How you name a boat is how it will sail...

After some discussions about Livejournal, Facebook, and online communication in the past, present, and future, we decided to start a joint blog about interesting discussions, funny quotes, or whatever else happens in this apartment. Or rather, Hannah and I decided unilaterally. Later today, I'll tell Mitka that, surprise, he has a blog now.

The discussion then turned to what the blog should be named. We had named our apartment the Mirror Maze, and so our first thought was mirrormaze.blogspot.com. Unfortuantely, that one was taken. How about themirrormaze.blogspot.com? That one was also taken, but turned out to be an interesting read. Over the span of six posts and ten days, the author goes from being excited about getting engaged and life in general to wanting to mutilate her roommate, at which point the blog ends. I hope that starting a blog will not have the same effect on us.

We then considered mirrorthoughts.blogspot.com, but that one was taken by a blog with just one short post about blogging. It was fun to read in a serious tone of voice. Hannah then considered synonyms, like mirrormusings.blogspot.com, which led her to come up with mirrormortals.blogspot.com.

I was initially unimpressed and thought it sounded mildly morbid, but then Hannah patiently explained to me that it was a pun on the phrase "mere mortals". I then for some reason started thinking of some combination of mermortals and weremortals, which I guess must be underwater creatures that turn into mortals when the moon is full. Anyways, once I fully processed English, I agreed that it was a cool name for a blog, so here we are.

Oh, and the title of this post is a reference to a Russian cartoon, in which the captain of a sailboat sings about how important a name is to a boat, blissfully unaware that two letters of the name had fallen off, changing the boat's name from "Victory" to "Calamity".