-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mr. Emerson...?
One small but fun aspect of living in Europe is that packages come labeled in at least half a dozen different languages. Today I noticed a funny Finnish word: Imukykyvaihtoehdot. Don't ask where it's from.
Okay, a tampon box.
Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great Quake of '06 (1906 in San Francisco, that is), marking the event with a study finding that the same quake today "would cause 1,800 to 3,400 deaths, damage more than 90,000 buildings, displace as many as 250,000 households and result in $150 billion in damage." Yet the author of the sanguinely-titled "The Great Earthquake And Firestorms Of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself" himself still lives in old SF. We may be fools, but we'll hang on to the last and rebuild it from rubble because there's no place like it in the world.
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