So for the past week, I have been sans computer chez Diana. Talk about a pain. I’m still feeling it, since the change in technology in the past few years means that I am still unable to get my old files off my back up drives or my darling old broken Pantalaimon. They apparently use some totally new kind of firewire cable these days. And I can’t find my old MS Office disks, so I’m on Open Office for word processing now. But I do miss my excel.
(Note to self: never again name a computer after a daimon. It’s too creepy when it breaks.)
We had a good run of it, Pan and I. I’m kinda shocked, though, at how far things have come in the past 3.5 years. My new computer, which is not the fastest or the largest Mac makes by far, has about three times as much memory as my old computer and my old back up drive put together. And it’s way faster. And the keyboard/trackpad are all weird.
Anyway here it is:
Rio and my new MacBook
Sailor Boy and I spent a while brainstorming names for this beauty. Which is how we’ve arrived at the following contest:
Guess the Name of My New Computer!
Winner gets a signed copy of RAMPANT.
(If more than one person guesses the name of my new computer, the first correct guesser wins.)
Have at it!
Updated for HINTS: My last three computers were named: Arthur, Lancelot the Laptop, and Pantalaimon. As I said above, I will never name another computer after a daimon, so Kaisa is right out. I have also not, just for the sake of narrowing things down, named the computer any of the following: McNulty, Omar, Xander Harris, Prince Zuko, Logan Echolls, Tally Youngblood, Aslan, or Sokka.
Updated again: Though I should have named it Aang. Oh well. Maybe I’ll save that for my MacBookAir. Hee hee, I crack myself up. (Just kidding, I’m not getting a MacBookAir. Way too big for my netbook needs.)
UPDATED AGAIN… THIS TIME WITH A WINNER!
The name of my computer is…. BUCEPHALUS
(Lisa S., contact me with your address to receive your prize!)
October 14th, 2009 at 8:19 am
My guess is Giovanni or Astrid. You didn’t clue in if it has a male personality or a female.
So you definitely think Apples are better for writing than the other?
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October 14th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Ooh great contest. I’m guessing… Bonegrinder!
Love the MacBook!
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October 14th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Is it…Artemis?
-Aimee
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October 14th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I think Apples are better in general, Elie, and I’ve been using them throughout college (on the small newspaper I worked for) and when I worked for the independent weekly. It made sense to have an apple for personal use as well, and I’ve been a Mac girl on my personal computer since 2003. I had an ibook G3, an ibook G4, and now a MacBookPro.
Most small publishing and design operations (like local newspapers) use apples because the graphics/layout programs are great.
The OS and interface is what I’m used to, and it’s how all my backup files are organized as well. I’m a huge fan of iPhoto and the other packaged products in OSX. My Office (once I find it) is office for Mac. All my other programs are for-Mac programs as well.
Additionally (and this could be why almost every writer I know uses a Mac), Scrivener ONLY works for mac, and it’s my favorite word processing program.
I can’t imagine switching.
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October 14th, 2009 at 8:58 am
I’m guessing Gilbert.
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I guess Merlin the Mac-nificent.
Also, just gotta tell you that I loved Rampant. It is so hard to find unique storylines and I loved the evil unicorns! Brilliant darling, simply brilliant!
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Edward?????
I am seriously considering making the jump from my Dell to a Mac. I drool every time I walk into Best Buy.
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I’ll go for Lloyd but I’m really hoping it’s bonegrinder!
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Sarah: Thank you so much!
Nessa: Snerk.
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I’m guessing Guinevere or some variation on that name since the first two were from King Arthur.
What happens if nobody guesses the name?
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October 14th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Then I will keep my Rampant all to myself mwahahahahahha!
Um, I dunno. I’m pretty sure someone will guess. I’ll keep giving hints ’til someone does.
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October 14th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I wanted to guess Merlin, but someone beat me to it . . .
So as a second guess I will say . . . Alexander (for the MacBook, it is great!)
And can I express how deeply and desperately I envy you the beautiful shiny MacbBook pro? I LOOOOOOVE my eMac, we have been together for . . . 5? 6? 7? years now, and she is wonderful. But she is NOT portable. My next Mac will be a MacBook pro . . . but I might have to sell a kidney or something to finance it! LOL!
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October 14th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Edmund?
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Hehehe.. GrannySmith?
(sorry, I HAD to toss in an apple-related guess!)
Why do we name our computers? What is that weird need that we all have to do this? My lap top (not a Mac) is named Molly. But then I think, Good heavens! Why did I name this? What is wrong with me??
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I name everything. my car is named Nikita. SB and I are still thinking of the right name for our house. Names are AWESOME.
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Jace
Clary
Simon
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Also, I’m completely in love with Logan Echolls! Perhaps I will name my computer that!
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I name everything too. My little black car is named Lacrimosa, after a character in Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum. (Also a sort of famous song by a sort of famous composer but that wasn’t the inspiration.)
But strangely, I just call my computer “Mac”. Or, you know, wonderful beautiful one. Or some variation thereof.
I also hug my computer . . . is that weird?
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I’d name a new laptop Poe, just to get a warm, fuzzy feeling every time I looked at it.
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Oh, what an awesome new computer, Diana! Well, it *is* silver, so in keeping with the theme, I’ll say: Excalibur. Or, maybe – Macalibur?
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Awww, Mississippi Mama, taht’s so sweet. Woudln’t you worry that a laptop named Poe would be surly and hide things from you?
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Given your recent Dog Naming – “TempComputer 3″
Or “Patrick”
I do not think you named it Patrick, but you probably should have. I am a reliable machine.
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Macalibur! I love it. Mary, you should work for Mac. They should name and OS that. IF they do and don’t compensate you, you should charge.
Y’all are on the wrong track with Arthur-related titles. I already gave TWO computers Arthur-related stories. Then I moved on to His Dark Materials.
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I name everything too! I have a recliner named McDuff and my car is named Knightley because he’s perfect and black (not that Emma’s Mr. Knightley is black but because of night, anyway, whatever).
All the names I thought of were taken so I thought of some more. I’m going to say, Bucephalus or Clothilde. I see those being good computer names.
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October 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
and we have a winner!
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October 14th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Lyra
Will
Lord Asriel or Asriel
Metatron
Iorek Byrnison
Serafina
There are lots of good names in the His Dark Materials books… did you pick your new name from them like the last one?
Also, it would be cool to name the computer The Authority…
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October 14th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Sara, Iorek was my second choice.
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October 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Even though it’s too late, I probably would have said Bonegrinder. Maybe Bugaboo.
My own laptop is Riddler. When I was setting it up, and I came to the window that asked for “Organization,” I typed in “United Network for the Command of Law Enforcement.”
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October 14th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Diana, I definitely got a good chuckle from the idea of naming a MacBookAir Aang =)
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March 17th, 2010 at 1:03 am
Specialists claim that personal loans aid people to live the way they want, just because they are able to feel free to buy needed goods. Moreover, banks give car loan for all people.
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