Comments | mvc: and in conclusion, I am a big old geek

mvc

and in conclusion, I am a big old geek

Apr 09, 2004 10:40

"An object is a referent that happens to know which class it belongs to."

-Perl 5 Pocket Reference

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions

(Stolen from jayel4192)

Comments 3

cbustapeck April 26 2004, 18:15:36 UTC

Yes. This is random. And off topic. But you are probably the only one who can identify what book I used for this icon photo. *grin*

mvc April 27 2004, 15:03:27 UTC

Alas, I cannot. It's a Bible, and it looks like rather a nicely printed one, but I can't say anything beyond that.

cbustapeck April 27 2004, 16:36:15 UTC

Oh. I forgot that LiveJournal renames the pictures, so you wouldn't know that the file was named centaur.jpg. Guess that makes it much more difficult.

It was a photo of Bruce Rogers' masterwork, the Oxford Lectern Bible. Yes. I had a copy in my collection. Not in the best of condition, for sure, but a copy nonetheless of one of the most beautiful Bibles ever printed. The binding was in need of major repair or rebinding. And it had clearly been used in a church for quite a while - pen marks, ashes, and the like.

I realized that it needed a new home. I was doing a bit of research, on google, when I noticed that the National Library of Australia was looking for a copy. I contacted them and made an offer. They requested more information, so I sent them a large group of photos and an extensive description. A month later, when I had almost forgotten, they responded that they definitely watned to purchase it ( ... )