At 03:51 PM 7/28/01, you wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>Well, it's going to be visible to all the other computers on the household
>network, and so anyone using any other computer here is going to want to
>know which machine has the particular files I share, and it would just
>look nicer if it were named something other than TEMP.
>
> Julia
Sort of the same reason we give cats names: so the vet has something to
put on the card to know which of your cats is due for shots this month, not
because the cats themselves would ever answer to them.
--Ronn! :)
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