2006.04.19
I haven't been in the mood to write much recently. I am too busy keeping up with all the feeds I added to my bloglines account. I was just scanning some documents so I thought I would scan my favorite fortune cookie fortune.
Those are wise words indeed, and even better "in bed".
Speaking of fortunes I miss the old Unix command "fortune" which produced a random saying or anecdote. Over 10 years ago back in college I made a list of some of my favorites and put it on my web page. The list still exists in the Old Stuff section. I think my sense of humor has shifted a bit, but most still tickle my fancy.
--Old blog comments:
April 19th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
jer Says:
That's a great fortune, but I don't think I’d enjoy the "in bed"
variation as much. Reminds me of an old Mike Meyers joke about "creme of sum yun gai" though..
You don't have to be without the "old" fortune command, it still exists and
is installed by default on many different operating systems. I think it
even exists for windows, if that’s your sort of thing, but there's
a whole world of operating systems that have it already. Just sayin’ is all :)
jer@butters:~$ fortune-
There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
jer@butters:~$ fortune
Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.
jer@butters:~$ fortune
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb
itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective
reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a
maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
jer@butters:~$
April 20th, 2006 at 9:53 am
GNBenson Says:
Other operating systems? What blasphemy is this! The prophet
Gates wrote in Deuteronomy 13: "If thy brother, the son of thy
mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom,
or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly,
saying, Let us go and serve other operating systems, which thou
hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;...Thou shalt not consent
unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him,
neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him, But
thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people."
April 20th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
jer Says:
Oh great.
I think it might be better to equate other operating
systems with being homosexual than treating them as a god..
People don't seem to get too worked up over worshipping
the wrong god in this country, but accuse them of being
gay and they'll install windows lickety-split. Ha!
"lickey-split" and gay in the same sentence, 1 point for me.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:41 am
GNBenson Says:
Maybe you're right, since stroking the mouse and
fingering the keyboard is more like sex than prayer.
How about Leviticus 20:13: "If a man also lie with
Linux, as he lieth with Windows, both of them have
committed an abomination: they shall surely be put
to death; their blood [shall be] upon them." I don't
know, doesn't seem to work for me. Besides Linux is so
geeky it can't be gay, unlike that other operating system,
wink wink nudge nudge.