Conversations in my house

[cjsmith]

me: I need names for the kittens! We should make them a little nerdy.
Rob: Car, cdr, and lambda.
me: Um...
Rob: Cadr. Cadadr. Set bang. Plus zero, minus zero, and NAN.

Later:

Rob: We already have a Joule. We could do units of energy. Erg. What's the English unit of energy?
me: Well, there's BTU, for heat energy. Let's see... [clicky

Comments

[evelynne]

Three kittens? Proton, Neutron, and Electron?

[rfrench]

I had suggested electron, muon, and tauon...

[evelynne]

Actually I kinda think "foot pound" is a hilarious name for a kitten. :

[cjsmith]

Yeah, we were thinking that was just about as "appropriate" as slug, the English unit of mass. Bad vet student! Encouraging kitten abuse! Bad! Bad!

[brooksmoses]

Is "Foot Pound" better or worse than "Horsepower Hour"?

There are many possibilities at Wikipedia, such as "Gram of TNT", "Kilocalorie", "Electron Volt", "Barrel of Oil Equivalent", "Reciprocal Centimeter", and "Gordon".

[psi_star_psi]

(firkin-gallon) / (mile-hour-week)

I love unit analysis.

[hitchhiker]

they should ideally also have a definite *threeness* to them! {sin, cos, tan} comes to mind. {godel, escher, bach}. {yan, tan, tethera}, if you've read 'the wee free men' (also sounds cute enough to be kitten names)

[ladycelia]

I don't know, moat kittens I've known, foot poumd would be a perfectly appropriate name.

[tryslora]

I'd leave a more coherent comment but it's not even 7am yet and I can't type without typos and I'm just giggling like crazy (and my brain is like caaaddr and it's a serious throwback to twenty years ago which is ouch, and foot pound really did make me laugh out loud). Kittens!