@asjo As I said downthread, I currently use famous dead mathematicians. I used to use lizard genera (tiliqua, lacerta, japalura, etc.), but I dropped that because I wanted to use that naming scheme for the fonts I design. :)

I'm getting tired of the mathematicians, so I'm thinking of switching to either the names of Elder Futhark runes (fehu, uruz, thurisaz, etc.) or characters from William Blake's mythology (oothoon, los, orc, urizen, etc.)

Ah, yes, the maths department at university also used mathematicians for machine names, now you mention it.

I think runes sounds like a nice scheme, not as common :-)

@asjo (fun fact: "fehu" is the ancient root of the Danish word "fæ". It's also where English "fee" comes from - this is from a time where wealth and livestock was largely one and the same.)