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?

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Re: On a completely unrelated note....

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

... Five hundred years ago, a Portuguese vessel sailing to the remote island of Jakarta had wrecked. Its cargo contained several hundred copies of K&R, embedded in gemstones. Professor Make blinked exactly twice and then ran, borscht in hand, directly to the airport.

*laughs* That particular bit of fiction was the README for our boulderdash project for Practicum... we were writing a game, so it had to have a background story. Surprised you remember that...

Thanks muchly for the link :) :)

Re: On a completely unrelated note....

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

er, and by "our", I mean "Marty's and mine" -- because Marty's a coding beast, and he deserves recognition for his massively l337 5k|llX0rZ.