1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
My answer: "I tried to rein in my impatience and not begrudge my inactivity, but to value this quiet time for its own sake." Stephen Lawhead, Merlin
Something I have a problem with myself.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I'm not sure I'd be able to comply...
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
quote: Shrinks "friendly" - won't buckle or distort soft and lightweight products.
Uline - Shipping Supply Specialists.
-Trevor
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
quote:In Fibre Channel contexts, the terms adapter and NIC are used in preference to host bus adapter.
The Dictionary of Storage Networking Technology
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
The Gelderlander is a good-moving carriage horse of presence that can also be used under saddle; the Gronnigen is heavier and has very powerful quarters.
-eye wittness handbook of horses
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
"So, once again, I found a thick ferny plant to crawl under, and there I passed the night." -Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel.
Mm... that sounds good.
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
"They progressed up the long dining-hall in a series of bounds or jumps." -- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I'm cursed. The first book I picked up was too short by two pages. The second had a 123 but it was blank. This is the third:
EDIT: (Ooooh, the fifth sentence! I'm really bad at this reading everything thing):
quote: "They haunted house and attic, But not the forest, and hid in eaves and swung From highest beams, avoiding light of day; Even their name is of the vesper hour.
Ovid's Metamophoses, Book IV, at the end of the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. It's describing how Minyas' daughters became bats.
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Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
quote:"..I haven't said anything about it yet...but it might very well be that Abraham Lincoln is my man."
Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
quote: Because all there on the bridge was one with the Force,...Obi-wan might be able to able to temporarily reverse the polarity of the electrodrivers in the general's mechanical hands.
Sorry, the whole sentence was way to long. This is the begining and end of it.
Matthew Stover Revenge of the Sith
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Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
The murder two days later of Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby robbed americans of clear-cut justice.
Cars of the Sizzling '60s. (NOT my book)
Ni!
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Posted by amira tharani (Member # 182) on :
The book I have next to me (Accelerated Learning: A User's Guide; Alistair Smith, Mark Lovatt and Derek Wise) only has 120 pages. Oh well....
Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
quote: In other words, when x is a sequence, c=dict(x) has the same effect as the following:
This is from Python in a Nutshell.
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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:Use indeces only to refer to mathematical expressions.
Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Um, the nearest books are all board books... Let me find one with 123 pages...
*"The words are Willa Cather's; if you print them, of course, you'll have to get her permission.
I happened to pick up American Ballads & Folk Songs, John and Alan Lomax. That's part of the note on a song; the first four sentences are the words of the song.
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Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Gee, can we tell who's at work?
quote: There weren't even any buzzing flies in the dead air to cause a ripple of disturbance.
Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
-Trevor
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
5th complete sentence:
"His was the only face the water could have shown her, for what other living person was linked to her by blood and love?" --Enchantment by Guess Who.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
quote: His throat felt as if he'd just smoked half a dozen cigars and drunk a botle of brandy.
This is from Abhorsen which was the last book I read that I enjoyed, by Garth Nix.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
quote: But it wasn't much of a shove.
Shadow Puppets
(It's on my computer table because, being the dork that I am, I'm rereading the entire series before starting Shadow of the Giant.)
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
"Phoenicians-and they were the greatest sailors in the"
Story of the World, Volume 1; Ancient Times.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
quote:Your final exam will count for 28 percent of your final grade.
Although the closest book to me is not physically a book yet--it's what I'm editing right now on my computer. Maybe I'll do this later when I actually have a book more close by.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
The first book that actually worked for me was:
quote:Most of the compound crystal structures described in Chapter 3 were too "tight" to allow Frenkel defect formation.
Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers, 5th Edition. James Shackelford.
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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Companion or whore, ruby or glass, it was all the same to him if she allowed herself to be reduced to a shiny bauble, crafted for display and contracted to sparkle, when he knew her to be so much more.
From an essay entitled "Whores and Goddesses: the Archetypal Domain of Inara Serra" by Joy Davidson in the collection Finding Serenity, edited by Jane Espenson.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Darn you, Noemon, now I have to go and buy that book.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Its success can be traced, however, not to the legal arguments its proponents have marshaled -- these are, as we shall see, extremely weak -- but to public dissatisfaction with many of the decisions of the Supreme Court reached relying on the abstract, principled view of the Constitution, particularly Roe v. Wade but also other unpopular decisions like those outlawing prayer in the public schools, and to public suspicion of judges having the power that the principled view assigns them.
