Sanskrit and Super Bowls

I have a spiffy new laptop, and I am looking to name it something deserving. So far, I have discovered two Sanskrit words that mean “light weight,” which is appropriate since my old laptop was a monstrous desktop replacement with a 17 inch screen that weighed a ton. The two words are lagubhara and alpabhara. Both may be entirely too pretentious.

At any rate, I am glad to have a fully functional computer again. One of the more annoying issues with my old one (named Sophocles) was that the “q” and “2” keys did not work. Instead of joining my family and some family friends to watch the most recent Super Bowl, I was sequestered in my room, drinking wine. I spilled the libation onto my keyboard and ever since then I have had to rely on the on-screen keyboard to replace the dysfunctional keys. “Q” may not seem like an especially common letter, but when you take classes at Susquehanna University, it is.

I like to name my gadgets. I am not sure why, but I can think of at least two other people who do the same thing. They share a name, but not much else. Other items named include a Creative Zen MP3 player (Bodhisattva) and three external hard drives (Blueberry (the manufacturer provided this name), Fenghuang (it rose from the ashes of an old computer), and Svalbard). I never got around to naming my Droid X, though it was unofficially called “Number 13” (referencing Battlestar Galactica). My sleek Galaxy SIII probably deserves an appropriate moniker as well.

Fruit Whirls and Frustrations

Damn, I'm proud of this title. Unfortunately this is not going to be much of a post. But what could live up to such a headline?

I thought of the title while I was eating some spilled cereal at work. They're called Fruit Whirls and are a generic brand version of Fruit Loops, in case you could not guess. A guest once claimed that our hotel's circular fruit cereal was his favorite. They seemed suitably tasty to me.

As for frustrations, they are varied and probably not worth talking about. Frustrations is not even the best term to describe anything currently bothering me, I just liked the alteration.

Oh, and I freaked out briefly when I thought I may have irreparably damaged my phone while flashing from a custom ROM back to rooted stock. But thanks to the helpful folks at XDA, I'm back in business. Without them, I might have created a very expensive paperweight. Remember kids, try this at home if you like, but only after a adequate amount of research. I plowed ahead past the boundaries of my technical knowledge and took a big, foolish risk.

I guess I could now call this entry "Fruit Whirls, Phones, and Foolishness," but it does not have the same ring to me.