An old meme

[lnr]

I think it's very unfair to be tagged from a blog that's not even on livejournal! Still, I shall do this one since it's the first time that Anna has asked. An old meme, though I don't recall it being so many sentences before.

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people.

So here's my three sentences:

Thus you can use last to leave the block or redo to restart the block.* Note that this is not true in eval {}, sub {}, or, much to everyone's surprise do {}. These three are not loop blocks because they're not BLOCKs by themselves; the keyword in front makes them mere terms in an expression that just happen to include a code block.

From Programming Perl, Third Edition by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant, published by O'Reilly.

Comments

[emperor]

The nearest book to me lacks 123 pages; the nearest one that's long enough is the C Standard, which I'll spare you ;)

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Prior knowledge can be included in the confidence evaluation of the resulting segmentation as well. Prior information affects segmentation algorithms; if a large amount of prior information about the desired result is available, the boundary shape and relations with other image structures are specified very strictly and the segmentation must satisfy all these specifications. If little information about the boundary is known, the segmentation method must take more local information about the image into consideration and combine it with specific knowledge that is general for an application area.

From Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision by Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle, published by Chapman and Hall.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Chris Ryan's SAS Fitness Book (don't ask!) lacks 123 pages, but p117 has a tasteful photograph of him straining in exertion.

Sentences 5-7 suggest you do

Sit-ups - 4 sets of maximum.
Hanging leg raises - 4 sets of maximum.
Side bends - 4 sets of maximum.

[sparrowsion]

For once, I get this while I'm not at work, so the closest book isn't something tedious like Understanding MAPI. And I'm still going to cheat very slightly, as the first book to hand gives rather rubbish results, but the closest book is The Sun, the Moon & the Stars (skzbrust), being slightly further down the pile.

" […] I like pen and ink. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I am," he drew himself up to his full height and said ironically, "fulfilled as an artist. […]"

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

'Parfay,' quaþ he, 'þer is fair game.
Þider ichil, bi Godes name!
Ich was ywon swiche werk to se.'

(ll.314-6, Sir Orfeo, from "A Book of Middle English", Burrow and Turville-Petre, which I was looking at earlier after catching the end of Ian McKellen reading a translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Radio 4)

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

7: Delay wet level
M13: Multi13 (Ring modulator - Distortion)
Function: This is a multi effector related to Ring Modulation - Distortion

From WK-3200 WK-3700 User's Guide. There are good reasons why I have the user guide for my keyboard next to the computer, and one or two less good ones (http://personal.nukesoft.co.uk/music/).