Book Meme

[papercuppie]

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

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Comments

[hmaon]

I don't know... my closest book is a dictionary of German idioms.

[gore_whore_5]

Je fis halte, le coeur serré, mais je ne comprenais toujours pas.
-Maintenant va-ten, dit-il...je veux redescendre!
Alors j'abaissai moi-même les yeux vers le pied du mur, et je fis un bond!

Le Petit Prince par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[grumpygrafx]

"The cut solid is shown cross-hatched, and the point at which this section is taken is indicated on one of the views according to the national or international standard being conformed to."

Drawing for Designers - Drawing skills, Concep skecthes, Computer systems, Illustration, Tools and materials, Presentations, Production techniques

[edgeds]

The closest book is Unix System Programming, 2nd edition, by Haviland, Gray, & Salama. No, I don't use Unix at work, it's just here. There are only four true sentences on page 56, as the rest of the page consists of lines of sample code. So, counting lines of code as sentences, that produces:

printf("Permissions: %s\n", descrip");
return (0);
}

The following program lookout is a more useful tool. Given a list of filenames, it checks once a minute to see if any file in the list has changed. It does this by monitoring the modification time of each file (st_mtime). It is a utility intended to be run as a background process.

[joekerstef]

"You are investigating molecules that inhibit a bacterial enzyme. You discover that the addition of several phosphate groups to an inhibitor improves its effectiveness. Why would knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the bacterial enzyme help you understand why the phosphate groups improve the inhibitor's effectiveness?" --Sylvia S. Mader, "Biology" 8th ed.

perhaps having this book nearby makes me seem smart but i have no idea what the hell i just wrote, much less the answer to the question.