nausea or abdominal distress
Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint
Derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself)
Fear of losing control or going insane
Fear of dying
Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)
Chills or hot flashes
Weakness in the knees
Confusion
Tunnel vision
Blank mind
Sensing time going by very slowly
Feeling the need to escape
Evil of the Daleks…..It’s like Evolution of the Daleks, except so much better done–none of the painfully cheesey/fakey special effects, and no pig slaves.
I mean, same basic premise (Daleks want the human factor), but done so much more realistically. (I mean, no pig slaves. That helps a ton.)
ew ew ew ew evolution of the daleks
KILL IT WITH FIRE
ugh. such a waste of ten/rose! :/
Wait, evolution of the Daleks was with Martha, right?
I sort of liked it… mostly for the humor value at fails.
The pig slaves…. *laughing* I loved the pig slaves. They were ridiculous.
Besides, why do Daleks know what pigs are?
But why did they not use Robomen?
Because robomen would have been much more realistic and believable? I dunno.
Speaking of…
Series 6 will be split into 2 parts, most likely Series 6 and Series 7. Look it up.
Oh….Oh, dear. I have mixed feeling on this. Yes, less wait time, but essentially instead of showing one (already short, by US standards) season, showing us two half as long seasons….I dunno. i like the shorter wait, don’t like the idea of a huge cliff hanger at the end of the first half where we are in painful suspense until the start of the next, and…I dunno.
but to hve a common theme between all the episodes of each half, is something of a return to Classic Who with its long serial arcs, which is both a plus and a minus, but with Classic Who it worked, because there were so caking many episodes in a season (like, around 40). With only 13 eps i a season….doesn’t work so well. :/
I dunno.
Piggy wishes to give a warm “Welcome back!” to Kiki and the HAWK, as well as a scolding for their absences.
Kiki! HAWK! Long time no see!
Good to see you back. I recently rose from the dead a month or two ago, but I think I’ll leave the Internet again when school starts. 
You know what’s rather sad? I’ve watched more TV since starting college than I had my entire life before college. And I don’t just mean more TV on average per week, I think I have quite literally spent a greater number of hours watching TV (even if it is on my computer, rather than a television set) at college than I had before I started.
I mean, I’ve watched all the back episodes of numerous TV shows, and today, for instance, I watched an entire 17 Classic Who eps. Seventeen. Even taking into account that Classic Who eps are only 23 minutes, that is still a caking lot of television…
I think college is bad for my health, on so many levels.
ashgfsdglf SO TIRED but happy
Back home again after a longer train ride than expected out of the city. The Kokon was a blast. Details later when I’m not so exhausted, although it may take a few days to send in photos because tomorrow is PACKING FOR COLLEGE day and monday is DRIVING TO COLLEGE day. Unless I pull everything together early enough to send them tomorrow XD
Also I am going to need to memorize two more poems in case I ever get ahold of the other two GAPA(s) numbers at a kokon, I can only really do Jabberwocky and The Garden of Proserpine off the top of my head XD
…also I thought I submitted this 20 min ago. OH WELL. BEDTIME.
Back in New York!
I found out that the Challenger Centers are releasing a series of young adult science fiction books written by the guy who wrote the Young Jedi Knights series. A lot of space tie-ins aren’t that good, but I think this has the potential to be really cool.
I just got back from Stapels, where I changed all the homepages I could on the computers they have displayed to MuseBlog.
99-nice!
MY BANGS ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!!! I have side bangaThey keep falling in my eyes, and generally looking unbangish. And being annoying. And preventing me from seeing. GRAHHHHHHHHHHHH
That’s why I hate my little side-bang-type things. If you brush them back, then put your hair in a pony and bobby pin them, they’ll stay up. Or, if you want to keep your hair down, let them fall naturally, then pull them back gently from the bottom and pin them into the rest of your hair. It’ll look sorta swoopy if you don’t pull it tightly. Or, you can pull them back in a headband. The last two generally don’t work for me because they stick up and look all weird, but give it a shot.
Good luck!
