[TriLUG] How to use Linux to feed your cat

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Joel Ebel wrote:

> ...I think you'd notice a drastic change in affection from your cat 
> when they realize you have been replaced with a much more reliable 
> computer...

In the interest in converting my young, frolicking, ankle-pouncing 
kitten into a large, lethargic, lap-cat (1), my wife and I purchased an 
ever-feeder.  Essentially, it just drops as much food from a large 
cylinder as the cat can possibly consume.  We fill it maybe twice every 
three weeks.  He still seems to love us, although he is not progressing 
towards fat and happy as quickly as I might like.  :)  So hopefully the 
automatic cat feeder would at the least, engender a sense of love of 
computers in your cat.  Perhaps he'd learn to hack python in order to 
get more food?

Aaron S. Joyner

(1) For the comfort of those who might be overly concerned for my cat's 
welfare, the actual motivation for this purchase originally was an 
out-of-town trip over the weekend.  The fat-cat mentality occurred to me 
later.  :)