new baby!

[lagilman]

Well, a replacement baby, really: after a year I caved and bought a new iPad Mini, with 2x the memory, and a 3G connection. Not because the old one wasn't working out but because it was working out too well.  I still use the laptop for writing and for digital editing and anything that really needs a larger screen and a mouse, but reading and social media and Scrabble and whatnot?  Tablet.  And email, lots and lots of email.

Oh, and Netflix.  :-)

So anyway, the point of this is... baby needs a name.

The Laptop is Archie.  The laptop will always be Archie, in any iteration.

iPad Mark 1 was Watson.  But... I dunno, I'm not feeling it for this one.

You may have noted a theme here: sidekicks.  More to the point, smart-on-their-own sidekicks.  So....suggestions?


(and before anyone asks: my mom has first dibs on the old one. If she doesn't want it, I'll let you know.)

Comments

[sillylilly-bird.livejournal.com]

Arthur [from The Tick]

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Bunter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter

[lagilman]

Bunter was the name of my PDA, back when PDAs were a thing (because he had a 'champagne" finish). I'm not sure I'm ready to reuse that name yet...

[rosefox]

Bess or George?

[divanoir.livejournal.com]

Inspector Lewis

[g33kboi.livejournal.com]

Hermione. Definitely smarter than the hero she is always bailing out. If you want a male name, I second Arthur and also nominate both Alfred and J.A.R.V.I.S. for consideration.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

HAL is probably just inviting trouble, isn't it? Why don't you just go you with Tom. You know you want to :D I might also go Parker, or maybe Hardison or Elliot. I do miss the Leverage team.

[lizbetann]

Hardison is the laptop in our house, wife's phone is Parker and my phone is Elliot. :)

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Briliant minds . . . :D

Hey, Laura Anne, what about Hobbes?

[lagilman]

Isn't that just ASKING for trouble?

[lizbetann]

In the Leverage vein... how about Sterling? Remember, Sterling always wins.

[lagilman]

Great (and twisted) minds apparently think alike...

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Sure it's asking for trouble. But then, don't you always? Look at the kitties! And Sterling would make a fine name too, though also troublesome . . .

[lizbetann]

Jeeves, Dodger (Artful or not), Sancho... running out of literary ideas...

[davidlevine]

Bucky.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Watson...

[lagilman]

see original post.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

not the Holmes Watson, but the Bell Watson...

Watson, come here, I need you..

[lagilman]

Ah. I try to stick to fictional characters in the naming-of... makes me feel better about implying I know their mood/temperment.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

there is that little guy from Batteries not included.. and it just totally escapes me at the moment.. I want to say Button, but I know its not true.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I do rather want one of those, or the non-Apple equivalent (since we are otherwise non-Apple).
As to sidekicks: Athos? Little John?

[ckd]

For many many years, at least one of my machines or devices has been named Loiosh. (At this point, it's my phone since that's also my PDA/etc; originally it was my workstation at the office, because I had a "friend" who did "work". :-)

[lagilman]

HAH!

[ckd]

My current workstation, incidentally, is named Paarfi.

(That's because with a real keyboard and a large screen, it's the system through which I may be more loquacious, redundant, and wordy according to the needs of any particular area of effort, as one might understand from having investigated the duties and obligations of my role at my venue of employment. ;-)

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

Mehitabel, to go with Archie.

[lagilman]

wrong Archie, but point for literary value!