Nearest Book

[Napoleon54]

1. Grab the nearest book. (Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences along with these instructions.



The nearest non-reference book is the Adirondack Mountain Club's High Peaks Region trail guide. Though I guess this might also be considered a reference book, it will work, whereas the ones I skipped (dictionary, phone book, and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics) wouldn't have.



"The Pinnacle Ridge leading to Blake and Colvin does not offer any striking 360-degree views, but it is a beautiful series of seldom-visited peaks covered with virgin forests of spruce and balsam underlain with moss-covered rocks. The best views are from Colvin, a peak S of Blake, and the Pinnacle; but there are other narrower views including vistas of the Ausable Lakes, Elk Lake and the moutains beyond. Since 1978, when the AMR sold its higher lands to the State of New York, this entire ridge has been public land; a short connection between the existing trails on the ridge and the Elk Lake-Marcy Trail was contructed to assist public access."

[redcolours]

uhm, my pop-up book doesnt go up to page 123...

ok fine, ill grab a real book... (grumble)
grabbed Lila, by Robert M. Pirsig.

found page 123, counted to 5 sentences, and these are the next 3 sentences:

"He had demonstrated that even though you can't define Quality you still must agree that it exists, since a world from which value is subtracted becomes unrecognizable.

But he realized sooner or later he was going to have to stop carping about how bad subject-object metaphysics was and say something positive for a change. Sooner or later he was going to have to come up with a way of dividing Quality that was better than subjects and objects."

this was on top of an old Barron's SAT I test prep book.

[Butch]

"At the same time, many populists also simply failed to understand the distinction between a general deflation and the declining relative price of agricultural goods, and looked to free silver coinage out of mistaken assumptions. (The vast expansion of land under cultivation, not only in America but in countries such as Australia, Canada, and Argentina, was a significant depressant to farm prices during this period.)

The populists also correctly perceived that the most immediate impediment to easier money was the gold standard, to which the United States had returned (after the hiatus caused by the Civil War) in 1879."

Switching between paragraphs like that makes it seem like quite a disconnect. Anyway, it's from The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman.

[zippyjuan]

Side note on what Butch is reading- I have an old pin (like a campaign button) that says "I Am For Free Silver". Could be related to the program discussed on that page. I got it from my grandmother.

Closest book to me right now? my Photoshop CS2 book by Scott Kelby. But you may consider that a reference so I will have to reach a bit farther.

Lance Armstrong- "It's Not About The Bike- My Journey Back To Life"

The next day, Shapiro cane by my room to remove the bandages from my wounds. As he unwound the gauze, I could feel the fabric tearing away from the staples, as though something was nipping at me. Then he pulled it off. I looked in the mirror. I had staples running in curves across my scalp, like two circled zippers. Shapiro said, "I've done my part."
I studied the staples in the mirror. I knew that Shapiro had used titanium screws to put my skull back together beneth my skin. Titanium is an alloy used in some lighter- weight bikes. "Maybe it'll make me climb better," I joked.

[Freelance Superhero]

mine's from Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, by Mark Twain (no nifty picture to go along with it):

"We merely enter them as "words," and they count to his credit according to number uttered within certain limits of time; 3,000 per quarter-minute required, or no score; 4,200 in a possible 5,000 is a quite common Sunday School score, among experts, and counts the same as two hymns and a bouquet furnished by young ladies in the assassin's cell, execution morning. Your remaining 401 details count for wind only. We bunch them and use them for head winds in retarding the ships of improper people, but it takes so many of them to make an impression that we cannot allow anything for their use."

[Devhux]

"What?" I froze then, my sword raised, unable to comprehend what I had just seen. With a single blow, and without a data drain. . .

Mia, rooted to the spot, raised her eyes to the ceiling.

.....from the book ".hack// Another Birth, Vol. 3 - Outbreak.

[cruelpupet]

123 pages into the book (page 120 + 3 buffer pages) 5th sentence down...post the 3 sentences after it.


"Why dont you go f*ck yourself?"
"Dont think Ive tried," the Blue Fairy Godmother answered.

The Blue Fairy Godmother left, amused, and patronizing.

[Jenny]

Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke:



"Bill told you that?"

"Not exactly. He just didn't deny it when I asked him and that's the same as saying it."

[ShawnLee]

Basics of Biblical Hebrew...

In Hebrew, there are three basic categories of verbal action: simple action (to break), intensive action (to smash into pieces) and causative action (to cause to break). There are also three basic categories of verbal voice: active, passic and reflexive. The voice of a verb indicates the relationship between the subject of a verb and the action of the verb.

