Time Travel discussion

I was browsing a bit over in another group when I came across this question:

Does Your Kindle Have a Name?

I never realized you could change the name of your Kindle devices, but it's apparently quite easy. On the Amazon website, go to Your Account --> Manage Your Kindle --> Manage Your Devices. Then you can click on each device and click "Edit" beside the name of the device to change its name.

I've never been one to anthropomorphize my machines, cars, computers, etc. But this one's got me. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours?

Stephanie's Fire

It does have a name, but only to distinguish from five other devices on our account. Like Paul's Kindle or Paul's iPad. Boring, I know. Nothing so cool as "Stephanie's Fire." I'll work on it.

But Amy gets the award for best vocabulary word of the week -- anthropomorphize. How often do we get to use that one in friendly conversation?

Paul wrote: "Amy gets the award for best vocabulary word of the week -- anthropomorphize. How often do we get to use that one in friendly conversation?

Ha. It's one of those words I like to get in at every chance I have (which is maybe once a year if I'm lucky). I even have a GoodReads bookshelf entitled "anthropomorphic". :P (geez, why can't Goodreads handle html links half the time?)

My Kindle is currently called Solstice and my phone is currently called Acacia.

I didn't know that, but now that I do, I plan to go name them all. It will be so much easier to get things to the right kindle if they're all identified by the user's name than the current Kindle 1, Kindle 2, and Kindle 3.

I call my newest kindle "Walter Reality."

My Kindle acount is very boringly linked to "Heather's ipad"

My Kindle Fire doesn't know my true name or me it's.

Works for both of us.

LOL. of course "Howard"

I have names for all my PCs and laptops at home. They are all names of space ships: Galactica, Borg, Falcon, Enterprise and XWing

I only use Kindle app on my two phones which I cant give a name :( If I could I would call them

Bill and Ted :)

My laptop is Scorates, my desktop is Aristotle, so I just had to name my Kindle Plato. And my car is named Bucephalus. ;)

Tej wrote: "I only use Kindle app on my two phones which I cant give a name :( If I could I would call them Bill and Ted :) "

Tej, I'm pretty sure you can change names for Bill and Ted on Amazon. Just go to "Manage your Devices" and hit "Edit" for the appropriate ones. Have you tried that? I think you can change names on iTunes, too, for Apple products, but that probably wouldn't help for Kindle purposes.

Mine is just called "Neville's Kindle" and my IPAD is called "Neville's IPAD" by default.

I will have to consider being a bit more inventive.

So, I was trying to explain to my folks that a kindle fire is an "all" device, with the original kindle's being strictly reading devices. To emphasize my point I named my first kindle Lincoln's Reading Machine

I got the new paper white for my birthday, and to distinguish it from my normal kindle, I named it The Lights that light the lights because I could now read in the dark. Also, I really do enjoy that most annoying song..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPpQr...

My kindle fire is called "EBsFire."
My wi-fi, however, is called the "NSA Survelliance Vehicle."

Was eating in a mexican restraunt and their wifi was called Por Que-Fi

Lincoln wrote: "Was eating in a mexican restraunt and their wifi was called Por Que-Fi"
Haha love it!

Lincoln wrote: "Was eating in a mexican restraunt and their wifi was called Por Que-Fi"

Love that!

Lincoln wrote: "Was eating in a mexican restraunt and their wifi was called Por Que-Fi"

I-I didnt get the joke :( Kept trying to work it out. And then it hit me Pork Fry! He he...eh...no that cant be it. So I googled "por que-fi" and all I got was the Mexican restaurant wifi. Then I realised, oh "Fi" as in wifi, right right! He he, that's fun...no wait, I still dont get it :( . so I googled "Por que"...ah in English it means "because"...because Fi?!? what!? Right, I am going back to Pork Fry. No wait.
Because Fi...Wifi...because Fi...Why Fi...WHY!! BECAUSE! HA HA, yes I got it!! Genius Lincoln!!! I-I killed the joke, didnt I, I'm really sorry but I am happy I got it, that's genius. Sorry guys, jeez I'm such a div.



Paul wrote: "Just go to "Manage your Devices" and hit "Edit" for the appropriate ones. "

Yay, done, thanks Paul! :)

John wrote: "I call my newest kindle "Walter Reality.""

Hey John is that a Fringe reference? To distinguish the Walters they had Walter and Walternate...

Actually, I first used the name as a character in the role playing game "Top Secret," which was like D&D meets James Bond. That was long before "Fringe." If anything, they copied me.

I named the first one Bradbury.

I think I'll give this one a more cinnamon-scented sobriquet...Maud'Dib perhaps, or Azhar Book.

Tej wrote: "Lincoln wrote: "Was eating in a mexican restraunt and their wifi was called Por Que-Fi"

I-I didnt get the joke :( Kept trying to work it out. And then it hit me Pork Fry! He he...eh...no that ca..."

Tej.
Oh, Tej.
It's okay. Still like you just fine.
(DORK!)

John wrote: "Actually, I first used the name as a character in the role playing game "Top Secret," which was like D&D meets James Bond. That was long before "Fringe." If anything, they copied me."

Trendsetter. ;)

E.B. wrote: "Tej.
Oh, Tej.
It's okay. Still like you just fine.
(DORK!) "

No, I'm a PORK-QUE! :D

Not exactly. I should be more creative but it's currently parrotgirl's kindle. I should rename it sleep deprived medic's ereader, hence the reason I haven't been around much lately. As the holidays hit, I think the public is trying to kill us. Slowly, painfully, and with deliberately malice by waiting until after midnight to call on the hour every hour.

Ugh. No rest for the wicked.