Beyond HAL
About two weeks ago, I was thinking about all the names my computers ever had, or all the names I'd given to my computers, if you like. It's because I had to name this one. Here. Meet "Blueimp". She's a 12" PowerBook.
My other computers have been called:
- Binky — after Death's horse of Discworld
- Gaspode — after Gaspode the Wonderdog, also of Discworld
- Treefrog — after a toy treefrog that came home with me from Brisbane
- Cowbell — errm, long story, but it rhymes with Dell
- Carboncopy — just seemed like a cool word
- Starsheep — after a squeaky baby toy that was given to me, a sheep with a star-shaped body
When I started at this job, I was horrified that the computers (except for the ones in the lab we look after) don't have names. How do you know one computer from another?! Some of them were physically identical! So I went around — named them, labelled them and made them feel special.
What is your computer called?
Posted by sniffles at April 16, 2003 08:24 PM