The random thread continues to celebrate Matariki, the Maori New Year, which is connected with the rising of the Pleiades (pictured). Continued from Part 1.
Patience, Please
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i must go down to the seas again!
To the lonely sea and the sky!
For some reason it seems to me that whenever someone is asked what ens favorite astronomical object is, en says the Pleiades.
So: what’s your favorite astronomical object, everyone? I like the Carina Nebula.
Do in-system bodies count? I’m a big fan of Ganymede, myself. (Reminds me of the time I sold it to a shop owner and then won it back off him in a card game.)
Of course they count.
I’m a fan of the Horsehead Nebula.
Orion!
I ♥ Orion. We have conversations, Orion and I. He’s my buddy. I used to joke that I had a crush on a guy who had [was] a heavenly body.
I actually met a guy (like, a human one) named Orion last summer. It went something like this:
* “SERIOUSLY?! OMG ORION IS MY FAVORITE!!! I LOVE THAT CONSTELLATION!!!!!!!! Sorry….you probably get that a lot…..”
* “It’s fine.”
“Hi, I’m Fern.”
“Hi, I’m Orion.”
*
*
“Seriously though, that is SO COOL.”
He was a sailor. He was also kind of cute. WHY DID I NOT FOLLOW UP ON THIS CHANCE? Oh, right, because I have a boyfriend who I’m still very much into. BUT STILL.
Anyway….I like Orion (the constellation).
Cassiopeia is cool, but she always seems very aloof.
I like Cassiopeia as well.
Orion’s my buddy as well! When I next see him, I’ll tell him to say hi to you for me (which might be sooner than you’d think, perhaps he’s up in the summer in the southern hemisphere?)
I think it should be fairly obvious.
My first thought was, “Should it? Why? The Pleiades?” *facepalm*
I like Earth.
I suppose I like Saturn’s rings. And the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Teh Milky Way itself. Favorites? I don’t know, I’ve never really consider the question before.
And why not the Pleiades? They’ve got such pretty names.
I like Orion, and especially the Eagle Nebula. I know they’re terribly mainstream, but the Pillars of Creation are something special indeed.
I JUST TOOK MY LATIN FINAL.
On part 1, I got a 92 (it was a multiple choice that I took on the computer and the computer can grade so I know what I got already). Part two was a translation, and I have no idea about that one.
But whatever I got, IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE DONE WITH ALL MY SCHOOL FOR REAL NOW.
2 –
The PleiadesI really don’t know; I don’t know that many astronomical objects, I’m afraid.Bibliophile on the last thread – I wish we could have had a Kokon! Boston is great, and thank you for telling me they have a Harry Potter store in Salem, because I didn’t know. I haven’t been there for about five years.
On an unrelated note, I found The Most Pretentious Name of a Beauty Product Ever when I was reading InStyle today. Are you ready for this? It’s called “Clé de Peau Beauté La Créme”. It sounds like something that Veronica Lodge would use, doesn’t it?
Yes, yes it does.
I just watched P.S. I Love You and as cliche as it sounds, I cried for around twenty straight minutes. It might just be me, but I don’t think movies should be allowed to do that to a person.
Also, new thread already? We’re ripping through these at light speed.
Fiddler on the Roof does that to me…
hahahahahahahahaha i can’t deal with that movie, rocking back and forth in the dark tears running down my face oh lawd gerard butler you are a life ruiner
Finished the last day of school by discussing HG2G with my nerdfriend TWOO.
Yes! It is SUMMER! My Geometry textbook came today! Extreme YAY!
I feel so proud because I just watched Jeopardy! and one of the categories was “Words from the Preamble,” and I got all four right. Why, you may ask? Because I know the “Schoolhouse Rock” song for it.
I remember that one! “Ensure domestic tran-quil-i-TEEEEEE; provide for the com-mon de-feeeence….” La la la…
Except if I remember correctly the song left out a clause.
It left out “of the United States of America”. The song just said “We the people…in order to form a more perfect union”
It’s still hard to not pause when I get to the ‘and’. You know, the one between ‘welfare’ and ‘defense’.
“pro-mote the gen-er-al wel-fare aaaand…”
I watched the new X-Men last night. And now I’m a total X-Men fan. That movie was amazing.
Right, guys, where do I start?
TELL ME TOO I WANT TO KNOW TOO IT WAS AMAZING
I guess there aren’t any X-Men fans on?
Where’s Kai when you need her?
I REALLY LIKED IT haven’t watched any of the others though…
Okay, first of all, you have to know that the “First Class” in the movie isn’t the actual first X-Men class from the comics, the producers kind of picked and choose characters they liked for the class in the movie.
The X-Men, as they debuted in the 1960s, were:
Professor X
Cyclops
Beast
Angel
Iceman
Jean Grey
The comic was popular for a few years, and two new characters were introduced later:
Polaris (Magneto’s daughter, same powers as him, but weaker)
Havok (Cyclops’ brother)
After time, the series lost its fans and was cancelled… until 1975, when Chris Claremont restarted the series featuring a new international team of X-Men, sent by Professor X to save the old team after they’d been captured by a fiendish living island.
This team was:
Cyclops (The only one of the old team who escaped the island)
Nightcrawler
Storm
Colossus (Russian guy, turns to steel)
Wolverine
Thunderbird (Who died in his second appearance and was never spoken of again. Poor, poor Thunderbird.)
Sunfire (Who quit after his first adventure, but came back later. Japanese guy, flew and controlled fire.)
They saved the old team, who decided they wanted to retire from superheroism and lead normal lives. (Of course, this being comics, they came back later and rejoined the team) Jean Grey ended up getting drawn back into an adventure with the team, and over the course of it, she became Phoenix, got a major power-up, and decided to stay.
So then a bad guy messed with Jean’s mind and she turned into Dark Phoenix and nearly destroyed the Universe and ended up dying. Around this time, the X-Men found Kitty Pryde. (They saved her from Emma Frost, who was a villain at the time.) Rogue showed up a little later.
At one point, everybody who was an X-Man at that point got captured by aliens, so Professor X recruited another team to save them, this time made out of younger mutants. These “New Mutants” were the first “junior X-team”. There have been many others since. They were:
Karma (Controls people’s minds)
Cannonball (You may remember him from the Evolution cartoon- the guy who propels himself through the air like, well, a cannonball)
Wolfsbane (Scottish girl, turns into a wolf)
Danielle Moonstar (Various codenames, creates illusions)
Sunspot (His skin turns black when he absorbs sunlight and channels it into superhuman strength. Also in the cartoon.)
Except… it turned out that “Phoenix” wasn’t really Jean Grey, it was a piece of the Phoenix Force that THOUGHT it was Jean Grey, and the real Jean was sealed inside a cocoon, healing. The team found her, and she rejoined, but she wouldn’t get Phoenix powers again for a while.
Now that’s a summary up until about 1990, when there were a lot of new members and a lot of really complex storylines and really just a lot more than I can get into in the space I have here.
Uncanny X-Men .net is your friend, let me just say that.
Sorry for being unclear; I really meant that I’m about to start following the story line, and what title should I read/watch first?
The first movie’s most convenient for me to start with, but I’d prefer to start in the right place.
How about watching the movies in the order in which they came out? Simple and direct.
Yeah, but aren’t there about a hundred comic books? Should I read those first?
Plenty of time for that later. For now, just plunge in and watch the movies, I say.
You don’t have to read all of the comic books, I was just letting you know the rough backstory so you’ll know who everybody is if you pick one up.
But if you do want to read the comics, start with the collected Essential X-Men Volume 1. It’s Claremont’s first issues, it’s very action-packed, and it’s when a lot of the popular characters were introduced, so it’s a good introduction to them.
Hm, okay. I’ll probably watch the first movie, then continue with reading the comics.
My cousin is over at the house and reeeeeealy hyper. He insisted I trade him some pokemon so I picked up my DS and played pokemon for the first time in almost a year.
It was awesome.
Star Trek Nemesis… incredibly bad, and I can’t stop watching it.
Here is the difference between Singapore and the rest of the world:
The top article on the New York Times website is titled Thousands Flee Sudan as North-South Clashes Grow, U.N. Says.
The top article on the Straits Times website is titled New National Anthem Recording Released in G Major
Seems like Singapore is pretty…
(sunglasses)
…insular.
(YEEEEEAAAAAAHHH)
…
There’s a thin line between amusement and confusion; one might almost say a…
(sunglasses)
…dotted line.
(YEEEEEAAAAAAHHH)
Weirdo.
(In the nicest way possible, of course!)
I SEE WAT U DID THAR
What are you quoting there?
CSI.
I don’t even like the key of G Major.
Me neither. I once broke a fingernail trying to reach a high G.
Have you tried E Major? Maybe this is just on a violin, but all of the sharps are painful.
The sharps bother me a little in B, but not much until you get to F#major.
Also, how on earth do you break a fingernail trying to reach a note?
It’s a matter of twisting your finger at exactly the right angle and having exactly the right scratch on your fingerboard that your nail can catch on.
Next question: why were your nails so long? Clip your nails! It is hard to impossible to have the right hand position with nails that are long enough to break.
Hey guys! I’m back from my trip to Williamsburg! On the first day, I nearly died of heatstroke. On the second day, I nearly died of heatstroke. On the third day, I didn’t because there was a water park!!
Did you see Jamestown Settlement? Those are MY BOATS! ♥
Even if you didn’t go to Jamestown, but went to the historic district of Williamsburg, you probably saw people I know.
I love Williamsburg. I was actually there last weekend.
It does get hot there though, I agree.
…Hm. I just suddenly remembered that we once went to Jamestown and saw boats. Or maybe just boat, I can’t really remember. I think we went there when one of them was off being restored, or something?
Wow, that was a long time ago. I can’t even remember whether there was one or two boats there.
Meh. My mom keeps bugging me to get off of the computer.
BUT IT’S SUMMER
(this is where everyone replies with how many more months of school they have left)
Don’t EVEN TALK ABOUT IT. I MEAN IT.
YEAH!
We still have next week, then finals week.
Erm… none. Today is the first day of summer.
Four. More. Days. *ack*
At least on Tuesday Owl City’s new album comes out. Squee!!
I once heard Fireflies performed on steel drums.
Deer In The Headlights and Alligator Sky are already on Pandora. The latter has a rap segment. ADAM HOW COULD YOU
ghkkskklnxdlkni09ghulnlnlnln^^^
Translation:
I’m learning differential calculus.Today’s session (involving e, ln, chains, e^x, k^x) left me kind of brain dead.
addendum:
Hopefully the third movement of the Strauss 1st Horn Concerto will help. It’s like auditory coffee!
SFTDP
So it’s about two years ago that we had the garlic vampire wars?
What thread were they on? I’ve searched the Logomania, and I thought it was there…
Or am I hallucinating the whole ordeal?
Two years? I thought it wasn’t that long ago…
I thought it was in 2009.
Of course, I could swear it was on Logomania Unleashed! but…
I don’t remember exactly where it is, but there’s a link to it on Best of the Blog. Speaking of which, will someone please bite me? I really want to be able to survive by only taking bits of blood rather than having to kill things. It tastes really good, too, and garlic’s even better.
*eats Bibliophile*
You did ask me to bite you, and eating generally involves biting…
I think it was on the random thread…but I wasn’t actually present for the thing, so I could be wrong.
I think it was on one of the Anchors Aweigh threads.
SFTDP: Yep: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5678#comment-346441
SFTTP: Also, it was only like a year and a half ago. I was on here during the war, and my second blogiversary’s not till October.
Ah, I was confusing it with the space squids and the GAPA Entity, which were on the Anchors Aweigh…
GO TO THE WINDOW
We are all one in the Woven Beyond….
Okay, was it you who liked all the posts?
‘Twas me.
*follows suit* We should try to pink the whole thing, like we did with the first-ever MB comment.
…Actually, that would be kinda terrifying…
*pies all posts*
*follows suit*
Join us, everyone! most of it is at 6 pies by now, and some is at 7! We just need three or four more people!
*follows suit* I pinked a post!
I pinked 50 posts. Seriously. (Right place right time). I feel SO powerful right now.
I was gainfully employed today, and will be tomorrow as well.
A friend of ours has an early American games program he does for various historical sites, and I’m being his assistant this weekend.
Today in addition to playing games with anyone who stopped by I also made a new belt.
When I was in Deluth I got a superawesome belt that I LOVED, but it was made with really nasty fake leather, which started falling apart immediately. I got it for the buckle and the design though, and I used it hard until it completely disintegrated, so it’s okay. Anyway, Tad (aforementioned friend) had some leather and gave me enough to make a new belt exactly like the old one. So now I have a superawesomefantastic belt.
I should perhaps describe it a bit better than that. You know those belts with the buckle that has two tongues? This one has three, and groups of three holes all around the belt, that forms a neat pattern. It’s fun and I love it. It’s also 34″ long, so it fits me really well without a lot of extra material hanging off, but I can still wear it as tight or loose as I wish. Yay! I’m excited about this, because it works as an excellent rig belt, holding-up-my-jeans belt, fashion statement belt, or anything you can use a belt for.
And also I like making things.
RE: Favorite Celestial Object: Antares (the heart of scorpio) or just Scorpio the constellation if constellations are allowed.
RE: Crying in movies: Big Fish makes me cry almost the whole time.
I had a graduation party today. In related news, I just bought 6 books.
We also have an excess of chicken and pizza and soda at my dad’s house now.
Also related: a lot of my guests were taekwondo families. Today was my last day of taekwondo.
I can’t believe I’m done. 8 years without a break and now it’s just over. Holy cake!
And in 4 days I’m going to Europe!!! WOOOO!
I saw the new X-Men movie tonight. (I’ve never seen any of the other ones besides Wolverine and I’ve never read the comics, by the way. But I think I have to now.)
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a) I ship Charles and Erik so, so hard now.
b) I am in love with Charles Xavier.
(shush don’t judge me)
Tess – ME TOO I’m also in love with Charles Xavier AHHHHHH James McAvoy!
That wasn’t requiring of a spoiler, was it?
But OH my gosh CHARLES XAVIER ♥
*is sounding extremely immature* *is stopping*
No, that’s pretty much been my thought process for the last couple days. xD
Given: No rational person who knows she is going to have to fit everything she owns into two suitcases to take home would purchase four yards of sparkly cloth for no reason other than that it was cheap and she thought it would make a good curtain;
Prove: I am not a rational person.
hmm
given: ~r&s -> (m->p)&c
prove: ~r
something like that
I think it’s more like
r= rational person
s= will have to pack everything into suitcases
b= buying sparkly cloth
c= cheap
u= curtain
~( (r & s) -> ((c & u) -> b))) // ~r
I mean, if we have r s b c and u set as true.
SFTTP
All it takes is for b not to be true for the argument to break down.
