Right where you are sitting now...

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. * Turn to page 56. * Find the fifth sentence. * Post that sentence. * Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

"This is because the first Folder you instantiate from a Drive Object is the Root Folder object, and from that you instantiate a subfolders collection."

Propagation delay time:

"Won't they reflect negatively on government projects in-world?"

From "The Second Life Grid" by Kimberly Rufer-Bach, in a subsection titled "What about those naked avatars?" It really was the closest to me right at the moment.

Some confusion usually exists between Kiao-chau and Tsing-Tau.

no book but grabbed a training manual says produce more in less time

Ok here goes....

But the more experienced man - the one who can read his lady's moods and tell when something is wrong - is going to ask her what's up and no matter how many times she says, "nothing" he's going to ask again and again until she starts coming clean and opens up, though, in his heart of hearts, he will hoping to God there's nothing really wrong, and if there is something wrong, he will be able to just fix it because he doesn't want to see her pout.

Page 56 of Steve Harvey's book - Act Like A Lady, Think Like a Man

"People even say that Griboyedov never had an aunt who owned any such property..."

From "The Master and the Margarita", by Mkihail Bulgaov

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That was from the first book my eyes fell on. When I turned around and tried to see if there was any other book actually closer to me, the *closest* book turned out to have less than 5 sentances on page 56! It was the end of a chapter, and so my response with that book would have been "".

"You are in a dead heat with a competitor."

Dangit, the _closest_ book was the one I use under my center monitor to level it with the others, and it was a PITA to get out from under there... "Dynamics of Software Development", by Jim McCarthy.

(grumbles as he begins putting it back)

"So why all this attention to the details of her dressing and make-up?"

(David Michael Kaplan - "Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction". Ch.4 - "First Revisions, and Openings in Particular: Overly Detailed and/or Repetitious Openings". Just to, y'know, be overly-detailed about where it's from )

Provides an affordable alternative to pre-assembled construction fasteners.

From a catalog from a manufacturer that makes hardware. (nuts, bolts, washers, etc)

"This parameter is a string array, traditionally called args (although C# will accept any name)."

[ At work: I always keep reference books out for projects. =^-^= ]

"Dust weekly with sulphur."

"The creature was little better than an idiot."

The Island of Doctor Moreau, HG Wells.

I had just recently scanned the cover.

"Has yellow flowers in late spring and early summer followed by round fruits (chestnuts)."

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Aes

Rattan Cane Sword #41 XL0351 Wow! Only $19.99!

BudK catalog. hey I'm a sword swallower, what did you expect? lol

Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk,
Her mantle o' the velvet fyne;
At ilka tett o' her horse's mane
Hung fifty siller bells and nine.

Thomas The Rhymer

The one line file contains the UNIX command "echo," and a drab of text.

Libby's auto and towing

"Where one party's words or actions make it clear that he is unwilling or unable to perform (i.e., there has been an anticipatory repudiation), the aggrieved party may resort to any remedy for breach."

'Se si selezionano i pulsanti di ottava "+" e "-" per la variazione del canale, le spie soprastanti i pulsanti non cambiano, poiché non è possibile overe un canale con valore negativo.'

Words to live by!

Part-time enrollment is 7 or fewer semester hours of academic credit during the Fall and Spring semesters.

"Ask those students Yes/No and short-answer summation questions about their summaries while other students are completing 2C."

Yes, I lead an exciting life... yawn.

"Refrigerate in a covered container for up to 5 days."

-excerpt from the book: Vegetable Love; Recpipe: Roasted Red Pepper Spread.

"Not only is the flowering of global science and technology not an exclusively Western-led phenomenon, there were major global advances in the world that involved extensive international encounters far away from Europe."

Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, Allen Lane, London 2006.

Which statement I happen to think is bullshit but there you go. It was my second attempt, I'm afraid, because the first selection didn't have a fifth sentence on page 56. Anyway all of the books in my office are favourites - and they're cool, in my opinion, whether I agree with the content or not. If I were in the habit of working in my bedroom, you would have had a quote from either Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling or Count Zero by William Gibson.