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IT Career Horoscopes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the suitably-generic dept.

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.

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  1. Carl Sagan on horoscopes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm paraphrasing here, but when talking about horoscopes, Carl Sagan summarised them like this:

    The idea behind horoscopes is that the way the planets were aligned when you were born affects you. The only way this could actually be true is if it was their respective pulls of gravity against your body while being born.

    Then he pointed out that the gravitational pull of the obstetrician that delivered you far outweighed that of any celestial body.

  2. predictions for folks in IT are easy by Savatte · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aries: you will die a virgin
    Taurus: you will die a virgin
    Gemini: you will die a virgin
    Cancer: you will die a virgin

    etc..

  3. Excitingly Generic! by jhines0042 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was amazed when I read my horoscope!

    Not only did it apply to me directly, but to countless thousands of other people as well! Nearly 1/12th of the worlds population could benefit from this advice!

    How they get this accurate I don't know.

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  4. Next /. story.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Using Voodoo Dolls to influence your PHB...

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  5. Fake horoscope by deltagreen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm unemployed, you insensitive clod!
    I think my horoscope needs a patch.

  6. Horoscopes by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashbot: (Feb 23-Mar 18)

    You will plug some cables into a router today. You will complain over a bowl of kraft dinner that you aren't making the 100,000 dollars and up that the radio commercial for MCP certs promised you. You will post grossly wrong information on slashdot to make everyone think you understand and use linux. Noone will notice as they don't know either, and you will get easy "karma" which is absolutely useless in the cosmic sense. You will not get laid, that was a stupid question.

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  7. Hi Tech Chinese Fortune Cookie by BenitoM · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Exchange server will be down at 6

  8. Horoscope test... by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Not long ago I was teaching introductory astronomy to 180 college freshmen, and we did the "James Randi" demonstration. It was almost surprising how well it worked. I browsed to a horoscope site and downloaded horoscopes for everyone. Printed them up in little folding booklets, 12 types, about 4/3 as many as there were students. Asked the students to come get their horoscope and read it secretly.

    Then they voted on how well-tailored their horoscopes were. About 80% of the class said that the horoscopes were "perfect" or "very good", with about 10% "good" and only 10% saying "fair" or "poor".

    Of course, the kicker is that they all received exactly the same horoscope, I believe an Aquarius reading for early spring 2002.

    Even more of course, the site I got them from advertised that "we don't produce generic horoscopes -- we tailor them specifically to your date of birth!"

  9. Astrological signs not all BS by thaddjuice · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of things that a lot of people don't consider about astrology is that there is a good reason why people of the same signs may have similar personality traits. People who were born at the same time of the year have had various seasons and events happen at the same key points in early development. So, people born right after Christmas in January may have different perspectives on the importance of family, friends, and holidays (their birthdays being near the holidays) than someone born in June. Also, can anyone say what difference it might make in a child's development if it's snowing when they're learning to walk vs. heat of summer?

    I'm not saying this means that you can tell their future based on when they're born, but there may be something to the idea that people of like signs have similar personalities and that relationship compatibility may be tied in to zodiak sign.

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  10. Another Horoscope Idea by Scholasticus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's my idea for the Slashdotter's Horoscope:
    Aries: You will get First Post today!
    Taurus: You will receive a visit from the "goatse guy."
    Gemini: You Fail It!
    Cancer: You will read a story about the SCO lawsuit today.
    Leo: Today you will finish your transformation of an old vacuum cleaner into a computer case.
    Virgo: Today your boss will catch you reading /. while you're supposed to be working.
    Libra: You will be asked to Meta-Moderate.
    Scorpio: Someone will tell you that, despite your best efforts, BSD is dying.
    Sagittarius: Your sig will mysteriously be left off your post on /. today.
    Capricorn: What you thought was a witty comment will receive -1, Troll.
    Aquarius: A site that you try to visit after reading about on /. will ironically be slashdotted.
    Pisces: Your post on /. will unfortunately have an instance of "teh" in place of "the" because you didn't hit the preview button.