Hello all! This challenge thing has been floating it's way around the bloggosphere for a while so I thought I'd jump in too. I found it on Dan's blog and then linked back to a few others. The rules are as follows:
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123; go down to the fourth sentence.
3. Post the text of the following three sentences.
4. Name the author and book title.
5. Tag three people to do the same.
"Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellow should run to cast their costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with the keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valour-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture."
Herman Mellville - Moby Dick
And since three people pretty much encompasses all my readership I thus tag you all - go forth and blindly grab at literature.
Should anyone take interest in my "next blog" game i think I shall formalise the rules so it resembles the more finely crafted game shown above. So my challenge to you all is, in the least amount of clicks possible to find
1. A "normal" blog - someone talking about what they do etc.
2. A themed blog - A particular musician, types of trees, etc.
3. A foreign language blog - It has to have at least 50% non-English content
4. A green blog - just the background, content can be anything
Post the links up on your blog and say how many clicks it took you, and drop me a comment so I can check it out. I'm on my sixth attempt and I still haven't found the first one!!!
Edits: I think I got the amount of sentences wrong but what the hey - also 50 bonus points if you happen to find a blog you already know of!!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
"Next Blog"
Don't worry i'm not moving to another blog, though I do have some ideas about expanding my blog collection. Just now I decided to try clicking on the "next blog" icon at the top of the page, thinking it would send me to a blog that followed mine and that each blog is sequentially listed and that it would take me to the next blog in line - not true, this link simply takes you to a random blog!!
I found a Blog containing several pictures of Beyonce, a review of the best acme treatments, a Russian blog entitled k-995 or something to that effect, and the diaries of a lifelong knitter. And just now I thought I'd try again and see if i could find a more average blog, but no - I find a blog containing pictures of someone's online conversations with their Aunt Joan!!
You try it - see what you can come up with!!
Word of the post - deluxe
I found a Blog containing several pictures of Beyonce, a review of the best acme treatments, a Russian blog entitled k-995 or something to that effect, and the diaries of a lifelong knitter. And just now I thought I'd try again and see if i could find a more average blog, but no - I find a blog containing pictures of someone's online conversations with their Aunt Joan!!
You try it - see what you can come up with!!
Word of the post - deluxe
A good week
Hello
I've had a pretty good few days that I can be very grateful for, and I thought I'd share some of the goings on with you if I may.
Monday - I had a somewhat fruitless day at Uni, but I wasn't to bothered 'cause I needed to get home and do work. The upside was that when I got in i managed to recieve my transcript (marks) and found I'd averaged 69 for the first semester, which for those unfamiliar with university marking schemes is a good mark!! I even managed to wrangle a first for my novel chapter and I wasn't far off with my screenplay, which is my weakness. All this has brought my overall mark up quite high so I'm guessing that I'll finish 1 mark of a First at the end!!!
Tuesday - Tuesday was probably the best day for me as I passed my theory test. Unlike others my age I find the prospect of being able to drive a car quite boring and not something I need to do. I can drive from A to B perfectly well, but this is one step closer to getting the piece of paper that says I'm allowed to do so on my own - which will be handy I'm sure.
Wednesday and Thursday - I was working these days, which is a good thing for me as I haven't had any work for quite a while and could use some spare change. I work from time to time as a classroom assistant (the official title for 'muggins') in a special needs school, which is always a fun and interesting experience and i know most of the staff an pupils from working there over the years so i always feel welcome there.
Friday - Friday i spent the day at my friend's house playing on his Wii - the new interactive games console from Nintendo. The thing that makes this one special is that the game is controlled partly by your own arm and hand movements, as well as the button pressing traditional to games consoles. It gives you a bit of a workout while your eyes deteriorate and makes for a more fun experience - I haven't had such laugh out loud fun since Lego Star Wars!
Saturday and Sunday were average, but good average. Well that's it from me, see you soon
Word of the post - concordance
I've had a pretty good few days that I can be very grateful for, and I thought I'd share some of the goings on with you if I may.
Monday - I had a somewhat fruitless day at Uni, but I wasn't to bothered 'cause I needed to get home and do work. The upside was that when I got in i managed to recieve my transcript (marks) and found I'd averaged 69 for the first semester, which for those unfamiliar with university marking schemes is a good mark!! I even managed to wrangle a first for my novel chapter and I wasn't far off with my screenplay, which is my weakness. All this has brought my overall mark up quite high so I'm guessing that I'll finish 1 mark of a First at the end!!!
Tuesday - Tuesday was probably the best day for me as I passed my theory test. Unlike others my age I find the prospect of being able to drive a car quite boring and not something I need to do. I can drive from A to B perfectly well, but this is one step closer to getting the piece of paper that says I'm allowed to do so on my own - which will be handy I'm sure.
Wednesday and Thursday - I was working these days, which is a good thing for me as I haven't had any work for quite a while and could use some spare change. I work from time to time as a classroom assistant (the official title for 'muggins') in a special needs school, which is always a fun and interesting experience and i know most of the staff an pupils from working there over the years so i always feel welcome there.
Friday - Friday i spent the day at my friend's house playing on his Wii - the new interactive games console from Nintendo. The thing that makes this one special is that the game is controlled partly by your own arm and hand movements, as well as the button pressing traditional to games consoles. It gives you a bit of a workout while your eyes deteriorate and makes for a more fun experience - I haven't had such laugh out loud fun since Lego Star Wars!
