I like books! Yeah, am nerd.
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
The Duke hurried out to her, having been told of Carline’s return. He embraced his daughter, then started to speak with her. Pug lost sight of them as curious, questioning onlookers surrounded him. He tried to push his way toward the magician’s tower, but the press of people held him back.
“Magician” – Raymond E. Feist, 20th Anniversary leather bound edition.
How about you?
For that particular book, an interesting alternate meme might be:
* Open to the first page of a random chapter.
* Determine if Feist opens the chapter with a short, standalone sentence.
* If so, write a hash mark on a piece of paper.
* Repeat until you find a chapter beginning with a paragraph.
* Count the hash marks.
Since the book I have has a picture of an old dude on pg, 56, I’ll do pg 57:
“The most common sight on the streets were the priests and doctors making their frantic rounds.”
From “The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World”, by Steven Johnson.
It’s actually really awesome and full of information about mid 19th century London.
Wes: But I think ALL his chapters open like that. It’s sort of his thing. :)
Donna: Hahaha, I just finished re-reading that one.
“Prototypes can be deceptively attractive to people who don’t know that they are just prototypes. You must make it _very_ clear that this code is disposable, incomplete, and unable to be completed.”
From: “The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Not mine, but still the closest to hand.
There was no point in arguing, nor did they have the energy. “We were sent here,” she repeated dully. “They had no right to send you here,” he said angrily,”There is no prison camp here.”
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
“The following list presents some more things to consider when building flexibility for change into your scorecard plan. The next section explains in detail which tools or methods are best for this approach.”
Balanced Scorecard Strategy for Dummies.
I’m at work, what can I say? I have boring books here.
Also I should write the editor of this book. The sixth sentence was two thirds of the way down the flippin’ page. These people need to vary their sentence structure – maybe throw in some SHORT ONES.
One simple form of summarizing is to determine which unique values are present in a set of values. Use the DISTINCT keyword to remove duplicate rows from a result. For example, the different states in which presidents have been born can be found like this:
MySQL – Paul DuBois