It Came! It Came!!

[lydamorehouse]

 GUESS WHAT. GUESS WHAT!

I am writing to you on my new (used) computer!  I have named her after my Signal handle during Metro Surge and I love her! I will hug her and squeeze her and call her mine!

Do other people do this? Shawn and I have a long history of (re)naming our computers whenever we have the opportunity. I've had computers named after fictional characters, computers named for how slow their processing power was (Pooh, the computer of Very Little Brain,) and now one to remind me that revolution is possible. 

Also, the very next thing I did was put some stickers on her. I feel like I don't really HAVE a computer these days unless there's some sticker on it that I picked up at a con or at a coffee shop. Shawn noticed that I managed to put my Friends of the Library sticker on just slightly crooked. Exactly enough degrees off that it will drive her crazy to look at it. Oops. Go me! I mean, of course I did. I have been always been haunted by being unable to color within the lines, in a multitude of definitions of such.

Anyway, I just wanted to share the good news. 

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

Awesome!

[lydamorehouse]

Thank you!

[lcohen]

\o/\o/\o/!

[lydamorehouse]

Squeee!

[mrissa]

Hooray!

I do name my computers/devices, but around a theme. My computers have all been French adjectives, and my ereaders have all been towns in Arizona since the second one (which was Phoenix, having risen from the ashes of my previous Kindle, giving rise to successors Flagstaff and Surprise).

[lydamorehouse]

Nice! I expecially like "Surprise" in part because I hope it was one. One of our iPads was named "Bupkis" because I teased Shawn that year that she wasn't getting anything for Christmas that year.

[carbonel]

Happy new computer!

I am the anti-Lyda when it comes to personalizing stuff. I don't name them. I don't put stickers on them unless I find one perfect one and will allow that, purely for quick identification.

However, I am moved to requote this from Steven Brust: "I have a tendency not to name things. I call this tendency 'George.'"

[lydamorehouse]

Hahaha. (I actually laughed out loud at the quote.) Love it!

And, I sort of feel like you might be more of the norm? I also name my cars and pretty much everything else. But I know a lot more people who don't. I am the same way about bumperstickers, however, as you are about stickers on your computer. I don't see the point of bumperstickers, but I do have one on the car we have now, largely for identification purposes.

[carbonel]

I love having an easily identifiable car (a red Honda Fit). There are others out there (two others owned by fellow spinners, in fact), but not enough to be a problem. It's so nice, after having had a silver car and a black car, both of which blended in indistinguishably with all the others.

[xochiquetzl]

Woohoo!!! Go you with your new computer self!!!

(I also name and also put stickers on my computers.)

[lydamorehouse]

Yay! (and thanks for your contribution towards it!)

[offcntr]

We name computer hard drives, but don't usually refer to the computer by that name. We *do* name our e-readers, for pioneering printers: Aldus (Manutius), Johannes (Gutenberg), William (Caxton), Benjamin (Franklin).

[lydamorehouse]

NICE!

I feel like a doofus because I only know two on your list (the two obvious ones Gutenberg and Franklin.)

[offcntr]

Aldus was an Italian Renaissance printer who invented the octavo-sized book, small enough to fit in your saddlebags--basically, a pocket book. His name was borrowed for the first desktop publishing program, Aldus (later, Adobe) Pagemaker.

Caxton was the first to introduce the printing press to England.

[pameladean]

Hooray, computer! I name all my computers the same thing -- it's been a long time since I had more than one -- and am vaguely surprised still when, rarely, I'm reminded what the name is.

I do put stickers on laptops, though.

P.

[lydamorehouse]

I struggled to name this one. Often I have a fictional character that I feel some affinity with and that's what I name the computer, but this time... It's been such a dry spell for me in many way, that I just came up blank. I probably SHOULD have named this computer "The Tour Guide."

[pameladean]

That's a great name, I think, and an enduring project. But I'd be worried about tempting fate. Then again, SO FAR, the Tour Guide has landed on their feet.

P.

[sabotabby]

My computers have all been called Mac the Knife.

[lydamorehouse]

I responded to the wrong person with this--I wanted you to know that I actually LOLed when I read this, like, literally OUT LOUD.

[sabotabby]

That makes two people who think it's funny.

[elainegrey]

Congrats!

[lydamorehouse]

I actually BARKED out in laughter when I read this! Hilarious!

[elainegrey]

Ah, i think that's at the other comment with Mac the Knife, which, yes!

[lydamorehouse]

Oh, hahahaha. Oops! But, yes! Thank you!

[pegkerr]

There are a lot of great stickers at the Tropes and Trifles bookstore, if you're shopping, I just noticed the other day.

Congrats on the new computer!

[lydamorehouse]

Oh, I just saw this. I should totally go to Tropes and Trifles!