Ok, I know I haven’t posted for a long time — I went to Europe in vacation, and I’ve been in Buenos Aires for three weeks now for a data assimilation course — but who can resist a meme spreading on Planet Python?

I tried to find the closest book to my computer. To simplify things, I calculated distance only the horizontal plane. I walked into the room where I’m staying, in a B&B, and grabbed the one that looked closest to my little office:

“Está bien, sólo que demasiado blanca.”
— Gracias por el Fuego, Mario Benedetti

The rules for this meme thing are:

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.