Hacker Tarot Cards

        1.The FOOL: a manager using a SPARCStation
               413,1432 to run a screensaver. 
        2.The MAGICIAN: a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium
               box, a Sparc, and a Cray on the table in front of
               him --- all running the same program with the
               same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head. 
        3.The HIGH PRIESTESS: a woman holding the
               Documentation, closed and concealed. The
               crescent moon is showing on an Indigo behind
               her. 
        4.The EMPEROR: Steve Jobs sitting on a NeXT cube,
               holding an optical disk vertically in his hand. 
        5.The EMPRESS: A secretary with a NeXT Machine. 
        6.The HEIROPHANT: Bill Gates with two flunkies
               kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering
               him floppy disks. He wears a laptop computer on
               his head. 
        7.The LOVERS: a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC
               exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory
               regards them. 
        8.The CHARIOT: A man in a chariot, hurtling up an
               exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of
               Technology (black) and Culture (white). 
        9.STRENGTH: A woman holding the entire design
               and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind
               as she corrects the final error. An infinity sign is
               over her head. 
     10.The HERMIT: An old hacker, white-bearded, burns
               the midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame
               illuminates his keyboard. 
     11.The WHEEL OF FORTUNE: A rotating wheel. Cray is
               on the side going down, despite its good
               technology; Smalltalk is opposite it, and C++ is
               sitting on top. Four winged beings -- a mouse, a
               turtle, a dog-cow, and a human -- look on. 
     12.JUSTICE. A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in
               one hand and a delete- key in the other. 
     13.The HANGED MAN: A programmer is tied by his
               ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely
               shifted: he awakens at sunset, he sleeps at dawn.
               His monitor is reverse-video. He programs on,
               flawlessly, oblivious to his circumstances. 
     14.DEATH: A skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a
               field, on which are scattered PDP-11s, Apple ]['s,
               IBM 360/91's, Xerox Alto's, and many other
               machines. 
     15.TEMPERANCE: An angel stands with one foot on
               her chair and one on the floor, as she copies files
               from one disk to another. A cursor blinks from her
               chest. 
     16.The DEVIL: The goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands
               on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted
               torch in one hand. Two humans, male and female,
               are in chains at his feet. 
     17.The TOWER: An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of
               lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are
               hurtled to the ground. 
     18.he STAR: A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver,
               in a transient fragile moment of peace. 
     19.The MOON: A wolf and a jackal are typing at two
               PC's. A crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering
               suggestions that may ultimately prove deadly. The
               moon shines through a window. 
     20.The SUN: A naked child riding a winged rocking
               horse programs clever applications on a
               high-quality workstation. 
     21.JUDGEMENT: An angel blows a trumpet; all over the
               net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not. 
     22.The WORLD: A woman dances on the clouds,
               unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a
               3-d mouse in each hand. The four winged beings
               from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.