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)

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

"Did I come to Ireland without God or according to the flesh?"

- A Treasury of Irish Folklore

"She turned and headed east, still dancing to the music, her long train flowing out behind her."

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

"Drizzt rushed the two on his left, both of whom wielded single swords, while Kelnozz worked to fend off the third."

From "The Dark Elf Trilogy - Collector's Edition"

"Killer whales and sharks keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves."

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

"So now what?"

Without Fail (a Jack Reacher novel) - by Lee Child

And in the High Speech, his voice filling with the old thunder of command, Roland demanded:" Who are you demon?"

The Gunslinger - SK

When Maria entered the theater for the first time after her Chicago triumph, svelte, blonde, and bubbling, she was delighted to see Toscanini. - Callas- Portrait of a Prima Donna

"Pull tight, ensuring that the short ends do not pop out."

"Similar attacks followed day after day, and work had to be continued throughout the night, so that even the sick and the wounded could get no sleep."

The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar

I sang it three times and he said splendid and he said it was never too soon to start on your religious education.

The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt

"Show that the equation of the path is the parabola y= 0.578x - 0.016x^2"
Mechanics textbook.

"No! By the great Sachem, no!"
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"The definition in Webster fully covers the present dispute; and it leave open for further examination, when necessary, the question whether other than manual labourers can be said to be parties to an industrial dispute".

"Now, how am I gonna get the rock to Jay?"

Loose Balls by Jayson Williams

"A scrum is formed in the field-of-play when eight players from each team, bound together in three rows for each team, close up with their opponents so that the heads of the front rows are interlocked."

USA Rugby Handbook 2003

"It's our limitations that keep us sane."

The Spiral Dance, Starhawk

"Sarah was interested that people then thought their ideas worth putting on paper."

Idioglossia, Eleanor Bailey

must ask that you pay in advance.....

A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Making of a Tradition by Lee Mendelson

It rather lowered the odds on there being any next week to speak of.

<u>Good Omens</u> by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

"this guy looks in good shape" Henry said.

At the stroke of madness by Alex Kava