And that makes sense! Because if you didn’t buy it then you
would be rationalwouldn’t be irrational because of that reason.So using propositional logic it would be a bit more like this (pretend the Es are backwards) (here, b = buys sparkly cloth):
~ E(( r & s) & b ))
There does not exist a being that is rational, needs to pack everything en owns into a suitcase, and buys sparkly cloth
proof: choklit(orange) -> (s & b) (All beings that are choklit orange are beings that need to pack everything into a suitcase and buys loads and loads of sparkly cloth/ if something is choklit orange, it buys loads and loads of sparkly cloth and needs to pack everything into a suitcase)
(choklit(orange) -> r) -> (choklit(orange) -> (r & (s & b)) (If all beings that are choklit orange are beings that are rational, then all beings that are choklit orange would be beings that are rational, need to pack everything en owns into a suitcase, and buys loads and loads of sparkly cloth/ if being choklit orange implied being rational, then being choklit orange would imply being rational, suitcase, buys cloth)
~ E((r & s) & b)) (There does not exist a being that is rational, needs to pack everything en owns into a suitcase, and buys loads and loadsof sparkly cloth)
Therefore: ~ E(choklit(orange) & r)) (There does not exist a being that is both choklit orange and rational)
Therefore: choklit(orange) -> ~r (No things that are choklit orange are rational/ if something is choklit orange, it is not rational)
WHEW!
Any mistakes that anyone can see? (Aside from, you know, posting 3 times in a row.)
I BOW IN THE PRESENCE OF GREATNESS
this looks right
Thank you. *bows back*
Good, I probably should have included some intermediate steps such as:
(a -> b) / (a -> c) // (a -> (b&c))
t t t t t t t f t f t <— Contradiction!
Ach, that didn’t work out right *facepalm* spaces are deleted…
I have a piccolo! It’s so cute! And it only cost a candelabra and a pig-shaped radio. I love garage sales. I HAVE A PICCOLO!
Of course, I have no idea how to play a piccolo. But I have one all the same.
Hey Choklit, what’s the range of a piccolo?
˙ʎÉp poob É uo spɹÉÊŽ 03 ʇnoqÉ
I know more!
How do you get two oboists to play in tune? Ë™Çuo ʇooÉ¥s
What’s the difference between a dead snake on the road and a dead oboist on the road? Ë™ÇÊžÉus Çɥʇ ÇɹoÉŸÇq sʞɹÉɯ pıʞs
What’s the difference between God and a trumpet player?
God doesn’t think he’s a trumpet player.
So this flutist was dating a tuba player, but when he kissed her, he opened his mouth a lot and was all drooly. So she started dating a french horn player. He barely opened his mouth when he kissed her, but she stayed with him because she liked the way he held her.
PICCOLO!!!!!!! ♥
Holy cake, the random thread is not at the top of the currently popular bar!
I know, right? It’s so weird.
What’s worse is the top is Rants and Plaints. So many problems…*kittens for all*
Okay. I’ve been away from the American school system for three years. On average, how much ridicule can I expect for each of the following idiosyncrasies/personality traits/habits/character flaws?
a) Greeting people with “Good morning” instead of “hi”
b) Reading while walking
c) Belonging to a religion most people have never heard of and declaring myself to be an atheist
d) Refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance, or at least skipping over the “under God” and “with liberty and justice for all” parts
e) Not wearing skinny jeans, tank tops, makeup, or high heels
Also, I’ve just realized that whenever I meet someone, or run into someone I already know, I sort of bow my head in greeting. Does anyone else do that?
Sometimes I sort of nod at them if I’m not going to say anything, just when I pass by. Sort of. I don’t really know what I’m saying.
At my school, little to none (I think). I don’t say the pledge (won’t until they take out “under God”), I don’t think I always use hi as a greeting, I never wear high heels to school, and I’m usually too lazy to put on makeup.
a. As long as it’s morning, none.
b. It depends on your school. Probably middling.
c. No problem, just don’t bring it up when you don’t have to and be willing to talk intelligently about it when you do (says the atheist who grew up in Texas)
d. I didn’t stand for the Pledge from fifth grade on. Occasionally I had a teacher tell me to, in which case I refused politely and offered to discuss it with them later (note: this is probably only a viable strategy if you are a good student and not a troublemaker). The wikipedia page about objections to the pledge is a valuable resource for this. If you’re still standing no one will notice, but it will probably make you feel better to have a list of intelligent objections you can refer to.
e. I never did. I just hung out with the geek crowd.
Basically, my experience was that as long as you are confident in whatever you are doing and don’t mind being different, AND if someone’s trying to bait you don’t react**, you won’t have any trouble. I mean, I used to wear my dashiki to school and everyone thought it was awesome.
**in other words, if someone says something to you sarcastically (e.g. “hey, nice shoes!”) take them absolutely literally, smile, and say “thank you. And so on.
I say “Good morning”” ( but only in the morning ), and I hear that nodding heads is sort of a masculine greeting.
about the pledge — senior year i stopped saying “under god” and i think eventually i stopped saying it at all. i did stand for it though, but i’ve had people in my classes who didn’t and it wasn’t that much of a thing.
reading while walking is fine, but be careful!
haha i kind of bow my head too
a) Should be fine.
b) Um… I do that too, but not saying it’s normal… I haven’t gotten teased, only annoyed by my friend that “You’re going to run into something!” But I haven’t.
c) I don’t know… it depends how open you are about it and what your friends’ religions are
d) The teachers will grill you.
e) Who cares what other people think????
a) you’ll seem mature
b) you’ll seem like a geek
c) you’ll seem intelligent
d) same as c/ you’ll seem unamerican
e) you’ll seem like a geek
Last: you’ll seem interesting. Guys will occasionally nod.
Honestly, all those idiosyncrasies/personality traits/habits/character flaws sound like descriptors of me except for the first.
Why no “with liberty and justice for all?” That part seems
mostlyharmless to me.Because it isn’t true.
Yep.
Maybe because, while a desirable situation, it isn’t quite what we have here in the USA, what with homosexual marriage being outlawed and that sort of thing?
I’m always tempted to say “with liberty and justice for straight white males over 21 born in America with jobs and a college degree”
I shall have to do that, I think.
During my time (> a semester) at a school in America, I: always read while walking and never wore skinny jeans, tank tops, makeup, or high heels, and I didn’t suffer any ridicule at all. Sometimes I didn’t say the Pledge or else said “I pledge allegiance to Queen Fragg and her mighty state of hysteria” under my breath; no one noticed, or if they did they didn’t comment. If it’s morning, I don’t think anyone will care if you say “Good morning.” I have zero experience with c.
SFTDP ~ I wrote > a semester, but I meant < a semester. Sorry for any possible confusion.
I believe that on an old thread here we have parodies Musers wrote of the Pledge of Allegiance. I think it was the first HG2MB planning thread. Or something… You could always say those instead.
Calvin and Hobbes for the WIN!!!!!!!!
Did they make you go to the board as a sacrifice to appease the evil god they call “NOLLIJ”?
I nod sometimes when I pass friends in the halls, so I don’t think its that bad.
Where I live, none of the lettered traits would raise an eyebrow. You would likely be written off as an uncool person, but only the people who are not worth your time would really care. Though reading while walking is likely to get some amused responses and people warning you not to bump into things, but no actual ridicule.
You may get suggestions on your attire, most likely the same ones over and over, but no harm will be meant by them and the best you can do is try not to let it annoy you.
The last one, coupled with A, may make some people think that you are slightly strange or old-fashioned, but teasing about it would likely be kept to a minimum.
a) People may like that you say “Good morning”
b) Just don’t bump into anyone.
c) Atheism–depends on where you go. Just don’t shove it in people’s faces (which you probably wouldn’t anyway).
d) See c
e) I’ve never met a girl in person who wears high heels to school. If I did I would laugh at her. And not everyone wears skinny jeans, tank tops, and makeup. Again, it depends on where you go. Who knows, you might be going to a school that’s so weird that you’ll be ridiculed for not looking ridiculous.
Okay. Thanks.
Wait, hasn’t ‘under God’ been repealed in California? I’ve never been there, but I think I heard someone say that a few years ago… Well, you’ll see, I suppose.
ENC DID YOU GET INTO SENIOR MYWE EMAIL ME OR TEXT ME OR POST IT HERE I AM SO IMPATIENT TO HEAR SO YOU HAD BETTER TELL ME!
SFTDP
By the way, I got into Jr. MYWE, guys!
I’m not entirely certain what that is, but congratulations anyway!
Thanks, shadowfire.
It’s an advanced group at [conservatory].
Advanced at what?
yay
TIMMY!
Wait, he’ll prolly be in Sr. MYWE…
Why did somebody pie this? Was someone in Jr. MYWE this year and I didn’t know?
Or is it the AWESOME flutist friend who used to get muse (I found that out by warning another friend that his hot pink snuggy might bunnify him) is now lurking here?
Sorry, I just pied it because A) It seemed to make you happy, and B) It probably made Timmy happy, too, whoever he is. I like happiness, and I didn’t see any obvious disadvantage to the situation except the materials used to make any equipment he might possibly need, and I don’t know if there even are any, so I thought the good probably outweighed the bad.
He’s a trombone player. Loud. And gets notes wrong when he’s most confident. But is awesome
So I haven’t been posting much lately, but I think I will more in the future, and here’s a story I want to tell about why:
Recently, things have not been good for my friends. My best friend is going through some heavy cake with school and parents, and her self-esteem and will to go on are pretty much in the gutter. My other best friend was recently diagnosed with depression, and he isn’t doing well.
Throughout this whole time, I’ve been trying to be there for them as much as I can: giving them space when it looks like they need space, a shoulder to cry on when they need that, encouraging words and comments when they need those. And recently, a week or two ago, my first friend had a night when she very seriously wanted to kill herself.
I don’t know what happened in her house that night, or what happened in her head. All I know is that she wrote in my yearbook, “Thank you for saving my life.” And when I asked her about it later, she said it was just by being there. Giving her space, giving her a shoulder, giving her little notes and drawings and hugs throughout the week. That by being there, I had saved her life.
And the thing is, I was just being you. All of you. I was trying to do that thing Robert does when he’s being smart and using knowledge and logic to explain to you why you’re awesome, and the thing Rebecca does when she gives you super-helpful advice on what thread to go to and what website to read and what people to talk to and that thing you do, that thing all of you do, where you’ve been there and you genuinely care and you never judge and you cheer when someone does well and send them love when they don’t and never complain about how depressing things get and you wish people would stop sharing things they really need to talk about and honestly want nothing more than for them to get better. All that time, I was just being all of you.
So I just wanted to thank all of you. Thank you for saving Terpsichore’s life.
And thank you for saving mine.
That is… amazing.
And I want to thank you for being here.
It wouldn’t be the same blog without you.
This made me cry. Thank you for being here too.
<3 <3 <3
Wow…
Thank you so much. I actually started crying after reading that. A random group of people on the Internet, and we mean that much to you?
I love this place, so much.
You are amazing.
It’s amazing how important a website can be to people.
Museblog could never be the same without you.
I’ve wanted to express that concept about Museblog for a while, but could never find the words. Thank you for posting what needed to be said.
Thank you.
That was beautiful.
Finding MB was the best thing that ever happened to me.
This is absolutely amazing; thank you so much for writing it. And thank you for being here on MB, you make it truly great.
We love you so much. Thank you for staying alive, and for helping your friend to.
I feel guilty that I don’t post much and don’t really help much. But… IT WAS JUST SO TOUCHING! *sob*
Anytime, Cat’s eye. Anytime.
I’m crying now. Thank you so much. We all love you.
*hugs*
I’M PLAYING STAR WARS ON THE TROMBONE
I used my SmartMusic software, and it had that on there.
I missed 96% of the notes and scared away half my family.
Bum, bum buuum buuum… bumbumbum BUM bum *annoying humming noises*
As of Friday, I’m done with middle school! *happy dance* But it was really sad as well – there was one moment when our entire grade was standing in this tiny hallway in between the 8th grade homerooms, crying and hugging…I didn’t cry like I thought I was going to, but it was definitely very sad. We still have graduation on Monday, though, although I don’t really feel very deserving of it…maybe I’ll feel differently by high school graduation.
Call me cynical, but a middle school graduation is really just for the lolz.
23 (CO)~ Be yourself, because yourself is a cool person to be. Hopefully you’ll meet people who are okay with people who are a little bit different, because generally they’re better people to hang out with.
25 (Cat’s Eye)~
*hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug*
That you for being here as well.
Yay for having work this weekend, not-yay for roasting to death in the heat and stepping on thorns (that’s the only downside of going barefoot). Kind-of yay for packing up early, though it was due to severe weather warnings and rain. Meh.
I need to find a local supplier for a metal-toothed flea comb. Not because I have fleas, but because I keep breaking the teeth on my plastic combs trying to do dreads. I’m also trying to decide whether I should keep forging ahead and doing my own (uneven and kind of nasty) dreads, or going to the salon and having them do it. I’m kind of at the point where I’ve made enough of an attempt to go it alone that I can justify getting it done professionally, because I really do want them to turn out well. I still kind of wish I could do them myself though. Glarg.
My brother came up to me today and literally said he wished he could be like me when I was in middle school and everyone called me the Queen of Weird.
Well, not everyone actually called me that, but several did. It was a self-proclaimed title that caught on. So I ended up giving him tips for making a similar title for himself and making it stick.
My brother rules.
Yes, I remember those wonderful days. Hail, Queen of Weird!
Whenever I tell my current friends about how awesome you are, that’s how I refer to you.
I was browsing old hot topic threads in hopes of gleaning some debate skills and I stumbled upon a certain debate I took part in last October, about cannibalism. And then I went to the Halloween Ball planning thread. …Wow.
I want to apologize for my behavior. I was completely just arguing for the sake of arguing and I knew I wasn’t right the whole time, clearly, but I was too stubborn to admit it and basically I regretted re-bringing it up as soon as I did but I was too proud to admit that or even apologize. And…argh this isn’t really coming out right but basically even though I know that this was a long time ago I still need to apologize now for my childishness and immaturity and general stupidity. I’m not really sure whether anyone even remembers this, much less cares, but as soon as I read that thread I knew it had been weighing down on me for a little while, which is fairly ridiculous. (And my thoughts went something like this: Well, maybe it isn’t a big deal. Maybe I’m making a mountain out of a molehill here. But what if it is a big deal? Oh, but now time has gone by. I don’t know, people have probably forgotten about it. They’ll remember if I bring it up. But I should apologize for my stupidity.) But that’s the way things get with me so…I’m apologizing now, and for that matter I’m sorry for the delay.
Anyway, I’m really, really, sorry about that. Forgive me. *pays squid*
*deep breath*
Oh, yeah, that.
I forgave you before it happened.
You were a neophyte, honey. We expected it.
I know how you feel. I haven’t yet been embarrassed by anything I’ve said on MuseBlogs, but some of the things I said on the Cricket Chatterbox when I was 10 mortify me so much that A) I can’t even bring myself to mention them in order to apologize and B) I avoid looking at old threads there.
That said, I didn’t at all mind or object to those posts in any way.
