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IT Career Horoscopes
HRHsoleil writes "If you're addicted to horoscopes, you going to love these Horoscopes for geeks." Mine was surprisingly accurate, thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the power that a gaseous orb a zillion miles away exhibits upon my laptop.
But not, I think, as clever as Weird Al. :)
Yes it was. Unless the obstetrician had no mass at all.
The gravitational pull of the obstetrician will be about 10 times that of mars.
Geek Horoscopes
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Some of the cards are hilarious, like "Venture Capital" or "Flame War"
There are two kinds of sysadmins: paranoids and losers. I'm both kinds.
I don't know that. But that's not what astrologers claim, is it? They claim that the position of Jupiter in the solar system affects the birth of a child. Jupiter isn't made of dark matter, it's made of hydrogen, helium, some methane and ammonia, and the vapourised remains of Galileo. Astrologers don't point to mysterious, exotic entities from frontier physics, they point to bloody huge balls of gas and rock, made entirely of normal matter, interacting gravitationally in a very good approximation to Newtonian mechanics. Even relativity hardly gets a look-in. String theory doesn't even enter into it.
The funniest part is when astrologers claim that the position of Neptune (discovered 1846) or Pluto (discovered 1930) will have some effect on a newborn's future. And they try to pass this off as Wisdom of the Ancients. I must have missed the massive research programme over the last 73 years in which astrologers deduced the nature of Pluto's effect on people's lives. I must also have missed the public apology where the astrologers admitted that their predictions had been wrong for centuries because the unknown influence of Pluto was throwing them off...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.