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I like the idea of giving proper human names to things, but I don't tend to do it much.

I do name my computers though. I'm typing this on Winston. My media server is named Archibald. My gateway is named Archer.
 
My wife and I name some products in our house.

Our Robovac is called Rufus. We bought a Bissell Spot Cleaner which I've called Barry.

We have prints of a koala and a kangaroo who are named Kenny and Kevin.

We used to have a spider live in a gap in the frame above the toilet door. He'd regularly just hang out on the wall in plain sight. I called him Barry one day and it stuck.

One time saw him in the downstairs room (basically other side of the wall) near another little spider. Who we called named "Frank" (or "Betty" as my daughter called her).

A few days later we found "Barry" on his back curled up on the floor under the toilet door. Frank/Betty was nowhere to be seen.

After a memorial service for Barry (may he float on that tissue through to the afterlife or whatever is on the other side of the flush!), we kind of forgot about them for a few weeks, (and we started getting white-tails around the house every rain).

Then one day my daughter casually mentions "Barry's back from holidays".

I'm pretty sure it's not Barry. (Just in case, I apologised and offered a fly as compensation)

"New Barry" isn't as friendly - he doesn't come out during the day and just sticks his legs out of his home/hole.
 

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What is the inspiration behind the names?

I reckon I started "naming" computers back in the Windows 98SE days. I built a new tower (back when you'd go to a swap meet and buy everything individually for cash from possibly questionable purveyors) and kept the old one as a poor man's file server (Windows 98SE networking, LOL). So I starting doing it to make it easier to know which one I was referring to conversationally.

I choose formal English names because they amuse me. Doubly so when used for inanimate objects. I was a big fan of 1980's West Indian cricket names, Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, etc.
 
I reckon I started "naming" computers back in the Windows 98SE days. I built a new tower (back when you'd go to a swap meet and buy everything individually for cash from possibly questionable purveyors) and kept the old one as a poor man's file server (Windows 98SE networking, LOL). So I starting doing it to make it easier to know which one I was referring to conversationally.

I choose formal English names because they amuse me. Doubly so when used for inanimate objects. I was a big fan of 1980's West Indian cricket names, Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, etc.
My Wi-Fi connection is named with a nod to You Am I, Wi Fi Way.
 
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