16 Jun
2010
16 Jun
'10
1:42 p.m.
One of ours was a rescue from a wood pile out back -
she's tiny, but has the
loudest meow of any cat I've heard :-) She'll come in first thing in the
If I ever ended upo with 3 cats (not that I am planning to), one being a
ginger cat like Pentina, then I'd name the ginger one after the Greek
word for 'amber' [1],. the most talkative one of the remainder after that
paoperty [2] and give the third one the obvious other name from the set [3]
[1] Electron
[2] Muon (because he mews on and on and on)
[3] Tauon, of course.
Yes I do like giving cats strange names. Pentinawas named afte a strange
SLR camera, the shutter of which makes use of a bug in the design [4].
[4] The cat got the name because one rare version of the camera is
gold-plated, a similar colour to the ginger cat. As for the shutter
design, an explanation of the Werra, Pentina, Prestor shutter, etc is
_way_ off topic...
-tony