2004-05-06 9:55 AM
Fun With Books
From Chris Lehmann, via many others:
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.
Depending on how you count "nearest," and whether it's ok to wrap around to the next page if page 23 only has four sentences, and whether a sentence fragment should really be counted as a "sentence", I have two:
"TCP data that is a multiple of 512 bytes in size can be moved by just manipulating the kernel's page tables." (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, bu W. Richard Stevens.)
"Then more coffee." (Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman, by Alice Steinbach.)
The nearest book that actually fits:
"It's the final bash." (The Catsitters, by James Wolcott.)
(And worrying about whether the answer to a diary prompt is standards-compliant? Yeah, I know -- super geeky. Got a problem with that?)