She let her gaze wander to Captain Ferrault, who was met by a dark bearded man in plate mail.

-"Sheepfarmer's Daughter" book one in "The Deed of Paksennarion" trilogy trade paperback by Elizabeth Moon

I find it interesting how many seem to have Terry Pratchet nearest to them. :)

sad to say, but "Green Eggs and Ham" is still the only book on my desk right now.

though i do have a HOUSE & GARDEN magazine here tonight, too:

<i>He pauses to shoo away the family cat, Poppy, who's clawing the stylized floral upholstery on a 1940s rosewood armchair."</i>

"I knew "real" parents probably wouldn't tolerate such license, but I saw it as one small compensation for my orphaned state."

-"R is for Ricochet"- by Sue Grafton

First book: Waiting for Godot...94 pages
Second book: a biographical-ish book on Samuel Beckett...48 pages
Third book: another biographical work on Sam Beckett...again, 48 pages (which I find a little eerie, I must admit)
Fourth book...Ah, at last, it has a page 123:

"Spread on crackers or fancy-shaped pieces of toast and garnish with slices of stuffed olives."
- The Standard Cocktail Guide by Crosby Gaige

Always keep the cocktail guide close by.

tasm, " could be synonym for another Iggy trope: the O-Mind," a para-

'It would be possible to imagine someone groaning out: "Someone is in pain—I don't know who!"—and our then hurrying to help him, the one who groaned.'
—Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Not that W isn't awesome, but ... damn you, school! Give me my soul back!

5 potencial simple
colegiria colegiriamos
colegirias colegiriais
colegiria colegirian

501 Spanish Verbs, Christopher Kendris.

(It was a tie between this and 100 Hikes in Colorado, so I picked one that would hopefully confuse more people.)

"If an abbreviated application is amended to include the certification described in 314.94(a)(12)(i)(A)(4), the applicant shall send the notice required by paragraph (a) of this section at the same time that the amendment to the abbreviated application is submitted to FDA."

Code of Federal Regulations - required some addition getting to page 123, not a very demanding day at the office.

Terry's the man!

5. to provide with regular meals and often also lodging usu. for compensation

Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (1973 edition) fifth definition for board vt

"The sum bits are thus generated starting from the rightmost position and are available as soon as the corresponding previous carry bit is generated."
-Digital Design, M. Morris Mano.

What symmetry does the graph of y = f(x) exhibit?

Taken from "A Graphical approach to Precalculus with Limits."

"3. As you recieve the ball, resist the ball's momentum that takes it away from you, then immediately repeat the pass and jump movements to return to the start position."

Taken from "Complete Conditioning for Rugby" by Dan Luger and Paul Pook
btw the drill is called "side to wall pass and turn"

"Obviously, the order of growth of its solution T(n) depends on the values of the constants a and b and the order of growth of the funtion f(n)."

Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Anany Levitin

"A new Diagnostics tab has been added to the Remote Access Preferences dialog box in the Network Connections folder to globally enable, view, and clear logging for remote access connections."

Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Jerry Honeycutt

"As we've seen, within the body of a function, the 'length' property of the 'arguments' array specifies the number of arguments thet were passed to the function."
-JavaScript: The Definitive Guide - David Flanagan

"And all the people would get up early in the morning to listen to Him"

Luke 21:38 Gideon New Testament

"Yes, yes-a giraffe."

Benjamin Hoff - The Te of Piglet

"Has Tyler promised Big Bob enlightenment if he spends sixteen hours a day wrapping bars of soap?"

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club

This seriously was the closest book within my reach. I'd've picked a less cooler book if it was closer.

Nearest book has 95 pages, alternate choice...
 

"Religious groups organized protests and store boycotts in response to an article that some observers considered to be instruction in empowerment, others called merely a teenage primer on oral sex."

The New Culture of Desire -- 5 Radical New Strategies That Will Change Your Business and Your Life, Melinda Davis

"And this is the mystery of our vocation: not that we cease to be men in order to become angels or gods, but that the love of my man's heart can become God's love for God and men, and my human tears can fall from my eyes as the tears of God because they well up from the motion of His Spirit in the heart of His incarnate Son."

Thoughts on Solitude - Thomas Merton

Lebanese political scientist Ghassan Salame had it right when he said, " The P.L.O. leaders were archetypical petit bourgeoisie."

From Beruit to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Freidman
The best book you will ever read if you want to figure out the 'real' Middle East.

None of them posessed the uncanny foxfire glow of magical life, but Snudge was still afraid to touch them.

Conquerors Moon by Julian May

"Some of my favorite wines are Italian."
Kevin Zrally, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"Nothing else interested me much, and since my dad told me I couldn't come home without a degree, I thought I'd learn something that I might be able to use later."

Message in a Bottle, by Nicholas Sparks

My boyfriends mom lent it to me, and i have to read Freid Green Tomatoes at the same time!-i get them mixed up all the time!

Herbs that clear heat and reduce toxicity should be given at the same time.
Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica by Bensky and Gamble

Dave Clark Five 10/3/64 Peak:15 WKS:8 7 Everybody Knows (I Still Love You) B-side:Ol' Sol $15 Epic 9722

From "Top Pop Singles 1955-1999" by Joel Whitburn

"Here is a list of conjunctive adverbs that are likely to get you into this kind of trouble:
afterward, also, besides, consequently, furthermore, however, indeed, later, likewise, moreover, nevertheless, otherwise, similarly, then, therefore, thus."

Writing with Style: APA Style Made Easy. Lenore T. Szuchman.

"Most commonly seen at night hunting out in the open."

Hawaiian Reef Fish
partial description of Undulated Moray Eel

"I knelt beside hime again and wiped the rest of the blood and dirt from his face."

From Kindred
Octavia E.Butler

"If your grandson should pass away before your son, both of you would be broken hearted"

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Compiled by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki

"Starting two years ago, he started having troubles with his short term memory."

Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Healthcare System, Michael Rachlis, M.D., Harper Perennial Canada, 2004, p.123

"It was not a page for a booklet that was to be sold at a high price with a CD."

- "Fair Use, The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2", by Negativland

"bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence"

from

How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

my boss is forcing me to read this after i forwarded him a mocking e-mail

"Creatinine is a normal by-product of muscle metabolism."

"Understanding Equine Colic" by Bradford G. Bentz, VMD, MS

"I pocketed the key and walked downstairs."

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

"Grandma Meagram is sitting in her blue wing chair by the window."

The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (cool book, highly recommended).

"There are several excellent books devoted exclusively to the dietary causes of headache." The Headache Alternative: A Neurologists Guide to Drug Free Relief - Alexander Mauskop, M.D.,F.A.A.N.

I have not posted anything until now because up until now the nearest books never went above page 25 as they're all children's books. Got this one from the library recently.

"the great hunt"-book 2 of 'the wheel of time' by robert jordan

ALL LOTR FANS MUST READ THIS SERIES

I had three books stacked right next to me actually:
"In retrospect I should have realized that when four cups of brandy are poured into a roasting pan hot enough to sear meat, the resulting vapors will creep over the sides of the pan in a hurry."-The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest by Wendy Northcutt
"Mr. Omnipotent Also known as: the Mighty Blowhard, Ye Olde Crackpot, More-Pompous-Than-Thou, the Cranky One, Mrs. Doubtfire"-How to be a Superhero by Doctor Metropolis
"But the action of natural selection will probably still oftener depend on some of the inhabitants becoming slowly modified; the mutual relations of many of the other inhabitants being thus disturbed."-The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin