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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I'm in the grad lab about to start on merging elegant code with ugly code- feeling a bit of wanting to avoid/procrastination creeping in...

But, to answer the questions (which you already know I think):

Yes, my computer has a name: "nameless", haha!

I don't anthropomorphize nameless very often on a conscious level, but there is a sort of vague mental entity at which I direct frustration with the computer on occasion.

And computers I own are the only objects I name regularly; I don't tend to anthropomorphize... hm, come to think of it, though, I do sort of anthropomorphize my car- a long time ago I'd thought of naming it "Mohammed"... It feels friendly and dependable- a big guy like Thomas Perkins (remember him? He'd always give me these huge hugs and clear lift me off the ground).