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{  March 13, 2002  }

Name That Hard Drive!

You can learn a lot about someone by the names they give their hard drives. This thread at Slashdot compiles some naming convention ideas you could use next time you reformat a hard drive or buy a new machine. Including...

  • The Seven Dwarfs (after 7, make your own dwarfs, like "Slutty")
  • Names of Your Company's Top Executives
  • The Periodic Table of Elements
  • Pop Stars ("Hey, Britney is down again. N-Sync has crashed.")
  • Retro Arcade Games (Blinky, Pinky...)
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases ("Imagine walking into a room: Hey, can you check Syphylis? For some reason AIDS isn't talking to it.")
  • Countries
  • Comic Book Characters
  • Cast of Cheers (Norm, Dianne, Cliff...)
  • Ice Cream Flavors
  • Major International Cities
  • Sexual Positions ("Hey, would you try DoggyStyle? I can't get in.")
  • Greek Mythology (Zeus, Aphrodite, Hades, etc)
  • Biblical Names
  • 20th Century Composers (Adams, Glass, Stockhausen, Bartok)
  • Dead Rock Stars
  • Monty Python characters

And my personal favorite...

  • "Things You Can Do To A Ball" (Punt, Kick, Slam, Spike, Dunk, Pop, Inflate)

Comments

shaft....dolemite........foxy.........

Posted by: patrick at March 13, 2002 10:13 AM

We prefer the Muppet naming convention, although I often refuse to work from Miss Piggy.

Posted by: Mel at March 13, 2002 10:31 AM

Optimus Prime... Megatron.. any old-school transformer

Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2002 1:48 PM

Hardy & Lawrel are mine... :-)

Posted by: nmk at March 13, 2002 4:17 PM

An associate several years back named the computers at their company (an isp) after planets. Naturally the fingering server was named Uranus.

Posted by: Nate at March 13, 2002 5:34 PM

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