Saturday and Sunday were average, but good average. Well that's it from me, see you soon
Word of the post - concordance
Monday, February 12, 2007
Opening lines
They say that the opening line of a book is one of the most important parts. so i thought i'd share some of the openings I've come across recently and see what grabs your attention if anything!
"Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick, Herman Melville!
"There is a wood, the canal, the river, and above the river the railway and the road." Untold Stories, Alan Bennet
"This much I know for sure:" The Affirmation, Christopher Priest. This one cam recommended to me and I've just started reading it. The opening is quite engaging as it sets up what's know as an unreliable narrator - because theres probably a lot he isn't sure of too.
"The words of the teacher, son of David King of Jerusalem: 'Meaningless! Meaningless! says the Teacher. Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.' " Ecclesiastes, God. Despite this book's surprisingly Emo beginnings it does go on to offer insight into this world, and also hope and purpose unlike the many bands of today who'se lyrics don't go past the first line of this book.
"John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed pilots, and he knew the statistics as well as any of them, but he still didn't like the idea of crosing the ocean on a twin-engine airliner." Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy. I haven't actually read this one yet - but it sets up the character quite well I think.
That'll do pig
Word of the post - parenthesis (had to get a dictionary for this one, almost spelt it with 2 a's!)
"Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick, Herman Melville!
"There is a wood, the canal, the river, and above the river the railway and the road." Untold Stories, Alan Bennet
"This much I know for sure:" The Affirmation, Christopher Priest. This one cam recommended to me and I've just started reading it. The opening is quite engaging as it sets up what's know as an unreliable narrator - because theres probably a lot he isn't sure of too.
"The words of the teacher, son of David King of Jerusalem: 'Meaningless! Meaningless! says the Teacher. Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.' " Ecclesiastes, God. Despite this book's surprisingly Emo beginnings it does go on to offer insight into this world, and also hope and purpose unlike the many bands of today who'se lyrics don't go past the first line of this book.
"John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed pilots, and he knew the statistics as well as any of them, but he still didn't like the idea of crosing the ocean on a twin-engine airliner." Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy. I haven't actually read this one yet - but it sets up the character quite well I think.
That'll do pig
Word of the post - parenthesis (had to get a dictionary for this one, almost spelt it with 2 a's!)
Friday, February 09, 2007
Thought I'd share this!!
As I continue in my quest to find a way to upload photos I give you another experiment. My Dad sent me this picture, i don't know where he got it from, some time ago and it's been gathering virtual dust in my folder, but I dug it up as I experimented with phtot programs and I thought I'd pass it on. Enjoy!!
Word of the post - peculiar, reading old books I've come across an older meaning for the word, something closer to 'particular' than to 'unusual' which we usually use it for today
Word of the post - peculiar, reading old books I've come across an older meaning for the word, something closer to 'particular' than to 'unusual' which we usually use it for today
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Speaking of snow...
It's chucking it down with the stuff!!! There's a good few centimetres of the white stuff laying about on the ground and there's plenty of those little flakes still floating their way down. I am in fact pretty busy at the moment, but if the snow's still thick on the ground tomorrow i'll find it hard to resist the allure of my sledge!!
One thing I noticed amidst winter's beauty was that weird white sky you get when it snows. Admittedly it's more of a murky gray stuff than a whitewash finish, but it's still quite bizzare and I'm susprised I'd never really noticed it before...probably to busy throwing snowballs I expect! But looking out of my window I can see it, a white haze where clouds and blue stuff used to be - like something out of a sci-fi film.
Enjoy it while you can folks!!
Word of the post - 'noun' it's one of a few words that actually are the thing they describe, other examples are 'word' and 'short' can you think of any?
P.S. You're going to have to content yourselves with a picture of my shoe for the time being. I think I will be trying out the Picasa program since it comes reccomended, but the newspaper I read has already been recycled, plus my shoe seems quite content there.
One thing I noticed amidst winter's beauty was that weird white sky you get when it snows. Admittedly it's more of a murky gray stuff than a whitewash finish, but it's still quite bizzare and I'm susprised I'd never really noticed it before...probably to busy throwing snowballs I expect! But looking out of my window I can see it, a white haze where clouds and blue stuff used to be - like something out of a sci-fi film.
Enjoy it while you can folks!!
Word of the post - 'noun' it's one of a few words that actually are the thing they describe, other examples are 'word' and 'short' can you think of any?
P.S. You're going to have to content yourselves with a picture of my shoe for the time being. I think I will be trying out the Picasa program since it comes reccomended, but the newspaper I read has already been recycled, plus my shoe seems quite content there.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Ah, the wonders of YouTube!!
Well since my previous post is currently worthless I thought I'd set myself up for another disaster, and that is to try and embed a YouTube video into my blog post. This will likely require fiddling around with HTML, which I know very little of. But I managed to incorporate some music into it via the same route so I should be ok.
Well, keep it short they say so here is my first attempt at YouTube embedation. This is the Mighty Boosh explaining the effects of being alone in the Arctic Tundra...in song form!!
"I'm little Johnny Frostbite moving around. Freezing you up, freezing you down like an icicle" Gotta love it!
Well that seems to work, so that's enough from me
Check ya later homies
Word of the post - endless..ness!
Well, keep it short they say so here is my first attempt at YouTube embedation. This is the Mighty Boosh explaining the effects of being alone in the Arctic Tundra...in song form!!
"I'm little Johnny Frostbite moving around. Freezing you up, freezing you down like an icicle" Gotta love it!
Well that seems to work, so that's enough from me
Check ya later homies
Word of the post - endless..ness!
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