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Anthropomorphizing computers do any of the programmers here do it? Do you curse at your rigs, do they have names, are they male or female?
muppet
I called my old Mac "Maggie".
Neo
Warrior Princess.
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I hate this stupid machine
J. D. Trollinger
Gee, I don't. I just name them after locations or rooms or departments. I remember back in college when my buddies would name them after solar systems and movie characters though--those were the good days (hard drive the size of a bicycle wheels--yay!).
Li-fan Chen
I used to know one girl who gave pet names to everything. Including her computer. Which kept making endless problems, unexpected crashes, odd behaviors, you name it... She got a second one; named it too; same story. The third one I told her to refer to as "the box" - what would you know, it's been working ever since without trouble. ;)
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Anyone remember the computer named "Chip" from Whiz Kids, circa 1983? Ritchie Adler I believe was the kids name...
Stalin
it depends, here are some I use:
> Anyone remember the computer named "Chip" from Whiz
Matthew Lock
I never 'name' them, but each one has its personality.
AllanL5
My almighty furious screaming Powermac G5 is called...
Ron
I once did some work at a telecoms client site and got the LAN guys to name the big-momma billing server I was working on "Godzilla". I also got them to name the smaller test server "Godzooki".
Nemesis
When stuff on the computer creates stupid problems I sometimes become so angry that i hit the screen. And hard too. I had a monitor drop off the rear of the desk after a particularly well-placed jab. Since then the display was permanently trapezoid. I knew a guy who would actually spit on the screen in disgust (okay, it was me).
no way
Ever since playing Hamlet back in high school, I've been naming my computers after the characters - Hamlet being the first, followed by Claudius, Gertrude, etc.
Greg Hurlman
Igor, Vimes, Carrot ...
trollop
Always have, always will.
Bill Brown
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They *hate* that.
Gareth McCaughan
Muppet, out of sheer curiosity, did you just learn a new word?
Just picking
Err? I didn't realize that anthropomorphize was a difficult word. I've heard it used quite often. I suppose you're more used to "pesonification", which really isn't much simpler.
muppet
I thought pesoification was just monitization to a mexican.
Miles Archer
Ah good, with the spelling Nazis here, we can all crack open the salad cream.
muppet
I just had to pick on you. You don't get enough of that.
bitchomputer
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