I don’t usually do this sort of post, but it did sound like an interesting idea, at least on the face of it.
From friend and fellow blogger Tinfoiling
The Book Meme:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 161.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of this sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
My results? From the closest book to my desk, “About Face” The Essentials of User Interface Design by Alan Cooper (The “Father of Visual Basic”):
If you recognize that in many cases the user will not even be conciously (or unconciously) aware of the existence of the daemonic program, it becomes obvious that reports about status of that program can be quite dislocating if not presented in an appropriate context.
Well, that wasn’t terribly enlightening. But then again, randomness is only randomly illuminating. I guess it shows what type of books are typically near my computer, and what a typical sentence inside one of them is.
Maybe I need more poetry books within reach.
Now I really am disturbed. Your quote is something we were discussing at length last week at work(well not the exact quote but the inability of daemons to produce something that says “It worked, it didnt’ work, I am still trying”) to individuals who have a tough time even understanding daemons.
Randomness…maybe it is just everyone is the same but the lenses are different.
I gotta go to bed and rest now.
Not related to this post I would just like to welcome you to Canada. It must be frustrating after distancing yourself from Bush you have to put up with that other idiot Stephen Harper. Sorry about that.
Old joke from Bible class. Minister says that if you want holy inspiration, close your eyes, open your Bible, run finger down page and read the passage where it stops. A guy goes home, does this, and gets a passage that reads, “and Judas went and hanged himself.” Yikes! he thinks — maybe I better try again. Closes eyes, opens Bible at another page, runs finger downs page and gets…“go thou and do likewise.”
I reached around for my copy of About Face to check. It wasn’t there!
More details on my own book meme results post.
Cheers, Mike (from Australia)
Thanks, Stan.
We thought about the Harper issue. Check out this post that we made back in January.