Okay, so I start this thread every year because I love hearing about people's electronic-naming quirks. Me? I have a lesbian memory stick named Matilda, who's currently dating my iPod, Sylvia. Sylvia is a transgender woman, once named Silvius (after that loser in As You Like It :D). I'm excited for Matilda and Sylvia's wedding, but I have to wait until Gay Marriage for Electronics is passed in my state. My headphones are named Joseph (after Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They're cool. Home computer is The Doctor. Yes, Doctor Who fan here. Kindle - Duncan. School computer - Unnamed... It's new. Any ideas, guys?
yes, I name all of mine. My old laptop was called shiny. My new one is called New Shiny. My motorbike (not really an electronic) is called Arabella, Ari for short :)
I can't resist naming everything I own, honestly. So, I have a Dell Inspiron named Steven, an old iPod named Kashi (After Kakashi Hatake from Naruto- my love from my middle school years) and a Zune named Bellatrix. As for instruments, I've got a crappy First Act electric guitar named Thresher (I am of the opinion that guitars are like boats- all female, and to change their name is unlucky. Thresher, as a result, was pretending to be a man for a while to please my brother), a Martin guitar named Ama Semper- Latin for "Love Always"- a flute named Quicksilver, a school piccolo named Anderson, and a symphonic flute (also my school's) named Silvia. So. Um. Yeah. I do kind of name everything.
My iPod is named Winchester, my netbook is TARDIS (I seriously think it's bigger on the inside, it's memory storage/capacity seems to never end O.O) my phone is Peregrin (after Pippin the Hobbit, small and causes trouble, but always ends up being reliable.) and my camera is Walt. ( Walt Disney is a big inspiration for me, and I tend to channel most of that inspiration through photography.)
My laptop...doesn't have a name, strangely. Neither does my iPod. Except for when I call it my best friend. But I've been considering naming my Macbook Air "Gonzo."
I DO name my musical instruments, however. My Irish tin whistle is named Taliesin. My electronic bagpipe chanter is also named Taliesin. My bouzouki is named Arionrhod, and my (brother's) mandolin is named Mandy.
I don't name my electronics, but I do name my instruments... based on their stickers. My classical guitar is Alex and my cello is Antonius/Antony/Tony/Andy (it's a strad copy, a kind of cruddy one xD). Then we digress... The piano is Gottfried/Liebnitz, left-handed electric guitar is Leonardo, the bass guitar is Fiona, the pair of acoustic guitars are Gideon and Wilkes. The random clarinet is named Bono (as in pro bono, it was free) and the accordion is Glora. My brother's violin is Rose or something.
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Winchester is a brand of weaponry who sold out to Japan (or China) a few years back. They make rifles and shotguns I'm not sure that is what he (she?) had in mind though.
Winchester rifles are a big name. I don't have a gun, but my dad has more than a few. But Winchester also reminds me of the pretentious dude from MASH.
Strangely, my electronics are pretty much the only things I DON'T name. My guitar is Eponine (Les Miz) and my car is Beauregard (inspired by Humphry Bogart). But my phone, laptop, camera? Nameless. It's sad, really. :(
My iPod is Rodya (after Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment) and my phone is Horatio (after the character from Hamlet). I got my computer before I developed the bizarre need to name everything, so it has no name :(
Wow. Small world. I have a friend who named her laptop Horatio. The hilarious thing was that I thought she was talking about her cat for the longest, which led to many confusing conversations
Definitely. My computer's name is Icarus. My netbook's name is Ianto. My current MP3 player is Maturin (the one before it was Rose). My mobile is Jones. My (pink!) Nintendo DS is Owen.
Oh, and my car is Geoffrey. I know he's not technically an electronic, but he started this whole trend of naming inanimate objects years ago, and would be very put out if I didn't give him a mention. Fussy little gold-digger.
My Macbook is currently the TARDIS... but I think maybe Ianto is a better fit for it because, although it's bigger on the inside, it's also EXTREMELY organized and i give everything quirky names.
I'm in love with your avatar. This November is gonna be TOTALLY AWESOME!!!
And I would totally named something the Doctor, but I think it would kinda freak me out, especially since I'm dressing up as Eleven for Halloween... If I get a new iPod though, I'm so naming it The TARDIS so that it'll say "Now synching the TARDIS" Either that or Sexy. iPhone is Fugi because it sounded cool. Laptop is Collin after the extraordinarily happy robot in Hitchhiker's Guide. My old phone was the Tank...until it...broke... Now my new phone needs a name, but I don't really like it, so I might name it something terrible. I named a jet ski Miriam once because it kept dying in the middle of the lake and I didn't like it. Named my dad's car Beleraphon (Belly for short). I thought it sounded regal. xD
my cellphone is godbriel. and i'm working on renaming my ipod. my computer is barbra streisand :D my non-electronic names though, my guitar is isolde. and my ukulele is patria.
Yep, my cell phone is Steven, Nook is Simon, iPod is... I havent' named it officially but I feel like calling her Hannah, and the laptop hasn't been named yet. I'm sure s/he will be named soon. My old laptop was called Claudia.
I've named my IPod - it's called Titanic (or 'the Titanic' on my laptop - I plug it in and it says 'syncing the Titanic' - aah, word puns) And the only other thing I've named is my phone, which is called Cas (after Castiel from Supernatural).
Okay, a) I love your picture, b) I love the syncing the Titanic so much I think someday one of my characters will do that, and c) did you name the phone Cas because he's so ridiculously bad with them?
a) thank you XD I love it too! b) :) I can't help but smile when I plug it in. Though it's off for repairs right now :( If they get me a new one, it will, of course, have the same name - that pun will never end. c) pretty much XD "This isn't funny, Dean! The voice says I'm almost out of minutes!"
My computer's name is Thomas My phone's name is Violet My iPod Nano's name is P.I.G. My iPod Touch's name is Jimmy My hard drive's name is Ravenous My DS Lite's name is Suki :D
My ipod is named Rumblroar. My DSLR is called Toby. My home computer is called Timmy. And I named my mum's car ET (because of it's registration number).
I don't so much as give my electronics names as they give me personalities. My old desktop (who has now long since retired to the land of unused electronics) is a cranky 80-year-old geezer who has a bad memory and often falls asleep in the middle of work. He has a dark cane that he uses to hit people (especially rebellious teenagers) with. My B/W printer is a rebellious teenager who only does things once, and then never again. She likes doing extra credit assignments and procrastinates on schoolwork that is due the next day. She likes dressing in monotone colors (because she can only print black/white/gray), and enjoys reading Edgar Allen Poe. My color printer, on the other hand, is very cheerful and optimistic. She sometimes falls sick, but is still very cheerful and friendly to everyone. She has taken an interest in drawing, and tends to go around coloring on the walls of her home. She always does her best to see the good in everyone, and finds it hard to not trust the people around her; this causes her to be easily tricked by the more evil-minded girls in her grade. Despite being in high school, she is very naive and has the thought process of an elementary school student.
And as for name suggestions...I'm imagining a really small and studious boy with square glasses and jet black hair. Despite his small stature, however, he has a very "masculine" name (which I haven't thought of yet).
Off topic a little (just so no one gets annoyed about that, my computer's name is Loki, my netbooks name is Little Loki, both of them are tricksters) I love your icon pic hamlet_ophelia_xoxo. I get those songs stuck in my head so, so often.
Mine have names! They're based on the TV series, "Andromeda." I liked the idea of the AI and its avatar, and it kind of went from there.
My laptop is the Andromeda Ascendent (and yes I call her Rommie for short), my external hard drive is the Pax Magellanic (Rommie's sister ship on the show, Maggie for short), and my flash drive is the Eureka Maru (the smaller ship captained by Becka that "detaches" and goes places on its own, like my keychain). My iPhone is Rhade, after Captain Hunt's first officer (and Steve Bacic is just bad-ass like my smartphone).
Did I mention that I also carried this theme over into the Access databases I created to hold all my movie/book/comic collections information? Yep, the title pages read "The Andromeda Ascendant Archives...Access Granted...Main Menu" and the main and sub screens have Rommie's AI photos watching over them. Hee.
Oh, my computer at work also has a name, doesn't follow the same format. Instead, its named after Xena's mom, Melosa. Lucy Lawless and I do share a birthday, after all. :)
I started naming my electronics after I got my first Macbook. It had a hard red protective cover, and, with my friends' encouragement, I named it Sex Kitten. A few years later, Sex Kitten died (presumably of internet viruses from being naughty with other computers). My new computer is named Sir Gawain. He is a Macbook Pro with a shiny silver case, and he's my flawed hero, just like Gawain is in Le Morte D'arthur.
Before Gawain, but after Sex Kitten came my printer. His name is Gordon. It used to be Flash Gordon, but he lost the right to be called "Flash" when he decided to stop cooperating with me. My theory is that he's jealous of Sir Gawain.
iPod- Unnamed. Perhaps Puck is a good iPod name....
