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*snerk* Zark used his FOSDIC to get a coffee machine to make coffee. I had a rough day and you just made it so much better. *snerk* FOSDIC

Thanks, Becky! I got the idea for this after watching house guests trying to negotiate my coffee machine, which is a hell of a lot simpler than the one Galaxy Security had installed. I figure that if they aren't already around, it's only a matter of time before someone like DeLonghi produces a home coffee machine with bluetooth and a smartphone app so that you can use your phone to tell the machine to make your coffee the way you like it. (Does anyone know if this been invented yet? If it hasn't, I'm calling it.) Naturally, a space-age coffee machine would have a network connection, which Zark could then exploit, using the dreaded FOSDIC (Film Optical Sensing Device for Interfacing with Computers.) I imagine someone at Sandy Frank Productions probably put some work into coming up with the Zark's FOSDIC*, so I figured, what the hell, let's write a story with Zark's FOSDIC in it for laughs. * Deputy Director Hill: "What does S.H.I.E.L.D. mean to you?" Agent Ward: "Somebody really wanted our initials to spell out the word 'shield.'" - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.