[Jeffbx]

"It will not know how many routers exist or how they are connected for any other area. This means that each router within a given area will know how to get to every other router within its area, and how to get to the backbone. It will not know how many routers exist or how they are connected for any other area - this is important to keep in mind when designing dial backup systems for OSPF-based internetworks."

Cisco TCP/IP Routing Professional Reference

Sorry, I'm at work....

[Jcranmer]

So what is a port group? Port groups are VLANs basically. VLANs, or virtual local area networks, are defined by the IEEE 802.1Q standard.



I'm at work too!

[Napoleon54]

Aight now I'm at work too. Different desk, different books --> new post.

"The benefits of this approach are obvious. The protein diversity and complexity are reduced because only a subset of proteins of the entire proteome is selected, and the analysis of biologically associated proteins is made easier. For example, the key to recovering enriched fractions of membrane proteins is dependent on solubilization strategies for hydrophobic proteins."

From Separation Methods in Proteomics, edited by Gary B Smejkal and Alexander Lazarev

[TruckStuff]

Because TCP/IP is independent of the underlying physical network, IP addresses are implemented in the network software - not the network hardware. Unlike Ethernet addresses, which are determined by the Ethernet hardware, the system administrator assigns an UP address to each network interface.

In this chapter we use the ifconfig (interface configure) command to identify the network interface to TCP/IP and to assign the IP address, subnet mask, and broadcast address to the interface.

From TCP/IP Network Administration (2nd edition) by Craig Hunt. GREAT book, btw.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp2/

[MikeD]

1. Grab the nearest book. (Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences along with these instructions.

"If the loopback step fails, the IP stack is not responding. This problem might be occurring because the TCP drivers are corrupted, the network adapter might not be working, or another service might be interfering with IP.

Ping the IP address of the local computer to verfiy that an address has been added correctly."

[The Happy Squirrel]

At home again, he sat in his bedroom, staring out at the sea. HE sat ther after nightfall, after he could no longer see the water, and he thought about the dog. Hudston and Haines and told him so much about the retriver that he'd begun to realize his knowledge of the Francis Project, although potential explosive and valuable, was no one-thousandth as valuable as the dog itself.

[Kevster]

Step 2 In global configuration mode, enter vlan vlan name vlan-name command to create a VLAN. Create both VLANs using this command.

[MikeD]

Man, bunch of IT geeks on this board...

[chrissy]

1. Grab the nearest book. (Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences along with these instructions.

I was sure he had not done so frivolously. He had to have had excellent reason. Members of my staff worried that it could be some kind of trap, that she carried poison or a weapon, but I did not accept that.




Audie is reading that.

She has also started reading Howard the Duck... dunno about this girl

[ShawnLee]

Some interesting reads from our folks.

[redcolours]

I was sure he had not done so frivolously. He had to have had excellent reason. Members of my staff worried that it could be some kind of trap, that she carried poison or a weapon, but I did not accept that.




Audie is reading that.

She has also started reading Howard the Duck... dunno about this girl

oooh! Piers Anthony! he's so lecherous...

[Jcranmer]

What series is that a part of?? I thought I was an PA geek, but I don't recognize that title and can't read the fine print on the thumbnail.

[avlena]

What schools do neighborhood children attend? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Who's doing what to improve them?


"The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (and How to Avoid Them)"

[chrissy]

What series is that a part of?? I thought I was an PA geek, but I don't recognize that title and can't read the fine print on the thumbnail.

Bio of a Space Tyrant

[GraingerGuy]

Bio of a Space Tyrant

that was a pretty decent series...a little wierd though.

Well...anyway

Life of Pi

A few seconds later, so close to the boat I could have leaned down and grabbed it, a large sea turtle appeared, a hawksbill, flippers lazily turning, head sticking out of the water.

It was striking-looking in a an ugly sort of way, with a rugged, yellowish brown shell about three feet long and spotted with patches of algaw, and a dark face with a sharp beak, no lips, two solid holes for nostril, and black eyes that stared at me intently.

The expression was haughty and sever, like that of an ill-tempered olf man who has complaining on his mind.

[zenbooty]

On page 123 is a full page illustration, with the following being from the illustration text below it.


"...This Occult fact is carefully concealed in the 32nd degree of Freemasonry.

There are four trees, one in each of the four worlds described in the previous chapter. The first is in the Atziluthic World, the ten circles being the ten globes of light established in the midst of AIN SOPH."


From:

[sho.gun]

The smallest parasitic capacitance should be at the top of the switches because it has the highest resistance discharge path (in this example through two MOSFETs). For the PMOS device in Fig. 5.20c, we would want the larger of C1 or C2 to be called the source terminal and connected to VDD. Consider the NMOS device in Fig. 5.21a.

[hoey222]

.....sigh........
1. Grab the nearest book. (Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences along with these instructions.

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yes - at work too -