Ha. (This is a reply to the first sentence). It is interesting that you got that idea recently because I was just saying to Jade that debating on MB back in ’06 improved my ability to form a written argument.
And re: immaturity and apologies, I have absolutely no idea what went on in that thread and people generally tend to forgive people even if they are annoying as neophytes. We all were new once. Don’t worry about it.
Don’t worry. One of the first conversations I engaged in on MB involved me arguing the point that bulls had udders.
The first thing I ever said was a rant about how everyone was not on. My time zones off so whenever I go on it looked like everyone left a while ago, and this was the first blog I ever went on.
My first comment was so incredibly hyper and neophyte-ish. It’s disturbing to reread sometimes…
Don’t worry about it. That’s one of the main reasons MuseBlog exists: to help people mature. Have you seen any of my early posts? I was horrific. If now-me had been around and seen then-me, I would have slapped myself silly. It’s possible that I’d still be that person if I had never found MB. I know with some degree of certainty that this site has been, after my parents, the largest influence on my entire life. The person I am today is due in very large part to MuseBlog and everyone on it. You all put up with all my atrociousness, and I’ve become a better person for it. Thanks, y’all.
Piggy was a ‘phyte? I must see these posts.
Don’t be ridiculous, Piggy was never a ‘phyte. He sprang fully formed from the brain of Robert, brandishing a sword and shield. Of knowledge.
Well, duh! You mean there are people who didn’t know that?!
You’re right in saying I was never a ‘phyte. The term “neophyte” wasn’t suggested by POSOC until quite a while after I joined MB.
I know exactly what you mean. lol I remember when I first went on the Searoc RRR and thought that it was like PieWars. :O
You’re lucky. I’m still making stupid posts that make me want to avoid the threads I posted them on for a month.
You are? News to me.
…you always seem so mature. It surprises me that you’d say that.
It’s funny, I used make these really awful posts… and then I got very good at capoeira
I generally avoid old threads for exactly that reason. I was pretty awful sometimes. *facepalm*
I have never seen those threads, having only been on here for 5 1/2 months, but I forgive you anyway. I mess up on the Internet All. The. Time. In fact, I think I’ve learned from it. It’s completely not your fault; I guess after a while you get into the groove. But until then, people make mistakes, and it’s nobody’s fault.
Don’t sweat it.
All who replied to my comment: Thank you. I’m extremely relived that nobody is mad at me.
I’m very mad. GRRRRRRRR
Random question I just thought up of for the GAPAs (or anyone else who has a guess or happens to know)
How are the currently popular threads ranked? I know it’s based on the number of posts but if a thread suddenly dies it does not go off the currently popular list immediately, so what is the criteria for staying/getting on the currently popular list?
No, it’s based on number of views. People can view a thread even when it’s dead. So can spambots. For each post made, there are quite a lot of views.
…Speaking of that, I can’t see the Currently Popular thingy at all. Is this a mistake, or was it removed for some reason?
Wait, now that you mention it, I can’t see it, either. It isn’t your computer, then. I suppose it never was very good at what it did, with all the spambots, but it was important…
I was wondering about that too.
At the moment, neither can I. Weird…
I can’t see it either.
I can see it, it’s just changed position- it’s now right under the calender for me.
I see it now, too. It also changed from ‘currently’ to ‘recently.’ It’s also accurate, with no spambots.
A new version of the software came out. We can move it back and rename it if you like. I’m afraid the spambots will start jinxing things pretty soon, though.
As for how it works, it simply counts how many times people have looked at the posts in the past four days. We could make the time period longer or shorter than that, but a week felt too long, and a day felt too short, so we compromised.
It’s annoying when the spambots take over, because then the most popular threads aren’t as accessible.
Eh, I like it. It brings up old threads I’ve forgotten about.
I prefer the new location and the old name.
God, I miss you guys a lot. Once school’s over, I’ll post more, promise.
Random side note: I may be renting a banjo over the summer.
I really do miss you guys a lot, though. Really.
We miss you too. Good luck with the rest of school. *encouragement*
I just went over to my old elementary school and played on the playground with my sisters.
I got sand everywhere and had to take a shower to get it all off.
Well, I lost the election for vice president.
I guess giving cookies out doesn’t get you as many votes as having tons of friends, because the friends remember to vote and the cookie-eaters don’t always remember.
I’m sorry to hear it, Princess_M, but you gave it your best shot. I think you’d have been annoyed with yourself if you hadn’t. I’m sure they were very good cookies, too.
Awww, thanks, Robert.
I can’t take credit for the cookies, though; Pseudonym baked them.
I found candy cane bits. Omnomnom.
Still making painstakingly slow progress on the dreads. I did one yesterday. I think I’m going to call the salon tomorrow and see when I can schedule an appointment. I want them to get done, and get done properly, which I can’t really do by myself. *le sigh*
I love the Washington Metro.
That is all.
They took everything New York and Boston did wrong and fixed it.
And it smells like marshmallows!
The Singapore subways smell like nail polish and pork.
I love it, too. In fact, it inspired one of my watercolor paintings, titled “Train Coming”:
this is wonderful!!! i love the colors! *in awe*
Thanks, Axa. It was quite challenging (especially since I paint without drawing first) but great fun to do. I love to play with color!
Ooh, I love it.
Flamablamablous! ^^
I think you captured it very well!
I ride it ten times a week and barely notice it. To me the Metro is like breathing. (Of course, I’m usually moderating MuseBlog at the same time.)
so in a way, my inane capslock travels the DC metro everyday! I’M WELL TRAVELED AFTER ALL!!
… YAY
ME, TOO! THE KOKONSPIRACY IS PROGRESSING GREATLY!
It never lost its charm for me, even when I was a commuter, for all of its occasional annoyances.
I’ve never been to Washington or taken the Washington Metro, but I guess you could say the same for me about the MTR.
Those surreal long escalator rides through the big concrete entrances down to the platform are really something. It almost feels anticlimactic to find a train and not a submarine or spaceship waiting at the end.
Museblog: Brought to you
byon the DC Metro.I’ve loved it since I started using it, when I was 5 or 4 or 7 or something. (My grandparents live near DC).
So I’m listening to Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C major (BWV 846)
And I thought I didn’t like Bach
And now I’m planning on working my way through the whole of the Well-Tempered Clavier
♥
Hard to imagine that a fan of “Logicomix” wouldn’t find something in Bach to love.
Bach is dandy. My organ teacher used to call me “Johann” because, for about three years, I was never not working on a Bach piece.
But that particular piece? Eh…extraordinarily overplayed. Right now I’m resurrecting* the F minor (BWV 881, No. 12 of Book II of Das Wohltemperierte Clavier) for a concert later this month. It’s been four or five years since I last played it, but I remember quite a bit. You should also listen to his “Little” Fugue in G minor, BWV 578. It’s one of my all-time favorite organ pieces to play.
While we’re on the subject of organ music, look up Franck’s third organ chorale, in A minor. It’s what I’m working on right now. Big piece, and I love it.
*Oh, what a pun–by some accounts, the fugue is based on the Passion of Christ (e.g., the motif of the three repeated notes is reminiscent of a hammer hitting a nail).
“It’s been four or five years since I last played it, but I remember quite a bit.”
i guess you could say it’s……..all coming Bach to you
8|
YYYYYYYYEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A look at some really old threads proves that Piggy did indeed love Bach. Also evidence that Piggy probably was a newbie, for those that mentioned they wanted to see those a little bit down the thread. (This shouldn’t be embarrassing or anything, right?)
I spent a lot of time on really old threads today. It’s sort of like archaeology.
(Wrong Bach.)
I’m not a music expert, but thanks for the correction.
Our marching band show next year is based on Bach. It’s called Bach For The New Millenium (we’re calling it Bach In Motion). It’s pretty awesome. You can probably find it online
How about “Bach to the Future”?
Yay Bach puns!
Princess_Magnolia – Aw, I’m sorry. I would have voted for you
because the world needs more Musers in positions of power. *gives cookie dough pie*I ran for secretary in 8th grade … I listed the reasons I would be a good secretary, and my opponent did a dance from Napoleon Dynamite. You can probably guess who won. Oh well.
Ohai Zinc.
I might get dual Canadian citizenship! *random*
Oh, that’s good! If there’s a nuclear war, you can flee to Canada! (if there’s a nuclear war, I can flee to New Zealand, which is pretty much all my NZ citizenship is useful for)
According to a beauty product whose name I do not recall, New Zealand is a fragrance.
So you’ll have nice things to smell while avoiding nukes.
New Zealand would also be good for a velociraptor apocalypse, since it’s an island and raptors can’t swim. Of course, you’d need to get there before raptors took over the airlines.
Come to think of it, raptors are ectotherms so the colder parts of Canada would be safe too. *sleep deprived*
Unless they came from New Zealand somehow, in which case it would just be more dangerous there.
Baikonur, mon amour.
Ohai~
Sorry bout the wait… *sigh* Things are crazy up north, ne…
at the grandmother’s
having to go to bed at semi-reasonable hours (aka nowish)
halp
can not deal
last night lay awake for a long time and when I finally did fall asleep from like 3-4 I had a freaky weird dream, and then another weird one between 5-10 or so when I got woken up x_x
Seeing the sun rise at the beginning of the day rather than the end makes a nice change, I’ve found. You’ll get used to it after a few nights of delirious illogic and wildly see-sawing biorhythms.
While planning a recent story, I wrote the sentence fragment “Aforementioned formerly perfectly stable relationship.” It describes one of the protagonists. God help me. God help him, more to the point.
This sort of thing should really go on BiP, but this is the random thread so nothing can really be off-topic as long as it isn’t pointless.
Writing story outlines before I’ve given any of the characters names is interesting. I refer to the protagonists collectively as the Tight Knit Group, and individually as One, Two, Three, and Four. Another major character, thanks to MuseBlog, is simply called En.
Sounds like a
neo-mini-pyro-ante-post-pre-hydro-modernist-phobic storypostmodern novel.hmm i may have just spent three hours making a gif…..time well spent
now to watch the last episode of sherlock….AND COOKIES!
i live a difficult life
“Difficult?”
(For very small values of difficult.)
le joking, my good sir!
real difficulty would be if there were no cookies….*single tear*
I now own a beige skirt. I am heartily ashamed of myself.
Why? And pardon me but is there a fixed topic here?
Not really. It’s for topics that aren’t covered on various other threads and usually ends up involving the daily life of MBers.
You seem smart for a phyte. I like you. *pats on head*
I’m glad you’re never condescending, Zinc.
I’m glad you never mini-mod, Piggy.
How in cake is that “mini-modding”?HATERS GONNA HATE
SFTDP.
Common problem: Cellos are very expensive.
Common solution: Save money for a long time.
CO’s solution: BUILD A CELLO!
Clearly, I’m nuts.
Clearly, you’re awesome. How do you intend to do so?
But it’s the best kind of nuts.
It’s probably easier than Amateur Telescope Making.
Oh dear god.
Who else likes white eyelet curtains? I do. *raises hand* But not splattered with pie.
And did I just get randomly assigned this picture? Because I don’t wear glasses.
These do get randomly assigned, but you can customize them if you get a gravatar.
I am not a rutabaga. Alas.
(Those pictures get randomly generated and assigned. I think. If you’d like, you can go to gravatar .com (is that the right adress???) and pick a photo/file from your own files. However, there are certain rules about what sort of photos/pictures, so read the Rules, if you have not already. Also, if you’re going to make a double post, write SFTDP (sorry for the double post). Of course, you might already know that already, so sorry for being redundant.)
And I do not belong to Starfleet, despite my best efforts.
I believe that the graduation madness has finally come to an end.
Countdown to vacation: 3 days! 
I dreamed I went to Hogwarts and had a delightful conversation with Hermione, but instead of being Sorted by the Sorting Hat, I had to Sort myself. Normally, I’d be delighted, but it wasn’t that simple: I had to figure out a new last name for myself, and if it was the ‘right’ one, and I said it just the right way as part of a spell, my wand would light up and force me to shout my true House. Hermione did it quickly (No, I don’t remember her ‘true’ last name.), but I couldn’t, no matter how hard I tried, and I still hadn’t by the time I woke up. What do you think my last name should be?
What’s the scientific name for a tardigrade?
Tardigrada. Other things were considered, such as Arctisconia (which means everlasting bear in Greek) and Xenomorphida (which means strange form in Greek), but it was settled eventually. Wait, do you mean…? Yay!! Actually, it’s doubly fitting because it means slow-moving or slow-walking in Latin, and I move/walk really slowly, unfortunately in all situations except this one, where it’s quite fortunate! Not that all water bears move slowly; some marine heterotardigrades are actually quite fast, but I suppose the first tardigrades discovered were probably slow. The only complication was that it was already the scientific name of a group of sloths, and I’m really not sure what was done about that, but it caused them to be called water-sloths at some point; I don’t know just when that stopped, and now I sound like Hermione, don’t I? “Why are the tardigrades so much fascinating?”
Xenomorphida sounds like the aliens from ‘Alien’.
GUYS!
Remember that time when that judge repealed Prop 8? Yeah, and remember how it was being appealed because the judge was gay?
The federal judge just upheld the decision! We’re one step closer! *hugs everybody*
Hurrah! *returns hug*
YES
OH YES
OH MY GOD YES
I’ve been waiting for this for years. And it’s wonderful timing, too- just before I move back.
I realized today that I think of key signatures as colors. F major is incontrovertibly green, D major is blue, A is red. B is, I think, purple-ish–sort of a “bright” purple, but not a light purple. If that makes sense. E major and G-sharp are both yellow, though G-sharp is a bit lighter. C major is blank, which seems logical, while C minor is indigo. G major I’m not sure about. It sounds sorta brown, but that doesn’t seem cheerful enough.
I noticed another connection as well–I’ve always liked dark green, and I’ve always liked F minor. Guess what color F minor is.
Hot Pink?
Funny, to me keys are essentially meaningless.
But intervals are the most important thing.
I’ve noticed more patterns after thinking about it for a while. Take F minor, which is a dark green. The third, A-flat, is a maroon-ish red. Those two colors look good together. Same with F major (green) and A (red).
I think G major is more of a gold than a brown. But it has a sort of parchment-y feel.
Is this synthesesia?
It’s a symptom of it. Just about everyone I know has at least one symptom, though, so it certainly doesn’t necessarily mean he has it.
I think so?
For me, all the notes have characters. Actually not all of them, but G is mean and bullies all the others, and F is his accomplice, sort of in the shadow of G and wishing he could break away, but unable to. The rest of the notes are nicer. If I remember correctly, they get progressively nicer as they get closer to A, with A being the nicest.
Anyway, I always felt sorry for F.
Oh, good, another synesthete.
If this is synesthesia, it’s a pretty pathetic form of it.
I was going to get my braces off today, but ended up with a complicated bit of rubber band weaving in my mouth. It’s only 2 rubber bands but it feels like six.
