unintentional dorkiness or Much Ado About Nothing

[gfrancie]

Somehow the subject of the names of computers came up. There is a theme that all of the computers at Chez Anglo-America are named after characters from the plays of Shakespeare. Puck, Tybalt (ironically that computer later died) Lysander and so on. I asked Mr. Jenner what he had named his recently acquired laptop (I don't recall whether I had asked him or not before now) and he named it Benedick.
I covered my face out of semi-mock embarrassment when I realized something. I had named my laptop Beatrice. (hand to God I had named it not knowing that his was called Benedick) If you suddenly feel a little sick at such silliness go right ahead. Even I do a little. "Oooh look at them their laptops match."

Comments

[jenni-the-odd.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, that may well be the cutest thing I have ever heard. :D

[unopeneddoor.livejournal.com]

My Linux partition's name is allevil.

I'm the Root of allevil.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

That's adorable. Computer names are kind of fascinating.

My computer is named Sylvester. For no particular reason. My last computer was named Roger 2 (someone else had a computer named Roger on the school's network).

[fairest1ofall.livejournal.com]

Adorable....Mine first one was named Titania, this one Bianca...what is it with shakespeare and computers?

[la-sherazade.livejournal.com]

That's adorable!
No Shakespearean references for me, I'm a francophile all the way--mine is named Chloë!

[betterbombshell.livejournal.com]

Weird. I name just about everything, but I've yet to REALLY name my computer. I love that your computers match though. Dorky + Awesome.

[kirinqueen.livejournal.com]

Ted's naming scheme is less directed than that. Cute computers are female--the Macs are Roisin and Arya. The teeny Fujitsu laptop I use is Niamh. Naturally there is an Irish bias there, too. Ted's iPod is Dubh. Two of my computers are named after Battlestar Galactica characters. I'm that kind of nerd.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

We aim to disgust.
So do you ever name things after French figures from history or literature? Any called Collette?