So last night, after the losing nationals game that boyfriend and I spent three innings waiting in line for food and beer at, where they ended up losing 7-0 v. the Cubbies, we came home and he ordered me a mac. A prety white macbook to be specific.
I have a habit…I name my electronics. From day one – my first computer that was mine I have named them. I can’t give an exact reason why other than well…it was neat.
* Computer one – received December 2000 as a Christmas/Graduation gift from my mum. I named the HP tower…Gus. Gus died somewhere right before graduation in 2006 when he needed to be reformatted thanks to a virus per Resnet’s request. Although, Gus was officially recycled last weekend downtown.
* So, sometime middle of senior year, my friend/ex E sold me his laptop which I named Frank. Unfortunately, in a drunken bout after a baseball game and birthday party and before a night out, I wanted to listen to Frank in my room and he was in our living room so me clad in only towel, brought frank back down the hall. Except holding a towel and being half in the bag while balancing a laptop waitress style didn’t work too well and Frank tumbled to the ground. After that, he stopped holding a charge. I never figured out what happened to him but my old roommate tried to fix him by doing open-laptop surgery…it didn’t work out and well…Frank never got put back together. He too was recycled last weekend.
* Enter…Hank. Hank was the compaq computer I bought on my first credit card thanks to best buy. Hank unfortunately had a corrupt hard drive and after two visits to the geek squad, they finally saw what i told them as true, and gave me a full refund and then I bought my current laptop.
* Stan the HP Pavilion that I adore and have been through hell and back with.
But for the past few months since he got his own Mac beauty, boyfriend has told me he’d buy me a mac. Never a man to break his promise, he finally did. And my mac? My beautiful macbook, will be in my hands sometime within the next two weeks. This time – It’s getting shipped to my office.
So what i’m asking of you dear freaders, is a name. I’m going to first take suggestions, with the help of boyfriend, I will narrow it down to three names and will then have a poll. The three names, will be picked by the day it ships out – which will be between Monday and Wednesday (for timing, lets assume Wednesday.) and then the poll will close on the day it arrives with the winner being announced the day after.
To be noted:
I have consistently named my apple products in female names – granted I’ve only had two – a pink ipod mini which was named Pinky (I lacked creativity back then…) but unfortunately, senior year of college en route to a yoga class after lunch with a friend, I neglected to close my cherry coke bottle tightly and threw it into my bag with Pinky. Cherry coke began leaking – i noticed as I saw it dripping out of my bag, and unfortunately….Pinky got into a fight with the cherry coke and lost.
A few months later, Pinky was replaced with my slick new Ipod Nano which I named…Bertha. Bertha, is still going strong.
Rules:
* I don’t repeat names – so Gus, Frank, Hank, Stan, Pinky and Bertha are not an option.
* Typically, my Mac products have been female names. I’d kind of like to keep it that way.
* You can make more than one suggestion. Suggestions close at 11:30pm Eastern Time Wednesday April 30. On Thursday May 1 – sometime before 6pm Eastern Time, polls will open. Polls will close, Saturday May 3rd at 9am Eastern Time and the person who picks the winning name will be sent a $15 Itunes gift certificate.
So enter now, and enter often!
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