Month: August 2006

Smooth or Chunky?

Robert writes:

I once read that men tend to like smooth ice cream, while women prefer ice cream with lumps and such in it (marshmallows, chocolate chunks, veins of caramel, etc.). That’s definitely true of me: except for mint chocolate chip (with very small chips), I like my ice cream smooth. How about you? The blog must know!

Feel free to broaden the discussion to peanut butter, if you like.

5,000 Days Old?

Any excuse for a party, we say. Five thousand days is about 13 years, 8 months, and 8 days (varying slightly depending on the month and year). Many of you have already reached the big five-oh-oh-oh. For the rest, you can easily use a spreadsheet to figure out when the big day falls.

You turn 5,000 later this month if you were born between December 14 and December 22, 1992. It happens in September if you were born between December 23, 1992, and January 21, 1993. We’ll try to keep you posted about future quintimillennial dates, if we remember.

You Know You’re Addicted To X When You Y

Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line. MuseBlog addicts, however, can still post about that obsession here.

Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line. MuseBlog addicts, however, can still post about that obsession here.

Kokopollihedron

More inspired weirdness from Rebecca Lasley, who writes:

I was just about to shut down at the end of a drowsy, barely functioning day, when I decided to check out how this nifty little polyhedra application I picked up the other day would export to CorelDraw.

Lo, and behold, it did what I hoped it would do and a couple steps better. Just for fun, I added a transparency to the fill. Oooo, cool.

And then I thought
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what if I put Kokopelli inside?

World Religions, Part 2: Hinduism

This is an experiment: a thread with required reading, Huston Smith’s book The World’s Religions (known in earlier editions as The Religions of Man). More information below the fold.

We’ll discuss religions in rough order of age.

Now discussing: Hinduism.

[This thread continues on Part 3: Buddhism].

This is an experiment: a thread with required reading, Huston Smith’s book The World’s Religions (known in earlier editions as The Religions of Man). If you really can’t find Smith’s book, we’ll accept The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Religions as a substitute. It’s not very good, though.

For the background to this thread, see https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=349.

Now discussing: Hinduism.

Muse Movie, Part 3: Expert Advice

Samantha Sordyl’s friend Pat Dahl has agreed to come on board the blog and talk about your ideas for a Muse movie. He works in Hollywood (in TV, but knows a lot about movies) and has read Attack of the Smart Pies.

(For those who came in late, planning and lobbying for a Muse movie is Cedar’s big project. You can read more about it at Muse Movie? and Muse Movie? Part 2.)

Ship’s Ships’ Log Logs: Beyond Museica, Part 1

After the Great Pie War came the rebuilding of Civilization. Now, while landlubbers compose the Chronicles of Museica, a few hardy sea dogs are preparing to sail for unknown territory. They were just getting under way at the end of the Rebuilding Civilization thread. This is their story, if they care or dare to tell it.

Thread closed to posting; continued on Part 2.

August “Happy Birthday” Thread

A place to post all celebratory greetings. This month’s known Muser birthdays:

08-01 MuseBlog’s birthday (2005) = GAPA Appreciation Day
08-04 Capricious the great and terrible’s birthday (colors: green and blue; rainbow)
08-13 Sora’s birthday (1992 – all shades of blue)
08-14 bulletproofmarshmallow’s birthday (1993)
08-15 Morbid’s birthday (1991)
08-16 The Bev’s birthday (1992 – green or blue)
08-26 Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas’ birthday (1994 – purple pizzazz)
08-27 Elentari’s birthday
08-28 Dragonsrock828’s birthday (1993)
08-31 Mer’s (=WoojaKitty’s =Quintessentia’s) birthday (1992 – golden)

(Some of these folks haven’t been around for a while, but maybe they’ll stop by to receive their birthday pies.)