Giving in to the Meme

[selenite0]

Seen in many, but daveamongus tipped me over.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"By now you get the idea."

From Writing Excel Macros With VBA by Steven Roman. Hey--I'm at work.

Comments

this silly meme...

[dartpoly.livejournal.com]

... started out as 'page 23'.
but if i play along and use p.123 of the book that is physically closest to my (right) hand, i get:

The pillars mean duality, opposites and woman.
from Richard Cavendish, The Black Arts

*chuckle*

Re: this silly meme...

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Heck, if it was only p. 23 I could use that 80 page paper that's even closer.

"It is not very common to see claims of a 10 million fold improvement in anything, but that is what the data suggests."

From "Modeling Kinematic Cellular Automata Final Report" by Tihamer Toth-Fejel.

Re: this silly meme...

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

by Tihamer Toth-Fejel

that sounds like it ought to be a name coming up in your CoC campaign!

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Closest book is the German dictionary.

Closest book with both sentences and 123 pages:

"This modern Behind-the-Ears nonsense."

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

But do you, in fact, get the idea?

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Yep. Excel autotemplate objects, not the most difficult concept. :-)

Post the text - so here it is

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

"There will be a small swelling under the ball of the foot, but this is easily steam-ironed away, never to be seen again."

from Knitter's Almanac, by Elizabeth Zimmermann.

What did you expect? I'm in my studio.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

"In Texas, we have no French in the schools."

From "Notes from Exile: On being Acadian" by Clive Doucet. I had fished out the book a week or so ago to find a quote for someone and hadn't gotten around to putting it away. So it was closest to me. Curious sentence, esp out of context.

[archangelbeth]

Nearest book to my right hand -- the white hardcover In Nomine one. (I was referring to it while GMing, heh.)

"For 1 Essence, they can temporarily create a pocket-sized computer lasting a number of minutes equal to their Ethereal Forces."

(That's assuming fifth full sentence. I'm ignoring the non-complete sentence at the top of the page and the D-Headers in between.)