MuseBlog

A place where people applying to college can ask questions of college attendees, and college students can ask questions about grad school.
Continued from v. 2012.

Listening, playing, performing, composing.

Continued from v. 2012.

Robert writes:

It’s no secret that MuseBlog is more leisurely than it used to be. Just for fun, I took our traffic data for 2009 through 2012, pasted it into a spreadsheet, and graphed it to see what story it might tell. Behold the fruits of my labors:

According to the trend line on the second graph, the number of posts here should reach zero any day now. And then what?!

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Jade turns 22 on January 1 — the most memorable birthday of any MuseBlogger. The January birthday thread isn’t up yet, so please feel free to post your felicitations here.

A new thread for discussion of mathematics, continued from the previous one.

Friday the Thirteenth, as we all know (or ought to) (or at any rate ought to agree to pretend to), is a lucky day for the inveterate contrarians on MuseBlog. We eagerly await your tales of outrageous [good] fortune.

Some of you have requested a Yule Ball. We’re not sure that busy, increasingly overworked MBers have enough time or energy to carry one off this year. But Piggy has been relaxing at the still-open 2009 MA holiday party. We’ll move his post onto this thread to set the stage for some quiet times while the bleak Nordic weather lowers outside.

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Known Muser birthdays this month*:

12-01 bluefire27’s 6K Day
12-26 SudoRandom’s birthday (1996)
12-28 Areohawk’s birthday (1997)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between October 3 and November 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between January 7 and February 6, 1992.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in June.

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

The first and second “Quick Reads” threads were a lot of fun, but we’ve all done a lot of reading and listening since then. Let’s do a little catching up.

You may recall that a couple of years ago, a catchy Trock song by veteran MBer Kiki the Great attracted the notice of Neil Gaiman. Fast forward to the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary, and here again is KtG’s song, performed by Amanda Palmer with some assistance from Neil Gaiman and Arthur Darvill.

Part 4 of the old Demigod RPG appeared in September 2010. Now some nostalgic MBers think it’s time for a reboot. Good luck, godlings!

We know, we’re hideous. The latest update to the blog’s theme did strange things to its appearance. We’ll probably look like this for a while, so please bear with us. Everybody has bad-hair days. Or weeks…

–The GAPAs

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Is anyone taking part this year? If so, keep us posted, please.

*National Novel Writing Month

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

11-04 ZNZ’s 6K Day
11-12 fireandhemlock1996’s birthday (1996)
11-15 muselover’s 6K Day
11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (1992)
11-18 Cello-Playing Mathematician’s birthday (1993)
11-18 Enceladus’s birthday (1996)
11-25 Jadestone’s 8K Day
11-26 starr’s birthday (1996)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991)
11-27 Dodecahedron’s birthday (1993)
11-27 Cinnamoon’s birthday (1994)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 24 and March 24, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between September 3 and October 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between December 8, 1991, and January 6, 1992.

You have been on the blog for six months if you started posting in May.

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

She’s 18 today (Friday, October 25), so please take a random walk over to the October birthday thread with pies and congratulations.

The decorations are up, the tables are sagging under the weight of the snacks, the music is playing, and the costumed guests are starting to arrive. What surprises lie in store this year?

Muse‘s editor, Elizabeth Preston, alerts us to this Round-Robin ‘Riting over at the official Muse site. We’re not sure how many MBers are now technically Musers, so we’ll leave to your discretion whether you feel overqualified for this activity.

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Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

10-01 Kiki the Great’s birthday (1995)
10-12 Ebeth’s birthday (1991)
10-13 Paul Baker’s birthday
10-16 Kagcomix’s birthday (1993)
10-19 LittleBasementKitten’s birthday (1997)
10-21 Purple Panda turns 8,000 days old
10-25 Red-tailed HAWK’s birthday (1994)
10-25 Randomosity 101’s birthday (1995)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between January 24 and February 23, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between April 29 and May 29, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between August 3 and September 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between November 7 and December 7, 1991.

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

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

Fishy is 7,000 days old today (Monday, September 23).

September 22 marks the astronomical start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in the Southern.

Be ye ready fer th’ big day, me hearties? If not, this video might bring ye up t’ speed:

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