Melinthropy
mel·in·thro·py /mel’ ən throh pee/
–noun.
Melinda’s cool new blog.
Yes, that’s right, it doesn’t even get any hits on Google! That means no one ever thought of it before! John said there was a reason no one ever thought of it before… Clearly he means because I am an innovator. Honestly, people should hire me to come up with names for their companies.
So I always thought that my having a blog would be kind of a dumb idea, because who would read it? And also I’m not really into journaling about stuff I’m doing. But I was inspired by The Mendicant Bug that you can just post cool stuff that you find interesting. Because right now I resort to emailing it to people, and I think it causes them to start deleting my emails by rote. You know who you are ::cough:: Josh ::cough::. Or at least I imagine people are deleting my emails because I’m paranoid like that.
Also, I thought this would be a cool way to familiarize myself a little with the latest web technologies that all the cool kidz are doing these days. This blog is proudly powered by WordPress and hosted on the Weathers and Humphries SliceHost Slice. I thought I would start out easy and pick a pre-made WordPress theme, but I looked at (literally) about a hundred of them before deciding to go with the default theme and just mess with the colors a little. So I’ll probably play with it some more at some point. But for now I guess it will do.
And the underlying reason for wanting a blog — it gives me more of an excuse to play with my new MacBook 
I heart my MacBook.
So, Hello World, and I hope you enjoy Melinthropy! (And if you don’t, I don’t care. Ha. Okay, yes I do. Just don’t tell me.)
Tags: google, hello_world, macbook, weblog
September 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
F1rst comment!!!!111 [http://xkcd.com/269/]
September 9th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Good start, Melinda! I’ll be checking in often!
September 10th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I do not delete your e-mails - I promise.
In fact, I don’t ever delete any e-mails. I can show you if you’d like - I have practically every e-mail I’ve received since Summer of 1999. The reason I say practically is because then and now, I’ve had my hotmail account trashed (it turns out that if you don’t login at least once every three months, they discard the account and throw away your e-mail).
BTW, you should update your wordpress theme so that the link that reads ‘Read the rest of the entry’ instead says ‘Read the rest of the entropy’ - goes with the blog name pretty well.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Naturally, your belabored husband is last to post a comment…
Although in my defense, I have been very busy and I still was your first reader and have actually been reading the posts.