At 12:07 PM 7/28/01, you wrote:
>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
It doesn't matter what formal name you give it: the only way you're ever
going to refer to it out loud will be via obscenity anyway.
--Ronn! :)
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I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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