{"id":164,"date":"2008-09-13T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-09-13T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T18:44:41","slug":"their-names-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/13\/their-names-are\/","title":{"rendered":"their names are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the <a href=\"http:\/\/effiejayx.velugmaracaibo.org.ve\/?p=156\">meme<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>lucien<\/strong> &#8211; not strictly owned by me, but the first Linux machine I had influence over.  Named by my college roommate after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_characters_in_The_Sandman#Lucien\">Lucien<\/a> from the Sandman comics, the librarian of The Dreaming.  Seemed right for a computer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>locutus<\/strong> &#8211; this name served multiple machines in late college.  It was my desktop at home, at work at Motorola, and at my HP post at UIUC.  For a while, all three were simultaneously online.  They all had different domain names, so it seemed sensible and little comical.  The name itself comes from my infatuation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borg_(Star_Trek)\">Borg<\/a> of Star Trek fame.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Locutus_of_Borg\">Locutus<\/a> was the first to have an individual designation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>clam<\/strong> &#8211; given to multiple machines, but both laptops (an ancient Toshiba, and a more recent Mac).  Like clamshell mobile phones, laptops look the same.<\/li>\n<li><strong>boofis<\/strong> &#8211; served as the name for a public XTerm for guests, and later as a desktop machine.  This was based on a friend&#8217;s alternate word for &#8220;thingy&#8221; or &#8220;dohicky&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>naboo<\/strong> &#8211; currently the home firewall, but was my desktop when it was new.  From the Star Wars planet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naboo\">Naboo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>cube<\/strong> &#8211; always the home multimedia server hooked to the TV, but has had three incarnations.  Originally, it was a Shuttle box, which was, frankly, cube shaped.  It was also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borg_cube#Borg_cube\">influenced<\/a> again by the Borg, and it was around here that I started to notice a strange and unintentional trend in my computer names: they nearly all had an &#8220;oou&#8221; sound.  Since then I&#8217;ve usually managed to avoid it, but have tried to include at least 1 if not 2 &#8220;o&#8221; letters in future computer names.<\/li>\n<li><strong>stompy<\/strong> &#8211; currently the home disk server, but was my desktop when it was new.  Named based on a game my wife and I play with our dogs called Stompy Stompy Bad Thing, in which we slowly approach our dog like a Sumo wrestler, and the dog goes crazy barking and running in circles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ox<\/strong> &#8211; current laptop.  Compared to the Toshiba from 1999, it&#8217;s like an ox, even if now it&#8217;s 3 years old itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>gorgon<\/strong> &#8211; current desktop.  Loosely based on the concept that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gorgon\">most famous gorgon<\/a> has multiple heads.  As this is a 4-way machine, it seemed fitting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>nushooz<\/strong> &#8211; currently my wife&#8217;s desktop, but was mine prior to gorgon, but named differently.  Current name is based on the freaky &#8220;*pft* <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Johnson\">New shoes<\/a>!&#8221; line from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twin_Peaks\">Twin Peaks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the meme: lucien &#8211; not strictly owned by me, but the first Linux machine I had influence over. Named by my college roommate after Lucien from the Sandman comics, the librarian of The Dreaming. Seemed right for a computer. locutus &#8211; this name served multiple machines in late college. It was my desktop at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}