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What are your computers, bicycles, cars, favorite mug, beard trimmer, or other inanimate objects named?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

They are nameless tools under my heartless domination.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

We're supposed to name them!?
I had a hard enough time finding a name for my cat (Fjodor, or Fyodor for you English-speaking types)

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Norbert the F***ing Casualty.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried really hard to call my dishwasher "steve" for awhile.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't have a name, but when I reinstalled Windows and it asked for a label for the hard drive, I put in INKling.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I lovingly call mine "Motherfucker", but only when smacking it around.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 22 September 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe the current favorite is "goddamn motherfucking piece of shit." It changes often.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My first Mac was called "Eileen"; the iMac was "Bethesda"; the iBook is "Medea"; the new iPod is called "The Sliver". But those are generally the only objects I've been able to name -- never did figure out a name for my bike or guitar or anything. Didn't really want or need one. But the harddrives -- which end up standing in for the computer, metonymy style -- they beg to be named, and I am tethered to the computer so it seems worth investing it with a little more humanity.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

When I got my old PC back in 1997, the first thing I did was rename the CD-rom drive "Lisa Loeb" and the A-drive "Osama Bin Laden". That was when he was still underground.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

My computer (or maybe just the icon for it on my desktop) is named "Legend of Eternity."

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

My current new PC is called "the laptop beastie". I dunno why I named it this, I just did. My older desktop PC is called "Trarse" which is one of my own nicknames (ie, trace + arse = trarse).

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I call mine "laptop"

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ariane 5.1

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

DOCD10461. I don't name inamnimate things because they usually have numbers, eg my car is NX8845.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I've called all of my computers Tinkertoy. The current one must be Tinkertoy III.

I called my old car Lil' Putt-Putt. My current car used to be The Crapmobile, but then I thought it resented the name and was deliberately breaking down. I haven't come up with a nicer name for it yet.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my friends called her car Bitch Chunks. It always sounded odd when they shouted "get in bitchchunks!" at us when picking us up, heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, I've never named my computer anything! Almost seven years of ownership and it's never been called anything other than "my computer". Aww. ;)

I have, on the other hand, named vehicles. The one I currently drive is called Palomino, um... which is named after the 1988 Duran Duran song "Palomino". I swear to you I am NOT a psychotic Duranie, just an uberfan. But, as always, opinions may and can vary on this.

(If you're super-curious, you'll highlight the above.)

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm calling my car "Fiddy" from now. Cause it has a bullet hole. It's hard like dat.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno what my computer is called, but I can assure you that it is *not* Ferrari Meatsarossa.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(that's cause Ferrari Meatsarossa is actually something verry closely resembling an overweight housecat)

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know inanimate objects either, but if I did I'd call everything Bessie, with slight alterations in pronunciations to distinguish between things.
I also like the idea of calling something 'Steve'.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I forget, f1n1tem00 me thinks

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the pc is named "BIG_DICK_HQ" on the home network

the cellphone is named "wherethefuck izit"

various other objects are named "fuckhead", depending on my mood

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, my last cellphone had a name, The Infernal Machine. I'm not sure if the new one is called that or not.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My cellphone is called either "bootleg" or "ghetto" as it's held together with duct tape.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My computers are named 'Frood', 'Gimp', 'Orthos', 'Gandalf', and 'Ariel' (the ILX server). What should I call the new ILX database server?

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Grizz, Chickenbear, or KORITFW.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Cockfarmer.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bitch obv. As in "who in this.."

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Kim is OTMFM.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

macaroni!
and my beetle's named peanut.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The hard drive of every computer I've had since 1988 has been named Kallista

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i once had a ancient car named Little Red. (because it was red obviously)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

my 'puter is named CarlosWasicuna

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

computer is george, car is brian.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Computer --> Panopticon

I don't name cars..

