Comments | fraterrisus: name my laptop

fraterrisus

name my laptop

Mar 15, 2010 13:21

so i stimulated the economy with my tax refund and bought a new laptop. this presents me with two difficult questions, one of which i need your help with:

Poll Name my machineMy naming scheme is scientists and/or people involved in the computing industry. Previously used names have included maxwell (Maxwell's equations), fourier (the Fourier Transform), newton, ( Read more... )

ask dr. lj, geekery

Comments 16

omegabeth March 15 2010, 17:35:50 UTC

Yes, I know it's not a person. But it amused me :-)

cos March 16 2010, 00:00:19 UTC

What's not a person?

omegabeth March 19 2010, 22:57:44 UTC

"one evil" The derby-name manager is "two evils".

cos March 19 2010, 23:02:40 UTC

Oh! I searched for your response and saw "Turing", failed to look for your second response.

redjo March 15 2010, 17:59:22 UTC

You could call it a Turing machine! Awesome! Although it's time for some equal opportunity, don't you think? ;)

chienne_folle March 15 2010, 18:13:53 UTC

Babbage. Not just because of who he was in life but also because of how his name sounds. "Babbage" is a fun word to say. "Babbage. Babbage. Babbage." See? :-)

"Simon" is slightly fun to say, because of the nice sibilant, but not as much fun as "Babbage." "Turing" can confuse non-computer folks. Well, if you know any, it can. :-) And "Pausch" isn't that fun of a word and also has a sad connection -- an interesting person dying in the prime of life.

dilletante March 15 2010, 18:41:25 UTC

randy pausch was one of my cs teachers my last year of college; when i was ridiculously ill in the hospital, he visited me to give me the lectures i'd missed. so his name certainly has positive connotations for me, though i don't know about for other folks.

chienne_folle March 15 2010, 18:58:25 UTC

Randy Pausch was at the University of Virginia during one of Norman's years there, and I also have positive memories of him, though nothing as compelling as yours. To me, that's WHY his name is sad -- he shouldn't be dead!

dilletante March 15 2010, 19:19:28 UTC

oh, cool! it was at uva that i knew him (i think it was his first year there). when was norman there?

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dilletante March 15 2010, 18:38:55 UTC

i think it's awesome just to see randy pausch up there.

keyne March 15 2010, 18:58:16 UTC

Me too.

devoken March 15 2010, 23:33:37 UTC

This might sound a bit weird, but I'd like to know what kind of computer it is. I'm bad at naming things until I know what they are.

fraterrisus March 15 2010, 23:44:36 UTC

It's a Toshiba Satellite L500 series (customized).