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June 2005

Purple

(written by Sarah:)

I decided this morning, gazing into a paint-splattered mirror and nursing a headache, that I need more purple in my life. I’m not a purple particularist. Rich royal indigo-violet swashes my buckle. Popsicle purple is an old friend. I like lilac. Purple tastes like blue does in the wee hours of the morning – like white pepper and copper pennies and roses and sex and clouds.

I wish it smelled like purple in here. It smells like hot, and, more affrontingly, like neurotoxins in cologne.

I miss.

2005 06 17

machine names

birthdate name first os first home explanation decommissioned
1994 playdoh MacOS 7 Great Barrington, MA Parody of Plato, main Simon’s Rock server. 1995
1997 solace WinNT 4 Amherst, MA primary home machine 1999
1997 eco Linux Cambridge, MA After the semiotician. Main web/mail server of the 3e.org
domain.		 1999
1999 neko Linux Plainsboro, NJ A play on eco, but also japanese for ‘cat’. An AMD box used for
development work. Caught on fire when CPU fan failed.		 2000
1999 miso Win2K Plainsboro, NJ The machine itself was the color of miso soup, also the name of
a friend’s cat, who happend to be miso-soup colored. Primary home machine.		 2003 (but see echo)
2001 siam Win2K Piscataway, NJ Shares three letters with previous name, also vaguely in keeping with asian naming scheme.
Short-lived; bargain-box built from parts, failed within months.		 2001
2002 maki MacOS X 10.0 Piscataway, NJ A Japanese food, and a play on iMac. Primary home machine. Sold to Seth’s wife Kirsty. 2008
2002 eco Linux St. Louis, MO 3e.org finally had a dedicated server again, so it was fitting
to call it eco again.		 2004
2003 udon WinXP Philadelphia, PA miso’s replacement. Daniel’s primary home computer. Sold to Aaron. 2008
2004 neko Linux St. Louis, MO eco replaced with a Plesk-based system. The name neko recycled from the machine that failed before. This turns out to be a bad idea; the name neko is apparently cursed. After only a year of service neko was successfully penetrated by some nasty script-kiddies, and rather than deal with the damage, we closed up shop and moved all our domains to Dreamhost. 2005
2004 overlook Linux Endicott, NY primary backup server for eco/neko; performs full backup every day via
rsync. is actually miso in disguise!		 2005
2004 echo Linux Philadelphia, PA secondary backup server for eco/neko; performs full backup every day via
rsync. Also media server for Daniel’s apartment.		 2005
2005 bento MacOS X 10.4 Philadelphia, PA A Mac Mini. Emphasizing the Mini’s small size. 2007
2005 melete MacOS X 10.4 Philadelphia, PA Sarah’s laptop. 2009
2007 vista MacOS X 10.4 Narberth, PA Bento’s replacement, an Aluminum iMac.  

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