Book meme at 5:39AM

by Chris on May.19, 2009, under Personal

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.

“It is still in dispute whether wars between neighbors occur mainly because they fight over territory, because they generate disagreements in their day-to-day interaction, or because they are more easily available for fights—but Vasquez (1995) presents a strong case for the territorial explanation.”

I’m selling textbooks online, you see…

3 Comments for this entry

Jay
May 19th, 2009 on 12:11 pm
“This becomes a self-JOIN on on the set of immediate subordinates of the parent under consideration.”

From ‘Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties’
Deanne
May 20th, 2009 on 3:25 am
“Remember Mrs. Gutierrez?”

-The Mediator: Twilight by Meg Cabot

Wow, that wasn’t really all that exciting.
Ed Avis
May 20th, 2009 on 6:00 am
‘His heart was overflowing.’

Not bad…

- Sentimental Education by Flaubert, translated by Robert Baldick and Geoffrey Wall.