virus: More Humor

David Leeper (dleeper@gte.net)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:58:54 -0500


Even Intellectuals should understand these:

Source:
http://www.watson.org/~cathrine/pagan/humor/tarot.html

HACKER TAROT CARDS.

This is one of those friend of a friend of a... things that nobody seems to know the author of.

0. The FOOL: a manager using a SPARCStation 413,1432 to run a screensaver.

1. The MAGICIAN: a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a Sparc, and a Cray on the table in front of
him --- all running
the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head.

2. The HIGH PRIESTESS: a woman holding the Documentation, closed and concealed. The crescent moon
is showing on
an Indigo behind her..

3. The EMPEROR: Steve Jobs sitting on a NeXT cube, holding an optical disk vertically in his hand.

4. The EMPRESS: A secretary with a NeXT Machine.

5. The HEIROPHANT: Bill Gates with two flunkies kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering
him floppy disks.
He wears a laptop computer on his head.

6. The LOVERS: a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory
regards them.

7. The CHARIOT: A man in a chariot, hurtling up an exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes
of Technology
(black) and Culture (white).

8. STRENGTH: A woman holding the entire design and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind
as she corrects the
final error. An infinity sign is over her head.

9. The HERMIT: An old hacker, white-bearded, burns the midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame
illuminates his keyboard.

10. The WHEEL OF FORTUNE: A rotating wheel. Cray is on the side going down, despite its good
technology; Smalltalk
is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged beings -- a mouse, a turtle, a dog-cow, and
a human -- look on.

11. JUSTICE. A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one hand and a delete- key in the other.

12. The HANGED MAN: A programmer is tied by his ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely
shifted: he awakens at
sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is reverse-video. He programs on, flawlessly, oblivious to
his circumstances.

13. DEATH: A skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a field, on which are scattered PDP-11s, Apple
]['s, IBM 360/91's,
Xerox Alto's, and many other machines.

14. TEMPERANCE: An angel stands with one foot on her chair and one on the floor, as she copies
files from one disk to
another. A cursor blinks from her chest.

15. The DEVIL: The goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an
inverted torch in one
hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at his feet.

16. The TOWER: An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure,
are hurtled to the
ground.

17. The STAR: A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver, in a transient fragile moment of peace.

18. The MOON: A wolf and a jackal are typing at two PC's. A crayfish crawls out of a pool,
offering suggestions that may
ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines through a window.

19. The SUN: A naked child riding a winged rocking horse programs clever applications on a
high-quality workstation.

20. JUDGEMENT: An angel blows a trumpet; all over the net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or
not.

21. The WORLD: A woman dances on the clouds, unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3-d
mouse in each
hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.

-- 
David Leeper         dleeper@gte.net
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