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm... My last computer was called 'Kafka' because I had a sticker that said 'Kafka' stuck to the monitor (I found the sticker on the windowsill in my room during the third year of uni; allegedly it's some company for skaters or something, not a raondom sticker with Franz's surname on it). As my new one has XP, it's called 'Auspicious Fish'. Never one to miss a marketing opportunity, am I?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

sydenham lowriders group

― duane, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

When I first got my PC I spent ages arranging partitions and I gave them all silly names. Now after the 48thmillionfuckingtimes that Windows has had to be re-installed, u can guess the rest ...

Tho my wood-axe is called 'bitch-murderer'

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My home computer is called 'candle'; I've forgotten why. The computers I've named at work are 'elvis', 'lisa' and 'judy'.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My car is called Mr Rushworth. See Mansfield Park for an explanation why.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The WinXP Dell is called HIDDENCHANTRY2
The new Linux box was called MAUNALOA ('cuz it had "Caldera" on it) but I've wiped the drive and will soon rename it either MAGICIAN ('cuz it'll have "Mandrake" on it) or SUBGENII (if I can get Slackware to work on it)
The old (dead) Linux/BeOS box was called HIDDENCHANTRY, but after I repair it and turn it into a hardware firewall, I'm planning on renaming it ITSATRAP

The cluster I helped build at my old job had seven nodes: CLARK, DIANA, ARTHUR, KYLE, BRUCE, JON, WALLY

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

computer = fragile.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

CLARK, DIANA, ARTHUR, KYLE, BRUCE, JON, WALLY

we need a contest for the nerdiest set of names for a computer cluter/labs. U of MI was full of such naming schemes.

"kyle"? "KYLE"!?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That's his name, don't wear it out!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

T/S:

http://www.emeraldwarriors.com/kyle.jpg vs http://www.nd.edu/~rmacrori/gotham/convention/hal.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

At work we had them named after obscure islands in the UK. Then guitars, painters and then mountains. So until last year we had an odd mash of left over names that stuck like Orkney, Leith, Telecaster and Monet. Now they all have generic names for their department and their version.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

my aquarium is called "fishchernobyl".

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

My company used to name its computers after famous Scottish people. Hostnames like 'maxwell' and 'burns' are fair enough, but 'david-octavius-hill' is a bit long to type and 'irn-bru' was, I felt, pushing it a bit. When I arrived I started a new naming scheme which is still vaguely Scotitsh, although noone else here has worked out what it is yet.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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My computer is Adele (geddit?)

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Phobos and Deimos?
Titan and Io?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Kool-Aid Man and Thirstee

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm considering leo, after the first commercial british computer the Lyons Leo, maybe the others should get lyons related names, like nippy or dundee cake.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

So no moons of the solar system or _Gone With The Wind_ characters? Oh well.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

having names that I can remember how to spell would be advantageous.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I just asked our Unix host bod what ours are called at work and he told me 'cheese' and 'cake' because thats what he was eating at the time he named them.

we used to name ours after river names, due to us then being the river authorities, one was actually called 'Styx'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mungo and Jerry?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Laurel and Hardy

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Foo and Bar!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ren and Stimpy.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Terpsichore and Melpomene!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Starsky and Hutch

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Antidisestablismentarian and Antidisestablishmentarianism!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Fearnley and Whittingstall

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete & Re-pete

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Computers: Male soul singers, 1960-1970
Hard drives: Female soul singers, 1960-1970

Thinking of changing to serif and sans-serif fonts.

That was my truth, tell me yours.

― caek, Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

computer: dipshit, fucker, arsewipe

― ledge, Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

Delfin housing developments. This is craigieburn, the eee pc is edgewater, my old crippled monstrosity was carolinesprings. ipods are bill, graeme and tim.

― punk is deady brewster (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

Penguin

my previous one was Joker

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

ariane 5.1

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:16 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whoa

― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

A computer that I cobbled together around the case and mainboard of an old PC from work was called "Wageslave". Otherwise my computers have boring tedious names... "M2" was so named because that was the name of the company it was from. Although I did name the server "Jupiter" after the naming scheme at my old university. The hard drives are all names <computer_name> C, D, E, etc..