But then I got to go browse in the office supply section at the store! There were giant paperclips! I didn’t get any but I got stickynotes (for my pi wall*) a notebook (for my writing) and a ridiculously expensive mechanical pencil! (because it looks cool and has one of those twist eraser things and a clicker on the side)
*I have all the digits of pi I currently know (132 as of today) stuck on the wall of my bedroom in one big line. It’s made up of stickynotes, one digit per square.
OH I LOVE THOSE FUN ONES WITH THE TWIST ERASER THINGS AND THE CLICKER ON THE SIDE
In 16 hours I will be boarding an airplane to Germany!
I’m all packed up and ready to go.
Sunday night I hung out with A (from the R&R thread) for about 6 hours. We gave each other our Christmas gifts from 2010 and got cold on the side of a lake. Before the lake part (while it was still light out) we got yelled at by a park ranger while attempting to geocache.
My statement on the R&R thread about no longer liking A is now moot. I really like him again. Every time I see him I like him again.
Yesterday morning I biked to my dad’s house to wrap some books for A with a Russian newspaper I had at my dad’s. Then I biked to Angela’s house (the Croatian) and we spent most of day recording music. When I first got there we walked to the grocer and then to A’s house to leave the books in his mailbox. Her mom took me home to get my car because I didn’t want to take the time to bike to my dad’s again and I was tired. I went to dad’s and said bye to his girlfriend and went back to Angela’s and we made a cd.
I was worried about A’s books because after we left we saw the mailman going toward his house. We thought the mail had already come because there was mail in the box. A got home around 10 and then he had to go online for work and he didn’t find the books. I was worried that the mailman threw them out or something. This morning I texted A and he still hadn’t found them and I was freaking out because the books were Cosmos and Emergence and I felt so dumb that I lost them. Then A went out and found the books and he was really happy.
Maybe I’ll post from Europe. Maybe not. If not, see you all in August!
All packed up and ready to go
Sitting in the airport ter-min-NAL!
Boarding a plane
It just isn’t the same
AS CREAKING, LEAKING BoaTS!
Flying- over- the AtlanTIC!
This guy- next to me- is currently SICK!
On the other side
That girl’s caustrophobia is making- me- TICK!
FLYING TO- GER-GER-GER-GERMANY!
WHERE I WILL MEET A GREAT, GREAT MANY
GERMAN PEEPS
AUSTRIAN SHEEPS
ALTHOUGH NOT SO MANY AUSTRIAN SHEEPS
CAUSE THEY’RE WITH BOOKGIRL IN AUS-TRI-AAAAAAA!!!
Come on everybody, sing along!
All packed up and ready to go
Sitting in the airport ter-min-NAL!
Boarding a plane
It just isn’t the same
AS CREAKING, LEAKING BOATS!
Flying- over- the Atlan-TIC!
This guy- next to me- is current-ly- SICK!
On, on the other side
That girl’s claustrophobia is making- me- TICK!
FLYING TO GER-GER-GER-GER-MANY!
WHERE I WILL MEET A GREAT MA-NY
GERMAN PEEPS
AUSTRIAN SHEEPS
ALTHOUGH NOT SO MANY AUSTRIAN SHEEPS
CAUSE THEY’RE WITH BOOKGIRL! IN AUS-TRI-AAAAAAA!!!
Come on everybody, you know the words!
I don’t know the tune, though.
D:
Could you tell us the tune?
Anyway, have fun on your trip, Unintended Pun! Germany is a very very nice pla – *pied into oblivion*
… I made it up though D:
Even though I’m your prisoner, you give me food and it doesn’t suck like English food~
(I can’t believe I got that reference)
Have a great time!
My friends and I are working on making a new jacket for the lonely copy of Sorcerer’s Stone that we picked up at a used book sale. The catch is that the cover will be a Harry Potter/Biology hybrid because the book is going to be an end-of-year present for our AP Biology teacher. He’s a fantastic person but has never read Harry Potter, so we’re hoping that he’ll be compelled to try it in the hopes of understanding our convoluted Harry Potter/Biology references.
So far, we have a nice drawing of a Devil’s Snare with labels describing its positive thigmotropism, negative phototrophism, and negative thermotropism. Additional writings about how it’s a chemoheterotroph that lacks secondary growth are forthcoming. There’s also going to be a pedigree for the “magical” phenotype of Harry’s family going back two generations, with his cousin included as a bonus. (There are some patterns in magical inheritance that can’t be explained by simple Mendelian genetics, but this was the simplest way of drawing it.) Then, if we can figure out a logical way of doing this, we’ll describe the evolutionary history of centaurs. (This is more difficult than it sounds, since they are most definitely not half-breeds). Finally, something may be included about the ecology of the Forbidden Forest.
*implores MuseBlog hive mind for more suggestions*
Awesome! You could specify why billywigs are definitely NOT insects. That was the biggest error that jumped out at me in Fantastic Beasts. I think I’ll have to make biology jackets for my jacketless hardcover books, too; it’s a great idea!
Sectumsempra — for enemies
What about it? Do you mean writing notes in the margins like in the Potions textbook?
Yes.
By the way, please Google ‘the sugar quill gringotts genetics more complicated than mendel.’ It should be a great help with the genetics. Also, maybe you could do something about how snakes actually communicate?
I won an argument today with a rebuttal that started “You don’t have to be British to like Steampunk.”
THIS IS ANOTHER HAPPY POST, GUYS.
So there’s this blog I follow which is a combination of advice-giving, comfort, self-esteem boosters, and general hug-feely-ness. And recently the person who runs the blog said she was going to add advisors soon to help answer questions, and she asked people to send in applications, and I sent one in.
And I got accepted! As an advisor! To my favorite blog ever!
agh agh agh agh agh *jumping up and down*
Y-your favorite blog ever?
Oh, uh–no, th-that’s fine. No, I, uh, I just have something–something in my eye.
Really. It’s fine. I’m just allergic to dust mites and betrayal.
*facepalm* Blog blog. Not community of incredibly awesome people who all need another hug.
*hug*
But, like a steady stream of posts updated by a single person, not an incredibly amazing community of totally appreciated and loved people. A traditional blog. Not an amazingly cool place like this.
I’M NOT CRYING
IT’S JUST RAINING ON MY FACE
I’VE JUST BEEN CHOPPING ONIONS, I’M MAKING A LASAGNA……..FOR ONE
You’re an advisor on a blog which is a combination of advice-giving, comfort, self-esteem boosters, and general hug-feely-ness. Why wouldn’t you just say GAPA?
No bunnies.
(but in all seriousness) CONGRATS!!! *HUGS FOR YOU FOREVER*
Yay! Congratulations!
Rock on, Cat.
School is finally out. *sadface*
And it seems that elsewhere, it was out weeks ago…
Speaking of school being out, I’m going to be in California for a month again…
YES YOU BETTER TELL ME ABOUT THAT
I got my mother to PROMISE to invite you over to hang out at some point (or several points) during my trip. All that’s left is to nag her until she actually DOES.
Awww. Thank you.
I might volunteer at the library in my town/city this summer instead of the SPCA. Sadly the SPCA doesn’t have a high school volunteer program during the summer… Having never volunteered at a library before, (or anywhere else) what can I expect? Is it all sorting books or do I do other stuff…?
I’ve had all sorts of fun volunteering at the library in the past few months. I volunteer at a pretty casual library, where the program basically amounts to something like “Come in when you like, shelve some books, leave when you like.” I’ve never done anything other than shelving books, but I think they do have opportunities to do other things, it’s just that our branch hasn’t ever gotten organized enough to do so/didn’t tell me about it.
HEY HEY HEY!!
TOMORROW 3 PM PACIFIC TIME-
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY CHANNEL-
GEOGRAPHY BEE FINALS!
GOOOOOOOO TUVYA!!
NO TUVYA NOOOOOO
;_;
I’ve been in a desert for the past year. I hadn’t realized until today just how much I’ve missed forests. Today, I discovered one behind my school that stretches all the way to this golf course a bit away. It was awesome. All shady and cool and green everywhere and squirrels barking and birds and lots of bugs. There where these vernal ponds, dark and still, that I imagined looked like the type of dark, still, forest pools that had water spirits in it that sucked you down when you got too close. I walked on this fallen, rotting, log to the middle of of one of the ponds, but the only face I saw in it was my own. There was this other fallen tree with hard peeling bark that reminded me of shingles. Or swords. If I was younger, I thought, I would pick up one of those pieces of bark and swing it around like a sword. Then I thought, what the heck, and pretended it was a sword anyway.
There was this meadow too, in between two parts of this forest. It was sunny and warm and provided great contrast to the forest. I felt so in tune with nature, exploring, all by myself. It felt like a refuge form humanity. I’ve been feeling like there was no future I could possibly enjoy lately, but this day i rediscovered my love for exploring forests. It was a wonderful bit of time for myself. The only people I would want to share it with are people who wouldn’t mind me saying that that pond looked like it could have a water-woman in it. /nature kick
It sounds lovely.
LAST DAY OF CLASSES YES! And we spent the afternoon performing for a bunch of little kids (they were incredibly cute) and watching the movies we’d made in Tech class (ours wasn’t shown because one of the group members ran off with the footage)- meaning yesterday’s were our last Science/Math/Humanities classes!
I’ll miss our Math teacher- he’s awesome- but the other two I can do without. Tomorrow is listen-to-the-principal-waffle-on-go-to-the-water-park-come-home-pack-like-crazy-get-two-hours-of-sleep-and-leave day.
First day off!!!!!
All I have left now is the occasional state test.
*is very happy*
*sighs that she has another month or so of school* and yes, I am a girl, in case you didn’t guess.
I was putting stuff in my room away and I figured I’d tackle the smallest job first. Since most of what I need to put away is reading material, that smallest job was magazines. I soon realized, however, that the magazines on the magazine shelf (the only single shelf in my bookshelves with enough room :lol:) were out of order. (I keep them arranged chronologically by issue, magazine, and most recent subscription date.) While rearranging the magazines, I came upon a startling realization; I have more issues of a cat magazine I used to subscribe to than of Muse! A less startling fact was that I have almost as many issues of Odyssey (a science magazine) as of Muse. That should change in the not-too-far future, though, as Muse is the only magazine I currently have a subscription for.
A lot of the Muse magazine covers come off, so I hung them all on my bedroom wall.
I do that, too! Along with lots of pictures of animals and books.
I should so do that.
I’d love to, but there’s no more room on my wall, and I plan to get Muse for another few years, and I want to paint my room this summer.
My walls are filled with and Abbey Road poster, an evolution poster, a panda Rainbow drew and a card from her, NASA stickers from JPL open houses, a Hetalia poster, shelves, a closet, a window, more shelves, and a whole bunch of maps.
Do we have thread devoted to what our rooms look like?
You still have that panda??? Wow, that was like 2 years ago … I’ll draw you a new picture.
The other day I was cleaning out my closet and found my epic Deathly Hallows poster that I had completely forgotten about. It is now on my wall. I should clean out my closet more often.
Course I do!
Dude, I don’t see you often, I keep stuff from you that won’t fit into my tiny photo album.
I have a poster of Albert Einstein, a Gashlycrumb Tinies poster, a poster that Silver Lining made, a Vegetarian zombies poster, three pictures of jellyfish, a bulletin board full of camp pictures and things like that, a Beatles poster, several pictures of bands and album covers, and paint on my walls.
Let’s see… Thrice poster, Brand New poster, Taking Back Sunday poster, Thursday poster, Finch poster, Black Veil Brides poster, and a couple others.
A newspaper article on how we should start the revolution, a bouquet of roses, a bulletin board covered with things from Japan, a paper lantern, a stained-glass pane.
I have practically nothing on my walls. My sister is the one who goes for pinning everything up, not me.
I have a looot of stuff on my walls. Hmmm…Doctor Who, HP, and Monty Python woodcarvings, various quotes, a Japanese fan, a felted…thing, a Pies On Parade brochure thingy, a drawing my “little sister” did for me (“I am goin to et you”), Romeo & Juliet..gah, I can’t think of the word, but it’s one of those things that lists the cast and has ads and stuff, two reading lists, a picture of the TARDIS, a poster I made, the definition of peace, a random picture of a framed unicorn, and a lot of holes from all the pushpins I stick in it. Also, I have origami hanging from the ceiling (cranes), and several planets that I just put up, which are also hanging from the ceiling. Supposedly they glow in the dark, but I’m skeptical.
I have tons of really old sketches that should be replaced with new ones, and a few that have been, a strange picture of a…Griffin? Chimera? It’s some Greek monster thing, but i can’t remember which… A lot of high quality plastic dinosaurs, a couple creepy clay masks of my own making, more than five bookshelves (my room is a tiny attic room, and almost every available wall has books on it), dents, bumps, and a crack with a little label that reads “WARNING: Do not enter if you value your continued (and past) existence.”
Today we had our graduation ceremony, even though there’s still a few days of school left. Guess who’s name got forgotten? XD
More seriously though, next year I will be in eighth grade. I will be attending a HIGH SCHOOL. Which means that I will be a HIGH SCHOOLer. I mean, I won’t be a freshman, but I will still be a technical HIGH SCHOOLer. I did not think that this was going to happen. Yet. It’s kind of like, “Whoa yesterday I was singing songs about molecules and building a hot air balloon WHERE THE HECK DID THE YEAR GO?!” Not to mention the fact that there will be so many more kids than I am used to. *cringes* I’m kind of scared.
Scratch that, I’m terrified.
What songs about molecules?
Wait… I’m confused. If you’ll be in eighth grade next year… are you taking advanced classes? I didn’t know you were in seventh grade… I thought I was the only rising eighth grader here, because Starr and the others are all talking about going to high school… and I will be an eighth grader next year. But you’ll be a high schooler next year. Okay, I’m confused.
It’s kinda complicated. I’ll be in eighth grade, at a high school, and I won’t be taking any advanced classes. It’s a space thing. (Okay, I have to admit, I made that up. I have no idea why my grade is going to the high school; this is the first year they’re doing it, our town and another having consolidated.)
Heh…I thought you were in eighth grade, going on ninth. XD
I think Bibliophile is a rising 8th grader as well, but correct me if I’m wrong…
Bibli–
It’s a molecule, yeah a molecule, mu–si—cal—
Proton(happily): I’m positive!!!
Electron(sadly): I’m negative…
Neutron(sweetly): I am neu–eu–tral.
Throw them together and you get an atom…
but what an atom!
it’s the atom of the
molecule mu–si–cal–!
But that’s only the first verse.
Wow, that would be terrifying. I’m terrified enough at the thought of being an eighth grader at a middle school next year.
Strange… your high school schools middle schoolers?
That school does seem to have a strange type of schooling.
Yes.
62 (Mikazuki)~ You’re going to do just fine.
I know what you mean though, only instead of being a highschooler I’m about to be a college-er. Then after that I need to be a functioning adult.
Cake.
