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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually nearest to you (We already know you, no use trying to be pretentious)

It is about 50,000 light-years away, with a diameter of about 150 light-years. (Actually from page 122, as page 123 is a map, taken from the Philip's Guide to Stars and Planets, by Patrick Moore. The constellation in question is Aquarius)

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[rwstagg.livejournal.com]

Ten minutes later, he's heckling me about how long I took to come back, but, man, Barry (and his folks, I guess) have some nice f****ing things.

(*edited for politeness, taken from A hunger like fire, by Greg Stolze.)

[madcatlady.livejournal.com]

"Linder provieds us with a series of vignettes of harried Americans trying, with diminishing success, to cope simultaneously with all the mechanical and gustatory fruits of their affluence"

That'll teach me to read LJ in work!

[(Anonymous)]

The parameter value is changed again by a larger amount until the chi-squared value exceeds an acceptable value, as judged by the F-chi statistic appropriate for p and mew degrees of freedon (see eq 4.24).

From Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy. How fun.

Jen (bored at work and reading peoples' journals)