I got him yesterday and I can't think of a kewl name for him. Any ideas?

Another picture...

congrats on having a cat adopt you.

What about Patrick?
[assuming he's a male, or perhaps Patricia if not].

Patrick is of course a reference to member pca, who has a photo on his website, not unlike this photo.
And pca is of course a cat-person as well, his cat being named Pixel.

And of course, you are no doubt aware [or will be soon], that:
Dogs have owners,
Cats have staff

LOL!

Yeah, I've had cats my whole life. That's part of the reason I can't think of a name, I've pretty much used all the good ones I've liked in the past, and I don't want to name him a name I've used already.

static
pixel
bit
digit
rez
mouse
switch
chip
phase
brain
pinky

this has been a computer related cat name brain storm.
please vote for me.
thanks for your support.

Pinky, rez, brain, and phase are the only ones from that list I hadn't thought of.
I had a friend that named his cat Mouse, so that ruins the fun of that.

Hmm.. I like rez.

Cat Five
Danny John-Jules
Napster
Mischief/Mayhem
Metatron
Audrey Two
Shredder

Congrats on the new cat. I'm sure a good name will come to you.

Matthew

Phineas

I have (well, my parents have really) a cat that looks a lot like that named Lightning, we call her Missy for short (has nothing to do with the actual name obviously). That name worked out well as she is now over 16 years old and still very frisky and energetic (why we named her Lightning in the first place).

I do like the computer lore naming scheme that PCA and others have going. If I got a new cat I would be tempted to name it nible or malloc.

-Mike

It usually takes me a good week or so before I name my cats. That way you have time to get to know some of their personality traits and something always comes to mind. Give it a few more days and you'll come up with something.

My newest kitten I adopted from the vets and they named him Slick because he had a spot of oil on his forehead when found. I started calling him a pip squeak because he was so much smaller than my others cats and he got renamed to Pippin, Pip for short, and it suits him well.

Never rush naming a cat

Muon?

Less?

Less is convenient because if you ever need to explain it to someone who isn't a Unix geek, you can say it's really Lester.

Peter

I really like "Napster" for a cat. So many cats are named for their behaviour when they are kittens, so later you have this big, fat, immobile cat name "rocket" or "turbo". "Napster" will work out better in the future...

I've always liked "Pyewacket" for a cat. That was the name of witch's cat in the movie "Bell, Book, and Candle".

My own current cats are Pancho, Kitten (an old cat that still looks and is sized like a kitten). The dog is YuanYuan, chinese words meaning "round" and "money". It's the skinniest dog alive...

Pussy Galore.

-Zeke

I've always been partial to Neko.

"Napster" will work out better in the future...

I'd suggest that a trip to the vet could prevent unwanted p2p networking.

Newton

Howsabout:

Rocco
Pint
Beast
Taco
Dink
Ralph
Nuts
Bingo
Zamboni
Ross
Mister
Sappy
Stu

That is an adorable looking kitten.

If he had been black, you could have named him Bagheera.

tanstaafl.

Rio?

Marius

how about a name more in line with his station in your house:
his/her highness
your-holiness
master
chief

or his behaviour:
no-stop-that
not-the-couch
owww-my-leeegg
off-the-table
drat

or his future occupation:
mittens (the kitten)


no, really, I do like cats.

How 'bout "radar".
Thems some big 'ol ears.

Ceefer

or maybe... Reefer.

How about "Mah" ?

(Mad As Hops, as in the pic)

If he had been black, you could have named him Bagheera.

Bagheera was the name I have to an all black kitten I had around the time I got my Mark 1. Smart little guy, as he had figured out where on the pizza boxes to bat to open the lid and get at the food.

*sigh*, I do miss him at times.

R.I.P. Bagheera. I'm still sorry...

I've always liked the names Fido and Rover for cats.

Or i've got a friend who is a philosophy major with a cat named Gizmo. This is based on the theory from some old philosopher guy (I forget his name) who says that all animals are just complicated machines.

Douglas Adams? "the hard part about figuring out how a cat works is that as soon as you take it apart, you have a non-working cat"

Gizmo became very popular after 'The Grelims' came out. I knew a few cats named that.

Schrodinger?

That's Ceefer Cat, in case you hadn't figured it out.

(C for Cat)