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If you like Calendar, you might like Fortune. It's usually in the "bsdgames" package (https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/ https://www.poly
by peterwwillis 8y ago
If you like Calendar, you might like Fortune. It's usually in the "bsdgames" package (https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/ https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/). You can add it to your bashrc file to see a new fortune each time you open your shell.
~$ fortune
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
~$ fortune
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
~$ fortune
Distress, n.:
A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
~$ fortune
The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
-- Ogden Nash
- S-E-P 8y agoon Ubuntu it was through fortune-mod Also there are some pretty funny jokes in here.
- smhenderson 8y agoAdd a little fun to that by letting a cow tell your fortune with cowsay[1]. fortune | cowsay [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
- contingencies 8y agoOr try http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup for a more unix/software design focused fortune database in an implementation that supports color. Interoperable if you are an efficiency die-hard with a color blindness problem.