MacBook naming competition
Posted At : March 23, 2007 10:35 AM
| Posted By : Mark Drew
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Next week I shall (Hopefully!) be receiving my new black MacBook. This laptop has the following specs as its designed as a presentation laptop rather than a main production machine:
- 2.00GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM-2x512 (not a lot of Parallels actions going on with this machine I guess)
- 120GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm (Fat presentations man, fat presentations)
- Superdrive 6x (To read those CD's and DVD's they give out at conferences)
- No Modem (Who uses a modem nowadays? At a pinch its bluetooth and my mobile!)
- iWorks '06-Z (for the presentations! I have to justify it somehow)
- Apple Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter (Can you believe I had to buy this as an extra??)
Now, here comes the competition, well, kind of. There is no prize really, but I need to name this machine, and I have clean run out of ideas. I had some like "CFE_ONE" or "MR_Presento" but still, nothing good comes to mind.
My MacBook Pro is actually named HAL after the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which as you can tell isn't very imaginative hence my call for ideas!
(This little puppy will be travelling to all the conferences this summer and showing you all the top secret projects so you will get to see the computer name in case you win!)
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Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
Dave...my mind is going...I can feel it...I can feel it.
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Fits with the 2001 theme (it was the ship HAL was in charge of), and also says something about what your presentations let people do.
(Jessie Custer, the Preacher, had a being inside him called Genesis that gave him the voice of God, which meant that he could tell people what to do and they HAD to obey him)
I have an idea: Preacher! After some comic or other. B->
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2. Chaperone. When people ask "Is that your chaperone?" you can say "It's pronounced Chapper 1". Hilarity ensues.
Still, it raised a few laughs when people raised support tickets that they were having problems getting into Lisa! B->
We need more imagination! Given your involvement with Eclipse and the fact that it's a Black MacBook, how about DarkSide?
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Darkside? I dunno, its Eclipse based but you know... Dark to me is legative.
I like Corona but I would be going straight for the JD afterwards, and I guess Corona_with_a_JD_chaser is a bit of a long name?
/me makes frantic notes for Scotch on the Rocks
Jamie.
@Jamie: all my machines are Mac, so its like the regular Clan McCloud so I could also call it Duncan, or... Highlander!
How about BlacMac ? Or... 'Idi' - the 'Last King of Scotland'!
Any black/Eclipse related robots?
How about DarkStar? A wonderful parody of 2001, amongst other Sci-fi films. The scene with the giant tomato alien chasing one of the protagonists around the spacecraft is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
But then, I'm easily pleased! B->
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In case anyone hasn't seen it.
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Here in the U.S., when you want to order a Jack and Coke, you ask for a 'Mr. John Daniels'.
Shiny, black, shows you marvellous things... cant you people come up with something that I can live with showing up on my terminal window???
john_daniels:~ markdrew$
DarkStar:~ markdrew$
Megatron:~ markdrew$
Highlander:~ markdrew$
Firefly:~ markdrew$
Corona_with_a_JD_chaser:~ markdrew$
DarkSide:~ markdrew$
Preacher:~ markdrew$
SOK:~ markdrew$ <-- this is for the Saint of Killers... what a dude!
Discovery:~ markdrew$
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Ties in with the 2001 theme, and brings to mind a black-shiny-thing-that-shows-you-stuff-and-is-clever.
Well done Cliff! You have won!
Now, I have to sit back and wait for the damn laptop!
I'd like to thank the academy, my parents and, of course, the supreme being - that's right, the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
B->
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Can you tell I have an ingrained hatred of Macs? ;)
Mind you - Macs these days are either linux boxes pretending to be Mac or PC's pretending to be Macs - so maybe I should take a look when I win the lottery. :)