geeky notes

[cellio]

Someone I know has dogs named Mac and Winnie (he couldn't bring himself to name the latter Windows, I guess). His wife's cats, named before he met her, are Linux and Solaris. Y'know, if I were single, inclined to name pets after operating systems, and met a person of the appropriate gender whose pets were so named, I'd pay attention too. :-)

I assume that most people have seen spiritrover and opportunitygrrl by now. Their journals are fun to read. I hadn't realized that so many others in the area of space exploration were getting in on the act, though, until someone pointed out fuse_sat's query about joining the SCA. It's a fun thread. (The rest of the journal is entertaining too.)

More spam subject lines:

• "tonight tetrahedron" -- nope; the next D&D game isn't until next week.
• "cauliflower limp" -- not if you cook it right (and if this is meant to be allegorical, I don't want to know...).
• "ebreo insight" -- I know it's spam, but it could be renaissance-dance-geeking, darnit! (I caved. It was yet another product to enhance a body part I don't have.)
• "no visual side effects" -- maybe, but I think most people would be more concerned with visible side-effects.

Comments

[siderea]

"no visual side effects" -- maybe, but I think most people would be more concerned with visible side-effects.

Why am I suddenly beset with the vision of selling tainted viagra via spam, which makes users turn blue?

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[cellio]

And the vision your comment inspired in me involves the Hornel product laced with drugs being eaten by really desperate-looking men... (not blue ones, though) :-)

[jducoeur]

Winnie (he couldn't bring himself to name the latter Windows, I guess).

Of course, my first personal computer was named Winnie, years before Windows came out. Had nothing to do with the OS -- it had to do with the boat-anchor-sized Winchester hard drive attached to it. (5 Meg capacity, which was pretty damned impressive in 1983. But the drive weighed something like 20 pounds, and sounded like a bloody aircraft when it was spinning up.)

[cellio]

Oh yeah, the name could have meant any number of things; in this case he clarified that yes, the dog is named after the OS.

Wow, your first computer brings back memories. I think my first personal machine (as opposed to timeshare) was a Symbolics. I remember really liking it, but I have no memories involving size and noise of hardware. :-) (The first machine I actually purchased, for home use, was a 486. Yeah, I'm a late-comer; until then I had sufficient machine-power and net access via work machines, a home terminal to said machines, and a modem.)

[jducoeur]

I wound up buying my own PCs from the very earliest days. I had decent access to computers at college, but it just wasn't as convenient as having a machine in my own dorm room. (By the time I went off to college, I was *very* accustomed to being able to do ad hoc word processing -- I'd been working on microcomputers for several years by the time the IBM PC came out.)

So my first PC was a Columbia MPC, back in 1983: the very first PC clone (an actual 4.77 Mhz 8088), and one of the only ones ever built that was actually bigger and heavier than the original IBM PC. But it was a bit cheaper, solidly built, and had a prodigious eight full-sized expansion slots...