37 Comments so far ↓

• callalillie // Nov 4, 2003 at 8:58 am

  sooo pretty. i’m jealous. my old one looks like a brick compared to yours!

• rachelleb // Nov 4, 2003 at 9:01 am

  in the photo the ipod has a translucent silicone jacket on .. if you’re wondering why it looks a little different.

• Dy // Nov 4, 2003 at 9:22 am

  Name? Opal. It does go with Ruby…

• lee // Nov 4, 2003 at 9:23 am

  i’m partial to song names for ipods. mine is ‘yoshimi,’ from the flaming lips track.

• tien // Nov 4, 2003 at 9:45 am

  so did you hold it all night, like the brand new toy that it was?

  i guess now i can walk up to you while listening to my ipod without the fear of an ass-kicking, right?

• rachelle // Nov 4, 2003 at 9:50 am

  yoshimi is a good name.. if only i liked that song more.. opal would mean he’s a girl. for some reason I immediately thought of it as a boy.

  tien, i may still kick your ass for other reasons!

• jeannette // Nov 4, 2003 at 10:04 am

  your ipod is wearing a prophylactic! how about “dom” (as in conDom)
  (sorry, i’m not being very helpful, am i?)

• jeannette // Nov 4, 2003 at 10:04 am

  oh, i forgot to say, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Jessica // Nov 4, 2003 at 10:07 am

  How about Whitie? It goes with Ruby.

  Welcome to the family Whitie!

• joel // Nov 4, 2003 at 10:10 am

  heh

• tien // Nov 4, 2003 at 11:18 am

  other reasons? hmm…

• el // Nov 4, 2003 at 1:09 pm

  hooray! poddy training!
  which one did you get?

• petrol // Nov 4, 2003 at 1:17 pm

  How about “Paul”? It just seems right for an iPod.
  (Of course for PCs and pc peripherals it’s always arcane names, Baalshem, Shaitan, Alexandria, &c; these names weren’t necessarily mine to choose. Blame the sysad

• rachelle // Nov 4, 2003 at 1:47 pm

  el – he’s the 10 gig model.

  petrol – he can’t be named paul.. paul is the name of chuck’s ipod.

• petrol // Nov 4, 2003 at 2:19 pm

  Paul taken? Damn. Howabout “Jonesy”? Yes, I’ve just finished a Sigourney Weaver/Alien/Aliens/Alien Rez marathon (:

  PS. 10GB of tunes… Sweet!

• Mark Shewmaker // Nov 4, 2003 at 2:42 pm

  Pearl.

• Mark Shewmaker // Nov 4, 2003 at 3:16 pm

  After looking at the screen, it’s hard to wonder if the iPod is the love child of Ruby and a certain one-gloved, plastic surgery obsessed pop star/recluse…

• matt // Nov 4, 2003 at 3:16 pm

  How about Podlov – like Pavlov, because when people see it, it makes them drool!?

• rachelle // Nov 4, 2003 at 3:22 pm

  heh. those last two are both very good points. ipods do make me drool.. and my little rubber-coated ipod is very much ruby and very much michael. maybe his name is billy jean!

• Richard // Nov 4, 2003 at 5:23 pm

  isn’t billy jean a girl? i thought you said whitey was a boy?

• joel // Nov 4, 2003 at 7:50 pm

  I like “Pablo” for some reason.

  I’m weird.

• joe // Nov 4, 2003 at 10:06 pm

  Petey!

• Brian // Nov 4, 2003 at 10:18 pm

  I named mine Chicklet! Well, it looks like one…kind of. Seriously, whatever you do, don’t update the firmware to verison 2.1!! I did and now Chicklet is a very sick iPod

• petrol // Nov 4, 2003 at 11:20 pm

  Joel, if you’re a fan of Radiohead you can call it Pablo Honey!

  PS. Yes. Weird. Good

  Pet

• Sam // Nov 5, 2003 at 8:49 am

  I personally like the Billy Jean idea

• veritech pilot // Nov 5, 2003 at 11:05 am

  rubby. or the wizard some call tim.

• technofreak // Nov 5, 2003 at 6:19 pm

  I named mine “Idoru”..got the name from a William Gibson novel- in the book it represents a virtual pop star.

• rachelle // Nov 5, 2003 at 6:23 pm

  after a character in a book.. that’s a good idea.. but maybe i should think about a “character” in one of the songs that is on the ipod.. like how lee named his yoshimi

• Richard // Nov 5, 2003 at 6:48 pm

  Jimmi?

• technofreak // Nov 5, 2003 at 6:48 pm

  Naming after a character in a song is good. Now the only problem is to think of a song that you really like, and also has a cool name in it. This is a tough decision isn’t it? Ok, it’s not like we’re dealing with foreign policies or anything, but you know what I mean. It took me a day or two to name it.(I just got new Ipod last week-congratulations to you on yours!)

• rachelleb // Nov 5, 2003 at 9:23 pm

  jimmi is good.. after jimmi thing, i assume. congrats on the new ipod, techno. .

  i think the winning name is………. billy!

  for billy jean, which was playing when i took this photo.

  now that i’ve had the ipod for a couple days it’s funny how things seem different. like how the city is all of a sudden operating to the beat of my personal soundtrack.. and how i’ve started to measure things in songs.. i can imagine meeting up with someone one day and them asking me how long i’ve been waiting. “for 2 songs,” i’ll reply.

• Mark Shewmaker // Nov 6, 2003 at 12:33 pm

  er…Billie.

• rachelleb // Nov 7, 2003 at 12:10 am

  I’m afraid people are going to think im one of “those crazies” because i’ve caught myself singing along with billy more than once in the past few days…

• Winny // Nov 7, 2003 at 6:28 am

  Congratulations!!!
  But it aint a dog… To bad.

  P.S.: my dog barks better than Michael Jackson.

• rachelleb.com // Nov 4, 2004 at 10:05 am

  My iPod’s 1 Year Birthday

  Today my iPod turns 1 year old. It’s kind of strange because it’s one of those things that has so much become a part of my lifestyle that I don’t even know what I did without it. Right after…

• rachelleb.com // Aug 17, 2005 at 6:45 am

  Goodbye Ruby

  Ruby & Rachelle In October 2000, Mark and I went to Comp USA in Kearny Mesa and I adopted Ruby. Since then she’s been with me through thick and thin, from California to New York and finally making her…

• mike // Aug 2, 2006 at 12:36 am

  I Know the perfect Name: Ipod