Names!

Susie Rydell · Post by **Susie Rydell** » 18 years ago

So... ever since Em said the Sim was coming back, I've been thinking of names non-stop. Someone'll say something and I'll think, "Huh, that'd be a cute name!" I assume I'm not alone in this... and I was just wondering, what's everyone's favorite source of names?

Eric Nalbone · Post by **Eric Nalbone** » 18 years ago

Professor's lectures or reading material, its the only way I'm surviving my philosophy class right now... I only stay awake from minute to minute on the off chance that the prof will use an interesting word for a horse name.

Steph Wilder · Post by **Steph Wilder** » 18 years ago

School and music are my main source of horse names. I just hear things that sound cool, and I automatically think, "what a great horse name!"

Dave Shields · Post by **Dave Shields** » 18 years ago

Making up names is my favorite! Just ask Emily, they seem to fly out my mouth before I think... Of course many names I come up with can't be used for one reason or another, hee hee.

Martin Pennington · Post by **Martin Pennington** » 18 years ago

I know one of Molly's stablemates owners want to call him Complete Anchor (he's a son of Slip Anchor) that made me chuckle.

Susie Rydell · Post by **Susie Rydell** » 18 years ago

Eric Nalbone wrote: Professor's lectures or reading material, its the only way I'm surviving my philosophy class right now...

lmao... I've got an elective called Ancient Athletics that is WONDERFUL for that

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 18 years ago

Unfortunately science classes do not lend themselves so easily to names, unless you want horses named Silver Hydride or Hadley Cell.

Which I don't.

Now Hadley Rille I might go for. That's on the Moon. Because naming horses after features on the Moon is COOL.

Think I can name one Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter?

Okay this is the second time I've edited this. I forgot that I named Atlas after a rocket. That is science. So I suppose it is okay to name horses scientific things after all.

Martin Pennington · Post by **Martin Pennington** » 18 years ago

Had a lecture yesterday (well two) on Hetereostadasticity so might call one that if I can.

Daryl Dennis · Post by **Daryl Dennis** » 18 years ago

I thought it was Hetereoskedasticity? Have I been using it in casual conversation like that and totally looking like an ass in front of my Econ friends?

-Daryl

Ronda Figal · Post by **Ronda Figal** » 18 years ago

I use a combination of sire and dam names,movies and music....

Robin Tan · Post by **Robin Tan** » 18 years ago

Music. I think that 95% of my yearlings this year will come from or relate to song titles, song lyrics, CD titles, or band names in some form. I've run out of creativity and used up all my original names on the 52,839,429 foals that I bred before the SIM shut down.

Martin Pennington · Post by **Martin Pennington** » 18 years ago

Daryl Singhi wrote: I thought it was Hetereoskedasticity? Have I been using it in casual conversation like that and totally looking like an ass in front of my Econ friends?

-Daryl

It's heterostadasticity - like anomalies and stuff like that I think when mapping statistics on charts (I think)

, either way I have an exam on it so gota start revising somewhere - why not with the Sim? lol

Daryl Dennis · Post by **Daryl Dennis** » 18 years ago

What is funny is that Heteroskedasticity also means a data sample that maps errors of different variable distributions. It looks like we both know big words

Of course, I had to look up the exact definition of mine at economics.about.com

Now you have a name for a future sibling of Hetereostadasticity.

-Daryl

Martin Pennington · Post by **Martin Pennington** » 18 years ago

Thanks Daryl.
Her first born may well be called Heteroskadasticity, I'm not a fan of statistics