Welcome, Neophytes! (February 2011 edition)
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi.
February 2011 “Happy Birthday!” Thread
Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:
02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997 – *confusion* purple, black, and gold
02-02 groundhog22’s birthday (1989 – denim blue)
02-04 Tessera Rose’s birthday
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996 – red and black)
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-18 TreeCafe’s 5K day
02-19 muselover’s 5K day
02-26 Ötzi’s birthday (1993 – cerulean)
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993-purple)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 22, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 4 and December 31, 1991.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
Hot Topics, v. 2011.1
This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.
MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.
Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.
February 2011 Muse Roll Call
Let us know when your issue arrives.
NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.
February 2011 Muse Discussion
WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!
To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” columns, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:
SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER.
Happy National Pie Day!
For whatever it’s worth, the American Pie Council (www . piecouncil . org/) has declared every January 23 National Pie Day. Although the APC seems to focus mainly on eating pies rather than, you know, we think this new holiday is a peach of an idea (peach pie — yum!) and encourages MBers of all lands to embrace it wholeheartedly. Those who can’t will get another chance when Pi Day rolls around on March 14.
Pie stories, anyone?
A Story from SBF
small but fierce sent us this story of hers to read or post. Naturally, we’re posting it.
Visual Arts, v. 2011
Whatever your medium, if it’s visual, here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas.
Continued from Visual Arts, 2010.
Suggestion Box, v. 2011.1
What do you want to see on the blog, at Musery Loves Company, or anywhere else in the GAPAs’ domain? Here’s where to make your wishes known.
Continued from v. 2010.2.
Chess: SudoRandom vs. Radiant_Darkness — 0-1 FORFEIT
White forfeits. New ratings: SudoRandom, 50; Radiant_Darkness, 140.
Chess Eterna-ment Rankings
Inspection of the chess games on the blog found only one game (Tesseract vs. bookgirl_me) still in progress*. To keep things tidy going into the new year, the Chess GAPA (Robert) has adjudicated and closed all other games** of standard chess and calculated new MuseBlog Chess Ratings on the basis of the results. Ratings for Capablanca and Turbo Chess are unaffected.
Here are the new ratings, as of January 4, 2011 (numbers in parentheses indicate number of games on which the rating is based).
*(Finished on January 8; ratings updated to reflect the result.)
Latest update: 24 September 2011.
Happy 119th Birthday, J. R. R. Tolkien!
As hobbits might put it, Professor Tolkien would have been eleventy-nine years old today.
The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Tolkien woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Tolkien‘s Day.
College / University / Higher Education, v. 2011
As oxlin pointed out, we haven’t had a new one of these threads since 2009. Her description:
a place where people applying to college could ask questions of college attendees and I could ask questions about grad school.
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories, v. 2011
The adventures of 
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, and the rest continue unabated as the SSSS thread ushers in a new decade of randomness and triviality.