I said I wasn't doing memes...

[oldbloke]

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.

I mean the three of us, the Holy Trinity: me, a piece of pie, and a stone-cold pork sandwich. This went on for months.
Fortunately it stopped one day without my having to do anything serious like grow up.

Trout Fishing In America, Richard Brautigan

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Now why am I not entirely surprised regarding which book is closest to your PC?

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Coincidence - guy having a bit of a house tidy gave me 6 Brautigans on Monday.
3 of them are ones I hadn't had back off my ex (yet?)

[shereenb.livejournal.com]

Further investigation revealed that this was because I was strapped down, in full-on, four-point restraint.
"Waaagh," I said again.
Dan's worried face swam into my field of vision, along with a serious-looking doctor; apparent seventy, with a Norman Rockwell face full of crows' feet and smile lines.
"Welcome back Julius. I'm Doctor Pete," the doctor said in a voice that matched the face. Despite my recent disillusion with castmember bullshit I found his schtick comforting.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow (who writes long sentences to copy type one-handedly at the PC).

[(Anonymous)]

I don't do memes either.

The system has no sensori-motor feedback and so cannot learn about weight. This means that mass and density cannot be learned. When formulating theories about momentum, for example, mass is a critical concept.

Rimmer, E. (1996), Multi-level spatial learning & reasoning from observation, PhD Thesis, University College of Wales Aberystwyth.

Mel