VisorCentral.com - Naming your Visor

Pages (3): [1] 2 3 »
Show 20 posts from this thread on one page

VisorCentral.com (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/index.php)
- Visor & Deluxe (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1)
-- Naming your Visor (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/showthread.php?threadid=1519)

Posted by seansean on 07-29-2000 02:33 PM:

Hi all,

just started this thread to see if anyone named their Visor. I decided to start naming my computer(s) after reading Chaos Manor in BYTE (r.i.p.) magazine. I named my IVDx "Glasgow" for no apparent reason
Anyone else have a name for their Visor?

------------------
seanseanadams
your friend and mine

Posted by matty on 07-29-2000 04:51 PM:

well...

my desktop is named Beepy,

and my OVDx is named li'l beepy,

(i think for obvious reasons)

------------------
matty.
i like bananas.

Posted by b1lanceman on 07-29-2000 05:08 PM:

Mines named Rachel

Posted by narnia_77 on 07-30-2000 07:03 AM:

The only name my Visor has, it the user name... Is this one of those "guy" things?

Posted by thorin on 07-30-2000 09:49 AM:

Big Poppa; tha heart stoppa.

That or 'Cool Moe D.'

sorry. it's late and I'm bored.

------------------
-thorin

-Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" while you find a big rock.

Posted by glenjay on 07-31-2000 05:16 AM:

The name of my laptop is Synthia and the name of my Visor is Pam (slightly different that Palm).

Posted by Daryl on 07-31-2000 02:26 PM:

I used to name my hardware, but gave it up in the late '80s. The personification just increased my separation anxiety whenever I would upgrade.

Posted by Toby on 07-31-2000 02:45 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by narnia_77:
The only name my Visor has, it the user name... Is this one of those "guy" things?

Maybe not. I'm a "guy", and mine just uses my name. I guess that would make it my "Mini Me", but I still don't call it that.

quote:
Originally posted by Daryl:
I used to name my hardware, but gave it up in the late '80s. The personification just increased my separation anxiety whenever I would upgrade.

heh...that's sound like a good reason.

------------------
"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open." - Frank Zappa

Posted by Winchell on 07-31-2000 03:11 PM:

My Visor is named "the Third Lobe of my Brain"

Posted by matty on 07-31-2000 04:12 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by narnia_77:
The only name my Visor has, it the user name... Is this one of those "guy" things?

don't you think these machines that take up so much of our time and energy and help us oh so much deserve names?

so, since i had already named the computer a basic name that describes him pretty well: beepy), my girl and i would refer to him as such. when my visor came along, i realized that as a constant companion, he certainly deserved a name, and i feel a little weird talking about it to my girl (as i do maybe a little too often...) as a machine, so his desktop icon was named li'l beepy, and the rest is history.

and li'l beepy is so damn temperamental... he deserves a name.

------------------
matty.
i like bananas.

Posted by hkyslif on 08-01-2000 12:10 AM:

Toby,
How about "mini-v"?

(BTW Geaux Saints!!)

------------------
Built for comfort, not for speed...

Posted by fixitgal on 08-01-2000 05:37 AM:

Narnia_77,

I'm with you...this is definitely a "guy thing".

------------------
Queen of Parts

Posted by perze_a on 08-01-2000 01:42 PM:

I think I'll go with daryl on this and can't really say if this is a guy thing or not. I guess my visor can be identified as "The Visor With No Name". Hmmm did I just type that?

-------------------------------------------
I had a dog once and I called him "doggie".

Posted by b1lanceman on 08-01-2000 01:54 PM:

guys, your visor is the equivalent of a girlfriend almost, they deserve names (i still havent told my gf i named her, shed probably freak out when i talk about Rachel in glowing terms) but nevertheless, you gotta name it

Posted by LuckyChuck on 08-02-2000 03:36 AM:

I actually thought of naming my PDA Daryl. (no offense to any Daryl's out there!)

This is my PDA Daryl and this is my other PDA Daryl.....(ok, so maybe I'm the only one who thinks this is funny, but it is!!!)

[This message has been edited by LuckyChuck (edited 08-01-2000).]

Posted by mc9 on 08-02-2000 04:01 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by b1lanceman:
guys, your visor is the equivalent of a girlfriend almost, they deserve names (i still havent told my gf i named her, shed probably freak out when i talk about Rachel in glowing terms) but nevertheless, you gotta name it

Be careful ... girls can be _very_ jealous - even if it is only a piece of plastic and electronic parts. But I guess giving your Visor a girl's name would make it even worse.
Imagine answering to the question "What did you do yesterday? I called you and you said you don't want to go out because you do not feel so well..." and you spend the whole evening in bed reading ebooks or AvantGo on your Visor ... and you answer: "I spent the whole evening in bed with Rachel/Lisa/Susan/whatever_your_Visors_name_is 'reading'." I can imagine the reaction

!

Sorry, this was way off topic, but I guess my fantasy was running a little wild...

... as always

Posted by decook on 08-02-2000 04:14 AM:

My Visor is named "Smithers" after Mr. Burns' assistant on the Simpsons. I'm not sure if I'll become as dependent on my Smithers as Mr. Burns is on his...

decook

Posted by b1lanceman on 08-02-2000 06:50 AM:

my girlfriend understands my love for the visor... she hates it

Posted by fixitgal on 08-02-2000 03:08 PM:

See...it _is_ a guy thing!

------------------
Queen of Parts

Posted by Toby on 08-02-2000 03:49 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by fixitgal:
See...it _is_ a guy thing!

Unless you don't equate guy with male, I'd have to disagree. I don't consider a PDA anything like a girlfriend (or wife in my case). If others do, they've either got some potentially hot selling springboards that no one knows about, or they need to get out a bit more.

------------------
"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open." - Frank Zappa

All times are GMT. The time now is 07:36 PM.

Pages (3): [1] 2 3 »
Show 20 posts from this thread on one page