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Geeky Computer Names
Category: Ramblings • Scientist!
Posted on: June 19, 2007 5:39 AM, by CR McClain
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off topic, but thought you should see this
Speaking of geeky computer names though, my first email username was "Strongy" after Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - a critter I worked on as an undergrad. It's amazing (scary?) how easily that name still flows off my fingers as I type!
Posted by: Jim Lemire | June 19, 2007 6:10 AM
I use a Mac. Named it Viola.
Posted by: Jason | June 19, 2007 8:51 AM
My last few computers were named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Posted by: Christina Kellogg | June 19, 2007 11:24 AM
My home PC is called "downstairs". I took it from the tutorial on how to use Python Universe Builder where they describe a room called "downstairs".
My laptop is called after a Final Fantasy 6 minor character named Wedge, his partner/underling is called Biggs and both of their names were taken from minor characters in the original Star Wars trilogy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_character_names_of_Final_Fantasy#Biggs_and_Wedge
These are nice by themselves but they're very far from marine wildlife, so I have this to remedy the situation:
I started to use the nickname Amphioxus yesteryear on the internets.
Posted by: Kiki | June 21, 2007 6:54 AM
So you go diving for a week and these guys leak classified information about your desktop and call you a traitor to your organism. Incredible. No wonder they love their spineless and heartless abyssal brethren. May they go blind staring at a polychaete and stumble off the aft deck.
Actually, not every computer I own is named after a fish. I have PCs and Macs in mobile and static modes, so I use many name schemes, including constellations, superheroes, and black holes. Nobody will ever find them on a network.
Posted by: Peter Etnoyer | June 27, 2007 6:57 AM
You don't have one named after Aquaman do you?
Posted by: Kevin Zelnio | June 27, 2007 8:06 AM
That's my license plate, natch!
Posted by: Peter Etnoyer | June 27, 2007 1:15 PM
Mine's a lycaenid - a family of butterflies. :)
Posted by: romunov | July 2, 2007 10:24 AM