A post. Whee.

[active_apathy]

Like most of LJ, I'm posting to say nothing. Yay. So, what constitutes nothing tonight?

I've finished with episode 3.10 of House, meaning that I don't have any more. Woe. My reasoned, critical thoughts on season 3? Wilson said 'seriously'. I was amused.

Also, I need more secure headphones. These ones have a bit of a habit of taking hair-propelled flight across the room at the first sign of vigorous head movement. My options seem to be finding grippier headphones, making my Winamp playlist boring, or scampering over to retrieve my headphones from over by the window.

For now, I choose option 3.




And now, a meme. Nicked from ryttu3k and slightly modified. I don't think I've ever left a meme the way I found it.

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next five sentences in your journal, along with these instructions.
   
5. Tell us what the book is
6. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! Of course, you probably hadn't even considered it until it was mentioned here

Oh, this is going to be fun.

The very closest book is touching my knee, and is the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 2nd edition, 2002 revision, 2005 update. This one's problematic: its pages aren't continuously numbered. Page 123 works out to be page... 4-11.

So! Not counting the examples or headings as sentences...

4.7B. Notes

Make notes as set out in the following subrules and in the order given there. However, give a particular note first when it has been decided the note is of primary importance. For additional notes on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance manuscripts, see 4.7B23.

4.7B1. Nature, scope or form. Make notes on the nature of a manuscript or a collection of manuscripts unless it is apparent from the rest of the description. Use one of the following terms, as appropriate:

• holograph(s) (for manuscripts written by the person(s) responsible for the work(s) contained therein)
• ms. (for all other handwritten manuscripts)
• mss. (for all other collections of handwritten manuscripts)
• printout(s)
• typescript(s)
  

Mmm, thrilling. So, the next closest, at an inch from my left big toe is the handbook for 2nd edition Shadowrun.

A player who is not certain he wishes to limit his character with a lot of requirements should try playing a Coyote shaman, who has more freedom of action.

This does not mean that a Cat shaman never has close friends, or that a Shark shaman must kill anyone who looks at him sideways, but Cat will not reveal her darkest secrets, or even her telecom code, to every chummer she meets. Neither is Shark going to walk away from a fight just because someone might get hurt.

Shamans are human and a totem is not a religion, though it gets close. There are no commandments the shaman must follow.

But wait, we haven't even begun to reach into the depths of not helping the meme that you find around my desk. Next closest, right behind my keyboard, is Cascading style sheets : the definitive guide, by Eric A. Meyer. And...

For each element, the user agent should examine the characters in that element, and determine whether Times can provide characters to match. In most cases, it can do so with no problem. Assume, however, that a Chinese character has been placed in the middle of a paragraph. Times has nothing that can match this character, so the user agent has to work around the character or look for another font that can fulfill the needs of displaying that element. Of course, any Western font is highly unlikely to contain Chinese characters, but should one exist (let's call it AsiaTimes), the user agent could use it in the display of that one element--or simply for the single character.

And so it continues. Next closest, Photoshop 7 professional photographic techniques, by Janee Aronoss, Nyree Costello, Gavin Cromhout and Vikas Shah.

9. Flip through the blending modes for that layer.
10. Repeat as desired.
11. You can add layers of custom gradients, pictures, objects, solid colors, patterns, or anything.

Examples

This technique provdes a fertile ground for your creativity. Here are some done with Maddy.

And then the next nearest, at long last, is a novel. Academ's fury, in fact, by Jim Butcher. So!

"Time," Gallus called again, an edge of anger in his voice. "Stop writing. If you haven't finished your proofs by now, another breath's worth of scribbling won't help you. Papers to the left."

Tavi rubbed at his mouth, blotting the drool from his lip with the sleeve of his grey tunic.

It seems rather shorter than all the others, but dialogue does that.

And therein lies the end of the entry.

Comments

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

...my nearest book is the Macquarie Dictionary. How fun and exciting that would be.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The last time I did this, my nearest book was the concise OED. AACR2 isn't a vast improvement, unless you're really keen on knowing about the notes area for manuscripts (and manuscript collections).

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Headphones option 4: unplug them and let the music come out of the speakers at high volume whilst vigourous head movements commence.

[nyctanessa.livejournal.com]

The nearest book... is actually the front half of the bottom shelf of my bookshelf. D:

Yes, I have to double stack my books because I have too many of them otherwise.