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This post is a quick response to / repeat of a question posed by dctrud, who asks those who still treat their machines more like pets than cattle what schemes they use for assigning hostnames.
dctrud's post "Naming Computers"
I'm curious about this too as I'm planning to bring back into active use two long-dormant Raspberry Pis and they could use interesting names.
I must confess to having earlier had a long track record of naming my machines after female anime characters, mostly in my younger days when I gleefully amassed great armadas of cheap Pentium-era cast-offs, and hence had a whole lot of naming to do. At some point I outgrew this and switched to using Japanese place names. I finally took an entirely different tack when naming the laptop I'm writing this on now, which has been my primary machine for the past four years or so and has been the vehicle for all my phlogging, for the launch of Circumlunar Space, and for the development of Gemini. I called it Stilgar, after a character from the Dune series of novels: the wise and trusted leader of a tribe of hardy, self-sufficient people who thrive in a hostile environment due to strict adherence to old, traditional ways and a mistrust of outside ideas. This captures something of how I was feeling at the time toward various recent developments in computing and the internet.
The circumlunar colonies, of course, are named after space stations in Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix".