What's In A Name?
My recent post was accompanied by a picture of the Lion and the Unicorn from Through the Looking Glass, flanking Alice holding a cake. This isn’t as random as it might seem. My new server is called unicorn (partly in a nod to Mythic Beast’s traditional branding), and the old server was called cake.
Those names aren’t random either; I follow the venerable sysadmin tradition of naming computers according to a theme. In fact, I have two schemes; one for my personal machines, and one for my work ones. See if you can guess what they are:
Personal: unicorn, cake, cheshire, dodo, tweedle, redqueen, hatter…
Work: gnoll, carrion, kobold, bugbear, owlbear, hobgoblin…
The first is probably pretty obvious, but the latter less so (it’s very specific). As an extra point of clarification, my current personal laptop is called gryphon, and that’s not ambiguous.
I’ll update this post to include a (hidden) answer, but for the moment I’d be interested to hear your theories on Mastodon.