blog game: page 123 of nearest book

...(found this meme at the Burglar's mentioned in blogroll at right.)

Perhaps you've seen this circulating in the blogosphere. I've decided to play.

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.

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon happened to be sitting on my lap. (It's what I've been reading on the bus lately.)

Of particular interest has been the subject of just how much information can be extracted from seemingly random data.