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On 14/04/2011 10:11 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)
The door, its frame, the skirting-boards, the boarded-up fireplace, the
cupboard under the window were all painted yellow.
My wife's copy of "The hand that first held mine." by Maggie O'Farrell
My books are all tucked up in my Sony eReader.
Oh! The first book in my calibre library is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
"Relax. Take your shirt off."
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 4/16/2011 8:36, Warp wrote:
> The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
> "nearest" to me. How do I choose?
I picked the one laying sideways on top. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 16/04/2011 04:36 PM, Warp wrote:
> The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
> "nearest" to me. How do I choose?
I cheated. There's a dozen books in a bookshelf in front of me, but I
picked the most interesting book. Fortunately, page 52 is the page on
red-black trees...
> And I assume comic books don't count.
Not unless you're going to quote the picture. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:11:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)
OK, 52nd page, 5th sentence:
"Many motherboards provide what is claimed to be hardware RAID."
From _The Advanced Linux Pocket Guide_.
That's about equidistant from me as my Nook, and isn't the copy of the
2nd edition of "Human Capital Analytics", which might be difficult to
identify the 5th sentence in (many of the pages have formulas on them).
Jim
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 16/04/2011 04:36 PM, Warp wrote:
> > The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
> > "nearest" to me. How do I choose?
> I cheated. There's a dozen books in a bookshelf in front of me, but I
> picked the most interesting book. Fortunately, page 52 is the page on
> red-black trees...
By using that method, the 5th sentence on page 52 would be:
"Here, in this chapter, flowers are seducing us, drawing us in, step by
step, lining our path to that understanding."
Not bad, actually.
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- Warp
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> Oh! The first book in my calibre library is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
>
> "Relax. Take your shirt off."
>
...apparently I missed that one...
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On 23/05/2011 4:25 PM, Invisible wrote:
>> Oh! The first book in my calibre library is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
>>
>> "Relax. Take your shirt off."
>>
>
> ....apparently I missed that one...
LOL
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Regards
Stephen
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