we use creatures from D&D.

Laptop has the name of the map region D&D is aet in.

Oof, that's terrible!

My old workplace used AABBCDDD11, with the legend:

AA: location code
BB: OS (ln for linux)
C: one of tdqp: test/dev/qual/prod
DDD: project/application code (varied in length)
11: number

It was a pretty good system, honestly.

For my personal computers, they are all Lojban. My phone is "karsorcul" which is a passage (kalri) to a heap (sorcu). In other words, a gateway to a pile of garbage. 😁 My old laptop was fraxul (forgiveness + "l") and my new one is jisran (honey + "n"). The final letters are because Lojban names ends in consonants (which is also the naming convention in Lorban for my fantasy world).

For my home lab and my online instances, all of them are in the CVCVC pattern because it causes all the colmena deploy for NixOS to line up nicely with the rest of the messages. I rotate through leading letters so each one currently has a unique first character but they are otherwise nonsense names.

I don't really name things much. Or if I do, it's very literal.

Our family has a lot of vehicles, for instance, but they're all named things like "Orange dozer" "Yellow Dozer" "blue suburban" "White suburban" "Subie" etc.

The only thing we _actually_ name are frontloader-tractors, for the most part. Although that's also pretty literal. The tractor my dad had when I was a kid was called "trictor" because us kids couldn't say "tractor". And we have a new smaller one we call "tricky"

I usually do `<my initials> "-" <what it is or is for>`, like "EAB-server". But for my series of main laptops, I've used "Mr-Topcue", "Mrs-Topcue", and now "Dr-Topcue".

"Mr-Topcue" is an anagram of "computer". I found this with the `an` anagram-finder command. I liked the name a lot, and so for my next computer I used "Mrs-Topcue" (anagram of "computers"). And now I have "Dr-Topcue", a #System76 I got off of eBay. No anagram in particular for the last one.

In the 90s I worked in a Windows NT shop where all the servers were named after characters of Greco-Roman myth. We connected to them via VNC(!!!) and so we set wallpapers to ensure that we were 100% sure which one we had connected to.

We had a two-server cluster which we called Romulus and Remus. Romulus had a photo of a Romulan as the wallpaper. I got in trouble by setting Remus's wallpaper to a picture of Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus."

(I will defend the cultural importance of Uncle Remus, not only because it preserves African-American folktales from the late 19th century, but also because it is one of the only detailed exemplars we have of African-American dialect from that period.)

I have an odd one. I use three character Chinese tea names, and abbreviate it to three letters, e.g. tgy (tieguanyin), dhp (dahongpao), hcj (hongchajun AKA kombucha).

Short. kinda memorable, kinda big selection. And I like tea.

Your poll is closed so I can't vote, but I use soccer terms. One of my favorites is "nutmeg". I thinks it's just a funny term for a sports move, and I like that it's a tricky tactic for players to execute.

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