Monday, 15 March 2010

Random Thread: Strange New World, Part 2

  

The rate of posting on this thread has outpaced our ability to provide pictures. A new illustration is on the way. Meanwhile, the Maya-themed March Random Thread provides a clean slate for those whose computers need one.

Continued from Part One.

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Welcome, Neophytes! (March 2010 edition)

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

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Best of the Blog

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.


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The Hare & Hedgepig, Vol. II, No. 5

As a Courtesy to Your Fellow Patrons,
Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required
Continued from Vol. II, No. 4.
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Happy Pi Day!

That’s today, March 14 (3/14 in American date notation) — only two decimal places, but any excuse for a party, we say. How are you celebrating?


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Ships’ Logs: Beyond Museica, Part 14

Part 13 lasted almost a year and a half. It’s good to see things (and waves) rolling again. What will the new thread bring?


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Happy 6K Day, Gimanator!

Gim turns 6,000 days old today (Saturday, March 13).

(The previous announcement of his 6K day on March 6 was mistaken. He was only 5,993 days old on that date. MuseBlog regrets the error.)


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Boston/Cambridge Kokonvention, March 13, 2010

It starts at 11:30 a.m. blog time (12:30 Boston time). No doubt the Kokonventioneers will find a way to report in during the proceedings; in any case, we’re sure to hear from them eventually.
 
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Happy 58th Birthday, Douglas Adams

March 11, 1952, saw the birth of the man who gave the universe, among many other things, the spaceship Heart of Gold, Marvin the Paranoid Android, the Campaign for Real Time, and the Total Perspective Vortex.


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Chess: peary moppins vs. Keiffer

Keiffer has been playing White and peary Black a lot lately, so this game mixes things up a little.
 
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Prussiania RRR

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.)


Chess: bookgirl_me vs. cromwell

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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Last Day of MuNoWriMo!

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?)


Random Thread: Strange New World

Part One.
 
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Happy Birthday, Nighthawk and Cat’s Meow!

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.


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March 2010 “Happy 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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March 2010 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.


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March 2010 Muse Roll Call

Let us know when your issue arrives.

NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.


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Help Needed With Muse Archives!

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).

Thanks!

The GAPAs


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Random Thread: “Interesting Times,” Part 3

  

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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Happy Birthday+1, KaiYves!

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.


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Happy Birthday, Princess_Magnolia!

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?


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Happy 67th Birthday, George Harrison!

(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)
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Luna and the Tiger

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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World-Building

A place to collaborate on constructing imaginary locations as settings for stories, or just for fun.


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Jokes & Riddles, v. 2010

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?


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Psychology

By overwhelming demand.


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