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Geeky Child Names?
kerrys_1999 asks: "Good friends have just given birth to their first child, Ashton Tate Rogers, named after the heroes of dBase 3. I know Dr Bob, a Delphi fanatic, has children called Erik Mark Pascal and Natasha Louise Delphine.
Finally there's the story that Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda after the legendary video games. Anybody know more?"
I dunno, but my second son is gonna be called Skeletor.
How about Saxifrage? It can be abbreviated to 'Sax'.
For those who don't know, its from the terraforming scientist in KSR's Red/Green/Blue mars series.
I've seen the nick Saxifrage registered on some webboards (like space.com's discussion board), but he hasn't been posting lately.
I just think the name is awesome.
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You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
There's always the Zappa kids: Dweezil, Ahmet, and Moon Unit, and of course David Bowies little girl Zowie Bowie.
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There's a fun article on rock stars naming there kids here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_4470
Not geeky, but cool nonetheless.
"Moderate drinking can help prevent amputated limbs" -- Abigail Zuger, NYTimes, 12/31/02
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Lizards
Konquerors
Marketroids
Marketroids 1998
Snakes
"Human readable"
Borg
Debugging everywhere
Object-functional
Jerks
should be named Awk and Sed!!!
I should have picked out the nickname Demosthenes!Tecumseh.
Ritchie Kenighan
Somewhere out there is a young woman (probably in her late teens by now) named Xyzzy. Her name is pronounced "ZY-zee," and actually sounds rather feminine.
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Named his daughter Amanda Perl. Amanda is the name of a UNIX backup utility. And Perl should be fairly obvious. He should have named her Ada Perl.
My daughter is named after Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
Cthulhu
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Linus?
There was a book I read years ago, called "The Ultimate Computer" or something along those lines, and the two hackers in the story went by the handles WORM and SMIK ... for some reason the system was limited to four characters, and words beginning with M were reserved or something like that. SMIK was for "super Mike", IIRC.
Does anyone else remember this?
"Anything is better than IE, and you can quote me on that." -- Wil Wheaton.
I personally always thought Wedge was a cool name ...
-Sean
For girls:
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My oldest daughter's name is Adrienne, but we call her Ada for short at least half the time. I'm the only one in the family that knows who Ada Lovelace was, so I had to explain to my wife why I was so fond of the short name, Ada. Also, once upon a time I was a US DoD programmer writing code in Ada. Still have fond memories of the language.
one of my teachers in high school named his daughter ln (natural log), of course his wife thought her name was ellen :)
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my fisrt kid will be call erik or erika, this way he/she can join the conspiracy
What ? Me, worry ?
Jean Chretien is clearly the more manly Frenchman. French-Canadian, anyway. But that just means he has lumberjack gear to fuck Jacques Chirac up. :)
Learn to Play Go
"My parent is a fucking dipshit and I'm gonna get the crap kicked out of me on the first day of high school"? I think that's a good name to saddle your kid with for the rest of his or her life, since it accurately describes what their situation will be in a scant few years' time.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
I'm considering naming my firstborn "3.0" instead of the Gatesian "III".
I'm also considering getting a life and choosing a name, instead of defaulting one.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Daughter of William P. Lear, inventor of the jet autopilot and of course the Learjet.
I have a dog (A Boston Terrier, photos on my website) named Darwin Charles Loukas, after Charles Darwin. My other dog is named Pepper Two Draper. I had a dog named Pepper when I was a kid. If the Atreides can always have a Duncan Idaho, then I will always have a Pepper.
Future dogs not named Pepper will be named after other scientists. I have Maxwell Clerk Loukas (after James Clerk Maxwell) and Bruno Giordano Loukas (after Giordano Bruno) already reserved. When I need more names, I'll just draw from the large number of scientists with neat names.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
If you like names from Star Trek that don't sound weird, why not pick "Jackson Roykirk" for first and middle names. If you recall, that was NOMAD's creator, confused with Captain Kirk.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
We named our oldest son Jovian, king of the planets. I want to see him go to the stars, since I probably won't. This seemed a good way to get him interested in it early on.
Dante Alexander Johnson.
It's not _exclusively_ classics geek material- there's a ballplayer for the Red Sox named Dante who also gets a nod this way- but bottom line, cool brother, cool name :)
Zoe Ophelia is a lot easier to misidentify as Zoophiliac than a recursive acronym. I pity her.
;-)
After the difficulty my wife and I had naming our son (8 weeks ago), I think I might get to use a geek name on the second, since we're out of options. I'm thinking Ed Lynn or maybe Juan Octal. At least they look like real names, sorta...
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Bree for example. It might be after a cheese, it might be after the town in middle earth. (btw I've known two Eowyns and two galadriels (one went by Gale))
Whenever I can't think of a good name I just go with the classic foo or foo.bar().
:)
Why not Foo Bar Lastname?
That which does not kill me only makes me whinier
I named my son (now 19 months) "Gabriel Knight".... big name to live up to (think of the angel, and the knights of the old code).