Flashes of Panic

I like seeing the names of individual machines at various organizations and guessing the pattern they’re named by. Sometimes they’re boring (the Solaris workstations at WSC are named for continents,) sometimes they’re relatively humdrum until the rationale is explained (ours are all birds, but selecting the right bird for the job can be fun.) Sometimes they’re obscure but boring (alternating first names of U.S. presidents and first ladies) and sometimes they’re easy guesses (characters from Lord of the Rings.)

Today I noticed in my access logs that someone came here from a machine named “Reepicheep.” Now, that’s fun. And it has me wondering: is the theme characters from the Chronicles of Narnia, or is it “mice in literature?”

Now playing: Cluck Old Hen from Five Stories by Kris Delmhorst