On 6/20/2023 12:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Bookshelf Sorting
https://xkcd.com/2791/
I was once in the formal living room of the residence of the Chancellor
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Pizza, beer, and
poker party - a friend was housesitting.) One of the bookshelves held a
set of the complete works of Charles Dickens, in identical pale blue >bindings. I noticed that the volumes were shelved in the following
order: 3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7,. . . .
Evidently they had been stacked in order with the first volume on top
(page one up), and someone had grabbed them three at a time to shelve
them. And nobody had looked at them since.
xkcd: Bookshelf Sorting
https://xkcd.com/2791/
On 6/20/2023 12:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Bookshelf Sorting
https://xkcd.com/2791/
I was once in the formal living room of the residence of the Chancellor
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Pizza, beer, and
poker party - a friend was housesitting.) One of the bookshelves held a
set of the complete works of Charles Dickens, in identical pale blue >bindings. I noticed that the volumes were shelved in the following
order: 3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7,. . . .
Evidently they had been stacked in order with the first volume on top
(page one up), and someone had grabbed them three at a time to shelve
them. And nobody had looked at them since.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:33:30 -0400, Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
On 6/20/2023 12:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Bookshelf Sorting
https://xkcd.com/2791/
I was once in the formal living room of the residence of the Chancellor
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Pizza, beer, and
poker party - a friend was housesitting.) One of the bookshelves held a
set of the complete works of Charles Dickens, in identical pale blue
bindings. I noticed that the volumes were shelved in the following
order: 3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7,. . . .
Evidently they had been stacked in order with the first volume on top
(page one up), and someone had grabbed them three at a time to shelve
them. And nobody had looked at them since.
I've run into that trap when moving (non-Dickensian, I have /him/ on
eBook) sets myself. But I always double-checked and sorted things out.
And I suspect did look at them ... admiringly ... from across the
room, where they couldn't see the numbering.
On 6/21/2023 11:57 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:33:30 -0400, Mark Jackson
<mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
On 6/20/2023 12:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Bookshelf Sorting
https://xkcd.com/2791/
I was once in the formal living room of the residence of the Chancellor
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Pizza, beer, and
poker party - a friend was housesitting.) One of the bookshelves held a >>> set of the complete works of Charles Dickens, in identical pale blue
bindings. I noticed that the volumes were shelved in the following
order: 3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7,. . . .
Evidently they had been stacked in order with the first volume on top
(page one up), and someone had grabbed them three at a time to shelve
them. And nobody had looked at them since.
I've run into that trap when moving (non-Dickensian, I have /him/ on
eBook) sets myself. But I always double-checked and sorted things out.
And I suspect did look at them ... admiringly ... from across the
room, where they couldn't see the numbering.
Just part of the elegant decor.
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