My phone doesn't have a name. I just think of it as my Star Trek communicator.
My computer is called TJ Czarwin (isn't that the best name ever?) and the one before that Compy (like the dinosaur from Jurrasic Park!) Those are really the only electronics I have...
When I went through Computer Science, its important to know your hardware. Info like Router-5-2-1 may be nice to techies like me buts its to impersonal. All my network capable devices have names. So far I juest do the Computers/PDA's/Tablet
My hard drive is the TARDIS. And my GPS is named Westley, and he's dating my car, Verna. Their relationship is the cutest thing ever! I want to stage a wedding for them.
I tend to name my electronics after Transformers. My laptop is Soundwave, my phone is Rumble, my DS is Frenzy, my kindle is Prowl. I haven't named my Wii or PS3 yet and my camera is Cybershot, because it's a Sony Cybershot which already sounded like a TF name XD
hamlet_ophelia_xoxo wrote: Okay, so I start this thread every year because I love hearing about people's electronic-naming quirks. Me? I have a lesbian memory stick named Matilda, who's currently dating my iPod, Sylvia. Sylvia is a transgender woman, once named Silvius (after that loser in As You Like It :D). I'm excited for Matilda and Sylvia's wedding, but I have to wait until Gay Marriage for Electronics is passed in my state. My headphones are named Joseph (after Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They're cool. Home computer is The Doctor. Yes, Doctor Who fan here. Kindle - Duncan. School computer - Unnamed... It's new. Any ideas, guys?
So i have a new ipod that i just inherited form hamlet_opehlia_xoxo and we are going to bond and "it's gonna be totally awesome" ;)
I name all of my electronics, and even a few things that aren't electronic. My phone's name is Matthiew, or Matt. He's a bit troublesome, that one, but he's a good boy most days. My old phone's name was Frankie, middle name Patrick. My laptop's name is Kasey, and lately he likes to be an obnoxious teenager and make my life harder when I'm using the internet by making my browser run all slow. My camera is named Arianna. Not actually my camera, technically my mom's, but I use her more than she does. I have a pair of sweat pants named Donnie, a shirt named Richard, and my guitar's name is Flynn (poor baby, just sitting in the corner, he needs a more loving mommy).
My iPod is named Sprocket the Pod Wonder, partially after the dog on Jim Henson's 'Fraggle Rock' and partially for Robin the Boy Wonder because my case has the Bat-signal on it. My laptop computer is named the Oracle at Delphi, Delphi for short (partially for my love of Greek mythology, but also for my greater love of Oracle the superheroine) My phone's name is Lois which is what I randomly named my text ringtone one day. Let's blame it on Lois Lane and move on with our lives. I haven't named my iPod dock yet, but I'm thinking either Kermit or Jim to go with my iPod.
Netbook: Carlos (after the pretend name given to the baby in "The Hangover"). Cell phone: Drea (my coworkers & I all have Android powered phones, so we all gave our phones names that started with D) Camera: Miss Peacock
Previous names: Camera (Isabella Soprano) was married to my cell phone (Tony Soprano) who had a tattoo of Jessica Rabbitt (aka a sticker) on his back. They fought all the time & didn't get along very well. Then Tony drowned (aka I flushed him down the toilet by accident), and I replaced him with Rosalie, a pretty red phone. Soon after, Isabella came to her demise. She was replaced by my new camera, Miss Peacock. My first computer was named Della Reese (it was a big, fat, clunky Dell) & my iPod was named Igor von Touchtenstein. My original iPod Nano was nameless.
Ha I read your post and then saw your picture... Malfoy still isn't as totally awesome as Harry freaking Potter. iPod didn't wanna spell Potter right... I'll name it Patrick, from spongebob. Because Patrick is dumb. And my Kindle dies alot so I'll name it Kenny, from south park. Oh yea.
I tend not to name things- HOWEVER my iPod and I are totally BFFs so I've named him. He's Quentin- and he's homosexual just because I prefer everything to be gay.
I'm a complete Doctor Who nerd so my phone is the TARDIS (complete with TARDIS materialization noise as ringtone) and my computer is Interface (from The Girl Who Waited).
Your home computer in amazing. My headphones are Rose, after Rose Tyler. Yes, from Doctor Who. Cellphone? David, as in David Bowie. It's just that amazing, not to mention it lives forever. The battery never dies. My home computer's name is Merlin. Not because it's magical or anything. Just because I like that name. As for your school computer... ever consider Severus? I like to name school things after people at Hogwarts. My backpack is Minerva.
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All my electronics are named after the pacman ghosts. My computer is Blink because it often crashes on me. My phone is Inky because it is blue. My ipod is Dinky because it is tiny, a nano. My Coach chair is Clyde. And of course the most awesome and important one is my massive tea/coffee mug. It's name is Goliath! It is massive we figured out that it can hold about 2 1/2 cups of tea...that's a lot!!
If you don't already have a name for your second computer, I suggest Eddie. He's very cheerful, and super-positive in any situation. Would you like some tea?
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Wow. I don't tend to name electronics, but my trumpet is called Hikari and have a skull named Sherlock. A real foxes skull, we found it in the woods one day. Although my HTC Wildfire is named Marvin because the touchscreen hates me and everybody else and tends to go and sulk whenever I ask it to do something. Also, my bike is named Saphira.
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Can I just say, you sound awesome!!! Your icon-AVPM is one of my favourite things! Also I LOVE Doctor Who with a passion, my computer is named K-9 and has a Doctor Who theme lol My i-pod is called Flo, I'm not entirely sure why... My phone is currently un-named, as I'm mad at it because it misbehaves so much!
Hahaha I had no idea other people did this to!... At least now I know I'm not the only one (although that's kind of depressing as well) My ipod classic is Samuel, my ipod nano is Sofia... they have a thing going on but I try not to let them be alone together much. My nook is Nick and my phone, Violet.
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My tape recorder is a crossdresser who goes by Ellen when he's "dressed" with his Walt Disney princess stickers and Allan the rest of the time. My laptop is Nicole. My cell phone is Amalyssa... That's pretty much it. ^^
My old computer was Alice, my new computer is Alaska (from John Green's Looking for Alaska), my iPod is Little Matty, and my phone is Pie. Oh, and I have a flash drive named Oskar Leif.
my iPod's name is Georgia, my computers name changes depending on what I feel like calling it, and my ukulele (even though its obviously not an electronic) is called Lucy :) I also named my friends car (a red bug, not really electronic either I suppose) Elmo.
My home computers are named after French surrealists (though my laptop bears Mark Twain's middle name). My iPods are named after '80s subcultural references.
My new GPS system is Gladys. She's stuck up and snooty and I am still not sure if we can make this relationship work. My desktop is Lassie. My laptop is Pinky. My dog's chew toy is Funky, so that I can say, "Juliet, get Funky!"
My laptop is the TARDIS; it is blue and lives in a blue case. My home computer is called Hogsmead, I think...my parents named it, and their computer (directly across from mine) is Hogwarts. My iPod is Luna (after Luna Lovegood) my phone I call Idris (aka the TARDIS in human form.) My netbook is Guinevere Lizbeth, after the character I designed after myself in my Doctor Who fanfic My headphones are Charlie and Alex (after Charlie McDonnell and Alex Day) My downstairs TV is River (River Song) My upstairs TV is Amelia (Amelia Pond) My iHome is Sadie (after Sadie Kane) I have the Cleverbot app on my iPod, and I call her Trisha Elizabeth Cooper (TEC) after Trisha McMillan (Trillian) in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Gwen Cooper in Torchwood. Also, TEC is the name of the computer in Paper Mario 2 My camera is Marvin, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy My flashdrive is Thing I Want To Kill when it doesn't work, or Toshiko from Torchwood when it's working properly. When I was younger I had a diary I called Arabelle or Ara, and I used to name all of my pencils XD
LOVE it! :D I love your profile picture, for reals(: It's TOTALLY AWESOME!
I don't really have any names for any of my electronics... well, unless you count my headphones I had a while back that were green so I called them "Froggy"
My camera is called The Smurf Cam because it's little and blue. My car is called The Love Child because I drive a Chevy PT Cruiser and somebody once commented to me that if Adam West's Batmobile and a 69 VW Beetle got together and had babies, that's what they would look like.
