On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <eva...@dreskin.net> wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: > >> >> On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:08 PM, David Smith wrote: >> >>> Ancona does have the advantage of being easier to spell. I'd be fine with >>> it. >> >> Muscovy only loses out in my mind because its appearance isn't as >> snow-leopardy. > > It's been brought to my attention that Ancona has the disadvantage that its > latter two syllables are a particularly impolite word for female genitalia in > Portuguese. > > Muscovy gains traction!
Even though it drips with ties to RUSSIA?! ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovy_(disambiguation) > > -Evan > >>> On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: >>> >>>> I'm fond of real (but reasonably obscure) duck names, so ancona has my >>>> vote of suggestions so far. >>>> <250px-Ancona_Ducks.jpg> >>>> >>>> I picked up the machine at the Apple Store yesterday evening, btw. The >>>> Apple Genius who helped me became pretty excited when he learned that the >>>> Mini was to be the new Adium build machine – "Cool! I use Adium every >>>> day." :) >>>> >>>> -Evan >>> >>> >> >> > > >