And into the 20th century

[chrestomanci]

So this weekend I bought an iPhone. Say what you will about Apple's monopolistic qualities or the overhype that the iPhone has gotten. I love this thing. I mean seriously. Who needs a man when you've got the internet at your fingertips, anywhere, anytime? 3G, baby, and 16 gigs. That's just plain sexy.

*tears up* It's...so...beautiful...

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[egoism]

My two desktops are Presbyter and Confessor. Laptop: Hierophant. Two external drives, Ark and Cantor. Keychain USB drive: Altar Boy.

My two iPods are named not by the same scheme. The shuffle's Tiny Dancer; the 160GB video is Cesario.

[chrestomanci]

Interesting theme you've got going there. How'd that get started?

[egoism]

Before I got the laptop, the two desktops were "Old and Busted" and "New Hotness". When I got the laptop, I was reading Halo: First Strike, which has a ship called the Unyielding Hierophant. Also there was some Lovecraft to it. Since I like things to match, and the desktops' names weren't all that great to begin with, they got renamed.

Presbyter the computer is old, so he gets the name derived from elder. Confessor was my media machine... which includes... certain explicit material, making it uniquely qualified to hear confessions.

Ark holds valuable information and was carried between my home and office. I ran out of space on Ark, so I moved all music to a new drive, Cantor.

Altar Boy, pretty explanatory.

Tiny Dancer is tiny.

Cesario has engraved on its back: "If music be the food of love, play on." I guess it should be named Orsino, but I just don't like that as much.

Oh, and my Jeep Cherokee is named Suyeta, which is "chosen one" in Cherokee.

[egoism]

Oh, well, I guess it really started by my being raised Catholic.

[unkaaron]

I must be the odd one. I don't name things.

Gratz on the iPhone. I'd love one, but AT&T hates me.

[chrestomanci]

I keep trying to name my car, but it never sticks. Strange thing about that though is that every name I've come up with for my cars have been female. Apparently it's only the things that can be plugged in that I consider male. (Oh, and teddy bears, unless they've got bows on them.)

[cowboyzydeco]

Up until two computers ago, I named every desktop PC I owned "Nowhere Man." It seemed, like, you know, profound or some junk. Fer sure. I honestly can't remember the reasoning behind naming my computer after a mediocre Beatles tune. Heck, I just had to look it up to confirm that it WAS the Beatles, and not the Monkees (always get those confused). So clearly the song has no particular significance to me anymore.

My iPhone is named "Nathan's iPhone." I'm not that imaginative, I guess. And I don't have any networked computers, or any other particular reason to need a specific electronic name on my hardware, so unique names aren't all that important to me. The only time it bit me in the ass was when I was first setting up my new iPhone. It got borked, and I had to restore from a backup- not helpful when both phones are named "Nathan's iPhone." I really should rename the old one "Nathan's Old iPhone."

[chrestomanci]

Or you could name one "Nathan's iPhone" and the other "Nathan's iPod Touch" :)

I got the Beatles and the Monkees confused too. I suppose that's kind of a nod to the awesomeness of the Monkees -- at least if they were trying to sound like a sort of parody band.