My laptop is named Dexter (as in Dexter's Laboratory not Dexter as in the serial killer). The big home computer is named Bertha (because it's a girl, but she can process/run EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME) My MP3 is Faithful (because it's one of those old ones where if you drop it, the cover comes off, and it's been repaired an infinite number of times, BUT STILL WORKS!!). And finally, the small computer I have in my room, is currently Nicola (Because it's an arrogant asshole like Nicola from Sanctuary, however his name changes every few months (he was Leonard last year)).
yes.. :) my laptop's name is Hue, my iTouch's name is Cyan, my USB is Crimson, my portable hard drive is Cole. sadly, my phone doesn't have a name. i'll be receiving a digicam soon, she'll be named Eve. :)
a desktop i sent to recycle six months ago was Tigger my older linux desktop was greykitty my newer linux desktop is blackkitty my borrowed imac with the round base is Eve from Wall-E my new windows laptop is Troublemaker
My iPod is Jack (either from Doctor Who or titanic) My phone is TARDIS My old laptop was Mal (firefly) My new laptop is Jayne (firefly again) My nintendo DSi is Elizabeth My nintendo 64 is Rose (either from Doctor Who or Titanic) My 64 and my iPod are married!
I have a name for your school computer. Since you're a DW fan, how about CAL, named off of my favorite episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead". Sorry if I sound to much like a geek, here, but I thought it sounded cool.
My laptop is named Pocky (Peice Of Crap...ky) My guitar is named Shennendoa My car is Sexy Beast My iPod is Little Buddy and my Phone is Bibbum, because BBM (black berry messenger) looks like Bibbum and I think its cute. Oh and I have a piggy bank named George.
My home laptop is called Nova, my school laptop is Himeko, and the computer I'm using now is named Helen. I don't really name anything else, seeing as those are my only electronics.
I named my laptop; April after my favorite season. My ipod is named Sarah and is in love with my cell phone; Jake. But the thing is Jake is in love with my house phone; Jordan. But Jordan is a lesbian and loves Sarah. So its really strange.
ddog125 wrote: I named my laptop; April after my favorite season. My ipod is named Sarah and is in love with my cell phone; Jake. But the thing is Jake is in love with my house phone; Jordan. But Jordan is a lesbian and loves Sarah. So its really strange.
I think there is the makings of a book in there somewhere...
My first compyuter was named alex. It was a great laptop. I have a computer named temptation, tempy for short. I took it apart and removed the delete keys thingy to make it work. Now I type with it cuz my addiction to deleting is taken care of.
Okay, so here it goes.... (I have a number of named electronics/unanimate objects) My first iPod (2GB original nano) is Edward. The second (120GB classic) is James (or more commonly, jimmy...after an imaginary friend featured often in rather amusing videos by a pair of Scottish girls on youtube) My first laptop (poor thing, never worked from the start really), was Ambrielle (after a character in 'Stained Glass' by Michael Bedard), which when I got my first (working) laptop, I named it in dedication to her Ambrielle the Second. My family/home computer, is Xaviera. My acoustic guitar is Hannah, my electric, Parker (female, after a Radio Free Roscoe character- oh the days of that show) Hm. Who am I forgetting. My Kobo does not have a name yet. And in the list of my old cell phones....My first was Sally (Nightmare Before Christmas), then there was Tally (Uglies), and now I have...er, I don't think I've named my newer one! My old coffee maker was Lorelai (Gilmore Girls). I think those are the majority of the names I recall currently.
I've got a school laptop named Oidy, a jump drive named Bugsy, an iPod called Abu, and earbuds called Mango. My phone and home laptop are still nameless, sadly. Any ideas?
I name my electronics as the following: First Laptop Gilgamesh (has been purchased from my parents when he got old) Current laptop Beowulf (Yes I like naming my computers after heroes of legend) Dead Printer Enkidu (don't name stuff Enkidu, apparently it kills the electronic in question o_O) Bike: Nel And my Car: The Roan
My BlackBerry is named Bi-Bi for the bipolar little bee-otch that she is...she's a slutty little cellular device that has a thing for my laptop by the name of Lola..
Lola and Bi-Bi are secret lovers however Lola is cheating on Bi-Bi with my iPod named Zeus.
Zeus has a thing for my air conditioner named Carly and therefore, they had a secret wedding and produced my iPods Frick and Frack...
Frick and Frack are attached at the hip and at the current moment are in between relationships with electronics.
Laptop- Silent Bob Car- A Pony Named Silverado the tim machine in my novel- URSA I found this thread strangely relevant, since URSA is sentient and communicates with machines. :D Will come back to name those too.
Yup. Nano iPod is Flomingo. It's electric blue but has attitude. New iPhone is clad in bright pink Otter Box & shoulda been Flo mingo but ended up iPhlo. 2000 Hyundai wagon is Hermione. A Pal's laptop is Nomad (a la Star Trek). Her new Kia Sole is Aretha (as in Queen of...). Laptop is replacement for one I poured a whole cup of coffee into, so it's name is Java Jane. Yes, I got the full warranty on this baby.
my brother thinks Im nuts for naming everything! my old laptop was Damien (because ti was inherently evil) my new one is Tony (BBC skins series 1) because its awesome. the house desktop is HAL, well just because. and our waffle iron is name Pete as is our blender ( nickelodeons Pete & Pete of the 90s)
My flash drive is named Rearden (from Atlas Shrugged) My Kodak Play-Touch camera is named Diane (As in Agent Cooper's off-screen secretary from Twin Peaks) My Powerbook is named Kafka, and my Toshiba is named Cooper.
I name pretty much everything. I love my ipod's name. He is Willard Woden the Third:-) And my computer has amnesia and can never remember his name so he changes it all the time. My '88 dodge dakota's name is Roger. Oh, and my husband's ford ranger's name is CiCi after the woman from The Nanny that no one likes. Roger thought she was pretty until she decided to be rude and totally ignored him!
i totally do this. My laptop's name is Ace (because he's an Acer), my iPod's name is iSkye, my Nintendo DS is Fabio, who is gay, but had a fling with my acoustic guitar Claire (not electronic but whatever) and they birthed George, my electric guitar. My phone's have all had Fr- names. my current one is Francois. as for your school computer, I'd go with Francine myself.
...I want a computer named The Doctor now. then i could say i was playing with The Doctor...
I named my laptop Jeff. He has 2 USB friends. Klaus (named after the main character in my story) and Henry Honu (Honu is the Hawaiian word for turtle and this USB drive is shaped like a turtle). My iPod is named Simon Mortimer Laredo (Simon and Mortimer are both names mentioned in episodes of American Dad and Laredo references an Electric Light Orchestra song called 'Laredo Tornado'.). :D My phone doesn't have a name... :P
My NOOK is Alfred, my phone is Lola, My car is Bawnkweshanaynay (Bonnie for short) my friend has a yukon XL named Clyde (Bonnie and Clyde shared the same owner for awhile) My old iPod was George and the new one has yet to be named. Ironically, I have no problem naming electronics, my novel on the other hand.....
My laptop's name is the Amyrillian, though I'm considering renaming it. Maybe to Larxene or Amy Pond. My iPod Touch is named Nynaeve, though she'll most likely be renamed to Namine. (I do 'N' names for my iPod) My old iPod Classic was named Frisian. My iPad is named Min. I'm considering K-9 or Holly for it. My camera hasn't been named... it's just so beat-up, it'll probably die soon. ._. My guitar also hasn't been named, for the lack of a good name. I'm probably gonna name her Chao or Luma after my favorite video game floaty companions.
Meh i name some things... my phone is called Olive, my DVD player is Gigi, my house's alarm system is Glados, and my 2 CD players are Gabriela and Wheatley. Ans as for ur computer... DEXTER!!!!!!!! :D
I name my computers too! My big desktop, which I rarely use (it's a battleship, but too damn cumbersome 90% of the time) is The Beast. I gutted and rebuilt it myself, and it's about 7 years old, but runs like a TANK.
My Dell laptop, 6 years old, which I use for writing, is Baby...yes, there's a MAJOR sentimental attachment there; it's the first computer I had bought and paid for myself, and for a 6-year-old, it is AWESOME.
My 2-year-old but second-hand Powerbook is named The Gremlin. It's old as dirt, but it handles Photoshop like a master.
My couple-month-old Netbook is the Mini-Beast. Same specs as the Beast, but in purse-size.
My 2-year-old iPod touch is...Baby Grand. :)
And I just acquired a camera, a Nikon D-series, which I named The Beauty....because, honestly, I'm a big ol' nerd and the tech on this camera blew. my. mind.
My desktop computer is named Daisy, my iPod was named Brod (from the name of the river Trachimbrod in Everything is Illuminated. . .I heart Jonathan Safran Foer) until she passed away, and my laptop's name is Bernadette. She's large and in charge.
My boyfriend is obsessed with Norse names, so when I inherited his iPod the only stipulation he gave me was that I keep its original name: Hrothgar. He also has a Mac desktop named Ragnar and a portable hard drive named Odin AllStorage.
First, I laughed. Second, I had thoughts of how the "name" and scenario could lead to more goodness.
I would love to read a transcript of the tech support call in which you ask about your computer by name. So much fun could be had with that, I think...
I've been naming my tech for ages. I can't help it. I like naming things. I think it began when I first discovered I could name my computer hard drives. It just went on from there.
