Random book quote meme

[spudtater]

Sorry, shall do a proper post at some point, possibly with actual interesting stuff. Can't be arsed right now.
Methinks a Discordian is responsible for this one. Hail Eris!

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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
5. ...along with these instructions.

"I loved a love once, fairest among women."

Comments

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

"When the rains washes you clean you'll know."

That doesn't really work because the nearest book to me was piano music. Fleetwood Mac - The Dance. I just love playing Silver Springs.

[martling.livejournal.com]

I'm not plastering my rather sparse journal with it, but I'll play anyway:

"Examine the agle at which this line crosses the laminations and if less than 15:1 plane down to a straight line to give a perfectly flat surface"

(Standard Repairs to Gliders, British Gliding Association, 1966)

[martling.livejournal.com]

Angle, even.

[dsky.livejournal.com]

"A variable of type triangle may be declared thus

type(triangle) :: t

and t has components t%a,t%b, and t%c all of type point, and t%a has components t%a%x and t%a%y of type real."

(from "FORTRAN 90/95 explained" by Michael Metcalf and John Reid (2nd edition))

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Love the icon.
Wheee. Wheeeee.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mcp_/]

A weightlifter adds 30 min of intense (>75% VO2 max) stationary bicycle riding every other day to her resistance training program.

(Essentials of strength training and conditioning - Baechle and Earle)

[batswing.livejournal.com]

Visit all the planets on this page when you take part in ROCKET MISSION!'

-Book i'm cataloguing.
Interfact; Solar System.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I want to take part in ROCKET MISSION!!!!!1!

[hmw26.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to know where you found this meme. It was very popular in the blogosphere
back in April (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~hmw26/join-the-dots/2004/04/19/inanity/); I'm surprised to see it resurface so many months later.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I got it from anjylle, who got it from gethrees. Before that, I don't know.

Are you an AI student here, then?

[hmw26.livejournal.com]

Ah okay, fair enough. MIght try to track it down further if I find myself with a little spare time.

I'm not an AI student at Edinburgh. I did, however, do the MSc there in 2001/2002, but am now at the Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania working on my PhD. I think I may have met you once back when I was at Edinburgh though at a CompSoc event—does that sound plausible?

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

You do look familiar. Was it the Kevin Warwick talk? ("I am a cyborg! And I am here to tell you that computers are trying to take over the world!")

[hmw26.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the one!

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

bobb'in n. reel for thread

(Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus 2 in 1)

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I narrowly escaped a dictionary quote myself. (It was the second closest book.)
Ah, word geeks.

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

"The matrix representation of $F^{*}$ in the natural bases $dv^{\alpha}$ and $du^{i}$ is exactly the Jacobian matrix $\leftbracket {\fraction{\delta F^{\alpha}}{\delta u^{i}} \rightbracket _{p}$."

Chern, Lectures on Differential Geometry.

I love the smell of LaTeX in the morning...

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

"I said, 'But it wasn't an accident'"

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon

Not actually started the bloody thing yet. Hopefully manage that on the plane to West Yorkshire on Sunday :/