Angry Graycat Designs is certainly a silly name, yet it pleases me: more pronounceable than Goetter to the Umlaut-challenged masses, lacking the hackneyed Compu-this and Whatever-soft prefixes and suffixes, and without the cloying science-fiction flavor ("Olestra, Pirate Queen of the Galaxy") of many synthetic names.
Everybody needs a totem, or perhaps a mascot: mine happens to be small, gray, and scruffy, with a howl that can curdle milk a block away. Roaring his indignation at a perpetually disappointing world, he gives his name to all efforts that transpire in his domain. He can be found picking his way across the clutter on my desk, weaving through the tangle of Ethernet cable, or simply shouting his displeasure - How DARE you ignore me! I cannot BELIEVE this indignity! This is INCONCEIVABLE! - over the layered din of cooling fans.
Last modified: 13 August 1998
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