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8 responses to “meme du jour”

1. 2004/04/25

   alecm

   re: meme du jour

   it’s a pity, really; the previous sentence is a lot more interesting.

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2. 2004/04/26

   bartb

   re: meme du jour

   Well, the “nearest” book did not have too much text in it, so instead of the 5th sentence I had to take the 5th phrase…

   Meme content:

   X:1 T:Meme T:Voor de juffrouw C:W. Claeys B:Volksmuziek * Folk Music * Musique Populaire * Volksmusik \ ISBN 90-802838-1-9 or ISBN 3-927240-39-7 L:1/4 M:3/4 Q:1/4=100 K:C c A/c/ A/e/ | a>g f/e/ | d e/f/ e/d/ | c B/c/ c/A/ | c A/c/ A/e/ | a>g f/e/ | d/e/ d/c/ A/c/ |1 B3 :|2A3|]

   — Volksmuziek * Folk Music * Musique Populaire * Volksmusik (ISBN 90-802838-1-9 or ISBN 3-927240-39-7)

   (the format is “abc”, google for “abc music” to find out more, or google for “abc tune finder” to find more tunes)

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3. 2004/04/27

   Arun

   re: meme du jour

   Meme content:

   One other test of the law of gravity is very interesting, and that is the question whether the pull is exactly proportional to the mass.

   – Feynman’s ‘The Character of Physical Law’

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4. 2004/04/27

   Haaid

   re: meme du jour

   In general, I tried to locate books, chapters, and articles that provide more than an overview of the subject but are not overly technical.

   Margaret W. Matlin – Cognition – ISBN: 0-15-504081-2

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5. 2004/04/27

   diamond

   re: meme du jour

   Interestingly, in 1979 he claimed, ‘I’ve always been interested in science — I very nearly did science A-levels — I was very hot on physics as a child.’

   – M.J. Simpson – Hitchhiker – A Biography of Douglas Adams

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6. 2004/04/27

   brand

   re: meme du jour

   The nearest book only has one sentence on page 23:

   “Unlike the ‘wheel’ and ‘bow knot’, the units that make the ‘lightning’ pattern are joined by using both ends of the two units as tabs, and both ends of the remaining two units as pockets.”

   Tomoko Fuse _Origami Boxes_

   In the second closest book, p. 23, sentence 5 reads:

   “There is often more than one way of doing things.”

   Andy Bruce and Ken Langdon _Strategic Thinking_

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7. 2004/04/27

   darrenm

   re: meme du jour

   “We can examine this protocol without getting bogged down in the implementation details”.

   Schneier – Applied Cryptography 2nd Edition.

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8. 2004/05/02

   jill-bob

   re: meme du jour

   Instead, you can use Oracle’s built-in function NVL, which substitutes a specified value for columns that are NULL, as in : […]

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