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From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: Name that computer! Or help me to, anyway...
> Dan & I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary on June 29, and as a
> present, he got me a new computer all my own, never been used by anyone
> else. (This was a first for me.)
>
> It doesn't have a name yet. Well, it has the name TEMP, which I don't
> want for it to have permanently. I'm having a hard time coming up with
> something right now, and I thought I'd ask for suggestions, open up some
> sort of brainstorming, to help me come up with something.
>
> I'll let everyone know once I've decided what it is I'm naming it.
>
> Just to give folks an idea of what sort of things we've named computers
> around here in the past:
>
> The P-90 got named Fiver, so when I was naming the 386 I got for my own at
> that time, I named it Hazel. (Watership Down.)
>
> Dan's most recent personal computer acquisition is named Ellie, after the
> character in Contact.
>
> SF-nal references are welcome, but not necessary. Good reasons for
> suggested names would be appreciated. (And there's no way I'm naming it
> HAL, so don't even bring that one up. Thank you.)
>
> Julia
>
> who was contemplating "mamasbox" this morning, but rejected it after some
> consideration
>
>
