[caitlinface]

My dad is a high school math teacher. When I was growing up, there was a few years that he had a computer lab in his classroom. He named all of the computers after mathematicians: Archimedes, Bernoulli, Gauss, Euler.

That made an impression on me, so I followed a similar pattern when I started having my own devices to name: Erdos, Newton, Pascal.

Since then, I've settled into my own naming scheme, themed to women pioneers of technology:

My phone is named Lovelace after Ada Lovelace. One of my servers is named Hopper after Grace Hopper. My laptop is named Kare after Susan Kare.

My wife's naming scheme for her devices are space themed: Nebula, Luna, Io, Ganymede.

When we have shared devices, we sort of merge the schemes into space themed scientists. For example, our Apple TV is named "Copernicus", which I found a fitting name since the world revolves around it when it's on.