Slashdot used to have X-Bender and X-Fry, HTTP
headers that would provide a Bender or Fry quote. I added a small line
to my ~/.profile that would grab one of these each time a new shell
was opened. Eventually Slashdot stopped adding these (probably from
seeing the load generated by folks like me that wanted their daily
Futuruma quote). These silly Futuruma quotes would bring me joy during
stressful debugging problems or hectic workdays, so I wanted them
back. Here's a Github repository that does the same thing.
Rather than tax Github's servers with Bender and Fry quotes, create a local database with the following:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vsbuffalo/good-news-everyone/master/futurama.txt |\ awk '{print $0} END{print "total quotes: "NR > "/dev/stderr"}' > ~/.futurama
This creates ~/.futurama, a text database of quotes. Then, just
add the following to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.profile:
# dose of Futurama
gshuf -n1 ~/.futurama
On Unix systems this is likely just shuf. If you're using OS X like
me, Homebrew has GNU coreutils, just enter: brew install coreutils, which installs gshuf.
The textfile of quotes is from Orde Saunders's X-Futurama-headers repository and an archive of the original X-Fry and X-Bender from Slashdot. There are some redundancies that I may remove later. I'll take pull requests for additional quotes.