The Naming of Things
Feb. 16th, 2010 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leahbobetToday 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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Date: 2010-02-17 09:20 am (UTC)Merry =^..^=
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Date: 2010-02-17 03:48 pm (UTC)(Also, that icon is adorable.)