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Shaun made me do it… and I am all for blind hive mentality:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
The so-called laws of motion are a big hoax.
- Posted at 4:29 pm in Random
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Which book did that come from? Did it have an orange cover at least?
Nope, not orange, just black and white. I grabbed White Noise.
Yup, that’s right, I checked. Good job Jason!
Hence, it is not possible to change the latency.
Haha, Merritt actually checked! I was a little worried when I picked up Zeldman’s book that I was going to mistake some punctuation and post the wrong sentence. I can just imagine an hour later someone calling me on misquoting the Good Orange Book.
That’s actually one of my favorite passages from White Noise.
I was gonna follow the herd and do this on my blog, but I think it’s more fun as a conversational thing, and my eternally temporary site doesn’t have a comment system set up yet. So here’s mine, which is pretty funny:
“This book will help you find out.”
I also regard Zeldman’s book quite highly, Shaun. It was the catalyst for this site.
“Bible Study on Thursday @ 7:00 - 9:00 pm”
Jimmy Ray is right, Jason. That Bible Study Timetable pamphlet had as much influence on this site as any ‘book’.
“They chased him for a long, long time and one of them in particular twice very nearly got a lasso around his head”
“But this little episode also had an effect on Fyodor Pavlovich - and a very original one.”
“So there was a madness about wide-open beavers.”
Breakfast of Champions!
“Freudian analysis is a long-term therapy focused on restructuring the personality.”
brothers karamazov, for merritt, from the sound of it. i haven’t read it in a while though, so i may be wrong.
“Rama is my good friend and we have discussed.”
Jes - that is correct…