Rants and Articles.
Going along
Doug told me to:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Never one to shy away from sheep mentality, I give you:
I undertaked to input the things you counseled me to, and I fatigated the thesaurus you presented me, as you counseled me to, when my words appeared too petite, or not befitting.”
That hails from Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, which, I assure you, I’m enjoying to an unwholesome degree.
The book, that is. Not Jonathan.
What you got?
— sergio on April 16, 2004 
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put mine on my site (http://www.greenpea.us), but i’ll share it with you here too…
“She looked so uncool, but she was cool.”
Arithmetic operators are evaluated in the order your math teacher taught you, exponentiation before multiplication and multiplication before addition.
-Programming Perl 3rd Ed.
Spanish too:
ls -l:
lista larga mas información; también ls -lt
From the book:
“El entorno de programación UNIX”
ISBN 968-880-067-8
http://bigkoch.alphazap.net/article/40/a-game-thingy
“There is a bown of orange juice.”
http://bigkoch.alphazap.net/article/40/a-game-thingy
“There is a bowl of orange juice.”
“It’s such a shame,” I could hear her saying.
Aww… what a shame.
Each object created according to this class specification holds its own independant copy of these variables, so each object’s variables can have unique values.
-Beginning Java 2, JDK 1.3 Edition
“Lift the battery and remove.”
Samsung A620 Camera Phone manual.
“En los Nestors no hay nada distinto, excepto que son mucho más inteligentes y… más insoportables.”
Sueños de Robot, Isaac Asimov
“Y llegado a la ramera despatarrada en la silla patriarcal, se inclinó, la agarró por los cabellos y ya la estaba arrastrando entre la bosta de los mulos, gritándole cosas horribles sobre la madre que la había generado.”
Baudolino, Umberto Eco
the closest book to me only had 19 pages ;.;
“Here, I’m using a vector to represent the three local moment of inertia terms, and I’m also assuming that the local products of inertia are zero for each element.”
-Physics for Game Developers
Mike: That’s deep, man… so deep.
Really interesting stuff coming up!
“To him this woman was an amateur.”
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
I’ve posted it too, as if I’ve got nothing better to do.
“The iSeries Navigator program calls the methods on the IA4PropSheetNotify interface whenever it needs to communicate with the third-party plugin”.
-Developing iSeries Navigator plug ins
*** Written by a bunch of stupid HAL’ers…
Daaamn Oscar! You at work? On a Saturday? (says the guy with the laptop hooked up to IBM via phone) Or you just keep that stuff in your bookshelf for light reading?
This meme is spreading like wildfire. Interesting…
Are you kidding! I am not at work. I am scratching my oeuf’s at home.
I keep that stuff in my bookshelf and sometimes I use it to clean my azzz… during my trips to the Toilet Zone.
:) jajaja, don’t write the name of thad god damn cia, just write HAL!
After all -> nice weekend.
“One woman who was seventy-two had never seen her vagina.”
The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler.
Perhaps she was just on the chubby side and had a dislike for handheld mirrors? =)
Puis il approcha un cierge du feu jusqu’a ce qu’il s’enflamme et, lentement, avec précaution, il passa et repassa le cierge brulant au dessus du récipient.
Le sorcier de Brian Bates
“La voie du Wyrd”
“It was intense”
Book of the DVD “The Work of Director Spike Jonze”
the nearest book to me was the encyclopedia, it said;
“Axminister worked on well into the 19TH century, when it merged with the Wilton, Wiltshire, wich still operates.”
what a mouthfull. it was about rugs and carpets.
Because only ten symbols represent digits (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9) and because base 16 requires six more symbols, the extra symbols are the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Book Cisco Networking Academy Program
CCNA 1 and 2
companion guide
third edition
The closest book to me was the Phone book, Page 23 was a map of New England with area codes.
Tighten the clamps securely, but do not distort them.
Jeep Wagoneer/Commanchee/Cherokee Repair Manual.
In Smalltalk, all variables are references to other objects.
Design Patterns
Gang of Four (Gamma et al.)
Programming books are a veritable source of contemporary wisdom.
“In spite of the clawish reputation of the business world Jim had never witnessed anyone fired for incompetence or general infirmity; sackings only occurred when the loot dried up and then it didn’t matter how on the ball you were.”
Don’t Read This Book If You’re Stupid
by Tibor Fischer
“La protagonista tiene ahora un abrigo de pieles que cuesta una millonada. El se ha rasurado…”
—Jorge Ibarguengoitia
Ideas en Venta
“WHat festivals or special events will occur during your visit?” -Frommer’s Mexico 2004…sad, I’m reading a guide book about my country in english…oh, well..GDL here I come!
Hey! you’re coming here? sweet! send me an email. I’ll buy you beer. And candy. We could make skittlebrau. Can’t go wrong with skittlebrau…
“Cette série de 13 épisodes adapte assez fidèlement le manga de TAKAHASHI Shin paru chez Delcourt.”
— Review of Saikano’s DVD Boxset, AnimeLand #98, Feb 2004
Let me try this again… at least this book has more than 19 pages >.>
“こんにちわ亜子さん元気ですかね～～～”
処女革命台
that looks like the beginning of a letter…
Exactly what I thought. The 革 is what gave it away, you know?
ah, you need to have asian fonts in your system to see the hiragana/katakana/kanji stuff….
“He laughs again and shakes hands and sits down to arm wrestle every time that black boy gets too near him with the thermometer, till he’s met everybody on the Acute side.”
one flew over the cuckoo’s nest
- ken kesey
“Then the frame rate is irregular, which can be visually disturbing.”
— OpenGL Programming Guide 4ed. The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, version 1.4
“Leaders and instigators of apocalyptic projects, in their claimed alliance with God (or history), become grandiose and sometimes megalomaniac: grandiose in their exaggeration of personal status, and megalomaniac in subsuming the world to the self in the name of God, even replacing the world with the self.”
— Superpower Syndrome (America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World), Robert Jay Lifton
“Se trabaja bien la pasta y se forma con ella unas bolitas que se prensan entre los dedos y se alargan, hasta darles una forma cilindrica.”
-Pasteles y Dulces by Alicia Sirvar
it was my inspiration to start to bake when i was 8…hmmm…pastel de tres leches anyone?
I thought Mitya was trying to get in.
-the brothers karamazov part 2 - fyodor dostoyevsky
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words wh
I hope that you don’t mind it’s in Spanish:
http://epuk.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/pgina_23.html