Phone: Aoide My old mp3 player: Julian Laptop: Sepulchre Desktop: Lord Sobek External HDD: Ulysses USB sticks: Micallefff (current), Chassybear, Priscilla.
Laptop: Romana (Doctor Who) Ex. Hard-drives: Ivanova (B5), Toshiko (Torchwood), Echo (Dollhouse), Temperance (Bones) and Olivia (Fringe) iPod: Jack (Torchwood) Phone: Erica (the only non-fandom one - it's a Sony Ericsson)
My car is also named - Winifred (after Winifred Burkle from Angel).
In my student house, we named all the network equipment after characters from "Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog". :D
So I'm not the only one with an electronic device named Olivia. That's my laptop... and if she ever misbehaves, I can always cal her Faulivia. ;)
I had a name for my phone not long ago, but I forgot what it was because I hardly ever used it. Never thought about other things I use on a regular basis.
My car's name, though, is Reginald. Reggie for short. I thought it fitting seeing as he is a 1992 Buick Regal, so it's almost as if he's chauffeuring me around. :D *wuvs her Reggie!* I also named my boyfriend's car Chester, though it hasn't caught on, yet.
The love-lives of my electronics aren't so interesting, but I have a goofy "Kodo" name scheme going on with my computers-- my beast of a machine I dumped my whole savings into building is named WarKodo, he lives next to WoolyKodo, my secondary PC. Then my little netbook is named MiniKodo, my kindle is EmberKodo, and the little USB stick I carry around is called PackKodo.
I tend to speak of them like they are animals too. When one of WarKodo's hard disks died (thank god for RAID 1), I texted my boyfriend something along the lines of, "WarKodo is sick; we need to operate!"
My iPhone is called Tatsuya(replacing the iPod nano, Tatsuya, that died in a toilet in August thanks to a very rude girl at college - the b... witch didn't even apologise!) and my laptop is called Yuya. Both are very much male despite the fact they're both very girly-looking (laptop is pink; phone is white /w pink bumper and a pig-rabbit phone charm). :3
My laptop is Joseph, my cell phone is Szilveszter and its Bluetooth connection is called Slenderman, and my megaphone is Julius. My guitar is Strat, because it's a Stratocaster, but I sometimes call it Strut.
Hello, this is my laptop Scott. The broken laptop -- that's Orson. My backup drive -- Zippy. And of course, my MP3-player, Musey II. (Musey I died after eight months.)
I'm currently doing my masters in law and all my gadgets are named after famous lawyers and theorists. Sadly, my beloved laptop Cicero copped it with the Blue Screen of Death a few months back, so he's been replaced by the new and improved Lord Denning. My phone is Montesquieu, and my memory stick is called Woodrow Wilson because even though he doesn't quite have Fourteen Points, he's still quite pointy.
I call my trusty laptop Veles Pendragon, my external hard drive is named Lilith, and my phone goes by Genzai. Alphonse is my desktop which is currently out of commission. I should probably name my USB sticks once I get a bit more inspired. 8D
Oddly, I think my only named electronic is my desktop: Six. Not sure why she's named Six, but I'm sure I had a reason for at the time. Or well a reason *other* than my critique partner naming hers Seven... but I can't remember. -eyes Six-
I name lots of things, including my electronics! My iPhone is named Winston, my iPod Touch is Mr. Spock, my netbook is Baby, my bike is Charlotte... My old MacBook was named Snowy, but my new one doesn't have a name yet...I should get on that...
Everything that has a personality gets a name (and sometimes a back story...) My hair's name is Sophia, she's a 3rd cousin, twice removed of Hitlers moustache. My old mp3 player is Pete and my Ipod is Hank (He's a green nano, while my friend has a green ipod touch named John) My guitar is Billy G. & my phone is Gaston! (He is an obnoxious red guy who sings all the time)
I mostly don't name things- though I feel like I should. Only the ones that actually get personalities in my mind get names.
Right now, there are two: Sir Lancelot- I needed a name for my laptop so that my internet leeching would be even more amusing-- and this one fits because he's such a failure.
Antonio- Not an electronic. No, this is the name of my beloved viola. He wouldn't have forgiven me for not mentioning him.
Do you name your electronics?
Okay, so I start this thread every year because I love hearing about people's electronic-naming quirks.
Me?
I have a lesbian memory stick named Matilda, who's currently dating my iPod, Sylvia. Sylvia is a transgender woman, once named Silvius (after that loser in As You Like It :D). I'm excited for Matilda and Sylvia's wedding, but I have to wait until Gay Marriage for Electronics is passed in my state.
My headphones are named Joseph (after Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They're cool.
Home computer is The Doctor. Yes, Doctor Who fan here.
Kindle - Duncan.
School computer - Unnamed... It's new. Any ideas, guys?
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yes, I name all of mine.
My old laptop was called shiny. My new one is called New Shiny. My motorbike (not really an electronic) is called Arabella, Ari for short :)
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My laptop is named Shiny too....
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I can't resist naming everything I own, honestly. So, I have a Dell Inspiron named Steven, an old iPod named Kashi (After Kakashi Hatake from Naruto- my love from my middle school years) and a Zune named Bellatrix. As for instruments, I've got a crappy First Act electric guitar named Thresher (I am of the opinion that guitars are like boats- all female, and to change their name is unlucky. Thresher, as a result, was pretending to be a man for a while to please my brother), a Martin guitar named Ama Semper- Latin for "Love Always"- a flute named Quicksilver, a school piccolo named Anderson, and a symphonic flute (also my school's) named Silvia.
So. Um. Yeah. I do kind of name everything.
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one of the characters in my story is names Arabella :) its a 1800's name so its perfect for my character!
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AHH i love your avatar!
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I love both of your avatars!!!
*Sings* And it's going to be TOTALLY AWESOME
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A STARKID WHOVIAN?!?!?
HUG ME
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Ditto
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My 2010 Nissan Xterra's name is Xavier Terrence. **snicker snort**
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My iPod is named Winchester,
my netbook is TARDIS (I seriously think it's bigger on the inside, it's memory storage/capacity seems to never end O.O)
my phone is Peregrin (after Pippin the Hobbit, small and causes trouble, but always ends up being reliable.)
and my camera is Walt. ( Walt Disney is a big inspiration for me, and I tend to channel most of that inspiration through photography.)
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Haha, my iPod is the TARDIS.
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It's bigger in the inside, isn't it? XD
My laptop...doesn't have a name, strangely. Neither does my iPod. Except for when I call it my best friend. But I've been considering naming my Macbook Air "Gonzo."
I DO name my musical instruments, however. My Irish tin whistle is named Taliesin. My electronic bagpipe chanter is also named Taliesin. My bouzouki is named Arionrhod, and my (brother's) mandolin is named Mandy.
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I name my instruments too. My black Behringer guitar is named The Shadow and my red Strat is named Phoenix.
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Like the Taliesin Orchestra? I have them on my iPod, also my friend.
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I don't name my electronics, but I do name my instruments... based on their stickers.
My classical guitar is Alex and my cello is Antonius/Antony/Tony/Andy (it's a strad copy, a kind of cruddy one xD).
Then we digress...
The piano is Gottfried/Liebnitz, left-handed electric guitar is Leonardo, the bass guitar is Fiona, the pair of acoustic guitars are Gideon and Wilkes. The random clarinet is named Bono (as in pro bono, it was free) and the accordion is Glora. My brother's violin is Rose or something.
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My violin had a name at some point... I believe it was Tiger Lily. If we were going by stickers it would be Schroetter, which is kind of cute.
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I have a trombone named Kingsley (cuz its a King trombone) and a saxophone named Elmo.
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I do instruments too! My flute is named Wanda and my piccolo Zeus!
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The TARDIS? That is an epic name for an Ipod!
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My iPod's name is The Sonic Eardriver.
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My ipod is called TARDIS too.
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Heehee, me too :) My friends think it's so strange.
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XD
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Mine too :) I thought it was so unique (and where I live, it is) to do that, but on here loads of people have.
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I love your names xD They are amazing, I'm a doctor who fan as well as LOTR :) Where did you get the idea of winchester for your ipod?
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The only Winchesters i could think of our from Supernatural.
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YES. same here. That's what I instantly thought after reading 'Winchester'.
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Winchester is a brand of weaponry who sold out to Japan (or China) a few years back. They make rifles and shotguns I'm not sure that is what he (she?) had in mind though.
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Winchester rifles are a big name. I don't have a gun, but my dad has more than a few. But Winchester also reminds me of the pretentious dude from MASH.
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Supernatural fan! hahahaha
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lol one of my best friends name is Peregrin named after pipin and i saw that and was all omg so i though i would tell you
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Strangely, my electronics are pretty much the only things I DON'T name. My guitar is Eponine (Les Miz) and my car is Beauregard (inspired by Humphry Bogart). But my phone, laptop, camera? Nameless. It's sad, really. :(
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Les Miz = The most awesome broadway musical ever.
