Monday, May 12, 2008

Create your own fortune

Create your own, somewhat cynical, fortune file.[1]

First you'll need fortune. [2]

sudo port install fortune

Then you'll need a collection of vaguely cynical mutterings. This part is up to you.

Insert '%' between each line.

Run strfile

briandunbar_natasha_~/fortune:strfile -r sig sig.dat

Now run fortune

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

Communism has only killed 100 million people. Let's give it another chance!

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

"...not one but all of our crisis problems can be solved by exploiting space."

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

Goblin War Strike: "Fire, aim, ready!"

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

Stop the vicious spread of wealth creation! Vote Green.

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

Communism has only killed 100 million people. Let's give it another chance!

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

Saddle your own horse, cull your own herd, and bury your own dead. ~Col. Knute Lombatton

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

See, that's a _detail_.  We need those.

briandunbar_natasha-2_~:fortune -s $HOME/fortune/sig

I don't know what it is, but I think I have a copy of WordPerfect for it. ~Mike Schiller


[1] Yes, fortune is old school and everyone knows it's ins and outs. Except I didn't, and had to look it up.
[2] If you don't have 'ports' or OS X you're on your own.
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