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Continuing MuseBlog’s whirlwind tour of human history, the March Random Threads celebrate the Maya: artists, astronomers, mathematicians, warriors, independent inventors of zero, builders of palaces and temples amid the forest, players of a cosmic ball game, aficionados of human sacrifice.

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If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi

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Use the comments here to swap tips about outstanding, little known, and/or underutilized parts of Museblog. (In four years, we’ve accumulated an amazing number of chasms, subterranean passages, sunken cities, and fossiliferous formations.) Be sure to include the URL (Web address) so others can share your finds.

Keiffer has been playing White and peary Black a lot lately, so this game mixes things up a little.
 
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There were rumblings about a Prussianian role-playing game back in January, but MuNoWriMo intervened. If you’re still interested, MuseBlog is now ready for you.

RPGs seem limiting, though, with one character to a customer and all the concomitant worries about power-playing. Are you sure you wouldn’t rather have an RRR?

(To help you with research, we’re adding a “Prussiania” subcategory to the list of thread categories.)

Gim turns 6,000 days old today (Saturday, March 6).

Two undefeated players (by our count, cromwell has won 1 standard game and 1 Capablanca Chess game on the blog; bookgirl_me has won 1 standard game, 1 Capablanca game, and 1 game of Turbo Chess). As usual, we’ve assigned the black pieces to the person who requested the game.

bookgirl_me, as White, moves first.
 
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MuseBlog Novel Writing Month has to end sometime, and that time is one minute after 11:59 p.m. tonight (Tuesday, March 2). Be warned! (And by the way, how’s it going?)

Nighthawk was born on February 29, 1996, so technically she won’t have another birthday until 2012, but we’re celebrating it today (Monday, March 1). Happy three-and-a-halfth birthday, NH!

Cat’s Meow was born on March 1, 1995, and turns a more conventional but no less joyful 15.

Pies aplenty to both of them on the March birthday thread.

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

03-01 Nighthawk’s birthday (1996 – actually February 29!)
03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – orange)
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – carroty)
03-04 bubbles’s birthday (year? – teal)
03-19 Logogeo96’s birthday (1996)
03-20 gimanator is 6,000 days old
03-20 crazyquotescollector is 6,000 days old
03-20 Kagcomix is 6,000 days old
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday (YEAR? COLOR?)
03-23 Optimatum’s birthday (YEAR?)
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – black, purple, and silver)
03-26 The Book Thief (1996 – robin’s egg blue, lime green, and chocolate)
03-27 CTN’s birthday (1996 – red, white, blue, black)
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and February 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.

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ATTENTION, MBERS!

Our list or Contents of Back Issues is now a year out of date, and the Q&A questions are even further behind. Any help will be much appreciated (and amply rewarded with virtual pie).

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The GAPAs

Europe came late to kite-flying, no mention of them is made there until the 16th century CE. Meanwhile, the Chinese had been flying kites since the 4th or 5th century BCE. They served many uses besides entertainment, from military technology to meditation. Some played music. Some featured animals with eyes, paws, or tails that moved. We’ll have just enough time to catch a quick glimpse of these high-flying kites as we sail through the last day of February’s Random thread.

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KaiYves turned 17 yesterday (Friday, February 26), but Robert had an unusually busy day at work and forgot to post an announcement. (Sorry, Kai! We’ll post some special celebratory announcements later as atonement.) Everybody, please catch up with some out-of-this-world pies on the February birthday thread.

It’s today (Thursday, February 25) and is to be commemorated on the February birthday thread in accordance with hallowed MuseBlog tradition.

Further details, please?

(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)
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MuseBlog’s resident veterinarian-in-the-making spent part of her weekend monitoring a sick tiger. You can read details on the Random thread. Photos inside.
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A place to collaborate on constructing imaginary locations as settings for stories, or just for fun.

Continued from v. 2009, in case you want to make sure your joke hasn’t been told before. On the other hand, does it really matter?

By overwhelming demand.

Sorry to have started this thread so late — things have been a little busy here in GAPA-land.

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.

Continued from version 2010.1.

Continued from R & R v. 2010.1

Pax, White; Ducky, Black.

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