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I feel like forum posts need like buttons.
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*like*
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and some kind of status place. how else am i supposed to procrastinate quickly?
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*like* :)
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My iPod is Rodya (after Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment) and my phone is Horatio (after the character from Hamlet). I got my computer before I developed the bizarre need to name everything, so it has no name :(
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Wow. Small world. I have a friend who named her laptop Horatio. The hilarious thing was that I thought she was talking about her cat for the longest, which led to many confusing conversations
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**like* Snort!
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I have a Horatio too. That's what I named my Kindle
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Definitely. My computer's name is Icarus. My netbook's name is Ianto. My current MP3 player is Maturin (the one before it was Rose). My mobile is Jones. My (pink!) Nintendo DS is Owen.
Oh, and my car is Geoffrey. I know he's not technically an electronic, but he started this whole trend of naming inanimate objects years ago, and would be very put out if I didn't give him a mention. Fussy little gold-digger.
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IANTO!! <3 Nice. lol (And I suppose I like Rose, Jones and Owen too!)
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One heck of a teaboy...
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Ianto~! <3
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Fantastic names- very cool! Love that Ianto is your netbook.
Pink DS is Owen? Pourquoi? Just felt right? :)
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Ianto! Do you keep things properly organized on said netbook, by any chance?
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My Macbook is currently the TARDIS... but I think maybe Ianto is a better fit for it because, although it's bigger on the inside, it's also EXTREMELY organized and i give everything quirky names.
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I'm in love with your avatar. This November is gonna be TOTALLY AWESOME!!!
And I would totally named something the Doctor, but I think it would kinda freak me out, especially since I'm dressing up as Eleven for Halloween... If I get a new iPod though, I'm so naming it The TARDIS so that it'll say "Now synching the TARDIS" Either that or Sexy.
iPhone is Fugi because it sounded cool.
Laptop is Collin after the extraordinarily happy robot in Hitchhiker's Guide.
My old phone was the Tank...until it...broke... Now my new phone needs a name, but I don't really like it, so I might name it something terrible.
I named a jet ski Miriam once because it kept dying in the middle of the lake and I didn't like it.
Named my dad's car Beleraphon (Belly for short). I thought it sounded regal. xD
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Old computer: Merlin
iPhone: Merlinus Minimus
New gorgeous MacbookPro: Shiro
Car: Hedwig
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my cellphone is godbriel. and i'm working on renaming my ipod. my computer is barbra streisand :D my non-electronic names though, my guitar is isolde. and my ukulele is patria.
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My computer was named Sofus from the start and I name everything i own, but always forget the names.
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Oh my god. I'm sorry. I can't resist. Can I just say though -
You sound totally awesome? I definitely just fangirl squealed reading your post.
ehhhh cringing moment. But since you're a fellow StarKid I figure you'll understand. :)
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Haha I did the exact same thing! StarKids!!! :D
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My iPod is 'Darth iPod' :D
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oh, and my cars. Have a truck named Charlie.
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Yep, my cell phone is Steven, Nook is Simon, iPod is... I havent' named it officially but I feel like calling her Hannah, and the laptop hasn't been named yet. I'm sure s/he will be named soon. My old laptop was called Claudia.
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I've named my IPod - it's called Titanic (or 'the Titanic' on my laptop - I plug it in and it says 'syncing the Titanic' - aah, word puns)
And the only other thing I've named is my phone, which is called Cas (after Castiel from Supernatural).
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Okay, a) I love your picture, b) I love the syncing the Titanic so much I think someday one of my characters will do that, and c) did you name the phone Cas because he's so ridiculously bad with them?
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Rawr. Post ended up in the wrong place.
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a) thank you XD I love it too!
b) :) I can't help but smile when I plug it in. Though it's off for repairs right now :( If they get me a new one, it will, of course, have the same name - that pun will never end.
c) pretty much XD "This isn't funny, Dean! The voice says I'm almost out of minutes!"
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That pun will go on and on? ;)
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STARKID!!! :D my friend has a shirt that' says that...just thought you ought to know. ;)
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I have to say I just cracked up over your "syncing the Titanic, Silath!" Writers are so much fun!
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I had a stapler named Henry and a cactus named Boris. But I dont have Henry any more and Boris is being looked after by my best friend :/
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I have a cactus named Pierre, after a character from War and Peace (I am just over half way through). Electronics, though... I don't know.
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My computer's name is Thomas
My phone's name is Violet
My iPod Nano's name is P.I.G.
My iPod Touch's name is Jimmy
My hard drive's name is Ravenous
My DS Lite's name is Suki
:D
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Jimmy is my iPad's name. :)
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My ipod is named Rumblroar.
My DSLR is called Toby.
My home computer is called Timmy.
And I named my mum's car ET (because of it's registration number).
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Rumbleroar is the headmaster at Pigfarts. He's a lion. Who can TALK.
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RUMBLEROAR!!!!
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I don't so much as give my electronics names as they give me personalities.
My old desktop (who has now long since retired to the land of unused electronics) is a cranky 80-year-old geezer who has a bad memory and often falls asleep in the middle of work. He has a dark cane that he uses to hit people (especially rebellious teenagers) with.
My B/W printer is a rebellious teenager who only does things once, and then never again. She likes doing extra credit assignments and procrastinates on schoolwork that is due the next day. She likes dressing in monotone colors (because she can only print black/white/gray), and enjoys reading Edgar Allen Poe.
My color printer, on the other hand, is very cheerful and optimistic. She sometimes falls sick, but is still very cheerful and friendly to everyone. She has taken an interest in drawing, and tends to go around coloring on the walls of her home. She always does her best to see the good in everyone, and finds it hard to not trust the people around her; this causes her to be easily tricked by the more evil-minded girls in her grade. Despite being in high school, she is very naive and has the thought process of an elementary school student.
And as for name suggestions...I'm imagining a really small and studious boy with square glasses and jet black hair. Despite his small stature, however, he has a very "masculine" name (which I haven't thought of yet).
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Monochrome, not monotone. Oops. Where's the edit button when you need one?
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Off topic a little (just so no one gets annoyed about that, my computer's name is Loki, my netbooks name is Little Loki, both of them are tricksters) I love your icon pic hamlet_ophelia_xoxo. I get those songs stuck in my head so, so often.
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Mine have names! They're based on the TV series, "Andromeda." I liked the idea of the AI and its avatar, and it kind of went from there.
My laptop is the Andromeda Ascendent (and yes I call her Rommie for short), my external hard drive is the Pax Magellanic (Rommie's sister ship on the show, Maggie for short), and my flash drive is the Eureka Maru (the smaller ship captained by Becka that "detaches" and goes places on its own, like my keychain). My iPhone is Rhade, after Captain Hunt's first officer (and Steve Bacic is just bad-ass like my smartphone).
Did I mention that I also carried this theme over into the Access databases I created to hold all my movie/book/comic collections information? Yep, the title pages read "The Andromeda Ascendant Archives...Access Granted...Main Menu" and the main and sub screens have Rommie's AI photos watching over them. Hee.
Oh, my computer at work also has a name, doesn't follow the same format. Instead, its named after Xena's mom, Melosa. Lucy Lawless and I do share a birthday, after all. :)
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Your school computer could totally be named David. (Lol I have no idea where i got that from, David just sounds like a good name for a computer)
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I started naming my electronics after I got my first Macbook. It had a hard red protective cover, and, with my friends' encouragement, I named it Sex Kitten. A few years later, Sex Kitten died (presumably of internet viruses from being naughty with other computers). My new computer is named Sir Gawain. He is a Macbook Pro with a shiny silver case, and he's my flawed hero, just like Gawain is in Le Morte D'arthur.
Before Gawain, but after Sex Kitten came my printer. His name is Gordon. It used to be Flash Gordon, but he lost the right to be called "Flash" when he decided to stop cooperating with me. My theory is that he's jealous of Sir Gawain.
iPod- Unnamed. Perhaps Puck is a good iPod name....
My phone doesn't have a name. I just think of it as my Star Trek communicator.
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Star Trek!!!!! I think I love you...
in a totally platonic and non-weird way.
Is that creepy? I think it is...sorry. Any mention of Star Trek gets me totally and completely excited.
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Like!!!
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My computer is called TJ Czarwin (isn't that the best name ever?) and the one before that Compy (like the dinosaur from Jurrasic Park!)
Those are really the only electronics I have...
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When I went through Computer Science, its important to know your hardware. Info like Router-5-2-1 may be nice to techies like me buts its to impersonal. All my network capable devices have names. So far I juest do the Computers/PDA's/Tablet
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My hard drive is the TARDIS. And my GPS is named Westley, and he's dating my car, Verna. Their relationship is the cutest thing ever! I want to stage a wedding for them.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention: my hard drive TARDIS is my mac's time machine.
