Naming of things is a difficult matter...

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Do y'all name or otherwise anthropomorphize your cars? What about computers? And what gender do you tend to assign to them?

Obviously, I do, but that's because I name goddamn everything. I always have. Even occasionally household appliances if they are quirky/annoying/amusing enough to warrant a name and a personality. Of course when you start relating to inanimate objects as not-quite-people, it does make them harder to let go of sometimes - case in point the ancient computer tower I've still got in storage and refuse to get rid of, lol. Hey, my Master Freak was a good little computer! He got me through the hell that was college, okay?

Reason I ask - cell23 and I were debating the gender of cars last night - he holds that cars, ships and other vessels are always female. Clearly, considering Hanzo-san, I disagree with that sentiment, and also know a few people with male vehicles (captainlove and Mr. Sundance, for example.) Course, when you think about it, all my machines are kind of genderfucked - EPEEN's name is essentially "electronic penis" but I use feminine pronouns for her.

Anyway. ASSUAGE MY CURIOSITY INTERNET MONKEYS.

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Yup, we name all the computers around here. The ones Jeff & Kt brought with them all have "bug" names like Scarab and Firefly -- and another is called Kafka. :) I followed that convention when I named the Gnat. K didn't, when she named her netbook the Oracle. But that name's significant for her. The computers don't have a gender -- at least, I don't think they do. Maybe they're asexual.

K and I have named our cars sporadically over the years. Our old Jeep was Babe the Blue Ox, because it was blue. And my current car is WALL-E, because the first three letters on the license plate are EVE. But all cars are female, regardless of the name we assign them.