I Got Tagged by Ron Coleman
My friend, Ron Coleman at Likelihood of Success, tagged me in the following exercise:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
Here goes:
The book is Informal Learning, by Jay Cross, subtitled "Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance." Jay Cross is the guy who coined the phrase "e-Learning," not that you should hold that against him or anything.
Anyway, here's the relevant passage:
The off-site workshop began with two days of PowerPoint presentations in a poorly lit, cavernous room. Then, when senior executives were on a coffee break, Sibbet and Wheeler taped the vision mural to a side wall, since there was no room up front. Because the room was very dark, Sibbet used an overhead projector to spotlight the mural.
Mission accomplished, Ron.
I tag (in alpha order):
Please post your stuff (or at least a link to it) in the comments.
The book is So Wrong for So Long, How the Press the Pundits and the President Failed in Iraq by Greg Mitchell.
The first three sentences after the fifth go: [last sentence of the prologue to the chapter titled May] A Gallup poll in late April showed that exactly half of all Americans now felt that Bush had deliberately misled them on WMD in Iraq, and 57 percent said that they felt the decision to invade was a “mistake” – even though they were still being denied a true picture of the carnage in this war.
[subheading]The Great Photo “Cover-up” May 21 2005. A remarkable survey by the Los Angeles Times of six leading newspapers and two newsmagazines during a recent six-month period found almost no pictures from Iraq of Americans killed in action. The publications ran only 44 photos of the wounded.
That's as far as I can go with the game - I only know the bloggers you tagged and I really don't want to create a circular firing squad with them.
Okay, Adacity of Hope was the closest book whose spine was facing me, but it was lying underneath Thomas E. Ricks' FIASCO, The American Military Adventure In Iraq. I'll do some tagging in a bit, but here's the excerpt.
I don't think Jessica Lynch and the 507th Maintenance Company would have happened. I truly believe that had I had those assets, I would have had troops right behind the 3rd ID, securing the route."
Chalabi's worrisome chums
Another disquieting note was that as the U.S. military invaded Iraq, U.S. intelligence picked up indications that Ahmed Chalabi's organization was conveying information about U.S, troop movements to the government of Iran. "I don't want to say what the sourse was, but there was some evidence that there was operational relationship" between Chalabi and Tehran, said a serior U.S. military intelligence officer.