He has a quite taste for kippered herring. They're not for people, it's a device to make computers feline friendly. The same thing for Windows - cats love to look out them. Well, he might have been uucp'ing. That could have brought it up too.
Cats come naturally to system administration duties.
Lots of people think cats are inferior because they don't use tools. That's simply because they don't understand the tools cats use. They do all the scut work, like opening cans or doors, changing ribbons on the band printer, loading discs, things like that. Humans are VERY trainable. Subscription restored effective next issue.