Grab the nearest book . . .
 

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.

"As with ischemic stroke, the symptoms of hemorrhagic stroke tend to develop suddenly and vary depending on where in the brain the stroke occurs."
- Healthy Women, Healthy Lives; A Guide to Preventing Disease, from the Landmark Nurses' Health Study

Posted this on my LJ. Figured I'd send it over here too :)

"And he must have been very lucky to miss the teeth."
- Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that you mean us to post in this thread. Here goes:

"Be still, my foolish heart!"

-Harvey Pekar, Best of American Splendor

Second closest book:

"If it had two legs and belt-loops, it was a pair of pants."
- The Stand, Stephen King

"A computed value near zero does not necessarily mean that the matrix is singular or even close to being singular."

- Linear Algebra with Applications, Steven Leon

"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Suess only goes up to page 62...

My Advaita Vedanta doesn't have a page 123, so I chose the second-closest.

"Both we ourselves and the world we live in are in constant change."
--Philosophy of the Buddha, Christopher W. Gowans

wow, that has 62 pages?? damn, that's long...

"And there was little or no shame attached to impregnating one or more of the 'pikney stuckadees' (Attractive young virgins) in the process."
- Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, Timothy White

"If anything, all the fear lies on the other side, with the unknowns and uncertianties of death"
Timothy Zahn Conquerors' Heritage

Closest book starts on page 1953, part of an anthology for literature class.

So second closest:
"Luke entered the slightly shabby Russian cafe and guided Tessa toward the table where Lex King was sitting."
-No Escape by Heather Lowell

"hole with a history... Since becoming 'a writer' Gunn"
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

... how come you guys all got sentences that made sense?! =P

" As we have just argued, however, internal economies of scale lead to a breakdown of perfect competition"

International Economics Theory and Policy, 6th ed. Krugman and Obstfeld

So that one of the fundamental propositions of our physics is the continuity of vibrations, although this has never been precisely formulated because it has never been opposed.
In Search of the Miraculous - Fragments of an Unknown Teaching by P.D.Ouspensky

B. Eldon Spacemaker letter/legal file boxes-long term, archival storage system
Office Depot Catalog

Oxygen performs metabolic combustion in our muscles, providing motive power for our bodies.

Eco-Renovation, The Ecological Home Improvement Guide.

by Edward Harland.


Collectively, we appear to have some pretty dull books lying around next to us.


*edit* Although next to Eco-Renovation I have a copy of The Traditional English Pub - A Way of Drinking.

Now that's a book.

As you are well aware, the Mac supports an elegant folders-on-the-desktop and folders-within-folders rather than the less visual, heirarchical directory structure used by DOS and thereby foisted onto Windows.

Excel for Dummies

by Greg Harvey

Well, I moved Eco-Renovation so now 'The Tradtional English Pub' is the nearest book.


Reading anti-clockwise from the rear we shall have Bar A, which will be like a public; Bar B which will resemble a Saloon Bar, at the front near the left-hand entrance; and Bar C which we may call the Lounge occupying the right-hand front - thus A and B share a 90° arc of counter, while B and C share another.

The Traditional English Pub - A Way of Drinking

I can appreciate a man that has his priorities in order........ :thumbsup:

"We're not a business"

Phantom Parks: The Struggle to Save Canada's National Parks, by Rick Searle

"She was shocking."

You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers. Good book, btw.

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"The upshot: always carry enough food and fresh water for the journey's duration"

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From The Living Dead
- Max Brooks

"The estimates obtained from CPOF are based upon an overall historical ratio of work between machine centers, whereas the capacity bill estimates reflect the actual product mix planned for each period."

Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems
Thomas E. Vollman

"Select the automatic update that you want to remove and then click Change/Remove."

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
William R. Stanek

"The 486SX was normally available in 16, 20, 25 and 33MHz-rated speeds, and there was also a 486 SX/2 that ran at up to 50 or 60MHz."

Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Eleventh Edition
Scott Mueller

"I was flipping the radio dial for bulletins when I passed a hot dog stand and saw two outlaw bikes parked conspicuously beside the road."

Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

Happens to be the only book I have at work.

Edited for spelling more than a week later... smooth.

"Each colony consists of a clone of cells that are gentically identical to the parental cell that initiated the colony."

Essential iGenetics - Peter J. Russell

//edit I lied turns out there is a book that In a computer game box on this desk that is about a foot and a half closer...

"Spellcasters and other energy-reliant mortals may not only be drained of health, but are also left defenseless as their Mana is quickly spirited away to slake the spiritual thirst of these damned souls."

Diablo 2 Manual
Blizzard Entertainment

"In it there harbour uncounted wild goats"

The Odyssey - Homer

The milkmaid, Ursula, comes out of the cow shed and looks at us with her stoner eyes just about filled with blood.

Choke, Chuck Palaniuk

So, with your campaign objective in mind, you should look over the list of styles and pick the one most consistent with your objective.
Prosecting Your Way to Sales Success Bill Good

"Sure, someone had made him a very clever bomb that effectively got through airport security, but it didn't change the fact that a suburban marketing executive had been able to blow up a civilian passenger flight with the aid of some overalls, a stolen badge, a battery operated fan and a bottle of bubbly"

a big boy did it and ran away - Christopher Brookmyre

"I shall from time to time continue this journal." - Edgar Allan Poe, The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin books 3rd edition)

Now thats an odd coincident..

The asset Office Equipment is increased $5,000; the asset cash is decreased $5,000.
Financial Accounting Tools for Business Decision Making

oh, a new closer book! (I was looking at the website of the author)

"'Some theorize that they did not go back to the gods, but inside the very walls'"
Stroke of Midnight Laurell K. Hamilton

"Then turning back to the prisoner, he said: 'Tell me briefly, what do you want?'"

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

Can also be used with ProClick.

- The New HP Office Supply Catalog 2003

Not very interesting, I'm afraid.

Closest Book:
"Was?" Brachte sie hervor, "Es ist mein verdammter Drache"
- Terry Pratchett - Wachen! Wachen! ("Guards! Guards")

Closest english Book:
"A technique known as 'interferometry' makes it possible, in principle, to replace a single mirror 100 yards wide by two much amaller mirrors 100 yards apart."
- Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld

If Anathema had been in full control of her own minds at that moment- And no one around Adam was ever in full control of his or her own mind - she'd have noticed that whenever shge tried to think about him beyond a superficial level her thoughts slipped away like a duck off water.

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Good Omens

In my big stack of nearby books:

"Ainsi, plus je reflechissais et plus de choses meconnues et oubliees je sortais de ma memoire."

L'etranger by Albert Camus.

"The point I am making is not open to argument, Walton."

Go jump in the pool! by Gordon Korman

hey... it was closest.

"I don't understand. Did we ever... meet? Did you ever come to the pier?"

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Ablom

(my mom left it by my computer and the green mile was just out of reach)