Quoth Ktbuffy:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 123
- Find the fifth sentence
- Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions
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, then tag three people.
I’m between regular-read books here at the office, so here’s one that’s been sitting in my brief case a few weeks for me to get back into it:
I nodded. “Sorry, Luther, it’s been a rough few nights.”
“I’ll bet.”
— Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurell K. Hamilton
I restarted the series upon getting the most recent volume, and have only made it through #1 as yet. They used to be very good, then Hamilton started suffering from “I’m a successful author, I don’t need an editor to keep my story lines from getting bloated and bleary and goofy” Syndrome (cf. Rowling). Here’s hoping she gets back on track.
And, yes, I did (as Avo noted) do this “years ago” (or close to it). But, then, I have a different book near me now.
And now I’m supposed to tag three people. Hmmmm. Steve, DOF, and Solonor. Because … well, why the heck not?
I have already done this one at sometime or other, but heck, why not?
“However, SGML is extremely bulky, especially for the web. Much of the credit for XML’s creation can be attributed to Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems, Inc., who started the W3C working group responsbile [sic] for scaling down SGML to a form more suitable for the internet.
Put succinctly, XML is a meta-language” that allows you to create and format your own document markups.”
– from “Webmaster in a nutshell, a desktop quick reference” by Stephen Spainhour & Robert Eckstein, from O’Reilly press.
Your book was way cooler than mine. Sure you didn’t dig?
“Crammer looked at Stebbins,and Stebbins returned it.Crammer took a cigar from his pocket, rolled it between his palms, and stuck it in his mouth, setting his teeth in it. I have never seen him light one.”
– from “Might as Well be Dead” by Rex Stout
in order to.
“Unless there’s some need for special emphasis, drop in order and simply use to: ‘I work to live and I live to boogie,’ said Tallulah.”
– from the chapter Overwriters Anonymous in Woe is I by Patricia O’Conner.