Lemming time (Run! It's a meme!)

[pbray]

From many, many others:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

PLATE ARMOR Armor made of joined metal plates. From Castles by Philip Wilkinson.

Yes. This was incredibly boring. There are no fun books near my computer because fun books suck time away from writing. Much like LJ does :-)

Comments

[mmarques.livejournal.com]

I won't post this in my journal, as I've done this before. But being at the day job, I think my sentence is even worse than yours:

$FILE returns the file name of the current output file being processed (output page file or output graphic file).

Yes, it's the developer's guide for a tool that converts manuals to help files.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Also at the day job....

"This is true when the connections are to the same Lotus Connector as well as to different connectors."
From the Domino Enterprise Integration Guide, Chapter 2, LCConnection Class

At least yours was a useful sentence!

I would have picked the earlier edition of the volume I work on, except page 123 was a "this page intentionally left blank" page that contained just a division title.

[mmarques.livejournal.com]

Hee. I like "this page intentionally left blank"

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

Otherwise, you will just be changing the names of the creditors on your debt list.

The Total Money Makeover
by Dave Ramsey

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hmm, now that sounds like a book I need to read. But it would never be anywhere near the writing computer.

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

The world would be a different place if everyone read it.

The dictionary

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

is the closest book to me, and it doesn't have any sentences. Er uh oh. Would you settle for "Bicycle - a vehicle consisting of a tubular metal frame mounted on two large, wire spoked wheels, one behind the other, and equiped with handlebars, a saddlelike seat, and foot peddles."

[larryhammer]

                          And, my flatterers
Shall be the pure, and gravest of Divines,
That I can get for my money.

The Ricks Oxford Book of English Verse really happened to be the closest, because I keep a copy in my office. That's from Jonson's The Alchemist.

---L.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[mariannelee.livejournal.com]

As author of the collective work, the book as a whole, he or she should sign an agreement similar to the standard author agreement described above. (Chicago Manual of Style)

Bleh.