So, two weeks ago I called my aunt to see whether I could reserve the cabin (my family shares a lake cabin) for 4 days in late July, getting together with friends, this is the only time that worked for all of us, etc. She said that my cousin had requested a couple days close to that, but she didn’t think it would be a conflict, and that she’d get back to me as soon as she’d checked her calendar at work (since my cousin’s dates weren’t on her home calendars).
I didn’t hear anything back from my aunt, so we went along assuming that the dates I had said were good.
I called her a few days ago asking whether she’d heard anything, since we were still plan-making.
I just got an email from her.
Apparently my cousin was supposed to get to me directly.
My cousin’s dates were a whole caking week overlapping the four days I need.
She reserved them first, so technically they’re hers.
My friends and I have been scheduling this thing for two weeks, working out carpooling, buying train and bus tickets, etc.
Called the cousin, got her at work, she said she’d call me back. Hopefully when I explain the situation she’ll let us come?
Ugh.
Ugh ugh ugh.
CAKE.
Aww, that stinks. I’m so sorry. *hugs*
Aaaaaand this is, of course, my fault.
I just got yelled at by Dad for ten minutes.
He needs to understand that you’re a human, and humans aren’t perfect. If there was a scheduling misunderstanding it’s nobody’s fault/everybody’s fault/the Universe’s fault. I really, really, really hope that this can somehow work out for you.
That really sucks.
My aunt likes to spoil me and my sisters, and took us on our annual shopping spree. I got awesome new sneakers, neon laces, paperclips, sticky notes, a binder-folder hybrid-thingy that I want to get for next year, two books, and other stuff. My sisters got a new Lego set. It was fun and I got chocolate mousse.
I wanted to go to an office supply store, and so did my sisters, and when we got there, it was open but we were the Only. People. There. Yeah, it was pretty amazing. The employees were like “hi” and my aunt was like “we’re on a shopping spree” and they were like “okaaayy” and we were like “PAPERCLIPS!!!!!!!!!” and my sister got a sign for her room that says “Visitors must sign in” on it. And she put up a sign up sheet.
And I have a new idea for a story (it’s like a medivalfantasy thing) and so I didn’t have any names yet so the protagonists were 1 and 2, and the goodguys are called MuseBlog, and the badguys are called Voldynet. Well not Voldynet but its other “real” name. This is only temporary but pretty funny. The kingdom is called “The Internet.”
Anyway.
Are there trolls in your story? I really hope so; that would be awesome.
I don’t know what sort of creatures there are yet, having primarily focused on human characters, but I think I will put trolls in there.
Heh. On certain other websites with “like” functions my brain thinks that I am pieing things when I go to like it.
62: Also, I have a picture of the periodic table on my wall and a blanket (yes, on my wall) with a pictuer of horses.
63.2: I’m going into 8th grade, too. Probably. At least, I’ll be in 8th grade history. Also probably. I might skip grades in other subjects, particularly English. I’ve always hated English class and haven’t learned anything from it in years, and when I took the SAT and found the English questions easy, I realized it was never goin to get better unless I got into a really advanced English class now. The problem is that most places won’t let you skip so many English grades without skipping the same number in other subjects, and I wouldn’t be doing that…
Hey guys.
So I started reading Homestuck.
Goodbye spare time.
(For those of you who read it: How often does it update/ is it finished / ??)
It has no fixed update schedule, but recently the author’s kept up a pretty good pace; every two days, on average. And it’s nowhere near finished.
There are two things you need to know in advance:
1) Don’t overthink the Weird Time Cake. It will eventually make sense.
2) [S] is basically shorthand for awesomeness.
Haven’t gotten to the Time Cake, I’ve only just gotten to John’s mental breakdown over the gushers.
No, I don’t mean a literal Time Cake, I mean Weird Time ****. It’s the term for all the bizarre stable time loops and ontological paradoxes that result from the nature of Sburb. Also called Time Shenanigans.
But a Time Cake (sans asterisks) does sound intriguing.
Would it travel backward in time as you digested it? That could be awkward…
Yet more cake in the world…
AG THE TROLLS
Would their story JUST END?
I know you’re tempted to skip it. Don’t. I did. Then I had to go back and read through it page by page in order to understand the second half of Act 5, when Hussie finally gets back to the kids.
Don’t tell my father I’m on MuseBlog…I’m currently supposed to be finishing up(/starting) an essay on Elizabethan theatre traditions so he can watch the soccer game online. However, this is a much-needed break. Anyway, he’s watching the Bruins game right now.
Okay, bye, guys. Off to change my typed-up notes into an organized essay.
Going to be a senior next year! What a strange thought.
I was perfectly calm and, if not happy, pleasantly content today. Trust my dad to ruin it.
I feel a bit better now. Just ignore this.
Leland Melvin remembers me from the World Science Festival! (I introduced myself as “The girl with the fingerless gloves”, and his eyes lit up.)
And Pat Forrester remembers me from Florida. And he introduced me to some PR lady like we were old friends! And then the PR lady introduced me to Lori Garver! And they were all so nice!
Awesome! That is super cool.
Thank you!
Ahhh… Busy summer for pet sitting… There is this one person that pays me just to go to her house and play with her dog. If she asked me what I do while I’m over with her dog it would go something like this:
I read Kafka to your dog!
*evil happiness*
Person: *smiles* So, what do you do with (dog) while I’m gone?
Me:
Person: Oh, that’s wonderful! Wait, what did you say?
I just went on a library spree!
So did I forget to mention I get to see EBETH tomorrow?
And TIM MINCHIN on friday! Hehehe.
Also KIKI I get to see HER tomorrow as well!
IT WILL BE A FRABJOUS DAY
*fires JEALOUSY RAY OF JEALOUSY at Jade*
I just made a Wordle of the garlic/vampire wars. It’s awesome. You don’t quite get to control what colors each individual words are, but with enough effort I managed to get it so that garlic was pale yellow/ivory, blood was blood-red, precious was cave-grey because that’s what I associate with Gollum, and princess was pink. I’d send it in, but I can’t figure out how to copy or save it. I suppose I’ll have to take a photograph of it.
[Bibliophile: E-mail its URL to us, and we’ll figure out a way to post it. –Admin.]
I’ll soon make another called MuseBlog, which will be of all the words on the Blog or at least the front page, depending on how it works.
I actually already made a wordle of the Garlic War a while back, it’s on the blog someplace…
Yeah.
Yours sounds awesomer, though.
Thank you for showing me that site. I’m going to go Wordle my NaNo now.
I just made a wordle of Bunny Apocalypse: The Novel so far.
I love how “flavored” wound up right next to “everyone”
Okay. This is hard, but…
I’m giving away all my Muses. All of them. I stopped subscribing a year ago, but I’ve been keeping them in my room. And now I’ve given them to a girl in fifth grade. She seemed like she could use them.
Four years of magazines. Gone. But hey, at least they went to someone who’ll read them.
I recently found out that my mother has been taking my Muses from my room and using them with her fifth-grade class. I couldn’t get angry with her for it; after all, I’ve been gone for the past year. I know what you’re going through.
Hard to get angry with someone who is
recruiting more forces for the Kokonspiracybroadening the scope of young minds.Oh yeah, that too. I should stick a Post-it note inside the cover saying, “Museblog is an awesome website, check it out”
I’m in Germany!
Everything here is so nice and compact. It just FEELS much more efficient than the USA.
We can walk to school in a reasonable amount of time. I have never experienced that and I love it!
See you soon!
I’m. Leaving. Tonight.
Bon voyage! I’ll order a welcoming committee with leis and balloons and a brass band. *makes note*
Safe travels!
Have fun!
Good luck! Travel safely.
Thanks all! I had the only brass band in the whole of SFO…
AUGGH ITS HOTTTTTTTTTSo today I’m going to make lemon bars and coffee cake! Yay!
78- Good luck! Have fun. Will there be Internet access where you’re going?
77- I wish I could walk to school! You are so lucky!
The bus smells like cake and everybody on it hates me because I carry big instrumentsEnjoy the (hopefully nice) weather and the excercise!76- Yeah, I would give away some back issues to a younger generation of potential Musers to recruit/educate them, but the covers are torn off and hung on my wall and I won’t give them up anyway… but I lend them to my friends.
75- I can’t wait to see your Wordle! GAPAs, which thread would you post that on?
74- Calooh callay! Is it a Kokon?
73- Pet sitting stresses me beyond belief. I walk away from the house and think “OH NO I FORGOT TO LOCK UP AND THE GERBIL HAS ESCAPED AND IT HAS CHEWEDTHROUGH THE COMPUTER WIRES AND BEEN ELECTROCUTED” and either a) stress for 24 hours and go back to find the gerbil alive and in its cage or b) run back and find the gerbil alive and in its cage, then run back 50 more times to triplecheck that I didn’t unlock the cage in checking, then finally convince myself and wonder whether the plants are watered.
72- Oh, that is simply flamablamulous!
71- Glad it’s better.
70-
GO STUDYMy parents kick me off the computer too; I feel your pain. And it’s usually justified because my mom’s in 2 PTAs…67/62- Yay, someone my age! Now I no longer feel so alone!
Augh, and now I have to get off the computer because I only have 30 minutes of time each day… and I posted maybe 2 things… Cake… Oh well, now I can make coffee cake!!
I need some help, please.
I still have yet to watch a single episode of Doctor Who.
I made it my summer-break resolution to change that.
My computer has NO audio.
BUT my brothers are in year-round school.
I can steal – ahem, borrow one of their (audio-capable) computers and watch episodes on it instead.
I would like to try to watch episodes in order so that I don’t get confused, if that is at all possible.
Does anyone know a website that has videos of episodes from seasons long past?
Yes. Google “i watch doctor who.” Megavideo links work the best, but you can only watch a certain number of minutes each…day, I think, although it could be you have to wait 90 minutes or something. If you have Netflix, you can watch Seasons 1-4 instantly. That’s what I did.
You did mean the new series, right?
Anyway, yeah, you want to watch them in order, starting with season 1.
Netflix has Series 5 now too. *happiness*
Thank you very much. Unfortunately, I do not have Netflix, so if it’s as addicting/amazing as it sounds, I will unfortunately be unable to watch Doctor Who all day long.
You can watch 72 minutes, wait 72 minutes with Megavideo. If you time it right, you can load all 72 minutes, watch them, and be ready to load just when your old stuff finishes. (The wait time was 23 minutes in Jordan. Bit annoying to come back and realize that. Also, ads on Youtube. Coming to America means that I have access to things like veoh and hulu, but it comes with its own annoyances.)
9. ContemnÄmus omnia perÄ«cula, ea ex pectoribus exigÄmus, et fateÄmur
Let us despise all dangers, them out of our breasts we let us
drive out, and let us confess
haec difficillima RÅmae suscipienda esse.
these very difficult things by Rome must be undertaken.
Let us despise all dangers, let us drive them out of our breasts, and let us confess that these very difficult things must be undertaken by Rome.
I just punched the “Really Random” button and wound up on the Larry Gonick thread from February 2006. Oxlin and Jadestone were there, among others. What a great thread that was, yet I had forgotten all about it.
Ahhh hehehe. Yes.
So. New Owl City album. Has anyone else gotten it? My favorite song so far is Alligator Sky.
I absolutely LOVE owl city. My favorite song of their new album is ‘deer in the headlights’. For some reason though, I just don’t like alligator sky.
I don’t know how anybody feels about this, but I’ll just put it out there: it kind of bugs me when posts are pied just for the sake of accumulating pies or being pinked. It makes me think that the system loses its value if we’re too prolific with our pastries.
I concur. If a post is exceptionally worthwhile, I’ll pie it. I don’t pie something just because other people have pied it. I had hoped MuseBloggers were sufficiently independent in thought to pie what they truly thought was pieworthy, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Oh… Have people been doing that? That’s too bad. I wasn’t really sure what Cat’s Eye meant until you said that. You’re not counting things like going back to certain old posts and pinking them, are you? That was, I assumed, done because the people who pied them thought they were worthy of being pinked. I don’t understand better now that you said that, but I still don’t quite grasp it. Why would you pie something just because someone else has pied it, even if you don’t like it? It’s not as if anyone will know whether you’ve pied it or not… Will either of you be more specific, please?
*Cat’s Meow
I need a really distinctive gravatar…
I was referring to the trends of people going through entire threads and pieing every single post, pieing posts solely because it’s already at +9 and they want it to be pinked, attempting to pink consecutive posts in a given conversation so that it looks cool, adding a pie to a post because it’s +59 and everybody else has, or even purposely pieing posts multiple times from multiple computers. (Note that these are meant to be general examples and aren’t attached to any people in particular.)
Oh, I see. That makes sense. I don’t like all of those, either, although I don’t mind them all and have done a few (but for what I considered good reasons, although you might not agree). I’m going to analyze now, if you don’t mind…
I agree about pinking things for its own sake. Pinking things is fun, but I only do it if I actually like the post.
I mostly agree about the second thing as well, UNLESS it syymbolizes pieing the conversation itself. Sometimes I want to show that I particularly like an entire conversation.
I mostly agree about the other, although if the person who made the post expresses surprise, I think that’s a different story.
About the last thing, I only do it when I really, really LOVE a certain post. I don’t do it with every post I pie in a place with unconnected computers. Sometimes I just feel a comment deserves two more pies instead of just one. I admit I once triple-pied a post because someone was amazed at how many pies it had, but I apologize. I don’t think I should have done that, in hindsight, and I won’t again. I didn’t know it would bother anyone.
Sure, there are some cases where one might legitimately do that. I trust the maturity and judgement of MuseBloggers in these situations, for good reason. All I’m hoping is to warn against the more annoying abuses before it becomes a bigger problem. If that makes sense.
It does.
Well, the reason I suggested we pink every post in the Garlic War was not to make it look cool, but because I thought that it was worthy of recognition.
I had a weird revelation today, which was that I will only have my freshman teachers for another eight days.
Holy cake.
I have dreads! A whole head of ’em!
They’re quite waxy and strange looking right now, but hopefully they’ll start tangling soon. If the ones I did were anything to go by, however, they will. The hairdresser was impressed at how quickly the ones I’d done had started solidifying (for lack of a better term). Apparently lots of fine hair is good for this sort of thing. MY hair? GOOD for something?! AMAZING.
Now: FOOOOOOD.
Why do you want dreadlocks? (Or as my grandmother prefers, gridlocks.)
“I have dreadlocks now. Dreadlocks are cool.”
This is the answer to a very similar question that I wrote on voldynet:
“I think well-maintained dreads (which these will hopefully become) can look absolutely gorgeous. Just like short hair, long hair, curly hair, straight hair, brown hair, blue hair, or any other kind of hair.
The appeal for me is that they look interesting, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to actually do things with my hair this way. Normally it’s very fine and things just fall right out of it, so I’m looking forward to the grippier texture of dreads.
On a different level, when I first got my hair cut short it was, in part, to force myself to stop physically hiding behind it. I guess this is something of a furthering of that in a way. Although it could appear that this is another hiding technique (do something so outlandish with your hair that no one actually notices /you/), I’m looking at it from the opposite direction, that it’s another way of forcing myself to hide behind various things. *shrug* Overall I know nothing I do with my hair really affects who I am, but it’s sometimes a good reminder to myself.