― snoball, Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

Computer: La_Machina
Drives: Characters from Berry Gordy martial arts film The Last Dragon

― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:12 (sixteen years ago)

I finally got unlazy and networked bfs windows to my mac and forgot I had called my mac 'MOONBASE' for networking purposes. sweet. my main hard drive is called 'improbability drive'. I've tried renaming my removable one but it doesn't seem to work so it's just 'NO NAME'.

― salsa shark, Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:19 (sixteen years ago)

Actually the hard drives on the server are named System, Data, Exchange, and FTP. This is despite an FTP server not having been running on that machine for years, and Exchange Server not ever being installed.

― snoball, Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)

My old computer was called Frank Lopez after Robert Loggia's character in Scarface.

― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:43 (sixteen years ago)

HD = Sanderson
Thumb Drive = Flash the Flash Drive

― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 1 March 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)

iPod's called Akinfenwa

― Blap for Lashes (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

my computer is named Lemmy. there was a motorhead cd at hand, plus he seems immortal.

― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

my ipod is called bleh

― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

My iMac is Hatter, one PC is WhiteRabbit, the other Dinah (Alice's cat), and other volumes are named March-Hare, Cheshire, and Caterpillar. The local network, unsurprisingly, is called Wonderland. Alice was the original server, but she died.

― kenan, Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

PC: Medea
iPod: Odysseus

― ears are wounds, Sunday, 1 March 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

I always call my iPod my walkman.

― Still More Goth Than Your Cat's Asshole (Bimble), Sunday, 1 March 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

my MacBook doesn't have a name.

my ipod is called 'pleasure cruise.'

my car is named 'moby' because it is large and white.

my bicycle is named 'pierre.' it is 1978 peugeot racing model.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

reesiebook

― yur twit (tehresa), Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

the win98 box was called 'sparta'
the powerbook was to be called 'athens' but cos of athens access and identity management i changed it to 'athena'
the ipod is called 'beetle'
my old bike was called 'berthe' but the new one hasn't shown signs of personality that could lead to a name.

― c sharp major, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:11 (sixteen years ago)

i had a friend who named everything - down to the plants on her windowledge and the calluses on her fingers - and she named them all 'eric'.

― c sharp major, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

Just realised my current comp is called Jim. Which is a bit stupid.

I had a suitcase called Mavis.

― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:13 (sixteen years ago)

i take all my computer/hard drive/network names from this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_kings_of_Britain

― max, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

laptop is "lappy"
flash drive is "the flash"

― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

iMac - Speedy Marie

Macbook - currently unnamed, but should probably be Crackity Jones

― Bob Six, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

The department at work names its machines after Scottish islands, which is retarded because they are all impossible to spell.

― caek, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

Galois

― krakow, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:41 (sixteen years ago)

The department at work names its machines after Scottish islands, which is retarded because they are all impossible to spell.

Oh wow: when I was in college I worked briefly in a computer lab that did the same thing with Scotch whiskeys. Same problem -- constant "how do you spell 'Laphroaig?'"

― nabisco, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

In IT support I saw a lot of different schemes from superheroes (workstations "Batman", "Superman", etc.), to ridiculously codes ("w4ln4f" = workstation on the left side of window #4, North wall, 4th floor), to indicators of office politics/wars (now why would an unpleasant colleague's PC have the network name "shithead"?)

― snoball, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

I named mine Black Box, because that's pretty much what it is.

― Kate O'Brien, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

ipods are bill, graeme and tim.

― punk is deady brewster (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:34 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol, please tell me that "bill" is an iPod nano...

― snoball, Sunday, 1 March 2009 23:41 (sixteen years ago)

laptop: Miličić
harddrive: Cassius
external hdd: Brutus
iphone: Soothsayer
wifi network: The Nuclear Option

― ! (Clay), Monday, 2 March 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

My laptops have all been named "Penny" after Inspector Gadget's niece. Wireless network is "wintermute" because that's the nerdiest thing I can think of.

― saudade, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

iPod is currently "deadbeat," but it changes.

― kenan, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

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