Tasty Goodies and the Epic of the Vending Machine

Today I was sitting there working with the central data storage crystal, creating a backup of the whole network that is going to be shipped off site so in the event of a massive fire or something like that (Not that it's usually a problem, the fire control systems in the school usually do a pretty good job of stopping any stray fires. But sometimes they get lazy and stop paying attention) we can have a backup, and I got hungry. So I decided that I should go to the vending machine and get something to eat. Now I've seen the "Replicator" in some of the muggle TV shows, and the theory they suggest is pretty interesting. Sloppy and wasteful by wizard standards obviously, but it is an interesting alternative to the Wonks'O brand food generators. I mean, they have to program it with what they want to eat, and all we have to do is give it an example and it can make it forever more. And better yet, we can download the recipie onto removable media and give it to another food generator. I have my favorite meal (a scrumptious blend of potatoes, sausage, carrots, corn, and onions stir fried) stored on my pocket drive. (Something rougly akin to a muggle flash drive, just also capable of doing some actual processing as well as having a LOT more space.)

But anyway, stupid thing was acting up and only seemed to want to give me a salad. I spent ten minutes trying to convince it that my sausage and potatoes wasn't going to eventually kill me, and that I didn't need to eat more leafy greens.

But I guess that just made the goal at the end all the more rewarding.

OOC:

Yes, replicators. Think about it, a moderate intellegence computer mixed with the ability to cast transmutation spells (Or conjuration, I haven't decided which yet. I can't currently think of any examples of matter conjuration at this particular moment, so I guess I'm gonna have to go with transmutation) and a divination spell to determine the nature of the meal in question. Feed it generic matter (waste, dirt, etc) and it can give you back food. Same basic point as Matter<->Energy converters like replicators, but with a magical twist.