On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 09:54 -0800, Dave Laird wrote:
> Good morning, Ed...
>
> shadow wrote:
>
> > On 12-Dec-04, Dave Laird wrote:
> >
> > DL> Fortune Random Thought For the Minute
> > DL> When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
> > DL> -- Lynch
> >
> >>From John Madden during an unusually bizarre NFL game -
> >
> > "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
>
> Consider that added to my Fortunes collection.
>
> That's the lovely thing about Fortunes under Unix and generated entirely
> at random from cron. You NEVER know what the fortune is until you have
> read the message.
Depends on your mail client. Evolution, for example, lets me see the
fortune in my message as I type it, but to get a new one does take a few
extra steps. Given the size and *ahem* variety of my quotesdb, that's a
good thing sometimes. >:^) And tonight I realized that I forgot to
import my fortune scripts into this laptop's install of Evolution. That
oversight has now been corrected. :) Now, if I remember for the laptop I
am currently installing Gentoo on, I'll feel even better. ;)
I particularly enjoy the synchronicity that happens when a selected
quote seems to reflect some aspect of the email/post it is found in. :)
> Of course, I've had people tell me they read the fortune
> first, in case the message is either unremarkable, tepid or just plain
> boring. At least that way they have a random chance of reading something
> interesting or humorous. I've had people running Windows.xx attempt to
> emulate the Fortunes, but without effectiveness.
>
> It is as I say, if you don't like the fortune right now, wait around
> another 2.2 minutes and it, and perhaps it and your outlook will change.
Not likely. We've been waiting for Outlook to "change" for years.
muahahahahaha
Cheers,
Bill
--
Has anyone realized that the purpose of the fortune cookie program is to
defuse project tensions? When did you ever see a cheerful cookie, a
non-cynical, or even an informative cookie?
Perhaps inadvertently, we have a channel for our aggressions. This
still begs the question of whether the cookie releases the pressure or only
serves to blunt the warning signs.
Long live the revolution!
Have a nice day.
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