"If, in the works of contemporary authors, different names appear in different editions or versions of the same work or two or more names appear in one edition or version, choose, for all editions or versions, the name most frequently used in editions or versions of the work."
--Describing Archives: A Content Standard (a.k.a. "DACS")
The above is this:
1) Pick up book nearest to you.
2) Turn to page 123.
3) Copy down the fifth sentence on the page.
That one is obviously from work. If I do it here in my room, where I am sitting next to my bookshelf, I get the following:
"So her teachers and counselors had pushed her to go East for school and study medicine."
--Free to Succeed by Barbara Reinhold (the Smith career lady)
Finally, after a calendar year of nagging, I finally got Bob to go to the Sears Portrait Studio for some tacky-tack picky-pics. We were privy to sexist posing practices and chided by our photographer for not being engaged or married. She also asked if we were brother and sister, even though we look NOTHING ALIKE. NOTHING! These pictures prove that our ancestors are from different parts of Europe and we are NOT COUSINS! I am definitely more olive-complected than fair Bob.
I had fun posing with Bob, who was made to stand upon a box so that he'd be taller than me! I'm putting the 8x10 in the living room! Bob wants to put it in the bathroom.
It takes 48 hours for them to put the pics online for viewing. I am biting my nails. We're in soft focus! They're great!
Posted by Zerd at December 14, 2004 03:05 PM