Friday, May 23, 2008

Kitten Naming

Gabi and I have acquired a set of four kittens and a momma-cat. They're a bit wild, and prone to hissing, but we feed them, and they rumpus in our backyard.

We named momma-cat "Olestra" because it has a classical ring to it, and gave the four kittens the names: Sprint, Cingular, (T-) Mobile, and Verizon. We dropped the "T dash" from Mobile's name because it was confusing - what does the "T" mean anyways? Both Sprint and Mobile are grey-tan tabbies, we're not sure which is which yet. Cingular is the fuzzy brown-black one, and Verizon is skinny and all-black.

Naming critter-litters is a bit like naming servers: you want to pick your names from a category that is roughly the same size as your things-to-be-named.