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beautifulduckweedHappy birthday to meeee.
Who has an iPod Touch, thanks to her friggin' awesome boyfriend? WHY I DO.
I now have the electronic equivalent of a scarab beetle (it's small and sleek and adorable and ridiculously shiny, eee!), except a scarab beetle can't play me my entire catalog of MP3s if I stick a headphone jack up its ass and mash my thumb on its carapace. Also, my iPod is ∞% less likely to roll poop around on the floor.1 YEAH TAKE THAT STUPID SCARAB BEETLES.
(holy crap I'm smitten)
OK, seriously, scarab beetles are cool. I <3 them. I didn't mean it, beetles! I was kidding. You're totally awesome. I mean, look at this fine Onthophagus lanista specimen. Doesn't it look like a miniature triceratops? How cool do these guys look, trundling around with their massive horns? HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THESE THINGS I ASK YOU.
Speaking of dinosauric things, I've named the iPod "Awesomesaurus Rex," but I don't know that it's the best name for it, given that it was a heat-of-the-moment thing. It kind of goes along with the "Give my electronic things silly names with vaguely ominous overtones" theme I have going on (my desktop = Pimpzilla, my first laptop = TANK!2 and my current laptop = Hello Chthulhu), but I'm still pondering the perfect name for it. I briefly considered naming it Onthophagus, but it just doesn't roll off the tongue. Probably because I have no idea how to pronounce it. (If I knew Latin, I might name it "The flattest and shiniest Onthophagus"? Maybe "My Onthophagus is totally better than your Onthophagus"? Though that'd probably run afoul of character limits. Hey Kate, what would those phrases be in Latin? Or I guess I could just go for filth and name it "Pedicabo ego vos"--which kind of goes along with the "I'm constantly jamming crap up this thing's butt to make it go" theme.3)
Anyway, other suggestions welcome! And then probably promptly discarded because I'm all "Nooooo, I must be special and come up with the name all by myself." Or actually, probably not. I am in a whimsical mood! It's probably lack of sleep and burgeoning panic over my A paper!
Hooray, irrational attachment to shiny objects. That's right, Siddharta, you know where you can stick that whole revelation about attachment to worldly things. It's my birthday! I'll be irrationally attached if I want to!4
EDITED TO ADD: So a certain pedant has pointed out that "Onthophagus" is GREEK, not Latin. Psh. Don't care. Still want a ridiculous Latin (OR GREEK) name for my ridiculous new shiny thing. Preferably with buttsex references.
1 'Cause that's Callisto's job. I love kittens but I've forgotten what a pain in the ass they can be fwargh.
2 It's a Cowboy Bebop reference.
3 You know it likes it. It literally can't live without it!
4 The rational self-interested pursuit of things we are irrationally attached to is the major basis for our economy, you guys. By getting this iPod, Robert and I are totally stimulating the economy, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
Who has an iPod Touch, thanks to her friggin' awesome boyfriend? WHY I DO.
I now have the electronic equivalent of a scarab beetle (it's small and sleek and adorable and ridiculously shiny, eee!), except a scarab beetle can't play me my entire catalog of MP3s if I stick a headphone jack up its ass and mash my thumb on its carapace. Also, my iPod is ∞% less likely to roll poop around on the floor.1 YEAH TAKE THAT STUPID SCARAB BEETLES.
(holy crap I'm smitten)
OK, seriously, scarab beetles are cool. I <3 them. I didn't mean it, beetles! I was kidding. You're totally awesome. I mean, look at this fine Onthophagus lanista specimen. Doesn't it look like a miniature triceratops? How cool do these guys look, trundling around with their massive horns? HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THESE THINGS I ASK YOU.
Speaking of dinosauric things, I've named the iPod "Awesomesaurus Rex," but I don't know that it's the best name for it, given that it was a heat-of-the-moment thing. It kind of goes along with the "Give my electronic things silly names with vaguely ominous overtones" theme I have going on (my desktop = Pimpzilla, my first laptop = TANK!2 and my current laptop = Hello Chthulhu), but I'm still pondering the perfect name for it. I briefly considered naming it Onthophagus, but it just doesn't roll off the tongue. Probably because I have no idea how to pronounce it. (If I knew Latin, I might name it "The flattest and shiniest Onthophagus"? Maybe "My Onthophagus is totally better than your Onthophagus"? Though that'd probably run afoul of character limits. Hey Kate, what would those phrases be in Latin? Or I guess I could just go for filth and name it "Pedicabo ego vos"--which kind of goes along with the "I'm constantly jamming crap up this thing's butt to make it go" theme.3)
Anyway, other suggestions welcome! And then probably promptly discarded because I'm all "Nooooo, I must be special and come up with the name all by myself." Or actually, probably not. I am in a whimsical mood! It's probably lack of sleep and burgeoning panic over my A paper!
Hooray, irrational attachment to shiny objects. That's right, Siddharta, you know where you can stick that whole revelation about attachment to worldly things. It's my birthday! I'll be irrationally attached if I want to!4
EDITED TO ADD: So a certain pedant has pointed out that "Onthophagus" is GREEK, not Latin. Psh. Don't care. Still want a ridiculous Latin (OR GREEK) name for my ridiculous new shiny thing. Preferably with buttsex references.
1 'Cause that's Callisto's job. I love kittens but I've forgotten what a pain in the ass they can be fwargh.
2 It's a Cowboy Bebop reference.
3 You know it likes it. It literally can't live without it!
4 The rational self-interested pursuit of things we are irrationally attached to is the major basis for our economy, you guys. By getting this iPod, Robert and I are totally stimulating the economy, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
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Date: 2010-02-04 07:21 pm (UTC)Happy birthday, o excellent comrade.
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Date: 2010-02-04 09:34 pm (UTC)By the way: I miss your face!
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Date: 2010-02-04 07:41 pm (UTC)Arcus coelestis nates (VERY loosely: rainbows from my ass)
:)
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Date: 2010-02-04 09:36 pm (UTC)OH MY GOD "I'm shitting rainbows" in Latin or ancient Greek would be sooooo awesome. Just in general. Not just for an iPod name.
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Date: 2010-02-04 09:50 pm (UTC)In Arabic, "I'm shitting rainbows" is أنا التغوط قوس قزح
In Catalan, it's Estic cagant arc de Sant Martí
In Hebrew, it's אני מחרבן הקשת בענן
In Welsh, it's Dwi'n shitting enfys
In Yiddish, it's איך טוט מיר שיטטינג ריינבאָוז
:)
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Date: 2010-02-04 07:47 pm (UTC)Happy birthday, lady mcpants!
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Date: 2010-02-04 09:38 pm (UTC)UNF.
(I feel vaguely bad about stringing together so many absolutely terrible economic jokes. Vaguely.)
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Date: 2010-02-05 05:59 pm (UTC)Never feel bad about terrible jokes.
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Date: 2010-02-05 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-04 08:00 pm (UTC)Heh.
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Date: 2010-02-05 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-05 01:41 am (UTC)Won't you please think of the kittenses?
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Date: 2010-02-05 10:22 am (UTC)and yay for shiny shiny things
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Date: 2010-02-05 06:22 pm (UTC)when I have more time, I need to catch up on your goings-on at your Livejournal. <3!
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Date: 2010-02-08 04:13 am (UTC)