Well, here's a turn-up. I spotted this meme on
Grig Georghiu's blog.
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
As luck would have it I am on a trip to San Diego and the
only book I have with me is
Rapture for the Geeks by Richard Dooling. [Disclaimer: Richard was kind enough to send me this book in return for a programming favor I did him some time ago]. By the most amazing coincidence, when I examine the bookmark I placed to make a telephone call I see
I am currently reading page 56! Here's the fifth sentence:
If he is gay, man needs man; otherwise, man needs woman.
This doesn't actually represent the compelling nature of Dooling's prose particularly well. For that I like the next two sentences rather better:
Not photos or Web clips or blog entries or text messages or e-mails or even video clips taken of or sent by woman. Man needs woman in the flesh, in meatspace, where he-meat meets she-meat to beget meatlets.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what others come up with.
2 comments:
I'll play. The closest book on my desk is Chris Fehily's excellent SQL Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit.
The fifth sentence on page 56 deals with Binary Large Object Types: "BLOBs are used mainly to store large amounts of multimedia data (graphics, photos, audio, and video, for example)."
pterry's "Soul Music":
This involved a lot of green.
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