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casting the runes n.
What a [guru] does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else; esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare [incantation], [runes], [examining the entrails]; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight in "[Some AI Koans]" (Appendix A).