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1 de Abril 2009
april foo
"Aries (March 21-April 19): Don't you think its time you toned down your manic aspirations? Aren't you curious about the sweet, sensitive success that could be yours if only you got really calm and peaceful? Wouldn't it be interesting to explore the more manageable opportunities that might become available by accepting your limitations with humble equanimity? APRIL FOOL! Don't you dare do any of those things, Aries. Your spiritual duty for the foreseeable future is to be a brave initiator of ingenious experiments... a high-powered self-starter who competes primarily with yourself... a pioneering warrior who's in quest of transcendent exploits that make it unnecessary to go to war."
here is why i read my horoscope:
it serves as proof that, sometimes, maybe just once a week, someone with entirely questionable credentials can say something really helpful, if not absolutely true.
so, ha.
fuck normal, peaceful, serenity style bullshit.
i have wars to stop, bitches to expose, assholes to undermine and experiments to get back to.
oh, and here is a little help for the scrabble lovers hoping the titular "foo" is a word and that i know how and when to use it--please note the military overtones and mr t undertones and what they are capable of doing to the way we measure a pasture or abstract (perhaps FUBAR) computer science concepts--
Definitions of foo on the Web:
* An artillery observer is a soldier responsible for directing artillery fire and close air support (ground attack by aircraft) onto enemy positions ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO
* Foo is a metasyntactic variable used heavily in computer science to represent concepts abstractly and can be used to represent any part of a ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
* Also foo'. Representation of fool (foolish person), in a Mr. T accent
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foo
* Forward Observation Officer. Artillery officers attached to battalions and companies to control and coordinate artillery fire.
www.51hd.co.uk/glossary
* Major concepts in CML, usually mapped directly onto XMLElements (to be discussed later).
wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/cml/
* or foobarFoobar Foobar is a common placeholder name used in computer programming.... (Used primarily in the computer industry)
www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Placeholder_name
* Measurement of the total quantity of pasture in a paddock, expressed in kilograms of pasture dry matter per hectare (kg DM/ha)
www.lifetimewool.com.au/glossary.aspx
| By crymytinyflood | 10:42 AM
