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The Naming of Things
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!
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!
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Maybe...
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Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Glinda the Good.
(ETA: Mine is Synergy. But alas, she is not purple.)
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Someone sent me a whole Youtube channel of the complete Jem and the Holograms last week. :)
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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.
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But I like Glinda the Good.
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"Imperatrix Mundi"?
The Empress for short?
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http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/source/agrippa.asp
It will explain why, at heart, I believe all computers are called Mechanism.
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(Child of the 80s here, yes.)
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Yeah, I've got the Olympic men's figure skating on right now. They all wear sparkly clothes!
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Pauvre Hafs.
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I dub it Robert Pattinson :D
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Merry =^..^=
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(Also, that icon is adorable.)
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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.
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(Anonymous) 2010-02-18 02:25 am (UTC)(link)-SarahT.
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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.