Also, theories about pet names (I had five minutes to waste last night, and lo, did I waste it.)

[featherynscale]

Last night we came to the conclusion that virtually every element on the periodic table would make a good name for a cat. Boron, a russian blue. Strontium, a tabby tom. Ytterbium, a tuxedo cat. Plutonium, a tiny fluffy grey kitten. And so on. So I ask kittenpants about Neodymium. She responds, "Of course! Little black cat. You could call it Neo, and everyone would think you were a Matrix fan, but the truth would be so much dorkier."

In addition, the names of mathematicians and physicists seem to make fine names for dogs. Wronski (dachshund), Mandelbrot (great dane), Lorenz (schnauzer), Feynmann (wire-haired terrier), Gell-Mann (rottweiler), and so on. This string-theory guy, Swimme, he's probably out of the dog-name running, but mostly it seems to work out.

Discuss.

EDIT: We also decided that if we were going to re-name our cat after a chemical element, her name would be Lithium. Which is probably better than Parsnip, which was the last thing we thought we might want to re-name the cat.

FURTHER EDIT: Maybe Lorenz would be a better name for a chihuahua. They're much more sensitive to changes in conditions. (I should stop thinking about this.)

Comments

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I can't quite imagine a cat named Tin. I would like to see the cat named Seaborgium though.

Ununseptium would be the gray cat that gets lost all the time.

Does it matter whether your cat is a metal, semiconductor, noble gas, and so on?


Of course, you could also combine the cat and dog naming, e.g. a dog named Einstein and a cat named Einsteinium. OK, that might get a bit confusing.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think Tin and Lead are the worst of the bunch (although Stannium and Plumbum would be okay). Seaborgium could be a huge white short-hair, in my humble opinion.

We did briefly discuss the classification of cats last night, although only to the extent that kittenpants decided that although our cat was certainly inert, she had a hard time picturing the cat as a noble gas.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

I still say our cat is Lead. She's dense, pliable, prone to get stuck in windows, and mildly toxic to our allergic friends.

Would Plumbum be better? I mean, it's the Latin, and the derivation of the symbol, Pb.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

although our cat was certainly inert, she had a hard time picturing the cat as a noble gas.

I would have to agree with that...

[zylch.livejournal.com]

I can't quite imagine a cat named Tin

What about a cat named Stannum? (source of tin's chemical symbol, Sn)

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Aw yeah, "Stannum" is totally a grey tabby tomcat.