Once the hair has actually locked up it’s actually a quite low-maintenance hairstyle, it’s just the first few months that are a pain.
TL;DR
I think it’s cool.”
Completed First Year Student Outreach application for BU, hopefully I’ll be accepted.
Hopefully.
May the Muses be with you.
Thank you.
Sorry. What’s BU?
Boston University, Home of the Terriers.
Welcome.
Well, when I was cleaning my room this afternoon, I collected all of the fallen-off Muse covers I could find and affixed them to the wall above my bed. They look quite nice, in my opinion.
Obscure holidays you might not know about coming up (I’ll be sure to update, and if you know more, please mention them; if you celebrate an obscure holiday, please let us know):
June is
Aquarium Month
Candy Month
Dairy Month
Gay Pride Month (Any idea on how to celebrate if you don’t speak to anyone on a regular basis besides immediate family, doctors, and a counselor, none of which are gay, as far as you know?)
National Accordion Awareness Month (This should be on the Muse calendar!)
National Adopt a Cat Month (I’ll symbolically adopt a snow leopard, then, as soon as I get the money.)
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month (I ate some today!)
Rose Month
Turkey Lovers Month (I don’t know whether they mean the animal, the meat, or the country; maybe we can choose. I’ll do some research on the bird; if any of you chooses to celebrate the meat, you could always join People For The Ethical Treatment of Pumpkins, which is just hilarious even though it makes fun of my beliefs.)
June has
16 Fresh Veggies Day (I ate some today!)
17 Eat Your Vegetables Day (I will!)
18 Go Fishing Day
18 International Panic Day
18 National Hollerin’ Contest Day – third Saturday in June
18 National Splurge Day (I can’t wait!)
18 World Juggler’s Day – Saturday closest to June 17th
19 World Sauntering Day (to quote the website, “World Sauntering Day is a day to saunter here and there, wherever you go.
You can spend your life walking through life, jogging through life, or being dragged through life. But, life is far more enjoyable, if you saunter through it. Its doubly true if you saunter with a friend or loved one.
Sauntering is not a walk, jog, trot, or run. Sauntering is a form of strolling. Sauntering is a very casual, yet stylish, form of movement from point A to Point B. The dictionary defines sauntering as walking along slowly, happily and aimlessly. Now, doesn’t this sound like a grand way to get around?
On World Sauntering Day, practice your sauntering technique. Saunter everywhere you go.” Needless to say, I’ll celebrate.)
20 Ice Cream Soda Day
21 Go Skate Day
22 National Chocolate Eclair Day)
23 National Columnists Day (i. e. Robert, Rebecca, and Rosanne day, basically, at least for me, because they’re the only columnists I know)
23 National Pink Day ( :shock:)
23 Take Your Dog to Work Day…..date varies
24 Swim a Lap Day
25 Log Cabin Day
25 National Catfish Day (the food, not the living fish, of course)
26 Beautician’s Day
26 Forgiveness Day
27 Sun Glasses Day
28 Insurance Awareness Day (i.e. inform everyone about inn-sewer-ants and reflected sound of underground spirits/echo-gnomics day, at least for me)
28 Paul Bunyan Day
29 Camera Day
29 Hug Holiday
29 Waffle Iron Day
30 Meteor Day
I will celebrate many of these!
Oops, a part of that didn’t come out right. The ‘of course’ bit on Catfish Day was supposed to be a tiny bit sarcastic, except that now that I’m drawing attention to it, I wish I hadn’t added it at all… Ceste la vie.
No, it’s spelled “C’est la vie”. No e on the end of “est”, and you need an apostrophe because it’s to words: “that” and “is”
…Sorry, I should have known that. I don’t speak French and have only read it written down once, but I know the est roost and should have been able to guess.
*root, not roost. *facepalm*
Why is it that tomorrow is Panic Day and ALSO the day of my gig at Gettysburg? It’s been a nightmare enough already, I’m hoping this isn’t a bad sign. >.<
Dude, there’s a Meteor Day? Cool!
HI. Today was fun! Had lunch with ebeth and played magic at the train station and then went to see Kiki
And we went to see X-MEN. So operation Museblog X-Men Kokon was actually a success! Woo! Fun times were head.
Ebeth is on the phone right now and doesn’t know I am making weird faces at her.
Now she’s not on the phone but my face isn’t as weird.
ANYWAY HI ALL
Thoughts at 12:46-
I get last post moderated of the night fairly frequently.
I wonder how many of the 6 people online right now are on the West Coast, or they’re celebrating summer freedom by staying up obscenely late.
Just watched a ton of VlogBrothers with my Older Sister, Amanda/Gwyn (that one who drew the giant MuseBlog picture about a year+ ago that is super awesome and you should go look at it because it is cool) and now I value my mostly good relationship with her even though we fight over technology and whether we steal stuff from each other and whether I am antisocial a bit.
Last day of schoolllll~~~ my life has no purpose without school… I let my appearance go to crap.
I got tagged to do Go Devil Dante’s Slash meme so I should do that. I should also post my Italy = Butters art.
Hnnnnnnng
Imma go on TVTropes. Look up more Cast Calculus groupings for my own entertainment.
…and I’m going to sleep now, later.
Why am I awake?
The night before last I didn’t get much sleep, and told my momm not to wake me up the next morning. Then she wanted me to go to bed early, if I was so tired, so I had to remind her that it didn’t matter if I messed up my sleep schedule because I could easily fix it by the time I needed to actually go somewhere in the morning. We compromised, and I would go to bed at 12 (30 minutes later than she’s wanted), and she wouldn’t wake me up.
I did go to bed at 12. Well, it was really more like 12:15, but I tried. Then I woke up. At 8:15. By accident. For no real reason.
What happened? I can’t normally wake quickly or easily after only 8 hours of sleep if I try, and that’s if I’ve slept well the night before!
I actually find that it’s easier to wake up faster if I have less sleep. I’m not sure why, but maybe you don’t have enough time to get into a really deep sleep?
If I get an hour or two extra of sleep on a weekend night, I’m as tired as on a school day, even if I went to bed at the same time.
67 (on the subject of advanced English classes), my school usually has a high school English I course for eighth graders. Guess which course isn’t being offered next year!! Which means I will have to wait for high school to take high school courses.
I tried to find the high school English course online to take this summer, but all I could find was “English I: English skills to handle job interviews, bank transactions, shopping trips, ect.” Or something like that. Now if I spoke Spanish all my life I would find this immensely helpful.
So I will just have to go use the school board as a punching bag nowPerhaps I will write a polite letter of complaint to the school.Re: Pies: I pie posts if I like them. If I think they are remarkable, then I may pie them from seperate computers just to make them pink, since pink posts are slightly more likely to be noticed and read.
It happifies me that “saxophone” is big enough to be read on the Wordle. I will look up the Garlic Vampire Wars when I have time. I would look up those wordles on the website, but a new one is made every second and there’s no search box, so it’s hard.
I’m doing Adopt-A-Highway for my church tomorrow.
My new shoes have neon green and orange laces.
My little sisters are building Harry Potter Lego Hogwarts. There is no Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Or Ron.
Lord Vetinari is the best.
What the heck, Microsoft Word’s spellcheck recognizes “Thiokol” but not “lander”?!?!
How the cake does it not recognize “lander”?
I get that it might not know “lightsaber”, because that’s trademarked and something that doesn’t exist, but technically, Thiokol doesn’t exist at the moment either.
New invention: TURKEY HOT DOG PIE!!!!!!!! =[} =[} =[} =[} =[} =[} =[} =[} =[} =[} %
Oh, no! The spambots have reinvaded the Currently Popular with a closed thread that it already brought up before! /annoyance/
re: favorite astronomical object: I’m a fan of Antares. When I went to Yosemite a few summers ago, we went to the top of a mountain and had a star-gazing workshop with one of the rangers, and Antares was really bright and spectacular. But Orion is also a favorite, because it’s the first constellation I learned, and it’s usually one of the only constellations I can identify on a regular basis from my house because of all of the light pollution and clouds.
Princess_Magnolia (8): That song helped me so much when I had to learn it in 8th grade! The States song and the Presidents song were also really helpful.
Rebecca (36.2): That’s beautiful!
Enceladus (37): Bach is one of my favorite composers! I like to warm up with various Bach preludes/fugues/inventions/etc. My most recent warm-up is his Prelude in Ab Major (BWV 862, I think?), which I really like. In 6th grade, I had to learn the last movement (Gigue) of his French Suite in B Minor for a competition, which I’ve just kept in my fingers since then; I like playing it really fast, because it gives me practice on trills. I would really highly recommend this one–I had a lot of fun with it (French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814, Gigue).
re: walls: My walls are covered in maps. I was really excited last year when I got a gigantic (4′ x 3′) geologic map of the Canyonlands–it’s so pretty, with lots of colors. I also have a painting of an alien that my friend painted for me when we were volunteering at Children’s Hospital together.
Fiddler (86): Congratulations! Sounds like fun! How long did it take to dread your entire head?
Personal news: I got a job, and it’s an awesome fantastic flamablamablous splendiferous one! It’s at a summer camp at an art museum, and I get to play with kids all day. Well, all afternoon. In the morning, I get to learn how to insert oropharyngeal airways and deliver babies and save lives and stuff!
That sounds like a fun job! Congrats.
SQUEE POTTERMORE! What do you think it is?! JKR said it wasn’t a book but as good as one. But what could be as good as a book?!
Most people seem to think it’s either an encyclopedia (online, presumably) or a an RPG. The font does look a bit metallic, so it would make sense. Also, this is kind of crazy, but when the owls move when you mouse over them, they sort of look like dancers…. There could be music involved, but I’m probably just jumping to conclusions. I can’t wait to find out what it is!!! It’s driving me crazy! There were a lot of Quidditch-related locations, too; do you think it might have to do with Quidditch? I suppose probably not; she said she was tired of it, after all… This is so exciting!!
WHAT? TELL ME MORE NOW! NOW! OMG! ZOMG ( zombies! omg)! KRAWWFBPOMG ( Kokopelli running around wildly with 15 billion pies omg!)!
* ahem* I mean, your news is very exciting. Please tell the rest of us fancyfolk about this.
( attempts to sound fancy)
I’m afraid I don’t really know much about it. No-one does. There was a scavenger hunt on some Harry Potter fansites, which I missed but you can still do it if you want but I took a guided tour of it and it looks really hard and one website is compltetely new if you can even call it a website and why am I typing a runon sentence, and it ended with people finding out that JKR was doing something new and calling it Pottermore. She said it wasn’t a book, like I said, but that’s pretty much all she said. You can Google it for teaser pictures and things, but they’re mostly uninformative. Still, YAY!
98 (Pan)~ I had started doing some on my own, but gave up and went to a salon to get them done/finished in the end. It took several hours.
Maps make excellent wall decorations. I have a chart of Milwaukee harbor on my ceiling.
Congrats on your job, that sounds wonderful!
I submitted something to The Slam (Cicada’s online thing) and it got accepted and posted! Someone thinks it has some kind of merit! And it had one “slam” or critique! That was positive! ZOMG WHAT IS THIS I CAN HAZ POETRY SKILLZ?!
While we’re talking about The Slam, there’s some really awesome work that gets put up on there. I should keep up with it far better than I do.
Nerk.
Next year:
I have accepted 3 groups at [conservatory].
As well as a 33% longer private horn lesson at [music school].
And possibly moving up a level in fencing.
And all honors classes.
MuseBlog, I will need your help.
(Je vous devrai)
Fortunately, Honors French will be even less difficult than this year (I’ve already taught myself the tenses we learn next year)
3 groups at conservatory?? Good grief.
Yeah, Sr. MYWE. YBE, YRO
I don’t get Cicada, but I’ve looked at the Slam. It’s mostly modern poetry. And microfiction. WHAT’S MICROFICTION??? Why not just call it “short story?”
SCHOOL. OVER.
Goodbye, my good school, forever!
I’m home.
I wish you could all be as happy as I am right now.
I haven’t eaten or slept in two days.
And I’m the happiest person on earth.
I’m home.
Welcome back to the New World, Choklit Orange!
Whee! I think I’ll start a colony and take it over from the savages living here (that is, put my room back in order and paint over the picture of a smiling unicorn that some renter felt obligated to paint on my wall). I’ve just found the paint.
Welcome home! I’m glad you’re having a good day.
Welcome home! *GINORMOUS HUGGLE*
Welcome home, Chok. *hugs*
“Chok”? That’s a new one.
So today I met these really awesome librarians who love space and SF and want to see my fan-fics.
Also: Every time I read Story Musgrave’s bio, I’m re-amazed.
I am surprised that R&R is no longer one of the top 3 (or even 6) of the Currently Popular sidebar……..
R&R?
Romance and Relationships thread. It’s usually very popular.
Oregano- Romance and Relationships.
Cskia, maybe people have lost touch with significant others/crushes/etc now that school’s out.
That would be my guess, too, as this drop seems to recur around this time of year..
I see. I’m not sure I want to know what’s posted there.
Angst, mostly.
Grumpgrumpgrump. Someone stole our car. Our twenty-five-year-old Honda Accord with the rust over the wheels and the flowers I painted on it in nail polish when I was little.
Why would they do that?
I’m off to Michigan. Hey, I don’t need my passport to travel in the U.S.!
There are pine trees here. I am wearing a wool sweater because it is cold. How could life be better?
I’m so sorry about your car. Have fun in Michigan!
You’re off to Michigan?
Cake it all, I wish my parents were of the sort that would ever let me Kokonvene, ever.
Oh…I’m in MI too, but if you’re up north I doubt we could Kokonvene.
Just finished doing Adopt-A-Highway. I’m going to hibernate for a few millenia now.
I have officially watched my first episode of Doctor Who! And… I can see why people like it so much! But it will take a few more episodes for me to get addicted, I think. (Let alone as obssessed as the majority of MBers. :lol:) But I’ve got the whole weekend to watch it, so I’ll see what I can do!
Awesome! Which episode was it?
…should I try that, too?
Violets =
Ivy =
By the way, I’m still not quite sure why there’s a plot to take over the world.
It’s not a plot. It’s a destiny.
Oh, don’t worry so much!
it’s mostly harmless
*is pied*
It’s not so much that I’m worried – after all, I’m on the taking-over part of it now, right? I think – as that I just don’t get it. Oh well.
Well, isn’t the world sort of in horrible shape right now? It could use a good benevolent dictator or four.
Or 50? Would it even count as a dictatorship with so many people in control, no matter how they got their power? That could be a good argument against those radical anti-anti-political freedoms people (When people never have them to begin with, they don’t generally care, but when they’re taken away, they get angry. Thus, I say ‘anti-anti-political freedoms,’ not ‘pro-political freedoms’).
