Fun to share
by covert.c. on Feb.23, 2005, under geek culture, meta
From my friend Andy, to his friend, Gillian (whom I’ve actually met), I got this fun little activity :
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of said sentence along with these instructions.
- Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
So I quickly reached about eleven inches to the right of my mousepad, and grabbed one of my currents :
“As we’ll see shortly, even when these payoff matrices are only a very abstract model of a game, they can be useful in balancing different elements of the design.”
This is from, Game Architecture and Design, by Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris. If you’re interested in game design (I am! I’m currently designing one in my second life), this book is highly recommended. Not only because of what the text says, but because of those little sideways “thought-jaunts” that reading the material will send you on. I love it.
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March 15th, 2005 on 5:29 pm
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March 15th, 2005 on 5:29 pm
P.123, sentence 5 in "Taylor's Master Gardening"
March 18th, 2005 on 7:37 pm
purity. It very likely reflects the strong tendency within the Jewish world, as a whole....and on to say toward strict safeguard of the Temple and the priesthood."The Dead Sea Scrolls" Current bedtime book for the past month about 5 pages a night I will have to reread to get the meaning.
March 22nd, 2005 on 9:26 pm
p123 sentence 5 of pattern recognition
"Thats it."
March 23rd, 2005 on 5:26 pm
The Gillian link is poop.
My sentence is:
Ask the user: User type Yes or No to receive the installation at logon.
March 25th, 2005 on 5:13 pm
Wow, I do a technorati search on my name and find a broken link in reference to me! Small world, and all that stuff.