/NSSP: Do you give nicknames to your electronic devices?
Tom Send a noteboard - 17/10/2011 09:21:08 PM
I was overwhelmed by a sense that my technology was getting a bit obsolete now that the new iPhone 4S came out (and I just have the iPhone 4), so I bought the iPad 2 (64 GB, Wi-Fi+3G).
The thing is that I nickname all my electronic stuff and I'm not sure other people do this so I wanted to ask if other people give actual real nicknames to electronic stuff. For example, they suggest stuff like "Tom's phone" or "Tom's iPod" or "Main Computer" or crap like that.
I named my iPods Snippy and Snippy II, I named my iPhone Sneaky and my iPad is now Snooty. The pattern is, of course Sn***y. Snarky is another option (I guess if I get a second iPad since I hate Macs). So is Snoopy, I guess, or Snotty, or Snakey, or Snoggy, or Snobby, or Snapey (if I were a bigger Harry Potter fan). The thing is that it's only my Apple technology stuff that gets nicknames (well, my Hewlett-Packard graphing calculator in high school got the name "Spencer", but that was an isolated case).
So my survey part is: do you do this? Do you give real, actual nicknames to devices beyond designations like "computer in home office" or "secondary cell" or something like that? If so, what sorts of nicknames are they? And, if you do, are you as anal retentive as I am in having a system for naming?
The thing is that I nickname all my electronic stuff and I'm not sure other people do this so I wanted to ask if other people give actual real nicknames to electronic stuff. For example, they suggest stuff like "Tom's phone" or "Tom's iPod" or "Main Computer" or crap like that.
I named my iPods Snippy and Snippy II, I named my iPhone Sneaky and my iPad is now Snooty. The pattern is, of course Sn***y. Snarky is another option (I guess if I get a second iPad since I hate Macs). So is Snoopy, I guess, or Snotty, or Snakey, or Snoggy, or Snobby, or Snapey (if I were a bigger Harry Potter fan). The thing is that it's only my Apple technology stuff that gets nicknames (well, my Hewlett-Packard graphing calculator in high school got the name "Spencer", but that was an isolated case).
So my survey part is: do you do this? Do you give real, actual nicknames to devices beyond designations like "computer in home office" or "secondary cell" or something like that? If so, what sorts of nicknames are they? And, if you do, are you as anal retentive as I am in having a system for naming?
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
/NSSP: Do you give nicknames to your electronic devices?
- 17/10/2011 09:21:08 PM
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I used to, for some things.
- 17/10/2011 09:28:55 PM
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You don't do Jessica II, Jessica III, etc. (or, for computers, 3.0)? *NM*
- 17/10/2011 10:59:19 PM
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So that will be the name of your robotic gorilla butler too, won't it? *NM*
- 18/10/2011 05:53:06 AM
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yes
- 17/10/2011 09:36:58 PM
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Sort of
- 17/10/2011 10:44:51 PM
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No. That might be the shortest reply I've ever posted to any survey...
- 17/10/2011 11:07:44 PM
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. *NM*
My GPS is named Dolores. In my defense, she sounds like a Dolores. And she's all bitchy. *NM*
- 18/10/2011 09:43:32 AM
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Of course. My computer's name is Ismelda. (And my car is named Moses). *NM*
- 18/10/2011 11:16:43 AM
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yes... we have babycakes, tintaglia, icefyre, princess, chronos, iskierka and some others *NM*
- 18/10/2011 04:36:24 PM
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Not to electronic devices no, but I do give certain items of mine nicknames *NM*
- 18/10/2011 06:05:25 PM
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laptop = Precious, PC = Fred, Wii = Wombok, phone = TheGoddess, work lappie = El Zero
- 19/10/2011 07:41:51 AM
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