what's in a name??
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."There i was, confounded by the act of having to name my hard disk partitions! I mean, seriously, they are just partitions, why do i care so much about the name??
When i was 7, we had 3 pet bunnies. We named them 1, 2 and 3. Which is so un-child-like! Its as if we were naming genes discovered in yeast or C. elegans which is rather methodical and orderly such as Atg1, Atg2, Atg3 so on and so forth.
Back to the present. Partitions. My old lap top had partitions named E and F -- again, not very creative i must say. I had this other hard disk partitioned into Pigu and Mogu. After a japanese cartoon which i got addicted to for a while on You tube. Today, i am trying to be creative. I want to name my partitions in a way that reflects me. It is a Western Digital hard drive, called Elements. See, thats a cool name. Why can't i think of something like that too? Simple, elegant. Can't have anything too complicated or unheard of, unpronounceable. Recall my first hotmail address. I was in this phase of spelling everything backwards. And i was really into Anne Rice's vampire series. So it became eripmav at hotmail dot com. That was accompanied by a more complicated password which i have long forgotten. Its been a bloody long time since i tried to log in to that account.
I am dive-sick. I wished i could have done more scuba when i was back for the hols. So, therefore in memory of my dive trip, i finally decided on Manta and Nudibranch. I decided that 2 partitions were enough since i really don't want to go through the entire conundrum of more names! Manta, because i would really like to see a whole school of them. Nudibranch, because i have always liked these beautiful invertebrates.
posted by eline @ 2:39 PM
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