I just had a wonderful thought: Even thought I’ve watched 176 episodes of Classic Who so far, I still have 520 more episodes left, plus the Doctor Who movie…..And only 32 of the remaining episodes are reconstructions.
Oh my word. That means I have watched… *counts* 243 Episodes.
Where are you in Classic Who watching?
I have entered the Realm Of Color. I finished Troughton’s Doctor last night (
), and today I watched Pertwee’s pilot episode. Yay! The Silurians are next…
I’m rather looking forward to hitting the color episodes (the black and white ones are good, but I am rather fond of color), although I think I shall miss Troughton–I’ve greatly enjoyed his episodes, with the exception of soem recons that I had difficulty following.
i have watched 104 episodes. and that doesn’t make me feel like a sad, sad person. not at all…
*twiddles thumbs*
no seriously though, i love you guys and we are the awesomest and everyone who doesn’t spend days of their lives watching classic who is just MISSING OUT
(so at 25min per ep that is just over 43 hours of solid who. w00t w00t!)
aww, lucky! i am in the middle of RECONSTRUCTIONLAND (towards the end of first doctor, second doctor looming ahead). such a shame. still great stuff though.
i just finished The Daleks’ Master Plan (and by just, i mean before i left for the weekend) so i will probably watch the next serial or two today (the next one is only one episode i think?)
also luna re: college teevee-watching. oh. my god. i know. i didn’t really watch tv at all until the summer before college started. but it’s such a convenient way to relax between classes, is the thing. i mean you have these chunks of time where your friends have stuff going on and you’ve just finished a class and you have another one coming up in a while so you don’t have time to go out so you just hang out and think “hmm…television.”
I know….I don’t know if it’s me, or the quality of the reconostructions, but I’m having an increasingly difficult time following the recons. I think it’s a combination of poor audio and poor video, plus an increasingly poor attention span on my part, but…..Yup, it’s a very nice thought that I’ve only got about 29 more recons to go, now.
oh i lied, the next one coming up is a four-part. but then after that there is an entire serial with MOVEMENT! crazy!
“Reconstructionland”? That sounds like a terrible theme park. Reconstruction wasn’t a fun time for the South, much to what would have been Lincoln’s dismay.
I’m imagining a roller coaster/dark ride where the KKK is chasing your ride vehicle…
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME from Peru.
Hiked the Inca Trail; did half of it with a raging sore throat slash cold. Looked around at all the British/French/American/Canadian/Peruvian tourists who had taken the train up instead of hiking and felt superior. Still do, as a matter of fact.
Mmm. Purring cat. I look nice and don’t smell disgusting. This is a nice change.
Awesome!
VENDAH APPROVES
ahhh that brings back memories. Did you hike up to the Sun Gate at dawn for awesomeness? Did you go to the Temple of the Moon? Did you stay in that hostel? It was too crowded when I was there so I camped outside of it, in the rain. After hiking in the rain. :/
Actually there was some horseback riding in the rain too. and sickness. Hmmm, looking back it’s amazing we had such a good time. Aaand that guide who deserted us. And the train fiasco. whew!
by the way do they still have the water channels running at Machu Picchu? I heard they were going to shut off the flow but it’s SO COOL I hope they didn’t
IN OTHER NEWS
I am in college now, which has been awesome and scary and emotionally confused, and has much potential but the new-friends thing is daunting. :~|
I went to an airshow today. SO COOL. I haven’t been to one since 2002-ish, even though there’s one every year. They did a few reenactments of WWII dogfights (surprise surprise, the US always been the Japanese planes), a bunch of aerobatics, a wingwalker, all sorts of awesome stuff. There was an F-18 Superhornet and an F-22 Raptor as well. Absolutely mindblowing. The Thunderbirds were the “grand finale”, though I was much more impressed by the F-18 and the F-22. I must have applied sunscreen unevenly, though, because my knees are sunburned while the rest of my legs are not. Still, I’m sure I was more comfortable than all the Air Force members in their bodysuits. That would be miserable.
And there was something else I wanted to say. Eh, I’ll think of it eventually.
