Via danah boyd:
- 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 lawyers wanted to know if the plaintiffs, the black children in Clarenden County, would show the same result as those we had tested earler."
- from 'Eyes on the Prize, America's Civil Rights Years 1954 - 65' by Juan Williams
(hat tip to Tim Oren)
Each outcome in a sample space is called an element or a member of the sample space, or simply a sample point.
--Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers, 7th Ed., Walpole, Myers, Myers, and Ye.
(Huh, huh, he said member!)
What a relief.
-- Give Me A Break, John Stossel
The four one-bit outputs are called "annunciators".
-- Apple II Reference Manual
David has posted a rather famous example of why this doesn't work. I've seen it a dozen times. :-)
Apple II??
A.L.
"LITERATURE: T.G. Pinches, The NT in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia; Stephen Langdon, Building Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire."
The International Standard Bible Encyclopaeda, Volume 4, Naarah-Socho, article: Nebuchadnezzar, by R. Dick Wilson, page number 2129 (however, it's 23 pages in from the first page of this volume).
Mr. Pinches? Unfortunate name.
"A generalized definition of slope then is the number of feet of fall or rise in a horizontal distance or S = DE/L, where S is the slope and DE is the difference in elevation between the end points of a line of which the horizontal or map distance is L (Fig. 2.9)."
from 'Site Engineering for Landscape Architects' by Steven Strom & Kurt Nathan
"Who is truly happy and content in this world?"
-- Mesillat Yesharim, or Paths of the Just by Moshe Luzzato, a classic of early mussar literature by an eminent kabbalist.
Unfortunately this is a short sentence in a paragraph of short sentences, in a book where most of the sentences are longer and more interesting, with many subordinate clauses. But fortunately this page is in English - the even-number pages are the original Hebrew.
"I found that my boss was a sergeant with an IQ of 90."
I reached out and picked up the nearest book within reach.
Why do people kill black rhinos? For the same reason they sell drugs or cheat on their taxes.
--Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan.
Woops, I went for two. Oh, well. Looks like you got two for the price of one.
"Well, I had an idea."
-- The Disposessed, Ursula K. Leguin.
Godfrey "Tortured?"
Quickilver, Neal Stephenson
But from the dog's point of view, all he's saying is "blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah."
--Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug
Now that they were closed she could see the way the skin puckered up across the lids and dropped down to meet the creases at the corner.
--Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
The rituals of the ceremony were as elaborate and abstruse as any in the royal crowning at Reims.
--A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara Tuchman
"The carved wooden owl shown in the top photo on p.24 became a symbol of the owner's land, which was frequently visited by an owl, and of their first house, which had burned to the ground."
Sarah Susanka, The Not So Big House
First, if the property width has a value of auto, replace it with the intrinsic width of the element.
Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 (well, you asked for the closest book at hand...)
I've set attendance records and been close to bankruptcy.
Veeck as in Wreck, Bill Veeck with Ed Linn
Ray Guy of Oakland punted a football which hit this display causing the management to raise the device.
David F. Griffing, The Dynamics of Sports
The answer to the second question depended on the answer to the first.
-- Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose
Hey, htom!
I too am in the process of reading Susanka's "The Not So Big House." :-D
Are you building a house?
"After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi."
- Genesis 25:11 from The Holy Bible, New International Version, Pocket Edition
or, for the religion-averse:
"When trying to convert a binary number, such as 10001001, to a decimal number, all you need to do is look at the positions of the 1s."
- from "A+ Complete Study Guide, second edition," by David Groth and Dan Newland
"The system management framework fits into the X/Open reference model and is
built on top of an OMG CORBA 1.1 foundation."
Troubleshooting Tivoli Using The Latest Features
"I invited them over"
Max Lucado
It was only at the age of twenty that it had occured to Marija to try her strength, when she had risen up and nearly murdered the man, and then come away.
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
"Conversely, it might be extremely expensive to protect against a common but inconsequential failure mode."
-- Designing Large-Scale LANs by Kevin Dooley
"This is a disorder characterized by physical tics aand twitches that may involve any part of the body, as well as vocal symptoms such as grunts and barks, echolalia (involuntary repitition of the words of others), and coprolalia (compulsive repetition of obscene words)." Keith Stanovich, How to Think Straight about Psychology, 7th edition.
"In NG FP3 Checkpoint has launched "smart" clients."
Checkpoint NG VPN-1/Firewall-1, Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting by Jim Noble, Doug Maxwell, et al.
"It is difficult to imagine a system more likely to lead to cynicsim."
--Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, Third Ed., Dressler
Some masculine nouns become feminine in the plural: il braccio (arm) -> le braccia, il ciglio (eyelash) -> le ciglia.
- Insieme 2nd Edition. Habekovic & Mazzola.
Actually, there were a couple of books that were closer, but because they were on a lower shelf they didn't catch my eye: The Bible (KJ version) and Public Finance and Public Choice, by James Buchanan and Richard Musgrave.
"He had a habit of walking away when anyone asked him questions, and he avoided social gatherings because people expected him to speak."
--Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
Damned be the soil on your account, with painstaking-labor shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.
-- The Five Books of Moses (A New Translation by Everett Fox)
He couldn't remember, but at all events she was the loveliest creature you ever saw.
The Toll-Gate, by Georgette Heyer.
(To "snap up" is to detect a submarine, and an "Akula" is a very capable Russian nuclear attack submarine.)
- The Complete Idiot's Guide To Submarines
" When I looked up through the web of trees, the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin, and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark."
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd.