http://melinthropy.org Melinthropy Sun, 11 May 2008 15:23:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Incase you didn't already know, I am turning the BIG THREE-OH in a few weeks.  But I already got an early birthday present from my husband!  It's the melinthropy.org domain!  Yay! I think all of my friends have already turned 30, so I probably won't get any sympathy.  And anyways, I'm ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/05/11/early-birthday-present/ I ran across this video on youtube.  Check it out!  She types in a melody, and these machines that shoot balls into the air landing on a marimba, along with some wine glasses and percussion, improvise on it! [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9AJVtuCKc] The really cool thing is you can actually go to the website here ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/04/02/absolut-ly-cool/ I just wanted to post this little  video I put together on Easter (filmed on The Flip!) that shows Bunny Cakes being assembled. But of course, I had to be difficult, and embed the video rather than posting a link (since I want to start using more video in ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/03/29/easter-bunny-cake/ So, after I read a review of it by David Pogue, I went out and bought... The Flip!  If you're not familiar with it, it's a video camera that's smaller than my cell phone, runs on AA batteries, and has a little USB plug built right into it.  It was so easy ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/03/21/flipping/ MeasurablyExcellentLiteratureInNewTechnologyHavingRelativelyOddPonderingsYeah! Well, actually, it doesn't really stand for anything.  That was an example of a backronym.  I recommend following that link to the wikipedia article because for some reason, I found the article highly amusing.  http://melinthropy.org/2008/03/17/what-does-melinthropy-stand-for/ I heard about Sheldon Comics from a co-worker, and I've been reading it ever since.  It's got people, animals, and a character who can only say "squee."  What more could you want?  I enjoyed a couple recent ones. First read this one:  Sheldon Jan25  Pretty amusing.  And I figured that was it. But, wait, ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/01/27/sheldon-comics/ A friend of mine posted a link to this geek test.  I thought it was pretty amusing, and I got to take a stroll down memory lane of my geekiness past and present.  My score was 45.16765%, which makes me a Super Geek!  Woohoo!  One of my geekier things that wasn't in ... http://melinthropy.org/2007/12/08/i-am-a-super-geek/ Come on, Nintendo. The Wii has been out for OVER A YEAR. Why is it so hard to find one? Even on-line! Don't you understand I really want to play the new Zelda game over the holiday break? What gives? [Update: I broke down and ordered one! I got ... http://melinthropy.org/2007/11/17/why-no-wii/ Or as some would say, "Fudge Renaissance" :) I've just finished a month-long project to build a website for a colleague of mine and his wife to sell fudge! Check it out here: Renaissance Fudge Company It was pretty time consuming, as I decided to write it in Rails ... http://melinthropy.org/2007/11/17/renaissance-fudge/ I thought this was an interesting article about languages that are nearing extinction. The article talks about how "More than half of the world's 7,000 languages are expected to die out by the end of the century, often taking with them irreplaceable knowledge about the natural world". I thought it ... http://melinthropy.org/2007/10/01/dying-languages/