Sunday, 12 January 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
How did we get this far along in 2010 without a new installment of this thread? Vent your frustrations and display your creativity by abusing the blog’s favorite scapegoat, 
. It really does seem to make people feel better.
Continued from Dissing Mr. Joe, 2009.
All are “mate in two” problems: White moves, Black moves, then White checkmates. No “one-move” boards this time.
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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. 2010.1.
One of the big challenges for some chessplayers is knowing when they’ve won. Sometimes a checkmate is staring them in the face, but they don’t see it. These chess problems are designed to help you recognize checkmate.
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Prussianian fans: Fantasy Fan sent us her long-awaited zeppelin illustrations. We’re adding this announcement since some of the RRR participants may not show up before the post sinks out of sight on Recent Comments.
A place to catch a little fresh air after dancing, or thread your way through this year’s specially constructed Yin-Yang Maze:
The biggest event of the academic year begins. The decorations are up, the food is ready, the musicians are practiced, rested, and in tune.
The ball lasts just a few hours in Musiverse time but unfolds over a whole month of blog time.
Formal attire required. Fortunately, all clothing is virtual, flattering in every respect, and incredibly comfortable to wear.
Note: the rooftop garden will open anon.
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi.
Known MBers’ birthdays and “K Days” this month.
05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday
05-05 Errata’s 5K Day
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-15 JJjetplane-girl w/cats’s birthday (1996)
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42’s birthday (1996 – red)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992 – blue/purple/green/brown)
05-21 MontgomeryGurl’s 7K Day
05-22 RoseQuartz’s birthday (1995 – pale pink and silver)
05-24 Shadowkat’s 7K Day
05-26 Iamisthebest’s 5K Day
05-28 Sequoia’s birthday (1996)
05-30 Em&Em’s birthday (1993)
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994 – turquoise)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 23 and September 22, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 27 and December 27, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 3 and April 1, 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.
agrrrfishi requested this thread after attending an assembly at her school, probably prompted by the case of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old girl in Massachusetts who was bullied for several months and finally committed suicide. Here is what agrrrfishi says:
Ebeth sent these photos from her recent Kokon with Julia/Fortune Cell. Read more »
A good-news counterpart to the FAIL Thread — for describing times when things turn out better than you could have imagined.
Some of these games are still in progress; most have clearly been abandoned. The sheer numbers are impressive, we guess.
Created April 25, 2010. Each player enters the game with a MuseBlog rating of 160. If the game is a draw, the ratings won’t change. Otherwise, the winner will end up with 210, the loser with 110.
By popular request, a place to describe times when things (how shall we put this?) might not have turned out quite as well as one might have wished.
We don’t know why MBers seem so eager to talk about this, but we have a sneaking suspicion that this will turn out to be an unusually popular thread.
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.
Let us know when your issue arrives.
NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun;
Nor the furious winter’s rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.
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Just for fun, we’ve decided to give players in our Chess Eternament numerical ratings based on the English Chess Federation (ECF) system. Whenever you finish a game, you get a new rating based on your pre-game rating, your opponent’s pre-game rating, and the outcome of the game. (Results below.)