SCIENCE. It says people naturally assign genders to things. Naming isn't so crazy.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-sex-of-17

Truth be told, I haven't named anything in awhile.

That's right, just because this community is largely inactive doesn't mean it isn't maintained!

I'm pretty fond of it really, and it makes me happy whenever someone does post. Does anyone else feel this way? The community itself is an inanimate object to like?

I would like you all to meet Wakey. Not the most creative name, but without him, my creativity would not be as easy to express. A few years ago, I enrolled at Collins College. They issued all the students wacom tablets, but I was too lazy to get mine. I kept saying, "Why do I need one? I'm good with the mouse." Then, one day I went and got ( Read more... )

Perhaps one of the best 'breeding grounds' of emotional interactions with things are with handheld electronic games... By this, I don't mean handhelds that play games like 'Space Invaders', 'Mario Bros.', 'Tetris', 'PacMan', etc, but rather those electronic games that play games humans normally play with each other. In the other (first) type of ( Read more... )

The way this works is a user shows you an object they named, and gives you a couple of clues to give you a fighting chance to guess the name, and you try to guess the name ( Read more... )

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My Brenda got love this morning!

I do not know who makes her, but I would dearly love to know...


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When I was in high-school, my dad had aspirations to sell used books and records as an after-retirement business... He had been stockpiling the items for years, carefully picking what he thought would reach his market, and now he had a booth in a flea-market to sell the stuff ( Read more... )

When I got my first apartment, I somehow had a Sears catalog. They used to sell the following Language translator device for like 2 or 3 hundred dollars:


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