Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
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I know! But I don't know what I should call it! Yeah, we may be having a conversation fail. But anyway, yes.
If only I had your phone number! I'd be Byfugging you left right and centre...
(And you do. It's in my profile for the nonce, for f2f reasons.) BUT DON'T EVERYBODY BYFUG ME!
So, I decided I need an actual desktop computer so I can carry my laptop around outside my house sometimes without disrupting my ongoing processes, so I ordered myself a new Mac mini, and while I was spending money on that getting an iPad mini also didn't seem so very extravagant.
What I need help with is my naming scheme. Thus far, my portable Mac devices have been named for Pratchett witches (the laptop is Granny Weatherwax, iPad=Nanny Ogg, iPhone=Magrat) so maybe I should go with Tiffany Aching for the iPad mini? Or maybe that should be the name of the desktop mini, since she's all tied to the Chalk. Either way, I don't know what to name the new thing that isn't named Tiffany. Suggestions?
There's lots of witches if you don't need them all to be competent witches! You could do Annagramma, or Desiderata, or you could do Lily if you can have an evil computing device, just keep it away from mirrors.
My devices are all LotR themed, so there's no shortage of names, but I have been using the scheme so long there are definitely less favored characters in the mix at this point.
Ooh, ooh, or Miss Tick!
I just recycled a name. I feel I'm cheating, but I really like the name, and the last hardware to have it can no longer power up--that makes it fine to roll around another Cassandra, right? RIGHT???
Cheater!
I say if the old Cassandra is no more it's ok to reincarnate her in new hardware.
Eta: Oh, Miss Tick is good!
Etaa: Traditionally, my home network has Pratchett names for Mac stuff and Tolkein names for Windows. I'm pretty much losing my Tolkein population through attrition, though. It's a bummer.
I wouldn't stand a chance if I didn't recycle names from hard drives that have gone the way of the Dodo.
Yeah, but yours are ships, right, ND? There's a pretty limited number of ships' names, and you go through HDs at a right quick clip.
Networks: cities (Lothlorien, Rivendell, etc.) External HDs are towers (Minas Tirith). Portable handheld devices are weapons (Sting, Orcrist). Desktops and laptops are people, although it's all laptops these days. Current ones are Theoden, Gimli, and Galadriel. The last desktop was Rosie, because she stayed home. Oh, and the NAS is Elrond.
Yeah. Mine are all fictional ships and things like jump drives are small craft types and have been branching out into characters because I've got so damned many jump drives.