Posted on November 11, 2008 - by jono
Book Meme
“Remix is an essential act of RW creativity“. – Remix: Making Art And Commerce Thrive In The Hybrid Economy, Lawrence Lessig.
From Ben, the latest meme:
- 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.
In the interests of meme-ability, I would like to ask the following to do this:
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Funny! no blog, so I’ll use yours:
“In the past, Microsoft has underestimated the need for such mixing, failing to anticipate, for example, the pressing need that many developers would have for calling a real-mode code from their protected-code.” (Undocumented Windows, A. Schulman, D. Maxley, M. Pietrek 1992)
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Here I am at work, writing VB.NET code.
“The distinction way be confusing at first.” Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Wondows Presentation Foundation, Charles Petzold.
Well, that’s WPF for you
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“He’d found it always paid to think very carefully before answering Twoflower’s more surprising questions.” (The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett)
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“In cases like these, your SQL statements won’t need to have a ‘where’ clause, since you don’t need to exclude any rows from consideration.” From O’Reilly’s “Learning SQL”.
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“Heat and stir together until smooth and almost boiling.”
Why did there have to be a cookbook sitting next to me?