I’m not one for memes. Lots of people do them, but I don’t. I think I made one once.
However, there’s one I saw recently at Philosulfer’s I’ve got nothing to say and Ren’s Renagerie and I’ll use it as a good example WHY I don’t do memes.
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
The book?
Journey to Cubeville by Scott Adams (I think I owe this to Janna – it’s sitting next to a mailer packet as an annoying reminder.)
The sentence:
“… Then we’ll turn off the existing systems and fire up the new one.”
Meh.
Well, I have been doing a lot of systems migrations recently. Like using VMWare Converter to migrate a machine from a physical server to a virtual, and then I do exactly that – shut off the old and busted physical one and bring up the new hotness. But still, kind of blah.
However, I did a second one, and now it gets interesting.
The book?
The Joy of Work by Scott Adams. (Yes, I’m a Scott Adams fan)
The sentence:
“If you’re playing video games or surfing the Web on company time, sometimes you don’t hear people sneak up behind you.”
Ok, THAT IS FREAKY. Know why? Because I’m composing this at 5:10pm Monday afternoon, from my work computer, and just as I had found sentence 5 and was reading it (immediately after typing “bring up the new hotness” above), the Janitor guy spooked me by wanting my trash bin under my desk. I didn’t see him there, and he just snuck right up behind me! While I was doing my personal blog (surfing the Web) on my company laptop.
Technically, I’m not doing this “on company time” because well, I already work too much. But still.
What does this meme do for you? You don’t have to go to the trouble of an actual post; just put the sentence in a comment here. Who knows; you might win a prize!
I don’t have any books within arms’ length. They’re all in my library. And by that I mean my bathroom.
Avitable´s last blog post..Calling all Indian and Middle Eastern stereotypes
No books here at work but I’d be happy to listen to more of your computer lingo…sigh.
“If the line is coax, the antenna curre flows only on the outside of the outer conductor; no current is induced inside the line.”
The ARRL Antenna Book – 14th Edition
Exciting, wasn’t it?
That should say “antenna CURRENT”
“Depending on your hardware and the installation options you have chosen, the install process will take between 10 and 30 minutes.”
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 UNLEASHED, by some poor schmuck.
“Cyrilla had been Queen of Galea.”
Faith of the Fallen, by Terry Goodkind.
Like you said: Meh.
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“The simplest and best way to harden conkers is to put them away in a drawer until the following year.”
- Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? And 114 Other Questions
Now I need to find out what a conker is again.
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James Gleick, *Faster, the Acceleration of Just About Everything*: ” ‘I’ve lost all conception of what ‘soon’ means,’ he tells a woman. ”
I’m stealing this meme. Hopefully, I won’t be sitting near my copy of iPhone, the Missing Manual when I decide to post it.
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My book is in the coat room and I’m too bleh to go get it.
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“He’s got a head like a rock.”
– “A Confederacy of Dunces”; John Kennedy Toole
Hmmm…. That could apply in sooo many places in my life right now…
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“I can’t douse everything with salt” I said as there was a click of the closing door.
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
LOVE the Scott Adams quotes, he’s a hero of mine
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Wayne, how many books were you going to check to find something “freaky” ?
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“…And I want to volunteer for the patrols, too.” The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan…. Actually, I was thinking of volunteering with the USO to send care packages to the troops.
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Dude, this meme is awesome. Whoever started this (locally) was one cool dude (started to write something else, but then looked up and saw that your blog is trying to be PG).
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“What may I say to you?”
It’s from The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazney, which I might add is not really that great a book but is what I am reading right now. Seems like I always have a book within arm’s length.
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I am indeed the hopeful “Cubeville” recipient.
I have been patiently waiting, sitting cross-legged in comfy pants while visualizing breakfast tacos and chanting something about penguins.
Inner peace smells sort of like oranges.
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