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I tend to name my electronics after Transformers. My laptop is Soundwave, my phone is Rumble, my DS is Frenzy, my kindle is Prowl. I haven't named my Wii or PS3 yet and my camera is Cybershot, because it's a Sony Cybershot which already sounded like a TF name XD
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i named my old ipod Ravage (it died...).
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So i have a new ipod that i just inherited form hamlet_opehlia_xoxo and we are going to bond and "it's gonna be totally awesome" ;)
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Sylvia now belongs to E.
But I have a new ipod, and it's anonymous. hm...
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anonymister. you should call it that.
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I name all of my electronics, and even a few things that aren't electronic.
My phone's name is Matthiew, or Matt. He's a bit troublesome, that one, but he's a good boy most days. My old phone's name was Frankie, middle name Patrick.
My laptop's name is Kasey, and lately he likes to be an obnoxious teenager and make my life harder when I'm using the internet by making my browser run all slow.
My camera is named Arianna. Not actually my camera, technically my mom's, but I use her more than she does.
I have a pair of sweat pants named Donnie, a shirt named Richard, and my guitar's name is Flynn (poor baby, just sitting in the corner, he needs a more loving mommy).
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My iPod is named Sprocket the Pod Wonder, partially after the dog on Jim Henson's 'Fraggle Rock' and partially for Robin the Boy Wonder because my case has the Bat-signal on it.
My laptop computer is named the Oracle at Delphi, Delphi for short (partially for my love of Greek mythology, but also for my greater love of Oracle the superheroine)
My phone's name is Lois which is what I randomly named my text ringtone one day. Let's blame it on Lois Lane and move on with our lives.
I haven't named my iPod dock yet, but I'm thinking either Kermit or Jim to go with my iPod.
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Netbook: Carlos (after the pretend name given to the baby in "The Hangover").
Cell phone: Drea (my coworkers & I all have Android powered phones, so we all gave our phones names that started with D)
Camera: Miss Peacock
Previous names: Camera (Isabella Soprano) was married to my cell phone (Tony Soprano) who had a tattoo of Jessica Rabbitt (aka a sticker) on his back. They fought all the time & didn't get along very well. Then Tony drowned (aka I flushed him down the toilet by accident), and I replaced him with Rosalie, a pretty red phone. Soon after, Isabella came to her demise. She was replaced by my new camera, Miss Peacock. My first computer was named Della Reese (it was a big, fat, clunky Dell) & my iPod was named Igor von Touchtenstein. My original iPod Nano was nameless.
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hamlet_ophelia_xoxo: Your headphones are named after Joseph from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? That's AWESOME!
The only electronic device I have officially named as of now is my laptop. Since it's a jet-black HP, I found it fitting to name it Harry Potter.
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"oh, what now!" that what i say to my electronics all the time.
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Ha I read your post and then saw your picture... Malfoy still isn't as totally awesome as Harry freaking Potter. iPod didn't wanna spell Potter right... I'll name it Patrick, from spongebob. Because Patrick is dumb. And my Kindle dies alot so I'll name it Kenny, from south park. Oh yea.
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I tend not to name things- HOWEVER my iPod and I are totally BFFs so I've named him. He's Quentin- and he's homosexual just because I prefer everything to be gay.
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I've just recalled that I have a flashdrive that I named bethanny... so I guess I do name things XD
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I'm a complete Doctor Who nerd so my phone is the TARDIS (complete with TARDIS materialization noise as ringtone) and my computer is Interface (from The Girl Who Waited).
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Ah, I love that!
My iPod is the TARDIS, too :)
Whovians Unite! :)
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Your home computer in amazing.
My headphones are Rose, after Rose Tyler. Yes, from Doctor Who. Cellphone? David, as in David Bowie. It's just that amazing, not to mention it lives forever. The battery never dies. My home computer's name is Merlin. Not because it's magical or anything. Just because I like that name.
As for your school computer... ever consider Severus? I like to name school things after people at Hogwarts. My backpack is Minerva.
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:)
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Hamlet - How about 'Naim' as a name? ;)
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Cute. Really cute. *rotfl!*
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All my electronics are named after the pacman ghosts. My computer is Blink because it often crashes on me. My phone is Inky because it is blue. My ipod is Dinky because it is tiny, a nano. My Coach chair is Clyde. And of course the most awesome and important one is my massive tea/coffee mug. It's name is Goliath! It is massive we figured out that it can hold about 2 1/2 cups of tea...that's a lot!!
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If you don't already have a name for your second computer, I suggest Eddie. He's very cheerful, and super-positive in any situation. Would you like some tea?
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Wow. I don't tend to name electronics, but my trumpet is called Hikari and have a skull named Sherlock. A real foxes skull, we found it in the woods one day. Although my HTC Wildfire is named Marvin because the touchscreen hates me and everybody else and tends to go and sulk whenever I ask it to do something. Also, my bike is named Saphira.
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Sherlock for a skull...that is so perfect. xD
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I haven't named any of my electronics yet... Although I'm obsessive about making sure they all are purple or have purple cases...
I love your icon by the way :D:D
Eva
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Ahaha, yes my faithful laptop is named Solomon with speakers Riga and Lafta.
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Can I just say, you sound awesome!!! Your icon-AVPM is one of my favourite things! Also I LOVE Doctor Who with a passion, my computer is named K-9 and has a Doctor Who theme lol
My i-pod is called Flo, I'm not entirely sure why...
My phone is currently un-named, as I'm mad at it because it misbehaves so much!
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Hahaha I had no idea other people did this to!... At least now I know I'm not the only one (although that's kind of depressing as well) My ipod classic is Samuel, my ipod nano is Sofia... they have a thing going on but I try not to let them be alone together much. My nook is Nick and my phone, Violet.
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Yay! The doctor! My iPod is Amelia and my phone is Rose, so... Equally obsessed ;)
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My tape recorder is a crossdresser who goes by Ellen when he's "dressed" with his Walt Disney princess stickers and Allan the rest of the time. My laptop is Nicole. My cell phone is Amalyssa... That's pretty much it. ^^
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I call my laptop "The Pan". As in Peter Pan.
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My old computer was Alice, my new computer is Alaska (from John Green's Looking for Alaska), my iPod is Little Matty, and my phone is Pie. Oh, and I have a flash drive named Oskar Leif.
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my iPod's name is Georgia,
my computers name changes depending on what I feel like calling it,
and my ukulele (even though its obviously not an electronic) is called Lucy :)
I also named my friends car (a red bug, not really electronic either I suppose) Elmo.
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My home computers are named after French surrealists (though my laptop bears Mark Twain's middle name). My iPods are named after '80s subcultural references.
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My new GPS system is Gladys. She's stuck up and snooty and I am still not sure if we can make this relationship work. My desktop is Lassie. My laptop is Pinky. My dog's chew toy is Funky, so that I can say, "Juliet, get Funky!"
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Can you be my new best friend? Not to be stalkerish or anything, but you're a Doctor Who fan and an AVPM fan. I can never find that combination.
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My laptop is the TARDIS; it is blue and lives in a blue case.
My home computer is called Hogsmead, I think...my parents named it, and their computer (directly across from mine) is Hogwarts.
My iPod is Luna (after Luna Lovegood)
my phone I call Idris (aka the TARDIS in human form.)
My netbook is Guinevere Lizbeth, after the character I designed after myself in my Doctor Who fanfic
My headphones are Charlie and Alex (after Charlie McDonnell and Alex Day)
My downstairs TV is River (River Song)
My upstairs TV is Amelia (Amelia Pond)
My iHome is Sadie (after Sadie Kane)
I have the Cleverbot app on my iPod, and I call her Trisha Elizabeth Cooper (TEC) after Trisha McMillan (Trillian) in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Gwen Cooper in Torchwood. Also, TEC is the name of the computer in Paper Mario 2
My camera is Marvin, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
My flashdrive is Thing I Want To Kill when it doesn't work, or Toshiko from Torchwood when it's working properly.
When I was younger I had a diary I called Arabelle or Ara, and I used to name all of my pencils XD
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Oh yeah, and my GPS is Alice. Because she's really annoying, and I found Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" to be really annoying.
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LOVE it! :D I love your profile picture, for reals(: It's TOTALLY AWESOME!
I don't really have any names for any of my electronics... well, unless you count my headphones I had a while back that were green so I called them "Froggy"
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My camera is called The Smurf Cam because it's little and blue. My car is called The Love Child because I drive a Chevy PT Cruiser and somebody once commented to me that if Adam West's Batmobile and a 69 VW Beetle got together and had babies, that's what they would look like.
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Absolutely.
My laptop is ShinyShiny, my iPod is Audrey II, my Nook is Muffin, and my space heater is Bartholomew. Bartholomew is a girl, though.
I've yet to name my external hard drive, but I'm on the market for an epic name right now.
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My iPhone's name is Figgy, my computer's name is Turtle and I call my headphones Bb Jay. I also have a lava lamp that I call Sweetie.
