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I have no iPod, so I cannot participate in the tea-leaves-reading called "Friday iPod Scramble." However, I read lots of books, so when Pharyngula posted this I bit:

#16505: — 02/20  at  09:50 PM
Page 123 of "The Dilbert Future" consists mostly of reprinted comics. The single prose paragraph on the page is only four sentences.

If I count the comics on the page, the fifth sentence is "What about 'Yellow Pages' ads?"

#16511: Kevin — 02/21  at  09:03 AM
"These two electrical properties of a membrane, capitance and conductance, can be represented by an equivalent circuit in which an electrical conductor is connected in parallel with a resistor (see Figure 5-10)."

from Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations by Randall, Burggren, and French.

Of course, the subtitle is obviously a misnomer because as we all know <url="http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/how_often_do_biologists_talk_about_this_evolution_stuff_anyway/">evolution is completely irrelevant to understanding biology</url>.

#16512: Aaron M — 02/21  at  09:31 AM
Sadly, the bound copy of Moore & Gibbons' Watchmen which I keep on my desk (for emergencies, you understand) keeps the original per-issue page numbers intact, and I'm not about to count them by hand.

Thus, I give you sed & awk, 2nd ed, by Dougherty and Robbins.

"This script extracts index entries from one or more files and automatically generates a sed script consisiting of a substitute command for each index entry."

#16513: — 02/21  at  10:08 AM
"Scalered is the default case and indicates that the individual bits of a vector (i.e. a multibit net) may be accessed using bit- and part- selects."

The Verilog Hardware Description Language by Thomas & Moorby's.

#16537: — 02/21  at  07:52 PM
"Mrs. Cake motioned Knobby to sit down." Jingo, by Terry Pratchett. Rather appropriate for these times.

#16561: — 02/22  at  05:59 AM
the nearest book was a dictionary!!!

#16589: — 02/22  at  03:27 PM
The book is the Pelican edition of The Odyssey, translated by E.V. Rieu.

"He prophesied that some day the god would wreck one of our fine vessels on the misty sea as she came home from such a journey, and would surround our city with a wall of mountains." (Book 8: 566-570)

It's from the speech of the Phaeacian King, who is describing Poseidon's jealousy of the Phaeacian ships --which, being sentient and psychially linked to their crews, would "make their swift passage over the sea's immensities with no fear of damage and no thought of wreck".

What am I doing with Homer on my shelf? I taught Paradise Lost the week before break, and took in Homer and Vergil as illustrations of Epic form.

#16592: — 02/22  at  04:26 PM
'A form is an HTML element that uses a variety of field types to collect information from a user and pass it along, usually to a CGI application or ASP, JSP, or CF page that takes the data and does something with it.'

Dreamweaver MX: The Complete Reference, Ray West and Tom Muck, Osborne

If I had been at home it would have been from Collapse by Jared Diamond, which I have quite completed reading yet.

#16899: umut celenli — 02/24  at  01:34 AM
Here it comes from "the c++ programming language" from Bjarne Stroustrup;

"Unfortunately, most do not."

Well, its a success for me to have this sentence out of a 1020 paged book full of c++ code. so be it!

#16932: JoJo — 02/24  at  07:54 AM
From Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire":
"No, he chuckled, firewood was just a sideline, that and plowing driveways in the winter."

#17163: — 02/25  at  09:06 PM
The TriangleMesh shape is one of the shapes that can compute a better world space bound than can be found by transforming its object space bounding box to world space.

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