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Lol anticlimax
Sep. 8th, 2007 12:21 amSo the courier arrived this morning at 8.45.
I was super excited, but I noticed something straight away. The box was a little small for what I was expecting - a 15.4" notebook.
Turns out it was the extra power cable I ordered - I assume the guy who called me yesterday said "computer" by mistake, because I suppose the vast majority of their orders are computers.
So yeah.. that was a little disappointing, I must say. According to the website, the EDD is the 14th - next friday. Which is much better than the 30th, at only just over a week after I placed the order. Still, it's a pity that it couldn't be earlier into the study break, so I could have a real play with the thing before I have to get all seriouz again. But on the up side, I'll be able to put more energy into the two models and *thinks* ~ 6 drawings I want to get done (plus one lolessayabstract), and then I won't have to feel as guilty about the amount of time I know I will spend playing with it... although admittedly I want to try out some 3D renders with a machine that isn't likely to crash whenever I try to load anything that's even slightly complex. Hmm. Still excited!
So now I have 6 days (hopefully take 1 or 2? :D) to decide on a name.
Presently I'm liking Strider, Elbereth and Nahar. Strider is the most appropriate, but it's not Elvish. Elbereth isn't linked at all really in a "meaningful" sense, although I suppose technically Varda was the greatest of the Valier and technically more beautiful and great than Idril Celebrindal so.. it kind of works. Because it is an upgrade. I just like the way Elbereth sounds to be quite honest. Nahar works because he was the first of the Meera, a very intelligent and very fast horse. And his name doesn't really pertain to his colouring (unlike Shadowfax, my first choice in terms of horse-names). But I don't really like the sound of the word, so it won't stick.
It's too bad Shadowfax doesn't really work. The inside of the laptop is silver though. Maybe I'll read the Silmarillion tonight.
Silmaril works, I suppose.
But that suggests some kind of supreme and unbeatable beauty, and while I do find the notebook to be quite pretty, I'm not sure if I'd go that far.
Ha ha!
Of course the most suitable name, I've just realised, is Legolas. Which means literally "Green leaf" (Laeg, green and golas, leaves.)
It's not only appropriate because of the colour, but also because Legolas was wise, swift and powerful. He certainly seems to be more worldly than Idril Celebrindal would have been, but how do I get past the sheer fangirl of naming my computer after a character who is notorious for his phalanx of fangirls?
(The rest is in the second cut)
( List of names (incomplete) )
( thinking about names - lots of Tolkien-lore )
I must sleep now.
I was super excited, but I noticed something straight away. The box was a little small for what I was expecting - a 15.4" notebook.
Turns out it was the extra power cable I ordered - I assume the guy who called me yesterday said "computer" by mistake, because I suppose the vast majority of their orders are computers.
So yeah.. that was a little disappointing, I must say. According to the website, the EDD is the 14th - next friday. Which is much better than the 30th, at only just over a week after I placed the order. Still, it's a pity that it couldn't be earlier into the study break, so I could have a real play with the thing before I have to get all seriouz again. But on the up side, I'll be able to put more energy into the two models and *thinks* ~ 6 drawings I want to get done (plus one lolessayabstract), and then I won't have to feel as guilty about the amount of time I know I will spend playing with it... although admittedly I want to try out some 3D renders with a machine that isn't likely to crash whenever I try to load anything that's even slightly complex. Hmm. Still excited!
So now I have 6 days (hopefully take 1 or 2? :D) to decide on a name.
Presently I'm liking Strider, Elbereth and Nahar. Strider is the most appropriate, but it's not Elvish. Elbereth isn't linked at all really in a "meaningful" sense, although I suppose technically Varda was the greatest of the Valier and technically more beautiful and great than Idril Celebrindal so.. it kind of works. Because it is an upgrade. I just like the way Elbereth sounds to be quite honest. Nahar works because he was the first of the Meera, a very intelligent and very fast horse. And his name doesn't really pertain to his colouring (unlike Shadowfax, my first choice in terms of horse-names). But I don't really like the sound of the word, so it won't stick.
It's too bad Shadowfax doesn't really work. The inside of the laptop is silver though. Maybe I'll read the Silmarillion tonight.
Silmaril works, I suppose.
But that suggests some kind of supreme and unbeatable beauty, and while I do find the notebook to be quite pretty, I'm not sure if I'd go that far.
Ha ha!
Of course the most suitable name, I've just realised, is Legolas. Which means literally "Green leaf" (Laeg, green and golas, leaves.)
It's not only appropriate because of the colour, but also because Legolas was wise, swift and powerful. He certainly seems to be more worldly than Idril Celebrindal would have been, but how do I get past the sheer fangirl of naming my computer after a character who is notorious for his phalanx of fangirls?
(The rest is in the second cut)
( List of names (incomplete) )
( thinking about names - lots of Tolkien-lore )
I must sleep now.
