Yes. I admit it! I am one of those people that has giving a name to my computer!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

His name is "Phoenix". He is a laptop. He has been through hell and back with me.

Anyone else have a name for their computer or vehicle?

[HipChick]

1. I just had a new addition to my family too...

Sammie - New Samsung Note 10.1
God - Missing Ipad (replaced by Sammie)
The Beast - Vehicle
Bernie - Mac

[Locut0s]

2. Monolith...

Well that's the host name I've given my desktop. I built it myself in a Corsair 800D case which resembles the black monolith from 2001.

Perhaps I should call it "that which keeps me alive" Cause I think I'd honestly be insane without it. My computer and more generally some form of connection to the internet is the only thing that keeps me going a lot of the time.

[HipChick]

3. haha..me two...I work from home too..

so it can be days or weeks before I have contact with other actual human beings

[Locut0s]

4. What do you do?...

I wish I could say I worked from home. Truth is I just mope and stew in my depression a lot of the time. My parents shouldn't enable me at my age but they do. I tell them to kick me out of the house often but they wont. I've thought of trying to work at home on a number of occasions. I have the intelligence to develop the necessary skills, programming, IT, web design, image processing etc etc... I'm 1/2 way through an IT degree. but I have no idea where I would develop the necessary business network required to gain business.

[HipChick]

22. Any chance of doing volunteer work? I helped my local Dem party get a database working

I didn't know anything about database but I was technical, so I could look in a manual and figure it out...

Now I just consult for companies, it would not be good if I ever had to return to the inside of a cubicle..

Finish that degree too..that will help

[kentauros]

12. If you mod the case to look like a towering black crystal,

you could call it the Monolith Monster

Makes you wonder if Clarke saw this movie and refined his concept for the black monolith

[femmocrat]

5. Fiona -- Apple.

Not really, I just made that up right now.

[hobbit709]

6. I usually refer to it as POS

[pipi_k]

16. Our computers must

be siblings.

I call mine "Shithead".

[sarge43]

7. Ralph for my computer. The Grey Menace for the car. n/t

[patricia92243]

8. I thought all computers were girls - intelligent, etc. Mine is named Betsy. My car used to be

Betsy - can't remember how the name got switched over to the computer.

[Raine1967]

9. Yes! It's called... wait for it....

Box of Raine!

Just so happens I'm a dead head!

[HappyMe]

10. Cars were Gus, Kook and Hoochie.

The first 2 cars were giant old cars with big V8s in them. The Hoochie was my fast, sexy little 3 door Saturn.

I have never named a computer.

[pipi_k]

17. All of my

mother's cars were named "Betsy".


Mine, at least, had different names.

There was a Plymouth something-or-other in the 70s named "Brownie"


A red and white VW bus named "Buster"


and a Plymouth Cricket named....


wait for it...



"Jiminy"

har har


Now I have a Hummer H3 with no name

and a Dodge 2500 Ram pickup named "Mantruck"

Hubby has a 1977 Triumph (the car) I call "The Catfood Can". Because it's so small. I hate that car.

[LiberalEsto]

11. It never occurred to me to name the computer

I just call it HP.

[kentauros]

13. When I build my next computer (first time!) I'll name it.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to call it The Forbin Project, because my name isn't Forbin

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Leonard's Girl II

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. Mine's name is "JimJimhe'sourmanIfhecan'tdoitNOBODYCAN!!!!!"

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I won't tell you about the visual it gives me.
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[Recursion]

18. Hm. If you use Linux you have to give it a name.

Actually even if you use Windows, it has to have a name, it will just automatically make up one if you don't give it one.

I'm a sysadmin, so my computers (always plural) are generally named in themes. Currently my laptops are named after Marine Corps generals: Archibald and Smedley.

The last set of servers I managed were named after Presidents: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, etc. I think we got up to McKinley by the time I left that job.

The biggest network I ever managed named the servers after cats: Garfield, Morris, Liono, Whiskers, Fritz, Punkin (that was my cat at the time), etc.

[csziggy]

19. My computer is Big Blue and my Suburban is Moby Dick

The computer is in a huge blue case. I bought the case when motherboards were bigger, needed a lot of cooling and hard drives not as large as now. At one point I had four hard drives, 5.25" & 3.5"floppy drives, a CD reader, and a CD writer in the case - and I still had empty drive bays! I managed to transfer all my old files off floppy drives and burn to CDRs. This case has seen four or five motherboards and a whole range of upgrades.

The next computer I build will be in a much smaller case. It's time to downsize!

The Suburban is white - and about the size of a whale.

[whistler162]

20. I call mine golf......

anyone know why?

[Wait Wut]

21. Of course.

My iMac is Albert.
My car is Elvis (Costello, not the other one).

I name everything.