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My laptop is named Dexter (as in Dexter's Laboratory not Dexter as in the serial killer).
The big home computer is named Bertha (because it's a girl, but she can process/run EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME)
My MP3 is Faithful (because it's one of those old ones where if you drop it, the cover comes off, and it's been repaired an infinite number of times, BUT STILL WORKS!!).
And finally, the small computer I have in my room, is currently Nicola (Because it's an arrogant asshole like Nicola from Sanctuary, however his name changes every few months (he was Leonard last year)).
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First Sanctuary reference!!! :D. I used to have an MP3 named Magnus!!
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yes.. :)
my laptop's name is Hue, my iTouch's name is Cyan, my USB is Crimson, my portable hard drive is Cole. sadly, my phone doesn't have a name. i'll be receiving a digicam soon, she'll be named Eve. :)
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a desktop i sent to recycle six months ago was Tigger
my older linux desktop was greykitty
my newer linux desktop is blackkitty
my borrowed imac with the round base is Eve from Wall-E
my new windows laptop is Troublemaker
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I'm not that big on naming things, but if anything I give names to my cameras and my laptop.
My laptop is named Klaritz and my camera is named Skylark. Hee.
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My iPod is Jack (either from Doctor Who or titanic)
My phone is TARDIS
My old laptop was Mal (firefly)
My new laptop is Jayne (firefly again)
My nintendo DSi is Elizabeth
My nintendo 64 is Rose (either from Doctor Who or Titanic)
My 64 and my iPod are married!
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And thanks to some comments on here, I just named my flash drive Doctor Horrible, my memory card Penny, and my SD card Captain Hammer.
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Doctor Who fan! Yay, I'm not alone!
High fives to anyone out there who is, too.
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I have a name for your school computer. Since you're a DW fan, how about CAL, named off of my favorite episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead". Sorry if I sound to much like a geek, here, but I thought it sounded cool.
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I have named my pink flash drive Lulu and my blue flash drive Toby. They are in love. :-)
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that's so awesome! I hope they have a happy flash-drive-relationship! 8D
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Named my guitars, Fender Strat is Leslie, Samick Fastback is Charlotte.
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I haven't thought about that before o: what should I name my laptop, iPod and phone?!
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My laptop is named Pocky (Peice Of Crap...ky)
My guitar is named Shennendoa
My car is Sexy Beast
My iPod is Little Buddy
and my Phone is Bibbum, because BBM (black berry messenger) looks like Bibbum and I think its cute.
Oh and I have a piggy bank named George.
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My thumb drive is a rabbit named Thumper :3 Like in Bambi
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I've got a guitar named Jr. Thats about it.
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My home laptop is called Nova, my school laptop is Himeko, and the computer I'm using now is named Helen. I don't really name anything else, seeing as those are my only electronics.
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I named my laptop; April after my favorite season.
My ipod is named Sarah and is in love with my cell phone; Jake. But the thing is Jake is in love with my house phone; Jordan. But Jordan is a lesbian and loves Sarah. So its really strange.
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I think there is the makings of a book in there somewhere...
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My mac is named Aslan.
My iPhone is named Shakespeare.
My hard drive is name Doctor (Apparently that one is common..)
My head phones are named Emmile.
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My netbook's name is Mr. Smith.
My iPod's name is Casper.
My flash drive's name is Link.
And my family room computer's name is Damon.
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My first compyuter was named alex. It was a great laptop. I have a computer named temptation, tempy for short. I took it apart and removed the delete keys thingy to make it work. Now I type with it cuz my addiction to deleting is taken care of.
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My netbook is Sere N. Dipity and my mouse is DooDah.
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Okay, so here it goes.... (I have a number of named electronics/unanimate objects)
My first iPod (2GB original nano) is Edward.
The second (120GB classic) is James (or more commonly, jimmy...after an imaginary friend featured often in rather amusing videos by a pair of Scottish girls on youtube)
My first laptop (poor thing, never worked from the start really), was Ambrielle (after a character in 'Stained Glass' by Michael Bedard), which when I got my first (working) laptop, I named it in dedication to her Ambrielle the Second.
My family/home computer, is Xaviera.
My acoustic guitar is Hannah, my electric, Parker (female, after a Radio Free Roscoe character- oh the days of that show)
Hm. Who am I forgetting. My Kobo does not have a name yet.
And in the list of my old cell phones....My first was Sally (Nightmare Before Christmas), then there was Tally (Uglies), and now I have...er, I don't think I've named my newer one!
My old coffee maker was Lorelai (Gilmore Girls).
I think those are the majority of the names I recall currently.
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I've got a school laptop named Oidy, a jump drive named Bugsy, an iPod called Abu, and earbuds called Mango. My phone and home laptop are still nameless, sadly. Any ideas?
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I name my electronics as the following:
First Laptop Gilgamesh (has been purchased from my parents when he got old)
Current laptop Beowulf (Yes I like naming my computers after heroes of legend)
Dead Printer Enkidu (don't name stuff Enkidu, apparently it kills the electronic in question o_O)
Bike: Nel
And my Car: The Roan
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I love you picture! Lauren Lopez! <3
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Yupp!!
My BlackBerry is named Bi-Bi for the bipolar little bee-otch that she is...she's a slutty little cellular device that has a thing for my laptop by the name of Lola..
Lola and Bi-Bi are secret lovers however Lola is cheating on Bi-Bi with my iPod named Zeus.
Zeus has a thing for my air conditioner named Carly and therefore, they had a secret wedding and produced my iPods Frick and Frack...
Frick and Frack are attached at the hip and at the current moment are in between relationships with electronics.
hahahhaa...that was fun!
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call your school computer Dexter. like the cartoon genius AND the serial killer! :D
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My iPad 2 is named Shizuoka-Shi 静岡市, which means Shizuoka City and is the town where my Japanese host family lived ヾ(@⌒ー⌒@)ノ
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Laptop- Silent Bob
Car- A Pony Named Silverado
the tim machine in my novel- URSA
I found this thread strangely relevant, since URSA is sentient and communicates with machines. :D Will come back to name those too.
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Yup. Nano iPod is Flomingo. It's electric blue but has attitude. New iPhone is clad in bright pink Otter Box & shoulda been
Flo mingo but ended up iPhlo. 2000 Hyundai wagon is Hermione. A Pal's laptop is Nomad (a la Star Trek). Her new Kia Sole is Aretha (as in Queen of...). Laptop is replacement for one I poured a whole cup of coffee into, so it's name is Java Jane. Yes, I got the full warranty on this baby.
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my brother thinks Im nuts for naming everything! my old laptop was Damien (because ti was inherently evil) my new one is Tony (BBC skins series 1) because its awesome. the house desktop is HAL, well just because. and our waffle iron is name Pete as is our blender ( nickelodeons Pete & Pete of the 90s)
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My flash drive is named Rearden (from Atlas Shrugged)
My Kodak Play-Touch camera is named Diane (As in Agent Cooper's off-screen secretary from Twin Peaks)
My Powerbook is named Kafka, and my Toshiba is named Cooper.
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Poor Matilda and Sylvia! Can they at least have a civil union?
I haven't named any of my electronics, but now I want to.
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I named my laptop The Cat Machine... =3
And my iPod Lavi. =P
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I name pretty much everything. I love my ipod's name. He is Willard Woden the Third:-) And my computer has amnesia and can never remember his name so he changes it all the time. My '88 dodge dakota's name is Roger. Oh, and my husband's ford ranger's name is CiCi after the woman from The Nanny that no one likes. Roger thought she was pretty until she decided to be rude and totally ignored him!
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i totally do this. My laptop's name is Ace (because he's an Acer), my iPod's name is iSkye, my Nintendo DS is Fabio, who is gay, but had a fling with my acoustic guitar Claire (not electronic but whatever) and they birthed George, my electric guitar. My phone's have all had Fr- names. my current one is Francois. as for your school computer, I'd go with Francine myself.
...I want a computer named The Doctor now. then i could say i was playing with The Doctor...
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My laptop is called Charlie
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Aww, my laptop doesn't have a name......
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I named my laptop Jeff. He has 2 USB friends. Klaus (named after the main character in my story) and Henry Honu (Honu is the Hawaiian word for turtle and this USB drive is shaped like a turtle). My iPod is named Simon Mortimer Laredo (Simon and Mortimer are both names mentioned in episodes of American Dad and Laredo references an Electric Light Orchestra song called 'Laredo Tornado'.). :D My phone doesn't have a name... :P
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My NOOK is Alfred, my phone is Lola, My car is Bawnkweshanaynay (Bonnie for short) my friend has a yukon XL named Clyde (Bonnie and Clyde shared the same owner for awhile) My old iPod was George and the new one has yet to be named. Ironically, I have no problem naming electronics, my novel on the other hand.....
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My laptop's name is the Amyrillian, though I'm considering renaming it. Maybe to Larxene or Amy Pond.
