What should I feed my cat?

Posted on by Waheed Ayubi

When I first got my cat, I wanted to make sure that I would feed him right. I was afraid he’d become fat since all he does is sit around all day long. After much research and debate, this is the diet that I came up with.

My cat eats once every 8 hours: 8am, 4pm, and 12am (midnight). At 8am and at 12am (midnight) he eats a 3oz can of Fancy Feast wet cat food. At 4pm he eats a 1/4 cup of Wellness Core dry cat food and drinks from a bowl of water next to it.

I started with two portions of canned wet food because I like that it’s filled with moisture. Water is life. I decided to diversify his diet with dry food because many argued that dry food is healthier than wet food for cats’ teeth.

Fancy Feast

I went with Fancy Feast because it’s the healthiest you can get for the cheapest price. As I’m writing this, Wal-Mart is selling 3oz cans for $0.47 each. The Fancy Feast cans that I’m listing each have 50%* protein content. These are the only cans I purchase from Fancy Feast as they do not contain any corn, rice, or ocean fish high in mercury. The first ingredient is always a meat.

Classic Chicken Feast
Classic Salmon & Shrimp Feast
Classic Savory Salmon Feast
Classic Tender Beef Feast
Classic Tender Liver & Chicken Feast
Classic Turkey & Giblets Feast

*The actual formula to calculate the protein content for these Fancy Feast cans is (11% protein / (100% – 78% moisture)) = 50% protein per dry matter.

Wellness Core

I went with Wellness Core because it’s the healthiest I could find locally for an affordable price. As I’m writing this, a 1/4 cup portion of Wellness Core is $0.50 when you buy the big bag. Wellness Core contains 56%* protein, actually making it healthier than the Fancy Feast cans. This recipe does not contain any corn, rice, etc. and only contains meat protein sources.

Wellness Core Fish & Fowl Recipe

*The actual formula to calculate the protein content for this Wellness Core recipe is (50% protein / (100% – 11% moisture)) = 56% protein per dry matter.

Summary

I don’t work for any of these companies, nor do I get for this article. I’m a cat owner who came up with this feeding schedule after much research. I hope this information is useful to new and concerned cat owners out there. My aim was to chronicle what I’ve come up for practical and simple to understand use.

Make the entire internet dark for night time web browsing

Posted on by Waheed Ayubi

If you’re like me and like to browse the web at night time in a dimly lit environment then you too will be annoyed with the overall brightness of the internet. Far too many websites depend heavily on bright themes and styles.

This user style for the stylish extension darkens all web sites with black backgrounds and white text to make it easier to browse the internet at night time by eliminating the intensity of the white screen.

You can download and install the user style over at userstyles.org: http://userstyles.org/styles/40462

Here are some before and after screen shots.

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Handing the means of production to the audience

Posted on by Waheed Ayubi

When an industry owns the means of production, its audience has no choice but to consume the materials produced by the industry if it wants to consume materials of that nature.

However, when the means of production is handed to the audience and the audience becomes able to produce materials of that nature by themselves, then the industry’s monopoly over that material is broken.

The computer is the ultimate revolution because it hands the means of production of so many things to individuals who are able to produce, ad infinitum, materials of every nature.

An economic society that is unable to grasp this will bicker and fight til the end over “copyrighted” materials that are not being paid for when they are completely blind to the fact that they are competing with an enormous supply of free content.

Software will continue to replace analog services and for analong services to be profitable, they must continue to address needs that software does not or, even better, cannot meet.