Just under two weeks ago, the LGP office had a visitor.
It seems that she has adopted us, as she spends pretty much all of her time in the office, and is a constant disruption to work. At every opportunity she loves to sit on keyboards – especially when typing is going on, and she is very insistent when she wants some attention, as you can see from the picture above when she decided to sit on my keyboard and demand my time.
I decided we weren’t going to name her until she had stuck around for a couple of weeks, afterall, she could have just wandered off again. But it does seem she is here to stay.
So, we have a few ideas for names, but we can’t quite decide which, if any, of them are right. So, I thought, lets get a bit of community involvement, and set up a name poll.
So, add your votes below, and if you have suggestions for a better name that isn’t on the list, add a comment, an if we like it, we’ll add it to the poll! You can choose multiple answers if you like.
EDIT: Well, the poll has been going for just under 4 days now, and you can’t leave a cat without a name for too long! We will now be taking the top three, Qwerty, Switch, and CatMonster, and over the next week we’ll see which one seems to fit her best. The one that works best, we’ll name her, and update this post with the final result! Thanks everyone for your contribution, and I’m sorry I never got around to adding some of the new suggestions to the poll!
Loading ...A bit of explanation as to some of these names…
- CatMonster: A bit like KateMonster from Avenue Q
- Ceefer: Ceefer Cat. Say it aloud, you’ll get it.
- Natasha: The whole Boris and Natasha thing, and she likes eating spiders (Boris the spider). Its a bit convoluted, but made the list
- Piper: She’s a mouser. So from the Pied Piper. Also has a nice link in to the ‘Charmed’ TV show
- Quark: She loves having her ears scratched, so a Ferengi name was needed!
- Qwerty: She is a keyboard cat. Obvious really
- Splodge: I mentioned the new addition to my mother on the phone a week or so ago, and she insisted this be the new name.
- Spot: Another Star Trek reference. Data’s cat.
- Switch: Her favourite place to sit is on the office gigabit switch. Its warm and by the window. Also a Matrix tie-in
- UsrBin: /usr/bin/cat. OK so cat is usually in /bin but you can’t call a cat just Bin
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That cat is awesomely adorable. I voted Usrbin, but I like the name just Bin. Did she just show up at the office one day, and you decided to adopt her, or what?
Also, you could call her Tux, but that is a tad generic.
She sat outside the back door and meowed for about 5 hours a day for a couple of days before we let her in. When we did, she decided to stay. I don’t think we had much choice in the matter {:-)
It is a tad generic, plus my hamster is already named Tuxine ;) – http://blog.zerodogg.org/2007/11/06/tuxine-meet-world-world-this-is-tuxine/
Even though I’m more a dog person, that cat is just too cool ;-)
Still, if you keep her (him? have you checked?), you should really have a vet do a chekup. Having taken up stray dogs from time to time I can only recommend that.
Oh, before I forget: You might want to check its claws. If they are cut, the cat might have ran away from somewhere else. Don’t want to clash your hopes, but you should keep that in mind.
Heh, yeah that will happen if she stays too much longer.
We had a coop named Bin. It a Chinese name. I don’t know if it would work for a female. In any case, I still wouldn’t call a cat Bin just because of the unix reference.
my gf liked switch, i liked catmonster
It’s a hostile takeover. I already see all the LGP games raising in price by 10 pounds to compensate for the tons of catfood. :P
# Quark: She loves having her ears scratched, so a Ferengi name was needed!
# Qwerty: She is a keyboard cat. Obvious really
# Switch: Her favourite place to sit is on the office gigabit switch. Its warm and by the window. Also a Matrix tie-in
# UsrBin: /usr/bin/cat. OK so cat is usually in /bin but you can’t call a cat just Bin
Well, obviously “UsrBin” would be suitable due to the Unix link, but it’s just not significant enough to justify a rather crappy name compared to the other ones. :P
Qwerty… well, that’s a nice one, would be Quertz for me though. Might really be fitting the cat.
Switch… well… it just seems to pseudo-modern. You should check whether she prefers to sit on the keyboards or on the switch. :P
Well, Quark is nice and so on, but considering all those which I preselected again, I’d definitely go with “Querty”.
I also have a cat at home, he is snow white and deaf, but he screams for food every day at 5 a.m
I love animals and I hope you would enjoy your latest addition.
I voted for qwerty , sounds cool and never heard someone by that name.
dvorak :(
I agree, ‘,.pyf is a bad name to pronounce :-)
I always wanted to name cat (if I will have one (but I won’t because I am allergic :( )) Jiji (if the cat is black, Jiji is cat fomr Kiki’s Delivery Service anime) or Spot :)
But I voted for Qwerty and Quark too
Awwwwwwww!
Save some Ferrari-fueling money to make her a nice bed.
I was thinking of Pause or Break.
Lays on the Pause / Break key forcing the affected LGP worker to pause and take a break from the PC.
Just had another thought. What about Stressball or StressFur.
Some famous polish historical figure (Pilsudski) had the custom of giving generic names to his pets. So his dog was simply called “dog” and horse “horse”. For the sake of simplicity you should do the same. I guess it’s very unlikely that you will have two cat instances at the same time (scope) after all.
“At every opportunity she loves to sit on keyboards”
I’m afraid LGPs next game will be the most buggy game ever. :P
“she spends pretty much all of her time in the office, and is a constant disruption to work.”
That cat will cause even more delays for LGPs games. :P
I like QWERTY and UsrBin, although I’d just call her /bin/cat.
“Have you seen slashbinslashcat?”
I hope she’s not bug-ridden!
This story reminds me my friend’s cat (his name is Murko or Muro, I am not sure now). So this cat has left them one they. They thought he is dead, killed by car or something similar. But one day, after some year, the cat returned :D
SO maybe this LGP cat is just on long journey, just stopped for a few months :)
Quite possibly, yeah. She may very well just go away some day. I hope not tho {:-)
I’ve always been partial to the following:
Zaphod (OK the cat’s a she but it’s a great name)
Meow-ze-dung
Fuzzy
Now I understand why it takes so long time to port a game :)
Well looks like qwerty is the winner, although i like spot as it’s data’s cat from star trek TNG haha.
Now get back to posting blogs about upcoming ports ;)
Wait, seriously, you’re looking for amusing names for a cat and “Five” isn’t on the list? I take away your geek card!
Ack, you’re right! I am a geek failure {:-((((