| March 12, 2001 | Smart Cookies |
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The fortune cookie I got with my tofu stir-fry this afternoon at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus cafeteria says "Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you." That fortune was a nice change of pace. My usual fortune cookies (I get the tofu stir-fry almost every day) are all about how I will find "success" and "riches." Here's a random sampling from the past few days': "You will win success in whatever you adopt" "Your present plans are going to succeed" "The star of riches is shining upon you" "You have an unusual equipment for success" That last one is my favorite. I have an "equipment for success"? Hmmm. What would that be? Is it my computer keyboard ring that Mindy made for me? Is it my new bright cherry red hair? OR, are these fortune cookie authors implying that I have a penis!? What I am worried about, however, is that these cookies are strategically planted to encourage my natural workaholism. I really do feel that they're aimed at me. One even criticized my clothing! It said something about how I should aim to dress with simplicity. Don't these cookies understand my passion for platform shoes?! It seems that these cookies are trying to make me into "the boring, simply dressed, well-paid careerwoman." And I must not let them! I wonder if the cookies know that I'm demo-ing my product for Bill Gates on Monday... Let's not tell them. Labels: billgates, fortune, microsoft posted by Jess Barron @ 2:32 PM 
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