@Errata: I guess. Maybe. I think dictatorship however is generally recognized as… uh… dictatorial?
and @Biliophile: Then it would be an attempt at democracy. I really don’t think it would work, though. Try getting two people to rule the world, it won’t work. One will end up killing the other, or they’ll produce competing dynasties, or whatever. Fifty people ruling the world? Everyone’s different, you’ll get fifty factions and a war. (A very. bloody. war.)
Dictatorship with more than one person is called oligarchy. They aren’t pretty either.
In any case, I think that part of the trick to remaining in power is to make people think they have a choice, even if they don’t, and make it appear that you really aren’t controlling everything. Kind of like a cage that’s painted the color of the scenery outside, or something.
I think that a lot of corrupt people in our own government use this. I mean, how much choice do we really have in the day-to-day workings of our government? We choose the people who make the choices, but they listen more to the companies that gave them campaign donations than to their constituents.
The thing is, all “dictatorial” means is “of or typical of a ruler with total power.” In the case of the Kokonspiracy, total power would not be a bad thing. And anyone who says otherwise will be exterminated.
Dictators exterminating people…now where have I heard about this before?
Didn’t the Daleks have an emperor, not a dictator?
Um actually I was talking about Hitler….
Godwin’s Law!
…Sorry
Well… You know who else had thumbs? HITLER.
/obligatory webcomic Godwin’s Law reference
So the nasty German fascists believed that extermination was alright. Perhaps they also believed that the sky is blue, and advocated a policy of not dropping rocks on your head.
Reversed stupidity is not intelligence; the world’s stupidest person may say the sun is shining, but that doesn’t make it dark out…
Dictatorship? Foo, you can do better than that.
I imagined actual rule wasn’t the aim, simply getting the world to think as we do. Cultural/Intellectual World Domination.
In some areas. It would be excellent if people were smarter, for example, but we don’t want them to procrastinate too much. (: While I agree with what I think you meant, I don’t think that was really the best way of putting it; it could give people the idea that we’re xenophobic. We know what it’s like to be different from other people, and many of us know what it’s like to be blamed for that. That isn’t right, and I know that isn’t what you meant, so I’m sorry if this sounds rude; it’s just that it sounded like you wanted to make the world less diverse, and I don’t want neophytes or people you tell IRL to get the wrong idea. We know there are many people who are very different from us but not at all inferior, and we don’t want them to suddenly turn into a clone of us. It’s just that there are also some very ignorant people in the world who do terrible things just becasue they never stopped to think. They’re the ones who need to change. Again, I know you didn’t mean that we were better than other people, I just thought I should let you know that it really sounded that way, and you should try to be careful about the way you say things.
Good point. I’m certainly not opposed to diversity, nor am I xenophobic. I apologize if my comment was taken in such a way.
Bibliophile- Who suggested fifty? I thought the GAPAs would be the ones truly in charge, and we’d be advisors and whatnot.
Oregano- Dictatorship has acquired a bad name. There were plenty of benevolent dictators throughout history. They were usually called kings, though.
Also Sparta worked fairly well with (I think) two kings and a council, except that they were a bit more focused on war than necessary.
GAPAs? In charge of something? No, thank you!
-112.2, **pies with key lime pie**
I guess that megavideo thing counts TOTAL minutes watched, because it cut off right in the middle of when I was watching episode 2, and I took a break after episode 1 to take a walk and eat lunch. Now I have to wait 72 minutes before watching the ending. Cake.
Speaking of Doctor Who, I really like the variety of the aliens shown. Especially the tree people.
Ten copies of my book came today!!! *squee squee squee* They’re shiny and thick and I can actually sell them!!!!!!
I bought several books! Including Pride & Prejudice, which is nice because I quickly grow annoyed with ancient hardcover thin paged small worded copies such as the one the library has, and this is paperback.
Icelandic skyr is good. Has anyone else tried it? So is fresh mozzarella and baguette. Om nom nom.
YOU GOT PUBLISHED??? LUCKY
*tears of envy*
HOW DID YOU DO IT??????
Self-publishing.
Is that NaNoWriMo or something? Someday I’ll publish the novel I’m writing…
It was her NaNo novel, but that
‘s not how she published it.
We watched some Doctor Who once, but I didn’t enjoy it that much. It was kind of creepy. Can someone remind me what dehinc means?
I bet Google can.
Hi guys! My hotel´s internet shorted out; am at internet cafe. I wanted to tell you that I had a dream last night that Piggy had made some weird sort of teleportation device. It was a flat square which part of was a stove top that you could cook eggs on. If any MBer put anything on there, any other MBer could take it off. All of us had a square and they were at various places connected by the internet. Piggy put some eggs down for anyone to grab if we were hungry. It was a really cool thing.
That sounds incredible. As soon as they perfect transportation via teleportation, the Eggernet will logically follow immediately afterwards.
And I’m happified to have been in someone’s dream.
the eggernet
everything i never knew i wanted
Brought to you by Imaginary Piggy.
I dreamed about you guys this morning. I had a kokon with Jadestone and Ebeth in my dream and Ebeth brought someone young along. It wasn´t as cool as the Eggernet, but it was still fun.
109: What’s that?
111: Why?
Adopt-A-Highway is where an organization (in this case my church) “adopts” a stretch of highway. They then pick up litter off of the sides of the road. I picked up litter yesterday, and it was exhausting but fun.
*pies everyone with colcanon pie* (or however you spell that)
Following a terrifying lightning and thunder storm where I did everything but hide under the bed, the most gorgeous rainbow came out. Actually, it was a double rainbow, and it was intensely vivid and colorful. It was incredibly bright and beautiful and it stretched across my yard. The section of miniforest under the arch was light, and the rest of the yard was dark. ‘Twas stunning. *sigh* The double rainbow part of it made it look like a rainbow bridge, and I immediately thought of Asgard.
You should have found the end of the rainbow, and climed up to Asgard! You could have feasted with the gods, and then bragged about it to all of us!
Really, that sounds amazing.
I’ve never understood the whole ‘end of the rainbow’ business. When I was little enough to believe in leprechauns and pots of gold, I thought it was really annoying the way everyone expected me to look for them the way I did fairies, because obviously the end of the rainbow wasn’t on the ground, because besides the fact that it never was when I looked at rainbows, people would keep spontaneously getting rich!
I love storms. Partly because of the rainbows, and partly because of the actual storm-parts.
Same here. It doesn’t storm enough around here.
Storms soothe me to sleep, especially the loud, violent ones.
I write bad poetry during storms.
It sounds really beautiful, Mika!
Yesterday was an absolute blast.
Ebeth and I went to see green lantern (we made make-shift costumes in like 3 minutes to wear to it), and then headed into Chicago. We ate and walked/train’d our way to my uncle’s condo (he’s not staying there this weekend, and it was a lot easier than having to commute back to my house at 1 in the morning). We dumped our stuff and rested for a little while and then walked to Lincoln Hall, which wasn’t too far away actually.
It was fabulous ♥
We were about two hours early so we got cookies and played magic in a Subway (the restaurant type).
Finally we got into the venue and then it was 1.5 glorious hours of TIM MINCHIN. It was great. He played a lot of my favourite songs and a few new ones, and told jokes. And afterwards he came out and we got shirts signed and a picture with him
was green lantern any good? i have heard that it was very emphatically Bad, but i dunno…
AND HOORAY! my late night youtube rampages led me to an episode of nevermind the buzzcocks which featured tim minchin and i laffed at what he had to say
Well I know next to nothing about the comic book series. I heard from a hardcore fan that he really hated it, but I thought it was okay. I mean it fit the mold that all recent superhero movies have been taking, but I am both a fan of good superhero movies and terrible ones, so I’m not the best person to ask about quality here XD
I went on an Adventure in the Appalachians today with my parents. It was fun. Lots of fun. We saw a kingfisher and a lot of swallows and we heard a veery. Veeries are a kind of thrush that has two sets of vocal cords–they have a very beautiful, unearthly song.
Anyway. I’m happy. Tired, but happy.
The world is really astonishing.
It kind of makes you want to … break into song?
Just got back from a Jethro Tull concert. Whee!
My estimation of Ian Anderson as the most [flammy] flautist in existence has been strongly supported. And they had a really talented keyboard/accordion player, and they played Aqualung and Locomotive Breath at the end, along with a bunch of other songs I love. And somehow it didn’t rain on us, which I still find surprising.
what if i never slept again
my life consists of making gifs, reading a song of ice and fire, eating yogurt at 3am because that seems like somehow it is healthy and will cancel out the fact i am awake at 3am eating yogurt (what), and dancing around the kitchen with my ipod on while my dog side-eyes me as if to say why is the yappy one still awake
also, the internet
also, sometimes i get an idea for something to write and tahjkrsgjnklbf
SUMMER
I APPROVE OF YOUR LIFE
SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAAAK
And yeah I do that I’m-awake-and-eating-but-at-least-I’m-being-healthy a lot. Except then I get cravings for cheese or sometimes even artificial cheese flavoring and kill it all. Oops.
Happy Father’s Day everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WENT TO A CONCERT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER LAST NIGHT
OH MY GOSH AMAZING SOUND QUALITY AND WALTON AND SHOSTAKOVICH AND THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY AND WE HAD TICKETS IN THE THIRD ROW SO THE ORCHESTRA WAS RIGHT THERE AND THERE WAS A CLARINET SOLO IN THE SHOSTY AND THERE WAS SO
MUCH
SPAZZ
AND I AM HYPER
AND I AM IN DC
TAKING PIANO LESSONS FROM MY PIANO TEACHER’S OLD TEACHER
AND I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YESTERDAY’S LESSON
AND THERE WILL BE MORE LESSONS TODAY
I LOVE MUSIC SO MUCH <3
Welcome to my.city, f&h! I’m glad to hear that you’re enjoying yourself.
Indeed I am. I wish I had the opportunity to sightsee, though. My schedule is crammed with music stuff.
Did they sing about space?!
What? There wasn’t any singing…
I’m just not sure why it would have a concert if it had nothing to do with space. Was the room decorated with stars, etc? Or is this a different Kennedy Center?
This is the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Not to be confused with the Kennedy Space Center, in Titusville, Florida.
(I always wondered if people confusing them was really enough of an issue for Wikipedia to have a disambiguation notice at the top of the article on the space center. I guess it is.)
…Oh. I’d never heard of the performing arts place, so I assumed it was a typo.
Inscriptio quoque vide diligenter si haec satis idonea tibi videtur:
PATER: DVX, MAGISTER, CORRECTOR. FELICEM DIEM PATRUM MMXI!
I went hiking yesterday with my dog (It was his first time!) and he barely made it up to the summit. He really needs to get in shape for backpacking… Today we are going to a river with him and hopefully he will learn to not be afraid of water.
Radiant_Darkness (98.1): Thanks!
Fiddler (100): Ooh, ceiling maps! That’s a good idea. I don’t have anything on my ceiling except glow-in-the-dark stars and a paper lantern hanging from my ceiling light. And congratulations on The Slam! I don’t think I’ve heard of that before–I’ll go check it out!
Oregano (102): Microfiction is shorter than short stories. I usually know it as flash fiction (I think they’re synonymous), and I don’t think they’re ever long as 1,000 words or so–when I studied flash fiction, our stories were between 20 and 300 words, depending on the assignment. Short stories are much longer than flash/micro fiction, no shorter than 1,000 words and usually not longer than ~10,000 words (though I’ve seen it longer than that). Sometimes microfiction/flash fiction is also called “short short stories.”
Choklit Orange (108): Someone stole our car last week! We got it back, but I also have no idea why anyone would want to steal it (the police said that sometimes people steal old, banged-up cars to commit a crime?). It’s a 2001 Dodge Caravan, >100,000 miles on it, and it was stolen from the playground at a park! It’s kind of a funny story now, though–the police located the car outside of a house, chased the people away, and found lots of guns, assault rifles, machine guns, etc. in the house! Eep! AND the robbers took off our FCNL War is Not the Answer bumper sticker. The nerve! (They also stole pretty much everything we had in the car, too, mostly change, but our camera was left right there on the seat! I think it’s because we use a soap dish as the camera case, so it was disguised!
)
Jadestone (121): That sounds spectacular and epic and suchness.
Axa (125): Yup yup yup!
I can see how people like that might have disagreed with your bumper sticker.
They couldn’t quite get the bike sticker off, though. It was only halfway gone. I don’t think it was as much a political objection as an effort to appear less distinct.
Seeing the phrase “Yup yup yup!” makes me sad. For me, anyway, it’s from the Land Before Time movies, from the adorable little Ducky. The girl who did the voice of Ducky, Judith Barsi, was killed along with her mother by her father in a murder-suicide when she was ten years old.
Wow, that’s cheerful.
Really? Oh gosh… I loved those movies when I was little…
So did I. Ah, VA.
One of these days the neighbors’ dog (miniature poodle) Fluffy is going to jump up under my skirt and embarrass me SOOOOOOO much. BTW how do I do italics? How do I pinkify words? And is a pie like this
? I guess I’ll find out…
Posts get turned pink when ten people pie them.
The “smileys and code tricks” thread will help you with italics, smileys, etc…
A lot of great information is on the Smileys and Code Tricks page. The original post and comments 1 and 16 have been especially useful to me in the past. There is also an HTML Practice Thread, which is perfect for trying things out, although with the “Preview” feature on comments there is less of a need for that thread.
Words do not turn pink unless 10 or more people have pied the comment, in which case all words in the post are highlighted in pink.
There you are. You now know everything I know about HTML.
No I didn’t. Hand on a sec there. How do I do a link like that? Or is it automatic? Thanks anyway.
There is an excellent demonstration on post 16 of this thread: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=1824 (Smileys and Code Tricks). Omit the spaces of the first HTML Piggy shows on that post.
Also, no you didn’t what?
SFTDP, but you don’t have to answer the third question. *pies self*
Oh, and why do we say things like SFTDP, or in this case, SFTTP? Is it because
a) multiple posts are more work for you to read,
b) multiple posts are more work for the GAPAs to post,
c) it’s considered polite to apologize for wasting someone else’s time,
e) it’s traditional,
f) it’s cool,
or d) all of the above?
1. Italics are
[i]TEXT YOU WANT TO BE ITALICIZED[/i]
only use angle brackets ( > and < ) instead of square brackets
2. Something is pinked when it gets 10 pies, by clicking the flying pie at the bottom of a persons post. They're akin to like buttons
3. D, and the fact that if everyone double-posted, the threads would have hundreds of posts within a few days.
I’m not sure why it’s out of order, but D.
Answer: Because in multiple choice questions like that, it’s almost ALWAYS four, and D is almost ALWAYS “all of the above.”
It’s just not as fun seeing the same gravatar three times in a row as three different gravatars.
Because it gets irritating one when person can’t seem to gather their thoughts into one post and ends up clogging the whole thread (not in your case, but 5+ make me feel in the mood for a stoning).
I quadruple-posted back in the day. Double posting was a lot more common then too. I suppose it’s a good thing that MuseBlog has gotten more refined over the years.
113 – Oregano:
As a matter of fact, I am sometimes irritated by such post prefixes as “SFTDP.” It doesn’t seem necessary to me, because most double posts are either fixing the previous post or saying something else, which you forgot to say, which just happens to be right after your previous post. In these cases, an apology simply isn’t necessary, although the acknowledgement of infringement on some “rules” is appreciated by some people, I suppose.
To answer your question, I believe the habit began after many people expressed irritation at the way people seemed to throw around extra posts. People would prefer to read a single post. There are a lot of reasons for this which people will undoubtedly help me explain (it’s hard to remember so many reasons until you realize them), but it’s really all about respect, I think.
Naturally, if you forget something or if, after posting (and previewing, which is also a good way to make sure a post is well done), you’ve noticed something that needs to be clarified, an extra explanatory post is welcomed.
I’m still in Germany, and I have dreads! They are puffy and weird. It takes a few months for them to shrink.
I love it here! I never want to leave! I don’t even understand German but I want to stay.
The public transportation here is amazing, and the food is awesome, and everyone is really nice and pedestrians always have the right of way.
Tschuss!
Dreads! Yay! I hope they mature and get awesome quickly for you.
Yay! New computer! One that doesn’t take a half-hour to turn on or has Windows Vista!!
That should be “have,” not “has.”
Fun game to play with friends: World Domination. Bring a world map and call dibs on various countries, and mark with different colors as necessary. (I’m now the ruler of northern Canada and western Antarctica, btw.)
A must play party game.
I had a world domination plan with my friends a while back: it was drawn with stick figures and arrows, and then the characters/rulers had romantic relationships while saving the world from monsters that lived in three-ring binders.
“Fight back the flight deck,
Bring on the breakneck,
Cue the solar eclipse!
Summit the sunset,
Dovetail the dragnet,
And blow your backbone to bits!”
I really like Owl City’s “Galaxies”. I listened to it for the first time last night and had it in my head all day while I was touring the Air and Space Museum. (Don’t worry, I only spent five hours there today.)
I heard some guy in the “Apollo to the Moon” gallery say “I am James A. McDivitt, respect me!”
Mr. McDivitt is in his 80s. This man was no older than his 30s.
So many new people who I don’t know or recognize! I feel so old…
But also summer is great so far! I’ve been to Texas and I’m departing for Virginia, Korea, and the Philippines this summer. I could try and get back into the swing of things around here, but I feel so out of the loop… ah well. I’ll continue lurking.
Also: WOO SUMMER
Summer… *sighs* *is jealous*
I feel you, Oregano.
I’m watching Bleak House. It’s SO GOOD and besides following the plot we’re playing who’s-that-actor. The BBC tends to reuse the same actors. Sally Sparrow is in it, as well as Mr. Crouch and Uncle Vernon.
Ahhhhh Bleak House is THE BEST. Both of them. And the book. Love Dickens, love the BBC, just all around love. ♥
In case anyone was interested, my personal NaNo word count is 10212. I’m two days behind. Cake (to use the typically accepted curse).
NaNo? In June?
Unofficial. I couldn’t wait.
Starting in mid-june?
Dear POSOC, oxlin, and Pan–
Remember that RRR? The one where we thought that having a set group of people would make it less likely to die? It didn’t work. In the last year there have been a grand total of FIVE story posts, most of them short. I’m not really ready to give up the entire RRR movement, as this would be doing, and I still feel like our story has potential, and I really like having this sort of writerly connection with you guys (because god knows I don’t have a writerly connection with myself). But we either need to keep writing, or accept it as dead.
I’m writing a new post right now. Come to the thread for further discussion.
Sweet! I thought it was dead when I wrote the last story post, so I’ll go there now.
Anyone have a good plot up for adoption?
Um… all of my plots are either cliche or so un-cliche that it gets crazy.
My medival-fantasy story is cliche.
My story where aliens invade the middle school and kidnap all of the teachers I actually managed to finish writing, but then I lost the first notebook and realized “Wait a minute, this is cake and it’s crazy and so un-cliche that it’s cliche!” So now I’m completely giving it an extreme makeover and it has a completely different plot.
Yeah, but I compound plots. Whats the medieval?
SFTDP
*Combine
*What’s
Let’s see if I can come up with any…
No. Sorry. Besides my NaNo plot, which I’m counting as copyrighted. But, here are some elements.
For love: try “girl goes out with boy, leaves boy for other boy.” (Or switch the genders.) Try also: “girl thinks she is interested in boy, then finally realizes she likes other boy.”
For fantasy: try a supernatural element, like a tesseract, or aliens, life on other planets. Parallel universes, relativity, black holes and faster-than-light travel are all good too, but belong more in the realm of sci-fi.
Sci-fi: intelligent computers, robots, and weird materials. Have fun making up names.
Family: Careful with family. The good thing with kids writing is that they have a very first-hand experience with family, and they can use that better than grown-ups, whose childhood experience has faded somewhat (on average). Single children are closer to their parents. Oldest children tend to be bothered by their siblings, and imagine that they don’t love them. Youngest children will do anything for attention, but usually they don’t need to. Middle children tend to feel left out and ignored. (These are vague generalizations, and I’m totally NOT saying there aren’t exceptions. So.) Twins can be fascinating to write about, but don’t overdo them (imagine a story about fifteen sets of twins) unless you’re writing about civilizations where everyone has a twin (hm, now there’s an idea).
Character development and other random notes:
Character development is good. In a novel, it’s essential. That’s the point. Some good things are:
Someone goes chasing after (trying to excuse, etc) a certain belief or organization, but is shown that it’s pointless or evil.
Someone thinks he/she hates his/her [friend or family member], but then something happens to show him/her that he/she loves that [person] after all.
Captured things are also good. That includes captured people and pets. No wait, that is captured people and pets. Well, it could be objects too, I guess.
Well, I just inspired myself with at least one plot:
A: On the planet of ______, everyone has a twin. This is normal. But __ is a triplet. This is not normal. __ is being chased by the government, who’s trying to kill __, and __ is being helped by ___, who is the opposite gender. __ thinks __ loves ___, but then ___ leads her into a trap ___ set to get the ransom the government is offering for __. BUT! _____ leads __ out of the trap, and ____ is an only child, so the government is after ____ too, and so __ and ____ fall in love. Finally CLIMAX happens, and… hm… few endings here:
__ and ____ overthrow the government.
__ and ____ live happily ever after on the run.
__ and ____ are both killed by the government.
__ and ____ are captured and __ has to watch ____ die a slow and painful death.
Oops, out of time. Sorry.
Today one of the girls in my writing camp successfully guessed that I was thinking of the number 42. I shall have to stay in contact with her somehow.
Only four more days left in writing camp, though. This is dissappointing.
Oooh, nice new chess game list. I imagine that could be useful encouraging people to make their moves on time.
…I think I might want a chess game myself, actually. I keep losing against my little brother, who I taught how to play chess. I’m just not good at strategy, but rather at tactics…
Also, are we going to have a part3 to this thread? more than 500 comments, and I believe the new schedule was on the tenth and 20th of each month.
FF: I’ll create Part 3 if I can find a picture to represent Kutchi New Year. (Two threads is enough for Matariki.)
Geometry summer course started today! It’s so fun, like going to school except not having to sit in front of teachers drawing in my notebook all day, pretending to be listening! And I get to learn things without distraction from other people!
You may want to be virtual-schooled during the schoolyear, too, then. It’s the same, excep that the course materials aren’t generally more interesting, but that doesn’t matter quitre as much because if they’re teaching something you already know, you don’t have to listen; you can go straight to the assessment.
I think virtual school is difficult, because – at least, in my experience – one tends to prioritize normal school/real life over virtual school if one is doing both, eventually procrastinating until suddenly, everything is due. And it’s stressful.
There are some schools, completely online, that teach students everything they need for their grade level. I went to one last year. It was basically a public school except that I never had to go anywhere. It even had field trips. I did procrastinate a lot, but if Trojan Tiger would do that, she’ll probably start soon.
Oh, I was referring to something like CTD (Gifted Learning Links), which is more on a per-class basis. I had problems with time management trying to do AP Bio and AP Human Geography with it this year.
I think if your entire school was online, that would be much easier than my experience – 5 AP classes and Calc 3, with AP Bio and HumGeo online and AP Chem independent study. Never again. >.<
I looked for one of those to take the advanced English course, but I couldn’t find it.
The CVS near where I’m staying has San Pellegrino Limonata! In those cool little cans with the foil on the top!
SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD
Now if I only had some crusty pizza to eat it with.
Urrrrg my throat is sore. It’s got a viral ulcer in the back which to me just means that the canker sores I usually get in my mouth are attempting to MIGRATE. WHAT. I do not support this.
But now I can’t drink cranberry juice because it is acidic and painful but I am addicted to it so this is not happy. I’ve drunk like 6 bottles of water a day because it feels better when water’s over it.
Also I have two more at the front of my mouth on my lip, and I am going to an oral surgeon tomorrow who is going to poke around my mouth and look wt my wisdom teeth uhg uhg uhg.
UGH that is the worst! FEEL BETTER D:
also i now have a craving for cranberry juice…..
You probably don’t remember this, but I bought Floo Powder in Salem. I have now poured it from the jar into a flowerpot, placed the flowerpot on my desk, and moved the Salem Floo Powder–The only real way to travel! sticker onto the flowerpot.
Hello everyone! After a very long hiatus, I’m going to try to be back. I don’t know why, but I sort of drifted away from MuseBlog for a while, although I have occasionally lurked. I pretty much haven’t posted since sometime in the middle of last summer, and now it’s almost that time again. It feels sort of weird coming back after all that time, even though lots of people have done it before me. Anyway, I will try to post, and I’ll try not to disappear again.
I think it’s a bit because I’ve been trying to figure myself out a bit. Lots of personal things have been going on in the ol’ noggin. I won’t put any of that on you all though.
I’ll probably be “officially” back a bit later then now, though, because at the end of this week my family and I are going on vacation and there’s no internet there. We’ll be there for three weeks total, and I may only get on or two chances to post. (Like, if my Uncle takes us on his sailboat and he lets me use the computer, or the library computers are working, which they never have been before.) So this week and *hopefully* after that, I’ll be posting.
How has everyone been?
Not having to much fun without me, are you?I hope everyone’s been well, and the same for any new people since I disappeared. I’d hunt around an welcome you all individually, but I’ve been told that there have been quite a lot over my absence.I just managed to finish the English final. It took forever, and I’ve still go stuff I need to do, so I’m off for now, I think. Only this one post for today.
You better not be getting greedy, now.See all you crazy cats later.
-Keifz
Hey, welcome back.
It’s good to “see” you again.
Thanks! You too.
WARNING: PALEO SPEECH.
I was cleaning my room today, and found this drawer with 15 origami HPBs in it I made a while ago. And I laughed, and decided I would make more when I could, and thought about BA: TOS. Fun times.
And then I thought about how old I am here (coming up on my fourth blogiversery) and how much the Blog has changed from that time, and even earlier.
Back when my life basically centered around MB, we had Muse Scouts and BA and MA, and RPG posts were the most common on the Recent Comments. Mr. Joe and SSSSs were in proliferation, and bunnies were things to be feared. We had lots, and lots of inside jokes and it was very different from now.
Nowadays most RPGs are very slow (BA:TOS went WHOOSH) and I’ve barely seen any HPB and Mr. Joe references. We’re much more prone to discussion about ourselves and have developed into a group of friends more than a self-creating fandom.
I don’t dislike MB now, but I have to say I miss how it used to be. I wish I could go back and insert my own maturity into that past self, and for a few of the people to come back (Beat, Beavo, ZVX).
Ugh, I sound crotechty. *big hug to everyone*
Also, lookit at the old thing my sister drew a long long time ago! https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1586
And now I feel old because I can remember when the blog was transitioning into the state you describe (RPGs, inside jokes) and a few people were ranting about how it was RUINED FOREVER.
Yeah, I think a lot of that was me. IT’S JUST NOT LIKE THE OLD DAYS! -sob-
I think I still do that actually…god I bug myself sometimes.
GAPAs, why are you still up? It’s got to be like 3 AM on the east coast!
I’m not really awake.
YOU ARE STRONG, MY FRIEND. STRONG.
Wait, bunnies aren’t to be feared anymore? RPGs are slow? Mr. Joe died? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS AND HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN GONE. D:
I’m only almost-3 blogyears old, but I feel like a paleo sometimes too. I remember all the SSSSs I used to write, and the Reclusive Gardens RPG, and submitting tons of bunny pictures, and the first holiday parties with anonymous virtual gifts and mazes in the rooftop gardens …
Me in a few years: I CAN’T READ THESE OLD THREADS *sob* THEY HOLD TOO MANY MEMORIES
[/end annoying semi-paleo speech]
Don’t forget the Religions/Hot Topics wars.
And nowadays no one even discusses the magazine–the reason this site exists. I think my subscription lapsed, but certainly most of you guys get Muse?
I…don’t? I actually don’t know, since I restarted my subscription in like 2007 it was never as awesome as I remembered. They come to my dad’s house so they don’t usually show up here until like a month after they arrived and I skim through for anything absolutely fascinating but never read the whole thing. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen an issue for a while. My subscription was supposed to end in the spring of my Junior year, so it might actually be over now.
I continue to subscribe to Muse, but, sadly, I probably wouldn’t notice for months if the subscription ended. I do still love re-reading the old issues, though, and I want to get all of the pre-2003 ones that were before my time! (I’ve been getting Muse for 8 years – woah.)
I’ve never read Muse.
I get Muse, but I actually kind of hate it sometimes now. I think at Christmas I’ll probably just ask for a gazillion back issues rather than renewing.
Disturbing thought: MB has been around for close to six years. So when the MuseBlog you miss was coming into existence, there were probably then-paleos complaining about how they missed the old MB. I’m just stating the obvious here, but it seems sad that it’s changed so quickly.
SSSS and Dissing Mr Joe used to be among my favourite threads, and I barely noticed when they became less frequented. And I wasn’t an RPG type, but it was interesting reading posts on some occasionally. It reminded me how big MuseBlog was.
On the bright side, I remember hearing complaints from paleos when I was a phyte two or so years ago about immature phytes taking over the blog, but that hasn’t happened for a while. So I guess most of them actually morphed into the nice MBers here today?
Interestingly, the things you miss are, as POSOC was saying, some of the things I liked the least about the blog. Actually, I kind of hated it in an angst-y way.
Piggy (151.4) – Now my brother gets Muse. I read it, a little bit. It definitely isn’t what it used to be, but he’s really enjoying it.
I don’t think MuseBlog is worse than when I joined, it’s just different. Evolution is only natural.
i had a really horrible night but then i talked to jade and then i talked to my mom and i feel so much better. so i’m just here to tell you all i love and appreciate every single one of you, cause it can’t be said enough. and now i’m listening to benedict cumberbatch read a fairytale so you know what life is good.
*hugs for everyone*