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Linux-Based Cat Feeder
prostoalex writes "Chris McAvoy is a UNIX administrator and an owner of two cats. So as a natural application of his work to his hobby he built this Linux-based cat feeder. A little hardware hacking and Python scripting can get you a device that would automatically disperse a yummy fish at specified intervals."
Meeeeow
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More fish please or I shred the furntiure
Mike Foster and Craig Gross, founders of the deceptively christian anti-pornography website, xxxchurch.com, as well as thegoofballs.com, are very entertaining individuals. While that may not come as any sort of suprise to those who are already aware of their exploits for the Lord, the following may be.
My name is David Rockwell. I'm a former christian, black male, and I'm 19 years old this year. I met Mike and Craig at one of their demonstrations in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001. After hearing them give their speech, I spoke with them for a short time afterwards. We instantly hit it off, and decided to continue our discussions at their hotel room.
Our discussion had been as rational as you could expect; they're very firm in their beliefs. Things took a shocking turn shortly, however.
After about 20 minutes of discussion, Mike looked at Craig in kind of a sly fashion, and swiftly pulled a small plastic bag out of his coat pocket. It took me a moment to realize that I was looking at marijuana (I'd never seen it up close before). Mike then asked Craig for a liter, and asked if I smoked. I said no, and wanted to protest, but these two individuals are very persuasive people, and I felt I couldn't refuse. They both puffed on a metal pipe that Mike had, and passed it to me. I desperately did not want to do drugs, but I did anyway. We continued to pass it around a couple of times.
I eventually expressed that I'd never smoked marijuana before, and that I was feeling very paranoid and nervous about it. Mike and Craig noticed my tension, and started to calm me down by expressing how it was actually okay according to scripture to smoke marijuana, because of some bogus facts they conjured up about how it isn't harmful at all to your body, thus not in violation of any commandments. In my degraded mental state I fell for their logic, and was calmed, especially when we started talking about Christianity again.
At this point however, I was starting to notice that the ideas they were expressing were very much not Christian ideas. They started talking about how it was okay to be homosexual, that it wasn't a choice, and that God loved them just as much as a heterosexual, and even blessed their disgusting lifestyle! At this point I was very agreeable, making me consider that they slipped something in my drink (we were drinking leftover punch from the demonstration).
Finally, Craig turned to Mike, in such a manner that a boy will look at a girl when he has feelings for her, leaned in, and kissed him on the lips. By this point I was so petrified that I was in this room with these hypocrites, these liars, that I started shaking uncontrollably. The look after they noticed this suggested that Mike and Craig both sort of realized they'd crossed a line. I expressed that I wanted to leave. They both were trying to get me to promise them that I wouldn't tell anyone, and I reluctantly agreed.
The guilt since then has been eating me up inside. I can't trust anyone, or what they say, and this has caused me to question everything I believe in, including my own faith in the Lord. I've been very lost for the last couple of years, trying to find my way in this world, and I felt I had to make clear the hypocrisy of these individuals. If God is up in the sky, may he bless us all.
you have not been born, these are just your hallucinations within the womb, it gets much weirder.
-pyrrho
I got this from a verified source who's in the know:
Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.
Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.
Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.
During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.
At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)
michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.
There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.
michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.
Who the fuck is Garrick?
Geek enough? Let's see...bonus points for 1 word replies or clever longer ones.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
... only old people are feeding their cats with Linux-Based cat feeder.
Cat: Fish! ...is a fish. Got that? ...Attempting to calculate answer to your question: Why the cat likes raw fish.
Dispenser: Share and Enjoy
Cat: Blearch!
Cat What is the point?
Dispenser: Nutrition and Pleasurable Sense Data. Share and Enjoy.
Cat: It tastes filthy! Take it back.
Dispenser: If you have enjoyed this experience, why not share it with your friends?
Cat: Because I want to keep them. Will you comprehend what I'm saying? That "fish" was-
Dispenser: That fish was individually tailored to your personal requirements for nutririon and pleasure. Share and enjoy.
Cat: Shut up
Dispenser: Will that be all?
Cat: Yes. No. Look, it's very simple. All I want...Are you listening?
Dispenser: Yes.
Cat:
Dispenser: Yes.
Cat: And do you know why I want a fish?
Dispenser: Please wait. Computing...
CmdrTaco: This is CmdrTaco, your personal assistant, just alerting you to the fact that the Fish-O-Matic machine has tapped into my logic to ask me why the cat prefers boiled leaves to anything else, and WOW, it's a biggie! Going to take a little time to work out...Share and enjoy!
Dispenser and CmdrTaco: Share and enjoy! Share and Enjoy! Share and Enjoy!