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Book meme, per instructions :)

by Marek Habersack 18. May 2009 19:50

Following a fellow hackerette's instructions, here's my meme:

"Computer science has a subdiscipline called Information Retrieval 
(IR for short) that focuses almost entirely on this problem."

And the original Andreia's instructions copied here:

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.

So, Andreia, what's the page number for next week? :)

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Comments

5/18/2009 10:05:35 PM #

Probably says something that my nearest book at the time I read this was 'The Key to Solomon's Key - Secrets of Magic and Masonry'... although my next nearest book was 'A New House For Eeyore', which probably says just as much.

David | Reply

5/19/2009 2:46:42 AM #

I saw Andreia's post, followed by yours, and figured to myself, "what the heck", so I turned to the closest book to my keyboard at work, found "Pro WPF in C# 2008" (ironically open to page 556), and thumbed back to page 56: entirely blank!