I name everything after Harry Potter characters, places, events. Any proper name is game for my obsession and I plan, here, to record a history of all monickers I have identified my gadgets with through the years. We’ll start with my first laptop and move on to my newest video game system.
Compaq Presario V2000 – “Albus”
PSP-2000 God of War Edition – “Albus”, “Aberforth”
iPod Touch 1G – “Expecto”
iPod Touch 2G – “Fawkes”
160 GB Maxtor Removable HDD – “HORCRUX”
320 GB SimpleTech Portable HDD – “Privet Drive”
BlackBerry Curve 8330 – “Sirius BlackBerry” (Clever eh?!)
15″ Early 2008 MacBook Pro (Penryn) – “Chamber of Secrets” (R.I.P.)
13″ Aluminum MacBook Pro – “Lovegood” (Awwwww)
Xbox 360 (which I got 3 months after release and until recently have had 0 problems with but has recently started to act up. I seem to be the only one capable of dealing with its problems and making it fun, thus the name.) – “Crookshanks”
Sprint HTC Hero – “Moony”
Sony PS3 Slim (120 GB) – “Godric”
The only thing I’ve named that hasn’t been named after a Harry Potter thing is my 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac, which my college friends decided to name based on it’s color. We named it “Teal’c” after the well-loved Jaffa from Stargate SG-1. I have since reconciled this discontinuity with myself and will take no further questions on the matter.
You are hilarious Matt.
I don’t find this obsessive at all. Though I’m also a fellow Potter nerd. I seem to have a little HP in every class. I have a professor that reminds me of Peter Pettigrew, and one of my professors sounds like a mixture Dumbledore and Snape. And I feel like a witch when I’m walking to the Student Union because it looks like a Hogwarts building from a particular angle. Anyway. I need to name my MacBook. =/