it comes in pints?

George Washington, by Willard Sterne Randall:

"Partly because of unhealthy conditions in the Tidewater, where undrained swamps produced malaria and where medicine was exceedingly primitive, few people reached old age."

I about to ping you. Get ready.

Oh ping me, baby!

...'cause you know, I just pinged YOU and everything.

I really have got to proofread before I post. I sound like a caveman:

"I ping you now."

That was a mistake? And here I was, thinking you were just role-playing for the kinkiness of it.

Have you been reading my private journal or something?

No, that's just judging from the stuff I picked up about you off of the bathroom walls...

Wow. I only lived in LA for 2 months and that was over 10 years ago.

Nice to know they still remember me.

Got some Ferrol Sams over at my blog.

Yes, the city never quite recovered. It must feel good to know you've been immortalized in toilet prose, eh?

Thanks, Tommy. How sad for you, being on blogspot, deprived of the pleasure of the ping.

That's okay. I'd probably take it for granted once I had it, anyway.

There's no way to take the ping for granted. I think hairy palms and blindness are actually guaranteed by MT.

There should be a disclaimer.

ok, i'll play.

[Swear to Jeebus, this was the closest book]

"Note how the energies of the two starting orbitals separate or spread apart when they interact to form the two molecular orbitals."
-- Streitwieser and Heathcock, Introduction to Organic Chemistry

Yes, I know it's sad. I'm just glad it was sitting to the right of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - page 23 had a logarithm table.

Ken,
Introduction to Organic Chemistry? Wow, you're some kind of geek.

If you two are going to ping each other, let me make some popcorn and grab a beer.

Sorry, Bill. You already missed the hot ping-on-ping action.

Jesus, can't you people wait until I get home?

A girl has needs, you know, Bill. Sometimes they just can't wait.

Well, next time it happens, have the decency to videotape it for the rest of us.

Think of what it will do for your hit counter.

There are certain things a woman can give that a man just cannot. For that, one needs a ping.

(I don't believe a word I am saying.)

Even better, Sheila, pings do not require batteries!

Or electrical outlets, for that matter.

Ping-on-ping action?

I think I've seen that website. But I prefer this one.

Oh, and I'm not a geek. I'm a nerd. We dress better.

My results in this exercise can be seen here.

Consider yourself pinged :)

Ken Summers...another one of the prolific blog commenters that I insist should have a blog of his own. You always have a spot here, Ken.

Well, thank you kindly for the compliment, dear. But I'm just a born commenter. I would only get my blogging material from other blogs and...well..that would just put me further benind the curve.

However, I do have some news you might not have noticed yet (which puts me just a tiny bit ahead of the curve on this one):

WIKIPEDIA IS NOW NUMBER ONE!

Jew rule, even honorary ones!

Congrats to you and Professor Norm. Next time I'm in your area, I'm buying you a beer.

That should have been "Jews rule". [Note to self: put an s on the end of "Jews", "Jew" is not plural.]

I couldn't ping you. Maybe I should try viagra? or is cialis better?

okay, the nearest book was :Simon Singh: The Code Book
Often, a cryptographer will remove all the spaces to make it harder for an enemy interceptor to intercept the message.

As far as geekiness goes, the NEXT closest book woulda been "Algebraic Topology - Homotopy and Homology", so I guess that ranks pretty high.

History of the World, Part IV - er, The Age of Faith - by Will Durant. (I'm assuming fifth complete sentence.)

"By the fourth century they had long since adopted writing and a government of stable laws."

(Note: "they" are German barbarian tribes.)

Heinemaan Australian Dictionary:

"A zeppelin has a rigid structure, whereas a blimp is non-rigid."

F*ck me! I always assumed they were the same thing!

I too lack the ability to ping because I'm too lazy to get off Blogspot. Sue me. Random book quote here.

Consider yourself pinged, dear lady.

Sasha, my dear, you have a tape coming your way very soon.

:) thanks for the smiles along the way... I've been reading you for a while now and thought this'd be fun to join in on.
Electronic Fundamentals

"20. Express each of the following as a quantity have a metric prefix: "

How sad is that...lol

tru

Sorry for the late trackback.

"The only book I've got nearby is The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, which, for inexplicable reasons, I have been carrying in my backpack for weeks."

Inexplicable reasons?! It's a great book, that's probably why you're carrying it about with you. ;-)

"I have no illusions."

His Master's Voice
Stanislaw Lem

"Really, the English do not deserve to have great men."

Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw (actually in the preface, but it's numbered as 23)