The Naming of Things

[leahbobet]

Today seems to be a slightly stop-and-start day at Dayjob, so I shall spam LJ a second time.

So due to catching the tail end of a fabulous sale last night while doing some price and build comparisons, I did actually plunk down some cash for a new laptop. Said laptop has the specs I needed for what I am told is a reasonable-to-cheap price, and I will shamelessly admit that a factor in my buying it was that I could customize the case to look like this:


Bahahaha I'm such a girl!

Yes. I am soon to be proud owner of a Sparkly Purple Girly Laptop. I am all aflutter. :D

Thing is, I am not sure quite what to name the new addition to the family.

Naming laptops is tricky. You sort of get what you ask for. While it was done more in recognition than in the spirit of asking for it, I'm sure it didn't do me any favours that my current/soon-to-be-former laptop is named Coyote the Trickster Laptop, and the relative cooperativeness of my desktop probably has to do with it being called Mary Sue the Wonder Desktop. You have to watch yourself with this kind of thing.

So. I figured why not hold a contest?

People of the Internet, what should I name my fabulously girly sparkly purple laptop?

While I reserve the right to use none of these things, award no prize, and just go haring off on my own, the suggester of a winning laptop name will be awarded some actual fabulous prize which I will think up when I'm not at work and append to the end of this entry once I've figured it out. Let's call the closing on this midnight on Friday, just to give it some good and solid time. As always, showing your work is appreciated.

ETA: Okay, methinks the prize will be chocolate of some sort. Maybe something from Polidori.

Go forth, my pretties! Fly!

Comments

[deakat]

Abigail the Amethyst Amazon <3

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

Esmerelda the Mighty Laptop?

Maybe...

[pnew8.livejournal.com]

The Racked and Radiant Retro Rocket Girl.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I love the swirly purple sparkly! I got a laptop in racecar red because it would make me smile every time I see it (and it worked), so I totally grok that.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

'Zactly! Every time I see it I'll go "teehee! I'm a girl!" and be in a better mood. :)

[gwynnega]

May I ask what model it is? I'm in the market for a laptop myself!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Dell Inspiron 15-somethingorother. It's a pretty basic generalist machine.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

No matter how many times I look at that picture and tell myself it's purple, it looks like chocolate to me.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...do not lick my laptop.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

ME TOO.

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

We call ours Lappy 2000, just like Strongbad.

[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

I just got a new laptop and named her Caprica. Because she weighs all of six pounds, and Caprica Six, and nerdery and and and...

[joane.livejournal.com]

The sparkles on top of the purple, combined with the commentary about names giving us what we wish for...

Glinda the Good.

(ETA: Mine is Synergy. But alas, she is not purple.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Synergy! Hee!

Someone sent me a whole Youtube channel of the complete Jem and the Holograms last week. :)

[joane.livejournal.com]

Outrageous! ;)

Sadly, also like Synergy, my laptop has the unfortunate habit of crapping out at the worst possible moments...

I'd love to hear a report on yours when you get it in and running. Rich will need a new box in the next couple of years and he's talking about moving to a laptop.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I will duly report back!

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Sparkle!

But I like Glinda the Good.

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

Well. Purple for Royalty... So...

"Imperatrix Mundi"?

The Empress for short?

[olletho.livejournal.com]

baudecca..... unless you're afraid of her over heating.....

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Viola! She's smarter than everybody else on stage!

[delta-november.livejournal.com]

When you have a spare half-hour, read this:
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/source/agrippa.asp

It will explain why, at heart, I believe all computers are called Mechanism.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak!

(Child of the 80s here, yes.)

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Oh, and we named our desktop Shadowfax. Five years later, still just runs.

[olletho.livejournal.com]

but will let very few people ride it?

[cdodgson.livejournal.com]

Ada Augusta Laptop? Admiral Grace? [For Ada, Countess of Lovelace --- Babbage's programmer --- and Admiral Grace Hopper, respectively; both computing pioneers. Ada was also Lord Byron's daughter, which may add a bit of extra appeal...]

[artemishi.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but the names Celia the Bright and Sparkles pop into my head. Yay for glitzy things! :D

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Brian Boitano.

Yeah, I've got the Olympic men's figure skating on right now. They all wear sparkly clothes!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...heh. Yeah, naming it Hafidha would be asking for it.

Pauvre Hafs.

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

a Sparkly Purple Girly Laptop.

I dub it Robert Pattinson :D

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...heh. I told ginny_t I was going to name it Edward Cullen, and she threatened my life. :D

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

I don't know about a name for it, but I definitely have laptop envy! It's gorgeous. I'm searching for a laptop for myself, but everytime I have the money saved I have to spend it on other, more urgent, bills. >.< ::sigh:: One day my Cthulhu green laptop will come.

Merry =^..^=

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Cthulhu-green laptop. The Laptop That Came to Innsmouth!

(Also, that icon is adorable.)

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, purple laptop. *_* I approve!

Naming laptops is tricky. You sort of get what you ask for.

And this is why my still-fairly-new desktop is named Garcia. *g* I don't have any good naming suggestions, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I named my laptop after a character in my WIP. Seemed only fair since he's trapped inside it for eternity :)

-SarahT.

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Yes, contest closed, but I'm doing this for the fun of it anyway. Whether you consider these good or bad from a totemic naming perspective is kind of a matter of interpretation.

You could call it Barney. This plays on the title of Barney's Version. This is the task based one. You're going to be writing and editing on it as well as your desktop, so the ones here could be Barney's Versions. You've mentioned leanings in CanLit directions and Richler is about as CanLit as you can get. Granted people might look askance the first time you tell them that you've got a purple laptop named Barney, but providing that you don't have it sing children's songs you can safely explain. As a reference to the plot of the novel, or the character, it's maybe not so great though since even though he tells a good story, Barney doesn't always remember the little things.

If I'm going off of the colour, I'd suggest Art. Short for "The artist who used to be formerly known as Prince". Art is a good evocative name for a creative machine right? Prince is both on the list of people strongly associated with the colour purple, and a talented artist. He's also got charisma to match the shiniest of laptops.