Weekend plans / misc

[mattp]

Friday: head to Manchester afternoon sometime. Meet up with softfruit to see The Manchester Passion, an event I saw whilst casually reading manchester.
Evening - t.b.c.. Probably involving dinner of somekind with trebor.

Saturday/Sunday: daytime is another Bi Actvist's weekend. Saturday evening will most likely be a soiree chez angeoverhere.

Sunday evening: undecided.

Monday: Morning undecided. Late afternoon: pub with random MancGoffs. Evening: undecided.

Tuesday: Morning undecided, though my train leaves at mid-day.

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Random question directed at the geeks, but with possible amusement factor for all: What naming schemes have you encountered for computers?
At uni there were a couple of clusters I used with regularity. One room's machines were named after Carry On films - "Upthekybher" being one. At first that particular one confused me because when I first used that machine I'd neither heard of that film, nor ascertained the naming scheme. (I thought maybe it could be a double entendre, but then thought it not likely in a Uni environment). Another cluster had celestial bodies (planets, stars, etc.). At home I use album names from a particular artist, though the small scope doesn't limit me as I have only a handful of machines.

My fridge smells of dill.

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[shinydan.livejournal.com]

I've used PCs called Queeg, Vir and Seymour. Make of those what you will...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Machines at my uni were all named after muppets :)

[paul.livejournal.com]

Mine are currently Irish girls names, for some reason. This machine is Aislinn, my laptop is Sorcha and I have an old Desktop called Niahm.

At my parents house my father uses character names from the Simpsons. At the least count there was Bart, Homer, Moe and Apu I believe.

Naming computers

[hippo22.livejournal.com]

Where to start : Angels of light and darkness . Norse gods , characters from the odyssey, terms from geometry and algebra, British prime ministers (booting Thatcher was always interesting ;-) )

An interesting excercise to to come up with an alphabetical list in the given category with distinct first letter.

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

At UKC uni there was a "rocks room" where all the Linux boxes were named after boxes. Even after the names were removed the room was called the same, til all the Linux boxes decamped to another room, which became the "socks room". (ankle, knee high, trainer, running, wooly, stripey, etc...)

Friends name theirs after LotR characters, breeds of owl, and celestial bodies. I name mine after feminist theologians (my current is called Fiorenza), but I don't know if they really count cos I only own one at a time.

[ludy]

at bradford uni they were all space shuttles

[deborah_c]

I'm kind of intrigued by the "Bi Activist's weekend". I'm not sure what Bi Activists do; I assume it's something related to the Gay Conspiracy to Take Over The World :-)

My machines are all named after bits of Discworld geography. A colleague's home net had planet names, so obviously the gateway between them was A-Tuin... Our work net for some reason uses shades of blue for most of the machines.

bi activists

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

We encourage a generalised air of indecision that in the long run may bring capitalism to its knees.

Re: bi activists

[lord-semjaza.livejournal.com]

And what happens while it's down there had best be left to the imagination, I feel.

(Though taking over the world's always good too.)

[barakta]

Ours are a bit random. Kim calls all her desktop machines penelope. My machines are either named after the machine "Dell" "latitude" latlx" or after lizards. Chameleon is now at my mum's and my current desktop is iguana.

englishdude used to name his after sandman characters, which was amusing cos he couldn't reliably remember how to spell most of them. He soon learned the difference between destiny and density!

[syllopsium.livejournal.com]

At work - I started on Norse Gods, but the agreed standard is sadly county cricketers.

Home - members of parliament. These include gladstone (main workstation), benn (legacy DOS/OS/2 box), mellor (entertainment system/DVD scaler) and portillo (firewall). In the past Heath and Pitt have also existed.

[kewi.livejournal.com]

Hey you :]
I really suck with LJ and whatnot lately. I was actually in Manchester last weekend, it's fabby there :)
Going to Give It A Name there in a few weeks too. Hurrah!

Anyway. Justkeri(at)hotmail(dot)com, add me if you wish and we can actually get talking again :p xx

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I used to avoid themes for my own hosts, but the past couple years I've been naming PC-compatibles after vaguely sinister/foreboding places in various fantasy worlds — fairhaven, faiella-bionin, ghostgate… oh, and planetarium (which as a common noun isn't a useful reference without its motd).

Work, having been around for a while, has a strange mix of stuff — a bunch of workstationy things named after cities on the Silk Road, some assorted words whose reasons I'm unclear on, and then a bunch of boring descriptive ones like mail1, mail2, and mail3.

Said work used to have some Suns named for words starting with "sol" — solidarity and solace survive in the written record, if not as hosts. So, when I inherited some old unwanted Suns (not those) when we moved over the new year, I made them solitude, solemnity, and solenoid. (None of which will boot at the moment, and I've misplaced the serial thing I'd need to find out why.)

[kibe.livejournal.com]

my computer

[kibe.livejournal.com]

would help if i finished. ;)

my new computer is Gabriel, Adam's is Zeus. My old computer is Boris (because i like the name).

My old school used to have Lord of the Rings names (Aragorn, Bilbo, Gandalf) - back in 1991 and everything. ;)