But anyway, the F-22 was incredible. Over 35,000 pounds of thrust with afterburner. At one point it did a loop much smaller than I would ever have thought possible for any plane, much less such a powerful one. It and the F-18 sounded incredible too–well, felt incredible. It was more than sound.
*sighs and winces at sunburn*
Wow! LUCKY!
Yesterday a B-2 flew over Bag ‘n’ Save as I was walking back to the car. But I didn’t see any B-2 at the air show. How very strange, I must say.
Grr, there are things I want to say that I can’t due to the fact that they may slightly reveal my general location. *sigh*
What kind of a store uses the name Bag ‘n’ Save?
A grocery store that… uh… encourages you to, um… bag your own groceries and… save money?
I have two confessions to make.
1 – I don’t read Luna’s long posts. Sorry, Luna.
2 – I saw a picture of Piggy that someone sent Nym and now I imagine it whenever I see a post he made and laugh. No-Face vs. Piggy. Hahahahahahaha.
( No offense. )
I don’t know whether I approve of the circulation of random pictures of me through the forbidden extrabloggian space.
I think it was from Facebook…It wasn’t a bad picture, don’t worry.
I don’t care whether it was a good picture or a bad picture. I don’t want any picture of me transmitted around the internet without my permission. In any case, this conversation is entirely against the Rules.
SudoRandom bought himself a drum set! Do any other MuseBloggers play drums? (SudoRandom doesn’t really, actually. But they will certainly be useful for the Naming of Names! Either Keiffer or Maggie will drum. Hurrah!)
Lil’BK’s parents think she should play the drums because she has an excellent sense of the beat of a song.
My younger sis played for a year or two, so I used to go up and bang away at her drums…excellent way to relive stress.
Good. Now we don’t have to use a blender!
Speakig of which, reply to my email! You’ve forced me to use MuseBlog to speak about offblog affairs!
Did my post get zapped for some strange reason, or did I never post it? Or maybe it was spammed… ?
Hm. This should have replied to the other post, although my post is there now. Strange.
The spam filter caught it. I don’t know why.
The spam filter seems to dislike many of my comments…
Once it marked my email address as spam.
*cough what do you call a drummer with half a brain cough*
I actually looooove drums. And people who drum. MuseBlog should start a rock band.
*cough talented? cough* <3 instrumentalist jokes.
That's what the Naming of Names is, actually. A Muse-based rock band. (the Naming of Names is the name of a recent muse article.) It's got all Massachusetts MBers in it.
The Naming of Names! I am now a groupie. When people ask me to list my favorite bands, I will drum my fingers on my leg and then say, “Um… the Beatles, Green Day, the Ramones, and then a few you probably haven’t heard of, like the Decemberists, Flogging Molly, the Naming of Names, y’know. I recommend the Naming of Names, though. And the Decemberists, if you can handle weirdness and lots of drowning. And Flogging Molly, if you like Celtopunk.”
Wow, we have a fan and we haven’t even had our first practice yet!
I’m so hip, I like bands that don’t properly exist. XD
Well we will soon, hopefully!
I’m going to beat the crowd and go, “Who are your influences where do you get your ideas can I have your autograph?” before everyone else.
Add me to your list of fans who have followed you for longer than seems possible!
Scene from the future:
I say: “Oh, the Naming of Names! They’re great!”
Random fan says: “Yeah, I know. I’ve followed them for years! You?”
I say: “I’ve followed them since…the summer of 2010.”
Random fan says: “They didn’t exist in the summer of 2010!”
I say: “Yes, they did–in their own minds!”
Random fan says: “Wait…you’re a mind reader? Don’t read my mind! I keep all my secrets there! Aaaah!” {Runs away, screaming.}
Is this anything like the “think system” in “The Music Man”?
*goes off to write MuseBlog fanfic based on this*
who hasn’t heard of the decemberists or flogging molly? they’re both pretty popular
Anyone at my school, apparently.
*raises hand*
I’ve heard of the Decemberists, and maybe Flogging Molly, but I’ve never heard anything by them, at least not that I know of.
