Book meme bandwagon
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"Consider our plight if measurement did not exist. We could not describe, compare, or contrast the phenomena in the world around us. Individuals would not be able to agree on the labels or units to be attached to various physical dimensions (length, width, volume), and interpersonal communication would be hopelessly throttled. Efforts at systematic research would be doomed to failure."
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"Consider our plight if measurement did not exist. We could not describe, compare, or contrast the phenomena in the world around us. Individuals would not be able to agree on the labels or units to be attached to various physical dimensions (length, width, volume), and interpersonal communication would be hopelessly throttled. Efforts at systematic research would be doomed to failure."