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[shadesong]

My login fortune today:

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

login fortune? is this a site or just a quote you liked?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

When we log in to our computers here at work, it gives us a "fortune" random quotes, computer-related jokes, etc.

[mfree.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... back when I was doing the serious programming classes, all the C work was done on a terminal session of the college's Sun machine... which had fortune enabled and running.

I could often be found...

*up*
*enter*
*snicker*
*up*
*enter*
*snicker*

for HOURS. I likes the Bierce fortunes the best :)

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

wow -- wish my work did that when we log in. All we get is work-related announcements

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Bierce. I proofread a collection of Bierce short stories (I do freelance proofing for a friend at Penguin Putnam). I did the whole thing in one night--big, big mistake. I like Bierce a whole lot, but I totally overdosed. I actually considered hiding the knives. Eleven hours straight, bathroom/liquid refreshment breaks only (water, not the alcohol that would have helped the experience). It was very, very depressing. Wouldn't have done it in a straight shot if it hadn't been a rush job.

When I proofed an H.P. Lovecraft collection, I was smarter and broke it over three nights. That time, I was ready to die of boredom, not self-inflicted injury. I finally had to remind myself that HPL's books were the beginnings of the modern horror/supernatural genre, but I'm still not sure that excuses his infinite repetition of idea and content (sometimes down to the sentence, which you only really notice when you read it all at once). Ah, well, it was a Learning Experience, and life needs those.