Friday, 29 March 2024

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Happy Tenth Anniversary, MuseBlog!

I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that MuseBlog has been a hugely positive formative influence on me. But, as I am a scientist at heart, it wasn’t enough for me to just say “I’m sure I’m not alone.” So I asked some of my friends how they felt about having had MuseBlog in their life for ten years.

Also, I (Dodecahedron) baked an honorary cake with Fern. Julia also baked a cake. Then, with the cake-baking fervor going around, Jadestone made some cupcakes. Pics below the fold.

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Yoohoo, Armada!

If you’re out there, we haven’t forgotten that you share a birthday with MuseBlog. Happy 19th, old-timer!


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Happy Ninth Birthday, MuseBlog!

Nine years — how is that possible? We are uncharacteristically speechless. Say something, somebody!


Happy 450th Birthday, William Shakespeare!

Don Pedro. Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you, for out o’ question you were born in a merry hour.

Beatrice. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. — Cousins, God give you joy!

—Much Ado About Nothing

Also (and actually) born today: Optimatum and Rós þyrnir. Joy to all!


Happy 205th Birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!

We owe both of you so much.


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February 2014 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997)
02-02 Groundhog22’s birthday (1989)
02-06 Choklit Orange’s 6K Day
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996)
02-09 Drama Llama’s 5K Day
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-19 Castle’s 6K Day
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993)
02-26 Kai D.’s birthday (2001)
02-26 Zinc’s 6K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 22, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 4 and December 31, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between March 9 and April 5, 1992.


January “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992)
01-03 Armada’s 6K Day
01-03 Lady Bunniful’s birthday
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday (1993)
01-25 Cinnamoon’s 7K Day
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 3 and December 3, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between February 7 and March 8, 1992.

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


Happy Birthday, Jadestone!

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.


December 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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.


November 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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.


Happy Birthday, Randomosity101!

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


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October 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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.


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Happy 7K Day, agrrrfishi!

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


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Happy Birthday, Sweet Melpomene!

A MuseBlogger since March 2006 (when she was known as frankenfaerie), Mel turns 23 years old today.


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September 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

09-01 Ambystoma Maculatum’s birthday (1996)
09-04 Choklit Orange’s birthday (1997)
09-05 Ebeth’s 8K Day
09-13 Catwings’ birthday (2001)
09-15 The Man For Aeiou’s birthday (1995)
09-17 Castle’s birthday (1997)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990)
09-19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day
09-22 q’s birthday (1999)
09-23 Agrrrfishi’s 7K Day
09-24 Zinc’s birthday (1997)
09-25 Ducky’s 6K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 25, 1999. and January 23, 2000.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between July 4 and August 2, 1994.

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

*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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August 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada (1996)
5 August – Adeliae’s 6K Day
7 August – Koppar (1996)
21 August – Alice (1993)
27 August – Errata (1996), Rainbow*Storm (1997)
30 August – Thief of Light (1998)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 3 and July 3, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between September 7 and October 7, 1991.

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

*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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July 2013 “Happy Birthday” Thread

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

July 03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996)
July 05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
July 06 Keiffer’s 6K Day
July 09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
July 10 Koko’s Apprentice’s birthday (1996)
July 13 Rosebud2’s birthday (1998)
July 16 Bibliophile’s birthday (1998)
July 18 Fortune Cell’s birthday (1992)
July 22 IBCF’s birthday (1993)
July 26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994)
July 29 Tesseract’s 7K Day
July 31 Agent Hippie’s birthday (1997)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 24 and November 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between May 3 and June 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between August 7 and September 6, 1991.
And beyond that, we stop counting.

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

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


Happy 5.846K Day, ZNZ!

That’s a roundabout way of saying that ZNZ turned 16 yesterday (Sunday, June 2) when the GAPAs were offline and too distracted to post a notice. The June “Happy Birthday!” Thread is open for congratulations. Meanwhile, ZNZ, our apologies.


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June 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

06-02 ZNZ’s birthday (1997)
06-02 Shadowkat’s 8K Day
06-04 Drama Llama’s birthday (1999)
06-07 POSOC turns 7,000 days old
06-09 Beetles’s birthday (1999)
06-13 muselover’s birthday (1997)
06-15 bookgirl_me turns 7,000 days old
06-20 Piggy turns 7,000 days old
06-29 Selenium the Quafflebird’s birthday (1996)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between September 24 and October 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between December 28, 1996, and January 26, 1997.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between April 2 and May 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between July 7 and August 6, 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.


May 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known MBers’ birthdays and “K Days” this month.

05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday (1995)
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992)
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42’s birthday (1996)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992)
05-23 Sans Orchestre’s 7K Day
05-28 Agent Lightning’s birthday (1998)
05-28 gradster’s 7K Day
05-30 SudoRandom’s 6K Day
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 24 and September 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 27 and December 27, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 3 and April 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between June 7 and July 7, 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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Happy Presumed Birthday, Will Shakespeare!

We don’t know that you were born on April 23, 1564, just that you were baptized a few days later. And there’s no evidence that you ever spelled your name “Shakespeare” when you signed it. But never mind. You gave us lines like these:

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.


April 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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

04-02 THF’s birthday (1995)
04-08 Beavo’s birthday (1995)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994)
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-11 FantasyFan?!?!’s birthday (1993)
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995)
04-18 Maths Lover’s birthday (1996)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994)
04-23 Optimatum’s birthday (1996)
04-23 Ducky’s birthday (1997)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-30 Oxlin’s birthday (1990)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and August 23, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 28 and November 26, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between February 1 and March 2, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between May 8 and June 6, 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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Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein (1879-1955)!

Albert Einstein standing in front of a shelf of books

A century later, we still have trouble wrapping our minds around the bizarre universe you unveiled. But it really does seem to be where we live.


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March 2013 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995)
03-03 Adeliae’s birthday (1997)
03-25 Sans Orchestre’s birthday (1993)
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991)
03-26 Clare de Lune’s birthday (1996)
03-27 ~Cskia’s birthday (1996)
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990)
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 24 and July 24, 1999.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and January 31, 1994.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between April 7 and May 7, 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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Happy 204th birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!

Both were born on February 12, 1809. Both changed the world.


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