A fortune served up with a random* digital photograph from Flickr. Reload!
 Bird food by Joseph Hoetzl |  Broken Fence I by orkybash |  STM by All Seeing |
A would-be disciple came to Nasrudin's hut on the mountain-side. Knowing that every action of such an enlightened one is significant, the seeker watched the teacher closely. "Why do you blow on your hands?" "To warm myself in the cold." Later, Nasrudin poured bowls of hot soup for himself and the newcomer, and blew on his own. "Why are you doing that, Master?" "To cool the soup." Unable to trust a man who uses the same process to arrive at two different results -- hot and cold -- the disciple departed.
* The photographs and fortunes are only related to each other by virtue of being on this page together. The views expressed are not those of the operator of this website or the photographers whose works are shown. So how does it work? A fortune or quote is chosen at random and then the frequency of each word is computed. Then one of those words is used in a tag search on Flickr from which random photographs are chosen.