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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[vitamorsque.livejournal.com]

-yup. Jack! (and Thalia, and Jack-0), as well as "my little commodore" and "my favorite coco"
-sometimes, although not very often. i really tend to think of them as machines...just machines that i take extra special care of.
-on the rare occasion i will, but its usually something like a tree or an animal. particularly animals, and i can long conversations with them ;) i prefer things that respond, but for some reason i treat most all things...wait a sec. actually...i do tend to pat doors when i hit them too hard and say "there there, im sorry!" and ill thank my car for getting me to work, and ill apologize to trees for playing with their leaves (by ripping them off). so yeah, but i don't tend to name things, as to me...naming something is very special and not to be done with just any old thing, or indeed person. but the things that i actually OWN no...they are just things to me, for the most part. odd, huh?