Baaa...

[herveus]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

The nomenclature for this may seem a bit odd at first -- it's written as [[a-z]&&[^aeiou]], and read aloud as "this and not that."

Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl

Comments

[montuos]

Nope; I read it back when it was still pretty new. Not that I'm currently re-reading it either; it was just the first visible book in the piles of stuff around the computer.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

It's cool that it is the first visible book. I'm stuck with dictionaries, which, while cool in their own right, have neither parapgraphs or proper sentences on page 123.

[montuos]

Yup; fortunately the dictionary, while technically closer to hand, was hidden behind some stuff!