Sean the Blogonaut posted an open-invitation book meme:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
So, I did just that. My wife happens to be a Medical Transcription, so there's tons of Medical word books all around me. I grabbed the book and here you go:
Stedman's Medical and Surgical Equipment Words, Williams and Wilkins; 1996
Pg 56
Bioclad - Bioplus
5th line: Bioclusive transparent dressing
What is this? I didn't know either so I decided I, as well as you, needed to know. It's a clear band-Aid!!!!! That's it. It just points out the many names and realities of all the pieces of our world that we see on a daily basis that are not what they are - but what they are named to be. We no longer have janitos, only sanitation engineers. Well, what is an eingneer then? Who knows. Just as long as you sound more important than you are.
So I guess I'm a very famous published Author with this post. I'll sign your blog when you show up at the book signing. :-)
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Douglas Adams, 42, and 4th grade
When I was in 4th grade, way back when personal computers consisted of the infamous Apple II E, and that green text on black screen we all remember. Funny enough, there are places on the net you can go to see this screen - oh the memories. During this time we had what was called Book-mobiles. Now a days, they have these things, but it seems to be only a kid's book purchasing catalog that happens to be given out by the schools. And if you thumb throuhg it, you find yourself looking at more toys than books.
No, this was a real "little-bus". This was a grand thing for us kids, and it was so cool to walk onto a bus that was tricked out with books galore, it was a mobile library. So my 9-year-old self walked into this bus, and looked directly at an intriguing book with a green weird no-eyes sphere with arms. It was called The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. What a fantastic find, and it was only $2 above what my mother had given me. After a bit of wheeling and dealing with the only barganing chip I had - doing other kid's homework, I had in my hands the book of a lifetime. I sat down to read it, and had no idea what the hell it was talking about.
First there's the destruction of earth (alweays a good way to start a book). Then there's evil aliens, a fish that goes in your ear to translate everything, a robot that can outthink anything, and a cow who suggests what part of him you should eat. Wow!!!!
This, of course, was the 2nd part of the 5 book trilogy: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Restraunt...., Life the Universe and Everything, Thanks for all the fish, and Mostly harmless. With these books this one man changed the way the world looked at space travel, aliens, hitch hiking, translation, other people on earth, super bypasses, and the number 42! Yes, the number 42. The answer to the ultimate question, which we were going to know the question; but, the big computer named Earth, was destroyed just before it gave us all the answer.
I would suggest all of you to go look up the signifigance of this number. It is bone chilling. Also checkout douglasadams.com, hg2g.com, for even more info.
Most importantly - kind of - this man who suddenly died of a heart attack in 2000, gave this blogger the understanding at the tender age of 9:
WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO WRITE! WE WILL CREATE THOSE STORIES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE; AND SIP A NICE MERLOT AS WE WATCH THE UNIVERSE EXPLODE IN THE COMFY SEATS OF THE RESTRAUNT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.
42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
No, this was a real "little-bus". This was a grand thing for us kids, and it was so cool to walk onto a bus that was tricked out with books galore, it was a mobile library. So my 9-year-old self walked into this bus, and looked directly at an intriguing book with a green weird no-eyes sphere with arms. It was called The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. What a fantastic find, and it was only $2 above what my mother had given me. After a bit of wheeling and dealing with the only barganing chip I had - doing other kid's homework, I had in my hands the book of a lifetime. I sat down to read it, and had no idea what the hell it was talking about.
First there's the destruction of earth (alweays a good way to start a book). Then there's evil aliens, a fish that goes in your ear to translate everything, a robot that can outthink anything, and a cow who suggests what part of him you should eat. Wow!!!!
This, of course, was the 2nd part of the 5 book trilogy: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Restraunt...., Life the Universe and Everything, Thanks for all the fish, and Mostly harmless. With these books this one man changed the way the world looked at space travel, aliens, hitch hiking, translation, other people on earth, super bypasses, and the number 42! Yes, the number 42. The answer to the ultimate question, which we were going to know the question; but, the big computer named Earth, was destroyed just before it gave us all the answer.
I would suggest all of you to go look up the signifigance of this number. It is bone chilling. Also checkout douglasadams.com, hg2g.com, for even more info.
Most importantly - kind of - this man who suddenly died of a heart attack in 2000, gave this blogger the understanding at the tender age of 9:
WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO WRITE! WE WILL CREATE THOSE STORIES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE; AND SIP A NICE MERLOT AS WE WATCH THE UNIVERSE EXPLODE IN THE COMFY SEATS OF THE RESTRAUNT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.
42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
THE - why the W
Many have asked, did you realize there's a "W" after your word "the" in the title of this Blog? My answer comes very quickly and sufficiently....yes! Then the next question is the best, and obvious. Why?
Why begins with "W", "W" is the way we crack into this world. We sit as a far less evolved animal than most in this universe (this is obvious since we have not gone gallivanting about the universe picking up stray beings and supposedly messing with them, probing them and what not; however, if you don't believe in aliens and abductions and all of that stuff, I don't blame you.) looking at an egg. A simple elliptical sphere (yes, I know there is a name for it: like a 3-d box is a cube), and trying to figure out how to get inside and see if there is something in there. What is in the egg?
Many have stopped paying attention, it's just an egg. If it was: why are we so intrigued with the answer of the chicken and the egg(see chicken and the egg answer for actual answer)? Because, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EGG! When he throw W's at it, the shells hard outer shell becomes translucent and then transparent. Suddenly, we can see inside. However, what we see is only think liquid and paste. That is because the answers to all things: life the universe and everything, is in there so densely packed it looks liquid. Throw in some more W's and you become enlightened.
The more questions asked, the more answer haved.
That's why there's a W -
Why begins with "W", "W" is the way we crack into this world. We sit as a far less evolved animal than most in this universe (this is obvious since we have not gone gallivanting about the universe picking up stray beings and supposedly messing with them, probing them and what not; however, if you don't believe in aliens and abductions and all of that stuff, I don't blame you.) looking at an egg. A simple elliptical sphere (yes, I know there is a name for it: like a 3-d box is a cube), and trying to figure out how to get inside and see if there is something in there. What is in the egg?
Many have stopped paying attention, it's just an egg. If it was: why are we so intrigued with the answer of the chicken and the egg(see chicken and the egg answer for actual answer)? Because, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EGG! When he throw W's at it, the shells hard outer shell becomes translucent and then transparent. Suddenly, we can see inside. However, what we see is only think liquid and paste. That is because the answers to all things: life the universe and everything, is in there so densely packed it looks liquid. Throw in some more W's and you become enlightened.
The more questions asked, the more answer haved.
That's why there's a W -
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