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My family's machines at home are all named after fictional robots, names don't get recycled when the boxes die which makes it a fun challenge when a new one arr
by scrumper 9y ago
My family's machines at home are all named after fictional robots, names don't get recycled when the boxes die which makes it a fun challenge when a new one arrives. So far we've had:
johnnyfive
marvin
katya
gerty
kryten
robbie
Doing our best to avoid dipping into Star Wars laziness. (And HAL is verboten too.)
- WorldMaker 9y agoI've been using "Words that start with Q" since High School and surprisingly haven't recycled a name yet for a machine, and I've gone through nearly a dozen or so. quiddity quilt quasar quantum quack quiz... It's funny how a silly naming rule like that winds up sticking for a couple decades.
- scrumper 9y agoOh that's good. I hope you ban yourself from using dictionaries to help. Our main constraint is that it has to be a robot that my wife, a devout sci-fi sceptic, has heard of. Probably it would make more sense for her machines to be named after obscure British Jacobeans and mine to be robots but since I've paid for all of them, I get to choose.