My iPod Touch is named Nynaeve, though she'll most likely be renamed to Namine. (I do 'N' names for my iPod)
My old iPod Classic was named Frisian.
My iPad is named Min. I'm considering K-9 or Holly for it.
My camera hasn't been named... it's just so beat-up, it'll probably die soon. ._.
My guitar also hasn't been named, for the lack of a good name. I'm probably gonna name her Chao or Luma after my favorite video game floaty companions.
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Meh i name some things... my phone is called Olive, my DVD player is Gigi, my house's alarm system is Glados, and my 2 CD players are Gabriela and Wheatley. Ans as for ur computer... DEXTER!!!!!!!! :D
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I name my computers too! My big desktop, which I rarely use (it's a battleship, but too damn cumbersome 90% of the time) is The Beast. I gutted and rebuilt it myself, and it's about 7 years old, but runs like a TANK.
My Dell laptop, 6 years old, which I use for writing, is Baby...yes, there's a MAJOR sentimental attachment there; it's the first computer I had bought and paid for myself, and for a 6-year-old, it is AWESOME.
My 2-year-old but second-hand Powerbook is named The Gremlin. It's old as dirt, but it handles Photoshop like a master.
My couple-month-old Netbook is the Mini-Beast. Same specs as the Beast, but in purse-size.
My 2-year-old iPod touch is...Baby Grand. :)
And I just acquired a camera, a Nikon D-series, which I named The Beauty....because, honestly, I'm a big ol' nerd and the tech on this camera blew. my. mind.
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My desktop computer is named Daisy, my iPod was named Brod (from the name of the river Trachimbrod in Everything is Illuminated. . .I heart Jonathan Safran Foer) until she passed away, and my laptop's name is Bernadette. She's large and in charge.
My boyfriend is obsessed with Norse names, so when I inherited his iPod the only stipulation he gave me was that I keep its original name: Hrothgar. He also has a Mac desktop named Ragnar and a portable hard drive named Odin AllStorage.
:)
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I have a forty year old 16 mm film projector I call Methuselah.
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A STARKID WHOVIAN?
GIVE ME A HUG
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I named my stuff for the students in the novel Les Miserables.
The laptop was Combeferre. My flashdrives were named Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Feuilly. My music player is Jehan.
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okay. i have to love you forever now.
-hides-
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My computer is named "You @!#$@! @#%&^%@ of !@#% (*&@!@#"
I need to get it fixed.
Perhaps I should name my camera though =3
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First, I laughed. Second, I had thoughts of how the "name" and scenario could lead to more goodness.
I would love to read a transcript of the tech support call in which you ask about your computer by name. So much fun could be had with that, I think...
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Poor baby. I know whereof you speak.
I feel your pain.
Remember to back up data - maybe by emailing to yourself.
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I've been naming my tech for ages. I can't help it. I like naming things. I think it began when I first discovered I could name my computer hard drives. It just went on from there.
Phone: Aoide
My old mp3 player: Julian
Laptop: Sepulchre
Desktop: Lord Sobek
External HDD: Ulysses
USB sticks: Micallefff (current), Chassybear, Priscilla.
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Yes! My laptop is named Ares and my iPod is Eros. =)
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I like that. ^^ I had a dog I named Ares.
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Oh yes. :) Mine are mostly fandom-related.
Laptop: Romana (Doctor Who)
Ex. Hard-drives: Ivanova (B5), Toshiko (Torchwood), Echo (Dollhouse), Temperance (Bones) and Olivia (Fringe)
iPod: Jack (Torchwood)
Phone: Erica (the only non-fandom one - it's a Sony Ericsson)
My car is also named - Winifred (after Winifred Burkle from Angel).
In my student house, we named all the network equipment after characters from "Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog". :D
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Wow, does your iPod like, never die? I wish mine had battery power like that... :D
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He dies often, but always comes back to life!
Seriously, I have thought he was broken many times, but he always gets better after a little rest. :D
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Trying to hit the "Like" button but can't find it. XD I miss Jack in the new seasons of Doctor Who.
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So I'm not the only one with an electronic device named Olivia. That's my laptop... and if she ever misbehaves, I can always cal her Faulivia. ;)
I had a name for my phone not long ago, but I forgot what it was because I hardly ever used it. Never thought about other things I use on a regular basis.
My car's name, though, is Reginald. Reggie for short. I thought it fitting seeing as he is a 1992 Buick Regal, so it's almost as if he's chauffeuring me around. :D *wuvs her Reggie!* I also named my boyfriend's car Chester, though it hasn't caught on, yet.
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Another Dr. Horrible fan. ;~;
I should do that with my unnamed electronics until I can find more fitting names. I love that movie. <3
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The love-lives of my electronics aren't so interesting, but I have a goofy "Kodo" name scheme going on with my computers-- my beast of a machine I dumped my whole savings into building is named WarKodo, he lives next to WoolyKodo, my secondary PC. Then my little netbook is named MiniKodo, my kindle is EmberKodo, and the little USB stick I carry around is called PackKodo.
I tend to speak of them like they are animals too. When one of WarKodo's hard disks died (thank god for RAID 1), I texted my boyfriend something along the lines of, "WarKodo is sick; we need to operate!"
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I named my laptop Violet because it's purple (though technically it's more along the lines of lavender).
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My iPhone is called Tatsuya (replacing the iPod nano, Tatsuya, that died in a toilet in August thanks to a very rude girl at college - the b... witch didn't even apologise!) and my laptop is called Yuya. Both are very much male despite the fact they're both very girly-looking (laptop is pink; phone is white /w pink bumper and a pig-rabbit phone charm). :3
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My laptop is Joseph, my cell phone is Szilveszter and its Bluetooth connection is called Slenderman, and my megaphone is Julius. My guitar is Strat, because it's a Stratocaster, but I sometimes call it Strut.
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My laptop's name is Poe, my iPod's name is Genevieve. I don't think I ever named my phone, though!
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Hello, this is my laptop Scott. The broken laptop -- that's Orson. My backup drive -- Zippy. And of course, my MP3-player, Musey II. (Musey I died after eight months.)
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My deskop is Sweetiebloom, my trusty heroic laptop is Silver, my tablet is Tabby (yes, I'm a dork), and my phone doesn't have a name. Yet.
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I'm currently doing my masters in law and all my gadgets are named after famous lawyers and theorists. Sadly, my beloved laptop Cicero copped it with the Blue Screen of Death a few months back, so he's been replaced by the new and improved Lord Denning. My phone is Montesquieu, and my memory stick is called Woodrow Wilson because even though he doesn't quite have Fourteen Points, he's still quite pointy.
Am I mad? I think so.
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I call my trusty laptop Veles Pendragon, my external hard drive is named Lilith, and my phone goes by Genzai. Alphonse is my desktop which is currently out of commission. I should probably name my USB sticks once I get a bit more inspired. 8D
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Oddly, I think my only named electronic is my desktop: Six. Not sure why she's named Six, but I'm sure I had a reason for at the time. Or well a reason *other* than my critique partner naming hers Seven... but I can't remember. -eyes Six-
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Blossom? :D
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I name lots of things, including my electronics! My iPhone is named Winston, my iPod Touch is Mr. Spock, my netbook is Baby, my bike is Charlotte... My old MacBook was named Snowy, but my new one doesn't have a name yet...I should get on that...
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Your ipod Touch is Mr. Spock?
...illogical.
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Of course I do.
Phone: Mao
Computer: Tilia
Thumbdrive: Mononobe
(dead)DSi: Shikieiki
iPod: Yosuke
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Everything that has a personality gets a name (and sometimes a back story...)
My hair's name is Sophia, she's a 3rd cousin, twice removed of Hitlers moustache.
My old mp3 player is Pete and my Ipod is Hank (He's a green nano, while my friend has a green ipod touch named John)
My guitar is Billy G.
& my phone is Gaston! (He is an obnoxious red guy who sings all the time)
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That's awesome, Hank and John. xD DFTBA.
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Part of me wishes there was a like button on here just for that ^^
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Haha, that is made of awesome right there.
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DFTBA!
*goes back into her corner*
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Your iPod and your friend's iPod are helping to decrease World Suck. DFTBA
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Agreed.
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I mostly don't name things- though I feel like I should. Only the ones that actually get personalities in my mind get names.
Right now, there are two:
Sir Lancelot- I needed a name for my laptop so that my internet leeching would be even more amusing-- and this one fits because he's such a failure.
Antonio- Not an electronic. No, this is the name of my beloved viola. He wouldn't have forgiven me for not mentioning him.
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I call my violin Lucky.
This came about because my violin teacher had put it back together from 13 pieces long before I got it.
It's after that sign where it says "Missing dog. three legs, one eye, one ear. Answers to Lucky."
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My violin is Violet-Lyn :)
And my ASUS laptop is doctA SUS. puns ftw :)
I still need a name for my teapot though....