Comments on: Contest!

By: louis

louis — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:14:31 +0000

awww, so much too late

I was going to go for OMEGoid.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:21:36 +0000

LOL! I’m relieved I’m not the only one who can’t keep that convention from popping into my head when discussing those two. It is for precisely that reason I always have to call them “Con and Meg” and never “Meg and Con”. I went to MegaCon in… 1998? 1999? Something like that. My one and only time in Florida. Mostly what I remember about that show was the giant Lobster (or possibly Lobster car??) that was lurking near the entrance.

By: Quieteyes

Quieteyes — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:22:38 +0000

Ironically, this reminds me of a comic book convention taking place in Orlando on March 25 – 27: MegaCon. It has media people, too (William Shatner will be attending).

They were spotted together at this convention? Naw, that just reaching.

By: HardWearJunkie

HardWearJunkie — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:09:37 +0000

Meg: Megabyte (then I read Sean K.’s post — Damn You!); Omega; Megavolt.
Con: Consternation; Constellation; Confab.

I don’t mind not getting a prize.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:40:24 +0000

Meg – “nutmeg”, because she is crazy
Con – could be a reference to Val Con yos’Phelium from the Liaden Universe, or could be con-man

By: AlpineBob

AlpineBob — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:01:26 +0000

@ hiikeeba – I hate to be contradictory, but Contrary is clearly the better name. It’s even been used in a nursery rhyme – how many of the other entrants in this contest can claim that distinction, eh? :p

Megabyte – she has a passion for antique computing devices. Talks about them constantly and the others got tired of hearing about how memory capacity used to be measured in paltry Megs…

By: hiikeeba

hiikeeba — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:28:49 +0000

Meg – Megaphone. Don’t know why. It popped into my head.

Con – Contradictory. I had to think about that one, and I don’t like it, but, it beats Contrary.

By: sinesofinsanity

sinesofinsanity — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:22:35 +0000

Con = Contraption. It’s what he calls all the equipment he uses in the lab, much to the chagrin and annoyance of the lab techs and engineers who have to keep coming in to fix it when he breaks it. Leading to them asking “What contraption needs a fix-up?” to mean “What has Con broken this time?” Also, no one else in the lab calls their lab equipment contraptions. Con may or may not actually understand the inner workings of electronics, computers, and software, he just prefers to have someone else fix it.

Meg = Going Eventually Mad. Considering others in the lab had nicknames, Meg tried to get everyone to call her “Gem” but it never caught on. Meg did though, she hated it at first and still will occasionally try to come up with a creative acronym for it, but has accepted that’s what people call her.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:48:59 +0000

Meg – Nutmeg, because that’s what she puts in her coffee.

Con – Condensed Milk, because that’s what he puts in his coffee.

Likewise, Mal – Malodorous because of what he puts in his coffee (whatever it is), which gives off an unpelasant odour as well as those fizzy bits.

By: Sean K.

Sean K. — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:33:21 +0000

Roland beat me to it, but ‘Constipation’ was the first Con word I thought of.
Perhaps I’ll go the mathematical route with ‘Contrapositive’, or ‘Contradiction’. (perhaps he always starts by assuming things aren’t true…)

If he were ‘Constipation’, we could continue the theme and call her ‘Megacolon’, but now it’s just getting gross.
Raising my mind out of the gutter, I’ll suggest ‘Megabit’.