Got this from Kees et al:
- 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.
Here’s mine:
Pure acetic acid is completely miscible with water, ethanol, diethyl ether, and carbon tetrachloride, but it not soluble in carbon disulfide.
– Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, vol. 1, AAR-ANO
Yes, I’m sitting here at a library with nixternal before his presentation at the MUG meeting tonight. I don’t own that book, nor would I, even though it has some nice graphics and it is interesting. Most of what is in it I can find on teh intarwebs.
What are you reading?


“It will all be spelled out in the will; our fate, too, depends on it…”
-War and Peace (really, it was the closest book)
Posted by skemmis on February 12th, 2009.