“To put this more bluntly, the design of the UI system sacrificed the well-being of women on the altar of capitalist labour markets.” - If You’re In My Way, I’m Walking
I had left it out after using it kill a beetle in my apartment.
Uh, page 111 of the book closest to me is the right half of a map of central Dublin. The eleventh square on the page contains the National Gallery, National Library, and National Museum, among a few other things.
“I sit down on the broken old La-Z-Boy and Clare squeezes in beside me.”
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
Closest to the desk since my husband left it there. I’m waiting anxiously for him to finish reading it so we can watch the movie together and (most likely) rip it to shreds for not being half as good as the book.
The closest book doesn’t have a page 111, so I just looped around until I got what would be page 111. That page doesn’t have an 11th sentence, so I looped around again, until I got:
“Windows 98 comes with a special program that keeps track of all the open programs.”
Windows 98 for Dummies. Closest because I don’t keep “real” books in the room where the computer’s located. I was gonna go upstairs and grab Horns but I figured that’d be cheating.
“Given the semantics of try/except, raising a custom exception class such as InvalidAttribute is almost the same as raising its standard exception superclass, AttributeError.”
“Bradman observed modern players who were coached to keep an open face and play everything square on, which seemed to restrict the capability to follow through over the ball.”
Bradman’s Best
(Sir Donald Bradman’s selection of the best team in cricket history)
Roland Perry, Random House 2001