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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. 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
Ok, so the closet books is The Littes to the Rescue, but it doesn't have a page 123. So here are the last three sentances: "She's a girl!" Lucy Little laughed. "Come here, Tom, and look at her," she said. "She's so tiny!"
The closest book with 123 pages is Richard Scarry's Fun With Words. Here is the fifth, sixth, and seventh sentance on that page: He is sitting in the middle of Mother's new rug. Kitty is minding Babyins. He is not behaving.
March 9 2005, 09:26:53 UTC 7 years ago
I don't want to do this.
So I'll compromise. Instead of a blog post, I'll leave a comment:Amazingly, I happen to actually be on page 123 in one of the books I'm reading, which happens to be right next to my computer on my desk right now, which happens to be "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. Here are the fifth, sixth, and seventh sentences:
5) Sun's Java regex package supports set operations within character classes.
6) For example, you can match all non-vowel English letters with "[a-z] minus [aeiou]".
7) The nomenclature for this may seem a bit odd a first - it's written as [[a-z]&&[^aeiou]], and read aloud as "this and not that."
By the way, did you notice the typo?
March 9 2005, 09:27:10 UTC 7 years ago
Re: I don't want to do this.
Nevermind, I'll do this. :)Anonymous
March 9 2005, 11:46:50 UTC 7 years ago
Re: I don't want to do this.
I am ALWAYS looking for typos! Is the typo the comma at the end of: "[[a-z]&&[^aeiou]],"?My nearest book is "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. (I'm reading it because several of the blogs that I have subscribed to have been talking about it... A LOT!.
1. That item may be more attractive to your psyche because you know right away what to do with it-and you don't feel like thinking about what's in your hand.
2. This is dangerous territory.
3. What's in your hand is likely to land on a "hmppphhh" stack on the side of your desk because you become distracted by something easier, more important, or more interesting below it.
(And what naughty thoughts run through my mind as I read these sentences out of context!)
March 9 2005, 17:20:02 UTC 7 years ago
Re: I don't want to do this.
How come anonymous comments don't show up in total comment count?March 9 2005, 17:20:57 UTC 7 years ago
Re: I don't want to do this.
Nevermind. I'm dumb.Anonymous
July 16 2011, 18:50:25 UTC 10 months ago
very instructive
What words..July 18 2011, 18:09:57 UTC 10 months ago
Re: very instructive
Um, what?