I’ve never heard of them.
I’VE HEARD OF FLOGGING MOLLY I FEEL SO SPECIAL
The Naming of Names? Cool!
Maybe eventually, once you do properly exist, you could actually post a recording here of the band performing, or something. I mean, you don’t have to, obviously, and you may not actually even be able to (I don’t know what your computer can do), but it would be great if you did. Though it’s a bit early to even suggest it…
Yeah, that would be fun! Assuming we’re good enough to be worth it, and nobody has anything against it. (Especially the GAPAs.)
You totally should.
Yay! Hello MB! ^^ I love today. Today is good. Unfortunately, I should be practicing piano right now, so I’ll just mosey on around and glance at various threads and then skidaddle!
GAPA’s, my Birthday (September 15, 1995) is not on the calendar this year. I demand a explanation.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=7792#comment-380968
Also, mine is coming up, I don’t think I ever told you when it is… October 28 1995.
You are exactly three days younger than me! Scary.
I’m trying on all of my clothes right now, before school starts, so that I can donate the ones that are too small or that I don’t wear anymore.
However, I’m finding it really astounding that my Hot Pink Bunny T-Shirt is still right on the edge of being too large for me! You’d think that I would have grown into it by now!
I am leaving for Florida tomorrow for the WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER!
You know you’re envious.
I have it on good information that butterbeer is a must have, (pumpkin juice not so), Olivander’s is delightful, and the astronomy tower is visible, which contains the Ravenclaw dorm!
You know, I tried them both once, (Don’t know if it was the same recipe) and I didn’t like the butterbeer, but I did like Pumpkin Juice.
a;lskdjflkdshgdlskjfdkls;hgdslfj I’d hate you, but I’m hopefully going in just about 3 months (Thanksgiving Break), so I’ll forgive you this time. XP
I’ll hate you enough for me and Luna… I don’t think I’ll get around there, like, ever.
I have to save up and go by myself or with a friend. I’m hoping to get there for LeakyCon 2011, but it doesn’t seem very likely…
Anyway, enough about me, have fun! Take a picture of your wand, if you get one!
Ahhhh LUCKY…there are no plans for Florida in my future unfortunately… *sigh* However I would love to go to Disney World (at least, my family wants to) so perhaps we could do both in one trip, probably sometime next summer or over spring break.
Argh, so envious.
Maybe once the crowds die down I can convince my family that we need to go see it, and they all pretty much like HP immensely, and I bet we could convince them eventually…
Have fun!
LUCKY
OHMYGOD, LUCKY!!!!!!! *envies*
You lucky thing!
Ohhh, I am so jealous. I was in Florida over Spring Break, but it wasn’t open yet. One of my friends gets to go for Christmas, which will probably be amazing.
Did you know that, when squirted out of its container while opening said container, strawberry sauce can travel almost three feet in under half a second?
Neither did I!
Did you know that fresh, warm strawberry sauce is almost indistinguishable from fresh, warm blood except for the smell and taste??
Neither did I!!
Ah, the joys of trying to get ready for cross-country practice!!!
That looked really random in the recent comments bar.
Of course, it was really random. I was thinking that that had to make sense in context… Then it didn’t.
Ah, the joys of randomness.
Based on an unfortunately true story. Stupid new shoes. Also, now the strawberry sauce container smells like onion bagels ‘cuz our microwave smells like said bagels ‘cuz that’s mainly what we microwave in there.
Oh cake. I forgot to say last Friday that I finally got to talk to one of my friernds at length (I don’t share classes or the same lunch period wth any of them) and I found out HE LIED! At the end of last schoolyear, he said he would crossdress over the summer. I asked, and he hadn’t! And it isn’t just me who’s dissapointed, I’m sure. I was one of at least six people who demanded he send us pictures.
Well, i’m back after an entire year. Took me long enough. I was over in a faraway land without internet. (aka somewhere in the far, far south)
Hello, Celesta! So you’re back in Arizona now?
The racist state
That is offensive no matter how many emoticons are attached to the end.
