This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

I used to name all my computers and gadgets with a “silver” theme. It started when I worked for a small web company a long time ago where every computer in the office was named after an element. The machine I got was called silver.

Once I started working there I renamed my home machine silver as well because it was easier to remember just the one name when using crappy Windows networking. Over time, the silver theme took over and instead of coming up with alternate elements I just added silver to everything.

My computer hardware, in the last 8 years, has been named:

• silver (the original Intel P4 PC)
• silvermac (my first Mac, an iBook)
• silverbook (my 12-inch PowerBook)
• silverfive (my first G5)
• silverbook (reuse, my 15-inch PowerBook)
• silverquad (my G5 quad)
• silverpro (my 17-inch MacBook Pro)

Awesomely ridiculous. Keep in mind I’ve also had several iPods and an iPhone:

• silverpod (3rd gen and 5th gen were both called this)
• silvershuffle (original shuffle)
• silvernano (my Nano for running)
• silverphone (iPhone)

And wireless networks:

• silverwireless (original Linksys B network)
• silverport (my first Airport network)
• silverg (my G network with updated Linksys hardware)
• silverbase (my recent AEBS network)

Basically, everything in my damned house was silver prefixed. At one point I started calling myself silverman. Alright, that’s a lie. A silverlie. SILVER.

Anyway, when I changed from the 17-inch MBP to the iMac at the end of the summer, I decided to change the system and started naming all new items with a different theme: old-timey names. I now use the following:

• hortence (the 24-inch iMac)
• coolidge (the new black MacBook)
• herbert (the iPod classic in the bedroom)
• floyd (iPhone)

And they’re on the “wildturkey” wireless network (thanks for the suggestion, Mark!), which I think sounds like something they all might enjoy quite a lot.

I’m fascinated with the idea of naming hardware with themes (most people tend to do this), and I’d love to hear some of your crazy hardware names. In the past, I’ve worked at places who named their hardware after Transformers (my computer was Jazz… how lame!), cities and planets.