Referencing the Itch article: I read the whole thing, she scratched through her damn SKULL? some of it I knew already, from researching (fruitlessly) the persistent maddening itch I had a few years ago, from neck to thighs, that had me scratching until I bled, with no apparent cause whatsoever. Nothing helped but Zyrtec, not even other antihistamines. However, I did not scratch out my internal organs. In this article I was especially interested when they said this could possibly have something in common with tinnitus. If they could come up with a way to fool my brain into turning OFF the damn noise in my ears, I would pay them a lot of money.

fatty acid supplements could help.

They did help me, and I won't stop taking fish-flax-borage oil supplements anymore, for fear of the Itch.

Innocuous computer name? I suggest "nothing".

If I ever get a second router or similar thing that requires naming on set-up, it will probably be noodle. I guess the TiVO required naming, but I think it is called myfirstname or home. I swear my computer did not require a name, the iPod did and I think it is max or max2 (second ipod), but I never refer to it as such.

My iPod is Jesse's iPod, but no one sees that. I feel like my neighbors will judge my network.

Our wireless at home isn't named at all

Can you not have a name? I can see if you have the default name that came with the router, but your wireless devices need to know what they're connecting to somehow.

If they could come up with a way to fool my brain into turning OFF the damn noise in my ears

Oh, god, yes. I miss silence. I haven't had any in almost 20 years. Not even close.

Electronics on my home network (computers + Tivo) are all Jossverse vampires. [eta: Wait, I take that back. I ran out of good vampire names when I bought my current laptop, so it's Lady Nocturne, which started the Tek Jansen series of names.] External drives are either Tek Jansen or BSG characters (except for Miss Edith, the first external hard drive I ever bought for Dru the G5). iPods are all spaceship computers (Hal, Dora, and Holly).

I renamed my Tivo to NotTino.

I think the most interesting part of the itch article is the implication that sensory perception is a brain ish and NOT necessarily the signals transmitting to the brain.

I dunno I think scratching through to your brain is amazing and icky and just a great way to start this article.

I feel like my neighbors will judge my network.

I promise I only judge the networks named "Linksys" or "default". If you named it "Digital Underground" I would think you were utterly awesome based on your network name.

I promise I only judge the networks named "Linksys" or "default". If you named it "Digital Underground" I would think you were utterly awesome based on your network name.

Hahaha. Amych is me.

If you named it "Digital Underground" I would think you were utterly awesome based on your network name.

That is my goal! My neighbors are either boring or mean ("NoViosForYou!").

I feel like my neighbors will judge my network.

So naming it "biteme" is right out?