I take it you are not Mexican.
I’ma interfere here and tell you two to take this conversation to the Hot Topics thread right now, before it starts clogging anything.
That seems like a good place for it.
I got a blue streak in my hair yesterday and it looks cakin’ AWESOME! I now cannot wait for school to start.
I wanna blue streak. Or I could spike my hair acid green.
Anyway, help needed in aisle Zack. I picked up a bag of Sour Skittles yesterday. I adore sour candies and have never had problems with it before. The same thing happened to me last year, but I forgot and so did not remember NOT to buy them.
Anyway, after about forty Skittles my tongue started to feel like it was burning, but the feeling went away. I had maybe ten more and after I got home, the mirror showed sores on the inside of my cheeks and my tongue looked as if I had burned it (quite badly). It not only LOOKS it, it feels it, and I can’t really enjoy food. I’m sure it’ll heal by itself, but has this happened to any of you? I think it may be the powdery coating.
Ow ow ow… Hope it feels better. Try Kank-A, it’s good for sores in your mouth.
Yup. Only with sour mints. I had half of the pack in my mouth and.. well, things got ugly.
I want to see that. *imagines*
If you want to imagine properly, I have dirty blonde hair, and the blue streak is cerulean. It looks pretty sweet.
JADE IS IN COLLEGELAND NOW.
We moved all my stuff into the dorm room. There was a lot of it XD It is mostly all set up now.
Roommate isn’t here, if she’s coming at all (long story short: through my stalking skills it seems she may be going to a different college now). So I may end up having a single? Not sure.
Going to a picnic thing now, then orientation speech/concert. After that my parents (who have been helping me move stuff/etc) will go back to hotel until tomorrow (there’s a few more parent things, then they go home), and we’ll have a dorm/floor meeting with the RAs and stuff. Not sure if anything’s happening after that.
Stalking, you? Never. As for the roomie, even if the one you’re currently assigned to doesn’t show, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you still ended up getting another roommate withing short order, but perhaps you’ll luck out and get it all to yourself.
Whee, that sounds ridiculously like my first day at arts camp! I really hope your roommate ends up coming, it’s absolutely fantastic in terms of social interactions to have a roommate. Also, I met the girl who was going to become my best friend by putting up a little notecard saying:
We’re bored,
come in and say hi!
God, I’m so envious that you get to be in college already. (CORRECT WORD USAGE FTW.) Have fun!
*GAPA seal of approval*
Oh my gosh. The chickies came today! My mom went to the post office to pick them up, and the lady just complained how annoying they were, then asked if they were snake food. SNAKE FOOD?
That’s insulting.
Nobody insults my chicks.
NOBODY! *hulk smash*
Anyway, there’s six of them. We have a buff Orpington, a buff laced Polish, a white Cochin, an Easter Egger (not a real breed, but a mix that lays brilliantly colored eggs), a blue Silkie, and a buff Brahma. Oh my god, they’re so cute! I can’t wait for them to get older. I love them so much. Absolutely adorable. ♥
That lady is hate-filled *destroys* But chickies are awesome!
I know! So cute! I’m going to try to convince my mom to let me name them Harry Potter related names…
XD When we’ve raised orphaned wild ducks/geese in the past (which were released back into the wild once they were matured enough), I gave all of them HP related names….
My friend’s family just adopted two orange kittens and named them Fred and George.
Of course, that might be slightly hazardous to their health. My brother tells a story of two turtles that were in our school’s Aquaculture center that were named the same way. (SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER.) Fred died.
How cute! <3 That lady needs to be fed to snakes. Now. Easter Eggers' eggs are amazing and so, so cool. My friend has chickens and they have some of those. Are the Brahmas the ones with the feathers on their legs? What are you going to name them? Are you going to name them? Chicks are pretty adorable. Are any of them roosters? Do you know?
Yay, fellow chicken-owner! And six of them? So many! You should name the white one Albus Dumbledore. Also, you should name the Easter Egger Luna Lovegood. If Luna Lovegood was a chicken, that is what brand she would be.