--Ronald Dworkin, Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom, 1993
[Yeah, Noemon -- cool sentence.]
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Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
"No doubt Gregory was aware that early Christians had done the same."
Western Civilization:A Brief History by Jackson Spielvogel
Chapter 7, The Passing of the Roman World and the Emergence of Medieval Civilization.
The Gregory mentioned is Pope Gregory the Great and the section is about how he converted pagan feasts to the Christian calendar.
I'm studying for my final.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
"Zrobie jeszcze kompres dla Triss"
Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew Elfow .
--
What? Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
It broke his heart, just broke him entirely, to do what he had to do.
Fear Nothing, Dean Koontz.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Other "fullerenes" containing molecules with more than 60 carbon atoms have also recently been discovered, leading to a new area of chemistry.
-- Introductory Chemistry, Zumdahl, 2nd Edition
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
kq - snickersnort
quote:Um, the nearest books are all board books... Let me find one with 123 pages...
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
He was not content to use thermodynamics as an analogy but instead was applying its precepts literally.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
In dealing with the chapter contributors, a publisher may in some circumstances use an agreement of the same type, especially if the contributors are to receive royalty shares.
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I love fear nothing! I'm at work, so the only books I have are school books.
"The pam tuag or burial ceremony is the most important event in the Hmong Society." - Handbook for Teaching Hmong-Speaking Students
This one's further from me, but more interesting:
"'It is a qi that is supremely great and supremely unyielding'" - Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I wondered when one of the resident editors would quote the Chicago Manual of Style.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
quote: Yet the nature of hominid diets has proved elusive because hominids were, and modern humans still are, quintessential generalists.
Human Diet, Ungar and Teaford.
I picked up my physiology and engineering stats textbooks before this one, but they both had problem sets on page 123.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
An unsigned, student-written book review should be cited in the same manner as other unsigned student works, with a parenthetcial citing the work under review if relevant:
Book Note, Let Us Reason Together, 112 Harv. L. Rev. 958 (1999) (reviewing Pierre Schlag, The Echantment of Reason (1998)).
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 17th Ed.
Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
"This was a respectably old god, worshipped at Thespiai in Boiotia, and at Parion in Mysia."
From A Handbook of Greek Mythology-H.J. Rose
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
"He went in without seeing the paper on the floor." ~ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel-Garcia Marquez
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
In addition to surgery and gynecology? -- Children of the Storm, Elizabeth Peters
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote: "It either doesn't matter, or its the end of the world."
-Shadow of the Giant
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Dag, I'm afraid you didn't cite the book you were quoting correctly.
Posted by Aunty Eem (Member # 7743) on :
"I'm sure you know where you are." - Dusty From "False Memory" by Dean Koontz
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
A count of these variations gives a numerical value expressed as RMS granularity. - The FIlmmaker's Handbook
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
"Whereas growing up amidst poverty early in life has a strong adverse effect on individual's cognitive ability, experiencing poverty during adolescence has an especially negative effect on young people's school achievement."
Steinberg, Laurence- Adolescence
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Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
quote:A more effective strategy than trying to abbreviate the earlier stages arbitrarily is to perform them as efficiently as possible or to pick practices that require less design.
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 1996
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
"It's all my fault - I forgot him - there isn't a seed or a drop left - oh, Pip! oh, Pip! how could I be so cruel to you!"
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott.
I'm comfort reading.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
In treatises on many kinds of cultivated lands, certain varieties are said to withstand certain climates better than others: this is very strikingly shown in works on fruit trees publishhed in the United States, in which certain varieties are habitually recommended for the northern, and others for the southern States; and as most of these varieties are of recent origin, they cannot owe their constituional differences to habit.
Origin of Species Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
quote:Let A be an n X n matrix A
From Mathematical Methods for Economics by Michael W. Klein.
Fun Stuff (No, I mean it...really! I'm a math/econ double major, so mathematical economics has to be a fun class fro me)
Posted by babager (Member # 6700) on :
ADULT AND CHILDREN'S FOOT CARE
Sorry but nearest book was the phone book.. I went to yellow pages cuz the white pages didn't have page numbers!! Posted by Fusiachi (Member # 7376) on :
quote:So Black is not only passive; he has Pawns which are direct targets of attack.
The Complete Chess Player - Fred Reinfield
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
"In the first days of 1952, when he and Eddie buried their father, Davey came to the funeral."
