Comments on: Hello Gideon, goodbye Jed https://iwilldare.com/2008/10/hello-gideon-goodbye-jed/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2008/10/hello-gideon-goodbye-jed/#comment-22409 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:34:13 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7701#comment-22409 I chose Gideon for two reasons. It’s actually a family name. One of my ancestors is Gideon Pond and then there was the whole Hold Steady connection too. Besides, I just like the name.

]]> By: david https://iwilldare.com/2008/10/hello-gideon-goodbye-jed/#comment-22392 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:36:08 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7701#comment-22392 You’ll have to share the genesis of the name…

My Macbook is “Narakaloka,” named more after my favorite Mountain Goats song than the realm of Hindu hell reserved for people who don’t share food with the hungry. It also replaced a G4 iBook (“Ditie,” named after the main character in
Bohumil Hrabal’s I Served the King of England).

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