mostly, I just liked the title...

[alexr_rwx]

The Rudnick is switching into Social Sciences Researcher Mode again. Mostly because he's been reading Marty's copy of Sex/Machine, which is this big collection of cultural studies essays about gender/technology interactions...

Not that you guys are any sort of representative sample, but... could you comment up some responses? I'm curious:

- Does your computer have a name?
- Do you tend to anthropomorphize your computer?
- Do you normally name and/or anthropomorphize your things?

Comments

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Hoooo! First post!!

- Yes. elrond, eowyn, treebeard, cirdan, and aragorn all have names.

- Often... I think of elrond and eowyn as having personalities, at least. That's silly, yes. However, elrond is more warm, open, friendly -- he's older, more accepting, and has seen a lot more software (and hardware -- he's on his fourth motherboard and second case) go by ... so he knows an ugly hack when he sees one, but it doesn't bother him as much. eowyn is younger, more tightly controlled. She's only seen things done The Right Way and has more of a mind to be exclusive towards things that are less than classically beautiful. She's female, and a Sony laptop with sleek lines.

- Not so much. My car (the Geekmobile) gets personified a little bit, but I think he's my only other named posession.

... so how scary is that?