Bookworm meme

[davidlevine]

I was tagged by bricoleur

BOOKWORM:

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. 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.
6. Tag 5 people

The nearest book is a board book, Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton, and it has 20 pages.

The next nearest book is The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater. No, wait, that's a CD (read by the author!) so it doesn't have pages.

The next nearest book is an ARC of Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder, which I haven't started reading yet. the 5th-8th sentences on page 123 are:

On the other hand... he suddenly realized that the expeditionary force might lose this battle. If they were overwhelmed, there would be no prisoners taken. Everyone would be killed, from Admiral and Lady Fanning to Martor and Aubri Mallahan.

Here's who needs to do this now: airporter, cjsmith, holyoutlaw, gregvaneekhout, and bohemiancoast.

Comments

[eleri.livejournal.com]

Augh! I have yet to grab YPP. We are Boynton addicts around here. Next time the scholastic flyer comes from Miri's school.

[davidlevine]

YPP is incredibly sweet. You can hear the song and see the video here: http://www.workman.com/boynton/

[canadiansuzanne.livejournal.com]

The next nearest book is The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater.

I have it in paper form. It only has 83 pages.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I always wind up seeing these at work.

Software Development for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform by Ray Rischpater is almost entirely code on page 123, with two and a half sentences afterward. Moving on to page 124 instead:

"When adding a resource item to a menu, the second and third arguments should be the name of the resource file and the resource ID of the item, respectively. When adding a string, the second and third arguments are zero, and you pass a pointer to the myltibyte string as the fifth argument. Regardless of which way you add an item, you also provide a unique integer that the event handler will erceive as an argument to the EVT_COMMAND message when you select the event as the fourth argument, and you can pass a long integer or pointer to be kept with the menu item as the last argument."

Yeah. Whatever he said. I think maybe this one doesn't need its own post. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

And now my "myltibyte" typo is irritating me. Danged perfectionism!

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Do subheads count as sentences?

[davidlevine]

Does it have a subject and a verb?

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I'll quit dodging. Here we go:

The book: Nikon D70 owner's manual, what came with the camera.

p. 123, setences 5-8:

The CSM (Custom Settings) menu controls fine details of camera operation.

The Setup Menu
This menu is used for basic camera setup, including formatting memory cards and setting the time and date.

[skipping other subheads and moving to p. 124:]

The playback menu contains the following options: