MB Chessplayers — Your Help Is Needed!

Some of you report that you haven’t been able to move your pieces since we upgraded the blog’s chess software around the end of July. We’d like to solve the problem but need more information.

  • Can anybody move, or is it a universal outage?
  • If you can’t move, have you tried clearing your browser’s cache (not just the browsing history, but the actual cache of Web pages that your browser stores to make them easier to load)?
  • What sort of message do you see when you try to move? Does it say “closed board,” or does it tell you it’s waiting for your move and then fail to accept it?

(Of course, some of you probably have gotten tired of chess and stopped playing, but if anyone wants to keep playing, we’d like to make it possible.)
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Ask the GAPAs, No. 7

Infinite questions, and a non-zero number of answers. Fire away.

Continued from No. 6.

Posted in Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Nonrandom Craziness | 470 Comments

Suggestion Box, v. 2009.2

What do you want to see on the blog, at Musery Loves Company, or anywhere else in the GAPAs’ domain? Let your voices be heard!

Posted in Fan Page / MuseBlog business | 471 Comments

Religion and Religions, v. 2009.2

Continued from version 2009.1.

Reminder: This is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions. We expect MBers to be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally AND to be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.

Posted in Ideas, Life, The Universe | 116 Comments

Sci Fi RPG*, Part 2

*Role-playing game, in this part of the multiverse.

Continued from Part One, unless our chronosynclastic infundibulum has malfunctioned.

Posted in RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs | 288 Comments

August? Blog-ust

MuseBlog came into being four years ago this month. To celebrate our anniversary, we’re dedicating this month’s Random Thread to our beloved blog itself. As August passes, we’ll cycle through a gallimaufry of images from threads gone by. Continue reading

Posted in At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness | 420 Comments

Welcome, Neophytes! (August 2009 edition)

Are you new to MuseBlog? You must have questions, and we’d like to meet you. Make this thread your first stop for pie and advice.
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Posted in At the Top of the Blog, Fan Page / MuseBlog business | 112 Comments

Don’t Forget These Threads (August 2009 edition)

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. (Making you re-request these every month helps to weed out the no-longer-fit.) Maybe we’ll actually manage to paste a few of them in this month. Continue reading

Posted in At the Top of the Blog, Fan Page / MuseBlog business | 9 Comments

The Hare & Hedgepig, Vol. II, No. 4

As a Courtesy to Your Fellow Patrons,
Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required
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Posted in At the Top of the Blog, Muse Academy, Nonrandom Craziness, The Musiverse | 375 Comments

August 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada’s birthday (1996),
3 August – AJAR (1992)
4 August – Brendan (1995), Random Kokopelli (1997)
7 August – Koppar
8 August – QueenOfAces (1997), small but fierce
9 August – RAWR
21 August – Adeia (1996), Alice (1993)
27 August – Nthanda the Laugher (1991), Kiga (1997), Rainbow (1997), Errata
28 August – Sunrunner Bramblewood (1993)
29 August – Turquoise (1995), gnash (1996)
30 August – AvalonGirl (1998)
31 August – Quintessentia (1992), shriya siolashrwa jeffica (1992)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1995
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 4 and July 3, 1990.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in February.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

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Magic RPG*, Part 1

*Role-Playing Game.

As you wish, because MBers’ appetite for spells, shape-shifting, and levitation is infinite and insatiable.

Posted in RRRs, RPWs, and RPGs | 449 Comments

RRR*: The Sea Roc (a.k.a. Captain Pye & Co.) — Part 6

Continued from Part 5.

*Round Robin ‘Riting

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Haiku

Museblog once published
The Iliad in haiku.
Now, this haiku thread.

Posted in Nonrandom Craziness | 231 Comments

Let’s Get Physiognomical, v. 2009.2

In which MuseBloggers guess how other MBers look and what they wear. (“Physiognomy” is a fancy word for “face.”)

Continued from 2009.1.

Posted in Nonrandom Craziness | 409 Comments

Chess: bluefire27 vs. RoseQuartz

bluefire27: Try again, please. It should be working now.

 
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Posted in Chess, Games abandoned | 23 Comments

40th Anniversary of the 1st Moon Landing

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Continue reading

Posted in The Universe | 41 Comments

Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories, v. 2009

Year after year, the SSSSs keep coming — stupider and more senseless than ever, but kaleidoscopically clever and irresistibly appealing. There’s just something about them…

Continued from version 2008.3.

Posted in Random craziness | 341 Comments

Lunacy Appreciation Month, Part 2

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Posted in At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness | 422 Comments

College / University / Higher Education, v. 2009

Since the old one was, well, old. And as Jadestone pointed out, more people are thinking about this now that weren’t then.

Continued from the 2008 version.

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Capablanca Chess: The Bookworm vs. Piggy

 
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Posted in Chess, Games abandoned | 15 Comments

The Polling Place, v. 2009.1

In which MuseBloggers gather data about that ever-popular topic, one another.

Continued from v. 2008.3.

Posted in Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe | 340 Comments

Random Fact(oid)s, 2009

Requested by Silver Lining, who probably can’t remember the previous thread of this type.
 

ATTENTION: NEW RULE!

 
Henceforth (starting on July 11), anyone posting a piece of information here must say where the information came from. Reason: Including the source will help other MBers decide how accurate a factoid is and whether it is worth repeating.
 
–Your beneficent Administrators

Posted in Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe | 301 Comments

Turbo Chess: RoseQuartz vs. I-Man

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Player Needed for Turbo Chess

RoseQuartz needs an opponent. Any volunteers? This weird type of chess, found only on MuseBlog, gives each player seven queens. You can see the board by clicking below. Continue reading

Posted in Chess | 12 Comments

“Half-Blood Prince”: The Movie

Discussion of this film could easily take over the whole blog, so please confine it to this thread.

WARNING: ABUNDANT SPOILERS ARE INEVITABLE HERE.

Posted in The Universe | 273 Comments