[LINK] [off topic] Weekend light reading - The Ig Nobels

[Rick Welykochy]

Eleanor Lister wrote:

>> Computer Science:
>>   Presented to Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing
>> PawSense, software
>>   that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.
> 
> hey, that one *is* useful, as us cat-owners can attest, the number of
> times my moggy has communicated his thoughts to humans around the world,
> who of course do not read Cat.
> 
> it usually means 1 of 3 things:
> 
> 1) feed me
> 2) pay attention to me and scratch my ears
> 3) feed me again

Odd ... my cat never trapses across keyboard.

But, when I had a server running under my desk, with the keyboard
resting on top, kitty found it a warm and cosy place to sleep.
The random keypresses, in a console shell, cause the Linux box
to crash. I could not figure out why, but "Cat crashes Debian
Linux for tenth time" would be a good /. headline


cheers
rickw



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