Michael told me to:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
From Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke:
No difference between the Taliban and al Qaeda now.
Join the fray by reading through and commenting at the end.
I'm in.
"The decision to add one very important, if small, new character to 'Gimme a Break' was made halfway into it's third season."
- Joey Lawrence
by Randi Reisfeld
I'm in too!
The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she wre to reach her own home.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Doyle
I want that book too! I'd do what you just did if the book closest to me wasn't called Advanced Programming In the Unix Environment.
Jon got me in. (God, I love your form--and the fact that you drop the word "asshat" in your guidelines for use.)
"Blah and says off the guy goes flying back to Tulsa to finally break the engagement off with the prior girl like he committed he would and then fly right back to the arms of this girl standing with the Kleenex with the tits in Dayton here in the gate area with the waterworks crying out her eyes now to yours truly."
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
- David Foster Wallace
"Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the company in its Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the commission's rules and forms."
Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Internal Control Reporting Requirements, Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Section 404, Updated to reflect the SEC's final rules
-- Protiviti, Independent Risk Consulting
"I don't recall the title, but I was still in the Ro-Man phase of my development, and this particular tale undoubtedly owed a great deal to the killer ape with the goldfish bowl on his head."
On Writing
- Stephen King
"To answer this question we need to know the present rate of expansion of the universe and its present average density."
The Illustrated Theory of Everything
- Stephen W. Hawking
“This time Montez could not shuck and jive the man with a shrug and grin.â€
Mr Paradise
– Elmore Leonard
"In a realm where there is so much uncertainty as to what will succeed, specifics like designers' own biographies and individual tastes have opportunity to weigh in."
Where Stuff Comes From by Harvey Molotch
"I had always thought the Nordic peoples were all pals and freely exchanged their money, as they do between Belgium and Luxembourg."
Neither Here Nor There
- Bill Bryson
"Let's add another 'clothes' to the entry (Figure 1-8)"
Google Hacks
God also planned where you'd be born and where you'd live for his purpose.
The Purpose Driven Life
-Rick Warren
Hm... det börjar bli allvarligt!
Kalle Ankas Pocket Special, Skattjakt, Snarkonernas Skatt
"Okay," Lawson Said. "Now beat it, before anyone sees you with me."
Adventure Book for Boys; Ten Lap Trouble
-Ben Draper
Reading Raw Data Not in Standard Format
-The Little SAS Book: a primer 2nd ed
Delwiche and Slaughter
"Somehow, this doesn't seem quite right to me."
— Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
"The only overhead incurred by fork() is the duplication of the parent's page tables and the creation of a unique process descriptor for the child."
-- Linux Kernel Development, Robert Love
"Then came Tranton and a final ferry crossing over the Delaware to Pennsylvania."
-John Adams by David McCullough
"Lifts her cup of black unsweetened coffee."
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
"They want to know what I do with my time."
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Simply enter your information and print.
Running Microsoft Office 97, Halvorson and Young
In courts and palaces he also reigns
And in luxurious cities, where the noise
Of riot ascends above their loftiest tow'rs,
And injury and outrage: and when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
John Milton, Paradise Lost. Scott Elledge, ed. W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1993.
My fifth sentence is here.
"Such multiple relationships can easily be missed if the relationships are not named."
- Relational Databases, Design and Use, by Ray Dawson.
"All authority belongs to the people." -Thomas Jefferson
The New Webster's Library of Practical Information, compiled by David O. Bolander
You are very annoying in your Greek way.
Gore Vidal -Creation
Once before we three journeyed thus, in search of adventure, and took with us a man such as thou - one Umbopa; and, behold, we left him the king of a great country, with twenty Impis (regiments), each of 3,000 plumed warriors, waiting on his word.
H. Rider Haggard Allan Quatermain
It was either that or something from the instruction manual to "Take off in Japanese." Since I'm right-handed, I chose the book on the right.
Baskervile's influence was particularly strong in England.
Josef Muller-Brockmann - Grid Systems in Graphic Design
There was no need to turn anybody up from below: every man was there, washed and shining, staring hard.
-master & commander, Patrick O'Brian
I realized a book, which Nima is reading, was closer, under a pile of (The Economist) magazines. I'll attempt a translation from Farsi after this phonetic representation of the 5th sentence:
Een dastaneh ebrat-angeez kajroyee choon Ebneh Saad ra keh, 'ham az gandomeh Rey oftad, ham az khormayeh Kufeh' sabegheyeh tareekheeyeh zarbolmasal gasht.
This lesson-inspiring tale of the misbehaved Ibn Saad who 'lost the grain of Ray, and the dates of Kufeh', provides historical background for this proverb.
F. Sharifi-Golpayegani -Selections from Dehkhoda's Amsal va Hekam
"The hiss of Leona Dunt's Eldorado echoes up the street"
~ Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre