Well, this one is rather Zen, but that's the fun of fortune cookies:

"We want to have a testimony, but we don't want the test."

I believe it is a warning about wanting accomplishments without putting in the risk/effort, but other interpretations are welcome . . .

Heh.  I'd mentioned this to 
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Today, I was gifted with the Fortune Cookie of Snarkitude:

"Brag about your age, why hide something that's so obvious!"

Jeez.  That's the kind of message that loses hapless restaurant workers their tips.

Also: the infinite free internet I was so looking forward to while working at the store suddenly went away yesterday c. 2pm, and hasn't yet come back ( Read more... )

Taking advantage of my new almost-constant online status, here's the latest bit of cookified wisdom, from lunch:

"It's not the end yet.  Let's stay with it."

Amazingly appropriate, really, given that today is generally considered the official start of the Christmas selling season.  We're in it for the long haul, but may it be a good one.  W00t!  At ( Read more... )

So, I'm gonna be eating a lot of Chinese food through the holidays (more info on that in a future post, if I feel like boring y'all that much), and I think I'll start posting my cookie fortunes for the heck of it.  Today's snippet of baked good wisdom:

"The answer will not come to you.  You need to look for it."

Philosophical, unobjectionable, and ( Read more... )