Blue Blood Edward Conlon
It's a memoir of a New York cop. Great book.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
quote: In effect, the natural processes of differential survival and reproduction do the selecting
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
(It's the only book not packed away)
Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :
quote: "I'd have noticed if he tried to sneak a head into my basket."
From Murder at Plimoth Plantation, by Leslie Wheeler.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
"Well, since everyone's agreed," he said loudly enough for everyone to hear, smiling broadly, "what's holding up the celebration?"
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Dag, I'm afraid you didn't cite the book you were quoting correctly.
Yes, but there's no power on earth that can make me do those cites correctly when I don't have to.
I3, Rapid Application Development is great; it should be required reading for anyone involved in software development, esepcially managers.
Dagonee
Posted by Mintieman (Member # 4620) on :
Stella : [uncomfortably] I never had anything like your energy, Blanche
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
I havent read much of the play so far, lucky I'm past this bit, I hate spoilers
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I love that play. The movie is what started my intense, imaginary love affair with 1954 Marlon Brando. Holy sneikies.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Maybe you and Brando and J. K. Rowling could all have lunch somtime. I'm sure she'd love to meet him.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
You should hear Brando's impersonation of Sirius Black. Spine-tingling.
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Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
quote: You need to "see" those ideas and help put them in terms you understand.
Reader's Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning
If only the rules said to use the third sentence... "You can do it by yourself or with a friend or two." So many possibilities.
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Posted by ProverbialSunrise (Member # 7771) on :
"This can cause the spool filter to fill up." Stata Release 5 Reference G-O.
Edit: to add Italics
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Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :
quote: Aggie was glad that Emma accepted her refusals so readily.
To Dance at the Palais Royale by Janet McNaughton
EDIT: that actually wasn''t the nearest book to me. I was sitting on one.
quote: Added to the faint whisper of the wind in the trees is the rustle of small animals in the undergrowth, the birdlike chirp of the frogs, sometimes an owl's whoo-whoo - all of it magnified by the dark, and, at least in my case, the imagination
Stones by William Bell
My books that surround me seem to have a local touch.
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Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
"Report to local health authority: Case report of recognized cases, especially outbreaks in selected endemic areas; in many countries, not a reportable disease, Class 3 (see Reporting)."
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18th ed.
Pgs 121-123 deal with coccidiomycosis, which I'm unfamiliar with. It is not reportable in Hawaii.
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Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
"qajariaqangngikkutik aullarunnarajangngittut" (Trans: if they didn't have a canoe, they wouldn't be able to leave) Introductory Inuktitut, version 2.2 by Mike Mallon and Alexina Kublu.
Equally close to me, and more entertaining: "yai yaai yai ya e yai yaai yai yai yai yai yai yai e yaai yai yaai ye i yai ya" Songs of the Copper Eskimos by Helen Roberts and Diamond Jenness
(Can anyone guess what exam I had lately? )
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Is Inuktitut difficult, Asta? I've never seen a course of it before...
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
quote:We then have a wave front toward teh right from a point source infinitely far to left.
My electricity and magnetism lab book.
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
Teshi: Uhhh, I'll have to let you know later. I've barely started. Certainly I'm not up to page 123 yet. I know my animal names and I can say "I have a gun" and ask "Do you have any meat?" and say "Are you a fish? I'm hungry". That's about it so far! It's somewhat hard to pronounce at any rate. But no, it doesn't yet seem exceptionally difficult as far as grammar goes. (And there are no books on it, which is why you haven't seen them. I looked and looked in vain, and my parents wound up calling the Arctic College in Iqaluit to get them to send me their textbook for Christmas - best present ever!)
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
quote: Marjorie shook her head.
-- Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
What can I say. Hard to argue when you've got a winner . . .
We seem to have lots of reference books close at hand. I think that says something about a community built on the works of a sci fi author.
Posted by Sean (Member # 689) on :
quote:Further, if we later wanted to add a third implementation of typeof, then the type of typeSentence would change, potentially causing a ripple effect of changes in type throughout already-written code.
A stirring explanation of the need for type classes from Course Notes for CS 442/642 by Brad Lushman et al.
Yeah, I'm having a fun day.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
The first book I picked up was a book called "The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 1000-1300", so count me in under the text book people...
Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
quote:Read The Book of Lamentations for its graphic account of the unforgettable agonies of the Hebrew people in the destruction of their capital and their people in 586 B.C. -- agonies so often . . . repeated in later Jewish experience in ancient, medieval, and modern times.
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