ok, ok, i'll do it

I've been seeing this all over the place, most recently at Pharyngula, and meaning to play along:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.

"This produces lymphocytes, each bearing a distinct receptor, so that the total repertoire of receptors can recognize virtually any antigen."

The antecedent of "this" is recombination of variable receptor gene segments and clonal selection of lymphocytes; the sentence is from Janeway, Travers, Walport and Shlomchik, Immunobiology 5th edition 2001 (Garland ISBN 0-8153-3642-X). If you want a good introduction to immunology, you can't go past this book; it really is first class. Both text and figures present a clear, concise but comprehensive and superbly well organised overview of the field. Highly recommended. You can see for yourself here at the NCBI Bookshelf, although you'll need to come up with searches (base 'em on the chapter headings is the easiest way) because there's no way to browse.

miscellanea | sennoma | 16 Apr, 2004 |

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Senn, what do we have to do to get you to start reading porn at your desk?

Comment number: 006442   Posted by: pericat on April 16, 2004 04:53 PM from IP: 216.232.73.106

That is porn for Senn.

:-P

R

Comment number: 006443   Posted by: Ralf on April 16, 2004 05:18 PM from IP: 210.11.153.97

Spookily, when I do this I get:

 VALUE="biotech.html">Biotech

from
      Tim Converse and Joyce Park, PHP 4 Bible, IDG Books, 2000.
which is a very good reference, albeit a touch out of date .

R

Comment number: 006444   Posted by: Ralf on April 16, 2004 05:23 PM from IP: 210.11.153.97

Now I want to know what we get when Pericat plays this game...

Comment number: 006445   Posted by: senn on April 16, 2004 06:23 PM from IP: 137.53.83.129

If you think I'm any less geeky than you lot, you are sadly mistaken.

From my camera's manual:

"When "MENU OFF" is displayed, pressing the MENU button returns you to shooting or playback mode."

It could have been worse. It could have been one of the Mac OSX tomes, currently weighting down a newly-glued thing and so almost as close.

Comment number: 006446   Posted by: pericat on April 17, 2004 09:17 AM from IP: 216.232.72.121

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