And for Something Completely Random

17 April 2004, 3 pm | Observation

Five easy steps…to randomness:

  1. Grab the nearest book.

  2. Open the book to page 23.

  3. Find the fifth sentence.

  4. Post the text of the sentence as a comment on my blog.

  5. Post the text of the sentence on your own blog, along with these instructions.

My quote:

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Letter #2

What’s yours?

Idea from April, who got it from Josh, then here, there, and finally Ryan.

Comments

  1. “Externalism,” as we might call it, was even a danger in New Testament times. - Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard.

  2. “Ten yards away, a mugger with a knife leaped out of the darkness and ran at him.”

    -Tom Clancy’s NetForce, Hidden Agendas

  3. Fun, isn’t it?

    Jacob’s is a classic!

    Nice blog.

  4. “he exhausts himself in the pursuit of mirages that ever fade and are renewed as fast as they have faded, drawing him further and further into the wilderness where he must die of thirst.” - the ascent to truth, thomas merton

    cool idea..:-)

  5. Her little boy was crying, handing onto her skirt, trying to take hold of her hands.

  6. When the Java Virtual Machine runs the program, it treats the program as a whole as if it were an object.

    “Java the Complete Course in Programming and Problem Solving” Lambert and Osborne

  7. Therefore, the potential difference of the voltage source can make electron S move towards atom 1.

  8. Second, American culture has always smacked girls on the headin early adolescence.

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