Blog Agog

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nosmo:

There’s a certain level of geeky connection that comes from naming a computer or a device. Some people seem to have naming schemes and consistent themes. I generally don’t. So Tumblr, what do you call your machines?

If you insist. Be warned, I don’t follow any kind of naming “scheme”. I started, and then gave up.

• Desktop: Greasy Scotsman - because, when I first got it, there was “… ‘nary an animal alive tha’ can outrun a greasy Scotsman!” I was going through a Simpsons phase at the time.
• Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB Hard-Drive Partition: Flash/Macs Rock - the former is the original name (because I was using it as a flash drive), the latter was its name on Macs, renamed by a friend.
• 2GB Flash Stick: Sticky - see, it’s a memory stick, and… yeah, lame name.
• 80GB External Hard-Drive: Bouncy - see, it has a rubberised cover around it, so it looks kinda bouncy. Also, with this and Sticky, I’d started playing TF2, and so they’re also named after Demoman grenades. I hope.
• 4GB Flash Stick: unnamed, because I don’t actually use it that much.
• Creative Zen 32GB X-Fi: I don’t honestly know. I only use it for music.
• eeePC: SqueeePC - named by a friend. And then it stuck.