A Sentence
May 3rd, 2006 by mojotek
I don’t know why I thought this was cool, as I do way too many meme things as it is, but I saw this at Newsome.org and wanted to try it.
Directions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
So here’s mine:
“Every year, the budget my department receives is outdated within a month due to changes in patient volume.“
I know, boring as hell, but it came from my accounting textbook, “Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations“. That’s what I get for studying for a final at work! God, I’m glad that class is over…
Eliminate single points of failure by securing your routers and DNS servers, and distributing your DNS servers geographically.
Sorry, I just can’t make a blog entry out of that. :(
Then drive home the rewards, both emotionally and logically.
The Little Red Book of Selling, by Jeff Gitomer.
robguy: Haha! I’m sure mine would have been something like that if I hadn’t been cramming for a final yesterday. Hell, I probably shouldn’t have even made a blog entry out of that myself. :)
Phoenix: Interesting to say the least. A little out of context, but a lot cooler than budget and accounting talk.
But if you need similar behavior, there are at least three ways to get the same effect in Python while loops, without embedding assignments in loop tests.
- Learning Python
This meme makes one really read.
“Or all you can eat on the cheap”.
I know cooking books suck…
Eric: Hmmm… seems some of us tech geeks need to add a little spice to our libraries.
rockyjay: Well, I’d have to say food is much more interesting than accounting or DNS servers…