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please, please adopt me.....

Why do you need a networked coffeemaker?

well, scubasteve, if you had all the rest of it, wouldn't it be remiss not have the networked coffeemaker?

Your PDA Phone becomes a remote... you sit in bed and click a button and voila! Coffee without getting up to make the pot!

Nothing like watching TV on the refrigerator.

Hmm, wonder if i could nix the coffee machine to cross compile some stuff while it was not making coffee...

...ah wait, gcc is a hog, i need hot coffee now!

And your washing machine could run folding@home while it's not washing?

No, that'd be the dryer, Leebs... >_>

My dryer has a "sanitize" heat setting. Now I know where it gets all that heat from. (That setting shrinks stuff mighty good.)