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Last week, my new external hard drive arrived. Since I had to replace my laptop's hard drive a few weeks ago, I decided not to copy back a lot of files onto it so as to keep it zippy. But this left my old external hard drive as the sole copy of things I'd rather not lose. So I got another to back it up, and I got a flash drive to hold copies of my ebooks.
When the new hard drive arrived, and the flash drives, I had names for them immediately. I used not to name inanimate things until a friend decided my car needed a name and, not long after, I got tired of the hard drive of my computer being unnamed. But naming my computers has been a bit of a failure--I keep trying different ones, but only one name sticks: Hypatia.* So currently my old desktop machine is Hypatia, and my old laptop hard drive was Hypatia, and my new laptop hard drive is Hypatia. I don't even number them: they're all for one and one for all.
The external peripherals, on the other hand--much easier to name. There is the Braintrust, Darth Vader (who is shiny and black on the outside and has a brain within), and The Library.
* Back when I had all my bookcases in one location, I decided I wanted to name them thematically, along the lines of the Cotton library. My theme? Medieval and similarly historical scholars who met (or almost met) messy ends. The candidates were, at the time I moved, Peter Abelard and John Erigenes (who was killed by the pens of his students, quite literally). Only I just realized Hypatia would count, too! Women represent!
When the new hard drive arrived, and the flash drives, I had names for them immediately. I used not to name inanimate things until a friend decided my car needed a name and, not long after, I got tired of the hard drive of my computer being unnamed. But naming my computers has been a bit of a failure--I keep trying different ones, but only one name sticks: Hypatia.* So currently my old desktop machine is Hypatia, and my old laptop hard drive was Hypatia, and my new laptop hard drive is Hypatia. I don't even number them: they're all for one and one for all.
The external peripherals, on the other hand--much easier to name. There is the Braintrust, Darth Vader (who is shiny and black on the outside and has a brain within), and The Library.
* Back when I had all my bookcases in one location, I decided I wanted to name them thematically, along the lines of the Cotton library. My theme? Medieval and similarly historical scholars who met (or almost met) messy ends. The candidates were, at the time I moved, Peter Abelard and John Erigenes (who was killed by the pens of his students, quite literally). Only I just realized Hypatia would count, too! Women represent!
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