MOTM

> Must be out of dwarf names :)

No, despite playing a fair amount of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in high
school, I never much got into the Middle Earth thing. I didn't even finish
the trilogy--lost interest partway through the second book.

My computers are named after people, and the names are arrived at through
some process of free association. In chronological order:

Beige G3: Samantha, after Samantha Fox. She does music, she does video,
she's rather well endowed.

PowerBook G3: Olivia, after Olivia DeBerardinis, the pinup artist. Sultry
and curvy.

Yikes G4: Charles, after Charles Babbage, inventor of the Difference Engine,
the precursor to the modern computer. The *difference* between a G3 and a G4
is the Velocity *Engine*, y'see.

Titanium G4: Audrey, after Audrey Hepburne. Stately, elegant, and often
photographed in black & white.

Dual-processor 1GHz G4: Nash, after Graham Nash, the mathematician. I'd seen
"A Beautiful Mind" a few days before the machine arrived.


Some people have asked why I name the computers. Mostly it's for convenience
and amusement. It's more cumbersome to say "I'm having networking problems
while moving files between the beige G3 and the 400MHz G4" than it is to say
"Samantha and Charles aren't speaking."
 
And yet the MOTM has no name. Neither do the other synthesizers. My Waldorf
Microwave was occasionally referred to as Wally, but that always seemed
somewhat unfortunate.

--Adam

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