Qotd

“؟Everything is fine‽”

“There are 10¹¹ stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” — Richard Feynman

“It is almost like a breakup via Facebook.” — Tom Ogden, on how Konover Associates has dealt with the town after deciding not to go through with the project for a large shopping center in Charlton, as quoted in this week’s Charlton Villager (7.5MB PDF, p. 9).

“A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.”

Well, out of all the positions on the ballot and all 5 questions on my ballot, with the exception of one unopposed candidate that I voted for, no race went the way I voted for it.

“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” — Romans 13:1 (NIV)

Charlton Conservation Commission
Public Hearing Notice

In accordance with General Law, Chapter
131, Section 40 of the Wetland Protection
Act, a public hearing will be held in regards to
work proposed by Andrew Pearsall, Verizon
Wireless.

Address where work will take place: 190
Berry Corner Road, Charlton, MA.

Proposed work: Notice of Intent for proposed
construction of a telecommunications facility
within the 200 riverfront area. Total disturbed
area approximately 3160 s.f.

“I wonder if, had contemporary news editors existed back in the days when books were invented, they would have published big scary articles expounding on the dangers of reading a book while riding a horse or chopping firewood.”

“( is the untap symbol.)”

“Worldwide, birthrates have been halved in the past 50 years. There are now 59 nations, with 44% of the world’s population, with below-replacement fertility.

Sometime in this century, the world’s population will begin to decline. At a certain point, the decline will become rapid. We may even reach population free-fall in our lifetimes.”

Saw this in a file I stored from a while ago (a year ago? two? more? Time sure does fly), when we were in Nyren‘s tabletop RPG game The Return:

“You are now wielding the bolt of lightning.” — GM (Nyren), to Luna (Jessi)