Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / While the engineer developed his \ | thesis, the director leaned over to his | | assistant and whispered, "Did you ever | | hear of why the sea is salt?" | | | | "Why the sea is salt?" whispered back | | the assistant. "What do you mean?" | | | | The director continued: "When I was a | | little kid, I heard the story of `Why | | the sea is salt' many times, but I | | never thought it important until just a | | moment ago. It's something like this: | | Formerly the sea was fresh water and | | salt was rare and expensive. A miller | | received from a wizard a wonderful | | machine that just ground salt out of | | itself all day long. At first the | | miller thought himself the most | | fortunate man in the world, but soon | | all the villages had salt to last them | | for centuries and still the machine | | kept on grinding more salt. The miller | | had to move out of his house, he had to | | move off his acres. At last he | | determined that he would sink the | | machine in the sea and be rid of it. | | But the mill ground so fast that boat | | and miller and machine were sunk | | together, and down below, the mill | | still went on grinding and that's why | | the sea is salt." | | | | "I don't get you," said the assistant. | | | \ -- Guy Endore, "Men of Iron" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;