Re: Finally sat down and read 2106
Re: Finally sat down and read 2106
- Subject: Re: Finally sat down and read 2106
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:16:02 -0700
Gnarlie's solution? Leave a loaded mousetrap on top of the printer!
Entity Christopher Nebel spoke thus:
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OK, for those who haven't heard the story, here's the deal.
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(Approximately, anyway. I got to hear it first-hand from Andy at
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MacHack 2001, and I assume it's on the Web somewhere, but I couldn't
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find it.)
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When Andy acquired a spiffy new laser printer, his cat decided that
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right on top of it was an ideal place to nap, it being nice and warm up
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there. Naturally, this caused all sorts of trouble with cat hair, paw
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prints, strange-smelling printouts, etc. However, merely chasing the
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cat away didn't seem to take. (Like many cats, Andy's had at best
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minimal respect for humans.) Besides, Andy was on the road a lot of
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the time, so the cat could do whatever it liked.
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At this point, most people would give it up as a bad job. Andy,
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however, is a clever and determined fellow, and came up with the
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following solution:
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He happened to have a Darth Vader piggy bank -- when you dropped a coin
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in, Darth would swivel around menacingly and say something Darth-ish,
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like "Impressive. Most impressive. But you are not a Jedi yet", plus
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the usual heavy breathing. Fairly cheesy, but for whatever reason, it
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scared the bejeezus out of the cat. Andy got inside it (the bank, not
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the cat), soldered a wire to the coin trigger, and wired that to a
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scriptable X-10 controller. He then made a small web page with a
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webcam and a button that would trigger the X-10 via an AppleScript CGI,
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and left the camera (and, not incidentally, Darth) pointed at the laser
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printer.
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Next time he's away, he calls up his special page -- sure enough, the
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cat is resting on the printer. He pushes the button, the bank goes
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off. When the webcam refreshes five seconds later, no cat. Mission
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accomplished!
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--Chris Nebel
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AppleScript Engineering
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