Or you could name one Colonel Sanders.
OH my gosh! So many questions!
I don’t have much time, I’ll respond to everyone tomorrow, on the *shivers* September thread.
jade — yay i’m glad everything worked out!
roommate mia is kinda weird but a single would be cool!
vendy — totally agree about everything college related. have you started classes yet?
i just had my first two classes, japanese and a core humanities class. japanese is early in the morning (well, relatively…8:10 or 9 depending on the day) and i’m feelin somewhat sleepy…. downtime between classes is kinda weird. i think i’ll go read.
Beedle the bard- Sorry, I don’t keep up with this thread, but what you were saying about having chicks was really interesting. What are you doing with them? raising them for their eggs? Eventually going to eat them? Just curious.
They’re pets, and we eat their eggs too. If we have purebreds, we usually enter them in chicken shows, too.
We usually keep up a flock of six, but through and series of unfortunate events, our little flock has dwindled to one (and two ducks). They’re really sweet and quirky pets, especially if you handle them a lot. We used to have one that would peck at the door to come in the house, eat some cat food, then hover by the door to let us know she wanted to go back outside. I’m really excited about having them this young (they’re only a day old!) because we’ll really be able to socialize them well. And, well, they’re adorable little balls of fluff. 
Awwwww!
So… my friend is in the hospital. Again. He was in for about a week in January for a spontaneous pneumothorax, and when I was talking to him online last night he said something about it hurting: “The place where I got the pneumothorax is throbbing a little bit… quite a bit actually.” So I’m guessing it’s related to that.
But in January, there were decent chances that he was going to have to get this surgery and then not be able to play clarinet for a long time. I’m not sure how long. Music is his life, and it’s marching band season and he’s clarinet section leader.
And he isn’t replying to texts or calls and he isn’t online and so I don’t know how he is and I’m really worried.
Oh no…I hope he gets better. Is he a good friend? *hugs*
Quite a good friend. Pretty much my best guy friend, actually.
117-*sympathy hugs and get well soon pies for your friend*
Crud. He gets a massive get-well-soon from me, although you may not want to tell him this, as that would be kinda creepy. So… luck, sympathy, my condolences!
Thanks guys.
Update from him:
“Got out of surgery about 3 hours. It was a VATS procedure [..] . Plus another chest tube. I’m in for a pneumothorax again. Right now, I’m on morphene and sleeping…well I was and I will be after this. Theoretically, this surgery should remove the 50% recurrence rate of a 3rd pneumothorax in my left lung. […] I’m not due for any more surgeries, am recovering, and expect to be back in school by Tuesday.”
I think I’ll visit him Friday.
Oh, that’s great that surgery went well (although, of course, it sucks that he needed it at all). Hope recovery and everything all goes well for him.
Well that’s good.
NOTE: I do note hate facebook. I even have an account. I just had the urge to attack-I meant, CRITIQUE, the site. Plus, my sister made me do this.(shhhh, don’t tell her I said-crap. Oh nooooooo…)
Facebooks top ten flaws:
10. You can only put tiny URL’s on there
9. Farmville
8.Many apps that are useless yet people still find ways to spam you with them
7.Beacon
6. Getting messages by ex’s you hoped to never or hear from again
5.No music player.
4.I don’t care how much you “like” eating or that you “like” breathing.
3.Blue,blue, blue. What about GREEN.
2.Using real name.
1. People who post every single tning that pops into their head, and you are forced to read about how they are, for one minute, “sad” and the next minute, “single”
Urghhghg
Have you guys heard the next series of Doctor Who is getting split in two? I’m not sure how to feel about this. I know everyone says “TRUST THE MOFF”, but I really don’t like the idea of shorter seasons! BLERGH.
Yeah, someone (Jakob, maybe?) mentioned earlier on this thread. I’ve kinda got mixed feelings on it, myself, too. Post 93.2 is where it was mentioned, and 93.2.1 on this page.
Hi, all. This thread is going offline now. The September random thread will come along shortly after midnight on September 1.