Looking for a Name
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hrj(Just Posty McPosty-Pants today! It may be worth pointing out that I finally feel like my burglary-induced depression has lifted. It may be purely coincidental that this corresponds to having a laptop again. My mental health couldn't be that closely tied to my hardware, could it?)
I'm brainstorming for a name for my new laptop. My computers, networks, and external storage devices all tend to have Welsh names either with a personal place-name connection or with functional meaning. The desktop computer, for example is "Ty Rhos" (several possible meanings as well as a bilingual pun, but also the name theoretically given to my real-world house ... not that I ever use it much in day to day life). The old laptop was "Mynydd Gwyrdd", after my original SCA locative byname (and, via that connection, the name of the now-dissolved partnership under which my parents and I owned my house). The network is "Glasvryn" (after my current SCA locative byname). The external drive I used to use for all my backups, and now need to reorganize is "Y Byd" (the world), because it was designed to hold my whole electronic world. (I used to have another external drive that I used for backups when I didn't need as much space that was formatted into four independent partitions, named after the four branches of the Mabinogi.) The Time Machine drive is, alas, boringly named "Time Machine" but I didn't want to mess with it too much, and besides which I don't interact with it directly so I don't feel a need to personify it.
So now I'm brainstorming for the new laptop's name. I suppose I could be boring and re-name it Mynydd Gwyrdd after the old one. But I don't mind taking the position that it needs its own fresh new name for good luck.
So far I've finished auditing the software on the desktop machine to verify that everything is working properly (at least as far as opening successfully) in Leopard. The only programs that seem to have problems are a couple of games that I'd more or less gotten tired of anyway. I've successfully imported my backed-up mail files to the laptop. I think maybe I'll spend the rest of the evening reconstructing web bookmarks and leave the software testing for another day.
I'm brainstorming for a name for my new laptop. My computers, networks, and external storage devices all tend to have Welsh names either with a personal place-name connection or with functional meaning. The desktop computer, for example is "Ty Rhos" (several possible meanings as well as a bilingual pun, but also the name theoretically given to my real-world house ... not that I ever use it much in day to day life). The old laptop was "Mynydd Gwyrdd", after my original SCA locative byname (and, via that connection, the name of the now-dissolved partnership under which my parents and I owned my house). The network is "Glasvryn" (after my current SCA locative byname). The external drive I used to use for all my backups, and now need to reorganize is "Y Byd" (the world), because it was designed to hold my whole electronic world. (I used to have another external drive that I used for backups when I didn't need as much space that was formatted into four independent partitions, named after the four branches of the Mabinogi.) The Time Machine drive is, alas, boringly named "Time Machine" but I didn't want to mess with it too much, and besides which I don't interact with it directly so I don't feel a need to personify it.
So now I'm brainstorming for the new laptop's name. I suppose I could be boring and re-name it Mynydd Gwyrdd after the old one. But I don't mind taking the position that it needs its own fresh new name for good luck.
So far I've finished auditing the software on the desktop machine to verify that everything is working properly (at least as far as opening successfully) in Leopard. The only programs that seem to have problems are a couple of games that I'd more or less gotten tired of anyway. I've successfully imported my backed-up mail files to the laptop. I think maybe I'll spend the rest of the evening reconstructing web bookmarks and leave the software testing for another day.
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Date: 2008-11-03 06:20 am (UTC)