Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of \ | them all was Thomas Edison, who was a | | brilliant inventor despite the fact | | that he had little formal education and | | lived in New Jersey. Edison's first | | major invention in 1877, was the | | phonograph, which could soon be found | | in thousands of American homes, where | | it basically sat until 1923, when the | | record was invented. But Edison's | | greatest achievement came in 1879, when | | he invented the electric company. | | Edison's design was a brilliant | | adaptation of the simple electrical | | circuit: the electric company sends | | electricity through a wire to a | | customer, then immediately gets the | | electricity back through another wire, | | then (this is the brilliant part) sends | | it right back to the customer again. | | | | This means that an electric company can | | sell a customer the same batch of | | electricity thousands of times a day | | and never get caught, since very few | | customers take the time to examine | | their electricity closely. In fact the | | last year any new electricity was | | generated in the United States was | | 1937; the electric companies have been | | merely re-selling it ever since, which | | is why they have so much free time to | | apply for rate increases. | | | \ -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;