English text variants MOTD


Calls `fortune` and prints it as is, in Jive and Valspeak.


Tools — Small utilities, gadgets & scripts to perform daily tasks.

English text

The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is easy to see. When you avoid killing somebody's pet on the glazeway, that's sentiment. If you swerve to avoid the pet and that causes you to kill pedestrians, THAT is sentimentality. -- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune"

English variant — jive

De difference between sentiment and sentimentality be easy t'see. What it is, Mama! When ya' avoid killin' somebody's pet on de glazeway, dat's sentiment. If ya' swerve t'avoid da damn pet and dat causes ya' t'kill pedestrians, THAT is sentimentality. Slap mah fro! -- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse, dig dis: Dune"

English variant — valspeak

The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is ya know, like, easy to see. When you avoid killin' somebody's pet on thuh glazeway, fer shure, that's sentiment. If you swerve to avoid thuh pet and that causes you to kill pedestrians, like, THAT is sentimentality. -- Frank Herbert, fer shure, "Chapterhouse: Dune"