September 7, 2007

So three days ago my computer died a terrible, agonizing death. It was so dead I couldn’t even turn it on. No Mac frowny face, no question mark. Just a little message saying I should reboot. It would have been very, very easy to get caught in an endless loop, especially as I enjoy following orders. I kept on doing as I was told, rebooting time and time again, but eventually I had to leave for a meeting.

So now I have a fancy new computer, and I face once again the dilemma that confronts us all in such times: what do I name my hard drive?

My past several hard drives have been named, in chronological order, Beelzebub, Elizabeth Bennett, and Becky Sharp.

At the moment I’m considering Florence Foster Jenkins but I suspect I’ll be over that by the time I wake up tomorrow.

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24 Responses to So three days ago my computer died a terrible, agonizing death

  1. Mike B. says:

    Ooo, I love naming Macs! I’ve been through “Rhiannon,” “Brigadoon,” “Manderley,” and now “Neptune.” (Not sure about this last one, but it sure beats its Windows partition, “Windows.”)

    You might go contemporary. “Miranda Priestly”? “Amy Sedaris”? “Lamb Chop”?

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  2. gordon Baldwin says:

    Madame Defarge?

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  3. Ross says:

    Dolores Aberstwyth.

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  4. Kenny says:

    Minerva McGonagall. That bitch takes a licking and keeps on ticking. It might bode well for your new hard drive…

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  5. TED says:

    Given your other choices, I’d go with Dorothea Brooke.

    Florence Foster Jenkins does have appeal, but sick hard drives are wont to emit loud and annoying high-pitched whines, and why would you want to encourage that?

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  6. JamesR says:

    Betty Mountbatten-Winsdor??

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  7. Andrew says:

    Sure you could go with Florence Foster Jenkins, but I think Florence Henderson would be a better bet. The additional holding power of Polident should keep your hard drive together for longer.

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  8. Andy says:

    “Hal” is probably inauspicious. I second Florence Henderson.

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  9. Chris says:

    Call it “Bottom Huggler!” hehe yaaaaaaay

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  10. lee says:

    I’d go with the lesser known Cosme McMoon. (Sorry, I don’t know how to put the accent mark on that e).

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  11. Frank in Melbourne says:

    Mine’s Keikobad – took me ages to decide.

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  12. Arun says:

    err.. Lady Diana!

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  13. Arun says:

    err.. Lady Diana!

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  14. michael says:

    Ada Lovelace

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  15. Eric says:

    How about Condi Rice? Granted, you’d probably have more joy out of naming a PC that.

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  16. Jeffrey says:

    Dorothy Parker.

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  17. henry says:

    Gretchen

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  18. proxy says:

    Have you considered “Sue Ellen”?

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  19. David says:

    I won’t be much help here. I don’t name machines. Never named my cars, certainly not my hard drive. Good luck with the new computer.

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  20. Steve says:

    I suggest Didi Conn, the beloved beauty school dropout.

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  21. Jeffrey says:

    Or perhaps Eve Harrington.

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  22. pipe says:

    Dolores Haze

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  23. Rob says:

    Tracy Turnblad

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  24. Leigh says:

    Gilgamesh

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