Naming of names
I am avoiding an email in my inbox because I fear its hypothetical contents, so, computer names!
I need to name my new laptop. I already have a naming scheme for my computers; they get named for female medieval saints. This is not because I am Catholic or feel any strong sympathy with Catholicism, but because for about a thousand years this is how my culture recognized its female folk-heroes, and I know very little about most of them.
Further criteria:
1. Saint must be awesome. My definition of 'awesome' is expansive, but probably not patron saint of remonstrating lewd and promiscuous women. (If there is such a saint.)
2. Saint's must be at least obscure enough that there isn't any particular danger of encountering another computer on the network with the same name. For example, "Catherine" is no good, and computer names can't take spaces, so I can't use Catherine of Bologna to disambiguate. On the other hand, lotsa medieval saints' names take various spellings, which can be used.
3. Saint's name must be pronounceable by me. This is just a thing I have.
The one I want at the moment is St. Attracta. Except I can't take seriously anyone named "Attracta," but luckily, she also goes by Araght or Adracht. Unluckily, I have no idea how this is pronounced. She's supposed to have slain a dragon, though, which, c'mon! Totally awesome. Thoughts?
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I need to name my new laptop. I already have a naming scheme for my computers; they get named for female medieval saints. This is not because I am Catholic or feel any strong sympathy with Catholicism, but because for about a thousand years this is how my culture recognized its female folk-heroes, and I know very little about most of them.
Further criteria:
1. Saint must be awesome. My definition of 'awesome' is expansive, but probably not patron saint of remonstrating lewd and promiscuous women. (If there is such a saint.)
2. Saint's must be at least obscure enough that there isn't any particular danger of encountering another computer on the network with the same name. For example, "Catherine" is no good, and computer names can't take spaces, so I can't use Catherine of Bologna to disambiguate. On the other hand, lotsa medieval saints' names take various spellings, which can be used.
3. Saint's name must be pronounceable by me. This is just a thing I have.
The one I want at the moment is St. Attracta. Except I can't take seriously anyone named "Attracta," but luckily, she also goes by Araght or Adracht. Unluckily, I have no idea how this is pronounced. She's supposed to have slain a dragon, though, which, c'mon! Totally awesome. Thoughts?
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