Good question.
When I worked at Convex Computer Corp. in Dallas, my officemate, Brian Berliner, got one of the first workstations at Convex, a Sun 3/50. He named it nogger, because Nogger was what he called his wife. (I never found out what the connotation of Nogger was -- good, bad, naughty, or what.)
Every year at Christmas time, there is a footrace in Dallas called the Jog'r Eggnog'r.
When I got my Sun 3/50, I decided to name it appropriately for something adjacent to a nogger. Hence, jogger-egg, as in Jog'r Eggnog'r.
Is that stupid, or what?
The first jogger-egg, jogger-egg.convex.com, was a Sun 3/50. When I changed jobs and went to work for Apple, I had jogger-egg.apple.com, which started as a Mac Quadra 700, and later became a Quadra 800. I moved to SGI in 1994, where I had jogger-egg.esd.sgi.com, an SGI Indy, for a while. Then it became jogger-egg.engr.sgi.com, and then the hardware changed to an Octane. I left SGI in October, 1999. In November, 1999, a PC at home running Mandrake Linux became jogger-egg.com.
jogger-egg.com is hosted by Area Systems. They're nice people, very geek friendly, and cheap.
The very best thing about the name jogger-egg is that it's never taken.
Don't you wish you hadn't asked?
September 8, 2000. Brian found this site and explained a little about nogger. Here's his mail.
From: Brian Berliner Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:57:16 -0600 Subject: RE: Howdy! To: Bob Miller What's a nogger?... No real secret here. Your web site is pretty close already. "nogger" was a pet name for my wife. I'm not sure exactly how we locked into that, but I do recall that I used to call her a "Silly Nogger".
I guess that clears that up.
Bob Miller,
kbob@jogger-egg.com